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Philippe: London day One Thursday, April 8, 2004 • read strip Viewing 54 comments:

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he is five.

and travel is an enriching experience for a youngster such as himself, and he deserves it, on account of how rad he is. okay?

Not to seem like I'm trying to get a comment as near as possible to the top of the page while replying to an 11 month old asset, but this was kind of a disproportionately defensive response to a comment that was basically "This series of strips is really cool. Boy! I wish I traveled more."

I guess my point is, I know it's asherdan, but don't be a dick to him if he wasn't a dick in the first place. Okay?

Slalvation doesn't even come here anymore.

Tanks for your comments but it would have made me happy if someone had made the little cognitive jump in that simple little post between Philippe traveling not getting old and Philippe not getting old...and played with that theme a little.

Ah well, I prolly expect too much. Some straight lines go unanswered.

Asherdan, you continue to measure others against your own towering intellect, and make the mistake of expecting them to measure up. It's your single fault, I believe.

You know, asherdan, I've noticed that your replies to your admirers, as they were, often mention dissatisfaction with someone "not picking up" on some semi-covert joke, message or tangent in your original post.

I'm being sincere when I ask this (I'm someone who has never lamed, chubbied, or replied to you, as far as I can remember): do you think that it's the consistent failure of the people responding, or that these type of cryptic comments aren't as clever as you might think they are?

Simple: both.

I think you're off on the consistent failure angle, though. Oft times people do pick up on that stuff and take off with it in their own direction. Sometimes they don't and, as said, the problem is probably a mix to various degrees of both delivery and readers.

ALSO: 'Admirers' WTF.

ALSO ALSO: What is a comment system on the foibles of cartoon characters for other than semi-covert jokes, tangents and messages to the insiders ?

Another example:

Sometimes they are very simple and people just fuck 'em up.

I'm not exactly sure why you stick around if we frustrate you so much. Why don't you just OH GOD I TRIED BEING NICE I TRIED SO HARD

Grrrr! You fictional people make me so angry! Grrrr!

You get my drift yet?

Tanks for the nicety attempt.


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Good avatar/post symmetry never gets old

God DAMNIT, that should be synergy.

Kermit doesn't say swears. Bad avatar/post synergy, dude.

Kermit totally says swears when the cameras aren't on him.

Damn - Philippe is only 45miles from my house!

And considerably less from mine (like one red bus-journey away).
... And that guy does sorta look a bit like Ricky Gervais.
........ I went to the same University as Ricky Gervais... and passed him in the street twice. He looked kinda p!ssed off the second time.

Why? What'd you do the first time?

I think Gervais is often quite unhappy.

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Maybe

Really, really not.

Amended:

Ricky Gervais in The Office is god.

Extras is fantastic, as well.

I was tempted to give this strip a 1, simply because I hate even knowing that a Rod Stewart musical exists. I refrained.

Man, when I first saw it I thought it was a Neil Young show... then I saw the four words that caused my head to implode, "The Rod Stewart Musical."

"by Ben Elton"

Know your enemy.

TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT

I met Gin and Beer, they live among armour.

To Americans, anyone older than Ricky Gervais may as well be Ricky Gervais' dad. That is, if they're not John Cleese.

In regards to Britons, that is.

Either that, or that guy just looks a lot like Ricky Gervais. That was my first impression before I read the caption.

The large shoe, it will crush us all.

So I'm wondering if Onstad explained the relevance of the stuffed animal, or just pressed it on people and took their pictures. Just another crazy 'merican.

i think this type of comic is probably very popular in britain, so they probably already knew the significance

though at this point no one knew what onstad looked like..

damn, i don't know

I like the idea that the minute he steps down onto British tarmac, he's surrounded by delirious crowds waving Roast Beef banners and screaming 'ONSTAAAAD!'. Teenage girls fainting, policemen in flourescent jackets vainly trying to hold back the hordes, elderly folk having heart attacks through sheer joy.

On behalf of the British Isles, I would like to apologise sincerely for things not being so. We're trying to sort it out in time for the Olympics.

Does the Rod Stewart appear bemammaried to anyone else?

Also it is wearing high heels. Also it is a girl. Also it is not Rod Stewart. ...but why???

This is my question as well.

The lady is running away from either Rod Stewart or the Musical.

Maybe the musical is about ladies running away from Rod Stewart.

Wait, Maggie! Come back! Maggie I couldn't have tried any haaaaarrrdderr!

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(I'm hoping that I fuck this up pretty bad so saulbellow will make fun of me again.)

YES

Wait, what? What? What's going on?

I had attempted to bury that as a BBCode test when I did a post a while back using peoples' avaconatards. But it was discovered.

you should've put it on the semi-secret strip.

Nothing stays buried long 'round here.