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Ray Commissions a Romance Novel Monday, April 16, 2007 • read strip Viewing 75 comments:

All circuitboards printed on the front of her thong.

^ THIS. Sexy!

Damn right.

and now it is at 69 chubbies. Unless we can rally and bring it to 1024, it should stay as it is.

Two days later, it remains at 69 chubbies. How long can it last?

Meanwhile, how do we support the comment? Lame it?

How long can it last? Not 3 days, apparently. 71 chubbies, 1 lame as of 6/11/08.

As of now the situation seems to be improving. No word yet on a definite ID of the lamer, but witnesses suggest that it was a sad angry jealous man with a small penis and a hatred for anyone funnier than him, Jerry Seinfeld has been taken in for questioning. The comment continues to be awesome, and the situation remains tense that it may be mislamed again. Back to you Fineoak Structure.

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It is 0B off FF now.

A lady in a circuit-board thong would definitely do it for me. Rock on, romance novel Beef.

"Sexy ;" all on the bra.

There should be two plus symbols in front of the Sexy and before the semicolon. My post didn't compile.

Assetbar has real issues with plusses.

You could say it's nonplussed. And I did say it.


Rimshot

https://www.instantrimshot.com/

Wow. I have a bad feeling that this is going to make all my friends hate me in a hurry.

perhaps but not as quickly as
https://www.instantrimjob.com/

I am amused a year later to find that this link now goes to monster.com

It's for the best.

[IMGS OFF]

I am buying one as soon as I can.

YES.

All with the capacitors and resistors on one side and the copper lines and solder on the other

This is something I'd get for my friends for Christmas, but that's an awfully long turnaround for them to get it in April.

Especially when it is essentially a madlib.

SHHH Before you reveal their top secret business model!

Ray Smuckles is a true hero to me.

I'd say it's the thought that matters, but Ray Smuckles ain't the kind of guy to mix with thought. He and thought aren't speaking the same language. They ain't even in the same hemisphere. They may not even see the same sun.

These aren't the same people with that discount e-apology service, are they?

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Don't you ever fucking mock Raymond again. Do you hear me?

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Read again, the text refers to Beef's chest.

Shite.

Calm down!

I doubt Beef had any trouble finding out who was responsible for this.

The phrase "...depression playing across his handsome features" never fails to make me emit strangled laughter noises at work. It is a problem I have.

Makes me think Brokeback Mountain , Molly all protesting that girls don't fall in love for fun.

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everyone knows you have canned Hormel tamales the night after a good...kiss.

i havent had them in a romantic context, but theyre not entirely inedible, regardless.

this is a beautiful thing.

Reminds me of the special Burger King Kids Club birthday comic book you could get with YOUR NAME printed in it with a dot-matrix printer. Broke my damn little heart.

Someone please go make this mad lib romance novel company. Please. The world *needs it*.

i seriously am in love with this idea. it makes me want to buy some hormel tamales just to see what they're like.

if you do this as an achewood thing for this coming christmas, chris, I WILL PAY

Wait, so this doesn't exist?

Fuck, there goes pretty much my entire Christmas game plan.

Such things exist , alright. Now you need only choose a theme. Strangers in Paris? Taming the Tycoon? Vampire Kisses? Oh, the possibilities...

Okay, but only if it involves Hormel tamales and extra vinegary peperoncinis.

this has made my world a brighter place.

It just struck me that Strong Sad is the perfect amalgam of Roast Beef and Cornelius Bear.

Oh wow, he is.

[IMGS OFF]

Hmmmm... I'd say S.S. is about 2/5 R.B. and 1/5 C.B.
The final two fifths is some kind of pathetic passivity that neither of these characters exhibit.

I'm not sure that being more articulate than Homsar really puts one in the same league as Cornelius Bear.

thanks...my xmas is now going as planned.

they are delicious they are hellacious they are a one-way trip to pimp skitters and sinner's ass.

"For now, the my pool house was the limits of their world" just killed me.

I have had many friends where the best description for their girlfriend was "nice, not my type." Classic.

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I had to explain to a lot of my friends why the grammar was strange in the text. Those people are no longer my friends (because they are dumb as hell).

Somehow, the combination of stilted romanticism with Ray's "hey man" attitude has achieved a prose style with Pynchonian overtures. Bravo Ray. Bravo.

This is one of the few strips that had me sitting in front of my computer laughing out loud for an extended amount of time.

It's fun to imagine what fields he was filling out on the form. "Sexy breakfast food: those canned Hormel tamales with the little piece of paper in between each one. " I like the way Ray thinks.

Heh! Yeah, Beef! I did commission Molly a special tombstone along with the romance novel! They were havin' a deal, so I figured, you know, why not?

~ Molly Sanders ~
Nice, Not My Type
1666-1676, 2004 - I don't know, probably a lot longer than Beef, heh.

MAN this strip rules with an iron fist

I guess I just glazed over this one at first, I don't remember it being so funny. I got to "some crappy-assed waitress job" and honestly laughed out loud.

This is beyond brilliant. Can anyone read the alt text? All Firefox is letting me see is "Molly seductively slid a raunchy little tamale across her I haven't really noticed them..."

The whole thing is "Molly seductively slid a raunchy little tamale across her I haven't really noticed them lips, and soon..."

Which is also great. Right click and select "Properties" to see the whole thing in firefox.

His nothin' to write home about chest.
that cracks me up every time

I love the implication that there are chests that are worth writing home about.

"Dearest Mother,

Today, I spent a long hour staring into the rippled depths of my abdomen. Little profits an idle and shirtless man of my caliber, lest they find themselves too firmly engrossed in their wonder as to perform the tasks they must do. My abs were like a chum of old times, inviting me to visit a world where no activity exists besides staring at their glory. This is my life.

Your loving son,
Vladimir"

this has, like, 1/10 of the chubbies it deserves.

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Molly: The Achewood A-List! April 16, 2007!

"How often does a bar that is not actively exploding get everyone involved in the same activity?"

"oh, uh, i guess it reads okay, Ray, i mean it's pretty okay . there's maybe a thing or two i would have done differently, you know, if i had done it at all. which i wouldn't have."

is it really possible to lovingly prepare canned Hormel tamales
or am I just stretching this here