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Stationery - Rapid Growth Phase. Tuesday, April 29, 2008 • read strip Viewing 760 comments:

Onstad better make these cards and put them in his shop

No man that is a job for you to do as a practicing member of the common populace.

But can we truly capture the very essence that makes Beef's cards such inimitable masterpieces? I say... No

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I'm Sorry Java That I Shot At Your Feet And Made You Dance
But It Just Wasn't Fast Enough I Was Trying To Get My Oats And All

Dogg You Know I Did Not Mean To Make You Mad But I Needed Your Rocket To Go To The Moon

(inside)

Sorry Dogg

That does have a general-purpose feel to it, for all the crap that one roomie could "borrow" from another.

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HELLA chubbied. "Well, actually, ladies, I wear both..."

I'm the dude that arrives at the end of the night, after most people have gone home, but still wants to party.

...and i am this dude's friend.

I love it, and by extension, you. In a totally heterosexual way. This is so awesome, seriously.

Hey Elbow, don't quit your day job! (Sorry) No, seriously, I can't do any Photoshopping at all, much less figure out how to post an image, so I'm impressed.

On your point, I hope this is the new normal here, with faces to go with posts, unless you'd rather be an aviticon. I'm so happy the "hand-to-face" movement enabled so many to reveal themselves, and I'm working on my own self-bitch-slap shot as I type *OUCH*

Because I am poor and have no techie friends who get me cool software, let it be known that any and all images I post are made entirely with MS Paint.

The gimp may be a step up for you.

My techie friend is called The Pirate Bay.

(Acctually I legitimately bought Abode Suite, but it is a good joke, yes?)

Dude, I mean, the cat's out of the bag. Might as well keep it that way.

I don't intend to change back.

I think it's time Asherdan returned to show his face. Also Manflesh.

If the good doctor is allowed a camera and several thousand pixels' worth of real estate, I don't feel like his face is going to be the first thing he shows us.

I love how "everyone" is 18 of "the beautiful people." Yes... I'm a curmudgeon.

I appreciate what you have done and the feeling with that was behind this creation and all the time and effort it took.

I must say though, and I may or may not speak for others in my position, that all I will really remember about it is not being in it.

This is the saddest thing.

I'm sorry, really. It really wasn't intended to be the cool kids, just the people that I'm most familiar with and the ones who changed their icons the earliest. I mean if I weren't the one who made it, I probably wouldn't be on there either. So please don't feel bad about not being included on a crappy image made with MS Paint and a photo taken from the Ikea website.

would I have been on there if I were still Screaming Philippe Andrew_?

oh did you used to be andrew_? congratulations on consistently hilarious posts, then.

why thank you!

"Still Screaming Phil-" wait wait wait what ?!

Huh! And here I thought this Strangeglove was a new fellow.

I'm sorry I shocked you so.

man, don't feel down, that piece was absolutely Awesome, all the cooler for being stick figures and MSPainted. I'm not on there either, I still totally appreciate it - funny and awesome!

Cromar and norrin, you are rad!

You...are...rad!

Oh man, there is hell of a spelling error. Please avert your eyes from the spelling error, and any others I may have made without noticing.

This brings tears to my eyes. Thank you very much.

I apologize for my initial gut reaction. I know it wasn't intentional or a big deal.

You know, considering how fraught with danger putting one's face on the internet can be, this turned out about 500 percent better than I expected. Thanks Loneal!

I agree. Seeing an inbox full of faces and putting them to the comments has really made me happy. I like seeing who reads this Thing, as it seems only myself and a few of my friends know about it in my area.

It's a good thing!

This was entertaining indeed, but I fear that if I don't change my icon back to It's Never Lupus, many, many comments made in reply to mine will cease to make sense.

Can we really be sure they won't make MORE sense?

At least you didn't lame me just because you were pissed about being left out like 21echoes and jollysaintpete did.

hey that's from my post! awesome.

Okay, I took the liberty of adding cromar, norrin, and a few others in. Hope you don't mind, achilleselbow.

Here it is.

That is awesome, except you cloned me. I'm already on the left arguing about semiotics with loneal.

And shit, I didn't see that achilleselbow was already in it, and now he's in there twice. Oh well.

There...there was a rip in the time-space continuum! TWO ACHILLESELBOWs.

I am really fond of pogo's jaunty hands-on-hips position.

I thought that would be fun.

Aw dang guys c'mon.

Arms akimbo, that's me.

I am not lovink these handouts. Am preferink to stayink secluded.

Hey, you lay off handouts. Handouts are cool. People are sorry and they show us in Photoshop form.

You don't want to end up lonely and excluded like I_Love_Kate.

Yeah actually I_Love_Kate has a point, where is I_Love_Kate in the picture?! All the assetbabes love I_Love_Kate. In fact, everybody loves I_Love_Kate.

What the hell people

I guess you're just supposed to be in the coat room making out with Kate or something?

It's so cold...it's...it's so cold...

hilarious

Shi-at. V-chub.

I am so glad I had a chubby left for you.

Thank you sir.

I like the radiance around abendsonnen, and that I am stepping on the Doritos.

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I'm starting to think this whole thing was a bad idea. Oh well, at least I saved a chubby for you.

no, it was a good idea. you just gotta expect a couple bitter people.

and I can't be really mad anyway, since I just started reposting like.. four fucking days ago. rock on, achilleselbow.

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Virtual chubby, good job.

poor achilleselbow. turns out your heel is trying to do something fun.

Everything is all in your head. So this was no different. Have a chubby.

Mira, you are my hero. You say the things I do not even realise I'm thinking.

Can someone explain who's who for us latecomers? I'm disappointed I missed this weekend (by two years) and it would be nice to put some faces to names

That's all I remember too.. This really is the saddest thing.

I am perfectly aware that the only reason I was not included was my jarring resemblance to Dick Masterson.
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No-one needs that.

oh my god that guy! wasn't he from The House of Hate? put any guy in those sunglasses and I immediately think he's That Guy or The Boss With No Eyes.

I do not know what the house of hate is, but it does not sound like a fun place.

It bothered me that Aviators were A Thing for a while (at least in Australia) as it took away the whole "Whoa! That dude must be a pilot, or possibly a prison guard/satanic allegory" aspect to seeing people wearing them.

The House of Hate was a Dr. Phil special where he made people who hate people stay in a house together. Some racists, some sexists, the whole nine yards.

clearly, i have revealed myself to be a Dr Phil viewer to an otherwise non-Dr Phil viewing internet community. Can I recover?

nope

jollysaintpete, do you know how Assetbar works? C'mon! Put some capitalization under that sucker!

as a matter of fact i've no idea how assetbar works and i'll keep playing by my own rules thankyouverymuch

NO.

I am sorry about this autre, but we can no longer be steady dates, as you love Dr. Phil, and I am of the mind that he is a terrible psychologist.

To be fair, my disdain for him also stems from his seeming inability to deny his percieved infallibility. It is basically a terrible thing to speak to a patient and have them think that everything you say cannot be false.

Also he spends nowhere near enough time with people to make an adequate assessment, at least from a clinical perspective.

Front: I am sorry I got so steamed about Dr. Phil.

Inside: It's just that he is so terrible at helping people that have problems.

Also, tell me more of this House of Hate!

meurgh I hate Dr. Phil the man, but Dr. Phil the tv show is just enough trainwreck to make me derisively chuckle at least once per episode.

Same as with all daytime talk show formatted programs, they're fun to watch!

oh who am i kidding i'm just unemployed :0(

After many seconds of deliberation, I have decided to take you back. After all, anyone who hates Dr. Phil as a person yet still watches his show cannot not be fun to be around.

As Phil the not-really-a-doctor says, "How's that working for ya," autrepoupee?

Is that his hair - some kind of mohawk? Or is that just the hair of the person sitting behind him?

Oh dang. Thank you so much for that. I feel like one of the cool kids now.

I don't know what I'm doing in this picture but I love it! Also, you have so many assetbar groupies it's ridiculous

My feelings on this assetbar trend? Unquestionably pro.

You are the Bond Girl to tekende's Bond.

I will say that my feelings on this picture, my bond girl-ness and the entire weekend-long love-in here in the assetbarrio are strongly PRO.

And I for one am delighted in that.

Lawbot REALLY doesn't want you to play that hand of cards. Good thing I've got my gun up, I think something's about to go down here.

Don't worry, I know lawbot's weak spot.

His weak spot is losing all his chips to me, so is yours!

I LOVE you.

Also this is probably like the first time ever that I have been considered, by anyone, one of the "cool kids".

But you are all so rad.

I can't believe I actually have internet friends again. I... am not ashamed.

Who are you responding to, hecci? Achilleselbow?

EVERYONE.

Originally achilleselbow but then it spread to everyone.

achilleselbow, you are so rad. You... are... rad!

That's amazing, and duly chubbied. Although I do feel bad that in the picture I am requesting for the giant isopods to be killed. In reality I think the giant isopods... are... rad! I was showing that picture of them with the doritos to my officemates just this afternoon and we all laughed with glee.

I didn't really get to be around for assetbar's social season this weekend.. maybe I'll catch it next time around.

(Outside) I am so sorry you missed all the fun this weekend...
(Inside) ...but damn, woman, that's what you get for hanging out with your cool real-world friends.
(Back) But i totally understand i was hell of tardy in the proceedings

Ya.. I totally feel like uncool because I don't have a hand/face picture. (sob)

It's okay, I have a shitty webcam. Your phoenix/silhouette is superior.

This was not my intention at all! My feelings on accidental dickery are Con!

If it makes you feel better, my picture is me on a dog's bed in Wal-Mart last December. My hair hasn't been brown in four months. And despite my extensive fiddling around with Paint, your avatar still kicks mine's ass and then takes its lunch money.

Awesome work, achilles. I especially like the chorus of spinynorman appreciators, and the Doritos-thieving giant sea lice. This weekend we experienced a remarkable phenomenon on assetbar, and I'm glad you took the time to document it.

That being said, I'm still going back to my old avatar. Too much familiarity makes me uncomfortable. This is why I'm on an internet messageboard in the first place.

abendsennon doesn't have to say anything. She just stands in the corner and radiates sexy-beams.

