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Goodbye Showbiz Thursday, January 16, 2003 • read strip Viewing 101 comments:

A comment left by asherdan was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by Sleeps, Zefiel, GeyserShitdick, lamelliform, Moraiat, Andrew_, littlefatdog, dropkickpikachu, havenless, tovarich, Saint)

Am I missing why everyone is laming this man?

I was kind of wondering the same. Not that I exactly chubbie the hell out of him, but he really gets smacked down with lames for nearly everything he says. I probably missed something.

He is paying for sins against other strips. That is't how chubbies are supposed to work, but that is how people are playing it apparently.

I was with you, and now I understand.

I actually made my account so I could see what the hell Asherdan was saying whenever he posted and if he was really as big an asshole as the lames would have you believe.

Conclusion: He is not. It must be a combination of him having fucked up royal somewhere in the past and people just not being able to let go.

My Firefox is an old version, free from plugins, so I cannot view the alt-text in this magical new Achewood world.
I remember this alt-text, though.

alt: "an idiot's expenditure"

I'm pretty sure there is a conspicuous lack of alt-text here with any browser, old or new. That's why I got two tabs open, all going back and forth.

Man, Beef's pretty loaded. Or was.

This is not the first time Beef has been shown carrying an unusually large amount of cash for a dude with strange cares. Those 365 pairs of underwear cost him about that much. I wonder if this is a thing.

I'm sure Ray keeps his friends taken care of. Except, it seems, Cornelius, who continually takes demeaning stints as a writer or speech-giver.

If this is the case, I'm sure that Cornelius Bear is too proud to take another man's money.

Except on Pool bets.

And those odd jobs, while less than fine art, keep Cornelius' juices flowing to some extent, I think. Like why old people do crosswords everyday, or something. I'm sure the Sunday NYT has lost it's challenge for him by now.

Connie does the Sunday Times crossword in ink. In a mirror. In six minutes.

This could get Chuck Norris.

It is probably a paranoia thing. In case the world's banking system crashes or if a creek closes in around him at least he has a considerable amount of green

Yeah, but the U.S. uses fiat money, which only has value in a society that believes it to, without any gold standard. If the banking system goes down the money's not worth stew.

Chubbied for 'stew'.

Beef doesn't have a job. I wonder if he found a stash of Incan Luna-Gold when he went to the Moon and brought it back with him, and buried it next to his black shirt that Molly gave him.

It sort of makes sense, that Roast Beef would hide or be ashamed of his good fortune, and paranoid that if he spent it living outside of his Circumstances, that it may fly away whence it came.

I always presumed that he went and withdrew all his money while he looked around for Showbiz. By "everything I got" I think he means EVERYTHING, not just the contents of his wallet. He knew he was gonna have to give the money to his brother.

I would like to have one family reunion that doesn't end this way.

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Justin Lee Collins.

Haha why did this one get the most chubbies

Entropy, my friend. Entropy.

Law of Outbound Transference.

Showbiz does not think about this very long before he decides to bolt. Old habits die hard.

My friend who is turning into Showbiz is like this too. Takin' what you hand him, always bummin' other people's weed. Sketchy times.

Some roads are such that the further you go, the steeper they get, and the less exits you pass.

Shobiz is on such a road.

Steve Miller would be so proud of Showbiz right now.

Second panel, Beef's patronizingly caring 'huff' and hands akimbo is adorable. And the last panel is a small part of just why I love Achewood so much.