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Nothing good ever happens in the back of that guy's van.

Darren is not very good at Football.

In the stands, Darren's father shakes his head in disgust.

He knows he will not hear the end of this from the other dads at the mine.

Andy Larson's smug dad will talk down to him just like Andy talks down to Darren. Dick Larson will belittle his car, his lawn, his son's athletic prowess, his wife's weight problem, all with small, innocuous comments that eat at his confidence. He smiles and laughs heartily, but he knows he has his pride, and must get back at Dick Larson.

Darren's father thrusts his hopes on Darren to beat Andy out for the quarterbacking position and cheerleader girlfriend. If his son Darren succeeds, it means that he is superior to Dick Larson. Vindication.

That, my friends, is socialism.

I thought that socialism is infantile fallacious reasoning... oh wait, nevermind, you have that covered...

Guys, let's have a Randwank on Assetbar!

it all trickles down, man. just say no, to government regulation. the anarchy of the totally free market shall set you free!

I tried to have a Randwank once, but her eyes kinda freak me out.

"Give it to me, baby."

"IS MAN NOT ENTITLED TO THE SWEAT OF HIS DICK?"

Would you kindly help me bleach my brain?

That would be Pete's version of baseball.

It's best policy not to rely on first person shooters for accurate information on complex historical figures.

It trickles down.

...the walls.

At this rate it feels more like 'it waits behind the walls'...

nuclear weapons are good for your health!1!!!

Oh baby The invisible hand is giving me a fiscal stimulus and it feels...SO GOOD.

I just want to tell you that I appreciate your invisible hand joke. It makes me feel like my degree wasn't a total waste.
[IMGS OFF]

Ayn Rand's actual sexual interests are both surprisingly obvious and pedestrian and largely hypocritical. She wants an attractive, masculine man to be dominant and assume a conventional, submissive female role to. At the same time she needs to be entirely in control. If only she'd gotten into more BDSM I think she might have been able to start working some of this stuff out.

Have fun imagining that now.

Her views on economics are essentialy BDSM transformed into the realm of political economy, theres a Lascivious delight in the suffering of the poor and the dependent who are castigated as weak or lazy. Seriously economic injustice is partly perpetuated because its just so damn fun to take part in.

Sort of similar to when A.C Grayling called Thatcher's economic policy "Sado-monetarism" which is just about on the dollar.

To be fair, poor people are pretty damn lazy. Take it from a poor, lazy person who was raised by a poor, lazy person.

... and starving to death! Yeah! Free markets!

moron

you are correct tho, just wanted to let you know you're a moron.

moron.

so the guy with the sports team fetish believes in neo-classical economics, (e.g. reganomics) despite the fact that the state of the art in science and economics theory has for several decades now moved past that point.

Let me guess, you also believe that some sentient power in the universe is somehow or other concerned with the affairs of humans, and you probably believe in the oxymoronic concept of life after death. Or is it just the reganomics fantasy that you believe in?

i think that i work hard. i think that i pay my bills. i think that i at least TRY and stay healthy. i think i TRY to better myself. i think i dont go out looking for handouts. and i think that if a single dime of the money i'm sweating and bleeding for goes to enable someone who cant even put forth an EFFORT to do the above things is wrong. thats what i think. and i believe that some people DO need welfare, and some DO need foodstamps, but the abuse FAR outreaches the need, and to set the healthcare system up for such a proverbial unlubricated dick in the butt is WRONG and STUPID. now, let's hear what you've got to say about THAT.

What I've got to say about that is you've turned comment thread on a comic strip about a cat using a van to beat a naked bear senseless into a platform for your political ideologies. Thanks for that, I don't get nearly enough of that at every other single media outlet.

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LOL COPY AND PASTE THAT BITCHFACE AND SEE WHAT IT IS HAHHAHAHAAH

That, my friends, is Mad Men.

Betts, you're being hysterical.

Well, that's why Andy is helping him practice. The Big Game is coming up.

Go Darren and Andy! Take State!

Teodor is too pliable.

He secretly likes it when people force him to work naked, I think.

This is the subtext for all of Achewood, really. That Teodor is one of the more obvious author analogues makes it even more interesting.

The rest of the subtext is about being involved in High School-style "shenanigans" forever.

Andy Larson is playing basketball. And he is the winner.