I want to say "I have a mind achillesbow", but I kind of like having action lines all coming out of me.

Oh my god I am glowing? insaaaaane .

Where is the couch?

abendsonnen is standing on it.

Actually I am floating and I look very ethereal. Thank you for making me look ethereal. :)

dude i am flattered to be in this. i'm basically a new poster, i ain't shit.
i'm really glad i got on so much this weekend tho, it's been a blast.

wow, that was really cool achilleselbow! Very nice of you! You are rad! Gee I feel undeserving to be included what with how socially awkward and anxious I am about making connections with people, or avicons, as the case may be. I've only been hanging out here for a little bit but yeah I do feel like I know you all a little better, and maybe you all know me just a little better, maybe even a little more than you might like sometimes heh heh.

What is really neat, however, is to see folks really connecting in some meaningful way, and to see everyone's enthusiasm for connecting, as spontaneously exemplified by the hand-face incident. This is probably what sky-net felt like when it spontaneously gained sentience. What a beautiful thing! I'm in my 30's, so I remember when the internet was comprised more of enthusiasts and intellectuals and was much less crowded with idiots like me.... eh heh eh. To quote Clinton Fein, it's becoming "a world of superficial sound bytes dominated by a generation absorbed with the self and the surface of things."

But ya know what, all the frickin' APIs and giga-byte hogging poorly developed so-called 'social networking' market capitalization web sites out there don't equal the power of some weekend assetbar hack, when it's charged with a few good compadres. You all is good people. To quote Alan Kay: "The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet."

So in the spirit of continuing a little bit this experiment of sharing and connecting, I have posted a few random pics that I think are cute, and a few of myself as well. I don't mean to be too forward or insinutating, but I reposted Achilleselbow's tribute too, with an open offer to add to it if anyone wants. Hope y'all like them. Ahh.. who am I kidding! It's not like I need to know if you care! XD

here it is and such

you are a Goof. mayhem dot net called they want their hafjhfvdjvnhsethsejthssg

oh wow there are already so many other versions! I will add them to my archive! later... I'm tired now..

Oh my god, your page is awesomely terrible! The background music, the lack of formatting, the fact that every link opens a new window - it's strangely wonderful in a nostalgic late-90's geocities/angelfire kinda way. Anyway, thanks for the tribute to my tribute. The one with Pat made me lol.

hell naww it's terribly awesome that graphic design took six minutes and it's the best damn layout in the world! And it didn't even use frames... nyuck nyuck nyuck

I'd like to point out that I have recognized one of you from your avatar and I STILL REMEMBER WHAT I CAUGHT YOU DOING back in high school.

I told you, that poop was already in the urinal when I got there!

THIS IS THE LONGEST CONVERSATION EVER

I know I'm pretty late, but that paint drawing is the only time I will ever be close to the concept of "pimping."

My feelins are pretty goddamn pro

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That sounds like one written by Tom Arnold

Come over to my driveway this weekend, Dogg.

(inside) I'm hell of learning to do kick-flips finally.

Siiiiiick.

(This just reminded me of the time my older brother's friend said I could play D&D with them if I could teach him how to do a kickflip.)

I Am Sorry I Am Always On And On About Food That Has Got To Be Annoying

inside: I Played D&D Too We Can Talk About That And Other Things Now Such As Are You Into Plants?

I'm sorry I actually never played D&D

{inside}They spent 3 hours coming up with characters, so I got bored, went outside and learned to do a No Comply.

{back}I'm not really sorry I didn't learn D&D.

Dogg I am hell of embarrassed that I assumed you played D&D

(inside) It is a fun game though I mean we obviously just spent our time in youth differently

(back) Skateboard tricks have dumb names

No Comply is my favorite skateboard trick name. Kids today probably don't know what it is. It was huge for about 10 months back in '89 or so. Then people never did it again , at least while I was still skating.

Go here to view the glory of the No Comply

Do you need a prosthetic leg for that trick? And is it worth it to remove your leg just to do it?

....YES.

Don't worry, it's back in style now (kinda)! It is a cool trick, but I've never really got the name, do you know where it comes from?

I never heard the story, if there is one, of why it was called No Comply, sorry.

I mainly love it because there was a quick clip in an old skate video (maybe of the old H-Street videos?) from around that time where Willy Santos and someone else yell "NO COM-PLY!" all smilin' and laughin'.

dude, i was just thinking that.

I Am Sorry I Cannot Make Even Basic Things Like Cards

State Education Is So Poor That We Barely Learnt Adequate Key Skills Let Alone Arts And Crafts


(This is not a jab at you at all, I probably have the card-making skills of a 6-year-old.)

1.Take piece of paper fit for writing on. (decide on quality of paper according to desired quality of card)
2.Fold paper in two.
3.Fold paper in two again, in the other direction. (This makes for a less flimsy card that is easier to get to stand up. No one likes a card that just lies down on the desk or table. That is depressing and they'll think you shouldn't have bothered.)
4.Write and/or draw stuff on the paper. Make it clever if you can. If you can't well try to be honest at least. No one likes a lying card.

Also you can use cardboard instead but everyone can find some blank paper lying around the house if they look hard enough. Besides if you already have a supply of appropriate card-making materials then you probably do not need this basic Guide.

I see these as being ideal for "e-cards". (Do they still call them that? I still get such in my inbox now and then, mostly from people I haven't seen in a while. They got my Important Days in some automated file and the server at Hallmark or wherever just manages their memories for them, of the people they don't quite remember.

The saddest thing.

I got a birthday card from my town's council since it's my 18th birthday today. They reminded me that I can vote for a range of incompetent officials whose views are closest but still nowhere near mine. Hooray!

A M E R I C A

U N I T E D K I N G D O M but more W E S T E R N S O C I E T Y

Oh sorry dude

No worries!

You realize that if they were truly going to be in Beef's style, they would just be white cards with black text (probably lowercase Impact 18 size) and no logo or copyright or anything.

What I'm saying is who would pay for that

The simplicity of the card would be fine with me. Perhaps a little sketch of Beef in the corner would add some value, and a sample strip of Beef composing cards on the back?

just because a dude is depressed does not mean a dude does not appreciate some style

Exactly. A dude does not spend six minutes designing the best logo in the world and then just throw it out.

Beef has a logo didn't you read the last strip (if you didn't it's ok my browser has trouble loading that page too)

Back in the day i laughed at fat man Kurtz

Now I am beginning to think he was right

So is this a PvPOnline reference or a Heart of Darkness reference?

Did he write 'sick as hell - beef' on the wall behind him?
Shelley Duvall and Molly do bare passing resemblance.

As much as a cartoon cat and a human Olive Oyl can look similar.

I'm pretty sure that that's just Artistic Vision.

YES

Seriously, it looks to me that he is imaging the text in the card, and then imagining his signature in it.

This is correct

Thinking of it, Molly does em a bit like an Olive Oyl to Beef's ... Popeye. Does this make Teodor Bluto?

Sorry I've got a stupidly small keyboard. By Em, I meant Look. (yes, I don't know how either)

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and with with a deft flick of edwell's wrist, a joke is photoshopped. I bet you did that in about 3 1/2 seconds, you capable bastard.

That is fabulous. My flimsy attempts a few strips ago absolutely pale in comparison.

"e" is 5 keys away minimum from every letter in the word "look".

"em" also has two less letters.

Typos like that rub me the wrong way, pardnah.

you try typing with thalydamide nubs.

This would be one of the saddest things.

I made a story but it is not good.

My personal theory on the Look=Em philosophy... perchance the gentleman hbaranov was trying to say "Seem"? It Seeems to fit the sentence.

Ha! That's great. You got hella Adobe skills dogg.

Words cannot express my gratitude at the amusement I derived from the fact my typo was illustrated in such an amusing and amazing fashion.

You have no idea what you've done. No idea. He's never going to shut up about this now, and I have to see his devastatingly handsome face every day.

By which I mean, shit, I want one.

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Don't cry Ben don't cry THEY CAN'T SEE YOU LIKE THIS


Perhaps you were going for "se em , or the ever less likely em ulate?

Molly's striped socks, Beef's forearms, Teodor's sweater and bloat, it all makes sense now!
Achewood has just been setting the groundwork for Shelley Duvall's comeback. Get out of my dreams, and onto the screen!

As for Artistic Vision, well, that is the likelier explanation. ;___(

I'm Roast Beef the Sailor Cat
Roast Beef the Sailor Cat
I'm strong 'cause I get hella
Slanted on Stellas
I'm Roast Beef the Sailor Cat

It's true that I have a
Small talent for Java
And makin' that sucker dance
I shoot at its feet
And it's off to the beat
Cuttin' rugs like there's ass in its pants

If any of you dares to dis my dog
You're fluffin' my hog and that's that
So don't step to Weldon
Or you'll get a geldin'
From Roast Beef the Sailor Cat

I'm Roast Beef the Sailor Cat
Roast Beef the Sailor Cat
I'm strong 'cause I get hella
Slanted on Stellas
I'm Roast Beef the Sailor Cat !

Ha! V-chub!

This is what chubbies are for. Also mad props for the old school "hand on face" pic.

STELLA

I was just wondering about that writing on the wall too. I'm also wondering if people are sticking with handface icons today. I'm going to feel so exposed until I see more handfaces.

The writing is out of perspective to be on the wall. That doesn't mean Beef didn't write it that way, but it's unlikely.

Beef might be mad, but he ain't Marquis de Sade mad.

Holla handface people. Glad to see you're all sticking to it.

(By the way, feel free to change back whenever you want. Obviously I won't be because I have nothing to change back to.)

(outside) I'm sorry I tagged the wall of our den.
(inside) I was afraid to go where there might be police or some kind of guard dog or a hidden camera or a pissed-off maintenance person with heavy tools.

I had to... both because the icon is funnier, and because my picture/name combo might inadvertently get dateline NBC involved...

I am Pro-funny icons. Ardently. I am also Pro-not getting nabbed by dateline. Cheers, hamscout, cheers.

My avatar is technically handface.
Here, let me show you.
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Your avatar rocks.

I'm totally sticking to my picture. I already use it on Myspace, Livejournal, Facebook, and WhiteChapel, so why not?

