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The Etiquette of Death by Helicopter Tuesday, June 26, 2007 • read strip Viewing 109 comments:

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You have a really selfish idea of how to comment in strips!

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let it be the last first time

A familiar fascination of Ray's. And apparently a subject which can divide socioeconomic classes.

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Reading comments for Dummies: "If", not "it".

Good morning!

in soviet russia it is always tuesday at twilight

At first I thought the ending of this strip was too much of a cheap gag, turning out Ray is talking to his mom. But really who else but Mrs. Smuckles would nurture Ray's sense of altruistic helicopter deaths?

I just find it strange that she's okay with him using the word "hell" - I seem to recall her not appreciating his use of language in the very beginning of the GOF arc.

Well, we aren't privy to her side of the conversation, she might be chastising him the entire time.

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Odo clearly don't know sh!t about helicopter-related deaths, being liquid 'n all.

Tuvok researched Deep Space 9 extensively before he got his Vulcan ass tossed into the Delta Quadrant.

It's not a matter of particular interest, he knows who's getting their bone on with whom throughout star fleet, and in other human organization to the extent possible. To an outside perspective it is even more obvious that this is the main factor in predicting human behavior.

Certainly not Roast Beef-- which has been proven 1/10/2006

Way to not link to the strip. I mean that. It's like a mystery for me to solve.

https://m.assetbar.com/achewood/uuafhHHVT
My bad

oops i just realized you were praising me for not adding the link instead of dogging me. I think. Oh well. There it is anyway since I can't delete it.

Word to the wise kingpete; change your avatar. Dr. Manflesh ruins everything.

Beef?

Lyle has a good point here.

Lyle's motto is "Live fast, die young, ah, fuck all that other shit."

There would be nothing beautiful about the body Lyle would leave behind. The mortician would be confused by how much hair Lyle has in places where the should be no hair and the persistent reek of Mexican rotgut.

I am in support of Wifflecopters: The Safe Alternative.
...and I'd just like to give a quick shout out to Andy Milonakis. Please stop stalking me.

This might be the best introductory strip to just about anyone that likes a laugh or few. Super-A-Plus. One of the best I've read in a long while.

Also: Lyle's new glasses make him seem like he now breathes out of his mouth and knows about chainsaws.

To be honest, I never doubted that Lyle breathes out of his mouth and knows about chainsaws. Perhaps not his Main Thing, but a Thing nonetheless.

Yes, this was the strip that got me reading Achewood.

My idea of how to die from helicopters is that the helicopter would run into me and I would be tossed upwards into the blades and the blades would catch hold of me and deposit me in a location where my body can be found easily and used by science.

I like to think that this is a very selfless idea of how to die from helicopters.

Your smug notion about how selfless your helicopter death would be turns my stomach.

Well Ray's certianly changed his tune, he used to be fascinated by marshmallows with an ear and a sideburn. https://m.assetbar.com/achewood/uuafhHHVT

I wonder what Ma Smuckles' dream helicopter death is...

Lyle is SO cross

You know how some people were all concerned that achewood would suck now that Beef is getting married, and weren't sure they could accept the change in tone and character that marriage would introduce?

That's how I feel about Lyle's glasses.

Maybe Ray'll buy Lyle some contacts.

Lyle used to be like your worst nightmare in the local metal bar you accidently wandered into for the first time, now he looks like the worst nightmare for video store clerks who are sick of him coming in and RAVING about Shaolin Fist of Death 14 but then just renting pornos. Chuck the shades!

I love this conversation.

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Linking Rotten? Now THAT'S Old-Skool.

Whole lot of good that helmet did.

The Ground Traffic Controller mouse wholeheartedly agrees, yet he wears none.

Ground Traffic Controller mouse is a fine and praiseworthy avatar. But Assetbar, unyielding, tells me that I have given out too many chubbies on this page and calls me "Friendly."

I think it's a chinchilla, actually


/hella hungover

it is a mouse weighing precisely 12 oz.

chinchilla tails don't start off skinny like that, but otherwise it's a chinchilla.

