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» True that, but it should ...  -  neu
 

Progeny Dialectic.   08/06/2008 « prev 1st rand curr next »


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saulbellow » neu 23 hours ago
As your lawyer, I cannot recommend that you use this strip in baby negotiations with your significant other.
charhe » neu 23 hours ago
As your doctor (of Philosophy!), I must recommend that you fire your lawyer.
progeny_dialect » neu 19 hours ago
dont make me get out the giant penis
woodenteeth » neu 18 hours ago
square brakets ...
drskradley » neu 12 hours ago
brakets:
("brah-kay") n., lit. French form of "brackets".
woodenteeth » neu 8 hours ago
I am florid like the french, but that is psychosis and not my use of language.
kickstart » neu 6 hours ago
The Brah-kay residence, the lady of the house speaking!
octafish » neu 6 hours ago
A Keeping up Appearances reference? That's okay, I referred to the Vicar of Dibley not five minutes ago.
kamet » neu 6 hours ago
You're not my Brah, kay?
hedonismbot » neu 5 hours ago
You're not may friend Kay, duuuuuuuuuudde
rascaldom » neu 23 hours ago
As your brah? Dude I totally recommend you use this strip to explain yourself; I mean, can you imagine? She's all talking and stuff and you just pop out a fucking Achewood strip all badass and if she don't get it man just forget her cause if she don't have a sense of humor about shit you might wanna rethink shit cause that shit's fucking important in a relationship man and if you're talking babies...dude.
achilleselbow » neu 22 hours ago
As your taxidermist, I have nothing of import to say regarding this matter.
hatstand_mcq » neu 22 hours ago
Not many gentlemen still have a preferred taxidermist. These days its all Far Eastern botch jobs and moth eaten tat of e-bay. The world is too much with us, late and soon.
sn0wman » neu 19 hours ago
As your chartered accountant, I'm going to go leap from a high window now.
cpnglxynchos » neu 18 hours ago
PARKINSON!!
c_dizzle » pro 18 hours ago
DEFENESTRATION!!
drskradley » neu 16 hours ago
BALLS!
theguitarhero » neu 15 hours ago
CLITS.
usversusthem » neu 15 hours ago
As your gynecologist, I love them.
hbaranov » neu 10 hours ago
Lesbian Gynecologists, do they exist?
falseprophet » pro 10 hours ago
Find out on the next Law and Order: Special Victims Unit

"Oh you KNOW I'm gonna investigate that shit."

- Ice T.
waddlerz » neu 5 hours ago
The sad thing is I didn't even have to look that up to know that it meant being tossed from a window. Yes, yes, I am a loser
spinynorman » neu 4 hours ago
I'm pretty sure defenestration is everyone's secret favorite word.
hbaranov » neu 3 hours ago
If only it meant being thrown out of a window...
sje46 » neu 23 hours ago
I wish that we will learn what happened with LN. I mean, is he dead for good? When are we going to see Ray's rection? I like the strips (I really like this one in particular) since he died, but I feel like Onstad is stalling.
lightupafatty » neu 22 hours ago
I dont really mind the delay, Achewood's been no stranger to leaving storylines unclosed for long periods of time. I think it's important that he retains the freedom to drop stories abruptly and basically do whatever the hell he wants with the strip...
I'm sure when he gets around to it it'll be quality.
sje46 » neu 17 hours ago
That is a good point. He should take his time. I wonder how much of this he has planned out, and how much is extemporaneous?
lightupafatty » neu 16 hours ago
yeah i am totally waiting very excitedly for the eventual DVD with commentary by chris for every single strip. i am not kidding. he could read the alt text and then give us other thoughts. it would be awesome. and he would answer questions like this.
promac » neu 5 hours ago
Chubby for the exemplary, if extemporaneous, usage of the word extemporaneous.
mrwombat » neu 21 hours ago
Seeing one cartoon 'rection each week feels sufficient.
pogo » neu 1 hour ago
just thought my new avaticon would go good with yours
tipist » neu 21 hours ago
Ray's rection? Are you trying to get Ray to crown along with Beef's metaphorical child?
charhe » neu 18 hours ago
We already saw Ray's reaction. He was lying in bed with a bottle of champagne and a smile on his face. Then he turned out the lights. By clapping.