What is WhiteChapel? Is that like fFacebook for church?

fFfFuck.

Must have not had a bump in half a day. You are starting to get the shakes.

Looks like someone didn't learn his AA BB CC's

godgod dammitdammit

It is comic book writer Warren Ellis's message board.

Heh, of course it would be. Whitechapel is the area of London where the Jack the Ripper killings took place.

I am actually almost halfway through Transmetropolitan .

Awesome. I just read volume four a week or so ago. I found it disappointing compared to the previous volumes. It gets better again after that, right? I hope?

Dear past me,

Yes.

Love,
tekende of the Future

You bring up a good point, most of us are already out there anyway, so why should this forum be anonymous?

I really gave this "real face/hand face" avaticon thing a lot of thought, to the point of creating a "pogo2" membership to try out my mug shot without changing all the old, more acerbic "pogo" posts going back through time, some of which were pretty shitty, depending on whether I had depression or not.

Then I remembered by first membership had been in my real name -- imagine my innocence/bravery/naivite -- until I became slightly embarrased at some of my early comments and asked Onstad if he could change that (no, sorry), so I started anew as pogo and pretty much said whatever I wanted under that disguise.

Fine, I got a lot of shit out of my system, and came to love and respect my fellow Achewoodians, and now I want to be me, in the open, honest and true, edgy and sappy, whatever dude, deal with it. I have Lifelock on my personal treasure, and God on my honor. Lo though I trapse through the Valley of Achewood, I shall fear no evil, for thine is the kingdom of free expression, hail Fallujah, USA! USA!

Yet, after all of that, I see no handface! We'd love to love you for you, pogo, but you've got to let us in.

Pic coming, bix. My shooter is busy with real work today.

Hell, shot it myself!

I see some glorious handface when my mouse wiggled over your picture. Thus, it was done. (golfclap)

It is good to be among the handfacers.

Considering that was on your livejournal already didnt you predate the hecci/margargaret handface craze?

Heh! Probably not, but maybe?

Handface peoples unite! That being said I may change back today.

However much I wanted to join the handface fad, I am far too lazy to take a handface picture, let alone replace my nifty Ryuk avatar.

How's this

Rad! It fills the bill, yet could not be used in court to identify you. Kudos, Silhouette man.

I...I just wasn't sure what to do with my hand...

Oh, man, you totally look like a family friend of mine named Ohad. That being said, are you a family friend of mine named Ohad?

More to the point, are you David Baddiel?

catgrl and farqussus: No and No! Thank you for playing "Hey Aren't You That Guy!"

The one I get most often is Andy Kaufman but that was before the beard...

Man, i wish i had a camera of any sort, as it stands i can't even find a pic of Bill Hicks with his hand on his face.

Also this avatar was pretty much custom-animated by cpnglxynchos and i'd hate to stop using it.

i rather made it for my own amusement. that you made it your avi is High Flattery. (or as much as a Dude can be flattered by another, at least.)

It's cool dude, you basically took the picture i was using and made it talk. You seem somehow unwilling to understand that this is an awesome thing, to have my very own animated Bill Hicks avatar (I understand you did not know who he was when you made it, but rest assured this is a major thing for some segments of the internet population).

What I am trying to say is thank you for amusing yourself by making an accidentally awesome thing i was then able to co-opt.

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I am v-chubbing this as hard as I can.

Is this a Quills reference? If so Awesome (although I never wanted to see Geoffrey Rush naked) If not, I'm a culturally inept fool and you should ignore me completely.

yes. if only so i can be responsible for an Awesome.

eww, no, Molly is attractive (in an upright-cat way).

Shelly Duval is scary-ugly, beyond coyote-ugly, you dig your eyeballs out with a spoon if you wake up with that, the Big Sleep that never ends would be better.

(cover) All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

(inside) All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

(back) All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

Oh Jesus fuck, autre, that is the hottest avataricon I ever laid my poor tired eyes on. I don't really even know how to deal with it.

Apparently my comment is separated from that particular avataricon by half a continent, but I stand by it anyway.

I second both your original statement (re: hotness), as well as sharing your hatred of replying-to-a-thing-but-then-your-comment-is-all-heaps-far-away-and-people-don't-know-what-you're-talking-about-and-are-all-whatever-man.

ah, I hate that so much. I can't tell you how many times I've looked in my inbox to see something like, "oh this is the funniest thing I've read all day!" only to figure out they meant someone's response to my stupid post.

and as for you loneal, lets get lezsneezin' on some cuervo !

I may be in the minortiy when I say this, but please do not lez out.

I had a bad experience this one time.

Go on....

Well this one time...

*cue harp music and misting screen*

In my first (or second? So much Vodka) year of Uni, there was this girl I was seeing, and she was pretty down on her luck, and the very next day a horny other girl shows up. Well, one thing led to another. You can pretty much guess what they did. It wasn't too cool.

I mean, don't get me wrong. I'm not against gays. I'm actually pretty open minded once you get to know me.

I think it is just that if I see girls making out, I am reminded of heartbreak. I guess it is dependent on context, you guys can lez out if you just GOT to.

I think there are a lot of dudes who wouldn't really consider lezzing out cheating but would on the contrary encourage it. Unless of course she then decides to permanently change her orientation and dumps you. Then it sucks.

Being heteroflexible, I fail to see the difference between cheating with a dame or a fellow.

I really wouldn't mind if someone that I was seeing ran the bases with other peeps, as long as I wasn't kept in the dark about it (I am aware this is not common), but being secretive about it infers... dishonesty? There is probably a better word. Anyway, there was a "lipstick on the collar, lady on her breath" moment, she said she wanted to exclusively see this other girl, I was all "cool", and later realised that the hollow feeling in my guts that lasted a while was because I liked this girl.

Basically I am like Pavlov's dog, but instead of bells and food, it's chicks lezing out on Cuervo, and me sobbing while watching Love Actually on repeat.

Ah, well heteroflexible might explain it I guess. I'm just saying that if you're entirely straight, it's hard to see girls as sexual competition. But of course being deceived and subsequently dumped is never cool at all. In any case, the saddest thing about all this is that you are now forever incapable of enjoying the idea of chicks lezzing out, which is probably even worse than not being able to enjoy Beethoven's Ninth.

I can't even tell you how much "lady on her breath" makes me want to throw up, and I don't even know why.

Awww yeah, some autre on loneal lezzin' on Cuervo! We be rockin' now.

Sir, I do not believe for a second that you are as old as you say you are.

I think you are a Reverse Internet Pedophile. How do you plead?

And I do not believe you are as young as you say you are. And I am a Nympho-file. You can keep the Peds for yourself.

fuckin' a

Chorizo is hell of excellent. I'm eating a dish with chorizo tonight.

Is your Lady around? Or is this secret Chorizo devouring?

Ain't got not lady. I eat all the chorizo I damn want. (God I'm lonely)

We gather here to remember our fallen brother Keir. Keir was always a stand-up dude. Even when his heart was 98.72% occluded by Mexican animal fats, he used to give us the thumbs-up sign from inside the oxygen tent. He never wanted us to worry about him -- always said he'd be fine -- and I'll always remember how during on of the later heart attacks, he offered to walk himself to the ER so we wouldn't have to miss the ending of Monk . . .

Last words: "Totally (cough) WORTH IT fuck yeah chorizo rocks on the whole..."

{outside} i'm sorry chorizo fat gotcha, dogg

If I can manage to utter or scream "I regret nothing!" before I die I think it will almost be worth dying.

We'll make note of that, and scream "He regrets nothing!" is you are unable. Say, I'll be that sounds cool in French: "Il regrette rien" or for the "I" version, "Je regrette rien." Nah, not so easy to say with all those gutteral "r's" when you're already dying. It would sound all death rattle.

"if" you are unable
I'll "bet" that sounds cool
But I got the French right!

You forgot the negation markers, actually. It would be " Je ne regrette rien! " and so on. But otherwise, very good on you.

SCREW GOOGLE LANGUAGE TOOLS!

Screw all internet language tools, to be fair. Not only do they not work half the time, but if they did I'd be out of a future career.

At least you aren't going into graphic design.

Maaan.

My lady loves chorizo-based dishes. And Achewood. These are two of the reasons that we are getting married. Awesome.

That seems as solid a foundation as any for a marriage.

That seems more solid a foundation than many for a marriage.

I've been married too many times to give advice.

Those are both excellent reasons for getting married, sir. I tip my hat to you.

If you're ever in Margaret River, Western Australia - go to the deer farm and get yourself some venison chorizo. It is, I can only assume, the awesomest chorizo in the world. It's awesome as the dickens

Outside: Sorry You Got Dumped

Inside: At Least Now You Can Eat All The Dishes With Chorizo You Want Without Somebody Mentally Filing It Away To Use Against You When You Get Fat.

ANDOUILLE IS BETTER

They are both sort of garbage sausage

Hence why they taste great, poor people could only afford the cheap food, so they figured out the way to make it taste the best

Especially when mixed with chickpeas. Damn, I should do some of that action again.

Andouillette is what happens in France to little tastebuds who are bad. It is not a fun sausage.

Now merguez... There's a sausage I can get my head around! All with that couscous ... Or maybe a good boudin noir, which I've always loved despite my relative distaste for British black pudding...

Cue unnecessarily literal interpretation of "Get my head around" by Lawbot.

Ta-da![IMGS OFF]

It is not immediately apparent that that is a sausage.

I thought it was a slug at first. NOT A PENIS.

I thought that it was a picture of i_love_kate getting his head around the pickles he had just made.

V-chub

Watch out, it's a polymorph! (I know I saw that thing attack Lister on an episode of "Red Dwarf")

Hahahahahaha...vchub.

What in the damn hell man why would you even say that, dogg?

Chubby for saying a sausage I have never even heard of.

Black pudding is really good if they don't dry it out too much when they cook it.

FUCKING ALL I CAN TALK ABOUT IS FOOD PLEASE PLEASE SOMEONE ENGAGE ME ON ANOTHER TOPIC AND SAVE ME FROM MYSELF

HEY! HOW ABOUT THAT LOCAL SPORTS TEAM!!

