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How to Not Hold On. Monday, August 10, 2009 • read strip Viewing 387 comments:

It sfits.

Not sure why I chubbied this.

Perhaps because it is rather nice for a first post; simple, straightforward, but enigmatic enough to warrant another read or two.

At least, that's why I gave it a chubby.

It's still a sight better than "F1rst Woo!".

It's slightly better in the way toe-cancer is slightly better than cock-cancer.

You can still fuck without a toe.

And therefore it is slightly better.

Give to me your definition of "slightly" cause I am thinking walking funny is millions of times better than sad eunuchness.

I have a girlfriend with a foot fetish, perhaps this explains some things to you.

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Shut up, bunny-ears. Just shut up. Why you always talkin' ? Shut up shut shut shut shut up.

Fine, don't get it. But...Jesus, man! You ain't got to scream the whole damn time though!

EEEEEAAAAUUGGGGG!!!

I DON'T UNDERSTAND I DON'T UNDERSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND!

EEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUGH!

You seem to be doing fine without a fat slab of fun hanging off the front of you. But what if you couldn't tapdance?

Is that a euphemism, or... I mean, I've heard it referred to as a mambo, but not a tap dance.

I think in this context, tapdance means tapdance.

Tapdance refers to pegging.

It gets its name, aside from the obvious inference, from the film of the same name ( Tapdance , 1982) where Tom Cruise is pegged by Jennifer Beals. A cornerstone of early 80s cinema it helped to briefly make the practice quite fashionable.

Some can't. Please be sensitive.

not the way i fuck.

I don't like that image make it die

Seriouly though WHY IS THAT YOUR AVATAR WHY WOULD YO DO THAT

What's your problem with rabbits? Are you some kind of prepubescent whitetrash shirtless junkyard cowboy?

You tell 'em, bunny-ears.
But aren't prepubescent whitetrash shirtless junkyard cowboy your ultimate turn-on?

Actually, a T-shirt with the sleeves ripped off is best on prepubescent whitetrash junkyard cowboys.

This has been Granularsilica with Fashion Tips for Prepubescent White Trash.

Tune in again tomorrow when Granularsilica offers tribal dressage advice for genocide victims in Rwanda.

You can call me Mister Sandburg, if you like

I always wondered what they did with the ripped off sleeves? it seems so pointless.

Emergency toilet use?

Have Mom make penis cozies.

chubbied for altruism

Not that I'm advocating child murder, but I'd pay money to see Lyle doing teppanyaki.

I can totally imagine the kid's impressed smile as Lyle is throwing his utensils around. He claps, laughs, and then all is silent, save for the sound of blood trickling down his innocent face and his mother's horrified vomiting.

A banner reads, "Happy Birthday Charlie!"

His parents file for divorce after a year of nothing but small-talk and muffled sobs and the dinner table.

Oh man, that is the saddest thing.

I'm depressed now.

Correct. I wanna cum.

My girlfriend got me (us?) a tandem bike for Christmas. We've recently broken up now and now I have to ride that bike alone to my house. That's pretty sad.

Someone may ask why I'm riding alone on a tandem bike. I've been thinking I might tell people she was mauled by a bear...while we were mountain biking.

You should get an inflatable sex doll and put it in the other seat. Then tell people you're finishing up a screen play for Mannequin III in which you wanna play the lead. Worked for me.

Stand strong forever.

Mannequin III - Pneumatic Built-for-Two

[IMGS OFF]

Oh, mein Gott ... it is true!

Long as he doesn't smell that seat too often.

Newspaperdrone, you magnificent bastard! I read your book!

Is so sad. Is so so sad, I...I...
[IMGS OFF]

Why did they blow up The Edge :'(

FROOOOOHMAN!!!!

The exploding man is but a curtain to reveal the true star of the show: dancing businessman with attache case.

[IMGS OFF]

oh the old "my girlfriend was mauled by a bear" line. i know it all too well.

my bear was mauled by a girlfriend

In Canada.

it was pretty nasty, eh.

When I say 'and' I actually mean 'at'. Typo-monkey fucking with my post.

More like dinner table fucking with your wife .

Somehow I think his stint would be short-lived, given how many tiger appendages will likely end up mixed in with your steak and shrimp dish (the stripes make them taste better).

Whereas if you go to the right school cafeteria they'll sell you just the cock.

I've made quite a bit of money that way

I think the better verb usage here is "Lyle commit teppanyaki.

EAAAUUUUGH!

Your comment and your avatar are strikingly synergistic.

There is conveyed a distinctly breathier version of the yelling when delivered by Hank Hill...and an actively cigarette smoking Hank to boot.

There is SALMON in the fish tacos, Hank! SALMON!

Or better yet, using Teppanyaki as the verb itself.

"Lyle just got ten years, dogg. He Teppanyakied some kid so hard he'll be in a wheelchair for the rest of his life."

He'd thrown like 6 shrimp and that kid missed every one of them.

I think the take home point is that he would have Teppanyakied that kid with a spatula. Furhtermore, by failing to catch a spatula.
You have to fail to catch something in a very critical kind of way in order to cooking-style-as-verb a kid with it.

The kid's frontal cortex rolled 3 feet.

