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He has a battery and microchip in his shoulder pads to make that sound.

It's like a walkman.

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back in the good old days you buncha cock gobblers would've been lamed into oblivion for your excessive positing.

come on assetbar, i havent been here in months. make me proud.

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back in the good old days, people used proper englilish.

Back in the day English only had one "l"?

Chubby for no hard feelings good sir or ma'am!

Excessive positing is not negative.

Oh piss off, with your self-righteous "back in the day"ing.

Back in the day people were polite about their elders reminiscing.....

...starts quietly humming 'When I'm Cleaning Windows", nods off to sleep


when i'm cleaning out widows.

You should see the things I see...

I thought it would take a while, but 24 hours is a bit much.

How young are you people?

My mother has George Formsby performing it on an original 78, but I came late to the party and missed your post the first time around. Sorry.

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Recognition is not the same as contrition (you don't seem sorry).

I'm sorry! Wont happen again. honest cross my heart hope to die stick a needle in my eye.


[IMGS OFF]

how sincere is your apology now?

[IMGS OFF]

He said he needed medical marijuana for his cataracts.

I knew he was lying 'cause dogs can't drive.

BONG!

Your avatar makes this infinitely better by making it read in the voice of groucho.

oh you fancypants , you. You got my puppy stoned on heated up marijuana .

Man, Hitler's hella slam-dancing in this thread.

God already knows that, expellens. You don't really want Him to Lame away, do you?

Nice try.

Fish fry.

Apple pie

Ha!

Seriously not in the slightest.
Sugar lumps? Freaky? The cheap zoo (and the budget bears), more new zealand chat than you could shake a "Camera-phone" at. i thought it lived up admirably once it got into its stride.

The "Tough Brets" episode was particularly entertaining.

I suppose I expect a second series to be in its stride from day one. I think it improved as it went on but the first season will always be the best for me.

It's not s "series," but a few one-offs.

Well, it was supposed to be a one-off, damn you Onstad for making a fool of me.

What are you talking about, GranularSilica.

(Okay, I know what you're talking about.... but do you?)

On good days, I remember your name, son. Other days, I might as well be in Topeka.

Sophomore syndrome, the wiat of expectation that it'll just collapse like some sort of pathetic souffle (is this how souflle is spelt? Damn my eyes if i can be bothered to check) makes the second season a dangerous path for an artform to tread.

Song for Epileptic Dogs.

good band name

I read it as "Elliptical Dongs."

I see, and how long have you had this problem?

"Elliptical Dongs."
the craze that's sweeping the nation!

What goes around comes aound.

i enjoyed the heck of that concert. i can't wait to see them again.

Season 2 of Flight of the Conchords is definitely a let down. If they focused more on the two of them instead of developing minor characters it would be better. Their funniest when it's just them being ridiculously Kiwi.

you think being Kiwi is ridiculous?

I'll smash yous...

Clearly the only acceptable first post.

Worst avatar-comment synergy ever . Tone unsuited to subject.

suck a cock asshole

What a delightful mental image.

Wouldn't that basically be anal sex?

Oh, I read it as suck the asshole of a cock.

that would be a cloaca

Cloaca? I 'ardly know 'er!

Suck an asshole's cock!
Lick a sphincter's dick!

The eagle cries on Friday, but this morning he sasses like Paulie Walnuts.

Chubby for the use of blank verse in this terse line of poetry.

turgid wurst for his accursed terse verse.

The perfect thing to say, etc.

BUNG!
Exactly the same sound a politician's handshake makes.

How does posting first and quoting a sound effect in the strip merit chubbies? I do not understand. Just can't. Just don't.

Funny thing is, used to be that the first post of a comic, no matter what it was, was almost guaranteed to get a handful of lames. Not that I miss it, but I wonder why that stopped.

everyone here has a lame sense of humor. except me.

Onstad stopped letting many of us give out lames.

i haven't been able to lame since like the first few months of assetbar

If you can't lame, you've been lamed too many times. They are intrinsically linked. The less lame you are, the more you can tell other people how lame they are.

that might well be part of it. however, if you don't rate strips, I don''t believe you get more lames given to you. rate a few strips and you'll probably be able to lame again.

i dont think that's true

i think it's more that i abused my lame privileges to the extreme, laming every post and encouraging others to do so in a (successful) attempt to get all comments hidden as "marked lame too many times" to those with default filters

That's true too, you have a limited allocation. Which goes up and down.

it's called 'karma'

Thegoblins gon' smack youse.

karma karma karma k-karma karma karma

Chameleon

You come...

correct.

candyman

Societal etiquette should be so simple

Chubbied for being untrue.

Funny thing is, used to be that the first post of a comic, no matter what it was, was almost guaranteed to get a handful of lames. Not that I miss it, but I wonder why that stopped.
Two words - no Asherdan.

Just...won't?

At least in this case, the sound effect was also the topic of the alt text. Today it's more apropos than usual, is all I'm sayin'.

I don't think a chubby is a rigorously accredited qualification.

My chubby to post ratio is on my resume.

for some it may have brought to attention a rather funny yet easily missed aspect of the strip

it's serious business, let me tell you

or should I say serious BUNGsness!??

No you should not.

Okay, I let your Frist Pots pass by unmolested, but I have to lame you for that one. I'm talkin about a line in the sand, dude, across which line you DO NOT-

who needs a sense of self anyway

I don't think viewing jubblies regularly is sufficient to establish your identity.

Maybe not sufficient to establish . But viewing them in a mirror may confirm yours.

ooooone day you might wake up to find they're gone :(

Headline News.

thegoblins is clearly not in possession of a Y chromosome.

Are you sure? Has she checked the couch cushions?

Thank God he didn't use Comic Sans.

Connie may be a character, but Onstad is at the helm.

he wouldn't dare.

Oh good, another comic about Cornelius writing a book. Isn't this how the last arc started?

Sorry, I don't mean to be negative. I just miss the good old days when Achewood was about Roast Beef writing a book, or Ray writing a book.

I don't know why I bother reading Cornelius Bear and his Authorial Escapades: the Private Confessions of a Book Scribbling Reprobate at all.

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It is not rad to be meta.

Nowadays, 'Phillipe is Standing On It' would be a 20-panel strip, the last three rows of which would feature Cornelius penning a treatise on child psychology.
I'm not saying that's a bad thing ( I am saying that's a bad thing ).

I would demand my money back, if I were you.

Assetbar fanflow subscriptions are non-refundable, hippy .

[IMGS OFF]

Apropos of the above Bukowski- Quote:
There is a time to stop reading, there is a time to STOP trying to WRITE, there is a time to kick the whole bloated sensation of ART out on its whore-ass.

In Achewood, NOW is the time!

Don't worry, there's a twist. Just sit tight for a month or two.

Dear Sir,

HOW DARE YOU SUGGEST THAT A FILTHY BOOK OF ANTICS FOR UNDERSEXED HOOLIGANS IS ANYTHING LIKE THE SUBLIME ECSTASY OF A LOVINGLY ASSEMBLED AND TASTEFULLY UNDERSTATED CULINARY CATALOG(UE)?!? WE REGISTER OUR EXTREME DISTASTE AND DISAPPROBATION AND ALSO DISGUST.

