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The Reluctant Minstrel Monday, May 11, 2009 • read strip Viewing 439 comments:

Pendulums don't know how to go in no circles.

all they need is a push in the right direction, ya dig?

Oh wait they do, don't they. I was thinking of a clock pendulum. Or the pendulum of pit fame, not like Foucault-style. Sorry mom sorry dad sorry college.

You may recall that we are on a spinning planet. The pendulum doesn't spin, but we do. Thus a pendulum will trace an elliptical path relative to the earth.

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OH MY GOD I BOUGHT THIS! That motherfucker will never use one word when then thousand will do.

Oh Lord it pangs me, the Eco-hatin'.

Can't you just imagine Dan Brown picking up a copy of Foucault's Pendulum , seeing some neat cryptic shit on some of the pages, then using a half-dried Sharpie to color over 'U M B E R T O E C O' and a White-Out pen to scrawl 'D A N B R O N'? The 'R', of course, is backward; the 'W', lost to the ether.

Later, Dan Brown uses the pages with the prettiest pictures to subject his penis to paper cut after paper cut, a nice little bit of self-actualization which pairs nicely with his efforts to sound out the words: "Nuh... Num-ber... Wan.. Innner.. Nash-null... Buh..beh..Best...Sall...Seal...Cellar."

True story, except for the bit about how Dan Brown has the necessary skill-set to ever purchase a Sharpie and White-Out pen.

On the upside, he does prove how slight the skill set necessary to make capital by the hundredweight is.

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Pretty sure Dan Brown sold well in Europe too, champ.

I used to work in a second-hand bookshop:
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I went in to a second-hand bookstore who would not take "Angels and Demons" for free.

A.O. Scott of the N.Y. Times agrees:

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Since %u201CAngels & Demons%u201D takes place mainly in the Vatican, and is festooned with the rites and ornaments of Roman Catholicism, I might as well begin with a confession. I have not read the novel by Dan Brown on which this film (directed, like its predecessor, %u201CThe Da Vinci Code,%u201D by Ron Howard) is based. I have come to believe that to do so would be a sin against my faith, not in the Church of Rome but in the English language, a noble and beleaguered institution against which Mr. Brown practices vile and unspeakable blasphemy.

Zing!

The famous man looked at the red cup.

Is he assuming that Dan Brown is a horrible writer without actually reading anything he wrote?

He leaves the question open. Maybe he read one Dan Brown book and refused to read another.

I'm too lazy to read the whole review, but it sounds like he hasn't read any of them. Then again, trusting the opinion of everyone who has a brain, it's probably a safe bet he's right.

Oh irony.

It is delicious.

You are fucking up the narrative, tekende. Hush.

Well then fuck it I'm moving to Antarctica.

Five lames? Really? Thanks a lot, pal.
=P
(The smiley shows that I am not really upset at you)

U-S-A!
U-S-A!

I did not lame you.

Where they have JK Rolling, who could buy out Dan Brown with the money she gives the kids for their allowances.

THEY SEE ME ROWLING

WRITIN' WORDY

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I mean, where do you think we are? Someplace rational like Europe?


Alas, ignorance is the true international language.

God, how I hate all this American bashing by actual Americans, as if Europe is completely 100% better in every way. When I went to Denmark, all my family did was talk about how much shittier America is to my sister's host family, like they gave a shit. They're Danish. They give no shit.

"They give no shit" is what I am going to say about Danish people from now on whenever they come up in conversation.

"Man those Danes sure have a good health care system."

"They give no shit."

Then you put on your shades and jump on your chopper.

When I said what I said, I wasn't really bashing America. I like this country a lot, but it does have a lot of problems, as does england and france, etc. But the main difference is the people, many of whom think that T-rexes ate coconuts with their razor-sharp teeth and young children rode on top of them. Not to say that all of our problems are caused by religion, but many judeo-christian ethics (such as the eleventh commandment "THOU SHALT AVOID TEH GAY AND MAKE SHARE THEY CANT MARRY") and uptightness about sex are causing a lot of problems.

Also, conspiracy theorists. God I hate them.

*snore*

SJE HAS OPINIONS ABOUT AMERICA AND THEY'RE NOT ALL POSITIVE!!!

Is . . .is this unexpected?

Not a lick.

He gives no shit.

What I wanna know is has anyone adopted this phrase over the last 11 months?

It's one of those things that I forgot immediately after navigating away from the page, for which I then felt a great disparity upon my return.

it's in vogue. it's trendy. shallow brained dim-witted American trash gets its stimulation by desecrating the unquestionable and undeniable best country ever formed.

I don't know what you're on about, but I never once talked shit on Burundi.

Who was bad mouthing Australia?

The Shins.

who is good mouthing it?

what's rational? socialism? giving all your freedom and money to the government and letting a federal juggernaut mow down every founding principle of a country? just saying "Hey, I am tired of thinking about this.. let's just fund the Federal government to take care of us 'cuz I am clearly incapable of taking care of myself and I feel that if I am incapable everyone else must be as well... that's how I feel and that is how you should feel.. fuck it. Here's my money."

I was exaggerrating, as I don't think any continent is purely rational. However, I do think that how they live their lives in general makes more sense than Americans. They don't live in a fast-food culture, afraid of sex, basing all their policies off religion, gay-bashing etc. But every society has its faults.

america is a afraid of sex? this culture is oozing it. it's in every ad out there. there's too much of it.

