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Shank Appreciation Friday, January 14, 2005 • read strip Viewing 69 comments:

The Fugue really is a bit of a showman.

Nonsense The Fug and I go way back. His methods are just misunderstood

The word Fugue used to be about Bach, to me. Now, between this and GOF, it's synonymous with street-level gangland violence.

Please, someone, go [url=https://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/NNSDknivesfull.htm]purchase "Knives, Knife Fights and Related Hassles" by Marc "Animal" Macyoung. It is completely serious. It is completely hilarious. It is a book that Todd would make his bible and bookmark with entrails.

Or... here!

the url changed. now it is here:
https://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/knifefighting.html

i just hope people are pronouncing it right. it pains me to think someone is saying "fuh-gyoo"

Personally I always thought it was fun to say.
Fyooooooguh .

It's pronounced "foo-gway," right?

Right?

fyoog

Yes, just like how "queue" is pronounced "kway-way"

It's a...fuh-gyoo Friday?
Eh?

Anybody else think that "The Fugue" was in the GOF at some point?

MAYBE he gained his name and his prison time by loosing it.

MAYBE THE FUGUE IS FAUNTLEROY BROWN.

Oh fug it.

The Fug is what I want to be called when I grow up.

The Fugue is like the Steve Vai of shanking.

A comment left by saint was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by pmoney187, Thorfinn, kazad, bug, equinn2006, davidbs, CarlG, sid, Zem, Boyd, Carten)

The... "Halo hump"?

That's where you crouch down and stand up while standing over someone's face, like you're teabagging them. So called because it's a popular move in multiplayer Halo matches. Could also be called the Counterstrike hump.

I concede to defeat. i was quite inebriated at the time. I apologize. Please don't shank me.

If Nice Pete knows one thing in this world, it's how to critique a shanking. In this, Todd comes across as the Inigo Montoya of the pint-sized shanker's world.

If Nice Pete knows one thing, it's how to murder people. If he knows two things, it's how to murder people and critique a shanking.

Nice Pete is seriously who almost everyone I hung out with grew up to be. I've had similar conversations to this with people while tending to a stab wound.

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chubby for weaving in a princess bride reference

Is Lawrence Ferlinghetti a well known figure in shanking circles? I only know of his poetry, but I might have a lot more respect for him now.

Pat assumes Nice Pete will kill anyone he asks him to, just 'cause Nice Pete kills guys sometimes.

"Killin' is a special thing

It's a special thing you do

when you want someone to die "

I'm constantly amazed that Pat has known Nice Pete for so long and is still alive. I really can't explain it. Maybe Nice Pete feels he owes Pat some gratitude for something?

I think Nice Pete has read that when it gets raw, Pat will crack like a store-brand breadstick and completely go house on everything in the vicinity. He doesn't want to mess with that.

Man, you're probably right. Good call.

Chubby for choice of phrase. :)

I dunno. I think he tolerates pat as a woman.

You'd think he'd just do the world a favorite and cut the jerk's throat before then, you know, as a right-minded and honest man should.

We know that when someone does Pete a huge favour, he considers himself in their debt - maybe it's because Pat got him out of jail.

Pat also does not understand that Nice Pete is far too classy to step on a squirrel. His methods are far more interesting that. And his motives must be pure.

Does Nice Pete wear Converse?

apparently he does.

you can see them clearer at the end of the mr band arc when ray considers wearing his leg as a hat

Pat's first reaction is always murder.

"Roast Beef threatened to sexually assault me" -> "I need to borrow your gun"

Brilliant. I love the analysis of shanking technique. Would do business again!

Todd is so classy

No, man, Todd has no class at all. Nice Pete told him that to get into his head. Nice Pete will kill Todd.

Two experts, discussing their work with reverence, ignore the shanked cat.

Todd has a go-to shank.

thats the part where I sicked up my coffee with laughter. I tell people I have a 'go-to shank' - they look at me like I just showed them a shit card trick.

Todd is a recognized leader in several fields . Stammering and getting terror-laid on a regular basis have not kept him down.

I like how Todd stops stuttering once you get him talking about advanced shankin' theory

Shank connisieurs (sp)

connoisseurs.
Sorry. I have an etymology fetish.

I think there's a cream for that.

hotttttttt
(me too. i mean this strip is so good and so funny)

I love the Todd & Nice Pete dynamic. Wish it showed up more often.

Whenever I'm down, I think 'go-to shank'. Usually does the trick.

class is the most highly regarded of traits in achewood.

Anyone else notice that Todd's technique was patented by Simon Little? I always wondered what happened to him after he went driving off after that bird.

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Ray: Time to Pah-Tay with Ruh-Ay!
Philippe: I need to admit that I did a bad job.

Philippe is really bad at eating breakfast

Nice Pete subtly agrees that Pat needed to be shanked given the nasty chocolates and Moby circumstances.

If Todd wanted Nice Pete's opinion he would cut open Pete's skull, eat his brain, and crap his opinion back into his skull.

The shank with the greatest deal of class, belongs to Todd.

Count on Achewood for an intelligent discussion of the nature of the shank

Wait... who invited Nice Pete?

Who's going to tell him to leave?

Blister.

Simon Little is the evil counterpart to Nate Small and his "Patented Defensive against the Little".

This is the only classy thing Todd has ever done ever.

I am an artist, and I hate it when people ask me to draw things for them.

I imagine this is the same way Nice Pete feels when people flippantly ask him to kill a person for them.

DA FUG!

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