They're just winning all sorts of games these days you know

Yes, they certainly are applying a variety of physical skills and strategies to guide a ball to a place.

HEY, HOW ABOUT THAT PRICE OF GAS?

IT'S A PRETTY CRAPPY THING, YES.

IT SEEMS AS IF THEY ARE CHARGING FAR TOO MUCH MONEY PER GALLON. THAT SEEMS TO BE THE PROBLEM.

Oh no I just took a picture of myself and now everybody's over it I am so ashamed !

So ashamed that I can't even be fucked changing it back.

Enjoy it for now, for it is temporary.

Wait...what's the comic? ...Heh, that's funny. I think I got some Kazantsepsis on my arm after my allergy injections. It's all red and itchy and swollen and hurts to sleep on.

I Am Sorry We Pressured You Into Putting Your Face on the Internet
(Inside) By the Way I Really Think We Should All Try Super Hard to Stay On Topic Today

I agree with Richard D. James

...he cares because you do.

Je...Jesus?

You had red hair?

Thanks for getting Jesus and Aphex Twin out of the way at the same time, guys. I have also been accused of looking like Jay Kay. Incidentally, the hair is brown, only the beard is red. No, I don't understand it either.

Goddamnit I'm going to keep this thread on-topic if it kills me.

I Am Not Sorry I Shot You Three Times it was Your Fault for Giving Me Grappa While Claiming It Was Pinot Grigio Thus Leading Me to Cough Uncontrollably
(Inside) Don't Even Think About Suing Me I Will Countersue You for the Sum of Three Bullets Plus Lost Earnings Due to Being On the Lam for Nine Weeks and Also Have You Charged With Supplying Liquor Under False Pretences (I'm Not Sure if This Is An Offence But I Am Looking Into It

I'm sorry everyone thought you were the king of the Jews and/or king of contemporary electronic music.

(inside)

you'll always be the king of staying on topic in my brain.

Wow, channeling Pat.

Are you Australian?

Nah mate, I'm a Pom. Why, are ginger beards common among Aussies?

Pompeiian?

Pomegranate?

Pomeranian?

Pom Pom?

Pom Pilot?

Pomposity Pistol?

Fettuccine pomodoro?

Pom Poko?

Nasty P0m?

Pomatomidae?

Pomatoes?

Pomade? I'm a Dapper Dan man!

I don't want Fop!

P risoner O f Her M ajesty.

It is my theory (which I have appropriated from one that already exists in some similar, if not identical form) that originally we were the prisoners, but we live in Australia* and NOW who are the prisoners, stuck in crummy bleak England.

*I moved to London.

Echidnas are Australian, except Knuckles, spokesechidna of the echidnas. Controversial.

Well, Knuckles is from the Floating Island, which really seems to be a lot like Australia, especially in the first Knuckles miniseries published by Archie Comics a long time ago and oh man did I just tell everyone I used to read Sonic comics

You did. Tell us you were 5 and not 18 and we can all look the other way while we pretend to beleive you.

i chubbied takende because i also knew that knuckles was from the floating island. but not from the comics, i have no idea how i knowt his information. is it also in the games?

I think so.

I knew it too, and I loved Sonic for many years.

That is, until I made a terrifying Googlescovery !

I guess you shouldn't look at that if you have are at a job you want to keep.

or you've had a dinner you don't want to taste twice.

That is the worst thing I have seen today.

Why didn't giant isopods teach me to stop clicking links from assetbar?

Your link is naughty!

I read them until I was...I dunno, 16 or 17?

Ugh, how dumb of me. Yes, I am named after Knuckles the antipodean monotreme.* This is because I used to have dreads (I do not lay eggs or possess a cloaca).

*Specifically the 16-bit version, as my Sonic knowledge doesn't extend much further than Sonic 3 & Knuckles . I'm afraid I take a dim view of what Sega, Archie et al have done with the franchise since then.

Did you have poisonous claws, or little indentions were milk wells up which your young lap milk from?

God I love monotremes.

I'm a weirdo.

NO! Furry animals that LAY EGGS! I'm with you.

Chubbed for intense, barely-contained under your breath voice I imagined you using when you said that.

No cloaca? Don't be that guy.

Now that I know you are English I feel kind of betrayed.

In other news - yes, ginger beards do occur in Australia. Our kind doesn't take to sun as you know, and I gather would have mostly died out in the early days of colonialism, however we are here.

In OTHER news - Jesus, arguably, could have actually had red hair , if it was passed down that far from the line of David (who, by tradition, arguably also had red hair ). Possible, but pretty doubtful given that it's a recessive gene and the general complexion in the area at the time was pretty damned dark.

I Am Sorry You Feel Betrayed By My Being English

(Inside) I Mean I Never Had A Problem With You Being Australian When We Bonded Over Pirates and Batman That One Time

(back) A BLOO BLA BLOO BLOO BLOOOO

I would chubby this for appropriate use of abloo bla bloo but I already chubbied another of your comments on my way up the page and oh well you know

v-chub is what I am trying to say

Aw, you know we cool. It's a sibling rivalry thing - it's that whole "You broke my GI Joe and I'm still pissed at you" thing. It don't mean nothin'.

I also have brown hair and reddish-brown facial hair.

More than one person has asked me if I'm Irish. (My name is pretty blatantly Jewish.)

Arbys is a Jewish name? You'd think the enormous hat would be a yarmulke.

Wrong.

Arbys is too expensive to be Jewish. ZING.

(front) I Am Hell Of Sorry I Made An Anti-Semitic Comment. It Was Uncessary
(inside) But My Girlfriend Just Dumped Me And I Am On Edge.

Don't worry
I will date you.

i would like to posit that perhaps you are not the actual guitar hero, because there can only be one and i am that one

YOU ARE A SKULL.

BUT CAN HE NOT LOVE?

NO. HE IS A SKULL.

BUT CAN I NOT LOVE?

NO. WE ESTABLISHED THAT.

a hundred million dollar skull....

[IMGS OFF]

That's one pimp fuckin' skull.

Ugh. Damien Hirst. He makes my soul rebel in anger.

I FUCKING HATE that thing. I've said this to Cromar before. Every time I see his vatar, I well up with anger.

FUCK Damien Hirst.

Um. Avatar.

Anger made me typo.

I think I am missing something?

v-chub

dang if i owned that thing i would just pry the diamonds off and go everywhere dripping with bling

You can hella pick diamonds and such from my skull anytime you would like to do this thing.

I changed my mind.

SKULLS

LOVE EM.

I AM A GUITAR HERO.

THE LAST OF MY KIND.

I have dirty blonde hair, grow a brown beard, but if I ONLY grow a moustache, it is ginger. I think it is an optical illusion type thing, and ALL of my facial hair is ginger, but some light-refraction bullshit makes it look darker the more there is of it.

Anyway, I have been clean shaven for a while now, I looked to much like a person you would find on the internet.

Dude, I just wanna say. You could totally kick my ass (your aviators are bigger than mine) and no offense meant about the ways to deal with the ladies.

Oh man, in all seriousness, I am super-glad you said that. Earlier today I read all of the replies to my post yesterday, and saw what I thought was a regular thing transform into this thing in which I am a creep. I was considering writing something along the lines of "oh but that is not what it is like!" but realised it was yesterday's post , and in the world of assetbar, was as good as dead.

I basically meant that if there has been flirtation with a lady, that has been returned, then for no discernable reason, you get politely shunned, I usually like to try and figure out why, just so I know it's not that I smell like carpet, or have hair between my teeth or something. I did not want to sound like a date rapist.

I cannot stress this enough .

Also, they are not even my aviators! I took them from an Israeli fellow. I was going for a Jesse "The Devil" Hughes look, and instead, looked like a fat-headed twat.

I think you look badass.

It is a small picture, though, so you may look like a twat. Sorry for ruining the uplifting compliment there.

Bah, screw Staying On Topic. I think we have all achieved a degree of solidarity and interaction that is able to transcend the direct conversation evolution of the comic. Staying on topic is good, but....only when I want to.

YER MOM IS ON TOPIC

I got on topic all over your mom last night!

GET WITH THE PROGRAM, ASSETBASTARDS!

[IMGS OFF]

So guys, who likes Achewood?

I do!

Did you guys see Achewood today?

Funny stuff!

...Oh shit. I'm out of questions for us to discuss. WE HAVE TO VEER OFF TOPIC.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

especially if it's a Hot Topic

Hot Topics!
sung to tune of: Hot Pockets!

Oh man, that should definitely be A Thing. Next time I'm at the mall, I will sing that outside the Hot Topic.

Hoooooooot Topic!

Oooooh, the gawths are gonna be maaaaad at yooooooou...

Ewww, Topics.

I heard that one time, someone found a mouse skull in one.

I realise that this is almost certainly untrue, but I can't shake it.

That was another of Nice Pete's favorites, though it took a really, really long time and a lot of work to set it up.

So worth it.

Nice Pete worked in the topic factory for 3 months to accomplish that Act.

note to self: refresh

Well if we took the mouse skulls out, it wouldn't be crunchy, would it?

Excellent get.

We use only the finest fresh Peruvian Woodmice, farm-raised to our exacting specifications, bathed in the purest Andean springwater, lightly killed, and lovingly bathed in a quintuple-smooth triple-creme swiss chocolate fondade.

Fondade is a word I made up, but it sounded right, which is the important bit.

Is this a fondant-flavored beverage?

It's like lemonade, but made out of fondue instead.

This detailed food description reminded of Pat, and even though it refers to mice, it still sounds a lot more appetizing than vegan food.

Oh, delicious!

I was thinking more a melted coating, a la fondue. It was a play on that. A dumb, stupid play.

How would you make a fondant flavored beverage? I don't even want it on my cake.

The combination of that comment with your avatar has this perfect stage-whispering-a-secret quality to it.

I once heard a story about a woman finding a penis (or part thereof) in a bottle of milk, and have since that day been rendered unable to drink directly from the bottle, out of fear of feeling a cock bump against my lips while drinking.

It is a pretty specific phobia, but one shared by pretty much anyone who has had milk-drinking/penis-bump experience in the past.

