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Beef's Internet is Down Thursday, October 16, 2003 • read strip Viewing 73 comments:

leisuretown

Goddamn good one

Hell yes, Leisuretown.

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Dr. Andretti knows that the only thing you can do is put him out of hia misery.

In Holland the doctor has a place to send people when they need to be killed.

The Dutch are so advanced.

This is the box where the children shall die

Nice avvy-comment synergy.

Doctor Andretti has his pro ice game face on.

Couldn't Beef just use his spinal wireless from when he got shot?

Sorry if that makes me sound like a continuity-douche.

It does, doesn't it....dammit.

Beef's spinal wireless is too dang slow.

If your internet is down you can't connect to a WAP.

The bullet in his spine merely allows him to connect to said WAP.

That's true, it's just a wireless receiver, not some kind of satellite modem, that would be ridiculous.

Maybe he couldn't stand using it because it was too slow.

This is one of the best Beef freak-outs because I could see it happening to me...to a lesser degree.

Every joke needs a bit of truth and an exaggeration on the truth.

I can imagine Roast Beef relating well with Toothepaste For Dinner. all hell of dejected.

Except for Beef is funny on more than a biannual basis, unlike Toothpaste for Dinner.

I like older Toothpaste for Dinner. Same with Married to the Sea.

xkcd avatar ...

Is this a faux pas of which I am unaware?
Hello, bottle I cannot read.

Sometime the earnestness of xkcd makes me uncomfortable.


D-does that make me a bad person?

Eventually the response to "he's a geek in love-and-or-heartbreak" must turn from "awwww" to "what, again?"

:shrug: I don't think it's the holy grail of web comics, I just like it as an avatar.

Pictures for Sad Children is a huge upgrade. Chubby.

Nope. The earlier strips (up to 100 or so) were really grating; like you I thught it was too sugary. For example, the boy in a barrel looking for his mommy was NOT entertaining; about 1/3 of the way through the catalgue the comic hits it's stride, I think. 200-now has some real gems; I get a good laugh out of about every other strip.

true, although i liked the mommies one... :\

pictures for sad children?

At least he doesn't read the god-awful hipster soap opera that is Questionable Content.

I actually like Questionable Content, mostly because it introduces me to new bands, for instance, the Fiery Furnaces. And to a lesser extent, because the soap opera aspects are nauseatingly addictive.

You get a chubby for having a different opinion than me.

You get a chubby for the best chubby-giving reasoning.

As do you.

Is this the first achilleselbow "I hate QC" post?

Just wondering, it's for History.

You explained this very well and did it graciously. I am both impressed and cheered by the idea that such an exchange can happen on an internet message board.

Beef is totally in tune with the linguistics of TFD. And that kind of desperate lashing out at the world, beyond anger, that just turns into humourous futility...
Wait, I never saw TFD like this before I wrote this. Daaaaaaaaaaaaang.

I enjoy the inclusion of slashdot. RB is definitely a slashdot kind of guy.

aminakedornot.com too

"Is she naked...? Ehhh!"

haha, beef all looking at goth boobs @ suicidegirls.com
i admit i looked at some of those. is it stalagmite or stalactite when they hang down?

stalactites gotta hold on tite so they don't fall ;)

I remember it as stalactite has a C as in 'ceiling' and stalagmite has a G as in 'ground.'

This is how I do it too!

When the 'mites go up, the 'tites come down.

You can have this maglite, it survived the apocalypse.

That was my favorite site when I first got a computer. That was before I realized that only suckers pay for porn, here.

This is my favourite Achewood strip. Easily. God, it's so good.

This has happened to me.
Incidentally, the "single bullet" Beef refers to in the last panel - is that Beef committing suicide or Dr. Andretti putting him out of his misery?

$5 if you can shoot yourself in the base of the skull.

I demand your wager up front, though.

I can demonstrate with airsoft pellets.

Maybe he's just upgrading his connection?

This wouldn't have happened with RSS

wait yes it would

Remember that show My Brother and Me on Nickelodeon? The kids' Family Matters? Remember the girl who was really pessimistic all the time? This is like that, only funny.

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I never noticed the little 'poof' the computer makes when it crashes until now. Amazing.

Wow, that's the same 'poof' Beef made when Ray woke him up here .

I went for a week without internet while moving into my new apartment...I went through that exact same anxious fear before the cable guy came to install the modem. Bullet to the base of the skull.

Beef's depression has such great rhythm:

I feel like I'm just gonna start typin' URLS like crazy
URLs just flowin' outta my memory
Typin' so fast my fingers blur
Browser completely freezin' up
Computer hella crashin' and goin' black
Everyone in the doorway all starin' at me
Still typin' like mad, huge scared eyes
Doctor comes in, he's seen it before
Single bullet to the base of my skull
That's the quickest way.

OH SHIIIIIIIIT.

OOPS POW SURPRISE! OHHHHHHHH!

This racism is killing me inside

"OH. HI. YEAH, IT HASN'T BEEN UP IN THREE DAYS."

Beef digs Fortean Times? They still publish Fortean Times?

Yeah, I can't really see Beef as all that into Forteana -- all hell of weird, all contradicting his basically scientific mind. But maybe it's like airshow disasters, and he reads it because it feeds his anxiety.

oh dear...i feel this way about the plethora of webcomics i read.

i call this one "monday"

only Beef could turn "ComCast ain't fixed your cable internet yet?!" to the topic of euthanasia

Only in daydreams does Lyle show as much sympathetic concern as in Panel 7

Roast Beef feels like he has to check PayPal.com

Don't read the Drudge Report, Beef! The Drudge Report is silly! It is silly to read the Drudge Report!

People have probably seen this, but this has to be RB's actual cat counterpart
https://cheezdailysquee.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/129186716904462678.jpg

That is one dejected-looking kitty.

Awww, poor achondroplasic kitty.