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Ray's horribly delivered joke about priests and mailmen Monday, February 14, 2005 • read strip Viewing 72 comments:

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Wait a second...... this isn't a chicken recipe !

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maybe it's a backhanded recipe for chicken yakitori. you know...one of teh basic meats that is of no offense to anyone.

Ray is unconsciously being a cock to his friends. Why they tolerate him is a mystery called Friendship .

I believe I mentioned that "Every conversation a straight man has about gays has to end with 'I'm not against gays or anything, it's just...'

Onstad knows this.

That's supposed to be "I once mentioned to a friend's father that...". I'm not sure how I managed to leave that bit out.

It's all about Teodor's expressions.

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...Molly's steel-gaze glare in the last panel sums up the whole comic.

Nah I reckon the fact that Ray keeps looking back to check that they're still listening

Each time he looks back, he's thinking "Man, why ain't no one laughing? Maybe I gotta explain it."
Or, "Damn, Molly must think I'm a homophobe. Yeah, that's totally why she's being so quiet."

All bracing for impact.

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Wait. Who said "but not really"?

billyamericana, but I think people punched him in the mouth

Ray is totally being that guy in this strip.

this is what it is like when I tell jokes

Nonsense!

Teodors eyes.

Best.strip.ever.

Ray is really good at pissing people off.

Poor Ray. Stick with jokes about getting your bone on, dawg.

Ray is just trying to lighten up the mood but he is not very good at it.

Someone's comfort with gays is inversely proportional to how much they need to tell you how comfortable they are with gays.

Teodor just braces for impact. He knows it's only gonna get worse.

Theodor's little squeezy eyes of wince are cool.

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I'm pretty sure that's entirely not the case.

i love that it turns out not to be a joke.

Nonsense!

That's crazy talk!

No, I know, that's my brother, Crazy Talk. We're all a little worried about him.

love molly's face in the final panel

so perfect

I'm using this one from now on.

Best comic title ever.

dude yeah it is a horribly delivered joke

The joke told badly is probably funnier than the joke told well.

From our perspective, perhaps.

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No, Teodor braces himself for the terrible joke that he senses is coming but he is caught by surprise in panel 11 and then realises that Ray is just digging himself deeper and deeper in.

Teodor's eyes are all equation symbols of Einsteins Relativity Theory and time stretching to infinity during the worst joke ever told.

Sometimes, I am this guy.
It makes me really sad when I finally realize it, and the awareness comes slowly, and I'm sort of stumbling over my words, and suddenly get that I've dug myself in deep and either lapse into embarrassed silence or try to sort of back out and it just gets more awkward and uncomfortable.
Actually, I guess Ray isn't really that guy, because he doesn't really get it at all. It's almost lovable. If only they didn't want to tear off his head.

what the strip didnt tell you is the 10 seconds of silence that passes between each panel

This becomes pretty clear in the stares vested at him

"Vested?"

srsly, look it up

I have a vested interest in not doing so.

(Whoo, new inbox!)

I'd like to say that, Téodore's visible portrayal of awkward discomfort exactly represents my own in any similar situation. I am not a stuffed animal, however, so my comparative judgment is rather lacking. I've used too many words in this comment.

Molly is doing her very best to kill ray with a look. I'm pretty damn sure she's coming close.

This is the kind of joke that the parents of my friend's WASPy girlfriend from Cape Cod would tell.

Another conversation extracted directly from my life. Bonus, I also drive a luxury SUV.

It's a tough Thing.

I'm pretty sure Ray is still stoned while all this is happening.

He's not really still stoned, but he's a little hazy. He's not yet come back down to realizing that the world and his car aren't a playground where anything he thinks is fun IS fun. So he backs off. The way he backs off "you can pretty much guess what they did" is the best part.

A gargantuan five.

This is one of those jokes, where you think in advance, "This isn't too offensive, these guys will like it". You're not a hundred percent certain, though, and you keep an eye on everybody as you tell it, and about the time you get to "a horny mailman shows up", you realise nobody's smiling or even looking at you. You think, whoops, it is too offensive. I'm that guy . So you start backpedalling, sort of aborting the joke while making apologies for it, but that just makes the situation worse, and eventually you just trail off and wait for somebody to change the subject.

yea this happened to me once with this joke.
So there's this farmer and his incredibly hot daughter and these three drifters come in and ask to stay the night at the farmers house. He agrees but says "you have to stay in the barn and no one can sleep with my daughter... if you do, I will know!"
So they all go to bed and the next morning the farmer walks into the barn and wakes up the drifters. He tells them all to drop thier pants and says "I will know you have slept with my daughter because she was in a car accident a year ago and has miniscule glass shards in her vagina. You can't tap that without getting some kind of torn up"
So the first guy drops trou and his business is scarred a good bit. The farmer pulls a gun and shoots him. The second guy clearly sweating pulls down and sure enough, he's got some tell tale signs too. BAM!
The third guy pulls down and the farmer smiles. "Seems you're the only respectable one of the bunch. Come on lets have some breakfast." So they're having some cereal. The farmer looks up at the last drifter as he eats and quizically asks him "How'd you get your mouth so scratched up stranger?"


I told this joke at church camp.

Did the priests give you head?

He was the priest.

So yeah, probably.

Those guys need to learn about anal sex.

I love how Molly's expression in the last panel is exactly the same as it is in panel 3. Ray's 'joke' is hell of ineffective.

The fifth panel here is one of my all-time favorites. I can't explain this, to myself or to you.

This strip is made up of many brilliant components that combined are somehow even better than the sum of the parts

this strip is 100% about ray's eyebrows

everybody wants to kill Ray.

Teodors's "maybe it's over...?" face in panel elven slays me.

Panel elven is just before Rivendell.

This strip is like a scene in The Office

I imagine Molly shaking with irritation.

Teodor's face in panel 11 seriously almost gives me an aneurysm. It's that funny.