He spiraled it, by the way. That doesn't just happen by not caring.

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The kid's frontal cortex rolled 3 feet


I've heard of being open-minded, but that's ridiculous.

Boo this man! BOOOO
(I chubbied it)

i chubby the comment as his father!

I'd pay money to see child murder.

I think you have chosen entirely the wrong establishment you horrible fiend and I find you reprehensible for even implying that we here might know anything at all about where to find child murder shows for a reasonable cover charge. You should leave and never come back. You should definitely not come back at 3 AM on the second Tuesday of each month, knock six times on the back door, and bring $200 in cash because such actions would result in you being most sorely disappointed by the complete and utter absence of child murdering occurring on these premises. If you do not leave immediately I will be forced to notify the police.

WHOO! I am DEFINITELY not afraid of the fucking POLICE right now!

Well, one shouldn't be afraid of the FUCKING police. Unless you've got cock cancer (or toe cancer, I forget which would be worse).

Man, can you imagine getting a ticket from the fucking police? How embareassing.

Infraction: Subject observed flicking tongue at clitoris with excessive speed and inexpert technique. Can't fuck worth damn.

Witness account: "He treated the vagina like a particularly unsavory ice cream cone that he had to finish because it's good manners."

Fine: No more nookie, loser. And you can just forget about face-sitting.

I hate the fucking police. All tryin ta catch me ridin derty

"some delighted child"

FUUUUCK that Lyle ain't nobody's holdin on bitch.

I don't know why . Everybody else holds on.

I gotta admit that I've been Lyle there every once in a while. There comes a Time.

I must admit, I would gladly attend the somber affair that is The Dying Man.

A child who lives a few houses down my street screams like Lyle does here all the goddamn day . I think these problems could solve eachother by having Lyle perform teppanyaki for her.

Additional: "OH GOD
NO"
hahahaha that elephant is a dead man.

Shut up, bunny-ears. Just shut up. Why you always talkin'?

Daaaaaaaamn, Xi's existence just got a little harder in this place!

This is now a Thing.




o shit

The next time I'm made to wait on the phone, I'm going to scream like Lyle.

Work starts in an hour. I estimate that I will be fired in an hour-and-a-half.

You know, I've had that conversation, and the screaming isn't all that fun. Panels 6 through 9. Just replace Asian food with "I think I have a drinking problem" and I have had that exact conversation.

SQUEE

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This is, in fact, gladi8orrex's out of office message. Please don't reply.

i dont beleive you. i bet youre having sex with a llama.

dont u no wut biz hez in?

animal "husbandry"

Animal backdoormannin'.

Side Note!

I used to deliver to Safeway as a vendor. The loading dock is usually located at the rear of the store, and I would have to go to the receiving door next to it, and wait for the door man to grant me entry.

I told you that story to tell you this one: The department that is in charge of receiving goods and dealing with invoices at Safeway is called Back Door Receiving.

The End.

I thought that was just their internal name for their customers.

https://www.instantrimjob.com

Gah- rim[url=https;//www.instantrimshot.com/]shot[/url], not rim job .
I am somewhat relieved by that not being an actual trap. I saw the mistake almost right away, but not before clicking it anyway to verify its contents.
Further research indicates this was indeed a simple enough mistake, but that doesn't mean there couldn't have been something else on your mind at the time...

Gah- rim shot , not rimjob.
I am somewhat relieved by that not being an actual trap. I saw the mistake almost right away, but not before clicking it anyway to verify its contents.
Further research indicates this was indeed a simple enough mistake, but that doesn't mean there couldn't have been something else on your mind at the time..

1) Please return to the original post.
2) Understand joke.
3) Slap head.

I dunno, my personal suspicion is he's actually Onstad. Making hiz biz cartunin. (versus car tuning, of course.)

Gladi8orrex is a public demonstration of a new unbreakable encryption algorithm

so, rather than misspelled/grammatically incorrect english, its actually some sort of properly spelled/grammatically correct computer code? consider my mind blown.

Wait a sec. Unless Onstad changed the perspective in the strip, Teodor was the elephant copying the sapphic erotica of the other elephant, not Chuck. To quote Keanu Reeves, "Whoa". (To be clear, the "whoa" from "The Matrix", not "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure".)

EXCELLENT! *air guitar shredding*

We are ... WYLD STALLYNS!

P.S. Be excellent to each other. Not cocks.

*...and party on, dudes.

YES THIS WAS CLEAR FROM THE START MY GOD WHY ARE YOU SO DENSE.

On the first comic wherein the copying took place, there was a large assetbar discussion. Check it. This was determined.

I was so confused when Lyle appeared in the inset image. Despite the fact that Ray called him by name, I assumed this teppanyaki business was being pitched by Todd.

Oh my God me too! It seemed exactly like the kind of hare-brained scheme Todd would come up with, and my mind just inserted his name for Lyle's.

It's pronounced t-t-teppanyaki.

But Lyle is always the one with the food-related schemes!

Lyle has no concept of hygiene and a deeply founded love of weed and booze.

Logic follows that he would work in the food service industry

I'm pretty sure now what I suspected 2 strips back- this is the wrap-up of the original Cartilage Head arc.
C.H. was never the dying man. Ray deserted Beef all along.

