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Marmaduke Tuesday, May 20, 2003 • read strip Viewing 55 comments:

Beef is so elated by Ray's brutal Marmaduke smackdown he looks like he's tripping. Like if your 6 year old nephew got dosed with LSD while Santa gave him a Playstation 12.

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Welcome to Pe'dants Corner.

(Anyone who doesn't recognise the apostrophe reference is not a Private Eye reader and therefore unworthy of my time.

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Touche, Carlton.

Can I just say that your current avatar is like exactly in time with the printer in my office.

damn. i wants me a ps12. guess i better start writing Santa more often.

He kind of resembles to his future brother-in-law, Taffy .

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Ray demonstrating his insult skills again. Really when you are this good at what you do turning on your nephew is kind of abusive.

I must admit that I did not know it was possible to do that much coke

Marmaduke is some kind of masochist, though. All reluctant to hang up.

Seriously! I bet Marmaduke even lets telemarketers finish their spiel before politely asking them not to call during dinner (6-7pm).

I had a telemarketer call back after being asked to stop so many times that i just tried breathing heavily into the phone, all like "HURRF HAAAH HURRRF", it seemed like he stayed on going "sir, sir, can you hear me sir?" for an awfully long time. I think they get demerits if they hang up first or something.

They're technically not allowed to be the one to end the call unless they're being threatened, and I think even then they have to end with the usual "please call bla bla bla if you have any questions" or whatever. Policies may vary from company to company though.

I'm pretty sure telemarketers are not allowed to hit on the people they call, either. People in general, and perhaps telemarketers in particular, do a lot of things they aren't allowed to do.

Yeah, that's why I said "technically".

secretly, he knows he deserves it

Check this: https://marmadukeexplained.blogspot.com/

this is mad awesome

that is really quite brilliant

Marmaduke recieves a prank phonecall from a cat in a thong and warm-ups.

I thought at first that your username ended in Ome Henk. That it does not is indeed disappointing.

In the old days being lazy had to do with not actually getting up and stuff. Now it has to do with being unwilling to open another tab on firefox and google the thing you just read that confused you. Which is to say I was gonna lame you but then I looked up Ome Henk, and decided: a.) Dutch, and Dutch people, are weird, and b.) chubby.

simply beautiful

New web address for Marmaduke Explains.

It is yonder.

HAHA YES I TOTALLY MEANT TO SAY THAT.
MARMADUKE EXPLAINS IT ALL.
Oh God

I love how Ray plants the seed of failure into him, and the fact that old dog can't hang up.

The look on Roast Beefs face in the last panel is a nice touch.

He looks happier there than he does on the 5.

A 5 does not make Roast Beef happy. Less than 5 makes Roast Beef increasingly sad.

the small aside of "ssssh!" is the subtle gold of this strip.

First Achewood I ever saw. Hooked as soon as I finished it.

"People whisper about this to each other!" is such a vague line, yet it says so very much.

I imagine Marmaduke's voice to sound like Robert from Everybody Loves Raymond.

"i'll give you a hint: you should not be proud of your career!" is one of my favourite lines in all of achewood. i don't quite know why, but it hits a nerve.

I'm partial to "I am Marmaduke. You do not speak to me in this way", all in a quavery voice.

https://wondermark.com/tcsd/stripdoc_6.html

You will never look at Marmaduke the same again. I promise. PROMISE.

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not even a little funny? no?

well I like it. :(

I chuckled a couple of times, but I found it to be more snarky than analytical. The best of these Internet rant/essays go on for thousands of words, and show that the author has immersed himself into the world of what they're analyzing more than any rational person would imagine doing. This one's just spliced together from one interview and a few comics cherrypicked to fit the thesis. It comes off as a punk kid mocking an old man about whom he knows comparatively little.

Reconstituted from where? It's pretty clear the writer thought up those ideas on their own, and whether you like it or not, there's at least a little truth in them; there must be reasons why such a crappy strip has survived this long. And see the 'dry humping' example from the above 'marmaduke explained' thing.

The article isn't funny though, however true..

Jesus, that article finds some rough chuckles in Marmaduke.

I think the writer REALLY needs to get say, a life instead of expending energy on a twee but inoffensive comic strip.

I think the writer REALLY needs to get say, a life instead of expending energy on a twee but inoffensive comic strip.

I think the writer REALLY needs to get say, a life instead of expending energy on a twee but inoffensive comic strip.

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You seem pretty convinced of this.

Hee hee! Oh, hee hee!

If I could, I would rate this a 9.

In a surprise twist, he doesn't hang up until Ray finishes off by telling Marmaduke about how his drug abuse gave him Marmaduke Milk which tasted like old crung.

beef's laughing in panel four is hilarious.


and the end.

Maybe it's just because I grew up with Great Danes but I actually like Marmaduke.

They really are very big.

Every strip of Ray insulting his funny papers "contemporaries" deserves a higher rating than they have. They are all sheer brilliance.

It's the 5 Face!

I never expected Marmaduke to sound so...academic. I'm imagining a John Malkovich-esque voice for some reason.