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Cornelius's Special Bowl Monday, February 12, 2007 • read strip Viewing 54 comments:

why would T run the disposal?
that's too funny.

I assumed he was running the old shirt through it.

I don't know about that. Sometimes I come home, step into my kitchen and notice a smell, but I can't tell where it's coming from: trash? fridge? sink? If it ain't the first two, I normally just run the garbage disposal for a minute and put some Dawn down there, hoping that might work.

I've always thought Teodor had a similar knee-jerk reaction to a horrible smell: run the disposal, just in case it helps.

I always thought he was attempting to grind up the tangible terror that floated about in the air as a result of Lyle's whatnots.

That was my interpretation, and I often do the same in that situation.

Orange peel gives off a nice citrus-y scent when it hits the blades, but it's not a practical solution unless you've eaten an orange recently.

And had I read two comments down before replying, I would have seen this wasn't necessary.

I apologize for wasting everyone's time with the above comment and then again with this one apologizing.

FUN HOME REMEDY FOR ILL SMELLS:

Put orange rinds in the garbage disposal and run it. Makes your house smell of small times, when oranges were a reward and not an obligation.

lexsenthur, my brain just filled with smells of small times such is the power of olfactory association! chubby for you.

for you small times smelled like orange peel? For me they mostly smelled like a paper mill.

The business cat is from Rougher Times.

The business cat is from circumstances.

Your words are balm on a tired soul.

A comment left by untilyouaresonude was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by apocowarg, Thorfinn, NDCaesar, Siah)

Is it bad that this strip has often caused me to wonder what this would be like?

it truly is best to avoid perinea mouth.

I have to admit, I really don't get the joke in the last panel. Wikipedia tells me that taleggio is a kind of cheese, so...

?

The older bear is telling his younger bear friend that although he enjoys his bowl, he does not enjoy smells and tastes so bad they cause a stinky cheese to run for cover.

when cheese gets old it gets hella ammoniated

Specifically, it's washed-rind cheeses, which smell dubious even at peak ripeness. Think Limburger cheese here.

The Colonel knows his cheese.

Oh dude . That makes sense now. For some reason I always thought "that would make an ammoniated Taleggio etc." was modifying "avoidance."

I was all, "why would old cheese avoid contact with perinea?"

Yeah, ha, I mean cheese and perinea are bestest buds from old times. Silly.

Sometimes I suspect Cornelius is just being a dick. No one really needs the plural of "perineum".

Yes, but Téodor shares (to some extent) Cornelius' intellectual bent (see Onstad's interview in Orato: https://www.orato.com/node/2332 ), so maybe Cornelius doesn't employ the vocabulary filter with him.

Obviously, Cornelius did. Imagine not knowing the plural of "perineum" and then finding yourself in this situation. Mr. Bear is not a dick; Mr. Bear is grammatically forearmed .

Correctly pluralizing the medical names of bathing suit areas is really the only tangible benefit of learning Latin these days.

The naughty bits.

'how untoward!' is a rather calm reaction for such a happening, even for cornelius.

i would like to see a comparison of how each achewood character would verablly react under similar distress.

You're sick . But I like the way you think.

I'd like to see Philippe's reaction most of all...
... followed by Ultra Peanut's reaction to Philippe's reaction.

it's not often that you see the plural of perineum

Why is this not a 5 for the line "teabagged it until his eyes watered" alone?

You say he dipped his gooch in my bowl? BETTER SMELL IT.

Mr. Cornelius Bear: King of Words.

Cornelius's class and wordplay really made a great bit out of the previous strip's crass gag.

Notice that Cornelius qualifies his "mouth's reputation for vigilant avoidance of perinea." I try to keep ANY perinea out of my mouth, even if they aren't particularly terrible.

Would there be a type of perinea he wouldn't avoid?

I too, noticed this modification. I imagine, however, that Cornelius is open-minded enough to not totally dismiss the idea of his mouth meeting (or having met) a perineum or two in its day. He did work for the SPICE channel, and won the Bad Ass Games.

(If my syntax here is a bit convoluted, I apologize, it is the wine)

wine completely hates syntax

but syntax luuhrves wine

I actually make a habit of seeking out certain perinea. Pretty much exclusively attractive female perinea.

Note that you may make your own decision on the arrangement of modifiers there.

Man, Cornelius flat DESTROYS Teodor here. But then again Cornelius is the strip's established Badass.

That is a good reputation for a mouth to have.

This sums up housemates.

Cornelius didn't say that he avoids ALL perinea, just perinea that is so nasty that it scares stinky cheese.

I'm sure he enjoys himself some good perinea on occasion.

That's some goooooooooood perinea.

with your winking icon,
that's pretty terrible.

Now it's... different!

I need a change.

A delicious, delicious change.

I love your new avatar. I can stare at it for ages.

Cornelius is not like other bears. Bears that would eat out of a garbage can, or a dead cow's ribcage, or that bowl

No, not even a frothing hermit grizzly would go near that bowl.
Otherwise they would never have survived to evolve.

Ah yes, but he is not a bear. He is an alive stuffed animal.

this is my favorite specimen of alt-text so far produced.