Oh shit, man, you just blew my mind.

Apologies to Mr. Onstad if I spoilered the arc, but up yours, Onstad! if I didn't.

Ooh I assumed you didn't actually believe that, but were just putting forward a wacky interpretation.

it takes a lotta chutzspah to make your avatar background chubby green

I don't know about that. You'd think it'd be pretty simple to chubby a person .

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good try

Well... it wards off double-figures lames.

(I only made that statement so it would turn out to be untrue)

i sincerely hope it works.

My ultimate fear is to author one of those comments that gets replies like "OMG this has to get exactly 666 lames!" and "It's 667 now!" etc etc.

Or maybe it's a redemption arc ... Ray proves himself exactly the kind of man not to desert a dying man, as long as that man is Beef.

That's my feeling too.

I disagree. I think Cartilage Head is first and foremost a performer. The entire notion of the first arc seems to be that it was merely a performance art piece within another (in other words, that CH's intent was not to accuse Ray of anything, but merely to experience it). Hence the "loyal colleague" comment on the envelope. In the same vein, he just likes the idea of death-as-performance-art-piece and that Ray and Beef's relationship is entirely incidental.

Murdering is one of the most delicate arts there is. Think of John Wayne Gacy.

It's a special thing you do when you want someone to die .

Obligatory:

What is the difference between Cartilage Head and Santa Claus? Cartilage Head stop at nothing to kill you.

santa claus is notorious for just not having the impetus necessary to kill a dude. he lacks motivation.

Oh pirates, yes they rob I
Sold I to the Cartilage Head

Minutes after they took I
From th' erotica pit

But my aim was made strong
By the circumstance of the almighty
We fought in the three acres
Triumphantly

Won't you help to sing
This song of Beefdom? -
cause all I ever have:
Ray and his thong

Jesus Christ this is the best thread

Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.

(Valid only at participating Williams-Sonoma locations.
ASSOCIATE: Redeem with code EROT09.
Cash value 1/20 of a cent.)

You know, I would have thought Chuck would have simply declared victory after Teodor left. Guess he's too much of an old-school gentleman to do something like that.

He's so old school he drives a culinary tours bus with clerestory windows!

Apparently he realized that sapphic product placement was too good a thing to give up, even though he was initially opposed to the idea.

Looks like Chuck is going to lose, but Ray/Teodor forfeited, so Williams-Sonoma will go founderless from this day forth.

Anarchy in the home goods department when they find out Kitchenaid's coup failed.

Who said he/they forfeited? Maybe they will both have to mow the lawn in their wives' sunday dress.

I figured he'd declare victory when he saw that it wasn't Ray in the costume at all.

Maybe he was just hoping to squeeze some more advertising in before doing so.

The redemption of Ray?

this is great shit ... 4

[IMGS OFF]

plus 4 anyway

SUCCESS!
[IMGS OFF]

Well done, sir.

that thing needs WAAAAAAAAY more arrows. i can't even begin to tell you.

Lyle must have finally gotten ahold of THESE KNIVES .

His screams indicate that his heart's explodin'!

I figured that was his basal nervous system myself...

This strip has not left me any less confused or afraid about what is happening.

For the benefit of those not familiar with Sam Kinison's scream.

The video for his cover of "Wild Thing" is still perhaps the best summary of mainstream music in the late 80s you'll ever get.

Both times I was expecting to get rickrolled, but both of you bailed on the perfect opportunity. You'd have gotten nostalgia points and everything.

Here is the Rick Roll you requested.

No thanks, I don't want sushi right now.

No one clicked it did they.

I did. Just a few seconds after you first posted it, actually. I've been watching cute kitten videos for two days straight at this point. I'm just going to watch five or six more, then maybe get a shower and find something to eat....

that is just too cute, ya know?

I already had my one brief moment of rickrolling on Assetbar in which I linked surreptitiously to "Together Forever".

a.) that's hilarious
b.) i read this comment when begland first posted it an hour ago and have yet to get that damn song out of my head. i'm at the "dig it out with a fork" level of hopelessness.

fuck dyslexia.

*belgand

No, it's not dyslexia. I always read belgand as "be gland," then I hit myself on the nose with rolled-up newspaper. You're brain is so smart that it wants to make words out of everything. It's okay to be smart, anticitizen.

i knew i liked you.


This happens pretty often. I frequently see people typing out begland or blegand or such. Almost always with the problem in the same place.

The horrible truth is that it comes from (or rather, in the style of) David Eddings' Belgariad series in which the god Aldur adds the prefix of "Bel" to the names of the disciples. Due to his instruction they become wizards. With names like "Belgarath", "Beldin", and "Belgarion" "Belgand" seemed to fit quite well.

Basically it was a reference to being a wizard from a series of fantasy novels I read when I was a freshman in high school and have been using online since the BBS era.

If you get it you know I'm a total MegaNerd, but you'd have to be one too to get it.

Yaaawn *snore* -- frigging fantasy -- *burb*

I hope you don't mean Belgandalf.

I'm actually not much of a fan of Tolkein. Sure, huge impact, completely reinvented the genre, blah, blah, blah. I can appreciate what he did for the genre, but it doesn't mean I have to actually like LOTR.