"gay bashing".. lols. not as tolerant as europe, but much better than most of the rest of the world. get a grip.

i'd hate for this country to be anymore like europe than it is already headed. i remember a political science prof of mine. he had a place in france (wtnld) and he'd always extol the virtures of the French. it sickened me. a diehard socialist.

i've noticed a lot of liberals, like yourself, are completely wrapped up in
1 - SEX
like you want XXX pornography shown on regular tv. live all male nude fuck shows on every corner. public fornication. a total hang up on sex.

2 - drugs.
want the drugs. everywhere, anywhere if it feels good, do it.

Rome had it that way. a few other lesser societies. The Netherlands lets it all hang out. Child porn, incest, drugs.. you could always move there, ya know?

Ha, I think it's hilarious how you think that I like sex, pornography, and drugs. I am a bit sexophobic myself and can't stand sexuality. I hate drugs and I have never even taken a drip of alcohol. There is indeed too much sex. Doesn't mean that America isn't afraid of it too.
Yes, America is good with gay bashing compared to say, the Middle East. It doesn't mean it isn't a huge problem still.

Or a penis big enough to accommodate a paper cut.

I'm upset at myself for finishing the book, I guess, so I turn to childish accusations of micropenis...ism. He can't satisfy a woman or a literary audience. Oh god he's so rich. Oh dear.

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Or a penis big enough to accommodate a paper cut.


I heard he did so much cocaine in the 80s that his nipples turned into scabs and fell off!

Dan Brown: we hate you so much.

He is not invited to the pizza party.

Looks like we got ourselves a reader.

"Ah, damn it."

Louie, grease up that gatling gun.

soon:
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I know, I learned all about that in 10th grade. I forgot after 4 years of not caring.

At the Smithsonian, they have a giant brass pendulum swinging back in forth in a circle of small cones. Every 15 minutes, the pendulum illustrates the oration of the Earth by knocking over a cone. I understand the pendulum co-stars in next week's Ben Stiller movie.

They had one much like that, albeit without the cones, at one of the engineering buildings at my university.

Your dean is shaking his head in diappointment as he tears up your diploma.

He has failed you.

That's funny because I'm ON HIS LIST FOR THE THIRD TIME.

HIS GOOD LIST.

You could start a rap group: Akademixxx

Notorious E.M.E.R.S.O.N.

College? Middle school, dude.

onstad i didnt mean to rush you;; take your time with this stuff man

Even disregarding Foucault and all that jazz, a pendulum with a rigid rod will trace out a circular arc.

(Huhuhuh, rigid rod.)

I stand by my plea of momentary ignorance. I had Granpappy clocks on the mind.

Achewood: A comic about rigid cat rod. From history.

The young cat passes on the circular motion he learned from his uncle.

The pendulant thing in focus is the scrotum, a.k.a. "ball sack."

rodger them like sheep?

dayuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum, padrig.

you must have a wicked sack on you

the sheeps all " AGOOOOWAAAAAH!

while they are being sodomized

"

That is indeed how sheep go when they are being sodomized.

Or so I heard....

WHY FIND OUT?

FOR SCIENCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

what we need more of is... sheep rogering

Those silent Es are deafening!

Let's get those missiles ready to DESTROY THE UNIVERSE!

*so i herd.

that you liek . . .
I .. I can't do it. Sorry guys.

One runs into Aggies in the strangest places.

I don't care if nobody else gets it. I love you for this.

alt-text: "Why, oh why did some Aggie have to sodomize a sheep?"

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Where do you think little Aggies come from?
Hint: cloning sheep is a RECENT invention.

did you know that goats can talk ?

They just don't listen.
The goats...will never... listen .

when the sheep say 'no'

WHAAAAAAAAAAAT?

I saw that once and was like YES.

Padrig's got that that OLD old school flava. The kind that make your feet stank realy ugly like rocket fuel malt liqour! OWWWWWW!

Yeah! Pro-CLAIM on tha' malt liquor! I am DEFINITELY not afraid of fucking the POLICE right now.

you want to bang the pigs? you're sick buddy

Tha' malt liquor make a brother do crazy things! Balls in motion, yo!

He wants to bang the sheep, not pigs.

L.N. gets back in time to pal up with a 17th century dork.

Nostalgia chubby for the Phil Hartman shout-out.

Crizappy!!

Padrig the Rap

Did anyone else notice that Padrig spelled backwards is 'Girdap'? Coincidence??

I expect they'll explain that BEFORE they bring Libby back, though, or the goddamn statue.

Tommy, could you find a way to make your avatar _more_ horrifying? I still puke when I'm looking at it, but I'm thinking that you could bump it up a little more so that I'm puking even when I'm _not_ looking at it.

What did BBcode ever do to you?

It rogered him like sheep.

You mean the sheep that I... rodgered?

ROGER SORRY

Roger that.

Roger, Roger. What's our vector Victor?

We got the clearance from Clarence. And then we asked the kid if he's every visited a Turkish prison.

or if he liked gladiator movies.

Or if he's ever seen a grown man naked.

Huh? Roger. What?

Maybe if it was staring up at you from under a nacho?

The writer's strike killed Libby. Supposedly it would have been explained in a late season 4 episode.

yeah, from what I've heard Libby's story--the continuation of it that was planned, anyway-- is now to be transferred to a different character, probably a new one.

