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Ray invents hip-hobbit. Tuesday, January 9, 2007 • read strip Viewing 77 comments:

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I don't know where you get that from, but hell, you're entitled to your opinion.

Anyone who's been really inebriated with a good friend will get this, however.

Just this past weekend in fact.

I've never been inebriated with anyone and I still get this.

Normally I don't care about others' opinions, and this is no exception. Many are those who've been lamed out of existence for confessing their lack of a preference for a given comic. But now I'm curious. Why are you fully "pissed off" by this comic? And why did you create two posts, thus doubling your incoming lames?

While I find nothing wrong with this particular strip, I think this comment's lame count is a good example about how no achewood commenter is ever allowed to say anything bad about even one strip. Don't seem right.

While I appreciate the sentiment...
Dude, it's Socks. Everyone hates Socks.

True. Upon closer examination he has made 112 comments and has been marked for spam 94 times. That is not a good ratio.

untilyouaresonude is right, but as someone who's been there, I rate this one is a solid 5. Hip-Hobbit? Beatbox my dwarfcore? These are the sort of marijuana concepts my friends and I have come up with on lazy Sundays.

That's probably because you actually listen to black elf-rock.

System of a Drow?

Oohhh my goodness. Chubby for unashamed geekyness combined with good punning skills

You ever been eating rice and then something makes you laugh so hard the rice somehow gets from your mouth back onto your plate FROM YOUR NOSTRILS

I didn't even know it was a thing until just now.

Chubbied

This pisses you off? Do you also go ballistic when old men sneeze in a restaurant, or crap your pants when you pass a used car dealership?

do you scream "FUCK YOU" at toddlers when they cry because they dropped their sucker in the dirt?

I just give them the condescending stare of shame.

This suffices for most toddlers. The "FUCK YOU" is normally reserved for special occasions.

This man is but a crank, he winds you up.

You obviously do not know what it is to be stoned

I really disagree. Hip-hobbit is pretty brilliant, in my book. I think Ray could totally market that idea. It doesn't pack much of a comedic punch on its own, but it works in the context of the arc. Plus, Ray's beatbox is t- izz -ight!

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heck of lame

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But... but HOW can you dislike hip-hop? Its so good!

It is unmusical. It is uncomplicated. And its very nature is to crudely objectivise people.
I find it unaesthetic and it disrupts my mood.

I want to know what music you enjoy.

Well...there is pirate hip-hop (Captain Dan and the Scurvy Crew), pirate metal (Alestorm, among others) and wizard rock (various Harry-Potter themed bands) and even this one metal band that does everything in Klingon. Why not Hip-hobbit? (I am more for hobbit rock though. It would be like the more mellow of Led Zeppelin's stuff.)

I don't think Tolkien was every crazy enough to write about something as ridiculous as a boiling log. I mean, even when he was all senile and stuff.

Actually a little-known fact is that he wrote the entirety of The Lord of the Rings after going senile.

However, it was intended to be his memoirs.

this is probably the first time the phrase "beat box my dwarf-core, dude!" has been uttered...at least I hope it is

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Uhh... you mean Chris?

Unfortunately, I think "she" means Jeff.

I suppose it could be a shittily-done Eddie Izzard reference (think Death Star canteen)

Jeff Onstad is an amazing writer.

yyyyy... I wanna say... yes?

I completely hear 3 Inches Of Blood when I imagine these lyrics being sung for real

My cousin is in 3 Inches Of Blood.

I think he's the drummer.

Ray just taught me how to beat box!

AS GOBLIN SOULS
GAVE BIRTH TO WAR
AND ALL THAT IT INFECTS

THE MOSSY OGRE WARLORD
WAS ROUSED BY THE CLARION CALL
HE STUMBLED FROM THE ICY CAVES
WITH A MAGIC BLOOD-STAINED MAUL

THE WANTON WAILING BANSHEE
WAS VERILY TORN TO SHREDS
THE WIZARD RAGED AND THUNDERED
ON A TOWER OF SEVERED HEADS

I could just do this all day, college be damned!

I just feel sad because the Lords of the Rhymes totally invented hip-hobbit a long time ago and I feel like they would have had more success if they had thought of calling it that.

p a n e l 5! "Look at that man!"

I looked at him

I looked at that man

The sap inside the log could be boiling. That's actually the danger of being near to a tree that's struck by lightning, as the sap hits boiling point so quickly that it explodes.

I bet the wizard plans that outcome.

NOTORIOUS E.L.F

WU TANG WIZARD

THE SHIRE HILL GANG

ORCS WIT ATTITUDE

M. C. HELM'S DEEP

The Ol' Dirty Baggins

The Orcface Killah

Merry B. & Rakim

Minediggaz

Notorious B.R.A.N.D.Y.B.U.C.K.

De la Smeagol?

FIDDY SILVER PIECES

Please, do continue.

As I already used up my chubbies for the page, I would just like to say hooray for the three of you.

Yeah man, hooray for some guys.

Ozzgiliat.

That is all.

DC

MASSIVE chubbies for all of you.

Ballin'-rog?

I am always exclaiming "BEAT BOX MY DWARF-CORE!" at my wife, but she never launches into the ol' uh-pfuh uh-pssssh.

Get a new wife.

I don't take orders from little bichon-frise-ghost-looking-things on the Internet. Only in real life.

Quote:
little bichon-frise-ghost-looking-things

Sir, that is absolutely the best incorrect description of my avatar that I've ever read. And there have been a few to choose from. Thank you.

How's the new wife workin' out for ya?

I decided to take your advice and get a new one after all. However, I kept the old one. Yay, polygamy!

That's the spirit.

Actually, the Lords of the Rhymes invented this long before T and Ray did, I think.

The fifth panel. Oh god the fifth panel.

raymond smuckles: "beatbox extrodinare"

You have never seen a log boiling with ants, or boiling with centipedes.

Get out in the woods sometime, city boy.

Neither ants, nor centipedes, but I did once witness, from a very close range, a fallen log boiling with hornets.

And I ran. I ran so far away.

Well, really only as far as the first aid shack, but my point stands.

BEAUTIFUL.

the possibility of a boiling log is debatable. you can usually see steam coming from a fresh log thrown onto a fire before it catches flame, which means the water inside has reached the boiling point. whether or not one could actually call this a boiling log i cannot speak to, though.

Man, I hate to counter the alt-text... But absolutely anything can be boiling. ANYTHING.

Might not be easy, but it is possible-- And frightening to watch, in the case of solids.

Does ray have massive bags under his eyes or are his eyes so small that they sunk beneath the glasses? I like the latter.