Signed,
Amethyst L. Thrushingham, Bart.,
President (pro tem) & Founder,
The Culinary Catalog(ue) Enthusiast Club of Greater Christendom (CCECGC)

Undersexed Hooligans was the name of my irish republican urban guerilla unit back in college.

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hey man that's really cool

A cool... "story", if you will...

"Bro".

Chilling tale, brother.

I have never been, although I have been told by many friends that it depends entirely on where you live. A stripper in Tucson, Arizona is much different than one in Portland, Oregon. But nearly all the people I have heard such things from are women, and I believe enjoyed their stay on a much different level than men would, and so I'm not sure this is valid.

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I don't think you understand.

Okay, but...calm down. I don't know why you have to embark on a phillipic against strippers when this comic is not actually making a comment about strippers in general or stripping as an industry. And I simply have no idea where you're going with the antibiotics thing. Chill out, man.

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Phillipic is correct - you write like a five-year-old otter.

a 5 year old otter named... Phirripic?

A five-year-old otter with whore-specific-capitalization Tourette's, no less. The scourge of public libraries, they are.

You...you realize this is AIU, right?

Seriously, you guys can't figure this shit out yet?

what's AIU? is it contageous?

It's where the number of words in your post is highly disproportionate to how entertaining they are. IE you are saying too little and it takes too long.

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Tired of missing out on important faxes and calls when when on business trip outside of workplace? SISMOMGF - from Cinqo- all the factu-mation all the time!

No, that's a lot longer than it needs to be.

Quote:
No, that's a lot longer than it needs to be.

That's exactly what she said! (I know it's an old joke, so am I, but who could resist that set up?)

HIGH FIVE! (*Jump up* ::photo op:: --kaCHINK!--)

(-mental undressing-BLING-)

[[gazes and drools]]

I know where he's going with the antibiotics thing.

watch out!

Romanticists are frequently pimples on the asshole of society, as frequently as are critics.

regulars are definitely losers though

Romanticysts, if you will.

Waiter, hold the cyst and give me a boil.

For that, I'm going to assume your av is John Madden.

BAM

Right. And why does one need to a treatise on strip club etiquette? I was under the impression everything one needs to know about a strip club can be summarized by the phrase "dolla dolla bills yo".

There is a general rule that putting dollar bills under your eyelids in a strip club is a Bad Thing.

please be a one off oh please please be a one off

Oh, wait, I just saw the word "continues". Nooooo.

I would like to start a petition that in the next strip, as Cornelius continues to write, Ray suddenly bursts in with a baseball bat and just wrecks the computer.

"Phillipe, why has my typewriter stopped working due to apparently having been submerged?"

Phillipe wanted to write about fish.

Wonderful comment/avatar synergy.

Because of a problem?

I know right? this was perfect as a one-off. Man, why you gotta do a thing.

So. Men: What IS a successful sense of self, and why exactly does it require the viewing (and not having) of women in the nude? (it is perhaps the last part that gives me so much trouble - is it not the conquest, not just watching, that's truly the goal here?)

I had to give up drinking for four months because of some medication I was taking. I stopped going to the pub. I found it too painful. However every time I went shopping I would go and walk up and down the booze aisle, just to eye up the bottles. I think the strip-club instinct is similar (although when a strip-club patron finally gets laid he probably won't hold a special party).

both of you are too poly-syllabic to begin to understand

Says the man, who, four posts up, uses noir-poetic metaphors and words like "noxious" and "buoyancy" and, um.

..."prostitution?"

fuck you, okay! Fuck you! I'm a total jackass and fuck you for saying different!

ima say different

if you post on a message board to make yourself feel better than someone else what does that say about you

I have already applied this knowledge to myself

fuck you, okay! Fuck you! I'm a artist and my posts are artistit and its makes me feels better about myself is the art is not that I say I am better than anyone i nfact can you fucking READ what I said I said I am jhackass how the fuck is that saying I'm better about myself it's saying I'm worse so fuck you fyck you

Good point. I will also submit that my girlfriend has 100 pairs of shoes, and probably 30 dresses I have never seen her wear, and she will buy a few new dresses this month. She will also go to the store purely to LOOK at dresses, knowing that she will buy nothing.

If it bothers you in any way, keep in mind that it will not slow down if you marry.

No it is no problem. It's not really 100 either, but it's a big number.

I mean if she likes shoes what do I care, right?

I mean it's not like it makes her a lesser person.

I mean, I still like her!

oh no. I have a problem with my girlfriend's shoes.

Chubby for admitting it's a problem after a quadruple post on the subject.

I mean, she probably doesn't have near enough bags to match, right?

When my wife said she bought a "Coach bag" I got all excited because I thought there was a line of purses designed by Mike Ditka.

Alas...

Is your mic on?

Don't turn me into a guy who has problems with his girlfriend's handbags, I don't want to be that guy. Bad enough already.

Get. Away. Too. Many. Shoes!

your girlfriend has probably 30 dresses that I have seen her not wear.

is that sort of the same thing?

it's almost like people are irrational

yes they are or in Seever's girl friend case people are irrational materialistic WHORES anyone who is that interested in shoes probably cant be fully qualified as sentient

she's a robot WHORE steever thats what your girlfriend is

hmm

*giggle*

Booby booby booby

[IMGS OFF]

TITS!

[IMGS OFF]


THANK YOU

HERO

I was waiting for this! Cheers!

My god...they're beautiful...so...hypnotic...

I read fattybeaver's posts for the articles

I think psychologists have dedicated 100,000 pages to "the male gaze" please don't make us think about our actions! We are just dumb men. We like things we like.

I suppose it sort of turns me off that certain men of my acquaintance will just gaze at girls walking by with unbridled lust while other girls are talking to them. I know there are instincts and such, but politeness has its place. If you're talking to me, you mentally unclothe ME and no one else, motherfucker.

That is not true for a lot of girls, in my humble experience.

I ran out of chubbies, so just know that I approve of your world view.

As a male-type folk, I would hella dig on a girl that actually said this to me. Determined, passionate, AND able to admit that we dudes are silly fools.

I'm sure people will say that most girls freely admit that we dudes are silly fools, but friends of mine (lass-friends) will frequently and whole-heartedly defend their boyfriends or even just lad-friends when they are accused of silly foolishness, like mentally undressing people, being interested in other girls, and so on.

This seems to suggest that women do not undress others with their eyes.... which is of course the best kept secret of womanhood. That we do. That is.

I have experienced the crotch-gaze from women often.

Ah the slowly spreading dark stain...

I meant when I was younger and didn't need Depends.

okay you probably know this but just in case you don't i will point out that the male gaze refers to cinamatography and tvtography not literally to males gazing. sorry for this awkward clarificatgion this has bee awkward clarification please ignore this if you knew this but if you dind't and thegoblins is very edumacated so I assume she 99.9% likely did but a lot of people on assetbar as ignorant WHORES so they can go ahead and chuby this if it taught them anything knew.

sorrry for the spelling duplicity I am dyslexic it's a disability

Ah, but what if I am arranging partners for a menage-a-trois?

I don't share.

-shrug-

I suppose one can't have everything.

here-here!

Does that apply if we're replying to you on assetbar? Because if so, awwww yeahhh.

