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2009 In Review. Thursday, December 31, 2009 • read strip Viewing 253 comments:

I think that a severed head would have a lot of things to say, if it were to have a steady blood and oxygen supply from the rest of its body.

Slice! Right in the glottis, Mr. SMIIIIIAAAGGHHHhn !

Wait, reality check (foolish in a cartoon, I know, but) you can't speak without air coming from your lungs, so a severed head wouldn't be able to say shit.

it could use one of those eyelid keyboards like they have for paralyzed people. There's a learning curve with those, but once you get the hang of it, you can do allright. matter of fact I'm using one right now.

The French executioners used to make wagers about this type of thing after the 1st 500 or so guillotineries.
They would whisper in the ear of the condemned that they were secret Royalists and going to set them free, then yell "Run!" as the blade came down.
The bets were on how far the headless corpses would stagger trying to escape....

-==The More You Know==-

A truly rotten yet fascinating thing to do.

Pro Sports in America would be in serious trouble if they brought this back in prime time.

See the book SEVERED, by Richard Olen Butler:
"The human head is believed to remain in a state of consciousness for one and one-half minutes after decapitation. In a heightened state of emotion, people speak at the rate of 160 words per minute. Inspired by the intersection of these two seemingly unrelated concepts, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler wrote sixty-two stories, each exactly 240 words in length, capturing the flow of thoughts and feelings that go through a person's mind after their head has been severed."
He lives near me.

Kiss addiction is serious. Tiger needs an intervention.

He's not addicted to regular kisses, only kisses on his genitals.

yeah, you try to explain Phillipe that!

Chubby for Pavement.

Why is Philippe living with them anyway? Do we ever get an explanation? Who sends their kid to live with a bunch of bachelors?

I had the exact same halloween; I know first-hand how bad living with men who habitually burn their mouths on Hot Pockets can be. Our thoughts are with the lad.

the second book goes into it. buy the book, ya sumbitch!

My heart grew three sizes after reading that story.

Sylvia. She works both in France and America it would seem.

Who's totally addicted to kisses?? THIS GUY!!

Currently laughing at Phillipe's Vulcan salute.

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either youre doing achewood fan art, or youre sharing pay-for-achewood stuff with us free-achewood-dudes(and dudettes).

or! https://www.freepatentsonline.com/4666425.html

that is hardcore, yo! straightup nerdy and complicated and gross and cool. a swell dose of science, indeed.

yeah, I actually got one of those off of ebay. It was "untested and as is medical surplus." Well I plugged it in and it seemed to be working but later on when I tried it with my girl friend it started smoking. So that was kind of a bummer.

so basically, this guy patented Futurama heads in jars? awesome

yeah well it would be more awesome if it worked better. All I can say is if you're gonna try it, rent a hotel room with an assumed name and park off site so they can't get your license plate number. then you don't have to worry about cleaning up the mess.

Damn soviet scientist!

Dont belive me? google soviet and decapitated dogs heads.

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TOM STEWART KILLED ME!!

i LOLed a whole hell of a lot at this.

This is a decent strip. That is all.

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Connie to Philippe: You'll shoot your flipper off, kid!

Addicted to kisses -- yeah, that's my problem, too.

Philippe seems to have briefly confused Michael Jackson with Boy George.
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chocolate rain!


Boy George either has a hickey, or knows someone who does.

who looks at themself in the mirror and says, yeah, totally going for the a-car-splooged-on-my-head look today.

is he on drugs?

He is what you see {{{WHENNNN DRUGGGGS GOOOOO WRONGGGG}}}

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can nobody see that he's just a seven-year-old who cut his hair off and painted hair on his head, hoping his parents won't notice?

That makes Boy George seem incredibly adorable...

That makes Boy George seem incredibly adorable...

That makes Boy George seem incredibly adorable...

You are wrong in all three cases.

ms. the goblins, you are quite dedicated to her position on that issue. i respect that.

** YOUR

someone is insecure about an extry chin.

they should just call him girl george. would stop alot of the confushion.

i didnt think there was any. he isnt a girl. simpel as dat.

