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Beef's depressing celebrity-obituary job Tuesday, July 11, 2006 • read strip Viewing 53 comments:

that technique works pretty well, trust me

Nice to see Molly get the punchline

Play "Misty Eyes" for me.

I like the idea of putting on a tie to show approval so much that I will now carry one in my back pocket at all times.

So, eight months on, are you still doing this? Inquiring minds want to know.

I did until I discovered that a dark blue tie hanging out of your back pocket denotes a willingness to partake in certain activities in a certain part of town.

Heh, that is indeed rather unfortunate.

That is hilariously unfortunate.

And somewhere there was a certain someone who took it personally.

"Get this, he said he kept the tie in his back pocket in case someone served him an excellent meal. Why couldn't he just say I wasn't his type?"

There are much less tasteful ways of being indecently propositioned.

DC

I find it difficult to believe that this joke wasn't planned ahead of time. But I believe anyway; I believe because I love you.

I dunno, man, a year between setup and punchline? That'd be some serious dedication there.

And that's a good thing because I don't love him that much.

Dudes who are like 89 and have extremely red watery eyes are not long for this world, studies show.

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Dead children really get Roast Beef down.

Nolan on the other hand...

[IMGS OFF]

they get everyone(that has a soul) down......

Yeah, dead children are kind of jerks.

Okay, but when he says the money is "fairly hot," what does that mean? Is it enough that I could quit my current job?

Alt Text: When you're new you never get the Hopes and the Spellings.

I was just about say I missed Molly.

i miss your mom.

man i totally forgot until right now that molly used to be dead and her and beef met in heaven and used to get along.

Every time beef sees a child, he can't help imagining them dying :(

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Naah, I think she's just trying to convince him that the job's no good for him. Sure, he's trying to support himself and Molly, but she's pointing out that even after considering the "fairly hot at least" money, the job will take enough of an emotional toll on him that it'll be a net loss.

Why would I write something like that? I rescind my antique comment. Beef, don't take a job you don't like when there are plenty who will.

Children are pretty awful.

Chubby for rare internet remorse.

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Veal even makes me sad, when I think about a calf being separated from his mother and put in a little box where they don't give him a good diet or let him get exercise. It tastes like sadness.

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Wow, this made me realize the parallel about dead children and dead cow children in the strip. Thanks, the internet.

yo tambien. baby cows like to frolic(sp?), just baby dudes and baby dudettes.

I guess you'd be really annoyed with me for what I did to Harmony Korine, then.

Irony: cooking dead children-cows and discussing dead children. Ever wonder why they didn't choose Chicken Marsala?...

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You are one of Little Nephew's Goth friends. Congratulations.

Contrary to unpopular opinion I am not, in fact, fictional.

i laughed so hard that now i have to pee.

Plus I shower.
I don't have a bath.

This is a bit like the plot to Death and the Penguin.

In that the characters have the same job?

I had a job writing obituaries for non-famous people. I think this is sadder, because it makes you realize that for the majority of ordinary people, being secretary of the Garden Club is their life's greatest accomplishment.

Definitely greater than the 48-year marriage and twelve grandkids.

One time my girlfriend came over and made me a pizza from scratch. Made the dough herself and everything. I was dumbfounded at the effort she was putting into my appetite. So I silently stood up from my chair, went into my room, and came back wearing a tie. I think she got the message. It was such a goddamned tender moment.

"Pretty soon we were gettin' mad rutty."

Mad tender, rather.

id be willing to kill you and take my chances with such a woman.

I'm not sure you'd have much of a chance with her if you kill her boyfriend.

she would be ok with it once she got to know me. im one hell of a catch.

A follow up strip featuring a few of the child celebrity obituaries would have been perfect. One of the achewood missed opportunities. Maybe Onstad realised there actually are no child celebrities in the public mind and thus it wouldnt work?