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Ray on the Vlad Show. Wednesday, March 25, 2009 • read strip Viewing 359 comments:

Ramses does not say "hello". When you call him, there better be something to talk about. I fear Ray has made a terrible mistake here.

The problem is, Ray is not hard at all. He can get all instinctive primal, like a genetic thing, but most of the time he spends thinking of stuff like GIN OCEAN.

Ray should realize that a man like Ramses eats his steak while it's still mooing. When Ray walked home from Mexico, he instinctively asked for a whole cow, with four damn leg holes cut in a bun for it, but that was as hard as he gets. He might have impressed Ramses if he said, just walk it to the table and shoot it. I won't even try quotes, lest assetbar explode my computer.

"... and how would you like your steak done, sir?"
"Just walk it to the table and shoot it."

If my PC exploded after posting this, let the world know that I died as I lived! GRAAAHHH *click*

I hate to shine the harsh mag light of reality into this 1998 Ford Focus of a comic strip, but ...


Why is it a 1998 Ford Focus? Because it doesn't exist? You mean that this comic stretches reality? What are you trying to say here?

OK, you win Saul. You can shoot the cat too.

in a comic strip that is all about the day-to-day travails of animated stuffed animals and anthropomorphic cats (of both the millionaire, clint eastwood, dick and depressed varieties), you're going to appeal to the respective size of a cat and cow to discredit said strip's reality factor.

*channels pat*

i, for one, think that the use of cell phones in this strip makes achewood unbelievable.

NO. OPPOSABLE. THUMBS.

*un-channels pat*

GASP. for a minute there i could have sworn that Trials of Honour could be construed as intelligent programming and that Bono is the only man alive who understands the systematized geo-abuse committed by modern society.

...Bono?

...Jason Schwartzman?

You mean the Jason Schwartzman that I... Bonoed?

Good show.

pro bono

Well, he'd have to stand on a stool to eat it, at the very least.

Reality only makes the comic strip funnier. Every time I remember that Ray is a cat it makes it grand.

But yeah, what the heck are you trying to say with the 1998 ford focus. Wiki tells me that 1998 was the first year it was introduced. Would wikipedia lie to me? WOULD IT?

Unless the mag-light is the flashlight of a cop who caught two teenagers in the backseat of an american car. This makes Saul Bellow a reluctant cop. A reluctant reality cop.

I was caught in the front seat of a car.

Bench seats.
Love them.

Nothing was happening and everyone had their clothes on, but the cop was still a dick about it.

Well, yeah. That's what cops are for, you know?

"We were just, uh, looking at the moon"

Pink pink pink pink pink...pink moon.

That's no moon

M O O N, that spells moon.

I wish I was the moon tonight...

i wish i was the moon.

Goodnight, moon.

zzzzzzzzzzzzz

Apparently you looked at the international version and I looked at the North American one, which had 2000 as its first model year. I went and made an assumption that it was released in North America first. That appears to not be the case! That is probably because it's a compact.

Or maybe it's because I hate america. Who knows?

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Well, he'd have to stand on a stool to eat it, at the very least.


Depending on how you approach, standing on a stool is a distinct possibility.

How do you like your pussy?

Moist, tender, and still a bit bloody.

Oh yes. Bravo to this.

No. Just.... no.

i don't really want to know why you were so excited about this.

Sometimes I even surprise myself!

Not that surprising, but the cats do not take kindly to discussion of eating them.

That is mega-nasty. That is dog shit.

Walk it to the bed and shoot it.

Correct.

Anyone want to do the honours?

*splut*

I came.

Past tense huh? That does not bode well.

Is the cat supposed to be a side dish? Because I'll eat it too.

To preserve my place at the top of the food chain, I rarely eat anything except sharks and bald eagles.

I only eat bald eagles when I'm protesting a PETA protest.

I sit there with an elegantly furnished table, silk napkins and the finest silverware. All playing classical music and savoring every unpatriotic bite. PETA members all telling everyone to ignore me. But they cannot, I am enjoying my meal too much as I pour myself another glass of Chianti and wipe the corners of my mouth.

Chubbied because I would really like to see someone do this someday.

...with the American flag.

to give credence to the expression "you are what you eat," I'd like to be some deadly combination of shark and tiger, and to give myself the youth of a child, could any body really blame me?

Why would you need to have any shark, when you could just be this:

Damn, fuck picture sizes. I am not enough of a computer guy to solve this.

I'm not sure there is anything you could do except post the URL of the image instead.