Also a fear shared by Albinos and Russian women.

yeah I have a similar phobia - when I am swimming I am afraid my foot is going to hit something bad. Not sure what... well I'm afraid of the water in general, always have been, even more so since that time I was sailing in rough weather and was trying to right my sailboard and drifted so close to the shore that my foot hit the bottom of the lake, and I was like 'oh my god, it's a something!' and it was only a fraction of a second later that I realized that hey, I had simply gotten close enough to shore to get my feet on the lake bottom, but that was all it took, since that moment there is this permanent and specific phobia implanted in my mind, no different than when a severed penis bumps against your lips while you're drinking from the milk bottle. It only takes a fraction of a second to consciously realize that hey, it's probably just a severed penis, and the milk is all steralized/pasturized anyway, so it's really not a big deal... but... in that fraction of a second, that neuropic synapse is permanently formed, and from then on, you need an oral barrier to be able to truly enjoy chugging milk from a bottle. Such is life.

I have that same phobia (the lake thing, not the penis thing). Even if my foot just brushes a clump of seaweed or such as a basic thing like a shell, I freak out something terrible. I have to be thoroughly convinced that I am treading in clean water. Now, hear this. When I was a wee lassie, I went to camp, and we had kayaking. Now, I do not trust lake water at all , and some kid held a plasic bag underwater, and I, convinced that it was a jellyfish, was uncomfortable going near him and his stinging friend. He started laughing at me, and he threw the plasic bag/"jellyfish" into my kayak, causing me to throw a fit, because I thought he threw a goddamn jellyfish on my leg. Now, this is a legitimate fear, yes? Still, for the rest of the summer, I was called "Jelly Belly" and (this is a direct quote, by the way) "a big fat jellyfish who's so fat you can't even fit in the ocean!" Yeah. Original. So for the rest of the summer none of the kids wanted to be my friend and mocked me no matter what I did and made my wee little self cry on a daily basis. So goes the story of the Worst Fucking Summer.
-Waterphobic Anecdotes, 4th Edition

This might be the Saddest Thing.

Fuck dem bitches girlie. I have a similar fear, something underwater that wants to get me. I think it started with seeing Jaws at a young age.

IT'S NOT FOR GIRLS!

That is a hilarious British candy bar. With the no girls symbol and Do not feed the birds! . I brought some of those candy bars back to the US for female friends and told them I was violating UK law by giving it to them.

The British army get a couple of small yorkies in their ration packets with the phrase "Not for civvys!" on the wrapping.

My mother is a milk chocolate confectionery bar with hazelnuts in soft, chewy nougat and smooth, smooth caramel.

My actual mother wouldn't get it.

I got your topic right here, mofo!

Oh good! What is it?

LAWLZ

It's true--tekende got on topic of your moms so hard last night. All "..blah blah lawbot's mom this, lawbot's mom that, blah blah blah ..." It was so annoying. He wouldn't talk about anything else.

of course, your mom, on the other hand... now SHE was talking about something else. She wouldn't stop talking about that, either...

What was it, earendil? *innocent, wide-eyed stare*

Hand-face pics, duh. They're the hottest topic of the age.

Ray just wants Beef to make dude-to-dude cards so he has something other than those shitty e-cards when he slips up.

Essentially Beef is going to end up apologizing to himself is what I am trying to say.

Google returns no hits for "Kazantsepsis"

So there is fully a joke in the alt-text that i am not getting, and will never hope to get on sheer pondering alone.

(i guess what i'm asking for is YOUR help, gumshoes)

and literally seconds after posting this, did i read the first panel more carefully.

IT IS 5:52am! WHY ARE YOU ON MY CASE.

dumass

Did you mean Dumas?

Dumas is the surname of several people.

Including an Argentine single-handed sailor.

You hear the one about the single-handed sailor, the preacher's wife, and the boa constrictor?

In the end, the boa constrictor is a snake!

And in the middle, the single-handed sailor is a nautical amputee!

And in the beginning, the preacher's wife regales us with the story of Sammy Jankis and his anterograde amnesia.

And befor the joke starts, the talking pillowcase downs a bottle of arsenic!

although I did wonder if the Kazantsepsis joke was related to the typo that friday's strip was posted with. A COINCIDENCE!?

YES

I would send hell of cards to all my dude friends

Especially the ones with Kazantsepsis . . . I don't want to get sick with that stuff, so no visiting the sick, just e-cards.

Jesus jumping on the handface bandwagon was harder than i expected, oh well heres a picture of me with my head in my hands gazing deeply into a bottle of Polish Beer.

Please have your original photo reduced to 50x50 pixels.

Seriously, there should be cards that you can just send whenever. Like, it doesn't have to be a birthday or anniversary, or no one has to leave their job. You should just have cards for all circumstances. (Note I said circumstances, not Circumstances.)

Oh, wait... Wasn't this what everyone did with e-cards a few years back? I know I did. Little Bubblegum characters all in my friends inboxes all the time...

(Note again: I was like twelve.)

You can always just come up with the cards you send whenever yourself. I am a great advocate of the personalised card created in photoshop. I made this one for Mother's Day, but I'm always making random, stupid cards for total non-events.

[IMGS OFF]

(My mother's name is Nora, and that's her face, not the face of whatever random saint is in that painting... it might not have made sense without anyone knowing that)

That is fly.

Also I think there should be cards for saying negative things to people as well as positive things.

I hope we are never flatmates.

Seriously, you have that kind of weird smell and I can deal with it occasionally when we hang out but there's no way I could live under the same roof as it.

Front

I wish you wouldn't call on the phone so much.

Inside

Sorry but you just call way too much and I feel bad not answering but when I do you just tie me up with nonsense stuff that really could have waited until the next time you see me. Although what's worse is when you run out of stuff to say so you just ignore my hints that I have to go and we sit in awkward silence.

If I had this card, I might still have a girl who might let me put it in there.

The saddest thing is the person I would have given it to was a dude.

Sorry to interrupt this conversation, but I have been meaning to tell you norrin: you kind of look like my dad in that picture.

Front:

At first I thought you were really cool, but then I started getting a creepy vibe.

Inside:

I realized you look kinda like my dad... So we can't have sex anymore.

Or can we have sweet hot Oedipus sex ? .. kamet?

Oedipal Sex.. that would make a great band name.

tonight at the Garden... Oedipal Sex! with opener: "MILF man"

Oh my, same with falseprophet, except my dad is older and whiter.

What.

Hey Margargaret, your dad looks like Woody Harrelson.

i will take 1,000 of your finest "please stop calling everytime you have an anecdote" cards, if you please!

umm, so I know its a bit passé to be complimenting people, but you are nicer to look at than a psychedelic neon dancing tyrannosaurus. I do not say this lightly.

And that, that is what is going on my epitaph.
"autrepoupee -- 1988 to -014 Post-Time Era daughter, spinster, nicer to look at than psychedelic neon dancing tyrannosaurus (ref. first edition of species) "
thanks!

yep I like this.

Front:

You are Essentially a Nice and Well Intentioned Person

Inside:

But I Can Only Handle You In Small Doses

These are sound like the stupid shit people send in to Post Secret.

The what people send into what?

The stupid shit people send to Post Secret.

Man. I'm getting really sucked into this now.

I'll never get any work done, ever.

hahahaha!

It's scary how addicting it is even though it's so completely stupid.

And you know like half of it's probably made up or overdramatized and yet you keep reading.

Anyway, the point of these nega-cards would be completely the opposite of all that shit - in that, they would not be anonymous. You would send them just like you'd send any other greetings cards. Signed and all.

It could become a polite, socially acceptable way to tell people the things that are hard to just say outright.

Front:

I Am Sorry Our Very Nice Relationship Has To End

Inside:

But I Just Found Out You And Your Brother Beat Up My Flatmate Outside A Pub While You Were Pissed And I Was Out Of Town.

Bad day bad day. I would do a frowny face if Acheworld allowed it. Anyhoo, turns out there's a market for this 'un, who knew?

I'm with you, we can do it


:(

YES!

Front: People are like bubblegum.

Inside: That hell of makes you the pink shit that comes in a package of baseball cards, all hard and dry and like chewing on a sugared roofing tile.

Front: I am like bubblegum.

Inside: Blow me.

Front: [b]People are like bubblegum[/i]

Inside: They are responsible for four deaths every year.

Front: I am like bubblegum

Inside: I can't work bbcode.

Front: Assetbar is like bubblegum.
Inside: It's pretty frikkin' sweet.

Front: Assetbar is like bubblegum.
Inside: Seriously, think about it. There's a little comic, that you read and makes you laugh, but you could read elsewhere, and then there's the meaty part that you chew on for hours

elsewhere being achewood.com; i don't mean to suggest you can get the same comic experience with other comics from achewood.

You have entertained me while I wait for tf2 update. For that I thank you!

I don't think that's the kind of card Roast Beef would either be writing or sending.
That said, I can't imagine anyone would mind receiving that card.

Or:

I'm Sorry I Said That Maybe We Could Get A Beer Sometime.

I Don't Actually Like You, I Just Act Like It Since We Work Together. Seriously Though, Stop Asking If I Want To Get A Beer Sometime.

Mother's are saints, bless you, daughter -- now pick up your room!

First time i read that i thought it was St mothers day.

an equally good celebration to that of blessed Nora ( she who held the lamb and palm branch whilst Christ had to sort some shit out downtown)

If my mom sends me a random present, she will include a "Happy St. Swithen's Day" card with it. Every day's a good day for St. Swithen's Day...

Or a good day for St. Brendan's

I think there are such cards.

You have come up with the name, CIRCUMSTANCES, cards for no occasion or all occasions.

i tried to make a general-purpose apology card. sorry in advance if this sucks.

[IMGS OFF]

DAMN IT. i guess right click ---> view image.

also the text under the gorey illustration says "i have no notion, not a clue, why i am sending this to you."

Outside:
Little Zooks, of whom no one was fond
Was launched towards the roof and beyond
The infant's trajectory
Took him over the rectory
And into a lily-choked pond.
Inside:
Don't worry - you're in the club :)

Chubby for reminding me of awesome John Bellairs books from my childhood, all fraught with Gorey details...

Beef seems so forlorn in the final strip; his visage suddenly softening, his tricep slowly beginning to relax after days of furious typing; it is as though he realises that this one perfect card has brought him to the ultimate climax of his career and he will be doomed to wander his remaining days as a declining has-been.