[stern]That's right, no looking at porns while reading my posts![/stern]

Well then I might as well shoot myself.

fair enough request

Dang, I ran out of chubbies! Preach it, sister!

I'm not a guy, but I asked my boyfriend a similar question this weekend. He looked at me and said, "Boobs." That's pretty much the fascination.

You could do better.

don't be a dick about a stranger

fuck you

Whoa, huge slam on achtung out of nowhere!

famed poster scorpio_nadir has got me in his e-sights

he Can be a dick about a stranger
he Will be a dick about a stranger

If it feels right, if it is right-
you can be a dick about a stranger, too....


Sing it!

Are you offering?

I think this actually makes sense. Boobs are pretty much the most fun parts if the body... cocks being of course a close second. But you (at least *I*) don't have any desire to pay to see wieners bouncing in time with music.

"Really? Somebody had a choice, and they said 'ah, yes. That's what we're looking for. The last-chicken-in-the-shop look.'?"

Show you my boobies if you know what that's from.

But its cold outside (there's no kinda atmosphere).

I'm all alone...

More or less.

let me fly far away from here!

FUN FUN FUUUN (Da da dadada)


You folks bring a tear to my eye.

IN THE SUUUUN SUUUUN SUUUUUUUUUUN

(Da da dadada da da dadada DA)

You do not seem to realise that any quote can be located with Google. Or maybe you do. What sort of game are you playing?
Unless of course you are addressing your nudity-offer only to emosexy, in which case you are clearly going about some private purposes, and I wish you the best.

It's more like at least sixty thou have seen my boobs at this point. So I don't even really care too much. But about sixty thou have seen them so far anyway... They exist online, and I can point them out, but it seems quite vain. So.

You cannot tell at all that I am drunk. say it.

jeffspaulding wins in any case.

jeffspaulding always gets to see the titties. We're resigned to it at this point.

ALL the titties?

all the good titties

jeff always shares though, so it's cool

Literally true. The boobies shown above by doppelganger are a repost from my tinypic account.

@ xi -- lets see 'em. (my e-mail is CaptainJeffreySpaulding [at] gmail...)

https://www.milena-velba.de/

Thanks for the link, but I'm more of a B/C-cup kinda guy.

Bless your soul.

Those are horrifically disgusting.

I bet they work pretty good as air bags

No back pain? What are they filled with, helium?

Poor girl has become a side-show freak: I was born with this deformity, so I might as well profit from it.

BREAST ENVY

Absollutely not. My tits are rocking.

I must say, if your bra is playing Dokken, that's a terrible application of one's undergarments, young lady.

I demand pictorial evidence

Chubby for Tit Pride. I wholeheartedly approve of you, ma'am.

I NOTICED SOMEONE CHUBBIED YOUR TITS BY THE WAY

i gave them a chubby too

"Important message, november 6th 2006:
I had to remove all photos from this page showing me younger than 18. I think this page looked somehow better before. "

Jeff: hey, to each their own. I'm of the "there's no such thing as too big" camp.

Goblins: Your MOM is horrifically disgusting!

Stereo: Some women carry it better than others. A professionally fitted bra certainly helps. But I personally know a girl with J-cups that don't bother her at all, and I personally know another girl whose DD-cups bothered her so much she got them reduced. The fact that Girl A is 5'10" and Girl B was 5'1" probably has something to do with it.

Mensch: She was "originally" only about a G-cup, but two pregnancies later they are the incredible beasts you see today.

Ahhh: on her bio page she used to have G-rated, clothed pictures of herself from infancy through teenage years, but later removed them to avoid falling afoul of any ambiguous indecency laws around the world.

It don't gotta be as secret as all that - I have Burning Man pictures floating around the internet. Just lemme get a couple of those...

https://pics.livejournal.com/currentecalamo/pic/0005ef6e

I was reticent to look, since it might make future exchanges uncomfortable. But, alas, I am a man.

You are absolutely perfect!

Really? What with the dinosaur head and everything? I'm pretty sure that's what they call a physical deformity. Which makes you kind of a fetishist. Or weirdo.

Dinosaur head! What dinosaur head?


Oh

Quote:
fetishist. Or weirdo


Interesting distinction.

Anyway, I had foolishly assumed that the dinosaur head was temporary. I could live with the head if it came with the rest of the package.

I am touched by this... somehow... perhaps all women with dino heads will soon find such acceptance... and maybe... just maybe... the heads won't be made of paper-mâché.

Bless you again, sir.

Rude and rockin'! You made an old man straight.

Those boots look really comfy. Where did you get them?

Out of an old storage unit. They're the most comfortable ever because they were free.

that i was able to view the attractive genitals of a woman is only one of the many reasons im glad that there are exceptional women that post here.

The backing band from the Live Stiffs album
Last Chicken in the Shop)?

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-:

The fuck

My goodness! What a gruesome car accident!

I'm a scrotum enthusiast. Can't really explain it.

Do they make a flowbee for the scrotum? Because shaving the scrotum is definitely fraught with peril. Seems like a flowbee would make an efficient and safe job of it. [IMGS OFF]

Flowbee is NOT a good idea.

Some scrota are pliable enough to be drawn within reach of the reciprocating blades - not a good situation.

Scrobee.

Ugh, don't shave your scrotes, guys. IMHO they look far too...infantile that way.

It's not for looking, dummy. It's... it's magical during intercourse.

Intercourse is magical enough already.

Nutsack grooming etiquette FIGHT!

Google searches for 'Nutsack grooming etiquette FIGHT' - zero (.18 seconds)

i feel the same way about ladies' no-no areas. as far as im concerned, my woman should be trimmed, at least. i like it to be obvious that she is the appropriate age for me.

persoanlly, if i had someone elses comfort to consider, id gladly do some self-landscaping.

there was some study somewhere (anecdotal evidence ahoy!) what said that, given pictures of female monkeys' bottoms, male monkeys would barter with each other over them, trading bananas for dirty monkey pictures.
The moral is, better human asses than monkey asses.

fuck that shit I want the study where the monkeys trade with each other for the actual real monkey asses not the pictures of them or for that matter wheres the study where the monkeys barter their OWN ass for money. Yes I vaguely remember reading something about that study and if I recall they aborted it finally because they decided they were corrupting the morals of the monkeys or some such I'm not 100% but I recall something to that effect. fucking prude scientists!

Dear xi, I have observed the silverback male gorilla in Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo as his harem walks (knuckles?) by. He eyes them, scratched his chin, eyes them some more, and once in a great while, sensing estrus, he mounts one of them. This is programmed male primate behavior. In the case of humans, women don't really go into "heat" in a purple swollen vagina way, so guys gotta be real observant to catch any hint of invitation. Basically, we get mildly aroused just watching the girls go by.

i wonder what sorts of publications C will pump out now that he is experiencing XPress. maybe he'll be wont to put that Shrovis to the test...see what Mr. Teal can really do.

Are you awake 24 hours a day, nachos? I'm only here 'cause I'm on a layover in Amsterdam on my way to Copenhagen.

[IMGS OFF]

I wish I knew what this was from, or was meant to represent.

Kevin Costner is a serial killer with a imaginary firend played by William Hurt. Forget the forgetable film. You could easliy find out, but you are obviously too lazy.

