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Pat's Answering Machine Tuesday, September 23, 2003 • read strip Viewing 55 comments:

A comment left by catachresis was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by ishuta, NDCaesar, atticusonline)

meritorious - having merit

Well, yes. It was just awesome usage.

sorry, i was just feeling dictionaric

Or maybe... dictionarious!

definitive?

Didactic.

Well done, sir. Yay, words!

You mean it was meritorious usage.

skyclad....heh heh.

Great, now I'm going to spend the rest of the day wondering whether snails have assholes or not.

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So they just poop into themselves?

Looks like they basically shit down their own neck.

Well, at least they don't have to rip off their own head to do it.

Evolution is wonderful.

Pat sucks SO bad.

Proof positive of the theorem which states that almost every comic strip is enhanced by the caption:

"Christ, what an asshole."

DO snails have assholes?

Yep! They are up near the front though!

https://www.carnegiemnh.org/mollusks/palandsnails/graphics/anatomy.gif

I'm glad people's assholes are located safely far away from their mouths.

(not that you can tell with a lot of people)

(like Pat, for instance)

huh! weird!

They all have tiny little assholes! It's horrible! Horrible!

Ah fuck, I was gonna make a similar reference. Awww hell:

ASSHOLES COVER THE EARTH. IN A WAY TREES HAVE ASSHOLES BUT YOU CAN'T FIND THEM, THEY JUST DROP THEIR LEAVES.

I like this strip just for Pat's answering machine message. I am deeply considering using a similar message with my name in place of Pat's name.

I am changing my answerphone message to this.

The tractor feed holes, and the comma after Pat, absolutely nail the library message.

It takes some serious chops to justify-align a voicemail.

The library's automated message all spoken as if printed on a dot matrix printer.

does no one else find "Hello!" to be an awesome name for a brochure?

Especially a brochure about skyclad jains! Hello!

ive always wondered if snails had assholes

I wonder if that book on the marginalized and nearly extinct culture of the Zoroastrians featured a jacket blurb from Freddie Mercury, The Only Zoroastrian in The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?

Jainism != Zoroastrianism

Unless you were referring to "Yoga for Vegans".

You had me worried for a minute till I remembered it's the alt-text which mentions Zoroastrianism -- Freddie Mercury was born to an Indian Parsi family who I belive followed that faith.


ohokay I should've checked the alt text. I stand corrected.

I don't really agree with the usage "!=" for "does not equal." To me it looks more like "REALLY! equals".

the English didn't agree with putting prepositions at the end of sentences, and that's why we let them all die in WWII!

How does vegan yoga differ from the regular kind?

There's no animal products involved.

I don't understand how there was even a question.

Blood Rite. Sodomy.

You stand up slowly so all the blood doesn't rush from your vegan head and make you dizzy (I'm a vegetarian so I'm allowed to pick on vegans).

I'm allowed to pick on vegans because I eat meat.

It's the food chain.

Get used to it.

I'm allowed to eat vegetarians AND vegans when all other food sources are scarce because I as well eat meat, and those who don't taste like chicken.

Pat is just the kind of asshole who could only tolerate reading "comedy" koans.

How'd they resist naming them "Komedy Koans"

Greater men than me, that's for sure.

Jains used to sweep the ground%u2014the path whereupon their foot might tread%u2014before they walked there as not to kill any tiny organisms.

those awful clusters of symbols are dashes

So Pat is his last name?

No, the comma just shows the pause between his first and last name in the manner of a computerized voice

Pat is the guy who sucks.

I miss the days when Roast Beef was one of the dirtiest dudes in town.

Oh, and I posted this in the wrong strip. Cool.