"Darin'" Darren sounds like a Fiesta Max name. Did Pete go there to do a dry run of the current atrocities before moving up to the big guns of Denny's & Taco Bell?

i think this is the funniest achewood comic in the past couple of years. it'd be pretty good to have nice pete keep this up until teodor dies, and if teodor comes back like roast beef or todd does after death, nice pete can just find more ways to force teodor to strip and then kill him with repeated blunt trauma. in general this comic needs more "plot twists" which are actually just fatalities from mortal kombat

Everyone knows that only the live animals can die. The stuffed ones will just live on forever.

Forever staying the same age. Never changing. Always staring with their cold soulless eyes.

and cranberry raisin testicles

cranberry milkshake.

Craisticles.

I don't dig on craisticles, man

I don't dig on craigslist, man

banhghngh! Incorrect, wazza.

The correct answer was, "Craisticles, what news from the North?"

My best friend is a dick, and my neighbor is an asshole.

If your friend is a bitch and your neighbor's a jerk, leave 'em both alone and continue with your work.

And are you a condom?
I mean, seriously. What does your comment do, other than tell us that?

Teodor seems to have grown up, there are images of him in his younger days. He almost died too, soul out of the body and everything.

Mr Bear is at least 120 years old.

I forget how old the otter is.

Philippe is five. Philippe is always five.

HOW MANY TIMES, PEOPLE?

cracklewater is a master baiter.

If this arc hasn't shaken your faith in that very fact, I don't know what could.

Are we not agreed that Philippe is now six?

it's entirely possible that he is five, just a more mature five.

maybe onstad will give Philippe MSA

you spend a lot of time on wikipedia

HEAR ME, ALLFATHER ONSTAND

LET THERE BE A MATH FOR WIKIPEDIA IN FUTURE ACHEWOOD, AS IT WAS WITH COMIC SANS.

There's something really great about having the seal picture matched up with that post.

i actually really want to understand this post (but i don't)

oh manflesh

I'm gonna kill the joke and explain, because it's serial.

I want Onstad to rip on Wikipedia really badly. The way he did with Comic Sans, when the gang found CS's inventor, and beat the shit out of him.

I basically want O to draw Wikipedia's founders getting their teeth kicked in by Ray, Teodor, Lyle, Beef....or just Ramses 'Motherfucking' Luther if that's possible.

I'd rather see him give it the google logo treatment, treating it like a child who got away with something suspect. All thinking that they could just make everyone else do their work. Jimbo read his Tom Sawyer for sure.

Now, if you wanted to kick in the teeth of some of the more unctuous Wikipedia editors, I'd get in line to make them taste the curb.

But that would contradict The Future.

Summary brought to you by aging. The new disease on the radio.

I'm confused where diseases/agencies get advertising from to let people know that lime disease is not easily detected because people don't look for it. Who funds a campaign to detect lime disease (it's not the government)?

Is convincing people they have diseases and selling them prevention/treatment so lucrative that specific diseases can be targeted?

Lyme disease is a bugger of a disease and if not treated early can be very debilitating.
I'm certainly not an advocate for big pharma, but if they have something effective for this I'd give them a tick.

Quote:
Is convincing people they have diseases and selling them prevention/treatment so lucrative that specific diseases can be targeted?

Hell, man ... they plain old invent diseases to sell drugs.

West Nile became Avian Flu became Swine Flu became earthquakes floods volcanos.

God grew tired of us.

Chubbied. Chubbied so hard, forever . Quotation marks and Nice Pete go together like a warm summer day and "fixed" lemonade.

JESUS CHRIST! THAT PSYCHOPATH!

That's not true - sometimes basketball games are won.

But...pete has then allready won.

This entire situation feels exactly like murder.

If this van's a rockin'

Your body's outline I'll be chalkin'

Nice Pete's license plate frame:
"Murdering children bought this van"

To be fair, it was a pretty hilarious dare.

Yeah; padlocked from the inside. Yike.

I know, right? I was about to comment on that. It's a nice touch.

Just like in high school!!!!

Darin' got off easy. He's lucky Andy didn't mistake him for Scott Howard, and put him on the roof...

Sorry Styles. Apparently, surf is not up.

High School involved basically the same thing except instead of a van it was the trunk of an early-80s Nissan and instead of being alone and blunt-force trauma it was sex. Everything else is essentially the same.

So you had a girl gang that kidnapped you (I hope)?

