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Beef's powers of deduction rival Sherlock Holmes' when it comes to recycling.

Didn't Estevez and Sheen do this in "Men at Work?"

Chubby for a underrated movie.

seconded!

notice how beef's pillow has indentations from his ears.

Also Emeril wears earmuffs while his ears are on top of his head.

They're temple-warmers.

I'm glad that Chris cleaned up Emeril's speech (see here and here). I found him really hard to read in his early appearances, and making him more eloquent (even excessively so) and introducing the trashspotting angle made him a much more entertaining character.

"Draeger's" from panel 4 is a fancy pants grocery store. Yeah I know, I know, "just butt out!"

you, sir, have been clicking on "you haven't seen these highest rated" in descending order.

i know this because i am doing the same thing, and only moments ago i read the philippe times in which he 'butts out' at the end.

A review of slanger's view history in his assetbar profile does corroborate this assessment

Excellent

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You guys are like Vincent D'Onofrio, all understanding my brain! Although I feel I should mention that I'm a lady, not a dude. So that part of the detective work didn't pan out, but that's cool.

You of course mean Det. Robert Goren, the fictional character played so well by Mr. D'Onofrio, (chubby for good spelling) who might be a complete yutz in real life, yet can memorize clever dialog like a master.

dang, they must have missed the lipstick on the butts

Oh yeah, I just got the joke without even thinking about it, but I guess the vast majority of people in the world must not have Draeger's.

I had guessed that it was a brand rather than an upmarket store brand, but the point is still the same. I was unfamiliar with them because I live in the city and not the suburbs with Onstad. We do not know their pretensions to elegance here, but we do find it amusing. Such as a dog attempting to walk on it's hind legs.

I didn't realize how much was going on in this strip until about the third go-round.

As to Emeril's dialogue, he appears to have seesawed back and forth from backwoods hillbilly to shakespearian english and now mixes both with our modern tongue to create a most satisfying blend.

Seconded. I had to read it, read the first comment, and read it again about four times.

1) I miss hip-hop guys who dress like Spongebath

2) Nothing beats a big-ass salty turkey drumstick, all with a glazed, crunchy skin and salty pink meat.

Spongebath is insane in the membrane. Also, he's too fat to walk.

Too fat, or too lazy?

Too fat.

Spongebath is not fat. if he were to stand on his hind legs, he would extremely tall compared to the others. I think he may suffer from uncorrected Acromegaly, which is what Andre the Giant had. He was growing his whole life, and near the end, his joints were too stressed for him to get around, and was in a wheelchair most of the time. Spongebath just garbagepicked a plus-size rascal from the Glendale area.

Spongebath is not not fat.

One often begets the other.

Fatness is the ends, lack of exercise is the means, but that's neither here nor there.

It could also be a virus, I have read.

Nah, Spongebath don't make excuses for his dirty deeds.

It is kind of a loop. If you are fat, you are probably less likely to exert yourself toward any particular activity more stressful than changing the TV channel with the remote or pressing the buttons on the microwave.

I don't care about this conversation anymore. I am more fascinated by th fact that you and pogo have similar avatars, which is incredible.

The handface avatar is a thing.

I like to think that Emeril pronounces the house number as "Eight thousand, two hundred and fifty-seven." It fits with him, somehow.

This strip gets a five, not so much for humor, but for really fleshing out the world of Achewood. Trashspotting really feels like a genuine activity, perhaps something my neighborhood's cats do when they root through the trash.

I think it gets a 5 because of "Oh Hell and Damn Yes." Which is how I would respond to a still hot turkey drumstick.

Yes. Very sturdy V-chub (and a real one). You've spoken something which I feel has been missing in Achewood of late, description of slightly odd goings on, instead of slightly odd characters. I'd like to find out more about the rituals in the Achewood world.

dasilodavi you receive Assetbarrian of the month.

"Trashspotting." Also known as "group stalking."

Has Spongebath ever spoken? I hope not... he's the Silent Bob of Achewood.

Crawling home after a night of pubs, I have often spotted trash and speculated on the lifestyle of the trashers, but this takes it to an artform. Bravo.

The turkey drumstick was warmed in a microwave. After it was found in a dumpster. I'd still eat it because I hope someday to be half as cool as Emeril and Spongebath.