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Rouged Plastic Asshole Wednesday, October 27, 2004 • read strip Viewing 72 comments:

this is how many questions in life get answered

But on just this page, okay buddy?

One must ask how Philippe found out about Playboy Adviser in the first place without reading any of the other pages.

He must have wondered where Ray learnt all that stuff about bubbles and the alcohol content of booze... and gone looking.

The Playboy Advisor people are so friendly, all trying to keep Philippe's innocence intact.

I like to think Philippe includes flavored stickers with all his correspondence.

The thought of Philippe asking questions of the Playboy Advisor is kinda cute and kinda messed up. In other words, it's classic Philippe.

no phillipe, don't turn the page...

If Philippe turns the page he will find a picture of Shayla from the University of Redlands wearing nothing but high heels and grape-flavored stickers.

Redlands is known(by me) to have creepy older, portlier girls who like it and get even creepier when you say you listen to weezer.

A chubby for your avatar. What happens when Philippe, in a fit of rebellion, turns the page.

Creepier how?

Oh Jesus fucking Christ I went to that school and dropped out after a year, possibly due to creepy portly chicks.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHFLASHBACK

Women wearing nothing but stickers.

Hello new internet fetish.

dang phillipe looks pretty surreptitious in panel 4.

Lyle liked the sound of "Feh" so much that he decided to repeat it

pft!

It's hilarious how the Playboy adviser seems to intuitively know the correct way to respond to each of Achewood's members. Frankly, the idea of Playboy, a nudie magazine with intelligent and articulate writing, is pretty damn funny in and of itself.

All nudie magazines have to have serious articles, so you can be half serious when you claim you only read it for the articles.

i've been known to respect playboy's opinion at times. they're on the mark, every now and then, especially with media reviews.

i was actually, NO JOKE, reading playboy for the articles once, when somebody demanded to know what i was doing with it. i was about to answer truthfully when i caught myself, felt embarassed, laughed, flipped the page and started looking at tits.

Way in the past they were a pretty great literary source. Can't say I've looked at a mag recently, what with the intertron supplying all the smut needs one could have and all.

I was interviewed in Playboy a few months ago. It allowed all my friends to purchase the issue and then make jokes about seeing me in Playboy and/or only reading it for the article.

I find it strange that no one has asked you why you were being interviewed in Playboy. So, this is my question to you...

I wrote an advice column for the lovelorn and socially inept while I was in college. Playboy interviewed a half-dozen of us for an article in last year's "college issue."

Actually, the coolest part of the whole experience was that when the editor sent me my complimentary copies, he also included a reprint of the original Marilyn Monroe issue. Now THAT was cool to read through.

(looks at original Farrah Fawcett that he carefully shrink-wrapped, sighs in defeat)

No way is that a defeat, man! Shrink-wrapping Farrah is an achievement in itself!

Did you leave any holes for her to breathe or eat through?

What was the advice column like from THAT issue??

Dear Playboy,

I am from the past. Please help.

Dear Playboy,

Lately I am at a loss as to the place of hats in menswear. It seems that lately people aren't wearing hats as much, and I fear I have wasted a lot of money on fedoras I shall now never need.

Dear Anonymous in OK-

Any girl worth her salt is turned on by a fedora. Plus, then she can "borrow" it, put it on and look really cute. Hat styles come and go-- if it's a classic look, it shall endure.

Bix "Likes To Wear Newsboy Hats When It Rains Like It Did Yesterday" Schmix

This has got to be one of my favorites.

Feh!

Panel 4 - Philippe's Sean Connery impersonation? whos with me?

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A comment left by estutius was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by molesticide, snoozebar, Siah)

I've known people who actually did think the Bill of Rights was what policemen read to you when you get arrested. I'm not American and even I know better.

What's up with the title of this one?

Um, what do you mean? It's just a line from the strip, I believe. And also a 100% accurate description of the women in those mags.

I don't see it anywhere in the text, and Playboy in my experience goes more for only the surface of the butt. Hustler is the place to go for that kind of, ahem, "spread".

Instant Correction: oh shit i can't read never mind

But see, that's the whole thing. Playmates get their polymer sphincters all rouged up even though they ain't gonna be shown, just in case of unexpected glare. I think it's their philosophy.

Polymer Sphincter joins the AssetBar collection of awesome ideas for band names.

Unexpected sphincter glare is the BANE of a photographer's existence.

It is basically a thing all wedding photographers dread

It's not a description of the women. Note he doesn't say, "The same rouged plastic asshole s ," but rather, "rouged plastic asshole," referring to the quality of the magazine itself. A tarted up, fake, sphincter of a periodical.
And, :sigh: I supposed this is my obligatory, "I say this now! Squeee!" Achewood post, because, well, I say this now. Squeee.
I'm also still on the look out for someone wearing a cape, so I can tell them not to, and something bad enough to describe as being worst song, played on ugliest guitar.

Squee?

I was wondering the same thing.

But, back to saru's comments: yeah, you could be right, but not necessarily. He may have used the singular simply to say that it's the same asshole - same ass - same model, essentially, from issue to issue, complaining that they all look the same, you can't tell one rouged asshole from another, etc.

We're probably overanalyzing this.

No, you're definitely over-analyzing this.

It's not the rouged plastic asshole Lyle has a problem with, it's the lack of variety in types of assholes, like "I don't get Pictures for Sad Children, it's the same Roast Beef strip month after month".

That second "Feh!" shows how much Lyle disdains Playboy, I mean, he's really on a twist about it!

"Disdain" is not a verb.

...it totally can be.

Sometimes.

https://dictionary.reference.com/browse/disdain

Yes. Yes it is.

morale was low at the playboy advisory.

I. Love. You. So. Much. ,. Philippe.

Comma, period.

consistency is key.

And it's that very consistency that earns you a chubby. Well done, sir.

feh! why do i even subscribe?

I love this one--I love how nice the Advisor is to Philippe with regards to those stickers.

I cannot stop laughing at the idea of a policeman reading the entire Bill of Rights every time he arrests someone.

You do not have the right to purchase alcoholic beverages. Never mind, you now have the right to purchase alcoholic beverages if you are over the age of 21.

No one said it could be done.

With apologies to Xiaomimi...

Today's Blogs:

Lyle: where the f is my money

Lyle is a gun nut. Thank you, blogs, for teaching us this.

I will go ahead and say I loved the alt text in this one. :-)

The alt text made it worth bequeathing a 5 upon.

Scratch and sniff stickers are flavored stickers if you burn your tongue pretty badly. That way the smells are all that are left. Scent is an important part of tasting, after all. ...After all that tasting.

has anyone noticed how Lyle says feckin'? I dunno how to explain it but that makes this so much more awesome..

Father Ted?

The word buddy brings back some bad Sonic-fic-related memories.

This alt text killed me