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1950s Ethical Technology Friday, March 28, 2008 • read strip Viewing 585 comments:

Chinese people: Confirm or deny?

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Thanks

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that IS what you are.

A toilet seat that smokes a cigar.

The End.

KLIK

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Manflesh, be my man-wife.

If if the bbcode hadn't fucked you at least once in that post, you'd either have been very lucky or possessing god-like assetbar powers.

That is so freakin' sweet of you. Never let it be said that Dr Manflesh is not sweet.

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I used to think that when your dreams started to get more vivid than your life, it meant you were going nuts. Now I'm just convinced it means your brain is trying to tell you something really important, almost invariably about yourself. Only you can know what this is though. Sharing your dreams with your friends is ultimately pointless, though it can be a fun way of annoying your friends.

That is weird that you replied to a pretty clever reference with a less-clever version of the same reference.

My friends and I call doing that "Joke Boating"; he missed the boat on the first reference and had to get his own joke in there.

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What if, instead of trying to be funny, MC_white was trying to be helpful? Maybe he was just explaining it for the people who hadn't read that strip.
Thanks Mc_white, but we can take it from here.

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That just isn't done. It leads to endless heirarchies of posts clogging the tubes, man.

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I've noticed that any time someone makes a "CHING CHONG WING WONG" reference, it gets lamed out of existence - most likely by people who missed that strip and think the comment is racist. Maybe MC_white is just trying to prevent unnecessary laming.

Truth be told, there are not enough lames around for every malicious and poorly thought out post for that to happen. Hell, tsrts13 still has posts visible and bothering me.

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His stupid?

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Yeah, don't think you're in danger of that, sport.

Chubbied for Billy Madison reference. That's kicking it old school (grade school?)

mc_white? More like BORE-OPHYLL!

and just in case you're curious, i am an english major, which means i do know the difference between your and you're, and my incorrect usage of the word was intentional.

Christ, if English majors could be relied upon to know the difference between your and you're, what the fuck would I do for a living?

Just because it was intentional doesn't make it any less retarded.

Lamed for being lame. You diss my dog, you fluff my hog!

You must have some wicked sack to come in here and admit yore an English major.

More likely it's because every time someone mentions Chinese people, or Chinese culture, or Chinese language, or Chinese restaurants, or China dishware, or porn involving Chinese people, or anything that begins with the letters C-H-I, someone immediately posts CHING CHONG WING WONG like it's this really clever thing they just thought of without any help from anyone else ever. It was great the first 500 or so times to quote it directly, but by now you should have some sense of awareness in your post that this has been done before. Falseprophet had this in his, and currently has 60 chubbies to 5 lames. mc_white's post did not have this, and currently has 4 chubbies to 44 lames. The people have spoken: use CHING CHONG WING WONG responsibly.

What'd be funny/shitty is if he was honestly trying to help in this manner, and now has like 45 lames for his trouble

mc_white COME ON SHOW ME HER NAKED.

Jokes? I get jokes!

If you're gonna make the obvious unnecessary reference, you could at least get Blister's manner of speaking right:

"NO WAY THAT SHIT IS INSANE / IT'S ALL, CHING CHONG WING WONG"

No chubby for effort this time.

what about those of us who want to wang chung?

When do you think it might be a good time to be wanging chung? I think tonight is the answer.

And it is probably best that everyone participate in the wanging of chung tonight.

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tragically, no one in the band Wang Chung had sex that night.

There were no survivors.

Or ever. Worst . . . Eighties Band . . . af all.
(Oops, wait, I forgot Kajagoogoo (sp?))

You are underestimating the 80's...there's gotta be worse ones nobody has ever even heard of.

WHY FIND (THEM) OUT?

The gesture Ahmadinejad is making makes your avatar perfect for the statement you have made.

But I thought that Mahddy said there was no wang chung in Iran?

The wang chung is all hangin' ten.

That is the most offensive comment you could have possibly made.

Inviso-chubby.

I don't get it. How?
BTW, according to a website listing cruising locations, there are DEFINITELY gays in Iran.

The joke is that in Iran, the way they make it so that there are no gays in Iran is that they hang you for being gay.

It's similar to one of those "In Soviet Russia" jokes, except that these jokes all end with you being promptly executed.

...IN FUNDAMENTALIST IRAN, ASSHOLES ATTACK HOMOSEXUALS!

It's also based on a mistranslation of something Ahmedinejad once said: He said that homosexuality isn't thing in Iran, meaning that you can't "be gay" there in the western sense (at least in the eyes of others), you have to be a dude who likes bumsex with other dudes.* This is the only reasonable translation of what he said, because he knows how many people have been hanged for mansex.

It is unnecessary to post the number of gay dudes who do not like bumsex, or to point out that iran murders lesbians as well. Everyone knows these things.

This comment got 3 lames. That means there are at least 3 people who read Achewood, but don't have a sense of humor.

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oh fuck bbcode in it's wing-wong ass

Don't cry. Leet Key, of course, decoded it handily into the appropriate Chinese characters.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/770

Leet Key and what else?

I installed the addon, check all the different View possibilities, and it is the same gobbledygook.

What else do I need to do?

BBcode fuck-ups make national emblems very sad.

especially 8-bit versions.

though it was the PS2 that had an emotion chip inside.

(This is one of those situations where the avatar fits the comment perfectly)

Whoa! That was a good one!

BBCode fuck-ups are like assetbar m-80s.

I can kind of tell you're new here, but heads up, asset bar can's handle a plus sign, let along Mandarin.

I mean, shit.

Hot damn, I fucked that up a hell of a lot

possums is a Connoisseur. A Connoisseur, god dammit .

italics are warranted

If only we could edit!

What was this supposed to be?

WHAT WERE YOU

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Hell of yes.

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People lame this because it's racist but chubby it because it's true.

Actually, it's not racist. There are a lot of Chinese people at most casinos. It's not a generalisation, it's a fact. (A generalisation would be "All Chinese people love to gamble and are at casinos constantly.")

Oh, what, so now ALL casinos have to have Chinese people?

That, sir, is casinist!

Nether-chubby.

Did I say "all"? No, I said "most".

But chubbies for "casinist".

All casinos on the west coast have lots of Chinese people. It is a verifiable fact. It is also a deep spiritual connection that I share with the Chinese people, a love of drinking poorly made Rusty Nails while losing money to either the Indians (if in California) or the mob (if in Nevada).

I reject and denounce.

and of course Teodore isn't wearing any pants.

He has "assisted living center" chest, too.

Oh dang, yeah he does. Man boobs all kinds of sagging there T.

yeah he's suffering from Clint Eastwood disease.

oh my GOD your avatar is MOVING

it is terrifying

i was moved too.

Terrifying non sequitur followed by hilarious pun: the pinnacle of modern comedy!

(I don't think I know how to sound genuine on the Internet anymore because I am honestly laughing. Someone, please - stop this.)

I love how on the Internet, you have to post a disclaimer every time you are NOT being ironic.
Personally, I blame the hipsters

...ironically?