I know I was young when I first read them, but I absolutely could not stand David Eddings. I only managed to get through the first two books of that series, and that's saying a lot for young me.

I love you. Just sayin'.

I think we played D&D back on DALnet in the day. Am I wrong?

That is very likely because it is certainly something I did. Much like talking about Magic: The Gathering over FidoNet before I had proper access to the wider Internet.

All using a terminal program with an offline mail reader so you wouldn't waste your precious minutes that could be spent better playing LORD and Tradewars 2020.

If a dude ain't never got his virtual bone on with Violet and then had to deal with the issue of illegitimate children potentially impacting his dragon-slaying quest I... I just don't know.

Rowboat... paging Rowboat... "y'all some nerds" post needed in aisle 4 ...

ROBOT ASS!!!

oh wait

[IMGS OFF]!!!

that is the most inappropriate fart ever.

#342: You are out with your robot friend and he does a :(
etc.

P.S. I waited for what I thought to be an appropriately-allotted time for lames and/or reprimands before apologizing to you for typing "you're" instead of "your." I am sorry. I rarely do that kind of thing. I feel bad.

i just find it terrifically endearing that it's something you'd obsess over so.

Your Funny!

(i see what i did there. and yes, it's difficult being this clever all the time.)

I will share my funny with you if you want.

Achewood: Bringing Cool Kids Together Since 2001

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I will share my funny with you if you want.

Oooh, such a big funny you've got! See if you can do this with it.

YES! I forgot all about this! Awwwwww shiiiiiiiiiit

Yay women in the 80s, boo men in the 80s. I think that sums up the decade.

You Thatcherite bastard.

* sexy ladies

The realization that Lyle is, or at least occasionally channels, Sam Kinison has revealed deep truths to me. He would be almost the perfect person to play him in some sort of live adaptation if he were still around.

Those lights who burn twice as bright, burn half as long.

Somebody please enlighten me. What was the big goddamn deal with Sam Kinison? Why did he merit the title "comedian"? It sure as hell wasn't because he was funny. Was it the screaming? Fat guy in a duster, beret, and stringy hair screaming his lungs out for 2 hours on stage. Genius!

Everybody knows a Rodney Dangerfield joke, and it'll get a laugh. Same with Richard Pryor. You might even tell a Bill Hicks joke and still get laughs. ANYBODY out there care to tell a Sam Kinison joke that doesn't involve Ollie North or his secretary? Oh Sam, you are hee- larious . Timeless humor. And that scream as punctuation? Watch out Mark Twain!

Shakespeare knew you didn't have to scream to make your point. That lights burning twice as bright quote reminds me of something Dromio said in "Comedy of Errors":

Marry, sir, she's the kitchen wench and all grease; and I know not what use to put her to but to make a lamp of her and run from her by her own light. I warrant, her rags and the tallow in them will burn a
Poland winter: if she lives till doomsday, she'll burn a week longer than the whole world.


...and THAT's how you tell a fat joke. Eeeeeeeaaaaaauuuuugggggghhhh!!!

Sam Kinison died of Sam Kinison.

Be sure to warn your loved ones about Sam Kinison during Sam Kinison Awareness Week. No one wants to die fat, screaming, and useless.

I imagine Mark Twain reading an old school newspaper (a name like "The Susquehanna Herald") and quivering in fear at a wry, Gilded Age review of one Sam Kinison: "His yowling and screeching that would shame a tomcat is certainly calling on a new age in the young history of American narrative and experience, more than one certain frog enthusiast could ever begin to exhibit if his measly, flea-ridden mustache depended on it."

i want to lame this but i just can't.

because you're not wrong, goddammit.

Basically he's funny for exactly the same reasons that Lyle is funny. More of a performance artist than a comedian in the strictest sense of the word.

The quote was, itself, largely a joke.

OOOH I KNOW SHAKESPEARE OOOH

Every good comedian, deep in their hearts, is deeply discontented with the world around them. Sam knew this and that made him fucking mad. If you don't dig that, fine, but no reason to bring fucking Shakespeare into a discussion about stand-up comedy, a thoroughly 20th century art form.

" Thank you for your approbation. I will be at Ye Flagon of Scabs a fortnight longer and at The Cauldron of Humours ere the week hence. Try the Pudding and Tun of Rum drink special. You muft .

For the benefit of those not familiar with Sam Kinison's scream.

Whoops

So Teodor was in the North Corner all along? Which means that Teodor was the one who did the ursine gams-remarks; and the one accused of cheating. In turn, that means that Chuck, not Teodor, has mastered the fine art of left hand typing.

This was made fairly obvious at the time. Only Teodor would have made such a crass and tortured comparison to scalded prosciutto and only Chuck would have brought the Highlands into it (as per his research). The admonishment by Chuck is clearly in his style and is what seals it.

Or neither of the elephants is Chuck, but both think the other one is. He only said "T", after all, there are plenty of people with that initial.

Haha I hope this is the truth

Oooooh. It's a weasel.

We don't know that yet. Téodor described the sine%u0169fendo as a 'crazy hissing hell-weasel'. In his state I don't think we can take this description as settling the question of what the hell Mary is. In any event, I think we can say that a hell-weasel (if it exists) is in a genus, perhaps even a family, all it's own and likely has no relation to weasels as we commonly recognize them.