What other reaction could there be?
sje46 » neu 17 hours ago
I don't think he realized that LN had died yet.
stereo » neu 14 hours ago
Ray's probably just assuming Little Nephew went back to wherever he stays when he's not at Ray's.
gethen » neu 13 hours ago
Ray knows LN is with Molly's people. Ray has not made the connection that LN must be dead in order to travel with them. Or he has, and figures Beef just married a woman who died young and she turned out really well... I'm sorry, I've just become overcome with a wave of surreality and feel a bit seasick
mystkmanat » neu 5 hours ago
you're right, he gave them permission to take LN! he just didn't realize what that entailed.
westsider8 » neu 5 hours ago
Yeah, and if he can't get in touch with them there, then he's probably at Chamonix. He has a tab there with them for this sort of thing. Could be a solid year before Ray realized LN is gone.
jvitch » neu 2 hours ago
But the body? Where's LN's body? And who is going to discover it? And what state will it be in??

OHHHHH SHIIIIIIIT!
mrfedora » neu 19 hours ago
As your haberdasher, I must recommend printing this strip out and making it into an attractive pirate hat/explanation about children.
treasureplane » neu 16 hours ago
Aw crap, I accidentally lamed you. I was trying to lame that sevendaughters person beneath you. I fail.
biznart » neu 4 hours ago
Actually, it could have been. A couple of weeks ago, I got the 3-day silent treatment because I didn't know "doing philosophy" would be my ticket out of an uncomfortable conversation.
saulbellow » neu 23 hours ago
I. Love. This. Strip.
riazm » neu 23 hours ago
Saul Bellow! Nice work with those books, by the way.
saulbellow » neu 23 hours ago
Thank you. I am not of many words, but I thank you.
retinarow » neu 22 hours ago
What? Yes you are. Augie March was like a bajillion pages long.
falseprophet » neu 21 hours ago
And it blew ass.
riazm » neu 21 hours ago
LITERATURE FIGHT.

I liked it.
falseprophet » neu 10 hours ago
I read it in a week for a American lit class in college. People told me that the reason I didn't enjoy it was that I rushed through it for the necessary reason described above, even though they were only saying this because they really liked the Professor and were convinced that his ramblings gave his class character, and had not read the book.

But for me, the story went like this:

"Hey what's up. I'm a dude named Augie March. I don't know what I want out of life but I get lots of cool experiences mainly because I am handsome. Apparently, I'm Jewish because the guy who wrote my book is Jewish, even though that never comes up anywhere in the freaking book. If you need the kind of Judaism that is spelled out for you, read Malamud.

"There's a bunch of interesting characters, but I can't really spend time with them. You're stuck with me and my bland descriptions of my interactions with them. Anyone of them could be a much more interesting narrator for a novel but I'm more important because I cover so much ground.

"Check it. I totally bone a bunch of boring, overly submissive female characters but it's important because it's the fifties and I guess this has never happened in a novel before. I don't know I didn't really look. There's a few interesting women like the chick who has a baby out of wedlock by some other dude and I help take care of her but I got 200 more pages to fill and I can't be held down with a plot so I got rid of her.

"I think I stole books for a while. It makes me a rebel but with a dash of likeable hipsterism. I will inspire a generation of dudes to wear glasses without frames. And scarves. Lots of scarves. They will think they can get laid this way.

"I go to Mexico with this other chick and become a falconer, but I suck at it so I go back home to Chicago.

"Oh shit World War II started. I guess I want to fight or something. That's what everyone wanted to do during my generation right? My ambivalence which comes more from a lack of describing what I'm thinking than what I am actually thinking makes me so compelling.

"I marry some other random chick. The End."

