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Achewood Community College - Electives! Wednesday, August 11, 2004 • read strip Viewing 65 comments:

I purchased the World Time Zone Chart but the unit did not transfer to my university.

How oh how will I get my five dollars back?

I'm afraid that's one of those situations where you just take the experience in half-hearted reminiscence and move on with your bad self.

Next to Friday Facts, this kind of stuff is the best!

I agree!

Slipping "Intro to Watercolors" in there - kind of cheap, but mostly brilliant.

This gets a 5 for "Hate is a Fag"

I am Bi, and I can not imagine NOT taking that course if I actually found it.

I do need to study up on my timezones.

Any italians can confirm?

I read in a newspaper that they have a lot of car crashes because of text messaging, so it must be true.

When I read that bit in the comic I remembered that I think I heard something once about how they text message a lot in Italy, so it must be true.

I'm an American but I'm half Sicilian - I love T9.

Quiet you! Don't reveal to them that you're from the future. In local time Terminator 4 hasn't even quite come out yet.

I'm an American who is half Sicilian - I hate T9.
Did...did I just find my evil twin? Or am I your evil twin?

Is that Robert Duvall?

A comment left by jollysaintpete was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by mistlethrush, ravindra108, clintisiceman)

in that hat with those cheeks he so does

it actually Is Robert Duvall, in those old The Godfather days.

Oh my god did I call it.

Right from the source.

A perfect time capsule for what was popular in 2004

Well it's a '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '56, '57 automobile....

Where do they get the parts? Does the teacher work for Cadillac? And even if he does, how does he get parts from 30 to 50 years ago? Must cost a fortune.

I would LOVE to take Auto Shop 154, as long as the lab fee wasn't too steep (those A-daptor kits ain't cheap these days).

Ideally there should be no extra costs associated, yes.

I took "Hate is a Fag" my freshman year. Since I already was gay, its curriculum changed itself accordingly to "Hate THIS Fag."

I'd like to think we had some great times. Great growth. Stayed off a few beaches.

Go muscles!

...whilst punching himself in the face...

I emailed the fuck out of these community college samples.

"Electives!" must be followed by a sound effect trumpet at all times.

Yay, muscles!

Today's Blogs

Pat: Back in the Saddle!
Teodor: We're at base camp.
Philippe: New trash can!
Lyle: pulled
Little Nephew: Squeeze squeezes

Quote:
I also grabbed one by some band called Squeeze, just the gayest...

If Little Nephew can't find a workable sample in "Take Me, I'm Yours," he needs to step away from the table.

The cartoonist has a mediocre opinion of community colleges

Listening to sad music DOES make me sad!

Does emotional music have quite an effect on you?

I cannot say enough good things about Faith No More, or your acumen for knowing that lyric. Well done, sir.

They lifted that lyric from a Scientology personality test. They also used two others "Do you often sing or whistle just for fun?" and %u201CDo you feel sometimes that age is against you?%u201D.

I don't know why I felt compelled to share my pointless Faith No More trivia with you but there you go.

ASSETBAR!
BBCODE!
APPLESAUCE!

Assetbar BBcode Applesauce! Delicious! Pour it all over my Assetbar BBcode Lamb Choppies.

Also... you are awesome for relating this FNM factoid. Mike Patton is a wonderful, confusing man.

Look what I found.

It's all in French, which makes me feel powerful. C'est Radical pour votre sante!

So, I wasn't the only one who typed Crepes Suzette into Google, hoping it was a real band?

Nor were you the only one who felt the slings and arrows of disillusionment when all you found was a techno recipe.

A pretty good recipe. Pancakes man, pancakes

I would like to watch.

Crepes Suzette is, I am assuming, a reference to the band Stereo Total, Who:

1. Are French
2. Are sample driven, often sampling themselves
3. Are upbeat (no sad music to make you sad)
4. Have a song called L'Amour a 3, which is an ode to threesomes and includes several orgasm samples. I would encourage anyone to check them out.

Done and done.

I've seen this video before; it is strange that they used German lyrics for it. The radio and album versions had the original French lyrics. Some kind soul has dubbed them over the video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV4H3z60h6w

That dude has brought awkward white male dancing to a new level. Does he teach a community college course on it? I'm kinda rusty, but I feel like I could be rustier.

Also, how has it been this long before we had a proper song sung by an attractive lady about the importance of having sex with both a dude and another lady together. This seems like a crucial area of human expression.

I read this as referring to all French music, possibly owing to the influence of Serge.

stereolab

is having the word 'stereo' in the band name a french thing, or am i being overly dramatic?


Was eating chicken ever unpopular?

In certain places and times chicken was considered a food for poor people because they could not afford steak.

They are a silly places and times.

Also eating chicken is unpopular in such places where there are a lot of vegans and whatnot. Do not go into a vegetarian restaurant and order the chicken.

...for Semiquaver will show up.

Christ. Sorry, everybody.

I gave this a 5 after the Al Roker one, but after the Hate is a Fag and World Time Zone ones, I wish the scale went higher.

Crepes-Suzette? Dudes, that's a Tale-Spin reference! This guy's appreciation of culture is beautiful and inspiring.

Damn, the alt text in this one made me smile way too hard for it not to look creepy. I want to make that car so badly.

"Muscles maintain their timeless chic" is not only the entire reason I gave this strip a 5 but is probably also the greatest sentence a man has ever written.

This elicited a strong desire to eat at Carl's Jr. in me, despite having never eaten there. I looked at their website and determined I could not possibly live in a place in the US that is farther away from the nearest Carl's Jr than where I am now.

i used to work at hardees(owned by carls jr.). depending on the employees, it is decent food. the fried chicken and biscuits are pretty rad.

Yeah, Hardee's used to be different, but sometime in the 90s or so they got bought by Carl's Jr. and are basically the same thing. The only real difference is that you can't get crappy Mexican food at Hardee's and I don't think Carl's does the whole fried chicken and biscuits thing.

I want to first post. I want this because this is assetbar. I have to go, but we can talk later. I am Fresco.

That fast food course actually sounds really interesting.

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