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Ray gives Milklin The Hose Tuesday, October 11, 2005 • read strip Viewing 55 comments:

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a cat-friendly version of releasing the hounds.

MUCH more cat-friendly.

His actual, personal hose.

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socks I will go get the hose

THE HOSE!

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People, you should hold your lames! this was obviously a gimmick poster. A gimmick poster doing a perfect impression:

[IMGS OFF]

i'm not sure I follow.

I like it somehow

Me too. I mean, I'm still completely lost. But there's a lot of conviction there.

Hm.

I played a show with the international playboys once. They are from Montana, no?

they were drowning me.

The hose has become my number one undesirables deterrent

I want to know the story behind this "the hose", but I know there isn't one.

Every time you comment upon something, tinhand, I imagine Nomi saying it, just to me.

This makes me more happy than I can properly express.

Milkin is such a bad Jehovah's Witness he doesn't know how to react to an imminent doorstep soaking. This upsets Ray.

I think that what occurred here was that Ray delivered a threat that he thought would scare the dude away, but then realized that he did not in fact feel like going to get the hose
so he settled for shoving him and yelling "the hose"

I imagined that he was trying to put Milkin off his guard -- Milkin was expecting him to go get the hose, so was not prepared to defend himself when suddenly pushed out the doorway.

Haha, there are TWO Ls in "Milklin"!

I like to think that this is EXACTLY what "getting the hose" means as far as Ray is concerned. Even the pause. He wasn't waiting for something, a pause is part of the process.

Ray is just bitter because Milklin pestered him about nine months before, here . Judging by the name tag, that was apparently before he was rescinded.

nice fucking spot, dude!

THE HOSE!

I need to start using the hose

IT RUBS THE LOTION ON ITS SKIN

Or it gets pushed and yelled at some again?

THE HOSE!

THE HOSE!

The clamps! THE CLAAAAMPS!!!


Milklin is a stranger and Ray is pretty much being a cock to him, unfortunately.

Bear in mind, Ray was stoned when he said that.

As noted in a comment above, Ray met Milklin on a Fuck You Friday.

Also, membership in a door to door evangelical organization moves you from "stranger" to "known quantity" immediately.

Tankity tank! Tankity Tank!

Milkin was supposed to leave when Ray mentioned the hose. Ray got pissed when he didn't.

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As of press time this strip is rated 4.4
doesn't that look a little like a face?

Well, damnit, it does now.

the pause in panel 3 is what really makes this strip

This is my favorite achewood. And it fell on my birthday. Amazing!

I like to think Ray doesn't even have a hose, and that The Hose is just his name for a real raw, dirty kind of fighting move wherein you extend both palms and slap Jehova's witnesses in the nipples

straight backward somersault, scientists are still figuring it out

i hate when people explain comic strips but here i am about to do it

i think ray said "let me get the hose" as kind of a stock unthinking response and then he decided he should follow up on it

this has been my book report for Ray gives Milklin The Hose thank you for listening

"Milklin the Hose" eh? Ha, the title makes me snicker.

Aahh,they way grandad used to do it.

The Hose'd!

Of course if you want to avoid the enounter alotgether you could display some Give Blood stickers on your front door.

I tried this on a bandmate once. I ended up with a busted lip and a happy feeling in my tummy.



religious intolerance is hilarious am i right

Yep.

second

It's not so much religiousness that's being intolerable here. It's barging in on someone else's life with it, just talking to anyone foolish enough to open the door.

Also implied: by-rote proselytizing is the refuge of the otherwise-ineffective?

Man Roast Beef and Ray are kind of dicks.