I was confused 'cause I thought they were both Bruce Willis.

Ouch, huge slam on me out of nowhere. Thought we were friends, mang!

In assetbar there are no friends

only winners and losers

i think he was just being matter-of-fact, rather than purposefully rude.

cpnglxynchos is here for you, bluemoon, pretty much 24/7. That's the type of dude he is.

and how.

no, i sleep sometimes. seems to be more during the day than anything, like, oops, i just slept from four to seven. oh well, only three hours, and the part of the morning, too, between six and ten..generally, the usable part of the morning. take a few hours from any of these numbers, though, as they are just a rough representation.

cpnglxynchos this is........ YOUR INTERVENTION

COMRADE_TOM, this is my NOT GIVING A FARTHING BOUT UR CRY CRY FACE

We're here because we love you, all we want is for you to resume normal sleeping patterns (as judged by society) and to think about your children's welfare, lets not start saying things about archaic currency we might later regret.

yay!

Even though I would have liked a one-off as well, this looks kind of promising..

they say you can find anything online but that's not true. I been worreid recently. dunno watsup but am had ma thought preoccupied somethin fierce o l8 so dunno wat dat is. amway. yall be cooL

and you too, glad.

Wish we could help, glad, but it sounds like you should talk to a real live person who has some kind of degree in head stuff, y'know?

dont need no head doctor quack 2 tellin' me abot headcas, dogg

shrinks are headcases themselves. I mean, who works for an insurance company? What kind of insanity drives you to do that?

gladi got the apostrophe right? uncanny.

Hey, sorry to post this in an unrelated strip but I fear it may be lost otherwise. I took a shot at recording Sullivan's Bear and Dried Bird from THIS comic. I've posted it in the comments, both the original guitar-only version and an "appointed" version with a few more instruments.

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I didn't go to a strip, and met a lovely young beauty* with whom I shared a passionate romance which I treasure to this day.


*...who happened to be a stripper.

what happened?

She's your mom.

didnt ur GF get roadraged by like a football team er somethin?

thats a rough chuckle right there, but i think 'roadraged' is a creative and comical metaphor.

oh necessarily

What was a whore doing at a strip club?

Wait...was it 'Amateur Night'?

In Prague the strippers are all whores, which is how it should be.

Naturally, this is in keeping with the "all women are whores" theorem

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... No.

thank you for your opinion.

Stop.

Collaborate.

and listen
Shave gormster's head!

And listen.

your mom is back, and shes washin' my dishes

if you know what i mean ...

Betzte pryctheirateturk! people like you are ruining the Czech republic.

By supporting your immigrant Ukrainian sex workers?

Sex tourism is probably the worst thing to happen to central europe since the formation of the group "The plastic people of the universe" (youtube them if you don't believe me).

You're lying, there's no sex in the champagne room.

But there is sex in the '97 Miata parked around back.

Oh no.

"Oh no," whispered falseprophet, "a mistake ."
He closed the browser window, slid his chair back a small amount, and stared out the window.

I totally saw that scene in my head! How did you do that?

That's good. I was going to comment about falseprophet's misadventures in the back of the '97 Miata.
"Oh no," whispered falseprophet, "Help me, Viagra! You're my only hope!"

"These aren't the woids you're looking for."

So, Chris--it is Chris, isn't it?--what's it like to be a

LIAR

You like being a liar with pants constantly on fire!?

I kept my mouth shut when Dean said he could read Sanskrit...

It is the most natural thing in the world, for a man to wish to view a woman in the nude.

the desire to view a woman in the nude is an abstract desire that encompasses a lot more than merely viewing a woman in the nude. It's part of larger and more complex and dynamic fantasy. Merely viewing a woman in the nude such as at a strip club is lame and boring and is not in any way shape or form a fantasy of mine or of a lot of guys. I think for guys who go to strip clubs, it's a social sort of thing colored by a camaraderie with other guys who are equally as lame, the lameness of said camaraderie being rivaled only by the superficiality, fakeness, and commercial nature of the interaction with the strippers and servers. Guys who go to strip clubs as a principal and recurring form of entertainment probably have fetal alcohol syndrome and/or were left in front of a TV 24x7 for their first 36 months of development. That is my hypothesis.

Holy shit shut up and just enjoy the boobs.

And this is why you are a virgin.

shut up and take off your pants, bitch.

(was that uncalled for? i hope folks dont get the wrong impression of me for posting this...)

The tone is unsuited to the subject.

hee hee

Speaking of female nudity, there's something related to Achewood that I've often wondered. What qualities must a titty possess to be considered "rude"?

rude, dunno. RUUUDE, they gots to be like mine. (DDD)

teodor has some rude titties in this comic.

any questions?

Yes sir. Several.

You have not seen enough if you don't know yet what it is to be ruuuude.

Be honest. None of you know what a rude titty is either, do you?

it's an ugly set of tittes. unappealing. take your mom for instance. no seriously, please, take your mom for instance...

Teodor needs to wear shirts more often. No one needs to see saggy bear moobs.

At least he's concealed from the waist down. Nobody needs to be reminded of how he's hung like a cranberry.

well, the use of "rude", in this case is the same usage that ska dudes employ. it is a synonym for "awesome", "rad", or "extraordinarily pleasing". therefore, it all depends upon an individuals definition of "awesome", "rad", etc... dig?

rude titties are not whatever you think is awesome. if you think saggy grandmom's titties are awesome, if you think prepubescent little girl titties are awesome, you are wrong, these things are not rude.

what is rude is a pair that just makes you uncontrollably UPSET . they are so in-your-face, so bing-blam-jiggly, that you just NEED her to put her clothes back on before you overexert and break your bone. every fiber of your being demands that you mount this female right(!) now(!) and give her the porking that she is so unabashedly asking for that goddamn fucking slut but you are paralyzed. you stare and you stare and you hate yourself and the world for having created titties so begging to be played patty-cake with, yet you are not the man to play this game with her. when you feel this rank admixture of excitement and despair, you will know that you have witnessed titties that were truly rude.

I would imagine the sight of rude titties would make a decent, God-fearing man extremely flustered, and he would have difficulty appropriately greeting a passing clergyman. An indecent, Godless man would merely make a crude honking sound, and jump up and down on the spot with visible excitement. I think.

Daedala_x wins the answer contest.

She knows a rude titty when she sees one, that's for sure.

Alternative euphemism: Uproarious teat.

Tonight at the Pavilion! Rude Titty featuring Uproarious Teat!

And what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

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Shutit, Pimpleboy. You don't know daedala.

That silly story reminds me of this cowgirl I saw in a 7-11 one time in around 1979, she got out of a pickup, some dweeb in tow with her.
The girl was in 1st Magnitude stellar heat. Very cute also. But in such a state of sexual radiance that the bottles in the store were shaking, and the 2 other guys in the store, punks really, were just shaking also. You could feel the heat coming off her in waves of rut, even though she wasn't doing anything odd. Except she came up to the counter and just sort of hung her bluejeaned cunt on the corner.
The clerk was trying to take her order, just stammering.
I was in an off aisle, and stayed there- already had a full hell-drama opera going on in my life, so I didn't need any more weird shit, but she would have ranked right up there. Plus, she was probably an idiot, spoiled little oil-rich kid. But you don't second-guess miracles.
It's like poltergeist stuff with just certain females, and who knows which ones or why?
and there's nothing guys have to compare because guys don't go into heat like females. Only the woman can hook a soul from the other side, with some guy's help, of course, but we're talking flat-out magic here, nothing less.
And when they do it, sometimes it's supernatural.
At certain times in their life, certain chicks can bring other dimensions just crashing the party, just become the center of the cosmos.

