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The Startup Company: cold-calls Friday, May 10, 2002 • read strip Viewing 37 comments:

Ray's secret is unflinching optimism. We could all learn a thing or two from him.

My best friend is essentially Ray. Awesome dude.

wouldn't that make you essentially Roast Beef?

it's cool to see ray so young and worried about cash flow. the older ray is jaded and richer than the dictionary definition of rich. i can relate to younger ray more. of course, by younger, i mean a couple of years, but whatever.

Ray rolls with the punches. The punches of irritated silence and bubble-bursting common sense questions. Ray is the Ali of telemarketers. Stick and move.

Optimism! Maybe he decides to have optimism!

Ray knows his A.B.Cs... always be closing . He also knows that coffee is for closers.

Ray does not want third prize, and those steak knives look lame.
Mammet references earn you chubbies from me.

A comment left by maggieobrien was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by Overmedicated, SSDDR, choosebro, aperson)

i used linux to tell me how long i was in the bathroom.

That is just the type of thing I am not surprised to hear of LINUX being used for.

is linux a clock?

Yes.

I thought Linux was in Peanuts.

There's probably a clever comment about security blankets that could be made here by someone that knows anything about Linux.

I hope not

Isn't Linux made by fat people?

Not just by fat people, all the fat people, working together.

Classic Ray

Alt text: "Bocas Rancheros"

ranch mouths? wtf?!

one of you sons of bitches better answer me or so help me.....

Teodore's face in the 3rd panel really lights up the funny centres of my brain.

Yeah, dogg, I love when Teodor makes this face.

teodor hates when ray treats him like he doesn't know him on the phone. he has reacted with a curt "i know who you are ray" every time.

Ray really has no idea what this program is.

ohh back before ray posessed unlimited wealth...

You know Teodor is secretly thrilled a telemarketer pronounced his name properly.

Ray has a telemarketing script-- a list of all the predictable questions with pre-written party-line answers ready to go. In panel 7 he takes a while to flip to the last page...

Huevos! Leche! RevoluciĆ³n!

teodor never makes eyes like panel 3 anymore. i guess its a shame. i've forgotten how to have opinions so i'm not sure

i've forgotten how to have opinions, too. what happened to us, glandwich?

I never realised Teodor had such a low tolerance for Ray's shit this early on in the game.

Sales pitches have completely ruined the words "revolutionary" and "introducing". "All-new" was never much a good word to begin with.

I hate to be the first to say it, but...

Bocas Rancheras*

Is T examining his fingernails in panel 3?

His imaginary fingernails?