Ray's apology about the KKK thing

Ray's apology about the KKK thing 10/05/2005 « prev 1st rand curr next »

Quite possibly the worst men's discount-apology e-service on the market today.

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It was pickles on parade for Beef, the KKK, and Ray after all.

what other services do they provide?

A similar service for women, except instead of apologizing for something, it's admitting that they were wrong about something.

THANK YOU.

No such site exists or will ever exist. If a woman is wrong, she still won't go any further than saying "I'm sorry* you don't see it my** way."

* you'll be sorry
** the only logical and true way

Alternately: "I'm sorry but <insert reason why you are still the wrong one and how she was just a victim of circumstances>."

By logical and true way you mean emotionally unstable and logically unsound way, right?

Man, we're just all so bitter.

Well, I guess Oscar Wilde never had this problem. Homosexuality must be so straightforward...

I think this may be the root cause of gay hate "why don't they have to put up with this shit?"

i see what you did there... 'gay'. 'straightforeward'. oh hee hee hee.

He was married to a lady, and evidence suggests he may have been bisexual, so it was really the worst of both worlds for him.

I love you for knowing that.

Jeez, no. Some of us gals admit that we are wrong about things on a regular basis. It's cool.

You're also happy to admit that Atlas was right, which is pretty sound.

::shrug::

Fuck you, Ayn Rand.

I want to write Atlas Shrugged hatefic where all Ayn Rand's conception of the Ideal Meritocratic Rulers of Earth fuck off into the desert and abandon civilisation to itself, and the rest of us left behind HAVE A BIG DAMN PARTY.

Fuck Ayn Rand.

Ayn Rand: the woman who made being an asshole into a philosophy!

El Gloppo has the illest taquitos.

This website has the statistics- people who send apologies are sorry for things in groups of three. Ray did not understand this, and commits a faux pax.

Yes, I feel the best part is that Ray was done after the first one and used his remaining space to dispense advice to Roast Beef

Best thing about this strip: Ray entered his name in the relevant field on the website with an exclamation mark.

I have to agree with this.

Probably had a crown on while he did it, too. This is LIFE, I mean.

Personally I think it could have done with some of -=this=-

This strip reminded me of the recent custom romance novel one, which took this already great joke and improved on it ten-fold.

Holy crap, there's an Achewood strip about custom romance novels? I have so much fun sending people samples of those with their own names in them!

Best part of this strip is the progression of Beef's emotions, played totally with eyebrows over 3 panels.

Seriously. Scowl, scowl, contemplative focus, then *poof*. Where did they go?

The stupid internet says it doesn't know anything about apologies4men.com! What the hell am I going to do if I ever need to apologize?

Chubby 'cause I also wish it was a real website.

Ray didn't know what to say to Roast Beef and had to use an apology e-service.

Ray isn't using his typical sign off signature.

Because it was a form letter. It asked for his name, not his signature.

I am sad that I did not come up with this idea first. Although I did once propose Bad News Bears(tm), in which small teddy bears would be sold with greeting cards which told people bad news that you did not want to tell in person.

Brilliant. You'd send someone a "I'm divorcing you" bear or a "I totaled your car during my most recent drunken joyride" bear or whatever.

Or the classic "I impregnated your daughter, but she miscarried" bear.

On a similar note, I'd send many people a "Your baby is retarded" bear.

chubbied for making me squirm.

Oh, oh god. THIS SORT OF HAPPENED.

So me and my friend were in a really bad charity shop near us. It was in fact so bad that it was closing down and so all the stuff was like 10p so we thought it would be awesome but it was sort of depressing or would have been if it wasn't so damn funny. She was just looking at an Eric Cantona annual from 1991 or something, and in this little cabinet thing in the corner, I clocked a small ceramic figurine of a teddy bear looking kinda sad and holding up a sign that simply said 'Sorry'. And there were two of them. I was trying to tell Luce and just laughing so much I had little hope of speaking and just waving my hands toward the cabinet to draw her attention to them and then when she saw them and her face I had to actually just leave and stand outside laughing because I felt terrible for the people who owned the shop. And because I was getting really worried that I wouldn't be able to stop laughing until I had urinated in my trousis or something. It was a wonderful, terrible thing.

Due to the failure of this apology for men, Ray later developed and executed the Robert-Smith-by-proxy apology for men.

i like the "Hi" mat. it's much more generic than a welcome mat

I love the entire first panel. Or second, if you count the KNOCK KNOCK.

Oh, man, I never realized that the Welcome Mat said "Hi". I was reading it as "dti". I assumed that dti (Digital Technologies International?) was some short-lived Bay Area dot-com company and Beef had bought their doormat in the bankruptcy sale.

I would purchase one. I would pay a fair price for it.

I've said it before, I'll say it again, Ray sucks at apologies more than any man alive.

Anybody find it overly convenient how THAT PLACE BY THE INTERSECTION is followed smoothly by ''for a little while''?

The form assumes you will only be sorry for so long.

If it weren't for the fact that I've never seen Onstad make any typos, I'd assume he hit caps lock again too soon.

http://achewood.com/index.php?date=05142004
Alt Text: GOOT / The Typo that became Dialogue

i like how molly tries to stop beef from picking up the letter, and when he bends down to do so she runs back inside. i don't really get it, but i like it.

I was under the impression that she thought it might be a letter bomb / anthrax / etc, hence the "no return address".

oh wow, i didn't even think of that. i sure feel silly.

Am I the only one who thought the letter was supposed to be a veiled threat when I first read it? Like, "Wow, is the anti-racialist lobby so insecure that it feels it has to kill you when you talk to the KKK?"

Molly in the panel where she says "Beef! Wait!" = 5. Perfect acting: her facial expression, her hand wringing. You can almost hear the concern in her voice.

I love Ray's stock apology letter.

I love that Ray seems to have this pathological inability to determine what will , gramatically result with which words stuck into which forms. "and that OR THAT PLACE BY THE INTERSECTION THAT I CALL EL GLOPPO", and "But for now, the my pool house was the limits of their world."