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Volvo Closure Monday, June 6, 2005 • read strip Viewing 92 comments:

Jesus that makes me cry.

Roast Beef has the power.

The power to make one barf. Fuck, man. SPLUT

The Roast Beef School of Ocular Shenanigans is an ancient tradition, full of great power.

Your avatar totally makes the comment. Chubbied.

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5 for "ding dong"

I think he meant "Plus 1," but a plus sign isn't allowed in these comments for whatever reason.

Sic semper fortuna

I don't know any latin but this is what google got me:

"Such is always fortune."

or maybe:

"Fortune is always as such."

Am I close?

yes.

Always faithful Bib Fortuna.

Your lack of faith disturbs me.

Not enough chubbies here. Y'all need to learn your obscure Star Wars characters.

Yes! I heard it in a james earl joyce voice even as i read it

jones, dammit

stately, plump darth vader

Tim Finnegan....I am your Father, Tim.

Chewbacca ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liver slices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencod's roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.

Why....that's simply offal!

Roast Beef with shoe polish on his head is pretty much two of my ex boyfriends.

You poor thing. Every have them over for a threesome with boot wax?

-=SPUFGH=-

SPOGHTGTH! is about as close to perfect vomit onomatopoeia as there is.

i like 'blorf' as well as it just gets straight to the point

I prefer HFRGH...fuck vowels.

That's a good excuse, and a good rule, for onomatopeia.

I'm not sure if I spelled that correctly...

I suppose it depends on what was ingested, no?

Also, the volume and consistency of the vomit. There could potentially be a Science to this.

I pronounce mine as "Mmmhhh-uaaRRRgh-bllrrrgh!" personally.

Yack like a Pirate?

Depends largely on how much rum I've had.

Ray looks so resentful as he barfs in the last panel.

Ray is so pissed off that he is puking.

hence him trying to hold it in.

Dammit, I looked again and you made me do it again! I hate this!

when i first read this i thought he barfed because he thrusted his martini glass into his mouth

Why did you think of that though
Why would you think of that

At first I was like whaaaat come on man but then when you look at the sequence the martini glass seems to be headed that way. Interesting. I didn't think it until you said it though -- I still believe Ray just threw up naturally, from seeing his friend as goth. I think he set his martini glass down, the way he normally does when he throws up.

This premise is so perfect.

ray tries so hard to keep the barf in

I too often find myself expectorating my breakfast (which often finds purchase on my bedside table courtesy of the queen herself) when goth children look at me in the mall.

I enjoy Ray's angry face.

It's about time Onstad cashed in on the motif of harmful sensation

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Hmm, I'm not sure that Chris realistically captured the physics involved with that mirror. Unless that is a painting of Beef that Ray commissioned in a hurry?

Indeed, viewed from the angle we are standing at, the mirror should just show a reversal of Beef. What Onstad has done here is how people should look when they are on TV.

Which is no surprise, since it is probable that Ray has some kind of Sharper Image digital LCD mirror that works via cameras and screens instead of simple reflection technology.

https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292271,00.html

That's really, really messed up. I'd rather have a taser up my ass anyday, thanks. Okay, not any day. And not up my ass.

Cripes. It's like the "sick-sticks" from Minority Report . Man, the only thing better than a weapon that makes people puke would be one which makes people shit their pants. Seriously, no-one would mess with you.

Paging someone with a Transmet avicon! xiaomimi, anyone, get over here!

When I was a kid in college I had a link in my AIM profile that just said I barfed because you looked in my eyes for about a solid year

If you are wondering who was the mac daddy of UT then yeah, basically you should look no further

University of Tennessee?

Texas.

So you are the SA SpinyNorman.

which you already said on the page where milk was discussed i should be sleeping i gotta go to work in 3 hours

I have no memories of milk discussion, but yep, that'sa-me.

The one where Little Nephew said to Ray that when he was young people didn't know they could eat eggs, which led to a long thread of Weird Things People Put In Their Digestive Systems, and one guy mentioned milk and booze was also proposed.

Aww fuck, I'm using the Internet again!

I'm from SA too. Texas love.

Well, while we all love Texas, I believe Stuart is referring to SomethingAwful.com and their forums.

I misinterpreted. I retract my Texas love.

Hey I'm from SA in Texas! CRAZY!

Texas is okay, retracting ones love of Texas is a harsh thing to do.

For some reason, whenever I hear people ask "University of TN?" in response to hearing "UT", it always sounds like an accusation. This is probably because I live in Nashville.

Utah?

Twice!

two times

Five'd for THAT FACE.

the intense close up of beef makes him look like a giant

also, again i laughed out loud at this

awesome

I have a bump on my head.. from falling over laughing.

I don't laugh out loud at many strips, but those last two panels got me! One of my favourites.

Couldn't help but bust out laughing here at the library at Ray trying to keep a straight face while vomit spurts out the corners of his mouth. Usual props go to Onstad's comic timing and consistent ability to have amazing punchline panels without any dialogue.

i have had chicks do such as this to me
i feel your pain, rb, i FEEL YOUR PAIN!

This one still makes me laugh so hard I can't breathe.

Weekend Blogs

Pat: Screw You!

Ray has an impressive amount of vomit control despite the circumstances.

Well, he is a career drinker.

At first I thought Ray was throwing up because Beef didn't know what Pond's Cold Cream was.

"God damnit Beef!"

The way they look together almost reminds me of Pulp Fiction.

Goddamn I love this strip!

SPUFGH!

Uh oh...

[IMGS OFF]

[IMGS OFF]

'All such as hotboxing a car with sandalwood incense.'

Pure. Gold. Incan gold, that is.

I hate when I start scrolling through comments getting ready to make a point and I get towards the bottom and no one has made it yet and then bam , second from the bottom is my exact point.

Goth Roast Beef looks kind of like a FoxTrot character.

Man, nobody likes to see their friend barf.

Beef's stomach can flex over remarkable distances.

SPUFGH

Ponds Cold Cream really is amazing. Though it is neither an ointment nor a salve, it effectively removes make-up every time.

I'm glad that having been told his stare induces vomiting, he keeps looking in Ray's eyes.