The problem is, I can't tell whether the comment is wearing skinny jeans and a fancy haircut designed to not look like a haircut.

Hipster walks into a bar. He sez "this place sucks, it's full of hipsters."

I am old enough to remember the birth of the Age of Irony. It actually had nothing to do with the internet and was more of a spontaneous phenomena. Hipsters are not the fathers of it, more like its offal. And I mean that in the nicest possible way. I think irony was born from the ashes of The Cosby Show. A kid could learn all sorts of shit from that show.

it's suffering from Michael J. Fox disease.

I think that's capsular contracture.

and it kinda looks like a little Manga frog there in the last panel.

little Manga frog just chillin on T's stomach.

The best part is that he walked into the living room, sat down, and then took off his pants. It's not like he just got up naked and went to watch TV; he made a conscious decision to take his pants off while watching TV.

This must be something you can only understand if you either:
a)have no sense of shame
b)live by yourself

c.) the air conditioning is on the blink in southern California

d.) just feel like being nude.

E) Jerkin' it to an odd fetish until Beef walks in

The implication that T was jerking it to a dog being fired into outer space fills be me fear, terror and hatred.

you probably wouldn't much like gravity's rainbow , then.

There are probably more than a few reasons why most people wouldn't like Gravity's Rainbow.

Yeah. About 768 reasons.

Note: That is the number of pages my edition of Gravity's Rainbow has. Get it?

don't be dissing pynchon, dawgs, hella bad judgment. good point, iidebaser. philippe could have a smashing day on board the chums of chance's airship, for sure

So, to bring it all back. While Teodor was jerkin it to a odd fetish, do you think he was singing "the penis he thought was his own" from sed Novella?

he has it all worked out for faggotstyle guitar, I'm sure.

Reading Gravity's Rainbow is like reading a massive equation by Einstein, which nearly makes sense, except he's put all the way through this one symbol, and by purpose or mistake the key to that symbol is 1 1 = 5, and everything is just made ridiculous!

1 plus 1.

I wonder if it's not more like an equation that makes you question the validity of =

Those people can go back to their Tim Allen movies. Ha!

E.1) Jerkin' it to an odd fetish knowing Beef was walking in.
E.1.1) Jerkin' it to an odd fetish because Beef was walking in.

e.) are awesome.

Hell of amendments, yo.

f.) are hung like a cranberry.
g.) are stuffed.

F) Have been brainwashed to believe that pants are BAD.

I think it is you that has been brainwashed to believe pants are good!

Oh, no no! Rest assured, I myself live a pantless lifestyle. 'Tis truly the prime style of life!

I sense a lie.

Oh, god, you're right. I just...I wanted to fit in so bad, I just...I lost who I really was...I just-Can you ever forgive me?

NO

Well that's fine I mean I hope he did not get a nasty old tumescence though

It lets you try and pretend that maybe he is still wearing pants for the first two panels. Then they show up in panel 3 just to crush your hopes. I know this is the only reason they show up because they are gone in the last panel, their job done.

i am mezmerized by your avatar.

Eeww, gotta Febreeze that couch cushion!

[IMGS OFF]

Well i guess he could be wearing some 80's cut-offs there. T's got style but sometimes he just cant be bothered to wear full length pants. Or a shirt. Or at least cover his man boobs.

What did happen to his regular, non-ridiculous pants?

no such thing ever existed. thats what.

Why is T watching TV docs in the nude?

It's probably more an aerodynamic than ethical concern.

Yes, because Teodor has missile related plans..

Does he ever!

Falseprophet is on fire today!

Because is FRIDAY!

is SO nude.
is SO good.

Have you never done this?

Not with roommates around.

Roast Beef isn't his roommate.

the unmistakable sound of a studded leather codpiece hitting linoleum is heard

And the squeak of a sparingly-varnished wooden stool
scraping a non-varnished wooden floor.

Its basically a thing me and my fiance do. Basically. I started it by getting shitfaced and playing xbox naked. It just stuck. We had to pull it back when we started getting burned making bacon.


Bacon.

Talk about wicked sack.

They make splatter screens that go over the top of pans to prevent bacon grease from splashing out and burning your naked flesh. It only took one burn to the lower abdomen for me to purchase one. That grease splatter was a little bit too close to the junk for comfort.

Yours may be "junk"; mine are "jewels."

call them what you want. i still ain't wanna be in any close proximity with 'em.

hey you might want to be careful with yr shades: a friend of mine recently said to me "there's this couple that lives by me, and they're always naked around the house, and one day i saw them in there making bacon and totally getting the shit burned out of them and i was like 'take that, nudists!'"

you don't by any chance live in eugene, oregon, do you?

just a thought . . .

man everyone in eugene is naked. all anarchist chicks with saggy tits, shiiiiiit

It is perhaps the best thing for a relationship to set aside one day of the week to be naked around the house.

The bacon thing is just icing on the cake. Salty, porky, icing.

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We had Shirtless- and Pantsless-O'Clocks in college. Good times.

...Metropolitan Sex College 9?

Mac Hall fans, I suppose.

I'm gonna probably start a pretty sizable war, unless no one reads this because a new strip is going up relatively soon.

I read three panel soul, and I enjoy it a lot, but I thought most of Mac Hall was crap. Sorry.

But...But the artwork , dude. The artwork.

I just checked this webcomic out, and read the latest five. The artist can apparently only draw animu faces.

Which? Three Panel Soul, or Mac Hall?

Mac Hall.

Actually the artwork for Three Panel Soul shows that the guy is really an incredibly skilled and versatile artist, who just tends to favour doing a lot of uninspired animu shit.

Whatever, no cookies for him.

But the jokes , dude. The jokes. Or lack thereof.

Both of those comics are rubbish.

Okay, I spent some time today going through the Mac Hall archives again, and yes, the artwork is pretty good. The jokes, as brokeaccount would point out, are not so good.

I wouldn't go over it, but I didn't enjoy the artwork at all from the small sample I looked over. Like I said: the guy can't draw emotions without sinking into stereotype animu faces.

Mac Hall was okay. It had its moments. I just recognized the Shirtless O'Clock.

Friend of mine in college was a huge fan so I got inundated with it.

Weirdly enough, I'd never heard of Mac Hall before now. I just... had a group of friends who'd occasionally call "Shirtless (or Pantsless) O'Clock." I would not doubt that one of them did get the idea from Mac Hall... but 'twas not I.

https://machall.com/view.php?date=2002-07-08

Too lazy to fight with bbcode

Yeah, Shirtless O'Clock is not always implementable. 'Tis true.

hey bixschmix, I hear that motherfucker had, like, thirty goddamn dicks.

He once held an opponent's wife's hand in a jar of acid! At a party!

He'll kick you apart

He'll kick you apart

(Ooh!)

More to the point, why does Roast Beef find nothing odd about it?

It's friday, they are all chill.

Because Teodor is a stuffed bear, maybe.

Yes, but he is hung like a cranberry and it's hell of disturbing.

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Also, more times than not, Beef himself goes around naked.

It's a very clothing optional lifestyle.