Download the image, upload it again to tinypic and when you do the upload they will automatically resize it if you ask nicely. Plus you can generally be certain that it will be hosted properly and won't just turn into something else because someone doesn't approve of you linking their images directly.

There's some stuff they don't host, but generally as long as it's not sexual they're pretty solid and they've held up to high traffic sites in the past.

That's funny, I thought cows only ate grass.

This is what makes a cat hard .

Rock hard

OH DEAR LORD NO. HE WAS not MY BROTHER!!

For every contact on his phone, Ramses has parenthetical documentation to indicate which of his past lovers birthed them.

I hesitate to put my post between yours and Aperson's, here, but I just feel the need to point out that this was pretty much the worst place to post this particular thing that had already been said.

I think toiletstore's is a little funnier though, because it assumes that either

a.) every single one of his contacts is his child

or

b.) even if they are not all his children, he has still been with every single one of their mothers.

get the pineapple fry
get it

All Ramses's kids have their mother's name in brackets after them, in his mobile phone.

There are only so many names beginning with "R". He was bound to double up sooner or later.

Rdornheim.

Rdornheim.

Rdornheim.

3 posts for the click of one! What a savings!

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Oh Glad!

yeah fuck it, balanced that out right there.

You have failed at your attempted "accidental" triple-post frame-job.

and another thing... I miss the good old days when gladi8 was non-interactive, posting interesting stuff with meat to it and character, as opposed to mundane twittering with random ass bar twits. And speaking of meat, whatever happened to dr. manflesh? That guy was pretty awesome too. oh well. I guess I was wrong. the problem with asset bar isn't that there are so many dicks who drive away the interesting people... the problem is that there are too many *boring* dicks who drive away the interesting people. I may not be the most exciting person myself, but I sure as hell wouldn't pay 5 cents to read this crap from you people. This is like going to amateur improv night and everyone who tries to perform is drunk and stoned and todd the squirrel bbasically. But what do you expect. obviously assetbar was gonna crash down to the lowest common denominator sooner or later. Look at you guys. this all sucks. if most everyone here would shut the fuck up for a few strips, you'd get some new readers who would experiment with posting here, and you'd get a whole different group going, and guess what, it wouldn't suck nearly as much if at all, because the new group wouldn't have had time to evolve into the bbunch of drooling boring morons that you guys all are. this shit is like someone said earlier - like the special olympics or some shit. Or the 700 club. only instead of pretentious bullshit about how the jews and gays suck, its pretentious pedantic pop culture bullshit. If I wanted to read that shit you guys have posted in your assetbar profiles I could always type "crap" into google, you know... just sayin'...

Too bad you didn't triple post or I could have triple chubbied you.


I agree with you.


So why did you bother with this rant? Why do you bother coming here?

And in a surprise twist, this is the most boring post on the board. If that was intentional, you're a genius (I do not believe that you are a genius).

gladi8orrex account is belongink with Vlad's

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=^.^= mew

Oh my. Now even smileys are cool if hipsters use them.

The plebes will have to find something else or risk looking like poseurs.

{"\(^_^)/"} <---"rawr!"

-_-

Am I considered a hipster? O.o

Don't worry, sje46, I don't think you're hip at all .

(just kidding, i love you)

<3

For the longest time, I read that emoticon the wrong way around and thought it was just someone's pointy junk. It was so confusing

Why can't someone's pointy junk point left?

er, right

E>

?

I still think they're faggy

<(%u02DAn%u02DA)> harrumph

mother of god

t('.'t)


This just made my day.

I could stare at that all day and still not figure out what it is.

The double deuce.

Also:

(f',')f
kung fu pose

(r'.')r
dwarf kung fu pose

ooooooooohhh!

People have a lot of trouble figuring that one out.

Kirby!

( > ^ ,-)>

Right Back At Ya!

<(''<) (^''^) (>'')>

Oh dang that doesn't look quite right

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Hey, coffeeannan, is that Davide just before your harrumph?

t( ' ' t)

[url="https://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF071-Weeaboo.gif"]We all know what that face means....[/url]

Would Ramses let Vlad teach home ec. in his schools?

Vlad's Home Ec. Syylabus

Weeks 1 and 2: Havink smoke
We smoke black cigarette with charm. How are we knowink contents of soul? Burnink with the cooled fire of our own death.

Weeks 2 and 3: Steaks
Pink center like woman's rose is key for spirit of man's home. Is not meat that we have been ravagink. it is meat ravages us. Is better this way.

