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Hell Yes I'm telling you about some Latin shit! Friday, March 8, 2002 • read strip Viewing 85 comments:

She picks glasses for him that look exactly like her own

I think she just sent him one of her pairs. Her insurance pays for a new pair of glasses every five years, but her style has not changed in over thirty years. Thus, extras that she hands down.

I think she took them off and put them in a package instead of the glasses-case.

It's like Ray just hides, waiting for his chance to impart bone-related knowledge.

If this is not how you currently live your life it is a false one and you should seek to change it.

That's what she said.

Who, Sappho?

No, your mother, who I...

...boned?!

Trying too hard, man.

it's not like , it is .

This punch line is SO true.

Rubbish. What about the poor scribe who wrote that epic love poem and had to give King Solomon credit? He was all like, "Beams of cedar, Beams of cedar, Beams of cedar..."

OH SNAP

catullus is the utmost.

Catullus was the first poet who preferred boning women (though boys would do too)

Actually, Sappho pre-dates Catullus. So not quite.

They pre-dated? How very peculiar.

Catullus' dactyls failed to meter her needs.

Bone-us, Bone-a, Bone-um.

Capitalization of Bone enforces the essence of its power, little man. Bone.

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Bone.

boNe

...damn it.

Six times?

Booooone.

I have this taped on my notebook for my Catullus class. He sure does get his bone on frequently.

I never noticed Philippe's ears before. Im I alone?

I emphasize with you. I hadn't noticed either.

[IMGS OFF]

I butchered this way back in Latin 1 because I thought it would be fun. Now there is a place for my ungrammatical stylings.

Wins for the "EXPELLENS"

EXPELLENS

You have won the game!

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Damn you!

Agh! I had forgotten I was playing the game, thus I was winning!

God damn you! I had been winning for almost a year! And now because of you I just lost!

(Note to the innocent: Never begin playing The Game.)

people are fucking retarded

[IMGS OFF]

Thank you, XKCD

get out of my inbox with this shit

You are just sad and angry that your Assetbar efforts fall so flat.

Also, you don't know how to kiss anything without exchanging monies for it.

hahaha where did that come from? who taught you to troll, your grandmother?

I feel that there must be a better way to translate Ray's speech. I KNOW there is no better way to translate "shove."

EXPELLENS!

Nice improvisation with oculos secundos for eyeglasses.

Congratulations. You have won at life. Unfortunately, now that you have won, you are ineligible for further participation and must be euthanized. Officials will arrive shortly to perform the euthanasia. Goodbye.

Wins for "oculos secondos" for "eyeglasses." Well done.

Mr Bear forgets that he is holding latin.

I wonder how many fruitless years of Latin Onstad took.

hell yes that is awesome

Alt-text: "How do I know whats going on anymore?" Im not sure if that's exact, because its from memory, because this is one of the best alt-texts ever.

The a-t really does it for me here, you can almost taste his anxiety.

Philippe looks like an old woman with those glasses.

like on Seinfeld, when George accidentally bought "ladies' frames"

when i was eight, mum let me choose some new sneakers. i chose wrong.

Have you....bought another pair since?

I have, but to this day I spend an hour outside the shop manufacturing ways to ask if they are definitely guys shoes without actually asking.

Alt text: "How the fuck do I know what is happening any more?"

Do you think Ray's mother and phillipes would ever be friends?

They're basically identical except that one is a cat and the other is a plush otter.

SHOVE

when Ray appeared with his bone-talk it occurred to me to cheer out loud, even at work.

I love many things about this strip, but mostly I love the way Ray shoves Cornelius out of the way in the last panel. And that eyebrow.

We think of boneworthy poets as beginning with Byron, but really the Romantic era owes a great deal to the foundations laid by Catullus.

That guy laid foundations? He was insatiable.

Try as they may, this is all lost on Philippe.

Oh, snap! This is like my fourth trip through the archives and I just realized that Ray is pushing Cornelius out of the way, not, as I thought, suddenly removing his full-body Cornelius suit. Imagine it that way.

That is a hilarious interpretation! But I could see Ray doing that to Pat. Maybe disguising himself as the mailman to drop in a few "bone-bone-bones!" before Pat knew what hit him.

"Well Mr. Reynolds, here's your latest Outraged Vegan newsletter and this month's edition of Reasonable Man Monthly. Speaking of which, have I told you about that reasonable man THAT I BONED? BONE BONE BONE! Uhn! Uhn!"

"God DAMN it, Ray."

Ray shoving Cornelius out of the way metaphorically represents the cats taking over as the lead characters of Achewood.

Professor, this is the most enlightened statement that I have read so far on the Assetbar. As such, you recieve my first chubby. I hope you're suitably proud of it. I sure am.

Congratulations, Prof. Hazard. You just took Notcool's cherry.

I have a Latin Literature class that I'm taking this semester. The teacher showed the reading list and Catullus was on it. I instantly started laughing my ass off

that was a pretty extreme reaction to his name right there

Did you have to explain yourself? If so, how did that go?

No, he either didn't care or didn't notice. He was kind of spazzy

glass house

Just looking through some old comics, and I was shocked that no one posted this yet:
Pedicabo ego uos et irrvmabo, meritriculae!

Yes, we really dropped the ball on that, as a community.

No, no, I'm sorry! None of those words mean anything to me!

Acmen Septimius suos amores tenens in gremio... if you know what I mean

Yesterday, I was showing my girlfriend a book of Marilyn Hacker's poems, particularly the bits with lesbian sex. (Yeah.) She asked if I'd heard of Catullus, and I started off, "Catullus was the first poet who ever got... Yeah, I know of Catallus."

Probably a wise choice.

Cornelius and Ray must have staged this. It is highly unlikely that Ray is familiar with the works of Catullus.

Ray makes a point of familiarising himself with all pioneers in the field of getting one's Bone on.

I love the onomatopoeia of "shove"

It is perfect.