No, sadly. A friend from college actually did this in high school, not me. He and his girlfriend and his friend and his girlfriend each took turns fucking in the trunk of the car while the other whipped it around as much as possible. This was not a person noted for his mental capability or skills in any area of life. Nevertheless he was the one who was having sex in high school.

Have you ever seen a "hot-tire donut" made with a baseball bat?

I'm telling ya, it aint pretty.

is this pretty much how it goes?

actually, i wonder if we can use images again: [IMGS OFF]

nope.

I um..... guess that would pretty much be how it would have to go.

Hilarious!

I don't know where this storyline is going but from now on I am sleeping with the window shut.

"You REALLY need to be sitting in my seat."

Beaten and bloody and crying Rose McGowan wins over beaten and bloody and passed out Teodor.

now Pete smells blood

THE DOORS ARE PADLOCKED.
THERE IS NO WAY OUT.
THERE IS NO WAY OUT.

I don't think Teodor wants to get out. I've been watching this Teodor, and I'm pretty sure he's one sick puppy. We've been told previous he has repressed man love issues, and I think there has always been an implication that he's basically a bitch .

In a just world, I think this time spent with Nice Pete is Teodor's reward for his services rendered to Phillipe.

You can always count on Nice Pete to bring the laughs/violence.

We are calling him Andy Larson right now.

NO. Not until he needs to be referred to.

he needed to be referred to right there, dude

We thought we were getting a feel-good reunion between Teodor and Philippe. Instead, we're watching Teodor, naked, afraid, and being slammed into a bloody pulp against the walls of Nice Pete's van.

I wonder what else those walls have seen.

It may be of interest to know that when all of the interior carpet and felt and plastic is removed from a vehicle such as a van, the resulting acoustic experience is really terrifying. Everything ends up being loud. Really loud.

what about the shrimp!

i think Nice Pete's van looks really crazy because when i look at cars, i see the headlights as eyes, and this particular van has eyes looking in opposite directions.

a psycho van

i tried for a second to see what you see and then gave up because that would be a horrible thing to see indeed

If these walls could talk, they would scream.

...they have no mouth...

or maybe ask for a covering of retro shag carpet, because they're chilly.

There WILL be a happy reunion, soon philippe will come to Teodors rescue and kick nice petes ass!

There is always a van...

In panel 2 Teodor is so resigned that he is using Beef-style lack of punctuation.

Hit so hard they've turned into cranberry sauce!

This actually made me wince a little. I'm not big on this. This is not the best.

It is black humour.

With a touch of blue.

I am not okay with this either.

lol hahahahaha ho-holy shit

"Darin" Darren Wilson - the nickname is silent .

Right. But I somehow imagine that one would somehow be able to perceive that in Nice Pete's voice.

It is like a Game of Basketball, in that One of the Players Is Not Wearing Pants.

same as last time, really.

It is like last night, in that LeBron James does not bother to show up, and a beatdown by the Celtics commences.

Nice comment. A little highbrow and intellectual, but still OK.

That comment makes me want to drive to your house and kill you while i violate the corpses of everyone you know.

;)

Basketball is intellectual by you?

are you racist?

Everyone is racist, at varying degrees.

kermit tells it like it is

it's not easy being green,
knowing you're the scum of the earth and
not fitting to lick a true Aryan man's boots...

Everyone dance like there's bigots in your pants!

no, wait.

This whole thread is gettin' my "David Duke" kinda stiff....

Tacodor has failed at "Football Practice." Now he will have to do his "Detention."

on Friday night, he will have to "Make Out in a Car at a Scenic Overlook."

If you were in Teodor's position, how would you attempt to get out of this situation? Remember that you are overweight, naked, and significantly less powerful than the person slowly killing you.

Well if Thomas Harris has taught me anything it would be to mock him in the voice of his abusive father.

I MOCK HIM AS HIS FATHER!

MOCK MOCK!

Who's There?

Hannibal.

mock mock mocking on heaven's door

I read your second sentence as answer to the first, and was not terribly grateful for the advice.

Well it's his turn to dare Nice Pete to do something. He just needs some sort of clever dare that will leave Mr. Cropes incarcerated, dead, or stranded in the wilderness.