Sometimes Teodor just gets naked; he seems to have a bit of a nudist streak in him. Naked jogging in the backyard, naked helping Chris Onstad with the shipments in the wee hours of the morning...

I think there is a chance that there is no acknowledgment of his nudity in this strip *specifically* to provoke comment here.

Better question: Why is Roast Beef oblivious to this fact?

I think he's just ignoring it.

If you walked in and saw Teodor naked, don't you think that you'd do anything in your power to not discuss it?

I know I wouldn't want to talk about it. I just wouldn't want to know.

Quote:
E) Jerkin' it to an odd fetish until Beef walks in

When I hit the curr link, and found this, I thought it was an old strip I had not noticed. Nice one Onstad.

Our mother shoulda
Just named ya Laika.

NO

COME ON ALEX!

YOU CAN DO IT!

COME ON ALEX!

THERE'S NOTHING TO IT!

I was with you until you started screaming.

WHEN DADDY COMES HOME YOU ALWAYS START A FIGHT!

SO THE NEIGHBORS CAN DANCE IN THE POLICE DISCO LIGHTS!

That was supposed to be in a larger font size but apparently assetbar's version of BBCode wants to be all renegade .

Well shit dude, like we didn't know already.

That is my 12-year-old brother's favoritest Arcade Fire song. I'm not sure if the Arcade Fire were trying specifically to cater to 12-year-olds with that song, but I wouldn't put it past them.

It is a good song. My personal favorite of them would have to be the Neon Bible version of "No Cars Go."

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Well I guess this is where we part ways tekende. The next time we meet, you'll feel the impartiality of my blade.

I have been through this with far too many people. I am sorry. This could have been much better than you made it. "Have It Your Way," I guess.

No man... That's 'My Body Is a Cage'. The organ is sweeeeeeeeeet.

Black Wave/ Bad Vibrations, baby.

I cannot chubby anymore on this page, I'm afraid, so I will be the only other person to agree with you via text.

That's my favorite Arcade Fire song too, and I am twice your brother's age.

My favorite is probably Tunnels or 7 Kettles. Arcade Fire are hell of godly

They are so good they wrote a song about a person so unloved that they should have been named after a dog that was so hated they shot it into an icy black vacuum on the back of a missile in which it subsequently died.

What's Arcade Fire?

It's when some real bad dude tosses a molotov cocktail through the screen of the Donkey Kong cabinet in the back of the movie theater and people are all running out and yelling "fire! fire!"

Arcade Fire is good music made by many men, women, and one monkey on amphetamines wearing a very convincing Candian hipster disguise.

Arcade fire is what happens when a church has a child with a moody 1950's electrician and the child grows up to be french canadian.

Phillipe's Arcade Fire Awareness campaign rolls over in its sad, shallow grave...

Speaking of that, I've searched everywhere (ohnorobot) for the whole Phillipe and Arcade fire thing which I read about in Wikipedia. I added a [citation needed] to the sentence that mentioned it because I wanted to find it so much but directly after that somebody just deleted that sentence. Meanwhile, back at...

It was in his blog.

more knowledgeable question (though the ponce's question was rad and he is so smart for asking it and he deserves like a million dollars for it):

(oh plus also, OPINION TIIIIIME!!)
which album of theirs should i purchase when i next visit my favorite music retailer? (i do not have any of them.)


(i am sorry for the many parenthesis in this comment)

Personally, I recommend Funeral over Neon Bible, but I think Neon Bible's more self-assured and sounds more polished, so it has that going for it, plus "Intervention."

pick up Funeral, it's their best.

Plus, it has Neighborhood#2(Laika) which you can put on while reading this strip.

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I agree on your first sentence, at least. I can not fully understand why this band is so popular. I bought their first album not too long after it came out and the hype had begun, and was underwhelmed. It's good and all, I feel like I should like the songs, but they just don't provoke much response from me.

I remember thinking at the time, "This band probably considers Neutral Milk Hotel to be a big influence." Maybe I thought they had a relatable emotional and musical "and the kitchen sink, too" approach. I'd rather listen to NMH.

Get Funeral. Sorry everyone, but Neon Bible is one of the most worthless albums I've ever heard. A very disappointing follow-up.

i was waiting for your response, dear sir. i will trust your opinion whenst i visit that shop. thank you.

R--really? Or is that sarcasm? It's hard to tell. Why my opinion?

it's something i randomly decided. don't put much stock.

i purchased this album today and it is so good to hear it .

i lied to YOU. i actually VALUE YOUR OPINION and HOLD IT IN HIGH REGARD. i mean this. i mean every word.

-=CPNGLXYNCHOS=-

An anagram of "a dire farce".

i can now chubbu this comment now that i have the faintest what you're talking about.

It's for your own good
It's for the neighborhood
...c'mon don't ask questions, just get in the missile, ok?

Those were the salad days of scientific progress. Got a bagful of war-loot nazi scientists, a hankering for world domination, and no problems with irradiating dogs or retarded children... sigh...

Meta-chubby for the 8-bit Spider Jerusalem avatar.

Oh necessarily.

Perhaps the Russians were just trying to frighten off any potential alien invaders.

SOVIETS AHEAD IN DOG-KILLING RACE

HOLY SHIT
CAT WALKS ON FUCKING MOON

J A V A

It's a Make a Reference to an Onion Artical Friday!

[IMGS OFF]

The cat what has facial hair?

Ah yes, he's the only person I have ever met who voluntarily puts penises in his ears.

Umm....I'm not quite sure I follow.

Believe it or not, that would actually make sense if you'd watched a strange little series of Internet animations entitled "Beebo: The Cat what has Facial Hair".

Ain't no cat woulda gotten into that space ship.

CATS
IN
SPAAAAAAAAAAAACE

This is more because cats are incredibly uncooperative than because they are intelligent.

You must have some pretty wicked sack to be talkin' that way in here.

I think cat lovers would call how uncooperative they are "character." Dog lovers would call a dog's extreme stupidity "character" in a similar fashion.

I would just call it "hilarious", though.

When my weiner dog was a lil puppy he tried to walk on a lily pad in my parent's back yard pond. The sight of him peering carefully at the pad, then extending one paw out and taking a confident step which soon turned into him upending and tipping forwards into the pond, is pretty much going to be the highlight of my life. I mean, there's probably going to be some pretty good stuff later, I hope, but nothing's going to match seeing his eyes shoot wide as he did a fully-fledged front flip into the water and then cling to the side of the pond. It's all downhill from there.

Dog all like I GUESS THIS AIN'T NO WALKING LILLY

i can see your dogbee saying exactly that.

That's why that dog has little wings, so he won't have to deal with the question of walking lillys.

i can totally see him trying. seeing one in some pond and thinking 'LANDING PAAAAD!!' so he aims for it but instead of plopping onto a sturdy piece he just plops into the water. he has to paddle back to shore and let his wings dry in the sun for three hours. it is in this time which he is most vulnerable to attack.

man what would attack a dogbee. that would hell of be a crazy sight.

In my head he sounds like cartoon Jeb from "Lil' Bush"

That is one of the cutest things I've ever heard.