I would like to make a coat out of it, sir.


It's a DEGU.

And personally I thought it was some sort of mid-90s 'Madchester' raver mouse with glowsticks and inexplicable headphones, as was the style at the time. Hell, I saw a dude in a club dancing in a beekeeping suit back in the day, but then again it stopped his drinks getting spiked I guess.

bees on ectasy are pretty fearsome i guess

The hammer weighs nine pounds, tho.

I had to do this test when I applied to Homeland Security.

How does Lyle know Ray's talking about helicopter blades in the first panel?

I don't think he does. I think he can just comment on about any blade-related topic.

He's a connoisseur.

I assume that he heard them talking about helicopters before the first panel.

My gut feeling was that Lyle was still scrapping for a fight over what Ray said about his new glasses. He might have even been hoping that Ray was again dissing his glasses in some way so he could step-up.

Lyle's new glasses makes him look like that guy who hangs around the middle school trying to pick up chicks. You know the guy i am talking about. that guy

A math teacher?

A band teacher.

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Watch it, Ray. I believe this is the exact conversation that got TuPac killed.

Lyle is calling that fat cat out on his helicopter blade theory.

I think we should give Ray the benefit of the doubt...he does have Airwolf, after all...

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I think that the easiest compromise would be to make one blade razor sharp, and the other blade dull. Make it a bit of a gamble.

WOW. I hain't laughed like that in a time or two. "Sorry, mom..."

I know. It was an awesome touch.

This is a 5 simply for the use of the phrase Johnny Cleanslice.

It's a 5 because Lyle is quivering with righteous fury over Ray's opinion on helicopter deaths.

That's icing on the proverbial cake.

'cake' is a favorite proverb of mine

What I find fascinating is that I'm assuming the reason for the phone call was to inform Ray's mom about Beef's marriage.

How they tangent into helicopter blade edges, we'll never know.

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I won't agree to that until Asherdan says the same thing.

I've waited for a conversation between Lyle and Ray like this for about a year. There's just so much between them that's left unsaid, I feel like there's a lot of thematic stuff in their relationship that hasn't really been explored.

Also, why is Lyle hiding like that in the first panel?

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or maybe he just woke up and he's only tipsy, not quite at full lyle capacity

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That's how I initially read it as well.

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Every panel of this one is gold, even on a stand-alone basis

the glasses make lyle's anger-brow kind of less angry, less belligerent. i don't like em.

but, then again, i do like em. just in a different way. like when a good friend gets a new haircut for the first time in ten years. you're all "what the FUCK derek?" and then like a month later you don't even notice.

This strip does everything right, and nothing wrong. It ends with a wagged fist of righteous indignation. Man. Im in the Lyle camp as well on this one. Let my viewing be of my headless body. That'll weed out the faint of heart.

Panel 6 makes this a five.

I really dig Lyle's new eyewear, actually. I don't know what it is, but they really work on him, imo. ACE OF SHADES!

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Actually, that is not interesting to note.???

Lyle is quivering with anger. Maybe next time Ray talks to Lyle about beheading, he won't have the same low opinion of simple blunt-bladed decapitations.

This is the best conversation being had in the English language.

Lyle's new frames are "dad glasses" ... akin to "mom jeans"

For some reason, in panel 4 Lyle's posture reminds me a lot of Larry King.

(I FIGURED IT OUT! I FINALLY FIGURED OUT WHAT THE HELL WAS GOING ON THERE!)

This strip is fresh.

lyle is just plain wrong. a slice any which way of my head and I would be out for good. I imagine it would end up much like fertilizer anyhow. Please review the ending of Underworld 2 for support (if it is on TV).

Because *that* was a film noted for accuracy in physics and anatomy.

I acquired my MBA while sucking someone's blood.

The idea the Ray is discussing this with his mother really makes my day.

I bet this conversation is on the label of a beer botle , held by Lonis F. Edison!

Class conflict. Helicopters. Achewood.

Coming to a theater near you...

Brilliant brilliant brilliant

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