Weeks 4 and 5: Ironing
Is basic course in makink pleats and crease. Vlad understand that you may wear pants. Will also match ties: black with everythink.

Weeks 5 and 6: Internet
We are makink sandwich movies with nasty dames. No mormons.

Weeks 7 and 8: Make Outs
Is destruction of basic make outs to build confidence of spirit. Very fabric of soul is torn by make outs. Is not easy weeks; ladies will be so nude.


Vlad can teach you fourteen different ways to eat a shepherd%u2019s pie sexily. All of them utilise some form of eye contact. None of them involve hip thrusting motions, or overt flicking of the tongue. It's about subtle suggestion, not hamming it up with the sort of bawdy gestures that some of these other Home Economics / Make Out classes teach.

What about subtle flicking of the tongue? Is there any room for tongue that appears so slyly as to be chalked up to personality? A tongue with gravitas?

No doubt he works one in there when saying "Flod" to the right ladies.

This isn't Vlad's home economics syllabus. This is "Tender Buttons" with a Russian accent.

Observe:

"In the inside there is sleepink, in the outside there is reddenink, in the mornink there is meanink, in the evenink there is feelink. In feelink anythink is restink, in feelink anythink is mountink, in feelink there is resignation, in feelink there is recognition, in feelink there is recurrence and entirely mistaken there is pinchink..."

You brought Gertrude Stein into this. How could you?

Rachel Ray's 30 Minute Russian Roulette.

Or RURO, as she likes to call it.

I'm not so certain on that part. Is she implying that she is going to shoot herself if I don't continue watching? Because in that case, well, hell... I don't know how in the hell I happened to be watching it in the first place, but anything to get her to shoot herself.

Or, perhaps, is it that she plans to shoot herself when it comes back from the ads? She knows that is what we've really always wanted to see... she is taunting us that we might miss it.

Bah! Both points are moot. I have Tivo.

regis philbin puts a grenade under his chin and pulls the pin, keeping his pinky on the spoon, shouting "WHEN WE COME BACK, MARIO BATALI WILL SHOW US HOW TO SAUTE ONIONS WITHOUT BURNING THEM! DON'T GO AWAY! AHAHHA!"

he also handcuffs kelly ripa to himself.

Rachel Ray might be an innovator in broadcast RURO if Christine Chubbuck hadn't beat her to it.

I was not aware until you posted this that Kathy Lee Gifford was not still on that show.

Now I feel like writing fan fiction in which every chapter involves a celebrity talk show host committing suicide. Oh, the things I can do to Ellen . . .

That last sentence can be interpreted numerous ways. That was intentional.




RUH ROH!!

BANG


...

very yes.

After posting that, I was thinking "oh crap, that should have been a six-shooter or something", but I suppose they could still do the same thing with a shotgun and a bucket of mostly blank shells.

"Now that we're done loading, let's see if I got the lucky one! Tee hee!"

Ray thinks hard men like to eat bad food because hard men are ignorant.

Not ignorant, just frequently in the sort of place where you want to be sure that everything you eat or touch has been burned sterile.

Red's Java House



It's on the wharf just a bit south of the Bay Bridge. This is the sort of place Ramses eats. At least, it is the sort of place that Ray assumes he eats. I see Ramses as a bit of an Alfred's sort of dude. Old-school classy. Good food doesn't have to mean pretension.

Apparently Anthony Bourdain was at Red's the other day since he's filming locally. Double cheeseburger, chili fries, Anchor Steam. Dude knows how to make a lunch happen.

I used to like eating at Red's when I worked in San Francisco, especially because it was within walking distance. However, just stepping into the place violated my concept of personal space. It was a small price to pay, though.

Germs automatically die of inadequacy upon entering Ramses' body.

I was thinking, if he is toughest guy in universe... where is Cornelius in all of this? Merely a local badass, but not yet ready to go pro? Demonstrating a different sort of badassery that is not necessarily equivalent to Ramses' out-and-out toughness? I am left wonderink.

TWO MAN ENTER! ONE MAN LEAVE!

THEN OTHER MAN LEAVE WITH TROPHY

Once you're a Jet you're a Jet all the way!

...Tony?

...Maria?

Could be. Who knows?

I don't, I've never seen West Side Story .

It's only just out of reach.

Well then see it so we can finish this witty back-and-forth. I'll wait here.

I do. You're Cindy.