This just in:
People with Natalie Dee avatars really like stories about dogs.

Spinynorman, you have some wonderful memories about dogs. You could write them down in a book and make a fat wodge of cash selling them to moms.

Book writing is easy, book publishing is about as fun as a shotgun enema.

But think of the money you'd make, man. Think about it. You could put it in a huge bin and swim in it.

Actually the usual payment for a first time other's first book sale is 5000 to 12000 dollars. Writing is not a particularly lucrative occupation.

I guess you could swim in it if you had one of those old tin bath tubs from the 1860's that you had to sit in with your knees all bent and such.

Other = author, because I suck noodles

I know. I'm just saying, a book of humorous dog stories has a lot of appeal and could generate hell of sales numbers and you could get a lot of royalty payments.

And then Hallmark would option it to make a TV movie or miniseries out of it.

Seriously, Spinny. That's 5000-12000 for dog anecdotes that you are currently giving away for free. Not a career, but that is a lot of beer money.

Dog books without pictures only sell well if they are about the owners, not the dogs.

Pictures are necessary for the books spinynorman would write.

And I am fairly certain he has not these pictures.

Plus you'd waste hell of ducats on proof-readers

Publish on demand?

ewwouch

My parents have a dog (a dalmatian) who, as a puppy, ran out onto the pool cover with no idea there was water underneath. His frantic tries to step on solid ground as the pool cover slowly sank are also pretty much the highlight of my life. He was so confused that even when he moved his paw over to that other part of the pool cover, it still wasn't solid. Eventually it sank enough that he could swim over to the side and we hauled him on out.

Yes clearly this is the kind of dog we want saving us from fires.

Ha. Maybe Arcade Fires .

Also the kind of dog we want delivering Budweisers.

And the kind we want on hang gliders.

And the kind we want pulling all-nighters.

And the kind we want in deep friers.

sorry.

Please don't deep-fry my puppies, they are very cute!

It's healthier to grill them anyway.

I love dogs. I do.

But I still thought that this was going to be a story that started funny but the dog ended up drowning.

And I laughed. Sorry.

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Listen, man: I'm not one-hundred percent sure what you're driving at, here.

V. Chub 20X6.

Sounds like he drives at dogs.

man maybe I'm just self-absorbed in my pet ownership preferences, but no cat I ever met ever gave a single shit about me or my troubles and maybe the dog threw itself in front of that bus because you had a bad day and took a pay cut at work can't convince yourself that you would be a good enough parent to warrant ever having children and the dog just wanted to help, just wanted to do something for you, because that's what dogs do did you ever think of that?

i wish i could lame this a million times

Regarding Dogs vs. Cats: The only possible way to raise a cat that prevents it from becoming a total douchebag is up a flagpole by its tail. Do this while they're young and they'll die a partial (albeit cute and fuzzy) douchebag at worst.

I literally find it hard to trust people that totally hate dogs.

Don't mistrust them, pity them, for they just don't get it.

If only your comment was more towards the top of the page. Then I could have given you a chubby. Gotta love puppy shenanigans.

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oh yeah. dachshunds do dumb shit forever, look like rodents when they swim and will terrorize any and all small neighborhood children.
But mine is about 10 years old, gay and overweight. He is brokeback puppies with my grandfather's toy poodle.

The man has a sack of granite and the legs of a log.

HE. IS. RUDE.

I love strips like this. A monotonically increasing crescendo of awesome. Some strips pull back in the middle and create space for character development, but this one kept going. Additionally, I had just watched a Trentemoller music video this morning that was about Laika. Coincidence?

So in the Achewood universe where animals both alive and stuffed are sentient, was poor Laika capable of understanding what had happened to her? I hate Fridge Logic .

Well, we know that in Acheworld, dogs are not quite as intelligent as cats or stuffed bears. "DENISE! ARE YOU CRAPPIN? YOU FEED THE DOG YET?" Implies that cats can sometimes have dogs as pets.

So to answer your question, I don't know.

Top unfounded stereotypes.

1. Angolans are genetically 1 percent horse.
2. Greek people can not sit down.
3. Albanians serve wax as dessert.
4. Puerto Ricans are made of candy.
5. Asians can fly.

None of those are my ideas.

That one about Greek people is true. Have you ever seen them sit? I would describe it as "leaning on a chair".

I think that stems from olden times when they would just kind of lie down and be fed grapes and olives and be fanned.

Naw, I rode an Asian 'cross the Atlantic once.

That's weird, I rowed an Asian 'cross the Atlantic.

Of course, I was under the impression of a different stereotype.

My dad said Greek people die early
Also, can someone help me understand caves? :(

I think as a woman you would understand them better than most of us here.

That better not mean what i think it means

Please go back to your past avatar. I would have laughed much harder at this post.

Chubby, nonetheless.

HELP I did a 2 but I wanted to do a 1 (HURRY!)

Mind-chubby.

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Oops, I lamed the wrong comment. Sorry.

There is always the possibility they may find such an idea just lame.

Chubby this comment if you read comments, lame this comment if you don't read comments.

Do you not see the logical fallacy here? I see it, and it looks like you are fishing for chubbies. And that is lame.

Not that I lamed you. I refuse to participate, beyond this comment.

Well, crap.

I misread your poll. You want lames from everyone who sees it, and chubbies from everyone who doesn't.

It is still a logical fallacy, and it still is lame, and I still refuse to participate.

It's like taking roll by announcing, "All students who are absent please raise your hands."

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Man, I really get the feeling that joke's been made before.

Hey, don't be a *ahem* PRICK
('Cuz he's spiny? Man, I am just all over with these bad puns today)

they are not good

They are hardly even puns. They're like... snup. The opposite of puns.

i feel snubbed by these snup...s.

Closer to "All those who should know not to be a cock to a stranger, ever, be a cock to me please." Just as strange to the sensibilities of the frequent haunter of assetbar, but more likely to actually produce results.

Actually, comments being excluded makes me more likely to read them; I have to dig them out just out of curiosity.

My threshold's at 100 now. I have to know.

Anyone who doesn't read assetbar will never see this, especially since it is so far down the page.

You didn't think of that did you?

damn dude, you must be, like, a genius, or something. cuz i, like, totally did not think about that possibility, before.


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WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM US

The avatar really makes this comment. It is overall a terrific effect.

I think you're running the risk of a lot of false negatives.

Wait, maybe I mean false positives. The lame = yes / chubby = no reversal thing is tough. Lawbot is going to have a bell of time.

"Lawbot and the Bell of Time"

Thanks for turning my typo into a hot new series for young adults.

This sounds like a title for teenagers who are a little below the label "young adult." If you want cheesy young adult fiction, I recommend the novels by Stephanie Meyer (New Moon et seq). If you want a classic, the Outsiders is what started it all.

I read that Choose Your Own Adventure. Ever third page says

NO

The End

Because it looks like you misspelled 'Every' I imagined this brief sentence being said by Wilford Brimley.

He spits a lugey right before saying The End

I did misspell it. I did.