Fuck that guy.
i_love_kate » neu 8 hours ago
It's the fifties... and then World War II starts? I knew I should have done history at GCSE.
falseprophet » neu 8 hours ago
I may have explained it out of order. It was published in 1953 but it spans several boring years before that.
i_love_kate » neu 5 hours ago
Oh, okay. My bad.
expellens » pro 7 hours ago
That is hell of Cliff's Notes for Augie March. I'm glad I gave up after the first 80 pages.
You are a scholar and a gentleman, sir.
daidai » neu 22 hours ago
IMPOSTER

(nah i believe you...bro)
contrasoma » neu 22 hours ago
The best bard quotations are the ones you can slide into casual conversation without anyone noticing.
saulbellow » neu 18 hours ago
ding ding ding
spinynorman » neu 22 hours ago
One time my friend got pretty blazed and drunk and we were standing outside a house and few people came out and started a campfire. My friend began cheering them on by shouting things like "FUCK YEAH! FIRE!" and "BURN THAT SHIT!" and "SET THAT SHIT ON FIRE!" When I told him he was being kind of an ass he turned to them and said, semi-obnoxiously, "Hey, man, sorry for partying," as though to say, "Just because you're not partying means that I have to put my completely great partying on low heat? That is mega bullshit, but whatev, chief."

Ever since the phrase "Sorry for partying" has become an arbitrary expression of moral and drunken superiority among my pals. If you do something crazy like shit on a put bill, well, "Sorry for partying," and you are completely in the right. Vomit pants buttons all over a passed out cheerleader at a baby shower? Sorry for partying. Snort a line of organic honey and get three chicks and a dude pregnant? Sorry for partying. Slam some weed in some everclear and pound some hoot juice and wind up freezing up the Jumotron at a Knicks game? Sorry for partying.
quaga » neu 22 hours ago
This is now my new favorite excuse.
desert_donkey » neu 22 hours ago
rad.

but i no longer apologize for partying. people know me, if they want me around then you get what you pay for.

NOT sorry for partying.
davey-boy » neu 22 hours ago
Man, I missed it when you would spurn out several of these anecdotes per strip posted.

Though, if you hang around 'Party Boy' long enough, he is later joined by his more reasonable pals 'Johnny Remorse' and our old pal 'The Hangover Hog'. Then he is yours.
spinynorman » neu 7 hours ago
I bet drunken anecdotes would get really obnoxious if I just did not stop telling them. I'd be like that prick at the party who always has to one up every story anyone else tells. Just constantly. bringing the conversation back to the subject of himself. Except in this case I'd be trying to upstage Chris Onstad and the internet.
desert_donkey » neu 6 hours ago
I think we go to the same parties.

[the guy you describe] "Right on. DUDE.. one time i took FIFTY HITS OF ACID. Blah blah blah blah.. " so forth.
spinynorman » neu 4 hours ago
Maybe that guy goes to a lot of parties. You never know.
riazm » neu 4 hours ago
You do know, because he will tell you.
tekende » neu 3 hours ago
And he will not apologize for partying.
hedonismbot » neu 2 hours ago
Like I told you, I apologize for nothing
thegoblins » neu 22 hours ago
"Put bill" almost made me do a cartoon-style double take.
dooder » neu 21 hours ago
Was that a typo for "pit bull," or have I led a more sheltered life than I thought I had?
thegoblins » neu 21 hours ago
I think it's an intentional typo. The idea of shitting on a pit bull is intrinsically somewhat absurd, and the typo draws attention to it.
stereo » neu 21 hours ago
Ohhhh, I thought the typo was "put shit on a bill".
octafish » neu 19 hours ago
Listen Congressman, no-one is going to pass that Bill if you dump on it! Sorry for Partying!
spinynorman » neu 17 hours ago
It was "shit on a pit bull." I swear to god I edited that.

Man, I just shit these fuckers out as they come to me
tommycrashwreck » neu 16 hours ago
Well, keep eating those Frosted Mini Wheats then. Your shit, as compared to the average shit of an average man, is about a million percent in quality.