If you ignore Nice Pete's instructions and keep your balance by any means, a few things can happen
a) his van can drive itself; he comes back and murders you
b) his van cannot drive itself; so he throws a bottle at your head and you die
c) his van cannot drive itself; while he is coming back to murder you it crashes and you both die

I'm not seeing a nice option here. Maybe the beer bottle is best; a quick death.

what about
d) the van hits a deer option? It is raining sheets. Someone whose silhouette exactly matches Pete's puts the deer out of its misery with an automatic. Ray show up.
Existential discussion spontaneously breaks out on assetbar.

Rough Chuckles.

Naked and bruised, how I like my womendajsijsdaviasdij

were you pretty nice on water when you wrote this comment?

he was very nice on that stuff.

Man, that cat is always nice on water.

::shrugs and smiles sheepishly at the camera:: I'm just Nice!

Not at all, this is something my friends and I do, both online and in real life. Make a horrible joke and then either mash the keyboard to signify how you hate yourself or in real life, swipe at the air, stomp your feet, maybe fake cry, leave the room, kick something, just some ridiculous full body movement to show you hate yourself. It adds to the humor greatly.

Once again, this would be less awkward if T wore underwear to bed. Once there was a fire in an apartment complex I lived in, and my girlfriend and I had to "immediately evacuate," according to the firemen who later wantonly broke down my door even though it was a fucking dumpster fire. Boy, was I glad to be wearing skivvies.

Also, this strip is really funny until the last panel.

what the hell do you mean until the last panel? that's the funny part.

I pray for the day someone demands I "immediately evacuate" so I can shit all over them and then protest they weren't being clear enough.

It's not always a good thing to be wearing skivvies when you "immediately evacuate"

Bravo. I wish I could rate strips to give this a well-deserved 5. One of my new favorites. Though I kind of wish Nice Pete had told Teodor his "high school name" was "Pete" Peter Cropes just for the added creepiness.


And on the subject of violent crazy people, I have a story for you all.

Last week some kid from my high school went absolutely batshit fucked crazy. He gave a crazed speech to a crowd of people after a funeral about how the several hundred people in my high school class needed to:

"Get together! Unite! We, %u201908 , are destined to take this world and the universe!"

He then left the funeral (confusing the fuck out of a lot of grieving people) and met up with friends of mine later that night. He was acting weary and confused; everything he said was about his need to find himself and answer the questions. He seemed a complete wreck, but people attributed it to him being upset about the funeral and let it slide. He left.

He drove up to New York that night, apparently on his quest to begin the Rise of the "Class of '08" . He drove into Yonkers and stopped at a house. He stepped out of his car, rampaged into the house(which was apparently unoccupied at the time), and began destroying everything he could. Mirrors, televisions, stoves, stereos, and all he systematically destroyed and then drove away undetected into the night. He then stopped at another house several miles away. He got out of the car, broke into the house, and destroyed everything he could as quickly as he could. He fled. He approached a third house. Broke in. This time the police were nearby.
Two cops came to the house. This kid (who was a cokehead who spent an unexaggerated 45% of his life in the gym during the high school years I knew him) fought the cops with everything he had. I don%u2019t know the details of the fight %u2013 only the results %u2013 but one cop was thrown out the front window and both were badly beaten in the fight. The kid was arrested and sent to a Psychiatric Ward in a New York Hospital.

That%u2019s all true. What. The. Fuck. That quote, ridiculous and elementary as it is, is word-for-word what he said after the funeral.
I want to know what the fuck correlation those houses had in that kid%u2019s mind and how he thought that destroying them would further his quest to take over the %u201Cworld and the universe%u201D for the glory of %u201C%u201908%u201D. How were 3 random houses in Yonkers the key to universal domination? Why was my high school class the chosen group?

I kinda want to visit the ward if I'm ever in New York just to listen to the guy. He's just lost his damn mind.


Just thought I'd share.

I recommend the movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean,_Shaven it will not help any of it make sense but it is a blast

That's a great story. As a person who knew some people who used to do a lot of cola, *ahem*, I can tell you that the whole story is spot on. I can't tell you exactly what the story line was in dude's head, but it probably went something along these lines, "That house!" "I *remember* that house!" "So *that's* why they made me move..." "Wait." "What?" "What am I supposed to do now?" "Oh!!!" "Got it." "Tear the fuck out of it!" "Right!!"

And so forth. The internal dialog can get "involved."
You should go talk to him. The poor bastard. He's lucky those cops didn't shoot him. See if you can put it in his head to try to get accepted at the Delancey Street Foundation up in Brewster. At this point that is about his only hope.