Intimate things, Mitch... Oral, and whatnot...

diuhbeetussssss...

YES

Wait, wait...what? I cannot process this - my powers of observation are seriously degraded from their normal low level.

Are you talking to me? I think you are. I hate assetbar. Let me try to explain. When I first read tsrts's poll, I thought he was asking for people to indicate that they don't read assetbar by laming him (since to me, the natural order of things is chubby = positive = yes; lame = negative = no). My first reply was supposed to imply that he was going to get a lot of "false" lames--i.e. people laming him not because they don't read Assetbar, but because ... well .

Anyway, since I misinterpreted his instructions, that comment no longer made sense, so I thought I should own up to that. I tried to quickly explain that I was confused by what was to me an inversion of the "chubby=yes / lame=no" principle. Further, since up is now down and black is now white, perhaps lawbot, well-known (and beloved?) for his tendency toward strict polarity in his responses might also have trouble. It was a disastrous couple of posts, and I am glad to be rid of it with the conclusion of this, the most boring post in the history of assetbar.

YES

Shit and this whole time I;ve been giving chubbies to people I believed were the most likely to be fat.

Aero-chubby.

That would explain the Chubbies my posts keep getting...

Ah jeez. I lamed you, but I feel so bad about it. I guess you had to set it up that way, though, or we'd all think it was a cheap ploy to get chubbies and lame you right in the face, and then your poll would be all kinds of messed up.

I think maybe he knew that. Somewhere deep down in the deep dark shadows of his soul. If so, what is the point of the poll anyway?

I think he is a dude who wishes for more pain all the time to dull some other pain from History. He is a dude who refuses to believe he is rad. There is nothing we can do for him now.

Dude, history can be rad.

Like cavemen and nazi-punchers!

plus i got depression.

YOU QUOTED THAT STRIP THAT IS ANOTHER EDITION OF THE STRIP THAT IS HERE GOOD FOR YOU

Do you mean "read AssetBar" or do you mean "read Acheworld"? Because I consider the one to be a more specific branch of the other. Like the difference between "automobile" and "Daihatsu".

Actually, Assetbar has become more real than the so-called "strip" somewhere above.

Note that I said "Acheworld", not "Achewood".

Wait.

You are implying a Daihatsu can move by itself. Are you sure you want to go out on that limb?

Darn, I don't seem to have spam marking priviledges. The former is now the latter, eh?

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I don't mean to be stealing Lawbot's schtick but NO

Teodor is a fat-ass fuck.

Rod Huggins is a fat ass-fuck.

The XCKD hyphen-reversal! Good times, good times.

Man, don't ruin a semi-clever thing by implying a relatively new institution pioneered it.

Especially when you can't even spell xkcd right.

Spelling comic names wrong is sacrilege here among the fans of Woodache.

ha! ironic!

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I dunno, shitty?

If you are talking about the artistic quality of the drawing you have a point, I guess.

But speaking as a math major/computer science minor who has worked in the software industry and currently teaches math in high school, I quite often find myself curled up on the floor, regaining consciousness after having laughed myself into a state of senselessness reading xkcd.

Just because it doesn't speak to you doesn't automatically mean it is shitty.

There are some computer and advanced math jokes that I don't get, but even so, I love it a lot.

I love those too. I get to look 'em up and go on a three-hour Wikipedia learning adveeeeeenture!

Just because it serves up an all-you-can-eat buffet of in-jokes to the a big hungry niche readerbase doesn't automatically mean it is good .

It's not really in-jokes. It's just about stuff that some people don't know about. I imagine that unemployed people wouldn't get Dilbert.

Wow. I actually wish I had a chubby for you lawbot.

We get it. We just can't summon up the energy to get out of bed and read it.

I am not saying that automatically means it is good. I am saying that the fact that someone doesn't get the jokes doesn't mean it is bad.

The underlying point being, just because someone doesn't like it doesn't mean it is shitty, it just means that person doesn't like it.

There is all kinds of stuff out there that I don't like. I don't judge it as shitty, I just avoid it.

Aside from the art being indefensible... XKCD spends all its rupees pandering to its niche.

Whereas Achewood is just plain funny. (In an original way which I will now dub " f-huh?-nny .")

I love Achewood as much as the next person here, but I would not call it "just plain funny." I don't want to sound like an elitist prick, but I think a sizable chunk of the comic would not appeal to a normal person.

are...are you implying that i am abnormal?

Yes. I think we all are.

Hmm. Maybe huh?-larious!

xkcd is half really good math and comp sci jokes.

and half emo

I've broken a long-time posting silence to ask: why is Teodor naked?

I was kind of wondering why he wasn't for a while.

Untilyouaresonude, your reasoned and humorous comments were often the highlight of early assetbar. It would be nice if you posted more.

Yeah man I always remembered you as the main asherdan-detractor back in the day

Speaking of which, where did that motherfucker go?

I think asherdan and retardo left and started a forum together. You can find it at www.everythingyousaymeansyouaregay.com.

I think he's over at that other forum for achewood.

TOUAMB still exists?

Man I thought that shit died when assetbar came along

Hee, I love the thread where they talked about "that assetbar thing not lasting long" and "the people over there weird me out" But yeah, hilarious.

Maybe this comic is to prepare us for Roast Beef going back into space. This time he takes Ray and they go to Mars and have some drinks and Todd is already there.. for some craaazy reason.

This should rebut any accusations that Onstad does not care for dogs .

Does he own any cats? As far as I'm aware, he just has some weiner dogs.

And we know he likes them because weiner dogs are completely awesome. What other breed of animal is bred exclusively to be hilarious?

I thought wiener dogs were bred to pull badgers out of holes.

This is why their tails stick straight out behind. So the badger hunters have a handle to pull the wiener dog out of the badger hole.

[IMGS OFF]

Today falseprophet you are SO GOOD AT FUNNY

It's also why they have those little hairy bumps on the sides of their muzzles. By being sensitive to the touch, they alert the dog when it is unsafe to continue moving downward.

They were, but most Dachshunds these days are miniatures and they're largely bred because they're hilarious.

The name actually even means "badger dog."

The dude is not lying. I just consulted a dictionary: STAND BACK!

Weiner dogs are delightful little guys, but they can be some goddamn ornery sons of bitches.

Yeah, they definitely are not aware that they are about the size of a football.

I can't oblige weiner dogs the right to be angry. Hell, I'd be permanently angry too with about an inch of working ground clearance for my undercarriage.

they are indeed low riders

Word? (Picture found but not made(

I completely remember that avatar-dog being of the wiener sort. Ah well. I'll lame myself to get the ball rolling.

Not to be too pedantic, but the launches of Laika, Ham, and other animals did provide useful data for the US and Soviet space programs. They showed that living organisms could survive launch and being in a weightless environment for extended periods, and how their bodies would react.

Sadly, though, it's correct that there was not even an intention of trying to return Laika to Earth. Ham and other space chimps did survive reentry, but Laika died from overheating several hours into the voyage. The actions of the Soviet space program raised ethical concerns at the time, and there were protests at Soviet embassies.

