Another Man's Way

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those are some deep fucking leaves

Not exactly improbable... the chances are about 50/50.

i think he's talking about the goofy fan fic above... not the strip itself... actually.. im pretty sure of it..

It was good the first and second time. Now, he'll have to do it about fourteen times before it becomes funny again. If he stops now, it's nothing. But this is manflesh.

Manflesh? THIS IS MADNESS!!!

I think a *kick* would be more appropiate. But the joke is kinda stale now, isn't it?

It was stale before the movie came out, truth be told.

And yet...it had to be done.

Ah - suddenly it all becomes clear.

Okay apparently the people who appreciate that sort of thing are about one out of three. That's pretty good considering.

what the fuck is wrong with your semen

Here's a chubby. Go on, take it. Now, let's just make sure no one else hears anything about this, yeah?

What? Such a blob will never grow on you, barring some hideous Frankenstein medical experiment

I was kind of surprised when the good Dr. grew on me, but he did. It wasn't like Ahserdan where he was just reviled by all at all times; he managed a pretty even chubby to lame ration even before he became widely acceptable.
Even if his comments aren't your thing, you have to admit they are interesting.

Speaking of which, where did asherdan go? I haven't seen his bright smiling face in quite some time...

He got hated out like disco. I actually felt bad for him near the end, when people were laming him even if he made benign comments. But then, there's people like bob lamonta who lame everything, like the vast majority of posts above this one.

Sometimes I sit outside in the cool of the evening, looking at the stars - a moth flutters around the night light. The drone of the cicadas only amplify the silence. Sometimes, I like to imagine that asherdan is still among us, as a ghost, writing interesting comments with a fresh user account.

I agree man. Manflesh is a troll with craft. Possibly he is an Orc or some such.

yo don't lame this fellow he is a fine fellow i know him.

Look, I apologize in advance for getting a little bit "internet message board poster" about this, but here's the thing:

Dude's first day here, he tries to call somebody out for being "indulgent and pointless and unnecessary." That's all well and good, and you can use chubbies and lames to express how you feel about comments. Many of manflesh's only rate about a 50/50 anyway . . we get it, porno slasher fan fic isn't hilarious to everybody.
But when a couple people tell him that it's kind of a running joke and not to be hatin' just yet, he just got all lame-happy on them. And that's sometimes when I start calling people names.

On the internet.

A non-achewood-reading friend of mine was looking over my shoulder and asked what I was reading. I nonchalantly told him I was observing a miniature flame war over a fan-fic written by a contraversial figure named Dr. Manflesh Desires Anal Play Immediately. I think he wants to find a tact way of leaving my house now.

Dr. Manflesh is certainly controversial.

The Immediacy with which he Desires, nay Requires his Anal Play can be quite Confronting.

yes but i think you should excuse someone who is totally unfamiliar with the dynamic here for not understanding the point/concept of dr. manflesh. and re: the laming, i love my boyfriend but he can be silly sometimes. it took me several tries to get him into achewood, for instance.

the strip or the trail of jism lying two comments above you?

The balls of doing this again made me giggle. Thank you, good doctor.

we need to figure this icon thing out here swanny614... although mine was randomly assigned I have come to like it and do not want to part with it. Its a duel. You and me. Pistols at dawn.

Are you one of those zealous types who finds it morally reprehensible to take any Form that Onstad Hath not Bestowed upon you?

yes. i feel completely comfortable in the skin Onstad bestowed... I feel like its my Onstad-given right... and I'll duel anybody for it...

Until tomorrow.

There's this comedy technique where you just keep doing something and it's funny. You go on longer and it's not funny. But if you keep doing it after that, it eventually will be funny again.

I think he's on the limit of the first wave of funny.

Frankly the longer he sticks with it, the funnier it will be on a whole.

chubbied in agreement

Just about anything is funny on a hole.

Your avatar is how I imagined Lonis Edison's voice.

Three times is always the funniest.

Three times is always the funniest

Three times is always the funniest.

Three times is always the...fuck.

If only there were more chubbies to give.

I saved one!

You two, semiquaver and drskradley, should ALWAYS reply to each others' comments.

We...do.

Dude, call it what you will but writing something that long is the opposite of lazy.

I wouldn't call writing something that long lazy. But I will call using Word's "Find and Replace" feature on a piece of Voyager slashfic you've used twice already lazy.

Why do my comment replies always end up in weird places?

SCREW YOU ASSETBAR, FUCK YOU!

Honestly this was probably funnier in the original, replacing a character's name with "a semen blob on my mid-thigh" doesn't really add a lot to the humor value of a Star Trek slashfic with incongruously overwrought diction.

was the use of "incongruously overwrought diction" intentioned to be funny and ironic? because it was.

Yay for linguistic humor!

I'm glad you fellows had this conversation 3 months before the time at which I wrote this comment. I liked it 3 months from then.

Not funny anymore.

See, my feeling is kind of that it's funny again. It started to wain, and, for totally unexplainable reasons, is on the upswing again.

I strongly agree. what's that sound? oh oh, is it the sound of a chubby being awarded??

So ye have given, and so ye shall recieve.

recursion is fun!

A wain is a type of horse-drawn, load-carrying vehicle, used for agricultural purposes rather than transporting people, for example a haywain. I believe that you meant "wane."

Dr Manflesh, let me make one thing clear. I love you.

heh. It's funny when people say "neat."

If you have read the past two days' comics and the accompanying comments, you might get why it's "funny or neat." If you haven't, you probably won't.
I'm at a loss to explain why it is funny, exactly, but it is. I think it's kind of a "you just get it or you don't" thing. Either way, best not to worry about it. You can always add Dr. Manflesh to your ignore list.

