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Ray's Sex Life, with Pat Wednesday, September 13, 2006 • read strip Viewing 63 comments:

A comment left by asherdan was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by mikeronomicon, Thorfinn, NotGodot, Moraiat, unquotable, atticusonline, MR_Wilson, chatterjee, dracer2, nutmeg, littlefatdog, dropkickpikachu, Saint)

When I read this. Comment, I said to myself "why would someone lame this? This is ok." and I went to give it a chubby...

...only to find that I had marked it lame long ago.

what the hell, me? you tucked up .

...or fucked up. Either way.

(damn auto-correct on my iPod...trying to censor me)

I've chubbied it in your place.

Oh, that's just the Make Everything You Say Sound Like Something A Drag Queen Would Say app.

That app comes pre-installed on the iPhone, amirite?

Hey-o!

Ha-cha-cha-cha!

I think we've all been voodoo guy desperate.

"I should try that, it might work" is the first thing I thought.

i'm surprised the voodoo thing didn't work out.

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"Even in my fantasies I just go to the library and read about coins"

If I could I would give this strip five 5's, it is brilliant. I cracked up so many times.

I actually have reached this point.

A comment left by soticoto was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by zcross00, fosters, lk, Crater12, aHatOfPig, logic, Doc_Rostov, tellumo)

Uhm. No they're not. Seriously, they're worth exactly the same. You're actually just bringing the ratings of really good strips down. I only vote when I can give a 5, but that's a lot of the time.

A comment left by soticoto was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by aliiis, Crater12, tellumo)

That ignores the fact that the rating system is more or less useless except to give Assetbar users a starting point while reading through the archives. It doesn't matter if the ratings go from 3.5-5 (as they do) or 1-5 (as one might think they might). As long as the best ones get upvotes, most people will never see the others. Therefore, I only vote on my faves, with the intent of getting them to the top of the rating pile.

That is the only sensible way to play this, dogg.

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Actually, if everyone is consistent in his or her own ratings system, then they will still affect the average ratings in a consistent way. "Pulling down the ratings" of a great strip doesn't matter, as long as you pull down the ratings of all comparably great strips an equal amount. Both your systems help orient new readers toward the strips you think are the best. Rock on!

god dammit vladimir stop bumping this shit.

Have I been bumping a disproportionate number of old, terrible arguments? I'm sorry if I have. It's not the kind of thing I want to contribute. It's just, I was right this time. I wanted to be right on the Internet. :(

Being nice generally does not go hand in hand with being accurate, nor consistant.
You don't have to pretend anyone gives a damn what you think, only that you have the desire to express it. One of my driving principles, that.

And don't be getting on Vlad's case about upping this.

haha Pat's got a little umbrella in his drink

and you know ray made him that drink, pat's trying to pick his battles

how is this NOT a 5 every frame is dead funny. cold funny. kick your ass funny. I laughed till I had to clear my throut and spit.

I am all about the phrase "hella klondike".

I'm worried people might not get the reference, because it is a fantastic phrase

Link for those who have yet to discover the blogs (dudes, you are missing out)

I am basically a member of the Klondike Club! [...] Basically, the Klondike is like this area of Alaska or somethin' and it was mainly an area without women, mainly bein' explored by extremely grizzled dudes who had no outlet for sex for months or years at a time. That is what I meant by that.

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Don't knock it 'til you've tried it.

Worse?

Mangina.

You've seen my downstairs mix-up.

Ray is clearly a Heinlein fan.

Actually, its a lot closer to the plot of The Man Who Folded Himself . To whom it may concern.

Ray is Sci-Fi Curious.

Seriously, I just read All you Zombies- in school. This was the first thing to come to mind then and now

Good call, though.

I need to find this book, it sounds pretty great.

just like run at people and see what happens

see if it winds up as sex

sexually, the technique is a failure. but ray has been able to file for several patents on a workable mock-up of a cold fusion reactor using the "see if it winds up as sex" postulate.

The alt-text is possibly the worst mental image possible ever.

I was happier not knowing!

I just started screaming and couldn't stop.

I get the feeling that Pat in the fourth panel isn't particularly distraught about Ray not having sex.

I think that's just where he's realizing that he shouldn't have put the ball back in Rays court. Ray has no problems talking shop. Now Pat has to listen to Rays rambling discourse on his sexual dry spell.

Remind me never to tell Ray to go fuck himself.

Especially when he really does have the means https://www.achewood.com/?date=08202003 (I don't know how to link, sorry)

No comment on the special ACHEWOOD: DIRTY EDITION title, or Pat's facial expression in panel 6?

I like that Pat was committed enough to grow hair and then lose half of it for his new "Gay Pat" identity.

Tuesday Blogs

Roast Beef: Man we got to talk about some noodles now.

it is true. Chinese food is basically the best food.

I feel I need to point out that the best dish in the world is spaghetti alle vongole . And I had Chinese food, so I know what I'm talking about.

Ray is a man of action. When the cards are all on the table, and a thing has got to be done, Ray is the man who goes and does a thing. Toeing the thin gray line between masturbation and playing god is not out of the question. Not for a man of action.

A sex change and a time machine, eh? That's a story waiting to be written.

I'm guessing that Pat's drinking his Mojito here, given the glass shape and the way he's moving the straw in the third panel, as though pushing down mint leaves.

When I have sex I actually try to point more than a few fingers into the air at certain times.

I wonder if this was before or after Ray hired that guy to pick him up by his junk...

Best line in this strip goes to Pat: "Did you have a bunch of sex and hoot and holler and point one finger in the air?"

Although, we all new the answer, because we have not seen the crown for a while.

Ray, you already have a time machine.

If you have a time machine at all, you've always had a time machine.

The comma is a very critical bit of grammar in the title.