[IMGS OFF]

Please accept my ZappaChub.

Man, I love that crazy electric violin cover of Directly from my Heart to You on that album.

RZZZZZ!

The hell-weasel looks like a cockatoo. This is a feature that the designers of hell created in order to disorient the sinner and make him or her vulnerable to sudden blows on the back of the head from giant disembodied hands.

A cockatoo? I guess you'd know as you've seen a cock or two in your time.

Sorry.

So have we all, O-fish. The question is whether or not we voluntarily have seen said multiple cocks, and whether or not we enjoyed it.

Very satisfying strip.

I didn't mean to chubby you. You're welcome, I guess.

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Quite unlike the one your mom did on the bar pooltable last night.

I can't think of a good joke, but I want to use "bum rush the shill" in one, so how about I list the general structure, and the let you wit-crazed jackals of comedy help me out:

"Blah blah blah blah Public Enemy, blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah, "Yo: Bum Rush the Shill" [Blah blah blah]?."

You all are, of course, under no obligation to use this structure. In fact, it may very well just get in your way.

I predict that Belgand and Scorp will bat this one out of the park.

While I greatly appreciate the vote of confidence it is well beyond my ability to grant your request. Rap is, in my mind, one of the most loathesome of things and I have absolutely no knowledge of Public Enemy to draw upon.

The best I can come up with is some sort of ribald anal gang-rape joke. Maybe Hedonismbot can help fill that one out. While it's often my stock in trade elsewhere the delightful bastard has very nearly cornered the market here.

OK, Belgand, in deference to you, you may (or not) use the following structure (or not):

"Blah blah blah blah blah blah, blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah, "Blah: Blah Blah Blah the Blah" [Blah blah blah]?."

So git up and git, git, git down
Bum Rush the Shill is a joke in yo' town

Good job, ph3r. But it left me wondering if you were aware that Public Enemy's first album was called "Yo: Bum Rush the Show".

i remember buying "Fear of a Black Planet" when I was thirteen and getting hella props from the cute clerk at the record store.

When I purchased "Fear of a Blank Planet" (Porcupine Tree) I got no such props. I got a dinner roll thrown at me.

The clerk, however, was as cute as the wreck of a train full of children with cleft palates, so it was of little matter.

Maybe it's because Porcupine Tree is like the worst thing ever.

You may have to take that back, or the stuffed Philippe in my avatar will be required to battle the stuffed Philippe in yours.

Or maybe they'll just huuuuug!

No I'm serious, Steve Wilson can completely suck a peter.

Only if I get to watch.

*cold

jill bum rush the shill

Also, Public Enemy are guilty of almost none of the bad things about rap, but no one else in San Francisco knows that either so w/e.

It...It was HIM
[IMGS OFF]
If there's a problem yo I'll cause it
Check out the hook while I mock and devolve it

there are few people on my list of "People I'd So Totally Go All Patrick On" but Vanilla Ice is up there.

Marky Mark was on there until the Departed. Because Marky Mark fucking owns in that film.

Patrick Bateman.

i'm drunk, excuse me.

I feel ya' on the Marky Mark. But playing a foul-mouthed Southy wasn't much of a stretch (being that he is a foul mouthed [racist] Southy).

Nevertheless, I gave him a plenary indulgence for I *Heart* Huckabees.

yeah I agree. i feel his entire existence is justified with:

"and just who the fuck are you?"
"me? i'm the guy who does his JOB. you must be the otha' guy!"

also, i've a severe soft spot for Huckabees.

That film is wonderful.

Also, although I hasve done so in the past, I feel obliged to mention Three Kings again. He is a class act in that.

yeah, good call. the dude can totally act but it's like he only does it every three or four years.

Why does his eyebrow have stripes

Because of a problem?

Here Comes A Big Fag!

Oye', Oye'! All Rise!

It has nothing to do with "bad things about rap" it's just that I don't care for it as a genre of music much in the same way that I don't care for country or dance music. Not my thing.

see, now there's a classy way to say it. leaving it at "not my thing" is a much better option than utterly debasing an entire genre of music down to it's very worst points. it's such a commonplace argument and one devoid of any real merit. i'm constantly having to defend my taste in music to my higher-brow friends but it frickin' wears on the soul.

chubby for class, sir.

As a graduate student in music, I find much of my work ends up being debasing entire genres of music down to their very worst points.

Rap itself is more of a technique than a genre, though, since it deals specifically with the way the lyrics are recited rather than a specific sort of lyrics or even necessarily a specific sort of sound. It simply gets associated with hiphop exponentially more than anything, and therein lies the rub. Or the respek. Or something.

Chubbied for the first sentence.

Country is another very frequent target of disdain among intelligentsia w/ regard to musical taste. (I'm not the only one who's heard "I listen to everything but rap and country".) That's definitely cool though.
Respect.
*offers to bump fists with you because I'm that kind of boor when I'm drunk as now*

Definitions from the Word Maven: Getting the bum's rush means 'getting forcibly ejected', like a bum would be by a bouncer or a store owner. The phrase comes from the 'shiftless beggar' meaning of bum, originally related to the German Bummler for 'a loafer'. Bum's rush continues to be used, metaphorically, as in this example: "an aggressive foreign investor is likely to be given the bum's rush through unsuitable use of the state's zoning %u2026 laws" (The Economist, 1975).

