If you appreciate Achewood, please support Chris Onstad (shop; gallery art.)
Ray's Nipple Rings Friday, August 26, 2005 • read strip Viewing 88 comments:

Ray walks like Bigfoot!

Yea I was wondering if I was the only one that noticed how strange Rays arm move in these walking strips.

For some reason I thought he was wearing socks and sliding on a hardwood floor.

According to the next comic, he was.

I can't stand Ray's floppy-arm walk. Jesus Christ, boy.

chubby for the RLS reference!

Speaking of initials, is Ray's middle name or initial ever mentioned in this comic?

raymond quentin smuckles

man like ray don't walk; he swaggers.

Beef in the last panel makes it for me

Nipple rings can also say that you lost a bet at your frat regarding the "girl rodeo". Truly that is the most shameful way to aquire nipple rings.

A comment left by heatbag was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by saddestking, jfenserty, salvagebar, nphares, sumisueme)

A comment left by wildtoddler was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by salvagebar, tehloki, sumisueme)

This comment lamed by America's two literate frat members.

The two members of frats literate enough to understand that the comment was relevant to them. They did not know what "Lame" or "Chubby" meant. They merely clicked until their lust for clicking was sated.

Better that they satisfy their lusts for clicking than their lusts for date-rape, cheap beer, and leasing BMW 3-series sedans.

Somebody just got...agreed at!

Your avatar is... hypnotic .

Your avatar is angry at me ;-;

Don't take it personally. My avatar is angry at everyone.

My avatar winks only at you.

That is both disturbing and arousing at the same time.

Do I need help?

Maybe?

*wink*

Please Mister Lostman, look and see
(Oh yeah)
If there's a li'l wink in your bag for me


they chubbied before they lamed. they were scrolling about, all goin' nuts with the left mouse button. (or maybe just workin' tab like mad.)

Wait, Ray's argument is that Sean Connery has nipple rings?

Anything tied to Sean Connery is automatically beyond reproach and worthy of imitation. Except Highlander II: The Quickening.

Lies, lies, and more lies!
[IMGS OFF]

*cough* Zardoz *cough*

Does Social Distortion really buy injured women?

I would believe anything of those yahoos.

It's actually a booming market.

I love how everyone knows about Ray's fetish, but no one explicitly says anything about it.

Then they would be forced to do an intervention.

To be honest, I don't really like this comic at all until Beef whips out the fetish reference at the last second.

Well, I thought it was a 3 until the last panel. Beef's line whips it right up to a 4.

Beef knows Ray SO WELL

Technically Ray has a kink, as a kink is usually used to denote a sexual act that few people would find exciting but turns your crank like you turn a mother out whereas a fetish refers to some object or idea that turns said crank (i.e. high-heeled shoes). If just the idea of cake turned him on - fetish, but since he enjoys the ladies sitting in the cake - kink.

Sexual pendantry?

Chubby for you, sir.

"Sexual pedantry"? Good band name, sir. Good... band name.

Hmm. Looking on Wikipedia, I see that you're right, and yet I'd always heard it that a fetish is anything, act or object, that you require to achieve arousal or orgasm, whereas a kink is just something you find abnormally sexy. (Or something abnormal you find sexy, whichever.)

A comment left by soticoto was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by riotdejaneiro, heccibiggs, goatmasterflash, glorify, BionicVapourBoy, skviiier, TonyHighwind, Zem)

...ooookaayy

I got those 8 lames by other folks who want to keep all the goth girls to themselves.

I think it depends on whether the term is being used in a psychological context or not; Freud used the term in the way you're familiar with, but most people would probably be more likely to recognize the previous definition.

Also, the Freudian definition of a fetish is rare and not terribly fun to talk about, whereas the colloquial definition is hell of chubby.

And yet despite this comment, people will still refer to it as a fetish. It's a real shame, it is.

ray bursting into a room with a sheet cake and a raised eyebrow...great imagery right there.

ray walks like someone who has so much wealth, they are seriously considering getting nipple rings

I didn't think wealth was required for nipple rings. I'm pretty sure it isn't.

Striking the delicate balance between a sophisticated attitude and a "hey, man" attitude is a fine line that only Ray can tread gracefully.

yeah...i am most definitely accustomed to this type of attitude. it is quite akin to the "what are you doing later we should hang out" attitude.

I wasn't going to comment, but then my five kicked it up a notch. Bam!
(Sorry, I had to say it. As you can see in my icon I already bought the Emeril eyebrow kit.)

i have been told that the face in your avi reminds others of me.

..it is odd.

FLCL...I do not understand FLCL. I just don't.

Just let it wash over you, baby. I swear that shit'll reprogram your neurons if you let it.

(But I like my neurons...)

The APA recommends regular neural defragmentation to maintain optimal plasticity.

My girlfriend likes FLCL, which is usually a very good sign that I will not.

This makes no sense to me.

My girlfriend at the time (we are not together anymore) had very bad taste in things like music (Linkin Park), movies (Romeo Must Die), and television (FLCL). If she liked a particular show or band or whatnot, it was usually a good sign that it is something I would not enjoy.

bu....but FLCL is amazing man! plus...

THE PILLOWS do the soundtrack, which is like sugar cookies for the ears! (and where my sn comes from)

While I want to high-five God for a split second when I hear "CRAAAAYYY-ZEEEE SUUUUN-SHIIIINNNEE...!", I still dislike Japanese pop because the majority of its appeal is solely because it is of Japanese origin.

You were dating her because ... [?]

That is a very good question. I don't have a very good answer.

Hah! I dated Her as well!

I keep stumbling upon some of your neglected gems in the archives, wt.

I live to give.

That's the only "real" anime show I've ever liked; mainly because it doesn't make any fucking sense. I don't feel like anything is lost in the translation or cultural differences; it's just fucked up.

And the music is pretty good.

No it's about puberty unnerstand

That does not in any way refute the fact that it doesn't make any sense and is fucked up. If anything, it helps further my case.

NO ITS SYMBOLIC GOd dont you read the internet?

I know I'm saying that puberty is fucked up homey

Ray mentioned nipple rings and I had to rub my nipples. I HAD TO.

Today's Blogs

Ray: Good help is hard to find, chochacho.
Teodor: Why was I chased?
Lyle: sfuck new fucking drink
Little Nephew: Onstad be blowed by Dudez

this is how friends talk

Look at Beef's eyebrows in panel 7. Onstad moves into the realm of the sublime facial expression.

The alt. text makes the strip. It isn't saying anything funny but I laughed so hard.

hell of great reference to Ray's secret desires

this is blaze just because its the 2 dudes walkin and talkin. these simplistic ones make the writing that much more of thing(even though the writing is the thing...)

Ray is the main cat

That is the way your arms move when you are thinking about getting nipple rings.

I maintain that Roast Beef's last line is the best punchline in Achewood.

I've tried imitating Ray's floppy-arm walk before, and you just can't do that with your arms by accident. I imagine there might be some kind of neuro-muscular or musculo-skeletal disorder that could produce the effect, but I doubt this is the case with Ray since no one from Old Times seems to ever bring it up.

Conclusion: Ray walks like that on purpose. Why he does it is part of the mystery of Ray.

It is Ray's shtick that he thinks adds to his mystique. It is his myshtick.

He is a Cat. He has Cat bones.