Who kno~o~ows though.

This is just like that one scene in "Notorious"

funny enough, Padrig plans to sample Duran Duran's "Notorious" for this track.

next strip: beat boxing in the 18th century

Ta-ra ta-ra tum!

Tuesday will be the longest day. Of all the glad new year, mother, the rum tum tiddledy tum.

Fi-di-a-lum-com-fee-do

Roc fal the daddy-o

there's whiskey in the jar

Whiskey tango foxtrot?

Romeo Juliet X-ray

why do I recognize that

have you ever run across captain farrel or colonal pepper in the cork and kerry or kilgarra mountains?

Or Phil Lynott?

or the dubliners... or metallica... or jerry garcia... or peter paul and mary... or etc...

No Pogues love? Really?

yeah, that was mine to lose

The previous strip was called Peat Boxing.

Yes, but it was probably in reference to hot boxing.

NO.

yeah, NO.

There was no hot boxing in the last strip, just smoking.
There seemed to be beat-boxing in the last strip.

Plus, it's all about the rhymes. Y'better ax somebody.

I imagine an ill beat kept by a small tom and a palm muted lute.

And likely some of those jingle-bells, like what were commonly found on horses of that time.

All JINGLE JINGLE JINGLE BOP JINGLE JINGLE JINGLE BOP with an NWA-style TWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE over the top.

I was imagining a RRRIDIT DIT DIT RRRIDIT DIT DIT

when danger reared its ugly head
he bravely turned his tail and fled

Brave, brave sir Robin
Gallantly ran away

Padrig's hair has a problem.

Padrig's hair has hair problems.

Padrig's hair problems have hairy hair prob... aw, alright.

Is that why it's wet?

Here's something that has nothing to do with this particular strip, but has something to do with Achewood: We tried out the recipe for the Omega Potato from the Achewood cookbook recently, and found that it created pretty much the perfect baked potato: fluffy on the inside, crunchy on the outside. We intend to try making Ruuuude Chicken at some point in the future.

However, the Achewood Cookbook only goes so far and covers only so much ground. So my question is this: Does anybody who has the cookbook and knows cooking have an idea of other cookbooks that share its mixture of love of good, simple food, disdain for expensive ingredients, and navigation between the worlds of bachelor chow and gourmet food?

I got a book called "Munchies" which claims to do just that, but I don't have a high opinion of most of the recipes... and the writer seems to think hot sauce is both necessary and sufficient to making a tasty dish.

I believe that a second Achewood cookbook is in work.

I think I heard that in the Google interview, but I'm not sure.

I think the new book is stepping it up a notch, though. Onstad's buying better ingredients these days and it will feature them for the most part. I forgot where I heard that, but I doubt I made it up.

I heard the ingredients will be basically the same quality, but the techniques will be tougher. More than just basic knife skills and middle school cooking methods. He will teach things that take a bit of judgment, and can burn/cut/fry you if you screw up. Basically the keys to the kingdom of Tail for you gents who are into that sort of thing.

Leslie, Austin. Creole-Soul New Orleans Cooking with a Soulfull Twist. De Simonin Publications, New Orleans 2000. ISBN 1-883100-10-0.

It's got everything from chocolate cake to the greatest friend chicken in the world. Austin Leslie was the greatest in the world at fried chicken -- acknowledged by hundreds of food writers and other cooks -- and he died of a heart attack after spending two days on the roof of his house after Katrina. God Truly Damn You, George #%@#%$ Bush.

I have not yet read the Achewood Cookbook, but I cannot recommend highly enough Marcella Hazan's classic cookbook, or at least the modern, combined edition "Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking". Yeah it has a lot of recipes for veal and some stuff that will take a hell of a long time to make, but it also has some truly serious pasta recipes in it and if you can not make a decent serving of Spaghetti with Garlic and Oil (heat garlic in oil with a bit of salt, pour on spaghetti) then you are not long for cookbooks.

It is a highly regarded for a damn good reason, but it's not fussy.

You know what? There is no way Onstad hasn't been reading these comments, or our minds.

"Padrig-Faced Padrig" made this a 5 pretty much by itself .

"Jam your genitals together, i guess. I mean shit, right?" -- ma bro's answer back when i was like 10 or something to my question " how do you do sex? also wats vigina " he dint asnwer the vigana part he was prob still figgerin' out how to describe that first bit to me.

i m sellabit dat is 2 say hab neveh ben "married" ib u no wat i mena. i steer clear ub ur corruptin influences n subsequently look don ubon u

This is funnier than today's strip.

The man steers clear of corrupting influences. That isn't funny; it's inspiring.

The fact that he is in residence on the net belies his claim of eschewing corrupting influences.

So is a punch in the sack.

I'd say it's equally funny to the strip.

A punch in the sack is hilarious (provided it's someone else's sack).

A cunch to the punt.

a crunch to the bonch.

All the cool kids are having sex, like theguitarhero.
In fact, the only reason he hasn't been around is because he is "jamming genitals" with his girlfriend. In her butt.

The boy is confused
She has anal genitals
this is a concern

padrig all sporting the ludwig von look like it ain't already played out on the continent

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YOU ARE PLAYED OUT ON THE CONTINENT

But what does that have to do with eating shit?

why so butthurt?

trolls are serious business

iwannacum has transcended trolldom.