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i literally jus copy paste dat form websit n m n process of not given a shit

psh.

It is literally impossible that I could laugh through my mouth every time a troll posts.

...and yet gladi8orrex does this to me every time.

Laugh through your... mouth?

ALIEN!

I suppose you laugh by vibrating your earlobes?

Uncontrollable flatulence is usually how I express my mirth.

Ray finds getting kissed by a purty counter lady a dollar less cute than shouting about big hot tranny messes.

Not to be nitpicky, but the descriptor tacked onto "contractor", ie: "Ethnic Contractor" can be utilized in two ways.

In one, Ethnic is used to describe the contractor him/her/itself.

In another, Ethnic could be the descriptor of the Contract TYPE itself!

Now, people of assetbar, I think I speak for all of us when I say, I want to read a strip about number 2!

AMIRITE?

lucidz do you have AS? I'm not saying it's a bad thing I'm genuinely curious

Like, whats AS? Wiki and google failed me :(

Within the Internet, an autonomous system (AS) is a collection of connected Internet Protocol (IP) routing prefixes under the control of one or more network ...

I assume this isn't what you meant?

close... I meant autism spectrum

Man, screw you and that dumbass horse of yours. I ain't got no autisms. I don't freak out about loud noises, i don't wave my hands around in the air at random times and I am totally cool in social situations. Also, I ain't got no match counting smarts.

(Yes, I combined asbergers with rain man, fuck you right out of here)

Too soon.

well I'm just saying maybe you're not full out austistic but maybe you are kinda halfways like asperger or something

I think this is more of an answer than what he wanted.

Is exploiting linguistic ambiguities to posit whimsical eventualities a pathology? Lucidz made a (fairly) funny joke, I don't see how that makes him autistic.

everything is a pathology. Humans are slightly evolved viruses.

Damned insolence! I will have you know that humans are slightly evolved bacteria .

so what does that make apes?

Slightly less evolved bacteria

Slightly more or less evolved.

"Think about it!" is my favorite supporting argument in any situation. It's just so hard to counter.

No, of course, you can counter it. Think about it.

Dude, you're talking nonsense. Think about it.

Think about thinking about it.

Think about it, think about it, think, think about it.

Uooo, what is wrong with the wooooorld today?

Children on the street usin' guns and knives, taking drugs and each others' lives.

Think about it.

I saw a man lying on the street half dead, he had
knives and forks sticking out of his legs.

someone was tryin' to eat 'im!!

Man, that's impossible. Think about it.

medium hard.

medium rare.

awwwww heeeeey yeaaaaah

Hrm, not to spam, but I should add, in addition to my earlier post, I realized its vaguely sad that its new year's eve, and instead of heading out to party, hang out with friends, and "get drunk", while staring at sky flowers, I'm at home, relentlessly hitting F5 on the achewood website to see if Onstad beat the buzzer and posted a strip tonight.

This means that either I'm a virginal basketcase, living in a house with an older woman who keeps me under her thumb and the only time she speaks to me is when she interrupts my video game playing to order me to take out the trash or clean my room.

Or..

I'm married.

Wait...

well it's not the best structure you could find for your life

Glad my chubby power is back. The little woman is trying to get my attention, something about trash, BRB.

Here, then, is what I was able to note immediately after the decapitation: the eyelids and lips of the guillotined man worked in irregularly rhythmic contractions for about five or six seconds. This phenomenon has been remarked by all those finding themselves in the same conditions as myself for observing what happens after the severing of the neck %u2026

I waited for several seconds. The spasmodic movements ceased. [%u2026] It was then that I called in a strong, sharp voice: "Languille!" I saw the eyelids slowly lift up, without any spasmodic contractions %u2013 I insist advisedly on this peculiarity %u2013 but with an even movement, quite distinct and normal, such as happens in everyday life, with people awakened or torn from their thoughts.