Christ, that was 30 years ago, so most likely her tits are sagging and she's a Grannie, because that's the game of Time and no one gets a pass.
She was a hellfire angel-looking bitch that day, though.

so, the kind of chick that a cowboy would voluntarily take his hat off just to have a chance to eat?

you're the genuine article scorpio. i always did enjoy your stories.

nowadays though, such a scenario is the stuff of levis and axe commercials. what i wouldn't give to live in a time without networking sites and standard-issue internet porn addictions.

I assure you my electronic satyriasis is highly unorthodox.

Just close the laptop lid and say no, sweetie. The world is still out there.

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I might as well just quit reading anything for the rest of my life, because I'm probably never going to see a sentence as great as this one anywhere.

Good god, tekende where the hell you been. It was a littlestore over on South Western, where the street kinda goes from 4 lane to rural you know, south of where that monster tornado ripped through Moore....or I dunno, it might have took it out too like Delphi too sacred for profane mortals to buy junk food day in day out...

I'd bet if you took an estrogen radiation detector over there, that thing would still be getting hits "bing-bing-bing-bing."

So much for the one-offs you LYING BITCH .

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dude in the green suit just got STOLE!

I would've read the HELL out of that book the way Cornelius initially drafted it.

all like, what a ripping good laugh that i am reading this sort of thing at the Club...they would never suspect that it is about stripping. oh what a clever little dickie i am.

then somebody would read the gold writing on the spine or the cover when you sat it down to use the facilities and you're carted off in arms by Jamesworth and George of Boise before you finish relieving yourself.

Yes- I was about to post "I for one would prefer the original, hypothetical document"

Then I realized- I for one? More like "I and a substantial contingent of like minded codgers"

The Brown Jug was the name of my college humor magazine. Not sure what to think of this, now.

Refers to moonshine whiskey, not boobs, methinks. But the idea of slave boobies does resonate.

there is a run-down, trashy, redneck bar around here call 'the jug'. it doesnt have a 'nudity license', though.

Christ Teodor, put on a goddamn shirt.

Maybe some pants too.

(Wherein I over-analyse the trouser situation of a stuffed cartoon bear on the internet.)

I think Téodor (pre-emptive SCREW YOU, ASSETBAR! FUCK YOU!) may actually be wearing trousers, though what looks, to me, like it might be the waistline of said trousers could also be but the lower edge of his paunch.

If you however look at, say, his right (our left) hand in the first panel 1, you will spy a tiny line-dot thing immediately to its left, which would appear to be part of the same line that denotes his sagging belly %u2013 or perhaps such as the waistline of his trousers! It is not clear. I will be pro-breeches, should a position be required to be taken in this particular matter, simply because it affords me some peace of mind, and I think this is something worth assuming the bear is wearing trousers for regardless of what the facts boil down to.

Oh man, I managed to mess up not in one place but in two . That is what I get for my recklessness, tampering with things that are well beyond the ken of man. I will now go commit honourable seppuku.

"Honourable seppuku" may be a bit redundant - seppuku is always honorable. It is a way to salvage honor from any situation. (e.g., your mom catches you jerking off on your baby sister -- commit seppuku and they will only speak of you honorably)

Oh, but sis had it coming - we were playing pool and she grabbed my balls.

She was just following your cue.

Right into his side pocket.

A lucky break.

First thing I noticed was the nice rack.

Gotta say, Cornelius took that rude ass criticism in stride.

A would read again. Thanks Chris.

B would wait to C what was next.

assetbar hates plus symbols man

Are those symbols that shop at Lane Bryant?

Cornelius has his wine at hand.

It will take more than a finger of grappa to get you through this one, Cornelius.

Do we know it's wine? It might be Amaro Erbes. Or the blood of a chicken. On a serious note, I don't see Cornelius as the sort of person who drinks wine between meals.

I was going to give this a 3, but the solitary Old English font character made me laugh out loud. So I gave it a 4.

doesnt take much, does it?

I use Quark XPress. It is, indeed, an indulgent little vixen.

Quark Xpress sucks a sack of cat dicks.

Your claim is ... ambiguous.

im not sure what youre trying to convey here, dude...

One at a time, in order of aroma. Better?

Ew

i will constantly misread that as 'butter'.

I would read the first version and not the second.

classic onstad. sweet.

Nice one-off. KEEP IT THAT WAY.

I've been missing Cornelius. And Polly, for that matter.

that's what it's come to. even the characters themselves can't keep track anymore what the fuck is going on in this strip.

next time: "Sorry. Is Roast Beef still... depressed?"

the time after: "Sorry. Is Phillipe still... five?"

"Hi!"


"Yes!"

Teodor is a fucking liar. First result in Google for "strip club protocol": https://www.errtravel.com/archive/20050727.htm

That's too many lies today. I'm gonna go curl up somewhere dark and cry.

Why don't you setup an https proxy into Achewood and do a Google search from there before you go around calling an imaginary cat a liar. Sheesh, lazy .

Teodor is an imaginary stuffed bear, duh .

Sometimes you need to suspend disbelief.


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My head is now a giant egg!

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Whaaa!


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apologies to dybrar

I'll tell you what bumped this one up to a '2' for me.

Actually, I can't think of anything, but a '1' seemed needlessly cruel.

Oh thank God, I can understand whats going on again.

Wait till the next installment, it'll probably involve a jalopy, dispensational premillenialism and large untranslated blocks of text in old norse urging a return to the gold standard.

The upshot of it all will be we finally find out who ate Ray's damn nachos.

i ate the nachos, so what? wannafideaboudit?

Yes.

then we are fighting so hard

until you are so nude ...

NUDE RUMBLE
a special "Hot-Tub Brawls" presentation

Whoah, when did this turn into a nude rumble? I thought we were just engaging in gentlemanly fisticuffs.

well, are you a gentleman ..?

You dare question my dignity?

i do not question your gentility, but i question your man-ness.

Good call, bro.

i still love you.

You make one comment about the convoluted nature of a previous arc and suddenly you jerks have to turn it into some sort of aristocratic naked pugilism festival.

I'll be in my trailer.

Do you not like things that are good?

Good, it appears, is a subjective concept.

hearts stream from his fingertips
as he types, thinking of thegoblins' lips
so soft and warm, and full of lust
he thinks, "I'll tell her now...I must."

But my heart is broke.

my words (these rhymes,)
your heart will find.

not too great.
but not that bad.
just feelings that i had..ve.

my emotions for you are like two thousand banging hammers what destroy worry like Tim Taylor in a re-run of Home Improvement,
and nobody can take that away from me, and though i can't prove it,
you must know that what i say is true
in this verse i scribble to you.
make no mistake that though these words end,
the feelings we share never will.

cpnglxynchos. What a creeper.

but a sweet and literate one, no doubt.