Was your friend Richard Nixon in disguise?

Wreck up the place!

sounds like his coke was cut with meth!

You should visit him. You could learn things.

Those three houses were part of the Universe, no? I'm guessing by now they know who's boss.

Best.

I love how Teodor gets the shit beat out of him here. It's hilarious.


Could be worse. It could've been Todd's van.
Although having said that, with phrases like 'run for the border' and 'hot tyre doughnuts' I still think Téodor's gonna get stuffed in a way a stuffed bear doesn't wanna be stuffed.

I told you. Pete is about to meet someone he will respect. Steve D. is no joke.

Oh god...!

In the final panel, Darren is cheating.

He was told not to put his arms out..

You'd think someone who did parkour would have better balance than that.

He does parkour the same way I do MMA.

This is the first time I've cried with laughter at an Achewood strip in a very long time. Oh god, my sides hurt.

This is the first thing Nice Pete has done which has angered me so.

There is no way I would have gone into the back of that van. At least from the passenger side you can open the door and dive out

Every serial killer removes the passenger side handles and/or the door lock device from the inside of the car--they learn that on Day One.

I prefer to leave the latch and everything in place and fully functional on the side door. Not only that, I make sure to find a pretext to demonstrate to my passenger that the side door opens from the inside. It ups the stakes for everyone. Makes the whole experience more engaging. What you don't want is for the passenger to become resigned to his, her, or it's fate. You've got to keep things from getting boring and routine.

is it wise to point out to a serial killer that they have incorrectly used an apostrophe?

Is so humiliating for them. You win at grammar, but grammar is not basketball.

Misspelling and incorrect punctuation are the other things serial killers learn on Day One.

Omar m'a tuer.

it's. Sure, it can be a contraction, and (sorta) knowing English, I'm sure it can be a lot of other things too. But it can also be possessive. apostrophe "s" denotes possessiveness. possessivity.

dog's = that which belongs to the dog
it's = that which belongs to it

come on people. This is simple pattern matching.

anyone who disagrees can step out of the van now. I'll even slow down to 55 first.

Without checking my facts or anything, I do think you're wrong. Though, to your credit, it is perhaps the most confusing apostrophe rule of them all.

Oh, but aren't you pretentious? In fact, calling you pretentious would be like calling an obese person a trifle plump.

Well, go on. Stun us all with your mad grammar skillz.

NO. fuck you and your grammar rule rowboat. if the rule says 's can't indicate possession for the word it, then the rule doesn't make any fucking sense!

languages are alive. They need to change, grow, and evolve. Even if we have to kill you to accomplish this.

By that light, "yours" should be spelled "your's," and so on.
it's --> its
him's --> his
her's --> hers
your's --> yours
their's --> theirs

The apostrophe has been swallowed over time, so the use of the apostrophe with pronouns is now reserved to contractions, not possessives. Sorry.

Join the orthographic convention, get your free chotchkes!

" you's "
" they's "

I went on assetbar to escape the boredom of revising the medieval agrarian economy, and you clowns sent me straight back to it.

Cheers for knocking my procrastination on the head... YOU JERKS.

Thanks, comrade, for blaming us for your bad mood.

I'm yet to receive proof that any of you are real people, I honestly think that assetbar is just a new (and dissapointing) direction that Onstad has taken with Achewood, and this explains the infrequent update schedule.

I admire his gift for characterisation though, Manflesh and glad are well rounded characters.

Well rounded? Maybe is some swollen parts.

Oh, Dennis, there's some lovely filth over here!

NO. You are so wrong. So very wrong. I am not a huge stickler for grammar, but this is the one point on which I can stand my ground for months. Years, if need be. I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT.

who's wrong, Ganymedeio? It's hard to see which one you're replying to...

your position is ambiguous

Ratacattt. He is wrong, and its shameful.

OOOOOHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

ha ha ha ha ha ha this is better than murdering you in the back of a van ha ha ha

wazza, et yourself fucking assetbarista so you can see who is replying to who. WAZZA. THIS MESSAGE IS IN REPLY TO WAZZA'S POST AND IS MEANT FOR WAZZA

WAZZA? IS THAT MY NICKNAME? I CANNOT TELL WHO YOU ARE TRYING TO TALK TO? WHAT IS AN INTERNET?

