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Pat's abs Wednesday, June 23, 2004 • read strip Viewing 82 comments:

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I thought he meant that is dog shit in the sense of "that is something a dog would do." I dunno, though, I'm all urban and shit.

that's probably wrong

Are you urban? And shit?

Because that's probably why you don't understand...

I'm bored and agree.
Chubby for Asherdan.


... I think I'm going down the same road I went down once before.

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Even if somanywhales spent hours perfecting his/her/its post, it still made me laugh - and I can pretend it was all spontaneous.

I don't know what I was on that day. Who the hell talks like that?

And that exchange was funny regardless of the timing. I must have sat on my balls or something prior to logging in.

I don't know, but I thought your icon was Gary Coleman at first and read the entire post in his voice.

It doesn't seem like an unfair assumption, you see a lot more fat guys with better looking women than the other way around. It seems fairly provable that men care about looks more than women. That's why women have to obsess about looks more. If those assumptions are correct, then it's reasonable that a man who wanted to attract men would have to concentrate more on his appearance. It's the subtleties of behavior you have to worry about when you want women, things that are so meaningless to me often say something important to them. Why just earlier today I accepted a free sample of some kind of Icee drink at the mall, and apparently that was bad, I don't know If I accidentally signaled that I was willing to have sex with the dispenser of said samples, or made it look like I was poor or what. Sometimes the meanings of things among women make me feel like an outsider sitting in on an Igbo tribal ceremony, and they're passing various things around and different people are using them for different stuff at specific times, and I'm just sitting there in my khaki shorts and sun hat hoping they don't hand me the hollowed out gourd with feathers on it that's all full of yams. I guess my point is, either type you want to get down with has it's trials.

Oh my, what a subtle pikachu But seriously dude, where do you get them pictures of ugly pikachu

Scallops are perfect for a person that wants to get fit.

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When that day comes, I will be a god.

No matter how else we differ, it seems Roast Beef and I shall always have in common our reaction to John Basedow.

I know which Irish Ninja someone reads about.

Dude, Chris Hastings didn't invent the freakiest abs in the world.

I had never heard of this Basedow character, so I looked up his website . It is mega nasty. It is dog shit. But the theme song is amazing.

Okay, I just have to say, daaaamn not only does that guy have freaky abs as advertised, but he has some damn ass-make-up and die job going on.

according to myspace, he wrote the song himself

It sounds like the Sims buy mode music.

Incidentally, you know who did write the Sims buy mode music?

The guy responsible for this band with this hat on the URL on my clipboard.

We need to make John Basedow jokes a Thing, like Chuck Norris jokes.

When John Basedow flexes his abs, San Francisco experiences another earthquake

John Basedow's stomach doesn't growl, it roars.

Only two substances known to science are harder than diamond: Chuck Norris's fists and John Basedow's buns.

Yeah! We doin' this!

...freakier than Carrot Top's?!

Damn. That could be the next goatse.

ok, we can't all be lazy STUART. That man has a great six pack. It is in no way dog shit.

I make a point of saying this to people with abs better than mine.

Notice that Pat HAS to be a dick even when he hasn't even opened his mouth?

I often wondered if the bird's eye view in the third panel was from the helicopter mentioned in the previous strip.

so fucking funny

I get this from my coworkers as well, but I think it has more to do with the moles and hair that festoon my hide.

have you ever seen a really jacked old man at the gym? it is pretty disorienting/gusting

A six-pack must exist harmoniously with the person it is attached to. If a gross old man or similar has a six-pack, a harsh visual dissonance is created. Nasuea such as Beef displays is an understandable result. Freud would call such a sight unheimlich , Roast Beef would call it dog shit, but any way you cut it it is not a pleasant sight.

I say the sbove as someone who is usually very happy to see a fit man with no shirt. But his body must look like it is happy to be fit. This is essential.

I have chubbied your final word

Creepiest six-pack ever.

The cat has become very ugly.

Do cats have those muscles?

I guess Pat does.

The only way to be sure is to bend your cat in half, vigorously, 60 times a day.

I'm pretty sure my cat would fight back after one or two reps.

Not if you bend it hard enough it won't.

God DAMMIT this made me laugh really loudly and my family have just gone to bed.

You made me cackle, sir. Chubby for you.

in grade 12 anatomy I dissected one-- they Do!

hahahaha where did you go to school that you got to dissect a cat? back-alley high?

Thailand.

I just want to say that I greatly approve of this entire exchange.

And the avatars are delicious icing on the banter-cake.

I don't know what I can say that will convey my amusement strongly enough. So hopefully saying this will suffice.

Lemmy Kilmister converses with a llama.

Grade 12 Anatomy, aka Thai Cooking class.

We (Ap Biology students) will get to do it too. Colorado, USA.

Grade 12 Biology where I live in Canada, too.

well thank god I'm not the only one cutting up cats here. Was beginning to think I was doing something 'weird'.

I would like this strip a whole hell of a lot more if we were not required to actually see Pat's insanely raunchy abs unless we wanted. That should be some kind of 'pay-per-view' thing for those of us who are masochists.

Cat abs are creepy. I wonder if it would be less or more creepy if he had cat pecs too. More, I'm guessing.

Imagine if he had male cat nipples as well, all in two neat little rows.

That would be dog shit. Dog shit is the worst thing.

I don't get beef's grammar in this one. Not that he hasn't always had cool-cat slang talk, but I had to read the first two panels twice.

I hope there are others who see Pat's arched eyebrows in the last panel not as a sign of anger but of fierce pride .

Seconded.

Let me just speak for all women of taste and discrimination here when I say that being super ripped is not hot... unless maybe it's the other kind of ripped ;)

Of course, I do not presume to speak for gay guys.

I wholeheartedly concur :).

Sometimes it can be super hot, so long as it's not horrific.

I do not find your man hot. I like skinny, longhaired men. I hope we will not argue about this.

Thank God for women like you.

I have a thing for geek boys: generally skinny, untoned men with questionably long hair and clothing consisting of jeans and T-shirts. I find this adorable. I agree with rainbowbrite.

what the pony and the nice lady said. yah.

Tom Welling will never look intelligent. It's kinda sad.

Forgive my ignorance and year-late response, but what is "the other kind of ripped"?

I would like to add my confusion to the confusion.

If urbandictionary is to be trusted (and that is a big if), the other kind of ripped is being high on the marijuanas.

A stoned dude with blood shot eyes, questionable logical skills, and a higher desire for food than sex is hot?

He looks like Iggy Pop.

[IMGS OFF]

You might not get nasty abs from programming, but you do get super-buff arms.

Thank god im programming computers.


I love the fact that Roast Beef wears a bathing suit with no shirt, and Pat wears a shirt but no pants, and neither is unacceptable.