You had her at Tim Taylor re-run.



AEUUURGH

Hey, if you don't want him, I'll take him!

hella mixed signals from you. dang. it's like you're not sure if you want me to blow up your house or not!!

(i would not do this.)

-try what I did. $500

is this a euphemism for "cause you to have an extremely powerful orgasm"?

$500

Any sort of orgasm would totes be nice. I'm sick of waiting for some magical shiny prince.

I could recommend a good robot...

Does it have a crown? Will it crown me?

You know you can blow up my house any day. Er...

"Juice Bar? Head massage? Orgasm? But those are everything I stand against!"
-Mark Corrigan: Loan Manager JLB Credit

genitility?

i know, right?

haha! thats a term about dicks...

Nah, fuhgeddaboudit.

I Will Learn From These Upcoming Strips.

I Will Learn Or Perish.

Teodor is in the nude, while Cornelius is dressed to a T.

I'm probably going to get lamed to hell for being stupid, but how do you see a strip's rating?

You'll need to ask R. Beef Kazenzakis.

C. R. Beef Kazenzakis.

Esq.

who?

listen, commoner, there is no way to view the ratings. we don't know why that vestigial section still exists. well, to be truthful, your own rating is visible, but the popular vote is hidden.

nobody knows why.

thanks

Strip clubs, where the reality of the male/female divide is brutally exposed. I would rather see my wife walk by in her oldest robe than see some tart squirming around a pole.

Strip clubs - the ladies are all multi-tasking while the gentlemen are demonstrating their superior spatial awareness.

Women all giving up glittering careers as doctors and lawyers to have children. Their colleagues are disappointed, but they've seen it happen before. The men seem like loving fathers and husbands, but they get caught screwing the office temp in hotel rooms. Two lives drifting apart thanks to ultimately irreconcilable hopes and dreams.

Chubbied for your quaint matrimonial fidelity.

Just married, are you?

Strip clubs, where the reality of the male/female divide is brutally exposed. I would rather see my wife walk by in her oldest robe than see some tart squirming around a pole.

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Me too -- if her oldest robe is 3-years and she got it on her twelfth birthday.

Heeeasy now


Oh goody gumdrops, another 3-month arc starting. Don't tell me, this time Corny meets CH in a (rude) titty bar and incurs the lap of Thanatos.

I dearly hope not. I cannot stand another long-winded arc.

I heard if you have the Lap of Thanatos for more than 24 hours straight, your Magistrate of the Quaternary falls off.

I did not know that
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Who will be Cremaster of Ceremonies this time?

This time?

This fellow.
[IMGS OFF]

I had an awful vision of Josh Groban singing "You Raise Me Up" as his balls ascend and his penis erects. Fuck that emotionless twat.

Who will be Cremaster of Ceremonies this time?

Or this time?

that time

3/4 time

oomp bap bap oomp bap bap

praw praw praw praaawwww

This spermatic cord joke brought to you by...

double posting.

Wait, Corny? Please don't call him Corny.

way to follow your heart and get back to an arc. fuck haters and keep making art, Chris.

Bah! What the hell is Teodor thinking! I would much prefer to read the Dicreet Primer.

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Somewhere, Todd and Nice Pete are doing something incredibly interesting.

that somewhere must be awesome

Hey w w w wait a minute, this isn't f f f frikken White Castle!

We can only dream, Tom, my comrade. We can only dream.

[IMGS OFF]

Despite previous comments, this looks to be awesome.

How would you know when you don't even have any eyes, Pikachu.

HOW DO YOU TALK

I'm beaming my thoughts directly into your brain.

onstad, what are you trying to say with this continuous theme of cornelius writing some sexually related crap at the behest of some other less talented character?

is this the real backstory on achewood? are rays and teodors in your own life putting you up to pushing more achewood strips out?

speak up chris, you have a posse now and we can help if you just ask for it

thats true I have a van with painted over windows and I know how to use it

I thought you sold your van and bought a hyundai?

no I just have a van. But that's good. I should respond:
"Where YOU been? You still working out at the airport?"

And you would be copying Tom Waits' rejoinder to a heckler just before "Gun Street Girl" by doing so.

the more i think about it (unhealthy, yes) the more i think that some sinister force is behind onstad's introduction of this arc.

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tone not matching subject

those look like the words of a man who has some behind the scenes puppet master controlling his actions, forcing him to pump out more cornelius related sexual material after abandoning the subject in favor of the Lash of Thanatos.

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thanks for not implementing comment edit you assholes

OR AT LEAST A FUCKING PREVIEW

I know you've been around a while, neonfreon, but if you don't get a preview before you post you are small time.

assetwhoreista has preview. i dont know why neonfreon wouldnt be using it.

weird don't see a preview here

oh ok i see it now i had to be living on the edge

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thanks for not implementing comment edit you assholes


Thanks for spelling "quote" "q-o-u-t-e" asshole.

Lovin' the "chummy little sound"

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Sure, but I always get kicked out of the club (who knew that "nude" applied to women only).

oh look a achewood comic about men having things to say about women

In panel 10, Teodor has either lost a contact lens or is asking you to use your imagination and pretend he is a pirate.

It was Talk Like a Pirate Day, and only Teodor arrgghed.

well, that's lame.


i want Prowl Like A Ninja Night.

booyah.

How would you be able to see if anyone else participated in Prowl-Like-A-Ninja Night?

You would just KNOW.

DUHHHHHHHHHH

your scream would be cut short before anyone heard

he was going to say "DUCK"

I find it funny whenever T is half or fully naked for no apparent reason. No one else has this affinity for nudity like he does.

Teodor is down to his underpants and asking about titty bars.
Oh no-
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW put it away fella

FUCK it says "continues"! FUCK I didn't see that earlier! FUCK! GODDAMN IT! FUCK!

so I was hanging out with a friend lately and his girl friend and I was rather appalled on numerous occasions by how much my friend is a dick towards other people mostly his girl friend when he doesn't get his own way or when he finds someone being critical of some aspect of his behavior, such criticism being part and parcel of a relationship. He becomes a total dick to the point that I characterize it as psychologically and emotionally abusive, and it's just gonna fuck up his relationship with his girlfriend in the long run and/or fuck up both him and his girl friend on a psychological level in the long run even more than they already are. It's weird cause my friend is such a nice and sensitive guy but then there is this other side to his personality that I see emerging that is rooted in some kind of selfish inner discontent or whatnot, I don't know I'm not a shrink, but in any case, I just don't want to hang around my friend any more. I tried to tell my friend how I feel but he didn't get it I guess. he said I am insane and he said all of my criticisms are bullshit. He hasn't called me on the phone or sent me any e-mail since. And I really don't feel like calling him anymore. I like the guy, but I guess I've accepted that he's also a dick and there's nothing I can do about it. Well I guess I could try to get him to go on Jenny Jones with me or I could try this or try that, but I guess I am realizing also that I just don't have the energy and time for that. It's sad, really, but that's the life we live these days in modern America. You spend so much time and energy just trying to survive, just trying to fight off the wolves that are the modern corporations always at the door, stealing more and more until it gets to the point where you can find yourself, along with so many others, working 65 hours a week just to survive, and still not be able to provide basic adequate health care and education for your children. I don't have kids, and I sure as fuck wouldn't have kids in this country. It's not a country where you can get by being an honest worker. No. You've got to go into management if you hope to make it. You've got to either buy into the manager's guild, paying your dues, or you've got to buy into the engineer's franchise, an exclusive clique of people who design shit in the most ass-backwards way, and who control the design of everything. Fuck all of this. I'm at the point where homelessness isn't looking too bad compared to the alternative of working my whole life for corporate America. Sure, maybe I'll go to art school, but if I'm not able to swing that, then fuck it, destitution seems like a good second alternative. There are many definitions of freedom, and one is that it's when you've got nothing left to lose, and damnit, one way or another, I want freedom. I can't keep going on working some fucking job chasing after the lies of corporate America. "Arbeit macht frei." Fuck that shit.

i live with a couple just like that. but will i say anything? no. and it could end up just like this .