Oh yeah. I am not Maria at all!
Hi everyone, my real name is Cindy and I just told you that on the internet.

*stalks*

Be cool boy.

When you're a Jet*

Fucking AMATEUR

Besides, it's not even TRUE...

You're already ruling out a comeback? Do you know nothing of Brett Favre?!

He gets stabbed in the second act.

Is basic premise.

TOPICAL HUMOR

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when you're a Jet you're a Jet all the way!


From your first cigarette 'till your last dyin' day.

... Darrell?

With respect to the alt text, no.
Imagine that Rachel Ray has the gun pointed at YOUR
temple. And she's sweating as she giggles. And she just cooked an ate her producer. It took longer than 30 minutes, but who cares?
BTW, I though that Liebot established that robots don't eat? He plays banjo in the garage while the other residents eat. Of course, if Vlad eats, that explains the potbelly.

Sure, Lie Bot did say that robots don't eat.

But you have forgotten something cruicial here:
Lie Bot's name is Lie Bot for a reason.

but what if he gave himself that name? does that mean he's telling the truth about lying? meh, what am I talking about robots don't give themselves names.

So does he introduce himself to strangers as Truth Bot?

Then clearly he did not give himself that name.

Robots eat like champs. Just ask your sister.

Ramses stands so perfectly straight that his flannel shirt remains at constant 90 degree angles.

MuTe!

Ramses is sporting an iPhone? Man, officially that's everyone I know has one except me.

He purchased it having heard rumors of an app devoted entirely to kicking men's asses and voting.

I caught that too. I kinda pictured him with something more clunky. Maybe with a combination clock-radio/vcr.

Or perhaps this handy camera phone:



I kinda think you ruined my phone when you made my that camera phone. And my camera.

Perhaps you could fix it with this...

KNIFE WRENCH!!

Now I kinda wanna know what he is saying in this gif.

Knife Wrench ______

"Oh I ban-ish-'em?"

Knife WreNnNnNnCH!

video

You leavink, promlem come. Is forgettingk satchel of pig blood at conception ceremony. Is wrong.

NOTE: In Vlad's culture, the word "problem" has 2 m's and no b's.

It's true!


Guys, call me the guy with nothin' to lose, but THIS is the funniest achewood strip I've read yet.

Honestly.


Of course, that's a matter of opinion, but I present some evidence to back up my assertion that I disagree.
https://achewood.com/index.php?date=02132003
https://achewood.com/index.php?date=01272005

Hey I guess now we know where daedala_x got her username. And all this time I thought she was cool and original and had tinfoil breasts.

Just clued into this after way too long... it's Daedal a _X instead of Daedal us _X because she's female!

*applause*

holy crap. that's... why that's quite positively bipolar of her (i.e. intense laser beam like genius).

holy crap. that's... why that's quite positively bipolar of her (i.e. intense laser beam like genius).

there is a monkey aiming the laser beam

TWO of them!

Yay! My first double! Where's Elbox when you need him?

I hate to be a dick, but I rather feel Ray Gets Sort of Stoned is getting to be the Del Boy Falling Through the Bar, the Homer Simpson Skateboarding Over Springfield Gorge and the Andy Jumping Off the Swimming Pool Highboard of Achewood.

Cultural allusions that do not resonate with the majority of Americans because - excepting the Simpsons - they are things that are not familiar to them?

I think you might be right with that one. Most Americans are equally well-informed about Only Fools and Horses and Achewood.

I did think about that, but I figured that the Simpsons reference would make my meaning apparent, and I'm afraid I don't know what comedy clips are overplayed on American television. However, I would love to know, so I could drop references to them into conversation, and appear suave and international.

Dry wit.
Love it.

There is nothing suave and international about making reference to American culture.

Frankly, I've been getting by using references to British shows so maybe we just need to make a trade. Even better if it somehow involves NTSC DVDs of Peep Show because the bastards can't see fit to releasing more than Series 1 over here.

I'd say... hmm... maybe something from Seinfeld? There's a lot of great stuff there that's thoroughly over-exposed.

It wasn't really dry wit. I'm interested in American television, such as the Jay Leno fellow, who I know as a motoring journalist for the Sunday Times, but is apparently some sort of chat show host. Based on what makes the journey over the Atlantic (which to be fair is probably only the cream of the crop), in all areas except situation comedy American TV trounces British. I think it's sad that so many Europeans pretend this isn't true for political reasons. I'm not saying George Bush didn't make some mistakes, but that's no reason not to watch The Wire.