Next Languille's eyes very definitely fixed themselves on mine and the pupils focused themselves. I was not, then, dealing with the sort of vague dull look without any expression, that can be observed any day in dying people to whom one speaks: I was dealing with undeniably living eyes which were looking at me. After several seconds, the eyelids closed again [%u2026].

It was at that point that I called out again and, once more, without any spasm, slowly, the eyelids lifted and undeniably living eyes fixed themselves on mine with perhaps even more penetration than the first time. Then there was a further closing of the eyelids, but now less complete. I attempted the effect of a third call; there was no further movement %u2013 and the eyes took on the glazed look which they have in the dead.

Assetbar: 6
srikamaraja: 0

Lovecraft? I've not read it before, but it follows his style and preferred subject matter.

The true horror is that this is a first-person non-fiction account by a doctor during the French Revolution.

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Blink twice if you're dead.

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that was one time a double post was desirable. and you blew it

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Capiche?

oh Carol.

Philippe has a lot of faith in the institution of marriage. I find it very hard to believe a regular wife has at least ten kisses in her a day.

Agreed. Also, Philippe has a lot of faith in Michael Jackson.

When Michael Jackson died, all his kisses were reincarnated.

that's ignorant

some of them even got on the mayor!

South Park seems to be of the "Jacko was not a pedo" camp.

if you consider the last episode they used him in, yes.

I've only seen two; the one where he moves into South Park and the one where his ghost possesses Ike. In neither did he want to fiddle kiddies.

Thanks to you, I now have the mental image of MJ trying to play the uncle in Tommy. Such is the power of idiosyncratic verbs combined with a sheltered mind unused to such verbs.

now imagine him as the old dude in Powder.

Are you referring to the movie about the magical flying heavily-ripped-from-Clarke albino boy?

...i don't remember him being magical, ripped or able to fly.

huh.

I said his character was ripped from Clarke, not that he was ripped. But you are talking about magnetic albino boy, yes?

Not keepin' yo tildeathdoyou mama regulah with a daily dime o' smoochies can be death an' taxes fo a playa in this town, baby.

babelfish doesnt have an ebonics option on their translator...... i dont know what your post means......

Um..If you don't keep up with your daily ten kisses with your tildeathdoyou-mama (wife), you could end up dead (or something else bad)?

"That jive-ass turkey beat me with the frying pan and hid mice in my afro. I thought she'd be good for a spoon on Christmas day, but turns out she didn't give a fork. 2/10 Will not be marrying again."

I love this thing you do.

i intend to earn at least 3079/day.

Little kisses, or proper-grown up kissing?

like, a mixture. there are times when each type are appropriate.

Why, a mix to be sure; a spray like a bouquet of crimson roses, baby's breath, lilies, orchids.....each one all conveyin' a little somethin' unique.. :-{}


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And let's not forget about kissing that other set of lips we love so much.

yea and verily, chubbied for truth.

baby's breath? hold on there, son. I am not a fan of crime.

I must say, I'm not exactly an addict of kissing. People either give me a series of little pecks, occasionally pressing in for more than five seconds, or they swallow my lips with theirs and make me almost want to gag. Should there not be a happy medium?

is it because the dudes(or ladies) are bad at it, or because the dudes(or ladies) are often times inebriated?

ha ha. yeah that's right. thegoblins takes advantage of drunk stoned homeless people. it's hard to kiss good when the bus suspension is shot.

Not exactly. I don't make out with people who are too far gone.

well lah-dee-dah, little miss "i have a choice about who I will make out with"

could she BE any more arrogant?!

Ofttimes, the choice is to not make out at all!

it is now obvious that i've been reading too much Dinosaur Comics; when i read that, i imagined T-Rex saying it thus:


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none of this is cuddlenacht.

wait.... did Tiger steal cuddlenacht? because he's so addicted to kisses?

kiss addicts have done stranger things, albeit not often.

he tried to steal ultimate cuddlenacht, but that belongs to everyone.

holy shit. there is a new strip in the fanflow (newer than this one.) it also features Tiger. It's friggin over the top.

that one strip is worth three dollars all on its own

I thought Onstad didn't like topical jokeswhyisthishappening

Onstad may not but Philippe drew the strip in question.