"I wanna cum" is the Philippic of the new age.

I find myself dropping it in conversations in my daily life. It does not earn real world chubbies, and my sixth graders' jaws dropped.

you are a bad person

And all the playing's stopped in the playground now
She wants to play with the toys a while
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
And the lesson today is i wanna cum .

Correct.

If more than two of them understood what that even meant, your crudeness is the least of their problems.

Padrig has a more legitimate beef with the system than the average suburban studio gangster of today.

Oh dear. I just realised that the only other Welsh rappers I can think of are Goldie Lookin' Chain. "Guns don't kill people, rappers do, I seen it in a documentary on BBC 2..."

Is that the 18th century Welsh take on "Parents just don't Understand"? Daaaaayum

"Alley-frot"

Poets being godless shirt-lifters who frot each other in alleyways.

I was besot by an aliquot of alley-frot.

I await the frottage montage.

Frot-tage?

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In psychiatry, the clinical term frotteurism (no longer called frottage, although commonly called toucherism) refers to a specific paraphilia which involves the non-consensual rubbing against another person to achieve sexual arousal.


AKA the Princeton Rub.

This particular condition was the entire reason behind Japan's subway system.

Fondling room only.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraphilia

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Sexual arousal in association with objects that were designed for sexual purposes is not DSM diagnosable (DSM, p. 570).[3]


okay, yeah, that's inresting, I can see that yeah

mmm

hmm

but how can something not be designed for sesual porpoise?

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ya know... anything that's vaguely phallically shaped, right? Or vaguely tentacular in nature for for that matter? And knifes. I mean. if knives ain't for sex murderin' then shit what are they for?

I hope I die as happy as that dolphin did.

Last frame of the dolphin snuff film: Fin

Well played, Sir

I would have gone with: unf

Humor 101: Brevity is the soul of wit.

Your "sexual porpoise" pun (with photo) was funny. But you stepped on your own joke by rambling on.

Know your limitations. [you will be ignored so bother to reply]

I don't know. If there was no rambling I wouldn't now have 'sex-murderin'" in my vernacular.

Prisonerx is available for birthday parties, bar/bat mitzfahs, and pedantic lectures.

Even though I agree.

I Would be a frotteur except I'm too shy :(

A frotteur was I
But alack! I was shy

~Anonymous

I know what frottage is. I was combining frottage and montage.

Even Rocky had some frottage.

He rocked some rough frottage.

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Even Rocky had some frottage.


with Bullwinkle?

"Hey Rocky, wanna see me pull a rabbit out of my hat?" ;)

For the first time in Rocky and Bullwinkle history, there is silence.

What, you didn't like Phallic Fairy Tales?

DAAAAH YOU!

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Frot-tage?


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I know what frottage is. I was combining frottage and montage.


I don't think you're allowed to portmanteau if the spelling doesn't change. (how would you know).

The second syllables are different and the hyphen clarifies. Also I will forever verbify portmanteau, thank you.

A verminteau, if you will.

A verminteau upon yer pizza-oh.

Musha-ring-a-mading-a-madarr...

Hi everybody, I have a humble request: Can someone please translate today's strip? Like how someone usually translate's gladi8orrex-speak into English?

p.5 6: FUCK THA POLICE

aint quite full-circling the second one though

[img=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Threepence.jpg]

wtf [IMGS OFF]

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Years from now they will still be searching for someone who gives a damn.

HI-FUCKIN'-FIVE-BUDDY

Science will find it. Science finds everything.

What we need less of is Science.

:(

THRUPPENCE AND SIXPENCE EVARY DAY
JUST TO DRIVE TO MY BABAY

Hmm... how about one hundred English pounds?

What's that in stone?

7 and a seventh.

I actually calculated that out and was about to post it as a follow-up when I decided it would be crass. I am heartened that I was not the only one to immediately think that.

TOO MUCH.

95...95...95...

Fuck what a good song.

A good start to the week, lads and ladies. Here's betting Lil' Nephew Charley gets his commupanace once his backpack is drained of goodies.

alright guys calm down we had three fucking awesome strips, let's let him ruminate for a bit, it's like halftime. go grab a beer or something to eat.

I would still like to know who is doing this:

" Philippe "

" ROAST BEEF "

The Philippe one almost made me shed a single tear of love.

Comic Sans?

I have duly recommended against it on his/her channel.

And since I've already been accused being the one who is behind these, I will point out that [url=]this[/url] is mine. Rather hard to confuse the two, I'd say.

I meant, this .

Unconfusable, and brilliant.

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Comic Sans?

Still, wasn't me.

And I won't get started on the grammar this one has on it.

I wonder if someone could save me some time and link me which strip Phillipe in a pirate costume is in please.

Nope. But in order to illustrate my knowledge and comparative laziness, I shall point out that it's the one where Circus Penis gives him seven dollars.

Oddly enough, searching for seven dollars found it.

[url=https://www.ohnorobot.com/index.pl?s=philippe pirate costume&Search=Search&comic=636&e=0&n=0&b=0&m=0&d=0&t=0]As did searching for Philippe, pirate costume .[/url]

Damn it all.

As one who as dedicated her life to poetry, I can affirm that I am, indeed, paid in bin-scrapings. And I still get scrapings withheld for Social Security and Medicaid.

