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Ray Rhymes About the Internet Tuesday, July 22, 2003 • read strip Viewing 41 comments:

ray is old school.

...but still throws in the Wesley Willis reference. Wesley died happy less than a month later.

Glad someone else recognized it!

You are a cartoon cat
You are a player to the max
You can really whip a party's ass
You are a good person.

Ray Smuckles!
Ray Smuckles!
Ray Smuckles!
Ray Smuckles!


Rock over TCP/IP, Rock on XML
Subway, eat fresh.

*breaks out the keyboard and prepares for a headbutting*

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C'mon. They're both pretty good. I'm just glad this strip didn't come out anytime within the last few months. There'd be, like, three hundred of these.

When Ray is about to take someone to school , he closes a book with a THWUP.

the THWUP of the book definitely makes the strip for me.

I like how he's reading a pamphlet in the first three frames, then it suddenly turns into a hardcover tome when he shuts it.

He's so determined that the University Application Form becomes a final year Dentistry Text.

The internet is a magical place.

I wait for the day when I can defend the internet by doing the Charleston

Ray has won many an unregulated street-dance Battle with his 'step to me' Charleston.

I find it more than a little scary. Breaking out this move on LN was perhaps too ill.

[Ray seemed to regret this at the time, but may come to regret it further if he ever notices that LN has been blunderbussed into the afterlife. At the time of posting, it's been a couple of months since the wedding and no-one seems to have twigged. What did they do with the body, anyway?]

Don't you know anything ! When you shoot someone they go back in time approximately 400 years.

this would have been the perfect b-side to "pop that pussy"

Anyone have a link to that Iranian horsemurder video? Message me over this, however it is that you do that.

It is a good job I read this comment, because previously I had always read it as an Italian shooting a horse in the head. This is not Ray's fault.

Mmm no. Think darker and slightly less savage.

The Internet knows when you have broken a promise.

Rays rhymes do not seem to explain why he has mad respect for the internet

Ray has made respect for the internet Yes he does

Ray couldn't put it on the internet if it wasn't true.

His rhyming prowess is topped only by his non-rhyming prowess.

The dance kills me everytime.

wesley willis!

Man, I love pop culture...

...sigh.

And just what is that supposed to mean?

Just keep walking, Snowman. He's not worth it.

Okay, as much as I hate to expose my lack of Intarwebz knowledge, can someone please tell me (in layman's terms, please) what TCP/IP and XML are? I've heard these terms, I just have no idea what they mean.

TCP/IP is The Chubby Puppy/Icky Puppy and refers to a series of children's books written in the late 1980s by Beverly Cleary, who was attempting to break away from her Ramona Quimby and Henry Huggins books. The books didn't sell terribly well, and she proceeded to write Ramona Quimby, Age 16 . Its frank sexual content upset many parents and Cleary entered a downward spiral both professionally and personally. Eventually she killed herself.


XML stands for Xylophone, My Love. It's slang for the computer code behind the Microsoft Office paperclip guy.

What these things have to do with the internet, I haven't the foggiest.

Fuck me, someone give this man MORE CHUBBIES. This is my Chubby Lure.

Holy shit. I don't even remember making this comment, but there it is. I must have been insane six months ago.

I am pretty sure you were just channeling Lie Bot.

You can look like a gorilla or a dragon or a giant talking penis on the internet. Spend five minutes on it and you will see all of these.

HOLY HELL WHAT DO I LOOK LIKE??

Internets gone and meta-morphosized my ass.

Ray got mad respect for the internet.

Hmmm...I always thought the internet was a series of tubes. Guess I was wrong.

I've never seen anyone do that particular dance with the same intensity as Ray.