Huh? What's that, plummet? I'm sorry, but I'm buried so deep in you right now that my ears just breached your anterior anal sphincter. Would you please speak up?

I said you have a disappointingly small penis!

The joke's on you; I went in feet first.

Feet first, huh? Someone's been playing HALO 3: ODST.

Someone's been playin' my heart strings like a fiddle with his wonderful personality.

Chief knew better than that.

english doesn't follow your crazy little "patterns"

we'll see how you feel about that when you're dead

I will wager that his views will not change

I'll take that bet just because I'm a sporting man.


Sign here_________

jerks. making light of seriousness

Pussies jump at fiddy-five. Real men leap at 80.

More on the continuing effort to save Real Men from extinction, and from themselves, after the break.

at serial killer school

I like that the implicit argument of this arc is that if you are at Taco Bell at 2 am, you are either in high school or you are a serial killer.

I think of it as an implicit agreement

I...often find that 'Nice' Pete seems to have been given one hell of an inaccurate nickname.

Well, maybe it's not a description of his character but geography. Did his family come from the French Riviera, perhaps, before moving to the South?

then he would be Nicois Pete.

It's not Minnesotan Fats or Texan Jim Robertson, so I stand by Nice Pete.

that is because the French, unlike Americans, have style .

And decent cheese.

the French, like Americans, think they're just the best ever .

I always thought he gave himself the nickname in a REALLY poorly executed ploy to appear amicable.

This actually isn't far off from my high school experiences. Substitute lack of sleep for LSD, the van for an old Mazda truck with a camper, Pete for a long haired stoner guy, and you're there.

What an hilarious joke!

See, THIS is what FUCKING happens when you don't use Steve DeNeuve to transport your animals.

Having shed the shackles of misplaced nostalgia, the newly self-actualized otter will arrive just in time to same his friend.

(He may help Teodor too)

save

FILE SAVED!

C:\ASSETBAR

Some excellent avatar/comment synergy here.

Is anyone else wondering when they're going to get to Taco Bell?

Yes, I have been wondering for a couple days now when I am going to get to Taco Bell. I'll probably make it this weekend.

Taco Bell is not a place you can get to by a boat or a train. It's far, far away. Behind the moon, beyond the rain.

Taco Bell eez a time not a place.

A screeeeing van never leads to anything good .

today someone honked at me because I changed lanes in front of him. It was one of those situations where you come round a bend, and you turn wider than the car that was behind you, resulting in you being in the left lane, and the car behind you in the right lane. Had you turned tighter, you both would have been in the same lane, so it would be incumbent upon the car behind you to accelerate and pass you... Well I'm a slow driver, so by the time I'm signaling and changing back into the right lane, the car behind me is thinking about passing me on the right.

so this car honked at me. So I rolled down the window, and as he passed me on the left, I pointed vigorously to the back of my car, to indicate to him the turn signal concept, and I made the blink blink pantomime with my hand.

there are so many idiots out there. It's like everyone who comments on youtube drives a car.

it's 11:32am. I'm gonna cook myself a steak.

douche.

p.s. it sounds like you really got the best of that other driver, based on your story about you being a terrible driver.

What is it with people who can't complete a turn in the same lane that they started it in?

ratacat, got a question for you: Did you signal when you made the first lane change? No? Didn't think so...

"Clueless fuck." (Don't take it personally - just sharing with you what the guy who honked was thinking.)

yeah, I signal at every lane change. compulsively. I sometimes make wide turns where I wind up in the adjacent lane so as to avoid slowing down while still reducing wear and tear on my suspension. But I generally try to avoid this.

people probably often do think I'm a clueless fuck. I usually drive around 50, not more.

At that speed, when someone starts tailgating you without immediately passing you, they're often on a cell phone. I know this because I usually slow down to force them to pass me, and I'll see them on the cell. I like for these people to pass me because since they're on the cell, if I have to stop for some reason, they might rear end me.

the slowest I've ever had to slow down to get someone to pass me on the interstate was around 15 MPH. It was someone with absolutely the most incredibly bright halogen headlights I have ever seen. So bright I was blinded by them in my rear view mirror despite having it flipped over to the 'dark' setting.