Or the furious outpour of emotion that began this meager career-possibility has been dried up like a well upon the creation of his opus.

Brainstorming meets reality, and finds out it is all in his head.

Hey You Remember That Time You And I Went On That Picnic Together And No One Else Was In Our Area Of The Park So We Shared More Than Just A Chorizo?

(inside) You Should Get Tested.

(back cover) I'm Serious.

There are fantastic online ways of telling someone you gave them and STI anonymously.

I...I hope you've never used this?

I had them printed up in bulk, after all, I was at Woodstock.

(No seriously, anonymous sex is bad! Do not do this!)

Hah, no, no-one knows I've given them an STI.

(But seriously no, safe sex is rad)

Craigslist, for example.

No, that's for the initial giving/getting of STD's.

It can go either way.

I once saw a post on there, something like "we met at [some bar or whatever, I don't know], and, well, you might want to get tested."

Running Test: beep boop boop beep booop boop...
[IMGS OFF]

Oh, Wesley, I'm afraid you have

A.D.Deeeeeee

"My name's not Wesley. I wish you'd call me by my real name."
"Okay....Wesley."

v-chub for a fellow clone high fan.
Y'know what? I'm making it an actual chub.
Here ya go

Don't forget ADHD, its hyperactive cousin!

Ghandi has ADD! You get it from toilet seats!

*snap*

Also: I'm an albatross!

Are you flap flap flapping your Albatross wings?

Well, hot damn! You beat me to it!

Flap flap fapping my albatross wiiiiiiiiiiings!

Oh my dogg that is possibly the worst typo in the history of teh intrarwebz.

I don't hear the albatross complaining about it.

'eye-er-uh. waaaaanna. pawwwwty. pllllattuh!!'

Having AD(H)D rules. Except, you know, when it sucks (read: holding down a normal job, getting to places on time, not embarrassing yourself and getting depressed - it's no good for any of these).

I found your copy of YM. Next to your BM. ....
....Wesley.

i would never send a card to another gentleman

Because you are not sick as hell .

I always though there was something, uhh, "homeoerotic" about that finger touch -- God all saying, "Dude, I have to touch your finger, that's how it works, it doesn't MEAN anything!", but Adam was kind of nervous anyway, because if there was trouble, realistically, whet could he do?

You must have enjoyed E.T. for reasons I did not

Or feared it.

He was giving him [i]life[i] dude, not the Clap your hands now.


You know most of Michelangelo's female figures are pretty homoerotic. That turtle just did not dig the ladies.

Oh a disembodied hand...face!

Hey, I'm embodied. I resemble that remark!

The fact that the cards are written using Title Caps accounts for at least 50% of the funny in this story-arc

Dude,

Man am I sorry about my neckbeard...

-inside-

[IMGS OFF]

I like it. It has flavour. Neckbeard flavour

Just fix your picture so you don't look like a burn victim and I think people will stop commenting on it.

Now that I think about it, chuvak does resemble Gary Oldman in Hannibal more than a little bit.

Does no one remember that chuvak is not actually neckbeard?

I do.

But I still hate that avatar. I hate it so much.

It makes me want to throw up. The neckbeard, the bizarrely white skin, the stupid facial expression, the picture from whence it originated...it's all horrible.

One of the main things I hate is the horrific aspect ratio.

ASPECT RATIO, PEOPLE. IT'S IMPORTANT. I CAN'T STRESS THIS ENOUGH.

I've lost track of the number of times I've tried to convince my friends of this. We would have watched The Fountain stretched to 4:3 if I hadn't insisted on switching to 16:9. I don't know if you've seen The Fountain, but it is a film with a lot of spheres and geometric/fractal shit in it. Watching it stretched would be like watching it in black and white. Philistines.

Phew. Rant over.

Or you could just not watch The Fountain.

(because it sucks)

Yeah, but the music and visuals are kind of worth it.

Also, you get the rare situation of a bald Hugh Jackson.

(chubby if I had any left)

The visuals were quite good.

Sure, it's a mess of a film but in places it's genuinely beautiful and as such it deserves to be seen in the intended format. Aspect ratios matter . Back me up on this, heccibiggs.

Hugh... Jackson?

I wish I had the technical ability and steady hand to photoshop Wolverine claws onto Bad-era Michael Jackson.

Er...whoops. Hugh Jackman.

aww, I like it. It's creepy and blond.

Is that why your avatar is La Reina ?

I imagine if more things were sold with neckbeard flavor, well, they would sit unsold on the shelves.

Absolutely the worst kind of ramen you can get.

But "neckbeard flavor" is better than "old Korean crotch" ramen.

NO

"NO" in disagreement or "NO" in fury at the subject matter?

I disagreed with the hypothesis put forward, and ascertained from my own musing that the most pertinent response would be to imitate Lawbot.

Ergo, NO

I'm sorry I sold you a RV that rains inside the cab
(over)
Mexican magic realism dude I mean what the hell

he..he doesn't know that friend anymore.

i stamp that card with a big red MOOT

Walgreens is not the optimal market for Beef's cards in any case. Your local girly paper store... or Onstad's store... or Achewood e-cards... now there you've got chemistry.

I'm not well-versed in current slang: Is Beef using the word "Sick" here in the more recent meaning of something that is good? Or does he use it in the more conventional way as something that is not good at all?

Also, do people still say "Phat?" They never seem to in Achewood, though Beef thinks filing taxes early is "dope," which I also took to be somewhat passe. (Imagine your own diacritical mark or whatever on "passe.")

I think part of the uniqueness and comedy of Beefspeech is that just about all of his slang vocabulary is from the long long ago times, so if it strikes you as passe then that is probably an intended effect.

I think "sick" isn't necessarily still used by the origninators, but it is being kept alive by the new booming poker culture. They use "sick" a lot, essentially it means "crazy," as in "That is some crazy shiz to be happening!" when something statistically unlikely happens.

I love "poker culture." I'd never heard that.

And, see, where I live, those type of dudes use it to mean "cool" or "rad."

That Roush is sick, dude .

Poker culter, as in 'Poker, she'll love it'

... See above post as regards to typo. Not so hilarious. But stupidly tiny keyboard.

Fellas, what I need to understand, and which remains unclear, is: Does Beef think that dudes will LIKE to receive cards from other dudes, or not? I for one would enjoy getting a card related to times of dudes.

I have lately heard dudes such as Moto-X riders or skaters or whatever say that some move is "Siiiiiick", by which they mean freaky good, but Beef in the main does not employ the slang terms of these people. I did not know that poker players were also using this term, but many of them strike me as people who wish they could do radical BMX tricks.

I use the word "sick" all the time to mean like, good or awesome or whatever. I sort of assumed Beef was using it with the same meaning, but then again he is supposed to be from Californian Circumstances, and I am a white British upper-working-class girl who just tends to get infected with the language of the "cool kids" every now and then, so who knows, maybe are meanings are completely different.

(I also say "bare" and "jank" if anyone here is familiar with those terms.)

All of those are words that california kids were using two years ago.

I'm afraid this California kid missed out on those. Although I do use "janky" to mean run-down or beat-up, but that is not in widespread use, and I don't know if it means the same thing as "jank."

When I was visiting two years ago those words were much in evidence. This was like in the SF area.

I have lived in the SF area since I was three, but I am not such as a cool kid, and I believe that people have used and continue to use slang terms of which I am not aware.

"Janky" is hella usink around my parts for past 10-15 years if I am recallink correctly.

I am partial to "jankety"

As in "my bare jank"?

NO.

Also: NO.

Additionally: NO

YES! a million times YES!

i love you, killinger.

i am in love with you

I took it in the "good" sense.

That's what she said.

WHOOOOOOOOOOOO!

That's what she said!

That's what tekende said!

That's what achilleselbow said!

fin

That's what Nemo said!

hah, i spent a good thirty seconds trying to think of a fish related comment to reply to 'fin' with, but then i gave up. but, you didn't, so here are props

[IMGS OFF]

Oh, wow! Thank you! I promise to use my props for good, never evil!

*gasps*
will these be the counter-rotating tassles I asked for, some strips ago??

fingers crossed!

I totally read it the other way at first, but on further reflection I think sick means good here because we have established that a dude is someone you have had times with, not just a synonym for guy .

But, yeah, with the dictionary meaning of sick this card would still sell. Whenever my dudes and I have to buy each other cards for an occasion, it's always Happy Bar Mitzvah, You Are Now a Man! or To My Favorite Step-Aunt , just to show that you're not about to get all mushy on him. A card that essentially said, "You just got a greeting card from another man! Ha, Ha!" would fill a certain niche for men who are uncomfortable being in the same room with their feelings.

I'm sorry that my signature resembles Ray's Van Halen signature.

It's just that I was taught penmanship from Arthur H. Invisible and he never finished community college.

(Outside) - The last strip's discussion was so awesome, I mean pretty much the high point of my existence.
(Inside) - I'm pretty much just waiting to die at this point.

The asteroid with earth's number it is coming.

I'm Sorry But I'm Not Crazy
(inside) You're the One that's Crazy
(back) Institutionalized, by Roast Beef

(cover)sorry I called you a bitch when you whined at me and said I wasn't listening.
(Inside)If you found someone better it would just hurt more when they too inevitably called you a bitch.

I'm sorry I hung up on you

[inside]It's just I have work to do and I have no interest in what Kathy had for lunch and it infuriates me that you care.

Just a head's-up, we be doin' mad chatting in the new unofficial Achewood IRC channel. For those that are interested, join us at irc.slashnet.org in #achewood , use port 6667 if whatever IRC client you use doesn't default to that.
For the uninitiated : IRC is an oldschool chat program. You'll need to download any of a slew of clients to connect. A lot of people find mIRC to be quick and easy.

OK, but this is not actually technically true. At the time this was posted, there has been no chat for about 2 hours.

You know what is basically crap? [/i]Ident[/i].

Why does it even still exist?

It is simply an inimitable masterpiece in the artform that is being assraped by assetbar with it's giant space penis that inevitably kills your post.