Care for a quick frot in the alley?

A good thing for waitressing, what?

AGOOOOWAAAAAH , anyone have an explanation? At first I thought it may have been substituting the oft used police siren, (I mostly listen to old Public Enemy when it comes to rap, Bwoy) with a foghorn, but the foghorn was invented in the mid 19th Century.

That's the Werewolf the Baskerville's trademark I believe.

As everyone knows werewolves say Aaahooo. They are commonly found in the rain in Soho, London, with chinese menus in their hands looking for Lee Ho Fooks, where they can get a big dish of, beef chow mein, Aaahooo.

Plus the hound of the Baskervilles turned out to be a large dog treated with phosphorus in the 19th Century in Devon. Even if you go back to the origins of the story Richard Cabell didn't die until 1677.

Oh man as long as we're on the subject.

"Little old lady got mutilated late last night."

Greatest line in music ever? And not because of the content, but because of how it rolls right off the tongue.

"You scum bag, you maggot, you cheap lousy faggot, merry Christmas you ass, I thank God it's our last" has a certain ring to it.

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you use this too much. stop using this so much.

I was gonna post that again but instead I will look at you and I will whisper.. no .

You really should have posted it again. That would have been hilarious.

You're baiting me t-AAAH

[IMGS OFF]

FUCK

It only works because it's a duet :x putting it into words just isn't the same.

HELL

YES.

I love that song. SO much.

Ahh, my second favorite Christmas song.

Every Christ-Mass I listen to that song and say a curse for all the world's irresponsible water-sports enthusiasts.

"Christ-Mass" ???

Who are you; news-paper man T. Herman Zweibel?

I do not deign to speak in the crass, abbreviated slang of youth culture.

'aight

For both username and for Quality, please acknowledge receipt of electronic praise in form of the erstwhile "chubby."

I knew I'd throw a chub at you one day, wozzeck. That day has arrived.

It's good, but maybe not even Zevon's best.

"He dug up her grave and built a cage from her bones."

or

"When California slides into the ocean
like the mystics and statistics say it will
I predict this motel will be standing
until I pay my bill"

Okay, that's not a "line" exactly, but it's my favorite.

I meant in terms of sound, not in meaning. He has much better than the Little Old Lady line but sonically, and tongue-ally, it is definitely the best ever. Just say it.

It has very nice consonance and rhythm. I see what you mean.

Doesn't it make your tongue feel amazing? , he asked with a sly grin.

that is the secret of jerry's technique. it comes before the twist.

We all know that you wuss out and go with a knuckle because you are tired and lazy and on the verge of just faking it so you can get some sleep.

You are quite right.

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Oh you coy so and so.

I always liked "Legs like scissors and butcher's knives", but you are right about how nicely "Little old lady got mutilated late last night" rolls of the tongue.

Nick Cave wrote too many songs to bring into this conversation. Too many lines, from "Along the loom of the land" to "I took her from rags right through to stitches". Just...

Leave off, you!

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

Like every syllable of "The Curse of Millhaven" from beginning to end.

I have a special place in my heart for any woman who can instill in me the urge to call her "my little Curse of Milhaven".

A friend of mine used to study journalism. Although he is obviously the least athletic kind of person you can imagine, he was somehow assigned to the women's basketball beat. He made the best of it by giving all the players his own nicknames in the wrap-up stories. The one I'll never forget: LaTisha "The Curse of Millhaven" McDonald.

He no longer studies journalism.

You sayin' you don't like the idea of chewed-up old women?

man, I make an oblique reference to Werewolf in London, which Octafish picked up on, and this is the thanks I get? Two Lames? And no chubbies? This is INSANE. I can't take it anymore. This is INTOLERABLE

Assetbar is UNAMERICAN

If Assetbar was America, there would be a *safety* link on every post. You click on *Safety* and the link turns to *kill user.* You click on it and it does what it says. End of story. That's the only way to protect our GOD GIVEN FREEDOMS including freedom from this insane communist trolling.

Chubbied for FREEDOM

[IMGS OFF]
Also, lamed for being AIU

MY FACE IS BLUE! SMELL ME!

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RAD! RAAAAD!

That goddamn Public Enemy siren gets so annoying after Lost At Birth and Can't Truss It.

Another Padrig Couplet/
I fancy thine maiden/
So I will ravage her busom/
Even in polite company!

Eh...

If he had lived long enough, ODB would have changed his named to Padrig.

RZA be all like "The fuck is a Padrig?"

Nef got that entrepreneur gene from Ray.

Come on, man...

next thing you know she'll be calling him 'stad...

hey awksedperl, what'dja need your brain scanned for?? Is it possessed by demons?

love how Neph's pointers lose their steel resolve hearing Padrig say what he does.

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Why don't you just go away?

soem ppleoe are too sutipd to rziaele they're ton weclome copmany.

Dude, did you forget to log in as gladdi8torrex?

oh yeah, i mean, I-D-I-D-O-T-H be so lol.

gladdi doesn't write that sloppy.

sloppily, fucktard. sloppily

oh, sorry, was that part of some online troll persona character?

[insert inevitable response by sje here in under < 60 minutes. shit it's almost like I'm trolling myself when you think about it.]

*responds*

everybody knows that asterisks denote action.

it's like good ol' /emote from Starcraft chat never left us.