The girl-who-is-increasingly-not-my-friend threw a party in my house. I have just snuck away from the end of phase 1 of standard New Years Eve party (phase 2, which has less dancing and more narcotics and drinking, is admittedly a lot more fun) to wish assetbar a happy New Year. I dislike many of my friends.

Quote:
I dislike many of my friends.

I don't like them either, but Happy New Year's Day anyway.

just quietly, they're not actually your friends. They're just douchebags you know. Stop using Facebook to define friendship.

Well, that makes most people's list of actual friends painfully short. Sometimes we just have to suffer the company of acquaintances who know not our innermost thoughts and fancies.

I'd rather hang out with two people I like than go to a party of thirty in which I cannot find a single person or worth.

Just get drunk enough that you turn into a boring asshole as well.

Done and done! And I mean done!

Young man, I've been hating my friends since long before you young people came up with your 'facebook'.

It was very easy, even back then.

Since I'm usually so late to these strips, I just want to post a comment while the count is still under 100. Happy New Year, Y'all.

Happy new year, Awksedperl.

what do me an susan boyle have in common?

a: never been kissed
b: great voice
3: am is a woman
c: ugly

what do me an viggo mortensen have in common?

a: look great naked
3: know hows ride horses
2: aragorn

what does me n col du tormalet have in common?

a: claim lives
b: solid fountations
3: beyond catagory

wat does me an sir arthur conan doyle hab in cmmon?

a: mustache
b: poe is big influence 4 us
3: writer o detective books
2: all of above

dis is fun way 4 2 get 2 no more abot me n here is freebee for read far i m give infose i cna put both ma legs behind my head easily also howl/do abom voices quite well any grls wanan meet up lemme no n i msn u easily thx guys hab good time ima play games nah

update: ma black cat jus sat in ma lap lol she never sits she so active. her name bella swan

dude, kitties are fuckin rad. i relate to dogs better, but i dig all those small mammals you can snuggle with.

moose carcasses are snugly too, if they aren't frozen yet.

that's basically what they told Han.

youre ugly AND you look great naked?

i don't think you 'get' multiple choice

my test scores should do a better job of proving you wrong.

c, 3, b, b. The last one was easiest; you are all over Poe, both Edgar Allan and the singer.

spoiler u got 0 right bro. literally nothing correct at all

a: never been kissed
2: aragorn
3: beyond catagory (hors categorie)
2: all of above

nicely done bro

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ya, abot seein' distastful finks n eschewin' them n favor of opposites, for instanvces i would eat pretty bad (all mouth open n shit like a china man. subconcious) den i saw this guy do it i was eatin with n i was like n my head dang that's gross but then noticed i was doin' too so i stopped ever since. there an aesop dat kinda applies to dis, teh one with fox ass and lion who group up as hunting team, ass runs them down or w/e lion eats em then its time to divy up the bounty n the ass puts 3 equal portions then teh lion gets super pissed kills the ass and asks fox to divy n teh fox gives like alla meat to teh lion n leaves only smallest for himself n lion says "how'd you get teh knack of this so well?" n fox says "oh, me? i learned from the ass". aesop shit still relevent even 2day shits bizarre

Translated Quote:
Yeah, [I'm] about seeing distasteful things and eschewing them in favor of opposites. For instance, I would eat pretty bad . . .


Chubby for fine pun on "eschewing."

Also, Aesop's moral: "only a dumb ass takes the lion's share."

Pigs get fed, hogs get butchered?

Nature's pimps and hoes.

Ah, ah, ah. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and I ."

I'm not sure about the others but I think the answer to the second one is "Sorrow of Moldavia"

I'm probably going to get lamed for this sentiment, but I was just thinking how nice it would be if there was an official assetbar clock displayed somewhere on the page, thereby allowing us to know when it is 2010 in assetbar land... and allowing us to know who has the frist psot of 2010.