Man that block of text is so big it probably has a seat on the UN security council and opinions about the SALT 2 treaties.

Man that block of text is so big I was bored by the time I saw the font.

Amen!Preach it brother!

That block of text is so big when it sits around the house, it sits AROUND the house!

Your block of text is so big it beeps when reversing.

Your block of text is so huge, some hungry looking icelandic guys approached it thinking it was a beached whale.

Yo block a text so big people think it a breakaway republic from YO MAMMA!

You block of text is so huge a whale thought it was Iceland and tried to beach itself.

Very well put. It is a fucking nightmare, but do not despair. The answer has been right in front of us ever since 1924. https://douglassocialcredit.com/douglas.php

Social Credit would solve everything.

Social Credis does not solve the problem of the toxicity of milk, or Al Qaida.

And Social Credit doesn't, either.

Or al-Qaeda.

YEAH, AL QAIDA .

SUCK IT DUDE ETC

OR WHATEVER YA KNOW

Assetbar DARES you to write it in Arabic script.

Al Nevir Du-Dhat az-Lohngaz Aeliv.

well is there like a liberty dollar for social credit?

in related news I've decided not to accept paypal on my ebay auctions anymore. man, paypal sucks. buncha morons.

Livejournal is that way --- >

Curses and drat, I didn't scroll enough.

the only proper way to raise a kid and give her everything she needs is to have 6 figures and a house on the hill. obviously.

Nicely played.

Try this .

Would you buy a book about strip club etiquette by a guy who took his nom de plume from a McDonalds promotion where they associated their "family" restaurant with a killer pimp?

How do you select a font on a manual typewriter anyway?

Very, very carefully

With bells on. Make it snappy.

You buy a new typewriter, I think.

As probably the youngest person on this board who used a typewriter to type a few reports for grade school before DER COMPOOTER took over, I have to say, there is a feeling that the young 'uns will never have.

A feeling of walking up to the Family IBM Selectric with a careful approach and gingerly pulling off the vinyl slipcover (which was already starting to fray at the edges) and catching that delicate whiff of machined metal, gear grease, and the chemical tang of the typewriter ribbon...

Digging into a ream of 20 lb paper that your mother bought from a stationary store (because really, who's ever going to go to a stationary store and buy a full case?) and carefully flipping up the paper bail, easing the paper to the back of the carriage ...

A SCRUNCH SCRUNCH as your wrist twists and the paper gets sucked into the innards and spun out under the bail, which falls backwards with a slight tink! onto its rubber wheels with the paper nestled between the bail and the platen...

The Selectric clicks to life with a subtle bee drone of HUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNN as you hit the return key a few times, check the margins, and then..

TYPE, and CRAK CRAK CRAKs begin to echo as the Selectric Ball (which you could take out and change, depending on whether you wanted Courier or Courier Italic or, (shudder) something else {*} , and the paper begins to take shape. The drone of the typewriter, the sharp bangs as the ball hitting the ribbon, slapping the paper...the smell of the Whiteout and fun of lining up the cellophane correction slips to overstrike the letters that you accidentally hit...

You eventually finish, pull the paper from the platen, switch off the typewriter (the drone disappearing abruptly) and re-covered it...

And there it sat, like a cloaked Buddha, waiting to be the tool and the instrument of half-researched science reports on toadstools and poor attempts at E. E. Cummings-esque poetry because it looked so cool laid out on the page; the words sliding like drunks on ice across a phantom line...

Like drunks on ice.

So you change fonts by fiddling with your balls? Who knew! We had an ancient Remington, you used to have to really thump down on I O P K L and the colon/semi-colon keys and the capital Y didn't have a tail. The strikers would get jammed together if you typed too fast. We mostly used it for offical letters, loan extentions job applications and the like. I wrote most of my school work long hand until we got the C=64. I used that until '95.

I was very fortunate in that my dad bought one of the first Macs in 1983. He was debating between a Macintosh and a Lisa. He went Mac. I was 10. Lucky me! First kid in my school with a personal computer.

a Lisa would have been used, no? It was discontinued I thought before the Mac came out in 1984. which means your dad couldn't have bought one in 1983. The Lisa was essentially the first Mac.

My first early years of school (HELL of early, because I am a young'un indeed), I wrote 99% of work by hand, but every once in a while a Major Report came with the treat of typing (with help) on my aunt's typewriter. Don't know the name, model, or any of that, but I remember being puzzled at the lack of a backspace key and of course the smell of the ink (or whatever other fluid it was). That's one of those Childhood Things, for me, in the olfactory department: typewriter fluid, the way the apartment smelled after the fire the floor above us, the same aunt's garden (in the only yard with grass on the block), another aunt's hairspray. I think floppy disks have a smell too. AH CHILDHOOD. How young is too young to be nostalgic?

tldr

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oh onstadt

dear Assetbar,

we had our first snow today. it started out as rain, then turned into the white stuff. it was heavy and wet like Sierra Cement but didn't stick to anything. it's the second first snow i've experienced out of the house of my childhood. it is weird to not sit at the kitchen table and watch it fall on the fog-occluded mountain in my backyard with mom. i figure it'll feel that way for a while. amways, i didn't have anyone else to tell that would care, and y'all're some of my friends, so yeah, assetbar..

we had our first snow today...and from where i'm sitting, that's alright.

It didn't rain here today. The sky is like the inside of a Wedgewood bowl and I can look in all directions for over 10km without a rise in the ground.
It's beautiful in its way, but by God I miss mountains (and snow.)
I envy you nach and that's why I chubbied you.

those are the nights, aren't they? the ones spent with fam, everyone reading by low light, a fire crackling, making you wish you had a fireplace...

.. Gramps catching all the little kids and taking them up for their baths. Gran in the kitchen baking cookies for supper. Gramps in the garage fixing the lawn mower...

Hang on a minute

hold your anatomy...who eats cookies for supper?

alternatively, a story; my grandpa used to threaten to give my sister baths all the time! humorous!

In the antipodes we eat when we can.

Where do you live that it snows in September?
You must understand that I live in London and the prospect of snow before late January is mind-blowing for me.

SOMEONE LIVES SOMEPLACE ELSE AN WEATHER IS DIFF THAN WHERE U R NO WAY HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE ITS LIKE THE EARTH IS BIGGER THAN LONDON OR SOMTHIN LOL!