Your chance to entertain me has expired. Goodbye.

One day and three or four clicks later and half of this entire board is now ignored. Thanks for trolling so predictably, AIU. You're making this easy.

man, word up.

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She somehow missed the best part of the Terms of Service, right above that paragraph:

Quote:
You also agree to not talk smack about our ugly css or html.


BBcode, however, remains fair game.

Heh, could we be sued or something if we really "talk smack" about the css or html? I would like to see the courts define that.

IANAL, but I think they might have to prove malice aforethought.

I'ma start off by sayin' i ain't one to knock anybody's hustle (you know this) an' it really gets me here when a dood gets fed lames for doin' 'is thang so lets eerybody make sum room on deh internet for more peeps an' stop bein' uncivilized brutes.

ib u took a gude look in deh mirror u'd prob lame urself eery now an' den so replace the h8 wit sumfink positive.


ps. i m give eery1 a chubby

eer1 in the club gets chubby

gladi8orrex, the Mother (Fuckin') Teresa of the net.

Haven't you read, he said he was not (Fuckin') just yet

octafishy why you be mena to me go suck on it i ais smurtur dun ur'!!!

Bye Katie. It will be a pleasure ignoring you.

Call katie at 248-363-67249 (Bitememrbix) for all your pleasure needs, large and small.

love it. one too many digits.

that is, of course, what she related to me.

You can reach that number with your Twilight Zone phone.
Bone.

touch a creek, freak.

I am on the point of swallowing my brain trying to figure out how to say Delici678ous

Delishy-sixtyseven ate us

Duh, everyone knows that seven ate nine

These cartoons remind me why I was glad when Charley was taken.

Take LN, leave Chinaman!

Take the cannoli.

Watch out for the kids when you're backing out.

Congratulations:
Injestion of cannabis = sloppily metered rhymes delivered in a shouting voice.
You are the equation of 1676.
Also every year since 1983.

OK, I am officially past the peak of interest for this storyline.

and some even got on the mayor!

Agreed. However, even in these lean artistic times, I still visit for the community we all got here.

(is that Leo Buscaglia enough for ya Gladx?)

Damn, Jeff, dropping refs to dudes who wrote hella books about huuuuugs!

Oooohhh.
I just found his Wikipedia article. He wrote The Fall of Freddie the Leaf, which is about the fear of dying. I remember our teaching reading us this in second grade when a classmate's father shot himself in the head.
Memories .

That's some heavy shit to deal with as a seven-year old.

Killing yourself when you have kids is a real selfish-prick thing to do (you should off the kids first).

This was good until the offing of the kids showed up. I hope the infanticide thing is a joke, my friend died from that. Not funny, not cool, not a good comment.

I ask you, hat manner of deviant befriends infants ?

Ignoring that last part, I'm not really sure if it was second grade. Definitely before fifth grade, and I doubt it was fourth.
I don't know what to say except that depression really messes your mind up. It's not as bad as the one father who called his 14 year old daughter (my sister's friend) up to tell her he is about to kill himself and ask her for advice.

Where did you grow up? Jonestown?

Sunshinecady land ?

big rock candy mountain?

Sugarcandy muntain ? Sounds dreamy

That's just the place where tramps rape young boys.

Young boys with God's face painted on them.

it explains everything

"Your business model is based on comics about time traveling cats? And you think that people will come to this site, even if they don't like the comics?"
"It's not about talking cats. It's about building a community."
"A community of people who like comics about talking cats, but still sometimes come to the website even when they don't like the comics?"
"Screw you! Sometimes the product creates the market."

A community of loons. A loonity .

What happens when they run out of pot?

GEE I DUNNO!

MAYBE YOU COULD...GROW SOME MORE!

Conversation becomes strained.

Tempers fray.

Congas are confiscated from guy with congas.

A pink Converse rolls onto the street. Is there a foot inside?

Haiku for times of herbal famine.

Pocket lint is strained.
Roaches flayed mercilessly.
Pipe bowls are scraped clean.



Someone considers calling Showbiz.

Ireland ran out of pot in 1012, when Mael Morda Mac Murchada had his stash cleaned out by Brian Boru, resulting in his rebellion and the dissolution of a united Irish empire.

A comment left by katie was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by JeffSpaulding, mortshire, mrblank91)

o/~ slow down
dont post so fast
strips will come
strips will pass o/~

also if you're gonna post 102 times a day you gotta post body shots so the community knows if you're a fatty or just a psycho

HELLO LAMPPOST WHATCHA KNOWIN
I'VE COME TO WATCH YOUR FLOWERS GROWING
AINT'CHA GOT NO RHYMES FOR ME
DOOT-N-DOOT-DOOT STOP YER TROLLIN'

I would sing this to myself everyday as I drove over the Queensboro ('cept for the troll part, 'cause its not a troll bridge).

Being from southwest Queens, I rarely rode on the Queensboro into or out of the city, but I must say whenever that Silvercup sign comes into view I have to hum a bit.

Also it has a trolley so that's pretty close to a troll.

And also when I'd get home I'd go "Gee but it's great to back home..."

Yer just a coupla Queens from old times.

Say it Proud!

WE'RE JUST A COUPLA QUEENS FROM OLD TIMES!!!

Oh it's fun to talk like this!

Considering that Katie is AIU, body shots are the last thing I want to see.