Unrelated to the turn-of-the-century noun bum's rush is the slang expression bum rush from the 1980s. The primary meaning of the verb bum rush is 'to stampede toward the stage' or 'to crash the gates of a concert'. This is the meaning used by Public Enemy in their 1987 album title. Bum rush seems to have originated as slang for 'a police raid' and the stampede that followed. Metaphorically, it can be used to talk about crashing into any area, as in: "Rap is%u2026bum-rushin' the mainstream" (New York Times, 1988). This use is also seen in a recent Atlanta Journal and Constitution article about a park "when a group of kids from a local day care bum rush the place" (2000).

This verb bum rush can also mean 'attack' or 'get beaten by a gang': "he then hinted that he just might bum-rush Stanton: 'Next time I hear that, I don't know what my reaction will be'" (Village Voice, 1997). 'Attack' seems to be the more common meaning of bum rush in recent rap hits like Will Smith's Wild Wild West: "If you have a riff with people wanna bust/ Break out before you get bumrushed/ at the Wild Wild West" (1999).


A shill is an associate of a person selling goods or services or a political group, who pretends no association to the seller/group and assumes the air of an enthusiastic customer.

And what does "the" mean?

"The" means there's a noun a-comin'.

In the meaning of 'attack' I would state that it is fairly close in meaning to 'sucker punch' as it typically implies an expected and particularly vicious assault intended to make retaliation highly unlikely.

I wish the word had come more directly to english and we could call hobos bummlers.

You can call them whatever you wish, and the Good Lord will provide, stereo.(for you, not them)

"Bummler" could be a good name to use in a novel as a hidden joke, say for a whitetrash family. "The Bummler's yard was full of car parts, as usual."

"Will Smith's Wild Wild West: "If you have a riff with people wanna bust/ Break out before you get bumrushed/ at the Wild Wild West" (1999)."

And this was a cover/homage to Kool Moe Dee's earlier hit "Wild Wild West", which contained the couplet, "if you're ever in a fight and you're beating one of us/Break out! Before you get bum rushed." Kool Moe Dee, you will not be forgotten, even though "Go See the Doctor" should be.

Debt, Liquor, and Despair walk into a bar.

They never leave

Is worst joke, told by fattest screaming comedian

When Achewood characters talk, their mouths move up and down like puppets. It frightens me.

WHY HAS NO ONE MENTIONED THE MAGIC FUCKING PORTAL!!!!!

Because it is a machination of Cartilage Head, and thus never to be explained.

You know what, fuck Bosc Beurre, Packham all the way.

Be patient lyle.

Typing "oh god no" while under the threat of danger is the best thing todo.

the keyboard is the perfect link to your mental psyhce

Much like carving "aaargh"

Or the semaphore version of "Wuthering Heights"
[IMGS OFF]

Classic.

indeed.

that i had a chubby for this picture-style comment.

Lyle's spatulas are provided free of charge by Spatula City.

Where do you go when you want to buy brand name spatulas at a fraction of their retail cost? Spatula City. At seven locations, we're in the Yellow Pages under 'spatulas'.

Yes, yes, you've seen UHF we get it...I loved that movie so much...i bought it.

Do you stock the 18" Snappy Comeback Spatula?

A comment left by varnish was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by professorhazard, Scorpio_nadir, Stonecrab, mrblank91)

I want to lame you to cause a chain-reaction of you being lamed into oblivion, but the guy in your avatar is (or looks very much like ) Tom motherfucking WAITS so I just... can't... Argh. It is hard to lame a man with such class. I have fallen.

My CURSE has become my STRENGTH!

Quickly, Sancho! To the horses! There isn't much time left!

So? Half the people on this messageboard listen to Tom Waits. I'd lame it happily if it was lame, but it isn't. It's not lame to express an opinion.

THIS is lame:
varnish how dare you atack this strip onstad works rly hard like an ancient egyptian slave for you and you just take the lash of thanatos and whip him overe teh head wit it you dont belong on assetbar you hate achewood come on everyone lets spam the commie bastard

Quote:
But this storyline is worthy if ridicule.

Does he back that up? NO. Plus, it's a sad little typo of a man. That's not expressing an opinion, it's whining.

You ain't rad for expressin', you lame for bein'.

I think we can excuse the typo seeing as the guy admitted he was drunk.
As for the backing-up, allow me. Onstad has dredged up a popular incidental character from several years previously rather than invent something new, and then proceeded to use him as the fulcrum of a storyline that centres around a sapphic erotica competition and Roast Beef's penis. I can see how that could be thought lazy and ricule-worthy.
Actually, Varnish DID touch on the reason he thought it was worthy of ridicule - when he mentions Bensington Butters. Clearly he thinks dredging up Cartilage Head after so long smacks of authorial laziness.