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I'm not saying George Bush didn't make some mistakes


You seemed like a reasonable fellow until you soft-peddled a war criminal.

I'd call it measured understatement, though probably so would Giovanni Di Stefano.

Bush had Scalia instead. Why get an Attorney when you've got the judge.

That awful, awful man, liberating those 50 million Musilmen from murderous, mass-grave, village-gassing, sky-scraper crashing happy facists.

The nerve . Brown people should know their place: firmly under the heel of tyranny where they can make us feel better about ourselves by co-opting their suffering as a mating ritual with unwashed college students.

PROTIP: For bonus racism points, spell it "Moslems." Or do you have the balls to go for "Mohammedans"?!

Is Islam a race now?

East Timor, Somalia, Zimbabwe, etc. are just as awful.

BUT THEY HAD NO OIL -- SO FUCK THEM.

Nigeria has oil, so they're doubly-fucked.


You don't need oil to get fucked by US business -- any exploitable recourse will do (e.g., cheap labor).

Where do you think the term "banana republic" came from.

A clothing store?

East Timor has plenty of Oil and that's why Australia intervened.

Well, actually, we were already fucking them over for the oil through Indonesia and that is why we didn't intervene earlier.

based on casual observations of British and Australian television (internet) I can't say that I'm impressed with the entertainment output. Granted, there are certain issues i'm just not going to grasp considering I live in Redding, California. Say what you want about us Americans, but we're damn neurotic about ourselves as a nation and that is hilarious.

Canada also has some good shows that i've seen, such as Trailer Park Boys

Also Degrassi: The Next Generation.

Will Paige hook up with Scott?
Will Alex shoplift in order to hang out with the "cool kids"?
Will Damion shoot up the school because he was bullied?
Will these three basic plot lines comprise the entirety of the next season?
Tune in next season to find out!

I heard very good things about Intelligence and Twitch City was excellent and is available on DVD.

We do produce some good television, but we also have tons of reality shows and general crap. Sitcoms are also, as you mentioned sort of a tricky area for us. We do some amazing, wonderful ones, but we also produce a lot of really mind-destroyingly awful ones.

Perhaps one of the biggest problem is that we don't really get a lot of imports here so it can be very hard to compare. Most of the time they just end up giving us remakes that are unnecessary and unwanted, but withhold the originals. Quite a lot to do with your crazily short seasons I suspect along with the xenophobia of most entertainment executives.

Plus, you brought us Doctor Who and Life on Mars was good enough that they remade it. Hustle was all sorts of fun and I keep meaning to get around to watching Spooks as well.

There's good stuff on both sides, we just need to team up and push out all the crap.

The crap being the thirteen year old girls and divorced hair stylists who watch the show in a non-ironical way.

I know this is probably not a popular thing to say but I think that if they could get a really good team together an American version of Doctor Who has the potential to be the tits, and possibly even leaps and bounds beyond the British version.

It would be impossible though, since the Who-niverse is already so expansive we'd either have to do a completely different thing, which would suck, or ripoff all that.

Well it's certainly more of a cult hit than a mainstream success but Arrested Development is certainly some of the finest American comedy television to come around in recent years, in my opinion. It has also produced some very quotable lines.
For drama, I was really enjoying Weeds, and Breaking Bad is promising so far.

Weeds is a comedy, not a drama. When it started to go more drama in recent seasons it just got terrible. Season Three definitely jumped the shark, but, well, I'm still queued up to get the Season Four DVDs when they come out.

I saw a bit of Breaking Bad the other day and I'll agree it looks promising, I need to start in at the beginning on that.

If you watch the first three episodes of Breaking Bad you'll be hooked. Their greatness will sustain you through a few relatively boring episodes later on. It's no Mad Men, but I've never regretted sitting through it.

I've wanted to see Mad Men for a long time, but the DVDs didn't come out until Season Two was beginning and then they were in high demand on Netflix and so I feel like I'm just perpetually behind. Way to go AMC, instead of watching it on TV now I'm just going to hold off and end up watching the whole thing on DVD at some later point because you made it a pain in the ass to get caught up.

Worth the trouble.

Referencing Seinfeld's "master of your domain" episode would get the job done. Only problem now is that that really was one of the best episodes of that show, just as "Ray Gets Sort of Stoned" really is one of the best Achewood strips.

I am helping you flesh out your argument so that I can disagree with it.

I'd say that the Soup Nazi was really the biggest moment of overexposure for Seinfeld, but there were really quite a lot of them. It was a very good show and it was often written in a way that allowed it to easily become part of the culture.

