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Leo Fontanette Thursday, July 13, 2006 • read strip Viewing 65 comments:

Some things you are just supposed to think, not say.

Those are usually the things that are hardest NOT to say. Then you slip and end up like Beef in panel 11 thinking "FUCK, did I just say that?"

When I'm with friends, I like to wait for lulls in the conversation and then go "Oh fuck, did I say that out loud?!"
After they say no, I respond "Oh thank God ! You guys would have killed me!"

Man whycome none of my friends are as fun-sounding as half of assetbar posters?

This...I really want to try this.

You have decent enough friends it seems. Mine wouldn't lie to me. They would be all, "Yes, you totally said it, what are you, some kind of an idiot?"

I would have to disaggree. Beef just lacks conviction. I'm a dude who's been to a few gyms. Gym dudes WANT to hear this kinda thing. Even if it is a little gauche. You ask 'em what reps etc. they do to get there and you watch them go off on a rant. Beef don't belong 'cause he don't have the stranger-to-stranger sass.

Leo's reaction in the next strip seems to refute your thesis.

yes. i read through the arc the next day. i would make a claim that my thoughts were more applicable to real life than comic cats but that would be kinda pointless. I was wrong.

Whoa, those last three words. Chubbied for those last three words. Not often seen on these boards, in that order.

"Was I wrong?" would be an order far more ambiguous and far more dickishly forum like.

It reminds me of a palindrome I once heard, anyway. And for that it can't be too bad.

To wit: I madam, I made radio. So I dared, am I mad? am I?

I'd like to cite this to Spider Robinson, speaking as Nikola Tesla, in Callahan's Legacy , but I don't know my formatting. Worth a read.

Palindrome chubby!

Totally

race car.

snuggleguns

Wait, somethin' don't seem right...

no, you were right. I go to the gym. I would love to be asked how i got to where I did.

Red, striated, with no waist or chest and cycloptic vision?

yeh, but look at dem thighs!

Especially at gyms. There was this guy benching over 300 pounds, and he was roaring like a lion for some reason. I nearly died trying not to laugh at the ridiculous muscle man.

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I love this strip so much. The way Beef does not belong there, and all it takes is a short while before he reveals that he cannot breathe the atmosphere in the gym. If it were not the thighs comment it would have been something else.

Is this the strip with the most awkward pause panels?

Noone has called you wrong in two years, so I'm guessing you are on to something.

i laughed for a long time over this one

Behold the lower lip of Ray's Shame. It will HAUNT YOUR DREAMS, child.

Oops.

Note the silhouette behind Leo in panel 5. Remind you of anyone?

My mind. It is blown.

Yeah no question that's Showbiz. I wonder if the speaker company is still on his ass.

not showbiz, but Mantonio from the Mile-High Club arc

Yeah I was just reading these comments to see who else noticed the Showbiz shadow there. That's one of the stranger things I've seen in Achewood.

brochicho

Man, that drive home must have been hella awkward. Ray furious while poor old Beef tryin' to figuire out what he messed up.

Alt Text: Beef doesn't know the code at that place. He has committed a Dudes' Mutiny.

Mutiny?

I also question the use of the word in these circumstances.

Anderian, cailetshadow, your actions have been noted and news of them will be slipped underhanded to the angel who decides your worthiness on the Day of Judgment.

maybe it is said 'cos it is in a similar vein of conversation which could possibly be something a lady would say to another one, opening opportunity for other ladies to chime in with compliments while the original commenter fades into the background.

dang. commenters fading into the background is hell of a good concept for messageboards as thus.

yeeeah.

It could have been a thing but Roast Beef just don't got no sense of etiquette.

why is there a shadow of Showbiz in panel 5?

Rockford-Fosgate won't pay itself off, dude.

Why is there a shadow of my post 5 posts below my post

I took up golf so that I could make small talk like this.

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[quote="Ray Romano"]No I just mean.. I just mean you have rockin' thighs. That's what I mean. I mean. No. What did you think I meant?[/quote]

oh god that didnt work at all OH GOD

[quote=Ray Romano]No I just mean.. I just mean you have rockin' thighs. That's what I mean. I mean. No. What did you think I meant?[/quote]

THAT WORKED EVEN LESS THAN THE FIRST ONE WHICH WAS ALREADY WORKING NOT AT ALL OH JESUS

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what a peculiar turn of events

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that is a trueshame and yet vastly preferable to a forum filled with shitposts


I think we've all learned something here today.

I feel sorry for beef. A man was misplaced, and in the end, things were said.

This is, and whill always be my favorite achewood strip.

People from Circumstances don't know the best etiquette...

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Ooooh... I see it now.

... Showbiz is working behind the screen. ^_^

The out-of-speech-bubble laughter just doesn't do it for me. It's like laughter is resonating from their skulls as they converse.

I think its a hollow polite laugh. It happens all the time when two people who don't really know each other meet and make jokes.

Anybody else desirous of a tank top with an insect diagram?

Me.
(I am)

Do's and dont's

Leo's thighs are very much the elephant(s) in the room.

Yes they are rockin'; that much is self-evident. Pointing this out just makes everything bad for everyone.

So many emotions without any words I love it!

I've noticed that this rule doesn't seem to exist with bodybuilders. It's kinda weird.