Now me, I think this storyline is almost vintage Achewood. It's not a classic by any means, and it doesn't take the strip anywhere it hasn't been before. On the other hand, I like the way it built up, seemed to be heading for a massive sapphic erotica write-off before swerving towards a spooky thriller vibe. It has the classic Achewood touch of the unexpected.
I also don't think Cartilage Head is exactly Janice from Friends, the character who got introduced to the plot when the writers REALLY couldn't think of anything else. I can take another Cartilage Head storyline.

Incidentally, while we're on the subject, god DAMN I love my new avatar. If anybody can identify the album, I'll chubby the comment even if it repeats the phrase "genocidefish is a pretentious cunt" 500 times.

ah shit, this is going to bother me until someone posts an answer or you let us on.

The artist is from Wales.

i just got really excited because The Alarm came to mind but google isn't turning up any LP that looks like that... save for their "Best Of" but only in a general sort of way...

[fuck.]

Much, much more venerable.

Tom Jones? No, no, no, wait, Harry Secombe.

Man, I wish it was Harry Secombe. I'll have to find a Harry Secombe avatar sometime.

Mercenaries are useless. Disunited, they have nothing more to keep them in a battle, other than a meagre wage, which is just enought to make them want to kill for you, but not enough to make them want to die for you.

you say "Wales" and my mind immediately goes to "Cale" with very few stops in between.

but I couldn't place it. and still can't, what album is that???


Sabotage.
Live album recorded 1979 at CBGBs, NYC, consisting entirely of new material.
It's a little hard to find, but well worth it. Some of his most venomous material. Noisy post-punk, and some great lyrics.
My favourite line is from the the title track:
"Military intelligence isn't what it used to be. So what? Human intelligence isn't what it used to be either. Hearing that, circa 2004, coming from a bygone age was most amusing.

Damn it, I forgot the end quote. Should be obvious where it belongs anyway.

easily my favorite version of Mr. Cale. he did noise well and he's done it consistently well. he's also the reason "viola" is at the top of my Shit to Buy When I'm Rich list.

Technically I suppose I should chubby myself, but I've already done that about five times in the last 24 hours, so instead I'm chubbying anticitizen for actually deigning to play "name that musician" with a smug stranger on a messageboard for a webcomic.
For it is what Roast Beef would do, yea, and also Teodor. But not Ray.

I'm inclined to agree that you're the one deserving praise on this one.

And I'd pass one your way based on that logic, but I'm out already. [Virtual Chubb]

Sorry to be a pick about images, but your iconotar is a grey blur on my screen, maybe there's a rabbit it it?

"prick"

"in it"

Prick in it.

Or for our British friends:

Prick, innit?

LN?

way to be a negative nancy

" Oh God no"... Ah, now I get what they mean by "bum rush the shill".

NEXT STRIP PLEASE

NEXT COMMENT PLEASE

NEXT LIFE PLEASE

NEXT GIRL, NEXT DOOR, NEXT PLANET
PLEASE

TAKE MY NEXT LIFE-- PLEASE!

THAT WAS NO WOMAN, THAT WAS MY LIFE!

IF I COULD WALK THAT WAY I WOULDN'T NEED A LIFE!

I JUST FLEW IN FROM THE NEXT LIFE AND BOY ARE MY ARMS TIRED

MY LIFE AND I WERE HAPPY FOR 50 YEARS; THEN WE MET

PLEASE STRIP NEXT

we have a winner!

Not when I shouted it at my girlfriend we didn't.

I loooove me some Misogyny

a classy gentleman DOES get his bone on, sometimes!

Lyle's mustache is glowing with rage.

St. Elmo's fire. I wonder if I did an internet image search for St. Elmo's fire, would I find a bunch of pictures of sad children with immolated tickle-me-elmo dolls? *opens a new browser window and starts an image search*

Meh[IMGS OFF]

This is pretty close to what I thought I would find .

i really don't like that he's still fucking laughing long after his T1000 skeleton is exposed.

I have a sudden urge to go listen to Another Green World.

Burning Elmos Give Us So Much More?

New Assetbarista Release

I've just posted version 1.0-alpha1 of Assetbarista , my Greasemonkey script for Firefox that enhances the Assetbar user interface.

The alpha designation means that this version contains some major changes and thus is likely to be less reliable than the previous stable release, v0.9. If you decide to try out this alpha release, please let me know of any bugs you find.

What's new in 1.0-alpha1? Comment preview. Assetbarista replaces the "Post" button in the "Post a Comment" form with a "Preview" button that gives you a chance to see how BBcode will render your comment before you post it.

The preview functionality doesn't yet work on "reply" links. The comment entry forms for those are generated dynamically, so I'll have to do some more hacking to integrate a preview.

"Comment Preview"?

Half the fun of assetbar is watching you BYTs stuffing BBcode up.

Especially for OFs like me who don't even understand the BB tutorial.

There are still going to be people who forget to use it, though. So it's not like this fixes everything, just makes it less frustrating for those who try to put in the effort.

I'm not usually a fan of mandatory previews. It'd be nice if it was an option, but not forced.

That said I certainly understand the problems in trying to hack a preview function in at all and must commend this worthy addition.

I mostly reply, and there's no preview button provided in that scenario. I want my money back.

All sales are final.

However, I've just put up a second alpha release that does support previewing on replies.

featurelessvoid's post is best read while listening to Also Sprach Zarathustra .