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People get angry when oppressive dictatorships hurt puppies.

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Well, you've gotta figure you won't retrieve the first few organisms you send into space, and -- arguably -- better not to retrieve dogs than humans.

I don't know if I'd call the Marines an oppressive dictat- oh, we're talking about the Russians

Jeez it was just a dog, the Soviet Union did hella worse things than that.

Though it was a balanced picture, Afterall Soviet authorities banned the psychadelia band "The Plastic people of the universe"- something that shows despite all the mass murder and dreariness they had their subjects best interests at heart.

Maybe Teodor still has underwear on, though. Or he's been walking around in the buff all day and those aren't even his pants.
It was a nice touch to todays strip though. Raises some questions.

Teodor is not even Donald Duckin' it today, with his old man paunch and geriatric chicken-legs. He's like defiant and shit with his pants just hanging out next to him.

Teodor believes that sending a dog into space is a fucked thing to do.

Teodor sits naked and watches the program about the dog.

I think sending Jessica Simpson on stage is a fucked thing to do.

Though I watch programs that include Jessica Simpson on stage while naked.

I still think Jessica Simpson is not a real person, but a computer-generated image, like that movie Simone with Al Pacino. At least I think that's what that movie was about. I never watched it.

It was not about Jessica Simpson

Well, I know, but it was about a celebrity who was actually just a computer generated image, right?

Correct. I have not watched that movie either. Our bond restored by our shared cultural ignorance, I return my sword to its scabbard.

Yeah, I knew that you knew.

I just felt it had a kind of poetic flow to post that after your post.

It was kind of like: Aren't you glad it was not about Jessica Simpson.

more like Orange you glad it was not about Jessica Simpson?

More like Orange you glad someone made that pun?

banana

That girl is hotter'n donut grease, I don't care what you say.

But she is so incredibly stupid that it is impossible to ignore. I'd be going at it, then all of a sudden I would hear "I know people say tuna fish, but it's also called 'Chicken of the Sea', which one is it, fish or chicken?" in the back of my mind, and my penis would go limp, forever

Dude, if stupidity really affects you that way, you should really think of emigrating

"America: Our Worst Critics Decide To Stay!"

Ha ha, but come on, be for real.

I feel the same way about George Clooney, only I would say that I he's smoother'n the slickest of pomades. It's because I'm a lady.

But George Clooney isn't dumber than a non-adjustable wrench.

(He learnt Coptic!)

You are correct, sir. More correct than when La Simpson stated her distaste for endangered species meats.

She's hot in that her features are well-proportioned and stuff, but she's so boring -looking.

V-Chub!

I'm not sure how to interpret that. Like, she looks like she would open her mouth and a torrent of boring would come out? If that is what you mean, I agree. Life with her would be basically spent explaining why Monty Python is funny.

On the other hand, maybe you mean boring-looking as in a perceived lack of vibrant animation makes a woman unattractive.

I do not agree with this, because a misshapen woman falling down the stairs is exciting-looking but wholly unattractive.

If I may interject, Jessica Simpson, to me, is the Labrador of women. Pretty dog, sure. No obvious flaws. When you ask a kid to draw "dog", they'll draw something like that, because it is a very general and pleasant looking breed of dog. Nothing exotic, no defining features. When you ask a person to draw "pretty girl", it's going to come out looking a bit like Jessica Simpson. Big eyes, pouty mouth, classically fertile body. Blah blah blah. Where's the excitement in a Lab or Jessica Simpson?

not to say i'd kick either of them outta bed for eatin biscuits, it's just a sort of dull look.

I mean I see a thousand other women who look exactly like her whenever I open up a magazine or watch TV. There is lots about her that is pleasant to look at, but nothing that is interesting to look at.

The above comparison to a lab is pretty apt.

That's a pretty valid point. She looks like the outcome of a corporate committee tasked with designing a hot girl.
That being said, her generic-ness might be the root of her hotness.

Sometimes with BBCode you end up holding the grenade and throwing the pin. try, try again...

I agree. If I were to offer an example of what I consider hotness of a more unique order, I suggest Regina Spektor.

[IMGS OFF]

I mean look at her. She is a chanteuse, she has mystery, she could be a former prostitute, she could be a virgin, she could play Sofia in the Broadway version of Crime and Punishment . Depending on your tastes her flaws could be qualities and her qualities flaws, but there is no way you will think her some perfected sculpture for there is no humanity in that, and there is nothing endearing about that. You almost think you have a shot with her and it's like she wants you to think that too . Does she know she is beautiful? If she doesn't, can I reassure her? She usually has lipstick but she sure as hell doesn't need it. I wish I could temporarily be blind so that I'd have to trace the contours of her face and body with every part of mine.

O Regina! Thou transcendent, naturalist beauty! Read to me the works of Emerson and Thoreau! Sing in your childlike-yet-mature voice of lost love and innocence! Sing into the microphone upon the stage and upon my loins! Sing, sing, o sing! For in this life the only whispers worth hearing are not to be spoken into the ears they are to be spoken directly into naked flesh.

I have no more chubbies to give but I want to chubby this. GOD HOW I WANT TO.
I am very gay for her .

I chubbied it for you, Regina Spektor is hot. Another singer I always thought was hot, but not in a normal way, is Fiona Apple. I think she's the only person I can think of who simultaneously turns me on and terrifies me. She's crazy hot, and from what I've seen in interviews, she seems pretty cool, but she has that weird vibe where it seems like she might cut you for looking at her wrong.

She is very hot, and makes very good music, but she is an insane person. I saw her in concert, and she was either on drugs or having some sort of episode. She was crawling around on the floor and talking to herself and picking up the little random pieces of trash she found to closely examine them. At several points, she walked off the stage for no apparent reason, then came back a few minutes later.

In other Fiona-Apple-related anecdotes, a boy once told me I looked exactly like Fiona Apple. It was probably the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me. (I look 0% like Fiona Apple.)

I have never seen her live, but the actions you describe do not sound at all unreasonable. I think she is permanently either on drugs or having some sort of episode.

Do you have a vagina? Because then you are least 1% similar to Fiona Apple.

Now you have to chubby yourself, because you rule and this also about Fiona Apple is very true. I hadn't really thought about her since Never Is A Promise but yeah you are correct on all counts.

Chubbied for being spot fucking on.

I'm too friendly, but oh this made me happy. I've just been getting into Regina as of late. Always been a Tori and Imogen girl first.

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NO
MAN
SHOULD
BE
A
DICK
TO
A
STRANGER

EVER.

NO

Music is such a subjective experience.

Wow. This post is absolutely splendid.

When you first started posting, falseprophet, doing those annoying Roast Beef impressions, I didn't think too much of you. But you have in the past few weeks become one of my favorite commentors.

Anyway, virtual chubby.

I am glad my writing has improved and that I have earned your respect tekende.

But, sigh. I guess from now on I shall have to keep all my Beefisms in my Journal of Reflections sitting neatly next to my poetry and drawings of chicks wearing nothing but emo glasses.

Can...can I see some of those drawings? Can I...see some?

I'd like that too.

