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(Anyone who doesn't recognise the apostrophe reference is not a Private Eye reader and therefore unworthy of my time.

Can I just say that your current avatar is like exactly in time with the printer in my office.

Slow day huh

damn. i wants me a ps12. guess i better start writing Santa more often.

He kind of resembles to his future brother-in-law, Taffy.

They're technically not allowed to be the one to end the call unless they're being threatened, and I think even then they have to end with the usual "please call bla bla bla if you have any questions" or whatever. Policies may vary from company to company though.

I'm pretty sure telemarketers are not allowed to hit on the people they call, either. People in general, and perhaps telemarketers in particular, do a lot of things they aren't allowed to do.

Yeah, that's why I said "technically".

secretly, he knows he deserves it

this is mad awesome

that is really quite brilliant

I thought at first that your username ended in Ome Henk. That it does not is indeed disappointing.

In the old days being lazy had to do with not actually getting up and stuff. Now it has to do with being unwilling to open another tab on firefox and google the thing you just read that confused you. Which is to say I was gonna lame you but then I looked up Ome Henk, and decided: a.) Dutch, and Dutch people, are weird, and b.) chubby.

I have an Ome Henk. I am not Dutch enough to know of this comedic Ome Henk, but I have seen enough Dutch comedy to know they aren't particularly sophisticated. Or funny.

simply beautiful

New web address for Marmaduke Explains.

It is yonder.

HAHA YES I TOTALLY MEANT TO SAY THAT.
MARMADUKE EXPLAINS IT ALL.
Oh God

I love how Ray plants the seed of failure into him, and the fact that old dog can't hang up.

The look on Roast Beefs face in the last panel is a nice touch.

He looks happier there than he does on the 5.

A 5 does not make Roast Beef happy. Less than 5 makes Roast Beef increasingly sad.

the small aside of "ssssh!" is the subtle gold of this strip.

First Achewood I ever saw. Hooked as soon as I finished it.

"People whisper about this to each other!" is such a vague line, yet it says so very much.

I like that idea, but Hollywood has decided that Owen Wilson is the better choice.

I'm partial to "I am Marmaduke. You do not speak to me in this way", all in a quavery voice.

not even a little funny? no?

well I like it. :(

I chuckled a couple of times, but I found it to be more snarky than analytical. The best of these Internet rant/essays go on for thousands of words, and show that the author has immersed himself into the world of what they're analyzing more than any rational person would imagine doing. This one's just spliced together from one interview and a few comics cherrypicked to fit the thesis. It comes off as a punk kid mocking an old man about whom he knows comparatively little.

Reconstituted from where? It's pretty clear the writer thought up those ideas on their own, and whether you like it or not, there's at least a little truth in them; there must be reasons why such a crappy strip has survived this long. And see the 'dry humping' example from the above 'marmaduke explained' thing.

The article isn't funny though, however true..

Jesus, that article finds some rough chuckles in Marmaduke.

I think the writer REALLY needs to get say, a life instead of expending energy on a twee but inoffensive comic strip.

I think the writer REALLY needs to get say, a life instead of expending energy on a twee but inoffensive comic strip.

I think the writer REALLY needs to get say, a life instead of expending energy on a twee but inoffensive comic strip.

Hee hee! Oh, hee hee!

If I could, I would rate this a 9.

In a surprise twist, he doesn't hang up until Ray finishes off by telling Marmaduke about how his drug abuse gave him Marmaduke Milk which tasted like old crung.

beef's laughing in panel four is hilarious.


and the end.

Maybe it's just because I grew up with Great Danes but I actually like Marmaduke.

They really are very big.

Every strip of Ray insulting his funny papers "contemporaries" deserves a higher rating than they have. They are all sheer brilliance.

It's the 5 Face!

I never expected Marmaduke to sound so...academic. I'm imagining a John Malkovich-esque voice for some reason.

Who would have thought that a Movie is now being made. Not so not relevent now, Marmalade.