What there needs to be is an Official Achewood Clock contest. Winner goes into immediate production.
I'm seeing one with Roast Beef face, moving eyes that follow the hands around the Wheel of Thanatos. The hands are like executioner Axe Heads.

Neon white and black maybe.

every hour on the hour, Lyle pops out of the clock face and agitates a coffee with a dildo.

if you oversleep with such a clock on your wall, you awake to find Cartilage Head gently fanning you with a collection of lavender-scented death certificates, sorted by circumstance and the amount of secret guilty relief the onlookers felt.

Chubbied for the sorting-by-guilt concept.

Happy New Year! Please pronounce it twenty-ten so it sounds like it's the future.

Now where's my flying car?!

In your flying garage.

Oh, Batman. Lost in the parking lot again?
Sigh....

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see, I would drive such a car, except that I'd feel a little like I was somehow being racially insensitive to porpoises. it'd be a little like riding a motorcycle painted in blackface.

Fuck you 2009

Perfect first post of twenty ten!

Hey everyone! The concept of the new year starting on January 1st dates back to the Roman Empire, as the day the new senate first convened. Seeing as we no longer live in ancient Rome, I don't see the point of celebrating a new year today/tomorrow. I'm drinking and playing video games in celebration of it being Thursday, and that is all.

Happy Thursday boys and girls!!!

i'm posting so you won't be embarrassed about nobody caring <3 i'm just a nice guy, don't expect anythin in return for my good deeds

is the emotion associated with the new year a form of narcissism? Basically, celebrating one's own existence?

It's Friday, you smarmy bastard.

we're not in ancient rome any more so what's the point of it being friday

I don't even believe in Fries.

i dont believe in ancient rome. fuck history.

I don't believe in any of you people!

I don't believe in believing in things.

Oh yes you do! Think about it.

that is so impressive that nihilists actually believe in you.

"Ve believe in nussink, Lebowski! NUSSINK!"
"Except Hamscout."
"Oh, ya, ya. Him, ya."

I believe that Roger Moore was, at his best, quite a good Bond, and he was just unlucky to have been in place during a weak period in the franchise. Even then, For Your Eyes Only stands up as one of the best Bond films ever made, bringing a debonair intensity to the previously moribund formula recalling the heyday of From Russia With Love and Goldfinger.

Moonraker was unforgiveable!

Well that goes without saying.

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Arby's macht Fries?

Google told me you didn't invent that but goddamn if it didn't make me laugh.

Cüddlenacht fries?

Not a valid date :(

Just delete that last back-slash, and life will be good and full of cuddlenacht fries.

I figured but then I went "who cares" and put on sunglasses and rode my skateboard out of the school and grinded on the principal's car.

I don't feel like I have a lot of outs!

Yes.

March, 2009: America jumps the shark.

I thought that was mission accomplished banner on the ship or no wait that was vietnam

Unable to find a suitable sequined glove in his size, Phillipe is forced to pay tribute to Michael Jackson with a singular Tater Mitt.

Chris, I will totally buy a shirt that says "When we decided not to fuck around we had today in mind." I want the fisty Ray on it too. If you don't do it I will.

Second.

i don't think Chris reads the free assetbar much. but he does apparently read the fanflow. he states that he sporadically reads his inbox so e-mail is an unreliable means to reach him.

...

Second.

by the way, happy new year, bitches.

Also to you, greenkoolayd. You call me a guy but I think you mean it in a way that is ok with it and not Judging. I think I like you and I know I am looking forward to this year.

what a guy thing to say

btw lamed 4 bein' a stupid fuck

no You lamed 4 bein' a stupid fuck laming her for nothing shitbag

scorpio so goddamn petty. chup'd cuz as teh bigger man i realize we all guests in mother natures house n u is just do w/e stupid shit u wanna to jus dont let me see it.

owned wit kindness

how magnanimous of you.

Your kindness is false, I do not need it.
You should learn to respect the ladies, one of whom is your mom.