That is not a good description of ident.

okay I'm sorry but was there a meeting held unbeknownst to me in which every other person on Assetbar decided to feature themselves and one of their hands in their avatar? I'm just...please help me understand.

Oh fuck me, nevermind.

Basically I'm an idiot.
Should I make this incident into a card?

(outside) I'm sorry I didn't pay strict close attention to the discussion yesterday about hand-face avatars.
(inside) For the first time ever I am sad to be Nice Pete.

It'll pass, or maybe the handface fever will strike you, too, whoever you are.

CHING CHONG WING WONG IRC

Uhh okay I'm trying to join in here. But like I don't really know what's going on. I downloaded that mIRC thing. And then I was like, "join #achewood", and apparently I did, so either I did it wrong or there's no one in there.

Both are wholly feasible.

Okay, you have to connect to server irc.slashnet.org.

Once connected type:

/join #achewood

With the slash. That should do it.

Then while you're out golfing, apparently you will first be op'd and then kicked.

hah, it was a trap all along. that will teach you to golf

Well it beats working.

When you connect, you have to choose a channel. Choose irc.slashnet.org, then click select, THEN connect, THEN /join #achewood.

I'm sorry I can't explain this better but since I can't actually see your monitor it is slightly hard to explain.

Aww...Is everyone really there? I mean, do I have to? I can't really install any stuff to my computer due to its being hella lame. Can't we just talk here? Like old times?

Well, no, you don't have to. I was trying to be helpful to heccibiggs.

But...are people...having funtimes?

Sometimes.

Your computer can handle mIRC. Promise. Join us in our vibrant discussion.

NO MEANS NO JOLLYSAINTPETE!!!!

psh HEY MAN, I was just trying to include you in the fun times. Ask tekende about the times we have been having. Just ask him.

She did ask me. She did.

iirc under BSD bitches!

Fuck. That's ircii. That is so humiliating. 53p1ku.

Whatever. If you can manage to operate ircii, you have your own problems, and do not need our advice.

I am unsure how to take this statement.

I wonder how long it will take everyone to revert back to their pre-handface avatars? I for one will never go back, and when everyone else goes back I will develop the persona of an old timey prospector and always talk about "the good old days."

Taking that into consideration, I kind of wish I had taken a better picture.

I was kind of hoping everyone would just keep it that way. I didn't really get involved in yesterday's discussion too much, mostly because it had pretty much entirely happened before I noticed it, but it struck me: what an awesome message board. I intend to change my icon as soon as I get to a computer with photoshop.

I might switch mine back. What if I'm recognised? Such paranoid thoughts are taking up too much of my mental processes for me to function properly. I dread the moment when someone I know walks up to me and says "Achewood makes no sense, and Kate's way too good for you."

kate might see you, then the jig will be up!

Oh shiiiiiiiiit

If they are wrong about Achewood, then they are probably wrong about Kate.

I'm keeping mine, for a while at least. It is better than some robots I drew one time and threw up on to the Internet for a forum I thought I'd never use.

I, for one, would miss yours.

Is Beef still riding on that wave of inspirational frustration from his visit to the card shop? His ventures don't tend to last this long...

It's worse than the bead shop.

Oh, wow, I was actually at a bead shop yesterday, with Kate and two other girls that I don't love. But it was a fun time anyway. I looked at the beads until I could no longer convince myself that they were sweets, then busied myself with examining the pliers and superglue near the entrance.

All the time, I was humming Cliffs of Dover under my breath and praying that my testicles didn't implode.

I was the guy outside with the placard

sick as HELL ahahahah

but their fingers never do touch, Mr. Onstad!

that is why that analogy is awesome. its like charlie brown finally kicking the football.

Doggs, it would feel sick to get a card from a dude, unless it were an Achewood card.

(Outside) This thing has great online possibilities.
(Inside) We should put a business plan together. Beer and chorizo at my place, stat.

All prenups should include a accord for not bringing up Chorizo-Based meals when doggs get fat.

I found this one hard to read/ understand

Perhaps I'm not as smart as I thought I was :(

Ugh! C'mon, theirateturk! Phew!

Dude, I know it's Sick as Hell to get a card from a dude, but I'd totally cuddle you if we were watching "Arrested Development" (not in a Gay way, just in a Hey-Mate-We're-Dudes-In-This-Together way).

Onstad, we need these cards. We're lame; you get stuff don. Help us out here in a Dude-To-Dude Way.

I think your definition of dude to dude is different than mine. I think you mean to say dude on dude.

more like a dude to dude connection, like an extension lead. with prongs and socketsYOU GET THE IDEA

Pipe-to-Pipe Bushman.

[IMGS OFF]

Not in a gay way, just in a "Hey mate, I want to say that you're looking okay" way.

Dogg, I would use these dude to dudes

oh my god acheworld has become a huge circle jerk

What about the chicks?

I Am Sorry We Turned Your Online Forum Into A Huge Circle Jerk

(inside) I Was Just Trying To Get Attention From Far-Away Internet Girls

(over) Upon Reflection The Gratification Was Hella Fleeting

It was totally worth it.

I assume. I guess I was just kind of watching others be gratified.

Does...does that make me a pervert?

its ok. im not really mad. sadly, i still read a good chunk of it.

i hadn't seen that much sexual tension on the internet since i was a regular visitor to the SWCCG chat room on AOL.

Also, theres a good amount of tension at clubjenna.

sort of a different type though.

There was quite a lot of sexual tension, wasn't there?

I was thinking through the whole thing what a shame it was that I don't actually know any of you in real life. I mean, with the level of wittiness and cuteness, there would be so many make outs.

heccibiggs is gonna bring the sex act

Right before theirateturk brings the murder act.

I'll bring the Cuervo. Chicks will do anything on Cuervo.

That's basically true.

THEY'LL EVEN LEZ OUT!

they really do. it's not to be sneezed at.

ACHOO!

But sneezing at lesbians is such fun. Come join us, Farqussus, develop your aim.

when bodily fluids explode violently from orifices while I watch lez action, they are well aimed, i assure you.

I like where this is going

I WOULD like where this was going, were it a real-life situation.

I have to second Hecci on this, if acheworld were a university campus, I am pretty sure everyone would have hooked up more than once, and some would occasionally slam.

It has recently come to my attention that "hook up" has lost practically all semantic meaning. It can mean anything from "make out" to "have sex," and it can even mean "have sex with someone with whom you are in a committed relationship."

It has been theorized to me that this is because it allows girls to make themselves seem less slutty and guys to make themselves seem more studly. That's a really interesting social function and all, but I would really appreciate some linguistic precision.

I agree. Unfortunately, Tom Wolfe seems to be of the same opinion.

I propose we all go back to using the time-honored base system.

I don't know what Tom Wolfe says about anything, but the base system was something I could get behind. Why has it fallen out of style? It may not have always been the suavest way to describe sexual encounters, but it was certainly steamier than "hooking up."

I'm generally uncomfortable talking directly about sex at anything above a 5th grade/Beavis & Butthead level.

Heh heh.

"Butt"

Being Australian, I was raised without access to the base system or the term "make-outs". We had to make do with pashing or the less common snogging.

My understanding of the bases was:
1st- Staring.
2nd- Headbutting.
3rd- Doing it in an elevator.
4th- A Dutch oven.

I assume I am wrong- could someone from one of the older colonies explain them to me?

First: Kissing
Second: Boobs
Third: Prestidigitation
El Honron: The Full Monty

I guess one possible flaw of the base system is that it fails to account for oral, possibly due to the fact that when I was in third grade many people did not even know of such a concept.

See, my understanding was that pulling a Ricky Jay was second base, and making out with someone's junk was third base. It just MAKES SENSE.

in sixth grade i had to explain to a guy on my bus that oral sex was not, in fact, the same thing as phone sex.

I thought oral was an inside the park home run.

Oral is hitting the pitcher with a line drive.
It can be so relieving but can have hell of consequences.

Oral is definitely off-base in that system. And anal is not even in the ballpark.

Well that got a chubby because those are pretty great bases.

I've also heard of 5th and 6th bases.

We can all use our imagination, we all know.

Maybe it was because the base system made no sense to foreigners, women, or people who do not play rounders.

Agreed.

However, being married, I guess that means I'd be relegated to operating the video camera.

Or getting nice and tanked on hella spiked punch and climbing and jumping off shit, 'cause I'm married and I know that's what I'd be doing.

I'm glad I'm not the first one to assume that, if there were a AcheCon of some description, there would be hella people having fleeting drunken internet-originated make-outs/sexy times/awkward flirting with the ones they assumed they'd hit it off with in real life but don't at all.

But this would only happen if there was booze. A LOT of booze.

So when and where exactly are we throwing the Worldwide Assetbar Convention?

All wearing nametags with our online aliases on them, all hanging a huge mural-sized blow-up of that day's Achewood on a wall of the room while we mingle.

Some dudes in the corner yelling "THESE KNIVES!"

A whole bunch of people just showing up and standing in the corner not saying anything and just judging everyone.

I will do the "Rap Music, My Droogs" move. I call for meetings in Chicago or Boston.

I have, and will again, put NYC forward as a meeting place.

I would second that, but it would really be just out of selfishness. I mean we could do a bunch of separate regional things, but that wouldn't be nearly as cool.

I mean am I wrong in assuming that people wouldn't be willing to actually fly somewhere? If they were, I guess we could put up a bunch of options and vote on them. If we could get Onstad to make an official thing of it I suppose it'd be in California.

It should be someplace cheaper, while still a hub, like Cleveland.

I think this is a common misconception about New York. I mean rent is definitely more expensive, but in terms of everything else, there's plenty of cheap stuff if you know where to look, like $2 falafels, $1 pizza slices, and bars that give you an entire free medium-size pizza with every drink. I guess hotels might be expensive, but I don't really know that it'd be that much more than any other major city.

Well, in fairness shopping there is pretty expensive. At least in Manhattan. And there are no good supermarkets that are not all like artisan soft cheese and such like.

If we did it here, I would cook for all of you. Seriously. And I'd volunteer my couch.

This is false.


Ok, I WILL cook, and I WILL offer my couch. The "this is false" reply goes to another comment.

seconded for Chicago.

again... I will bring cheese to this!