Are... is Lyle here?

The occasional Beef-ism is okay. It just kind of crosses a line where they're really long, you know?

And yes. These drawings sound intriguing.

Ms Spektor's incredible singing voice aside, has anybody heard her speak? Seriously, the cute, it is fucking immeasurable.

Until that movie, I had a policy requiring me to watch every movie that Al Pacino was in. You did well not to watch it.

My friend in high school dated her sister (their dad's old church was where I grew up in Texas). Apparently-- if you can believe this-- Jessica's actually stupider in real life than she seems on her show. No, really.

At first I thought you said that she dated her own sister, but the I was like, wait, what?

That is what I also thought.

Sorry: my friend dated Jessica Simpson's sister. You know, the annoying one with the lip-synching and the nose job?

Doesn't take much for Beef to whip out his DOG impression

T rented that DVD hoping to get some disguised gay porn.

"How to shoot dogs into space the 'Shooty Doggy into Spacey' way."

I would have fallen for it myself.

If i could coin a phrase

NO

Readers interested in Laika might also enjoy this.

Or perhaps even this .

Or, in that same vein, this or this .

Or just being kicked in the stomach.

It's a Star Wars right here at home! Or at least, THIS animal was hit by a car. Labrador owners may wish to leave the room.

Or perhaps even this (specifically the alt text)

They are making a movie about that dog.

Richard Gere is starring. I don't know what part he's playing, but it may be the dog.

Of course - being a famous and proud Japanese story espousing traditional Japanese stoicalness, loyalty and honour - it's set in Rhode Island.

chubbied because I was essentially reading all these comments to check whether somebody had posted that yet, because I have read it several times and it still makes me cry real tears.

(I always sort of think it should finish at 'stars' and skip the last 2 paragraphs though?)

Damn saucy_jack, I came here to post that. Good thing I read the comments first, chubby for beating me to it.

This strip was going to be a 3 for me. It was almost a 4. Then I read the alt text. Insta-5'd.

T was watching this...naked?

Why does Teodor suggest that stuffed animals are worth less than real animals?

Is his lack of pants the cause of, symptom of or solution to his self-loathing?

(Just because he doesn't have a T-shirt doesn't mean that T can't be the guy who sucks who's got depression.)

I...I can't decide how I feel about your avatar. Part of me feels that it is totally awesome, while another part of me places a cautioning hand on the shoulder of the first part, saying, "Wait. That might be bryancondon's baby, in which case it is his avatar because he wishes for other people to see how cute his baby is. And that is lame."

why is that lame? if it's awesome, it's awesome.

I doubt it is bryancondon's baby. That is a popular internet meme.

Now I've gone and accidentally commented under my own and personal name instead of the other account I created, and it is weird that the Internet is speculating about my baby that I don't have.

Now you know TWO things about me. And you'll never hear from me again!

Wait. Come back.

whoa.

what if this bryan is someone who regularly posts on here?

It could be...
Teehee ^.-

my feelings on this asset are: what the crap, Homestar

Bryan Wheat?

if bryancondon doesn't have his baby then who does? the plot thickens...

Your avatar: a baby being subjected to the Ludovico Technique.

HOLY CHRIST IS THAT A SELF-HATING STUFFED ANIMAL

Characters in this strip: Beef, T, and the ham-shank couch!

Are you referring to the arm of the couch, which is clearly a Hostess Yodel?

I am slightly conflicted in my feelings about this strip going for the Strangelove reference instead of the "My Life as a Dog" one. I suppose Onstad was worried that it would quickly devolve into flat chest jokes.

And we already did that two strips ago.

Clay Goblin Chinese..that's what keeps me awake at night

The dialogue in the last panel is perhaps the most Achewood anything has been, ever.

Funny, but man, they couldn't just send a guy up there first - might of been space rays and stuff.

Anyway, you guys all got to pour one out for Laika - the first earthling to leave the planet and the first to never return from the sky.

You shoot my dog into space, you fluff my hog.

"You launch my dog, you fluff my hog" makes more rhythmic/rhyme-matic? sense

Attention assetbar: Please redirect all chubbies to the above comment.

i'm flattered

Well at least someone got some chubb out of it

Awwwwwww. V-Chub.

Yeah, because the Russian space program was so concerned about human lives.

All airbrushing dead astronauts out of photographs like the never existed and shit.

The y never existed even.

It's like that y never existed

So, what? It's just dove now?

You just blew my mind

*Ahem* ou just blew m mind

This service brought to ou b the Association For Alphabetical Purit

Silent chubby for a laugh out loud. Thank you. :-)

So does the arm of that couch have a cream filling, or what?

Aw, jeez, is that why Teodor's naked? Aw, jeez.

ive always agreed with all points in this strip

sorry about your midget dude.

I love it when i turn up late and because of asset bar i have no frigging idea what 90% of the board is talking about.

Guess you shoulda split your cashews while they were still in your knapsack!

[IMGS OFF]

Aw snap!

Boy I hate Cashews because they make me think of the kind of people who go to Dane Cook shows with cashews.

Dog in car = better mileage

I don't think that is what was meant by "aerodynamic concerns" I think beef was suggesting that a dog strapped to the outside of the rocket could create unnecessary drag.

What if they just let him stick his head out the window during lift-off? Give the little guy a thrill on his way out.

Virtual chubby, this is awesome.

Have you heard of Screwed Pooch ? It's all about Laika. It was censored on KRON 4 because "Screwed" is a naughty, naughty word. Don't say it around the 3-year-old! (https://www.laikaspace.com/ has the video)

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NO

Of course haha now I see! That style...

I'm sorry I had to lame you before but I had to test you to make sure it was you haha but now I see for sure that you are one of lawbot's former disciples. I am gladdened to know you have escaped his haha treacherous school alive. It would be an honor yes haha an honor to journey to the west alongside you for the cause of justice and the glory of the Emperor! We must travel lightly for surely there will be bandits and spies along the road and... Look out!

Look, falsie, I'm sorry, but what the hell are you talking about here?

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Avast ye!

Thanks. That... that helped. Well, I still don't understand your post, but now I know that it's apparently something related to Wu-Tang Clan, which means it's okay for me to not understand it.

all he's trying to say is that wu tang clan ain't nothin' ta fuck wit'

I find it strangely flattering to think that there could be such excellent beats composed in order to have lyrics about me. Of course, the next verse would probably be some of the racist doctrines of the Nation of Islam.

White people sure are cool!

Sorry. All kidding aside, the point I was originally trying to make was simply that catgrl131's response to niggar was very similar to a typical lawbot post. However, I thought that I could add humor to my analysis by appropriating the voice of a cliche martial arts film, in which discussions of different styles and schools are commonplace. When you requested clarification, I again opted for misguided humor instead of a simple straightforward answer, so I posted some images of the Wu Tang Clan as a clue that I hoped would get your mind in a martial arts region so that you would go 'Oh I get it now.' As an added bonus, I'd have the opportunity to start up the second White People Music thread on this strip, the first being about The Arcade Fire.