Katie, it is self-awareness time: you're lame!

You would think that anyone with a 2:1 lame:chubby ratio would try a little harder.

it's self awareness time, goldhat
all up in here thinkin' ur all dat
but you don't get it, u don't see
you're more blind than a bat, bitch
LISTEN TO ME

chubby/lame ratio, shit what a joke
tiger woods doesn't win masters with a single stroke,
who the fuck are you to talk, bitch you got no clout
don't you know?
players with most homers are the first to strike out

sittin' on ya chair, stool comin' outta ya diaper
where's your mom? your designated ass wiper
you're so near sighted, indeed, so stupid
u leav ur coffee bean can open
cuz you can't fin deh lid
ib u go over to where you sit,
it's a terrible sight
baby str8 tryin' 2 make the triangle block fit
i hope i was clear, hope you understand when i say
motherfucker you just ain't shit

yall should b ashamed


Quote:
u leav ur coffee bean can open
cuz you can't fin deh lid


Chubbied for the best coffee metaphor on the board.

I'm coming over to your house
you get in this dog cage with wheels
I'll chain it behind my truck
then we'll have a high speed chase
I outfitted my truck with an extra gas tank in the bed
they wont ram me off the road with you in such a precarious position
you in?
of course you are
see you in 15

is that even supposed to rhyme?
cunt, what you do with words is a crime
your shit stunk so bad you couldn't mask the scent
not even with lime
i hope this marks the end of ur li'l stint
as a half-assed poet,
if u had any skills u sure dint show it
so put da rest o ya lines in the over-head bins
an' stow it

ain't nobody wan' read your lame crap,
u culdn't find ur ass with both hands an' a map
so jus' gib it a rest, stop even tryin'
you can't get any better
who ever says otherwise is str8 up lyin'
i ain't 2 b so influencial, such a trend setter
but surely you must know, surely u hab the sight
ib we were boxing the ref would stop the fight

this is embarassing
you couldn't get burned anymore than you just got
not even with nitroglycerine
you can't cum up n here quoten shit u herd on cd-roms
lets b honest compare to me ur shits a sparkler
an bitch im deh other of all bombs

now get the fuck out while i finger your moms

*stomp*

to answer your question, no that wasn't supposed to rhyme. That's why it didn't rhyme. I find attempting to ryme without the time limitation imposed by live free styling to be pretty weak.

Quote:
I find attempting to ryme


it's spreading

bitch got skooled, can't bring himself 2 admit it. das cool, not lik i hav shit 2 prove anyhow.

jus' anotheh bitch i b better than, *shrug*

i got your back, glad.
you will never have shit 2 prove to us.

uh, gladd is wack, he pull his rhymes out of his sack, what do you think about that? uh...

shit...

he got nothing to say, cuz, cuz, cuz what can you say

when you're GAY!!!!

ha ha yeah, i can do this

YoMomma Teresa,
Lay it down, little man.
Lay it down hard.

Quote:
sittin' on ya chair, stool comin' outta ya diaper


Chubbied for best furniture segue on the board.

Comment left by kat1e ignored.

Below you say we shouldn't feed the troll (katie) but then you feed the troll troll (goldhat)?

Let us recall the Fall of Freddie the Leaf, and gain a little perspective.


Why do you stay?

Perhaps the little social mendicant has nowhere else to go ?

I hoped upon hope that that link would take me where I thought it would, and lo, it did.

Also there are only two thing to come from... from... the place you are from, wherever that is, queers and steers, and I don't see any horns on you, boy. Aaaaaaand a big hello to all the assetbaristas from Oklahoma.

We tend to traffic in howdies, instead of hello.

Hedo, you got definite horns.

Smile when you say that.

Please, please, please tell me that that's a Go West reference, Dave.

Sadly, no. It's just a cowboy cliche as far as I know.

I assume you meant this ironically . Shit from the future is still shit.

The future is from... Australia?

AUSTRALIA IS THE FUTURE
WE HAVE ALREADY PERFECTED OUR BEER DRINKING ROBOTS
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE

MATE

Yeah, catch up you seppos. I'm already having morning smoko on Wednesdee. What is this, Bush Week?

People have garnered more chubbies from telling you to shut than you have earned.

[I would expect anyone who proclaims to "crave" Peter Cook to be a bit wittier]

I want to punch the future. And why can't I lame people?

Son, I'm gonna fuck ya with my ass. Get ready.

What... what do I need to do to get ready?

It's just an empty preparatory, she doesn't care if you're ready.

Get ready.

People get ready
there's pain a-comin'

I guess I will follow the advice I was given for if a bear attacks me:

Just go limp and eventually they will get bored.

Or lie back and think of England.

Are . . .are you a cause for concern . ..
too?

No matter. I edited my profile.

Comment left by kat1e ignored.

But I liked the sexual purpose/porpoise pun.

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So just to be clear, Padrig is insinuating that his mother is a whore, right? With the hourglass on the bed? Right?

... that or he thinks she has a great figure... but that would be a little wrong. Wouldn't it?

I believe there is such a thing as justifiable incest. If you looked like Brad Pit and your sister looked like say Angelina Jolie (but not as pointy) wouldn't it be a bigger shame not to have a go?

There is no reasonable answer to this that will justify the creation of Incest Comedy. This is not an oppression of creative others that would like to "have a go".