It was a very good show for people who had never truly lived.

Otherwise, it was a lot of pie-eyed tripe following the misadventures of obnoxious man-children and a neurotic spinster doomed to a womb as empty as her soul.

So you've watched it then.

I knew people who watched it, and therefore have been forced to gaze into its prime-time maw, yes.

They are known no longer.

Not by anyone .

Oh Christ.

Wozzeck. I want to kill you.

i'm not usually one to comment on avicon/comment symmetry, but you win again

Mother, I want to AAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUGH!

wozzeck!

[NEWMAN]BBCODE...!![/NEWMAN]

Could your seed find no purchase there, Wozzeck?

And yes, it is silly to like Seinfeld - even from outer space

I will follow Larry David to the ends of the Earth. I must be an idiot.

As a former Manhattanite, I can attest that Elaine is a spot-on archetype of NYC professional women.

This really stumps me. Of course, I am guilty of over-quoting a few of my favourites, but I am hard pressed to think of a more widespread meme that came from recent television. Maybe 'Suit up!' would be one? I know you were kidding, but it still made me think.

IT'S MORPHIN TIME!!!

NO.

GO NINJA GO NINJA GO.

Whatchu talkin' 'bout Willis?

my first glance i read that as " it's morphine time " and got slightly confused

Morphine'll do that to you.

"It's not lupus?" I mean, it's considerably bigger on the Internets, but that's where I find myself spending my time anyway, so...

I'm Rick James, bitch.

You're not wrong, which is exactly why I gave it up as evidence (because so many people enjoy it). The other one I posted is more one of my personal favourites.

I don't know who Andy is, but I agree with your sentiment. I can't think of an example of a Simpsons episode that many people consider great that I disagree with. I can think of a lot of shows and bands though.

I'm happy you liked it and I couldn't agree less.

(Not that I necessarily disliked it.)

This is an attitude I appreciate. I am glad no one got all uppity on this fella and told him how wrong he was.

Who cares about what you appreciate? Just let him say what he wants to say. No one wants to hear your opinion about it, douche

;)

Weirdo.

;)

What? What did the rockstars eat?

the end of his Handle.

ooh errr

i use rockstarsatemy, rockstarsatemyhomework, and rockstarsatemyboyfriend, alternately depending on my mood. FYI

also, i am a lady and have no handle to eat. FYI

Love handles?

Damn.

It's not funny.

https://achewood.com/index.php?date=10022007 is the one to beat.

In the running for the best first post ever, anyway.

Pssshhh. Real men eat steak raw, right off the the lion's back.

Because cows are too easy to kill.

$600=perfect amount to right any wrong. Vlad and Ray agree on that much.

I wonder if the bird in panel 6 is the same bird he wears on his hat. If it is, good.

A distant, distant cousin of Davide. (I am not going to attempt the accents; I have been down that road before and it is a too thorny a one for my be-sandaled brain to navigate at this juncture of the morning.)

Took me a second to realize you were talking about the stoned lightning bird. I kinda thought he was a chicken. Pudgy body, meaty thighs. All running around and not flying because he's too damn lazy.
This doesn't mean he can't be a cousin, but I still think the "we'll be right back" bird has more to do with the bird on Vlad's wedding hat if anything.

I think he's mixed race.



(Oh dear god, I just made two sports references on a single webcomic board...)

*beeep*
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You don't get to where Ramses is without eating well.

There's no excuse for badly cooked steak.

I had the worst steak at a Japanese restaurant a few weeks ago. Each bite took a minimum of four minutes to properly chew. Each bite was agony. By the time I had eaten maybe a quarter of the steak I wanted to vomit.

Did you send it back? I know you live in a part of the country that takes steak seriously.

No. I was sharing it with my dad, who, inexplicably, didn't have a problem with the steak.

At least you only had to eat half of it.

I am so sick of all the sappy "heys" and "yeah whats" in my life. It is time harden the fuck up.

Also

How will Vlad make it better if Ray pays the extortion advertisment money? I eagerly await the next strip.

We go to ad. You do not leave.

That made my morning.

Also who else is hella glad to hear from Vlad again these days? He's dropping all kinds of vaguely Slavic peculiarities and I'm loving it. Also this story could go places: Ramses shows up to meet Vlad. Personalities clash and jibe. Hilarity ensues.

Yeah; this Vlad mini-arc is the best thing Onstad's done for a while, I think.

