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The First Piece of Porno Monday, April 14, 2003 • read strip Viewing 54 comments:

I would pay 600 fatties to see some 18th century ankle. Hell yes I would.

Thank you. That is always nice to hear.

hee hee ha ha...

Incidentally, I wrote a really blowhard-y artsy literary interpretation of that painting which is your avatar...now I can't remember the artist's name. *sigh*

Rene Magritte. Or as my friends know him 'That Apple Guy'.

Ceci n'est pas une pomme.

Wasn't it a pipe?

it was originally...but read the comment before mine. I'm being snarky.

apples

Every once in a while, there is a man who is the right man for his time.

He is not such a man.

He is such an apple... s.

19th century.

Bollocks. I'm with Izzard on this one.

Perhaps it features Lavendar "Catfish" Cavendish

If Ray Smuckles made the Forbes Richest list, his "source of wealth" would be: Music Production and Antique Erotica

A comment left by deimosrising was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by professorhazard, regrepsnefpoh, perhapsmaybe)

I don't know about the US version of Antiques Roadshow but it looks like Patrick Moore is the presenter.
Which also makes this strip more awesome

I was meant to get a talk by Patrick Moore in secondary school but he chickened out . I hold this against him, that talk would have been so cool.

This, to me, is the quintessence of Ray Smuckles. That cat always lands on his feet.

He has a way of falling ass-backwards into more prosperity. While Beef lives in squalor.

Except when getting his BONE on

Just ahead on Antiques Roadshow: A guy with a wrench in his head!

I estimate that at auction this wrench, with the head attached, would fetch over $11,000.

ain't it neat? this old timey porno?

Just another source of Ray's extreme wealth

At first, in panel 6, i read "felch."

eewwwww

yum :)

Not Pictured: Teodor hitting himself with a rake.

I love his thought process as to calculating the value. Dude knows his porno.

Thank you. That is always nice to hear.

One of my top five ever strips. Deserves a higher rating, without a doubt.

(This is no longer the case. Just so's you know.)

Whenever I read this strip I burst out laughing, and I don't find every strip laugh-out-loud funny, especially if I'm by myself, even the ones I really like. Just Ray's total nonchalance, the cliche "That is always nice to hear" that everyone says on Antiques Roadshow, and the way the guy cuts Ray off mid-sentence at the end. Pure gold.

is this how Ray becomes rich?

No.

This is how he got richer.

WHY can't I ever see something like this on the ARS?

Is Ray covering his nipples for television?

I...I think he might be. Nice catch.

They can display an antique porno but not his nipples.

The Antique Roadshow guy knows when to cut a fella off.

If the Lady is about to be spanked, it might be worth more to me, but I would need to know what she did that was Naughty.

How is this only a 4.3?!

i'm not sure how the alt text hasn't merited a comment but i agree i too have cried when an egg cup got $55.

"six hundred million dollars".. LOLS. i gave this one a 5. fucking straight flush to the ace.

exactly. by sheer absurdity, it's one of the most "lol" punchlines this strip has ever had

Shit. I say strip, but I mean webcomic. What can you do?

600 million dollars. Do you have any idea how much fucking money that is? Seriously. NOTHING is worth that much money, except countries and large corporations, intangible things like that.

Only things which do not exist can be worth more money than is in circulation.

It cracks me up how ridiculously huge the figure is. Even if it is valuable, someone would have to BUY it. Like there's some antique porn afficionado out there with more than half a billion dollars to throw around on something like this.

I love porn, but not that much.Then again, I also love old stuff..... hmmmmmmm

I love how Ray leans into the microphone in the 4th panel. To tell the guy that it's nice to hear that he owns antique erotica.

Oh hell, I won't even bother to fork out $5 for prono. 600 mil, though.. hell.