I've changed my pic to more aptly reflect my hard-drinkin' Harley-ridin' chain-wieldin' male-and-chauvinistic persona.

Oh and you're welcome =)

amen nice observation

Yeah, but I always figured the replies were like "man why you keep sending me this stuff" etc. It's like those times when Ray is telling Beef about this kind of trivia in person, and Beef just sits there reading a magazine and ignoring Ray almost completely.

no, we only see the ones that Beef replied to. What I noticed is that Beef doesn't write to him on his own accord, only in replies!

WAY. SAD.

I've read this comic a hundred times and it was only in noticing your comment that I went "wait a 9-year-old dancing child is by no means a baby" so, y'know, thanks for that.

You know, I'm not Chris Onstad, so I don't know for sure, but I'm pretty sure that Ray was talking about the Dancing Baby, not just a dancing baby.

Don't forget "definatly."

Goddamn it.

This messes with my mind. How, precisely, does the executable file prove a guy's identity? It is unknown.

the point is, it never would in the real world, it would in fact be a virus and the guy getting the email would not know what an .exe is, well he wouldn't if he fell for it.

I love the fact that Ray finds the dancing baby turning 10 to be "hella poignant".

All of the people on the floor are dancing it up to the new song Gravity Train

Best advice I've heard in a long time.

turns out that guy is a hero AND a fatso...go figure

Chubby for a brilliant definition of "arc."

seconded.

I think Onstad must have discovered http://www.419eater.com/ i few days before this.

take a hike, advice!

In panel four, Ray is APPALLED.

scams are not funny but this is still a 5

Scams are never funny, unless a clown is being scammed.

Just thought I'd post a link to my Leon Sumbitches experience recently, hope you enjoy it!

http://denver.craigslist.org/mis/436683191.html

I dislike this arc. I'm just going to say it now, and save repeating it on the next dozen or so strips. Its too conventional for Achewood. The irony of such an e-mail actually being honest and the main character suffering for their presumption is what I'd expect to be reading in twenty or so far worse webcomics. Here, it just leaves me wanting for more Mexican Realism.

I think the arc is still funny, but yeah, I saw a pretty similar storyline on Hangin with Mr. Cooper...

I love it not so much for the situation itself, which as you said has been done before, but for the details.

The guy's name is Leon Sumbitches/Brian Wheat and Brian Wheat is the FAKE one. He wrote a song called Gravity Train. He called Ray a toilet seat smoking a cigar. Ray uses the phrase "straight-up splickety." Nmbota had an accident of the government. "Hilarious!"

There is so much comedy gold in here the premise could be a thousand times more generic and it'd still be straight 5s from beginning to end.

Oh, God, no. I can't fault the comedy. The comedy is omnipresent. Any man who says that this arc isn't funny is lying through his yellowing teeth.

But you know what else is funny? Jackass.

Warning: if you feel the need to complain on the Internet that a comic you like is really damn funny but just not original, you may have no real problems of your own.

Sorry, but it had to be said.

Very true. I have no real problems, bastard that I am.

I suggest therapy, or politics.

Boo to this comment. Spoiler!

Dude, don't be rediculous. Read them all first, on the main pages, then read the comments. At this point in the arhives I can't imagine there is a SINGLE STRIP that hasn't been referenced.

I got an e-mail like this the other day. I couldn't believe they still existed.

Do you guys think Ray's email alert is the Sublime cover or the original version by The Toyes?

It should be both, played at the same time. I only lissen to d-d-d-double music!

5 because I just stared at panel 3 and laughed and laughed

Leon Sumbitches is basically the best name in the world.

What is up with Ray's mouth in panel 4? It's like he is having a bulldog moment.

His paw is covering the lower half of it. You are the one having a "bulldog moment."

Thanks, I see it now.

I swear to god I read that bit in the last panel as "My uncle Mengis Adoso, as you have a beard..." like three times before I got it right. God I am so sleep-deprived.

a chubby for you for two reasons..first 'cos sleep deprivation is a regular thing for me and secondly 'cos that which you said was funny.

I kill two dwarves in the morning...