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The Bloatee Wednesday, September 7, 2005 • read strip Viewing 90 comments:

This is my favorite strip.

i used this strip as the defining evidence in my case against my homies bloatee (as well as a similar discussion from an ep of venture bros.). i think the dude was devestated to see himself mirrored as the chubby cartoon cat to the T. needless to say, it was hastily removed thereafter

"A beard is no excuse for a chin line!"

A chubby for you.

Ray is totally the Pied Piper of Tight Asses.

It's "not a substitute for a jawline" but yeah

No matter how you trim it!

Great tip.

"dude of gravity"
awesome

That thing is so hell of wispy, a spider covets.
I cannot brook the gossamer bloatee.

My goal in life is to be able to talk like that.

Roast Beef - the king of banter.

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whitey vs. cryptfiend85

tonight on the internet

Maladroit lol

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snooooooooreeeeee

It should have been opbvious, but it wasn't. Is the point.

And yet, we never see the thing again...

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"Comb-over of the internet age"

Nah, the baldness-pattern-eliminating shaved head is the comb-over of the 21st Century.

I might start rocking one soon.

This strip has many great lines. "Dude of gravity" is classic and a good way of putting it. "OH HOW THE PEOPLE WILL MARCH" is lovely also.

I love the interaction between Ray and Roast Beef in this one. They keep upping the sass level, and then Roast Beef gets that annoyed look at the end. Onstad does wonders with eyebrows.

And cats don't even have eyebrows.

The wonders never cease.

Chubby for a comment in the style of "And dogs can't even play pool!" ("Aye! I know! And to think it goes against all the laws of nature!" "That's art. That's.....art....")

Always been a fan of that particular form. Kudos.

Chubby for just being you

Chubby because that was awful nice of you, Stuart Smalley.

They do have hair in the place where an eyebrow would be. It's just that it blends in with all the other hair. A cat is basically all eyebrow.

I think my cat has eyebrows. They're exactly lime his whiskers, only they come out from above his eye.

We've had him since I was two or three years old so I always assumed this was normal, but thinking about it... Maybe not...

I always knew that cat was the fucking devil.

well, to be fair, it is a cat.

I have seen cats who have this as well.

I can't remember if my cat does (I haven't seen him in three or four weeks since he is staying with friends of the family, as I am currently living in a home in which my roommate owns three pit bulls).

My cat has eyebrow-whiskers too. I think it's normal. Well, as normal as a cat can be. WHICH IS NOT NORMAL AT ALL. Fuck.

so i guess this strip reveals that Ray is of French descent?

I think you're right... the only other place I've seen it mentioned is the strip in which he and Beef discuss diabetes and parking technique, but that comes later:
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His Uncle Culpepper was definitely of the Louisiana Southern Gentleman ilk. There's some blood there somewhere.

Smuckles doesn't seem like a very French name. Maybe it's on his mom's side.

and Ramses Luther doesn't seem like much of a frenchman

I believe it was originally pronounced "Smucklay," and that Ray's family was of Huguenot (Protestant French) extraction, thus making the middle name " Luther " somewhat common.

They were big on the Egyptians too, those Huguenots.

Wasn't there some kind of vogue for Egyptian stuff in the 19th century? Maybe that became a family tradition or something, later on. (Yeah, kinda graspin' at straws here, but it could work.)

I'd be willing to bet that his mother's side is the one of French extraction. Ramses Luther and Antonyne Cheops? Who can say? Perhaps some French, some African... the Huguenot theory interests me too.

I think he's just making shit up to excuse his pathetic beard growing abilities

This is also possible.

anything with or about beards is a favorite thing of mine. unsure as of why. maybe i've got a problem.

In a just world, there would be a "Dogg I cannot brook the gossamer bloatee" T-shirt.

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No. Just the "gossamer bloatee" one will suffice.

Too bad no-one who sees you're t-shirt will have any idea what it means... or is that the point?

does anothers approval dictate YOUR clothing choices?

Yes. :(

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The words in this strip were ever so carefully worded. You can tell. You know this.

GOD NO THERE IS A NAME FOR WHAT I DO, I am not sure whether to be ashamed that it is not fooling anyone or relieved that enough do it as to warrant a naming
Today begins my use of "brook" as a verb also

I often implore my friends and loved ones to listen to my drum song.

hello, NOLAN...

*prepares to get either chubbied to the heavens or lamed into oblivion*

Prepare to be dildoed forty-seven times.

Alt-text: How many cauliflower asses clenched in anger at panel 3? Be honest. It's the comb-over of the Internet age.

I am a dude of slight gravity and have a bloatee. It is bone white and my hair is still brown so I am hell of tutone. This prevents my lameness.

I have friends who sport the bloatee. I think that, while it is on par with the comb over as far as it's a way of trying to camoglauge a deficiency, it is different from the comb over in the sense that it does not look worse than the flaw it is trying to cover.

Ray's physical language in the second to last panel speaks more words than a novel could ever hope

...a spider covets...

Ray thinks a bit of pot-belly is not a bad thing for a respectable man to have.

I had a goatee for a while that verged too close to bloatee for comfort. I wore it with pride for a while until a nasty girl in my hometown told me it made me look handsome because I looked "just like Toby Keith"

I have since banished it from my face.


Beef suffers no fashion decisions that are ephemeral in nature.

I would like an entire strip consisting of Ray slapping his upper thigh, and the people, in turn, marching.

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This is wonderful. I hope more people come back to 2005 to see this.

Me too.

Apparently, I already chubbied this in the past, but I wish I could chubby it again. I've been laughing for several minutes now. They both look so intense.

It's a double edged sword, having a friend whose asscheeks are always so readily available for slapping...

Oh man, not the cauliflower ass!

What is that crazy ass pose Ray is doing in panel 1?

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Oh man. I've been telling my BFF for years about the Fat Guy Goatee (the lesser name I assigned to the phenomenon) and she insisted that I was just being a bitch.

I was being a bitch ALSO.

Plus that thing is so hell of wispy a spider covets

HAH!

Dude, I cannot brook the drum song.

Check out that bounce in Ray's step in the first panel.
Ray's drum song is a 24/7 event.

As a NorCal person I am annoyed every time I see "hell of" instead of hella. As in hella wispy. As in very wispy.

what about a full-on beard?(i didnt think my neck was terribly indistinguishable, but who knows.... [[shrug]]

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NECKBEARD

NECK

BEARD

No, that's just a beard. Sorry.

It's only a bloatee if it hides the fact that that you have no jawline, like so:
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And, to help you imagine how George would look without it:
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george lucas can certainly afford plastic surgery. why the facade, george? why the facade?

Ray gets sassy...?

Roast Beef's line in the 5th panel is possibly the best sentence ever.

For some reason I always remember the last panel as "Oh, how the children will dance!"

What do you call it when they have a whole blob of neck fat with thin trimmed hair meant to disguise it as a big bushy beard? a Bloard?