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Pat's Armor Comes Off Friday, August 11, 2006 • read strip Viewing 79 comments:

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Plus, it looks like it's getting a bit flaccid in the second one.

Nah, it's just that he's in the final moment of springing before he leaps into the air.

Also: rock hard cat cock

Also: repressed Pat is rude, virtually unemployable and (given his near-psychotic levels of dickishness) fairly deviant.

pat's packing heat.

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"It ruins you for all the other cats!"


Similarily, don't ever take off your top and get killed by Greg Kinnear.

The previous two posts need more chubbies for their tiny Asian doctor references.

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I can't, but I'm sure Pat can.

ZING!

It's about the forbidden sausage , you dig?

I think the idea is that his veganism is just part of his repression. He knows something's wrong, but he doesn't know what, so he'll just try to suppress everything until he doesn't feel so ashamed anymore.

I think the veganism is just that he enjoys having something to hit other people over the head with.

Morally speaking.


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That's probably because pat IS gay.

It is inherited.

Dude knows he's gay, he's just trying to repress. Doesn't matter what the photos mean to him, just matters that they've sold Ray and his dad.

But if you saw those photos, and they looked like *pictures of your soul*?

Note that Ray drinks his coke in exactly the same fashion as he did whilst standing outside the shop in Germany.

It's quite obvious that Onstad just copy-pasted the artwork out of that strip, but somehow that just makes it all the better for me. Dunno why.

Alt TexT: That's a will-readin' tie

The interesting thing is that somewhere on Ray's blog he mentioned that Pat doesn't wear ties because it's a "symbol of oppression." It was either an obnoxious phase of his, or his greed trumps a silly little thing that he came up with to make himself feel superior to others.

Pat is still cut, but it is still mega-nasty dog shit

It probably says a lot about me that I read "cut" to mean something other than "muscular" at first.

That really is mega-nasty and dog shit.

Ray loaned Simon his record office to help Pat come out of the closet.

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CROTCHLESS CHAPS ARE NOT A CAPE

No wonder I can't fly.

I lamed you instead of chubbying you! Sorry, everybody!

Someone decided to punish you, apparently.

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I was kind of feeling the same way about Lyle because I'm an alcoholic. Maybe we could have a socially acceptable, employed alcoholic to represent us?

Though, to be fair, Lyle's alcoholism is a bit different than the usual come-home-from-work-and-drink-until-out-cold fare.

Actually it's exactly the same except you have to remove the "come-home-from-work-and-" part.

Well, Onstad's really into cooking and various kinds of Chefery, and if Gordon Ramsay and Tony Bourdain are anything to judge by then a lot of culinary folks don't approve of morality entering their kitchen and handicapping what they eat, nor can they understand why anyone else would allow it.

This is just a guess, though. But as I believe he's spoken admiringly of Ramsay then it may be somewhat true.

Yeah, seriously, what's this crap about well represented Vegan character, how about a little better Gay representation. Oh wait... Simon... and well, Arthur I guess. No not really Arthur.


Man, now I realize that everyone's going to think I'm gay.

Pat is a dick first and foremost, not a vegan. His veganism is just another way to prove himself superior, just as many people use politics, gender, or religion to make themselves feel superior.
Gays could probably ask for better "representation" than Pat, too.

How about Chucklebot?

Nah, his chuckles are a little too harsh.

He's working the rough chuckles.

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It's not the fact that Pet is a vegan, any more than it's normal for gays to be assholes. pat is an asshole; he can convert veganism, homosexuality, liberalism, political awareness, anything into fuel for his asshole motor.

"Asshole motor" is exactly the kind of phrase that I don't need popping into my head.

Thinking your diet makes you a persecuted minority is what gives you a bad name, dude.

Wait. You think the fact that he's an angry homosexual who happens to be a vegan reflects horribly on veganism?

Uh, I don't care how you slice it, that is major mean towards us gay types. No offense, but I'd be a tad more offended if a gay dude turned out to be a rude vegan.

"That common perception gives us a bad name." Thanks, we don't like being associated with you bloodless politically-correct persons either. Given that Onstad's wife is practically vegetarian, though, I somehow don't think it's you guys he could be discriminating against.

MAYBE HE'S NOT DISCRIMINATING AGAINST ANYONE

MAYBE THIS IS JUST A CHARACTER IN A COMIC STRIP WHO HAPPENS TO BE A HOMOSEXUAL, A VEGAN, AND A DICK, AND NONE OF THESE TRAITS ARE A COMMENT ON THE OTHERS.

I was responding to an offensive post, *not* the comic itself. I didn't ACTUALLY say that Onstad was discriminating against anyone, I just pointed out to the OP that he was being a massive flaming pile of dog's. Read more carefully :)

"a massive flaming pile of dog's"?

the word penis was silent.

that doesn't help me assemble a meaningful sentence!

you are correct sir.

YES AND AS A GLASSES WEARER I DEMAND BETTER REPRESENTATION

Get over it; Pat's defining characteristic is being a dick, not that he's vegan or gay or a mammal. The former doesn't say anything about the latters.

Oh shit dude, in my Internet indignance I trampled all over your post and I did it in all-caps. Please accept my apologies and chubbies.

"rational vegan"

heh, good one

(I'm just shittin' you man, I got a lot of respect for your people)

I just don't want them teaching in my schools.

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Your avatar makes that statement adorable.

I love how Simon tries to make the whole situation more reasonable by explaining the magical mexican camera, like it is irrefutable evidence. A magical mexican realism camera cannot lie, and that is a known fact.

You work with the reality you're given.

The 2 photos of Pat remind me of the drama masks, one smiling and one frowning.

Big, floppy cat dong.

He actually has a semi.

I see your armour-plated breast
has long since lost its sheen
and in your death mask face
there are no signs which can be seen

And though I hoped for something to find
I could see no maze to unwind

Check it out; Pat really IS a vegan. It's just the idea of eating meat that gets him off. Actually taking a bite of the turkey leg makes him lose wood.

so Pat gives ray shit about his cut hose and then it turns out he is a rank hypocrite? no shock there

Magical realism, remember? Maybe Pat secretly wishes he was circumsized... though, really, who wants to get their peter chopped up?

Why does Pat not think that he is rude?

"I know the power of gay pornography!" classic

YES...YESSSSS

for some reason this particular strip reminds me of bloom county.

When someone claims that they 'know the power of gay pornography', that might be a good indicator of what direction their sexual compass points.

I don't know how to rate those comics in which the alt-text is the finest part.

Ray is just pleased as punch in panel 7

And sharing it with the fourth wall.

I forgot that this was all the same story arc. I love it!