I think a good app for the ipad would be something with voice recognition... you put it in your back window and it flashes whatever you say to the car behind you. But for privacy, you have to prepend it with "insult"

e.g. "insult: you fuck tard I signaled that meant I was going to turn that's why I turned why the fuck did you honk fuck you I hope you die in a car accident from being run off the road and your car crashes and catches on fire"

and then the ipad would scroll that in a big banner across the screen.

it would also be nice if the ipad could sync up with 3 other ipads next to it for a bigger screen area.

Man, I thought of an interactive LED bumper that would do that sort of thing years ago.
But just think of the extra road-rage that would bring on. People all going for miles out of their way down the wrong highway, insulting each other until one paints a graphic of a gun on his iPad with Photoshop lite.
The other guy pulls out a real gun because he is unfamiliar with Internets Trollery Protocols & Rules of Engagement.

This is why God gave us blinkers and brakelights.
Even hand signals can lead to tragedy.

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I pointed vigorously to the back of my car ... and I made the blink blink pantomime with my hand.


Somewhere is a guy who thinks you offered $15 for anal (and can't drive).

He honked because you're an idiot who doesn't know to signal when you're changing an apostrophe.

if you have a good voice ill listen to w/e bullshit u have to say for however long u care to say it.

i fink most peeps are like that

For me, I'm good at listening to people's bullshit in general

all part of being a stoner, I'm used to hearing people rant for hours about what would happen if all the air in the world turned to wood

Ok. I'll bite. What would happen?

Endless erection puns.

Endless puns about erections, or puns about endless erections? It is unclear.

on and on it went. extending into the furthest reaches of the void.

...and further

Gladi. I love the new foray into the intelligible. Unfortunately I don't know how to encourage it without offending the less intelligible Gladi.

I have a little song here about heroin addiction

This is the dong that never ends
It just goes on and on my friends
Some hooker started sucking it not knowing what it was
and she will go on sucking it forever, just because...
(repeat ad nauseam)

so basically heroin is like a neverending blowjob?

sounds fricken' AWESOME

I'm relatively sure that this is what Trainspotting was trying to tell me.

haha one time my mom and brother were watching Transporter 3 , like the Jason Statham movie and she screwed up and called it the Trainspotter 3. I get laughs from both titles from then on.

For a moment, it looked like you got laughs from both titties -- not a bad thing.

Great, now I'm going to have a trippy moment where I imagine a woman's breasts are tiny mouths laughing derisively at me during sex.

Sorry, I was thinking more along the lines of pink gleeful giggles of delight.

Correct. I wanna cum.

i got to nauseum pretty quickly.

oh. my. god.

2/10

what?

I imagine Nice Pete's voice to be kind of like an American-accented Jeremy Irons (particularly, Scar from the Lion King Jeremy Irons) - every word carefully enunciated and as delicate as a syringe's needle.

Except when he gets angry, in which case a different actor would be called for, because I can't imagine Jeremy Irons EVER raising his voice.

You never saw the Dungeons and Dragons movie, then

...And he should be considered a very lucky man because of this.

Huh. I've always imagined it to be closer to Bob Ross's voice. Would have found that creepier.

That's how I imagined it. Except with a slightly vacant tone to it.

There is always a price to pay for Football Practice.

FOR YOUR HEALTH![

evidently, pete's father found out he grew pubics and was none too happy.

Somehow I don't think they're going to Taco Bell at all.

ENEMY MOTHERSHIP APPROACHING

I'm sorry.

Love

I wonder how achewood characters would fare on Corneria.

Lyle's status as a certified asshole means he would allow Slippy to be killed by the enemy crafts following him. Ray would distract the team with shenanigans. Then in the end Cornelius would swoop in and destroy Andross without using even one smart bomb.

Ya'll some space ship laser beam types.

Cartilage Head would be a boss in Sector X who, instead of attacking by conventional means, assaults your senses with a harrowing melody on his musical saw. If you shoot him, the Starfox team is treated to a montage of immolating Tibetan priests, chickens being slaughtered, and pianos being smashed with sledgehammers. The entire team ejects from their cockpits and succumbs to the vacuum of space in an effort to escape their impending madness (causing you to lose a life). If you choose to ignore him instead, CH's song builds to a crescendo that is so powerful that all of the stars in the galaxy are drawn to his location. The team is burned to a crisp, again causing you to lose a life. Players who try to evade this unwinnable quandary with Gameshark awake the next morning bearing the Lash of Thanatos.

In the end, you're really just better off defusing the bomb on Fortuna and taking the route to Solar instead.