Well I have a friend who would be the guy standing in the corner yelling THESE KNIVES (I know because it is a thing he does anyway)

Well those guys in the southwest are trying to organize a meetup, but I don't know what that means to the rest of us. I doubt people who aren't nearby would be willing to do such as buy plane tickets and book hotels. I feel like the only way to get that level of commitment is if Onstad himself organized something and made it official *hint, hint*.

Hey seriously... come to MO. We never have recessions here.

SOUTHWEST MEETUP REPRESENT BE THERE

I think he should come to Michigan. We are having Hard Times and I swear we don't have too many NRA members in our basements.

Oh my lord, you know what would be a pretty awesome activity? We hang a giant paper (or canvas or whatever) with the appropriate number of panels, and we have smocks for everyone, and we recreate the day's strip, no matter how crappily, and there would (possibly) be much fun had by all!

I will not go unless the fun is guaranteed , dammit!

I am putting you on my dance card

This must happen! Pictures must be taken!

...or at least a live-action version of theirateturk's "HandFaceBabeQuilt"

Man, y'all should come to England. That was almost all of us will be able to drink legally.

That would rock, but trips to England cost hell of cash money.

Everyone can stay at my house.

(That's not true. Everyone cannot stay at my house.)

*raises hand*

how about just me, then?

Yeah, man. Yeah . I woulda hella buy this card if you take out the (inside).

Okay who's gonna set up the Evite while I work on the spreadsheet for the potluck?

3 Days. 3 Acres. 3,000 Assetbar Members

YES

I find Beef's thought of the Creation of Adam to be uncharacteristically positive.

[IMGS OFF]

OK... that is the best thing .

It is pretty good, yes!

Adam is hung like a puppy.

Why would you notice that though

Why would you notice that

Hella creepy, daidai!! I have to say... even if a guy is not-well hung.. you don't look!! You avert your eyes politely, and say "Size Doesn't Matter"

But in your mind you feel quiety superior.

Yeah. Good words, I_Love_Kate.

*quietly

he corrected himself quiety, no one would find his error

Adam is hung like a cranberry

It's cold sitting on a rock with the winds of heavenly glory all blowing around your nards!

Shrinkage due to the cold of the clouds, no doubt.

also, this was God's first crack at human-wienie. cut the guy a little slack

looks like god already did HEY-OH

Oh damn, I straight up chuckled but I am out of chubbies. Just know that you have done well.

That weenie could please hella rodents.

Listen, don't hate on Adam. Just because he's a grow-er and not a show-er.

technically according to the proportions of the picture, Adam is hung like Gods nose.

That's awesome.

just realized it would be weird for adam to use "sick as hell" as a compliment here, since god is probably not thinking that hell is very sick at all"

Hey, it could be worse:[IMGS OFF]

he's about to get a chubby, whether i give you one or not

Could God make a dingle so large that not even He could chubby it?

"I'm sorry I touched your little penis when you were naked. I realise now that you just wanted to connect fingers."

Virtual chubby.

Sacrelicious.

Words can have so many meanings!

By which I mean: I gave you a chubby.

aw, outshined. all i have to work with is mspaint.

v-chub.
get on the v-chub choo-choo.

I am nineteen years old and using the phrase choo choo almost completely without irony.

^This is a punchline.

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE

(Seriously, though. Outstanding.)

Hella v-chub.

Weekend Blogs

Pat: How ABSOLUTELY INSENSITIVE.
Ray: The Story of My Hair.
Philippe: "French Fries was the case they gave me."
Teodor: I'm Hungry

Blargh. Why don't the blogs goddamn work for me. The page opens, but there are no words. Words are virtually the most important part of the blogs!

Still chubbied you though, Xiaomimi. You do good work.

Oh, man! We didn't see the Blog Girl's face! Boooo. I want to see the face (and hand, why not) behind the fantasticness.

But she already has the cartoon hand and face, so ...

You crazy kids!

It's been said a million times before, but the way the blogs are written are beautiful. When reading Pat's, I was thinking of how much a dick he was (seriously, he shot Mr. Bear and is calling him an 'old fool' etc.)

So yeah, the Achewood blogs = awesome.

roast beef is RIPPED.

Product placement in the strip to advertise upcoming products in the store? What do you think this is, Questionable Content?

you are welcome to lame my ass to asherdan levels but i kinda want assetbar back to where it was BEFORE the handface incident

Brother, we don't lame each other here any more. Come. Be at peace.

Hmm. Guess I was wrong.

was it...y-y-y-you?

*sniffle*

join ussssss....be a facehandbaaaaaaaaaaabe

"In addition to consecutive league titles, the Dynamo advanced to the semifinal of the preseason CONCACAF Champions Cup, and semifinal of the first-ever SuperLiga. Dynamo star Pat Onstad became the first goalkeeper to win three MLS Cup Championships, and Onstad was a force behind the team's modern-day, professional team sports shutout record of 727 minutes without allowing a goal. Dwayne De Rosario became the league's first two-time MLS Cup MVP. Aside from the team's on-field success in 2006 and 2007, the Dynamo enjoyed three consecutive record-setting crowds of over 30,000 toward the end of last season."

Coincidence?

YES.

A comment left by gladi8orrex was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by Edwell, loneal, atticusonline)

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Hooray for this.

NO

PLEASE?

OVER-FUCKING-RULED

I shouldn't have yelled at him. Not about this.

(front)
I'm sorry I lashed at you for not enjoying Maximus' antics.

(inside)
I guess a man regurgitating a hand is relatively inappropriate in most circles, I'm trying to be more open-minded.

lolglad8irox ar be on teh ignor lest.lol

rofl #klinjer pwnd gl8rx


lol

I didn't read all of the comments. I can't just sit down and read nearly 500 comments in one sitting. I'm a busy guy, I can't do that.

So if this has been said, whatever.

But can we keep the handface pics forever? Please?

I'm keeping mine. I hope everyone else does the same.

I'm trying mine out for the week. I may find my own mug tiresome by then.

I'm in, for a time.

OK, but as someone who has spent what I now see has been over TWO HOURS reading this and the previous strips' comments, and has enjoyed them immensely, but who also doesn't maybe comment so often, and, too, is a little bit older than the average Assetbarian, I want to know: is it too late for me to get on the handface avataricon bandwagon?

I think maybe it is. Well, there's always the next big paradigm shift, isn't there?

It is not too late, and I promise that we will cherish your face.

Just try it. You can always go back.

um, okay guys I feel hella stupid for asking but what the hell happened with all the icons and the handface and what?

Like the 1960's, or the 1790's or whenever the hell folk invented fire, this was a revolution. A moment where the normal hegemony of a simple webcomic message board was overturned to create a movement.

Those of us who missed it are forever impoverished of the experience, but can still live in the shining new world it's created.

Or , some folks changed their avatar thingies. Whatever.

Go to the weekend comments and behold, oh, about 1800 posts worth of rEVOLution.

It's a secret. We can't tell you until you join us. We even get the secret menu at Arby's

Basically, a whole mess of people realised they all had a crush on HecciBiggs, then emulated her avatar.

It was totally A Thing.

And about a month ago, I stupidly asked hecci who her icon was! Clue for Philippe: It was her! What ninja chick sack.

(Sadly, she thought I was a potential stalker, despite the Atlantic between us.)

I guess it's hard to overlook the whole age gap thing sometimes, even though I am almost sure that you're not a stalker.

Seriously though, if that's really your age you're probably the oldest person here, and though you'd probably prefer not to have attention called to that, I think it's awesome. I mean I doubt most of us will still be able to 'connect with the youth' by the time we're 40, let alone 59. I can't help but feel like you should be giving us insightful advice on life and such since you probably understand our mindset better than any of our parents do, on account of your enjoying this comic. Ok, this is getting awkward, my apologies.

pogo, you definitely have a cool-father-figure vibe going on here, when you're not telling teenagers they're hot.

Pogo is the exact age of my dad plus my dad was a fan of Pogo (the comic) from small times we even had a dog named that once.

Your dad and I have been wearing really good masks and switching homes for years, and you are actually my biological son.

DADDY

SON

...BONED?

Bless you, my son. I'll try to work on the hotness comments, but dammmm dogg, what's a feller to do when he sees such radiance?

No apologies needed, I was just thinking about that aspect, of how it would have been so cool in my youth to have an adult I could feel comfortable talking with. The Nazis who ran my high school could give a fuck about anything but haircuts (this was during the Beatle days). Not get get maudlin here, but my dad died of a heart attach when I was 12, and I pretty much raised myself, so that's probably part of why I can relate to you street urchins and geekoid shutins so well. Please consider me 19 at heart, but with another 40 years of hard knocks to share, and who's got the drugs, man?

I love how Roast Beef is mentally checking the card's emotional veracity by imagining himself underlining the important bits and signing it.

I guess I missed the party, huh, guys? :C

Perhaps this expression is more apropos.

Hye, glad you could join in, most of us picked up on the new fad a day or two later. If you ever have a year, read through the 4/25 and later stuff, highest comment count ever, over 2000 last I looked, all hella sexy and stuff.

I see that Assetbar has become a thing of people with faces talking to each other and Forming Relationships. Eugh.

This is too unsettling. I take a month away from this place and return to find faces! Real, human faces! Everywhere!

I can't wait to go back and see what the joke was. Then again, this whole freaked-out scenario may be a pretty adequate sign that I wasn't away for long enough.

I'll have to think about this.

You should join in, brah. As one of my frist Assetfriends, you should be following my example.

Ugh, *first

Oh, I feel like I just showed up to a party that already ended. And I don't have a camera, so I wouldn't be in keeping with the whole hand-on-face theme that seems to be the Thing. I'll catch it the next time around.

But, dude! Here's the thing! It's still going around!

Not even a cell phone camera?

Not even a nothin', nope.

You Are My Main Dude, Dude

(inside) don't tell nobody or I'll totally deny it, you know how it goes

Chorizo is GOOD TI-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-ITS!!!

I work in retail and every time someone is an asshole, I immediately get annoyed and agitated but then think about angrily asking "Why you gotta play it huffy with me?!" Then I laugh at the expression "played it huffy" and all is well again. Thank you, Achewood.