God, I wish I had the opportunity to say "We go to ad. You do not leave." today.

Ramses is Liebot, trying to ruin Ray's self esteem!

It's so obvious when you think about it!

THEN WHO WAS PHONE??!?!

Topic: use it to excuse yourself from a large group when you go to the bathroom.

I meant Tip*

PROTIP

No, fuck that shit, I'm not a Person of the Internet.

I mean I am but still no, fuck that shit.

Only pussies eat well-done steak.

Only steaks eat pussies. "Well done."

Well, only eat steak-pussies. Done.

Only steak pussies eat well. Done!

Done well, only pussies eat steak.

1.Eat steak
2. ?
3. Pussy!

Stake your pussy on eating. Raw.

Loud ewes sell Keystone patina.

I eat steak rare myself, but it's a piece of limp wristed aesthetery really. Asking for your steak rare is only a step away from asking for it grass fed and hung for more than a calender month (as I do). Someone who eats rare steak has probably tried to make a sweetbread terrine, and was once humiliated at a social gathering when someone corrected their pronunciation of bruschetta.

How do you pronounce it? Brew-shet-ah, I thought.

Brus-ketta I believe.

That's part of what makes this great. No matter how you pronounce it someone will be able to correct you and they will be more right than you are.

It's a... situation that you cannot win.

No, no... you're wrong. :P

according to that lady on Food Network with the joker smile and massive breasts, it's pronounced "broo-skitta", as if you were incapable of moving your mouth more than a couple millimeters (which is ironic, since her mouth is massive)

i agree with this pronunciation.

Now I'm not really one to do this often, but seriously.

Dad?

Notice the cyrillic letters tossed into the "We'll be right back!" placard.

We really need to get a "We'll Be Right Back" shirt.

Do we have to have a shirt for every little thing? GOD DAMMIT.

It's the webcomic version of paying 50 cents for a paper. In other words--profit.

I also have a weakness for cyrillic letters...

This makes so much sense. Now every time my bro friend at U of MD texts me to tell me about a chick he just boned, I just insert the appropriate phrase to find out how he is compensating.

hey dude you will not believe the chick i was on last nite man titties were out to -------> here and she was all i want your meaty hard cock and I stuffed all eight throbbing inches into that wet mouth I think about you but she was so drunk she wasnt doin a good job and she was gettin tired so after a while she just laid down and let me put it in her fat ass man IT WAS SO TIGHT dude i think about you and she was really backin it up into me man she knew how to move her hips which is no wonder cause she is actually on the basketball team but she's not too beefy you know what I mean I mean she's got a damn fine body the only catch is she got mad biceps that wrap you up and warm you at night dude I think about you so much

In the land of the boned, the one-eyed monster is king.

That... that is way more than 160 characters.

they must be on the same network. i know Verizon to Verizon texts can overflow into seven 160-character messages. (or 1,120 chars.)

Say, that sounds like YOUR MOM!

that's what i told her !

...then she divorced me.

Did anyone else get freaked out by Ray's arm in panel 12? What the hell is going on, there. Thing just shrunk to like a fifth the size.

His left arm? I think it's sitting on the armrest of the chair, pointing at us.

Do you think it is rad to have perspective?

My kid brother has had problems with perspective all his life. Not funny. Not cool.

Oh, that's not his arm...

nothing clever to say, just really enjoyed this one. loved the subtle details, the multiple levels of conflict, and the pitch perfect characterization.

I liked it when the kitties had a talk show.

Who wants to see robot ass?

WHY, FOUND OUT!

the buttocks moist with sweat, and clenched in eager anticipation. the normally vast areolas shriveled to the size of thumbs awaiting the next step

wow not bad

Ramses does not check to see who has called him before answering. "Yeah." is the only way to answer a phone call.

I feel you can cut out the "yeah" and just answer with "Who is this? Talk." THAT is a bad-ass way to take a phone call.

Vlad be hustlin'.

Damn, Vlad is cold pimpin'.

He is a panderer in North Dakota?

Hey. HEY! Isn't there some bitchy-bitch man here who will complain about Onstad only posting 2 strips this week so far? Because he took his family to Disneyland and only found time to do that plus publish hilarious webcomics.

He met his deadlines so he did right by me.

OH MY GOD CHRIS ONSTAD IS HAVING A LIFE WHEN HE IS SUPPOSED TO BE PROVIDING ME ENTERTAINMENT WHAT THE FUCK CHRIS ONSTAD.

this eludes to Ray having siblings.