Use chubbies wisely!

this is the only comment of yours that i've ever found worth it to keep your annoying avatar on screen long enough to reply to

This explains so much.

you've got me scared

"Bulldog Unit: We Don't Let Anything Through."

I want to chubby you just for your avatar.

Ugh, it's Riding With Death all over again. Only this time, the driver isn't a redneck who can turn invisible, it's a redneck who fundamentally and totally doesn't understand the rules of basketball.

Wait a minute... 'Darin'' Dan Wilson? Andy Larson? These aren't High School names, these are Fiesta Names! Nice Pete isn't going to Taco Bell, but Fiesta Maxx instead!

"Candy" Larson

Fitting transpin on that fiesta name, chochacho.

This is still at least 10 times more fun than playing actual football.

Why. Can't. I. See. His. Penis?

He. Is. A. Stuffed. Bear.

Don't fall for that propaganda, Jean-Paul. There's a closet furry contingent in Achewood that wants such analysis.

Do stuffed bears bleed?

It's Achewood. There is no taxonomy to its elegant madness.

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It's Achewood.
There is no taxonomy to its elegant madness


But there is a mad elegance to its gastronomy.

I'm...not sure I'm entirely comfortable with where this is going.

OK, this is all because I complained about Teodor's moobs two strips ago, isn't it?

more like not so nice pete

Haha! Good one!

If Nice Pete tried any of this faggotry on me I'd fuck him up

Also I'm very good at handling the mentally unstable; Nice Pete and I would be playing gin rummy faster than you could say Grossberger

well I'm mentally unstable but I don't feel an compulsion to play gin rummy with you

...yet (!)

prolly cause you suuuuuck oh yes now i am chasing you round and round the internetz

I've never heard of a person who described themselves as 'very good at handling the mentally unstable', especially one who also described themselves as 'irate'.

People with Aspergers LOVE disgruntled indifference. DUH.

this... this speaks to my experience

I actually think this will be good for Teodor. He has to be thinking "well, here I am, naked, chubby, I haven't accomplished anything in my life, and I'm getting beaten senseless to humor this insane murderer's fantasy of having 'normal' high school experiences." This will give him perspective, if he lives through it.

Good point!

Tacodor already died, though. DIIS ALTER VISUM!
Remember when he swallowed a bottlecap while trying to watch Breast Attack On Fuck Mountain? And Lyle performed the Longshoreman's Heimlich on him, thus saving his life?

Even after that he's still a fat useless food-loving fuck. Not that I hate the little bear, but it's what he is.

Aye, but that experience was more "holy shit, what just happened" than "oh god what is he gonna make me do this could be it ". The trauma of this experience is being dragged out inch by screaming inch.

dude


let's start a band called The Screaming Inches

Better than being a fuck-loving food. I hate bunnies.

that's what i'm saying - nice pete is going to help teodor mature just like teodor helped phillipe to mature

Well, maybe not just like it. Of course, what Teodor needs to mature at this point in his life probably needs to be more drastic.

This is how "Ferris Bueller's day off" ended in the original cut.

"Larson . . . Larson . . ."

Teodors legs are making me crave fried chicken

... but i just had taco bell.

Onstad's going to make us wait a week for the next installment.

He best not pull that.

Ah yes, standing "nekkid" in the back of a cargo van, waiting for the driver to do crazy maneuvers -- such is life!

I was thinking the same thing, Nice Pete is doing a pretty good job summing up high school in one night.

I'm beginning to think there never was a "taco supreme" involved in this.

I can't stop laughing.

I can't stop crying

Even in death Plummet's eye will not stop weepin'

i have invented a device that makes you read panel 4 in a randy marsh voice

You are now aware that Nice Pete is looking at you in panel 4.

*waves goodbye to sleeping tonight*

I'm suddenly existentially terrified of my own existence.

He is! I also believe the look perfectly conveys him mimicing all the bad acting he's seen in dozens of low-minded High School Dramas. The whole "blank eyed stare of a very poorly trained actor trying to remember his lines".

I never noticed how odd it looks to have sideburns when your ears are on top of your head.

Is anyone going to Andy Larson's keg party this weekend? I heard the last one was AMAZING. It got really crazy... I heard there was music and the police came but then everyone ran into the woods until they left!

We should all go together to this party.

sounds kind of middle school to me!

300th!