I appreciate that. However, given that I was in Reykjavik (world's most northerly capital) a couple of weeks ago, and there was a fairly persistent mild drizzle and the temperatures were nowhere near freezing, I was interested as to where Cpn(etc) hails from.

You have made me defensive gladi8orrex. I don't want to be thought of badly by you.

2 fuckin' l8

NOBODY GIVES A SHIT ABOT UR RAIN RAIN TEMPERATE ZONE

oh, Colorado, mostly. sometimes i make little jaunts for the Caribbean, but those are mostly just for photo shoots and i'm back the next day or so. (what a lie.)

It was great. All the skiiers and snowboarders were cheering, and I was whimpering, knowing that the inevitable clutch of wintry terror will soon be upon us.

It begins.

the snow is fine if it is up there. not when i'm shoveling the two feet of partly-cloudy 9News forgot to report out of my huge driveway.

NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT UR HIGH HIGH PLACE

2 l8.

dear Assetbar,

Showgirls is an awesome film. nobody agrees with me, but i know i am right based on how it makes me feel.

remember n backdraft when baldwin was fight teh fire there at the end alla by hisself? such a powerful scene. i i got misty eyed when saw for first time was like 'woah'

unblinking, they await Philippe's help.

Showgirls is a film that reminds you that vaginas bleed.

Carrie reminds you that "first comes the blood and then come the boys - like sniffing dogs."

I demand a better quality of writing from someone who has entertained me for free for several years, or else I shall take my patronage elsewhere.

Good DAY to you, sir.

I'd very much like to reply to your comment, gyrate. Do you have a Paypal where I can deposit some money first?

And nothing of value was lost.

This momentary diversion on the road to the grave has become an all out trek by the looks of things.

Also, "pasties and a g-string" by tom waits comes to mind reading this strip.

"...and I'm getting harder than Chinese algebra."


I love Wondermark, and I love Achewood, but I'm not sure if I like quite as much Achewood in my Wondermark as I'm getting today .

From now on all my genre fictions will take place in a leather-clad Atlantis. I'm serious. I've spent the past twenty minutes drawing pictures and they are awesome.

I also think it's somewhat cruel that the machine has to be hydrocephalic in order to work.

Oh, truly wondrous thing, this Electro-plasmic Hydrocephalic Genre-Fiction Generator, old bean!

Let%u2019s give 'er a whirl:

In a metaphorical Outer Rim world, a young wisecracking mercenary stumbles across a magic diadem, which spurs him into conflict with murderous robots with the help of a shape-shifting female assassin and her cleavage, culminating in an invocation spell at the last possible moment.

Forgot to add the title: Aerodroid

Do not ask the dancer where her coin-slot is located; anything below a dollar is just a smack in the face. Instead, ask whether or not the ATM in her craw does 5$-and-below withdrawals.

If you will permit me, sir, I am going to chubby the everloving fuck out of your avatar.

(What I mean, is, the record described by your avatar is fucking awesome)

Where are Teodor's battle scars? Whoever stitched up this bear is a virtuoso of tailordom.

I like how T is inexplicably naked.

I like to think he is holding up a towel at his hips.

I like to think he is wearing a piece of string around his waist with a gourd attached.

I like to think he is growing a lichen belt.

This is an ideal idea. I clink glasses with you.

he was just in his room. what's up, guys?

hi

i am wondering why the hell I cant track the god damn package I shipped today. I printed out a shipping thingy with my fedex account, I taped it to the package, and I dropped the package off at a fedex location. the dude scanned it and said everything was cool.

I go to fedex.com, I log in, I go to track using my fedex, it shows me a tab that says advanced tracking, wherein it says "no results found."

that's not very f---ing advanced, is it? what the f--- do you people do all day? because you obviously aren't working on running a business that ships packages for customers. is this a front for a cocaine smuggling operation? do you all spend all day gambling on the internet? watching south park? What the hell is going on? Obviously you arent spending any god damn time at all on your web site, because if you spent any god damn time at all on your web site, the first god damn idea that would come into your mind would be this:

maybe when a customer ships a package, they might want to be able to track that package, and they might even want to specify an e-mail address to which to send tracking updates. just maybe.

holy f---ing sh1t!!!! what the f--- do you do with all the f--- money that people give you? what do you do with it? couldn't you hire one f------ person and ask that person to make a f------ web site for you that lets a customer not only ship a package, but track the package also? couldn't you do that? You can't spare 60k a year to hire one god damned person who knows how to make a web site? That's too much to ask?

Customer Support
Write to FedEx
Thank you for your comments. We're working harder to better serve you.

This isn't a customer service forum AIU. Once again you show an inability to shrug off life's disapointments and say "whatever". SHIT HAPPENS, GET OVER IT, NOBODY GIBS A SHIT ABOT YUR CRY CRY FACE, really nobody does. Nobody.

i remember when you could only receive tracking updates via US mail

man up sissy boy

well maybe you wimps ENJOY getting kicked in the balls, I don't know.

look at it this way guys: If everyone in every job in every company, and also everyone acting in every capacity whatsoever, such as public servant, etc, acts like a complete frickin moron ALL THE TIME, and is allowed to get away with it, that is the definition of a third world country. We're talking Mexico or worse.

But anyway. Go ahead. Smoke some more dope and watch some more TV and jack off to some more porn because obviously the above proposed theoretical framework doesn't get enough endolphins pumping through your brain to be worth your time and effort. You're all a bunch of f-f-f-frickn' Mexicans!

Right. Mexicans don't spend their lives complaining about their Fedex shipments. They know what is important, namely NOTHING!! Viva la raza!

fuck you you fumb ducking bitch

Dude, take a chill pill!
[IMGS OFF]

Meeeoooow!

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Smoke some more dope and watch some more TV and jack off to some more porn

Ok.

I remember when you could only track your parcels by the different types of arrows on the saddle when the pony staggered home.

Good times. I bought a laptop battery off Amazon on a Saturday afternoon via U.S.P.S. a few weeks ago, and it got here Monday afternoon. ( shipped out of California)
2 days, half of one was Saturday, one was Sunday. When they say Priority, they wusn't fuckin around.

I like to fell backwards out my chair.

Fedex won't tell you where it is. If you want tracking,use UPS.

Oh, and-

GET OVER IT, NOBODY GIBS A SHIT ABOT YUR CRY CRY FACE

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Oh dear... as I recall, the whole "Sapphic Erotica/Doomed-cat-in-karma-machine/pamphlet-giving-Ray-an-unscheduled-lobotomy" arc began with Cornelius at a typewriter...

Yes, all arcs will now permanently start with Cornelius typing.

Soon he'll be the new face of Stephen J. Cannell productions.

Sorry, that's already been occupied by Philippe:
[IMGS OFF]

Not enough cubbies in the world for that!

...or "chubbies" for that matter...

Oh shit of course!
In that case, I'll have to picture him in place of Jerry Lewis in the typewriter scene out Who's Minding The Store.

Cornelius, that is.

to chubby again or not to...

as if that's even a question...

Dude, you could totally just get away with posting this in another strip, and you should. Nobody would get mad at you for re-posting, and it should be viewed by many more people! This is too good to waste!

he didnt look THAT hard...

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