If you wish to become a man, you will avoid trashing females for no thing, or even the 1st or the 3rd thing (and then sucking up to the bigger man); for the women bring all men into the world as helpless kittens, and the Lady of Icy Breath takes all men out of it again.


ya n they wouldnt birth shit without mans sperm so u can shut that shit up right nah

aint no reasonin wit sum peeps. i canna see dis aint gona get no wheres useful wit teh kinda mindset you got n i m gettin better at recognisin that n my old age

so ima let dis one hit teh mat
while ya dumbass fails ya SAT
again
logic so alien
to ya mind
when presented wit it send it for a spin
lean in real close ima teach u somethin
teach u wit my balls on yo chin

uhhhhhhh, step back (step off)
uuuhhhhhAHHHhh, step back (step off)
when it comes to ass kickin i got a PHd (he the prof.)
when u say that bogus, hilarious shit i jus rof(l)

im jus playin wit ya nah (shits a game)
but u push me more ima flush ya
{i]down teh drain[/i]
n when i come atchu there aint no stoppin
i am as a train
n ima beat ya ass til i hear teh sound
o yo balls droppin'

so stop pickin up for weak ass bitchs who u aint even know. aight? n i wont school the fuck outta yo dumbass

He doesn't get with the ladies and they are ambivalent.

do you write the raps for that dude in linkin park? your flow is endearingly shitty, just like his.....

eerybodys a fuckin critic

you pay for the right to offer criticism by properly taking the criticism of others.

fuck you. dont talk down 2 me like dat. the fuck u think i take that kinda shit

for ur cry cry fase:

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You are heckling him with his own material. Brutal.

and then offset with a chubby because honestly bro this is the future now

where the peace and brotherly love at

i know you are in fact, a lady, and since im accommodating/polite, i have no problem referring to you in a way that you would like.

You are a lady from another grinning soul!

i am also (totally) addicted to kisses, too.
that New Year's party was awesome ...all mackin' on a lady...makin' her late for work..makin' her not care she was late for work...

keep on rockin', cpn ...

mackin' and tellin'

No name, just blame.

also: would a super-judge be able to make a super-presedent?

Philippe kept notes this time. This is because, at the end of 2009, he is at the very mature age of five and recognizes the value of writing down information when trying to keep track of it. This is very different from the Philippe of 2008, who was very young and inexperienced, as most five-year olds are.

So dudes and chicks, is Avatar any good? I might see it this week, but that is almost 3 goddamn hours of computer animation, and I don't know if the crippling back pain that will undoubtedly come from sitting in one spot for so long will be worth it or not.

I enjoyed it. It is pretty awesome. There were times at which I did not feel like paying attention, so having someone to text or maybe something to eat would serve as suitable, brief diversion. But, since I saw it in IMAX 3-D, I don't know how much of that was just a rest for my brain from the sensory overload, as opposed to actual desire to briefly (briefly, I say!) distract myself.

The best movie experience ever, I'd say. I really didn't want to come back to reality.

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That flick really disillusioned me, and kept me away from New Orleans, too. Maximum bummer at the end, although ultra cool at first because of the use of contemporary music in the soundtrack -- first time ever.

2010 is going to be a big year for Phillipe. He is going to be turning 5!

Phillipe is five going on five.

I am calling the police.

The New Year has not brought with it the ability to rate this strip a 60. (That's 5 for every monthly entry.)

Pointless comment commemorating that this is the strip I caught up to current on.

Ray cussed a lot, but in the end, he successfully hired an ethnic contractor to build a new backyard fence.

Ironically enough, to keep ethnicities out of his backyard.

Ehtnicities got to stay out front if they want their fresh public wine.

2010: I learned what a "curb feeler" is from a 5-year-old otter-thing. And I learned what and where Col du Tourmalet is from a 20-year-old . . . whatever he is. In conclusion, I already have too much time on my hands.

I thought a "curb feeler" was what you called those handy chicks that hang out at the entrance of the Holland Tunnel.

I call her Molly.

I call her Mother.

I call her my bitch.

..my bottom bitch.

because you aint seen nuffin til youre down on the muffin.

Yay November 12 is muh birthdayy