Why do white people who want to make parody hip-hop only know, like, four songs? Move on, Onstad. This one is beneath you.

Perhaps it is because there are essentially only four hip-hop songs.

Notice: That was not a question.

Quote:
That was not a question.


That explains why you have learned nothing.

This is true. There are in fact Five hip-hop songs:

* Drugs
* Money
* Sexual Prowess
* Violence
* De La Soul

I agree. It was kind of funny last strip, but this is only slightly funny -- because of the archaic words (not even because they are used in rhyme form).

To me it's not so much the song choice as the execution. Something besides Sir Mix-A-Lot would be funnier, and something besides NWA would be less insulting.

^H, though.

OK I'll shut up now but...

This strip is kind of lame like the Robin Hood Prince of Thieves rap. (OK it's not as bad as that.)

This is a good one: [url]danger mouse jemini medieval[/url]

Anyone know of any recordings or videos that actually have BOTH good rap AND a slew of archaic words? That would be tight.

OK I'll go back into hiding now. Please move along nothing to see here. Heh.

I am walking down High Street with my friend Charley. We are drinking gin that we have cleverly poured into a non-alcoholic container that used to belong to my father before he was sent to prison, but the police are not fooled by our trickery. They take our alcohol! Fuck the police! Fuck them the way we fuck sheep. I am Patrick from the village Criccieth, and I howl or growl in some way that doesn't make much sense. Perhaps I have something stuck in my throat.

Woe! I wish I had formal gentleman's attire, such as skirts and doublets and knee-length breeches, but my parents cannot afford them for me and I am unable to procure such niceties myself. You see, my father is in prison and spends all day drinking water that has heavy metals in it, because he thinks it will make him healthy. (He is wrong.) He doesn't even owe all that much money, really. My mother is a prostitute. They do not understand my need for a proper suit, with a nice lace collar and square-toed shoes.

My name is Patrick-Faced Patrick, and I express opinions through the form of cheap poetry. Let me know if you would like to hear said opinions.

Also, Padrig lives pretty close to the village where The Prisoner was filmed, which is pretty cool.
Also, I have no idea what LN is saying, but I am not stoned so I suppose that is excusable.

It is my understanding that cider in the UK almost exclusively refers to alcoholic hard cider. It is generally seen as being one of the cheapest of drinks and typical of the working class similar to how malt liquor is generally viewed in the USA and with a similar alcohol content (roughly around 7%).

I didn't even know there was non-alcoholic cider!

It is... there are strong and powerful debates raging as to whether it is really just a different name for apple juice or not. Typically it is an unfiltered apple juice, but it is not in any way fermented. I used to live not terribly far from a local cider mill and I most certainly would never confuse the two. I actually found it rather interesting that Wikipedia specifically mentioned cider donuts (hmm... I have a recipe for those that I've been meaning to try out for a while too) because I recall the ones I used to get there as a child as being particularly delicious and one of my fonder memories of visiting the mill.

But yeah, in the US cider is almost exclusively used to refer to what is essentially just unfiltered apple juice.

Americans. Tsk.

Clear apple juice is pretty much like piss though... so why would you bother?

Yeah at least where I'm from (central USA) if you don't say hard cider, you're talking about unfiltered AJ. On the other hand, that usage goes back at least to 1846 in the Ohio Repository according to the OED.

It does seem to be a corruption, as the original meaning, the "hard" kind of cider, dates back to 1300 as a rendition to the vulgate of Latin sicera meaning generally a strong drink. It also meant, less generally, any beverage fermented from fruits, especially apples, say around 1398.

The British call sprite lemonade.

I was thinking about that, but if they're referring to hard cider they're still drinking alcohol in public. I can walk down the street sipping a 40 of Steel Reserve with Johnny Walker Blue inside it, and it's illegal regardless. Doesn't make much sense.

I'm not sure what the law was like in Early Modern Wales, but drinking in the street used to be legal in Britain, and still is in most places. Some councils have bought in 'alcohol exclusion zones' for town and city centers, which mean that jumped up community support officers can make you pour away perfectly good booze. This has happened to me, and I am bitter. The odd thing is that even within these areas people still take their pints out with them when they go for a smoke. The law only seems to apply to drink from offies. However the rule is still that it is legal to drink in public unless specifically stated otherwise. Drinking was recently banned on the Underground, which was essentially the best thing to do in London (I am not a tramp, but a bohemian, I tell myself).

I like you
Yeah I like you
And I'm feelin' so bohemian like you

Tref hanesyddol ar arfordir deheuol Eifionydd yng Ngwynedd, gogledd Cymru, yw Cricieth (weithiau Criccieth neu Crugiaeth yn ôl rhai awdurdodau). Fe'i dominyddir gan amddiffynfa trawiadol Castell Cricieth.

That's what she said!

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn ?

Ia.

Yeah... pretty silly. Padrig got no flow.

But his momma do

His momma do a lotta things he don't...

like making SEX!

stop this nonsense. get LN back to Achewood so he can fuck with Ray's game and Ray can fuck with his.

this irish shit or scottish shit or whatever sort of eurpopean shit this is s'posed to be is played the fuck out.

LN needs to do something that just fucks with Ray. like when he hustled him on eBay. Padriq's a dooshbag.

I harbor 4 score and 19 difficulties, but a wench can'nae be counted among them!