By which I mean your stories.
westacular » neu 15 hours ago
I think shitting on a pit bull is one of those situations where no apology is ever necessary: once the dust has settled, everyone (particularly the dog) will know exactly how sorry you are.
waldo913 » con 20 hours ago
SCREW YOU for writing the greatest thing ever written anywhere. FUCK YOU.
likeiwassaying » neu 18 hours ago
Ray most assuredly says this thing!
tucky » neu 15 hours ago
wicked mountain goats avatar.
bixschmix » neu 6 hours ago
John Darnielle makes my heart go pitter-patter.
waddlerz » neu 5 hours ago
Yeah, we doin' this
c_dizzle » pro 17 hours ago
Honestly, spinynorman; I will pay in advance for your yet-to-be-published book of anecdotes.
spinynorman » neu 28 minutes ago
eh, unless this deal falls through, it ain't gonna be anecdotes
hawaiian_robot » neu 15 hours ago
It's so good imagining Stephen Fry reading this out.
thegoodwillgirl » neu 23 hours ago
In my tattoo, the ICP is actually the last topping on a loaded baked potato, but the idea is basically the same.
bobodante » pro 23 hours ago
Agreed, that twisted image of ICP in a tomato plummeting over the Falls just made me laugh after a horrible day. Thanks, Chris.
phy » neu 23 hours ago
A tomato provides minimal crash protection at best. For the human race at large, this is possibly the best place for Insane Clown Posse to be, since it's prohibitively expensive to launch them into the sun.
thegoblins » neu 21 hours ago
Not to mention they would be anticlimactically frizzled up long before they even got close to the sun.
irondave » neu 20 hours ago
Prohibitively expensive, FOR NOW.
kickstart » neu 18 hours ago
bands with makeup, produce....I'm beginning to sense a pattern here
usversusthem » neu 15 hours ago
Next week, on Achewood! Greeley Estates get smashed by pumpkins!
prettyrad » neu 7 hours ago
Since someone actually drew out the KISS one, I'm REALLY hoping that someone will draw the ICP one...

I'm wondering if Onstad caught on, and made Beef's description of the tattoo as obscure and specific as possible, just so that he could see the results... I like this man.
jonmw » neu 22 hours ago
I just got an awesome idea. What if you used spcial ink to get a tattoo - so that it changes colour with temperature!
Think of the applications

Just rub your arm vigorously and the tattoo MYSTEEEERIOUSLY changes!
stereo » neu 22 hours ago
You could have the words "too hot" appear on you... mysteriously!
quaga » neu 22 hours ago
and then a little later it's replaced with "Seriously, man. It is far to warm in here. Can somebody turn on the AC?"
daidai » neu 21 hours ago
This is my idea for the best tattoo-related thing to do ever. In a horrible way.

I want to take the drunk girl at a party to a tatoo parlor, and get her a tattoo of the monopoly guy (or better yet, my smiling face) between her breasts so that it looks like he is holding them apart with viscious glee. When her breasts are not held apart, the only parts of the tattoo visible are the fingertips on the inside edges of the knockers.

People will be all "what are those things on your boobs?" and she'll shamefully (or optimally, with great pride) spread her breasts to reveal my opus.


I have lost many nights of sleep over whether or not the monopoly guy should have a big speech bubble that says "SURPRISE!". So many pros.

clembot » neu 20 hours ago
it doesn't sound like you've ever gone to a party, or interacted with a girl
daidai » neu 17 hours ago
Oh no my secret is out :(
daidai » neu 17 hours ago
dammitfuck i should have said sorry for partying
catgrl131 » neu 6 hours ago
It's okay, I'll set you up
*Ahem* That is highly inappropriate!
hamscout » neu 3 hours ago
First Post!

ohh...cockshitfuckpiss
hbaranov » neu 2 hours ago
What news from the north, cockshitfuckpiss?
i_love_kate » neu 2 hours ago
What? Man, that doesn't... go.
pogo » neu 1 hour ago
Well excuse me for partying. (Did I get that right?)
professorhazard » neu 20 hours ago
He should be holding a "GO TO JAIL, DO NOT PASS GO" card.
westacular » neu 15 hours ago
DO NOT COLLECT $200 FOR PASSING GO.