He does have siblings. Or at least one that we know of. His name is Dornheim.

this is true.

I, for one, would not be upset if Rachael Ray were to point a loaded S&W at her head.

Paula Deen, now, there's a woman with food. I wish she was my aunt. Giada DeLaurentiis could be her daughter, that cousin that one wishes were not their cousin.

"Paula's Home Cooking" should have been called "Paula's Slowly Murdering My Husband With Cholesterol"

Bitch got a deep fryer built in to her counter top.

Also, I would so let her slowly murder me with that food. I really wish I had a fat, Southern mother or wife.

You could probably get one pretty easily, most fat women are lonely.

You do not want a Southern woman, trust me.

I LOVE YOUR NEW AVITARICONPICTUREFACE TGH.

I KNEW YOU WOULD ORSON.

I KNEW YOU WOULD.

I just bought it today, I haven't read anything by Maurice Sendak since I was in Elementary School.

If only there was a way to find fat, lonely people on the internet....

match.com?

Anyway, your girlfriend is pretty cute, I wouldn't throw that away for a fat Southern woman who probably masturbates to Garth Brooks and will look like this when she gets older


I kid, I kid. But as a carnivore living with a vegan, I'd be lying if I said that most of my wet dreams these days didn't consist solely of visions of fried cheese and pork steak dancing in my tragically shrinking belly.

Do what I do, get meat anyway and learn to cook it yourself.

My girlfriend is a vegetarian.

Learn to cook it my what?

Can you not cook for yourself?

I mean, I'm no Emeril Lagasse but I have a few meals I know how to cook and cook well, whenever my primary food-maker is out of town.

I do all the housework and I bring home the proverbial "bacon." If I were a better person, I'd cook, too. But I'm not a better person.

Do you at least have sense of eggs?

Learn how to cook at least eggs and spaghetti and there is a whole world open to you.

Got cocksauce? You're halfway there already.

Yeah, I was doing this thing for awhile making unsweetend French toast and using the slices to make a scrambled egg, bacon and sriracha sandwich. Pigs in Hell, I called it. Pretty damn good. It just takes a lot of experimentation for me to come up with stuff and then I tend to just stick with the same thing over and over again if left to my own devices (which I thankfully am not for the most part). Beyond that, I just don't have basic knowledge of the ways of it all. Stuff people knew about cooking when they were four I still don't know. When it comes down to it, my mother was a terrible cook and I took after her in that way. I could probably reverse it and become decent at it, but try telling me that.

A guy with cooking and basic domestic skills impresses the hell out of the women.
There. I told you.

I guess I'll just have to rely on my enormous wang, then.

Making use of both has never lead me wrong

At the same time even!

Mmmm, cock sauce.

Sandra Lee is the woman who needs to be murdered. She makes Rachael Ray look competent and intelligent.

Hey, you know me. Just a regular person everybody else.

Just waiting for the day Tim Allen dies in a skiing accident.

I lub ur blue eyes ^_^ i culd loose myselb in dem ^_^ cuz they so deep ^_^ I wan' 2 b lazy an' make luv 2 u ^_^ (with ah mouthvs) sit on my face sit on my face sit on my face sit on my face

sit on my face sit on my face

Glad wants you to sit on his face.

I... I think he wants Kirby to sit on his face?

Correct. I want to cum.

I bet Ray is pronouncing junta with a hard J.

Jewunta.

I bet he's pronouncing "charred" the way you would in DnD, with a hard C.

It pained me to see Ray talk about steak this way. Interior a casualty? Why, Ray? WHY.

Wait a second...take a look at that intertitle...
Vlad parodied the Cyrillic letters for "ZHA" (or "SHA") and "D" as "W" and "A", respectively. He used the letter "C" in place of the identical Cyrillic letter for "S"...the rest belong to the Latin alphabet, with the possible exception of "E" which is the same in Cyrillic.
But his use of the Cyrillic letter "%u0411", which really IS "B", is flat out unparodied. He could've used the Cyrillic letter "B" which is "V"...but he didn't. Why this affinity for "%u0411"? Why?

Assetbar, on the other hand, HATES the letter "%u0411" and censors it. Why, Assetbar? Why?

You expect a lot from the 'Bar.

Ahh Assetbarista, Cyrillicy goodness.

for anyone who ever needs it:
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I thought I'd post my little handywork here. fingers crossed the image will actually show up

OH SHIIIIIIIIIIIT