Yes, that's right. I just called nine Brooklyn hardcore rappers White People Music. Tawlk amawngst yaselves.

Yeah, I think everyone would have benefited from this explanation earlier. It was a pretty good idea before you brought Wu-Tang Clan into it.

Well, it sounded a bit to me like a badly translated Elite Four dude in a Japanese pokemon game, so....kudos?

I sort of picked up on the martial arts theme, but it was the interspersed haha's that really threw me. Well, it was the haha's that started to throw me, and then Wu-Tang was there and I was all like "What?"

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it's okay for me to not understand it.

I'm not so sure. Apparently you are not cool.

Apparently? Apparently? irondave, where the hell have you been, man?

To clarify, I am not trying to say that I am cool. Quite the opposite.

I'm just hanging out here in flyover country, convinced that this whole "hip-hop" thing is going to blow over any day now.

I'M PRETTY SURE I JUST GOT THAT

these promises ring hollow, niggar.

Why is Teodor naked? Naked Fridays, again?

I believe the second question Beef should have asked is "Why are your pants off?"

I hope Teodor wasn't "strangelovin' the bomb" while watching a documentary on space.

Let's also not forget the tragic story of Belka and Strelka:

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I like the idea of thinking "medium-hard". I'm gonna use that from now on. Thanks, Achewood!

Teodor baby, you make my wood ache.

Why is this rated lower?

This is the strip where I caught up to the current strip, after a log, hard, hilarious trip through the complete archives. I am fucking exhausted. I am happy. I am here. Goodnight.

Congratulations!

Congratulations.

You have truly reached the zenith of your life. It's all downhill from here. Enjoy it while it lasts. One strip every couple of days will leave you longing for something that isn't there. You will become a wisp of a man.

Congratulations.

Congrats! Hopefully you weren't as unfortunate as I, who learned of the strip, started at the beginning, got nearly through, then learned of the alt-text (DAMMIT!), and went back a bit, then finally (recently) joined the assetbar conversation and had to go back through it all AGAIN! .
...actually, it's not bad at all--it's like spending a weekend flipping through my Complete 'Far Side' collection...

Chubby on the accomplishment!

Chubby for being determined, is that the big-ass hard-back double-book collection or is it just the five collections of the far side? I'm just curious because I've seen that collection around and I can't really man up and buy it because I have the individual collections.

buying the big-old-double-book-complete-far side is extremely worth it. the quality is very decent.

Virtual chubby for you*
*Only redeemable if you man up and buy this , dogg.
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It is everything you will ever need. In my youth, we had owned almost all of the single books, but I needed to have this, so in the future I could place it in my wall-sized bookshelf, next to the Expanded Riverside Edition Shakespeare.

My girlfriend bought me this for my birthday. Back when it was $80-$90.

that's when I knew then uh that this was basically a thing .
I married that girl. Oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!

I feel like im looking at the monolinth from 2001 a space oddysey. Just had my birthday though so I can't splash out. Will get when college is over.

Pantsless Teodor Orezcu: HE THINKS THINGS THROUGH

if téodor is gonna go without pants, why is he just sitting there with them draped on the couch next to him?

In case the cops show up? It's best to be prepared for eventualities that would still require pants, even if you choose to spend a day without.

ATTENTION ASSETBAR DENIZENS:

cassandrakazenzakis has correctly included an accented letter in an assetbar posting.

Well done, Madamoiselle!

NO, no, i'm still seeing a question-marked diamond.

Switch your encoding. In Safari it is marked "western."

I switched Firefox encoding to Western (ISO-8859-1) and can see the "e" with the diacritical. (I don't know its exact name since I'm a stupid American. Or United Statesian.) Still no word on the plus sign.



plus sign test.

yeah, no.

I only have one question regarding this strip. Why are his pants off?

More like why are your pants on?

I don't know about that tophat_tophat persona, but where I live it is pantsless O'clock.

It is only in a comic strip such as Achewood where nudity receives absolutely no acknowledgment.

Next they sent a monkey, and then Gagarin. He was first person in space but no one likes to mention that because he was a comunist. Its all about the first person on the moon. So now the americans won the space race. Honestly, thats the interplanetary equivalent of "ahhh cmon, best 2 out of 3"

Lame Joke of the day: if the soviets got to the moon first and painted it red, the americans would just write "coca cola" on it.

In Soviet Russia, I chubby you!

If you spin it out it becomes a better joke.

Don't forget all those cosmonauts they sent into space that then died horribly. We don't hear too much about the dead Russian cosmonauts.

Dead Russians =/= doggies, that's all.

Edited out of pictures, I tell you.

Look:
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But suddenly:
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Or the ones who went crazy when they came back from space.

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I am...THE FURY!

What th...oh, forget it.

You can still see part of his left hand and arm on that guy's back...

Hello please don't send me to space.

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Too bad.

Take your protein pills and put your helmet on.

I just received a phone call from the papers, they have a few questions:

1) Whose shirts you wear?

that is all. Now it is time to leave the capsule...IF YOU DARE!

Hydroplaning towards infinity... Just some drag queens, and me...

It's okay, you're not aerodynamic enough.

{Shoots up from somewhere in 2005} There is hella commentary in the future!

Also: that couch arm is suggestively positioned for a very non-suggestively positioned Teodor. Back to 2005 I go {/shoot}.

Man, I don't care if it's 2005, you'd better stop shooting up or you're gonna wind up with a bandana and a needle full of Hi-Five!

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This deserves some damn chubbies, people.

If you think about it only a little hard though, it's totally rational.

uh oh people stop having a terrible prejudice against the Soviet space program. We were launching dogs and Americans were launching monkeys (which is worse? I'm just glad no one was launching cats). Plus, Russian/Soviet flight preparations were always more thorough than Americans', which resulted in far fewer casualties (I think the ratio is something like 1 to 2.5) both on land and in the atmosphere, so the dogs didn't die in vain. And no there was no "secret dead cosmonauts" if you believe in this crap then you are no better than Moon landing deniers. I noticed that people these days tend to overestimate the soviet propaganda machine. C'mon that's the same time period when Solzhenitsyn was published! The system was baby-bottom soft those days. In fact, American propaganda turned out to be more effective in the end. Hell, it's still working, people still get alarmed when they see a communist.

Sorry to ramble and enjoy the grammar/spelling mistakes.

I've expressed basically Teodor's exact opinion on this event

That's not as bad as the Americans who used a monkey. I mean, that's an endangered species! Dog are a pest in some cities, I say good riddance.

That's not as bad as the Americans who used a monkey. I mean, that's an endangered species! Dog are a pest in some cities, I say good riddance.

That's not as bad as the Americans who used a monkey. I mean, that's an endangered species! Dog are a pest in some cities, I say good riddance.

That's not as bad as the Americans who used a monkey. I mean, that's an endangered species! Dog are a pest in some cities, I say good riddance.


That's not as bad as the Americans who used a monkey. I mean, that's an endangered species! Dog are a pest in some cities, I say good riddance.

Damn. I got to this strip while randoming my why through Achewood and didn't even know my favorite arc started on the next page . Dang it.