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Beef the Cocaine Genius Tuesday, September 2, 2003 • read strip Viewing 74 comments:

It's interesting that Nightlife turns up in this story. Was Onstad considering introducing him as a full time supporting character?

Shit, you're right. I never even noticed that before.

If only he would've become a main character! I love Nightlife. I keep hoping he'll show up again. It's been a long time, though. I should probably give up. But you never know...

It's an uncredited cameo. Nightlife's doing a movie with another studio, and they were shooting next door.

Nightlife is also in the crowd welcoming Ray and Roast Beef back from the Great Outdoor Fight.

nice spot!

Maybe he knew he was going to drop the character from rotation and thought it would be funny to just make him pop up for no reason in a pitch-black dumbwaiter, but that's just what I thought.

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It's a pity we can't get Jack Kirby to draw The New Adventures of Nightlife Mingus.

good god, that would be the bee's knees. someone needs to go resurrect/de-ageify the King.

I don't know what 'Space Europe' is but it sounds really, really hell of radical.

T.S. Elliot is there. Of course it's radical.

Space Europe? Probably Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. Place is covered by miles and miles of ice, which serves as a testament to its badassery.

there is a huge difference between SPACE EUROPE and dumb old europa dude

space europe is both steeped in history and covered in flashing lights and it's got the best dehydrated food ever

Just like there is a huge difference between T.S. Elliot and T.S. Eliot.

you could say it is a Wasteland

Careful man. The Eiffel Tower shoots lasers.

By my reckoning, 80% of the chubbies have to be for the last idea. But then again I have a well-documented bias toward crime fighting gay blacksmiths.

Cousinted, you are a rad dude. I like the things you say.

Is he a rad enough dude to save the president??

HA.

My chubby was for space Europe. Space Europe. Man, space europe. The more I say it the more I want to go there.

In space Europe, no one can hear you scream about the hell of tasty croissants.

In Space Europe, no one can hear you when you're hella yellin' about the sex.

Doesn't that kinda defeat the point of doing so?

In Space Europe no one can hear tellumo point out logical fallacies!

damn touchpad made me mark this lame.

You don't get to choose who you are stuck in a pitch-black dumbwaiter with.

E.g. Nice Pete

Nice Pete looks asleep or dead or severely concussed.

the scariest part is that nice pete is in there too

No the scariest part is that Nice Pete was there before they had the idea to watch a movie

this is one of my favorite achewood moments just for the look on beef's face. genius that beef would choose that expression in the pitch black - and that he'd initiate the conversation

And even in the dark, Lyle's face is an expression of rage.

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ALT TEXT: The fountain would be beautiful, it would be at least 20' tall.

Something about the construction of that sentence is really funny to me. It's the incorrectly used comma that does it.

So Beef did cocaine but never smoked pot before Nightlife gave him some? The man just shits on gateway drugs is what.

A waterfall would dominate.

The best part is that after taking it and becoming ten kinds of uninhibited, Roast Beef gave into his baser instincts and... wrote some code .

Not just wrote some code, but 1. wrote some code, 2. wrote some code that he thought was good enough to come back to the next day, and 3. wrote some code that ended up being not just gibberish, but a business plan. Oh, Beef. He is the Man who gets things Done.

Yes, but I do believe the official title is taken by Ray.

I get the impression that Ray made Roast Beef do cocaine.

Unlikely, considering how Ray feels cocaine leads to HIV.

but whatever you know he wasn't busy

Beef is much calmer in the dark.

doing cocaine makes you kind of italian, like in the mob or something?

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Terribly delicious chemical taste, more like!

I have not done cocaine, but I can believe this.

I feels like there is metal being poured down your throat and up your nose and onto your gums. I took cocaine, and it didn't affect me beyond that feeling until I took a large, heavy tree branch to a friend's head on a whim, remembering when he had once wronged me. Cocaine is not a good drug. Do not take cocaine.

I would rather take four shits and die than try that cocaine!

if i took cocaine i would take four shits and die

ive heard the same thing about adderall. i beleive the kid referred to it as 'candy drip'.

I love this strip because of how hilarious it is to look at code you wrote only to find it is, of all things, a business plan for a theme restaurant.

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Yeah, how many are in there? I count 8 so far...

I hadn't even noticed Nice Pete, haha!

Well, they are all like a foot tall. Of course, the house is built to cat scale, I guess...or is it?

Why is Teodors hair done all Archie style in the dumbwaiter?

In fact, it is not Archie Style , but in fact Grandmother Style

fact!

Who is the narrator in this strip? I believe T,C and NP are asleep!

Mr. Bear's awake.

Also the "Diary Strip: Cornelius Bear" up there at the top.

Ha, for a while I just thought Teodor was very angry.

Nah, just in the middle of packing a hot lunch, most likely.

Coke always seems like a good idea when your wasted but of course you always forget about the throat drip. Grim.

When I was in high school we had a friend with an awesome house that we used to crash whenever. Sometimes he wasn't there. It makes me wonder if he too was time-travelling while we played The Sims on his computer.

no one asked if Roast Beef had done any cocaine

Correction: No one asked if Roast Beef had done those cocaines.

I stand corrected.

Why does Teodor have hair in this strip?

I'm actually shocked Lyle doesn't enjoy his coke

its because the cans hurt his nose.

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