(Assetbar sans assetbarista is best read while listening to the theme from Steptoe And Son )

bwom-bwom-BWAA-na

bwom-bwom-BWAA-na-bwa-na-ba

"you considerably sized dummy."

For American readers the Steptoe and Son theme, [url=https://tinyurl.com/qz9fpw]"Old Ned"[/urrl] is not the same as the Sanford and Son theme "The Streetbeater" is somewhat similar, but not entirely.

OH YOU CAN GO FUCK YOURSELF IN A HAT!!

I even thought ahead and put the link through TinyURL to keep Assetbar from eating the plus signs and fucking up the link, but it found a way. It must have its share, always.

RESET! TAKE 2... ACTION!

For American readers the Steptoe and Son theme, "Old Ned" is not the same as the Sanford and Son theme "The Streetbeater" is somewhat similar, but not entirely.

Urrrrrrrrl.

Incidentally this is almost exactly the text form of some parts, mostly the beginning, of "Glider" by Captain Beefheart.

ONE POINT OH ALPHA ONE IS GO. SCRAMBLE! SCRAMBLE! SCRAMBLE! GOOD LUCK

i haven't read Achewood in awhile.

This isn't a good strip to start reading again from, I guess, because I do not know what Chuck is and did Teodor turn into Babar?

You need to go back to July 2, no, June 30, and read carefully including all the posts.

If you understand after all that you can explain to the rest of us.

We've got more versions than a google of stones groupies!


Maybe start from Wales. Or in that case the wedding strip.

Indeed, personnally i'm probably going to stop reading for awhile, until all this arc goes away.
See yah in october or something

NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR Q3 HIATUS

Weeeeeeeeen.

And stay away from assetbar. I think we have a whole new set of memes or something. It's really hard to keep up, and I'm here all the time.

You've proved yourself a coward who would desert a dying meme?

You of all people saying it's hard to keep it up... who would have guessed.

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised.

So I've been doing some deep research through the Achewood archives to solve the mystery of this arc for my fellow viewers.

Roast Beef does not merely bear the lash.

Roast Beef IS the lash. He is Death Incarnate.

Proof: https://achewood.com/index.php?date=11172004

Thanatos is sometimes spelled 'Thanatus'.
An anagram of Thanatus is "Hut Satan".
Beef LIVED in a Shack or HUT .
ROAST BEEF IS SATAN.

or possibly Santa.

He may also be Hot Santa .

Santa had a sack. Roast beef has major sack right now.

This is a good parallel that should be used more often.

"You must have some pretty wicked sack to be talking to me that way."
"I have more sack than Santa."

Momentarily forgetting that Santa uses a sack for toys makes this thread so much better.

Santa's sack was filled with goodies for all the girls and boys. I dearly hope that Beef's is not.

Roast Beef's sack and soul are in limbo. It's like a Pawnshop.

kotoku, I am forbidden to give you chubbies. I am classified as Friendly.

Like we're just friends so you can't draw chubs for me?

exactly. you can give awkward half hugs and make small talk about the weather or gas prices but chubs are out of the question.

then, one day, lateadopter will chubby someone else. and you'll exhale sharply and wonder what might have been.

Then I'll feel bad about myself, go out to the bar, get skunked on skanks and chubs will be wasted. A revenge chub.

so it goes.

wow, we're joking but this actually made me a little depressed.

circumstances

We all come from circumstances.

Just like Roast Beef.

Maybe that is why he is my favorite character? Who knows.

It comes full circle.

NOBODY GIVES A SHIT ABOT UR CRY CRY FACE

WHAT THE FUCK DOES THIS MEAN WHY DO YOU KEEP SAYING THIS EEEAAAUUUGGGHHHH

I am Lyle, but on AIM

That chubby is for having an awesome name.

Ahahaha boo-urns! Me and my friends say that all the time to express displeasure.

i KNEW i saw that elephant in achewood before... https://m.assetbar.com/achewood/uua9pQfg6

Ray Smuckles is a resourceful man.

Me you impressed.

Hello, humans! Who's still here that I know from old times? Reply if you recognize me! Or just chubby this. Or lame it. Or don't! In fact, just do whatever the fuck you want.

I'm still here, but used to be someone else.

P...P... Pogo?!?

Must be my acid wit that gives me away.

You have a similar style of writing and of wit, started posting just as he concluded, and now the admission to being someone else....

I don't remember you, but you look bary familiar...

I thought I said to stop that.

(Pogo took acid in the '60's and it gave his wits away)

pass it on

I do, remember you...

(da-da daaa daaa daa-ah)

Weren't you regularly posting like 2 months ago?

HURRY UP ONSTAD EEAUGHH HURRY UP HURRY UUUUUUUUUUP!

EEEEEAUGGGGGHHHH!

In fact, I'm surprised it hasn't thonked.

aaaaaand im done reading through from the beginning. for the second time. /brag

Pfft.

you scoff like a girl.

I scoff girls like miniature crustless cucumber sandwiches.

all dainty-like, you know, using manners and such?

Awww yeah!! We gettin' hella dainty up in heres. Ima 'bout to go muthafuckin' Regency on this egg and cress yo.

I love Lyle.

Starring Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. Filmed before a live audience.