I know, I've always liked "neat" for some reason.

For the record, I have read the past few days' comics (and the past several years') but I still just think this is lame. But you're right, and I'm not exactly worrying about it. Just confused. It seems like people are giving it too much credit for being this Andy Kaufman-esque comedy bit, but for me it's just not reading as clever.

I suppose there's lots of stuff that I find really funny and other people don't. Tim and Eric springs to mind as a good example.

Great job!

Look, lots of people on these boards like Manflesh. Dunno if it is a majority, or merely a large minority, but it is a sizable portion of the community.

If you find it too difficult to live with, click on *Ignore User* and you will never see it again.

You ain't gonna get nowhere trying to fight it.

I guess I'm just a naive young poster who thought he could make a difference from the inside.

Anyone want to write a screenplay about this?

A young conservative beats back the excesses of the radical liberal media and comes to power in a land of political strife? You're George W. Bush! We can just turn on the news.

Just to be absolutely clear I don't actually think you're George W. Bush.

It's funny because it's Manflesh.

end discussion here
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Wait, let me re-read it with that in mind...

Oh! LOL!!!1

Why is kai a girl's name, i feel like less of a man ;-;

I know a guy named Kai.. he eats pie while flying through the sky... I wonder why?

look at all of this, manflesh. the way they talk about you. revere you, as if you were more than a man with flesh and a doctorate. you have transcended, manflesh. you have made it. and all you have done is replaced one character's name in the same star trek fanfic with the subject of each comic strip for the past few days. everybody's all "what will he do next? i hope it's the same shit again." if i could, i'd give you a firm handshake and one of those wink/nod/smirk combination moves that says, "keep it up, you great, ridiculous bastard."

splut!

The kind of handshake that an eagle would land on; a handshake that would cause an epic, mountainous backdrop to spontaneously appear.

snow is pretty epic.

so are beards and shadows.

Then I have a present for you.

That is me, in thirty years.

betcha he's going to replace a DIFFERENT character's name in the same star trek fanfic next time

Hey man,
I think you're awesome.
Sincerely,
yours truely.

Funny with Rachael Ray, still funny but less so with Johnny Cash, now it's just getting ridiculous.

What's astonishing is that as of posting, this story has 41c/41l. It's the highest balanced score I've ever actually seen.

i'm just going to have to say, i think that he has some kind of form-fan-fiction program that he just has to punch in names, sort of like ray's form apology letter.

just something about the little grammar problems, such as

"she wasn't as disturbed by a semen blob on my mid-thigh's behavior as she might have been"

i think he just fills in words and the program does the rest. i'm afraid to find out if such a program exists.

No, lame that. I'm just not trying today.

I won't lame that, but I will declare that, in my opinion, your decision to change your avatar thoroughly reeks of lameness. Never mind that you've kept up the Ash theme. I had to come to recognize you as a nodding, swaying Ash, and that's how I liked you. Granted, Ash's possessed hand continually breaking plates over his head for all eternity is ultimately cooler, but....whatever. I'll get used to it. I just don't like change, I guess.

It was only momentary, it was quickly changed to this current one. I may change it back, I'm not sure. One has to experiment - but does that negate the possibility to change back without becoming even MORE lame? That is the artistic question.

Well, I'm a little disappointed at the sudden and complete absence of Ash (especially since I left the above post, like, less than an hour ago and now it reads as nonsense), but this is interesting enough. Oh wow! Oh dang! I was just going to ask if it was you or something, then I realized (I mean just realized, like, in real time!) that it's Edward Norton being continually boxed in the grill by his inner Tyler Durden for all eternity! OK. That's rad. Carry on.

WHAT THE FUCK, DUDE?! I swear it was Fight Club, like, one fucking minute ago! Am I that drunk?

Yeah, I was still deciding. AssetBar has kinks in it, and shit takes time. Shit takes time.

And of course, now it's back to Fight Club. Thanks, doc. Now this whole thread looks ridiculous. Wait, I'll predict your next move! When I hit refresh, you will be........HUGO WEAVING IN PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT!!!

I'm glad I appeased you, as you were difficult to appease.

Not to make too much of a thing about my own choice of avatar (despite how much I enjoy topics about me), but here were some of the options I was tossing up over:
(I am posting them purely because I find them amusing.)

And, of course,

The Hoff wasn't really in contention, but damn that picture makes me laugh. All of these are open for anyone to take advantage of my plundering of the internet.

Well, I'm gonna stick with my own avatar. As I have said, I don't like change. But a piece of advice; I would have to imagine that the Don Hertzfeldt avatar is bound to garner you no end of cred with these fake internet message board types (myself included). And so ends my involvement with this "musical avatars" mania.

Oh necessarily it would. But whatever - I have trouble making such decisions, but am not doing so for the case of looking cool via association with a product I know little about. People would be all "oh Hertzfeldt he was cooler before blah blah blah" and I would have no idea what they were talking about as I only saw his set of cartoons once on a mate's computer. I just found that gif and thought it was awesome. That particular Fight Club avatar, however, I feel has multiple associations from that particular scene which I felt as applicable to myself.

That and I somehow got the nickname of Tyler Durden in Year 12. But that's a story for another day.

One must always fight stagnancy. To be identified with something all the time is to limit what you can do.

I really should precede that with a "Confucius say" or something. It's like I ripped that shit right from a fortune cookie or maybe a fourth grade inspirational poster.

It would probably have a cat on it doing something that has nothing to do with the quote itself.

Stagnancy vs. Consistency. Hmmm. If I were Asian I could probably figure this out.

Whenever it comes to something like this I just label my Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots and just let 'er rip.

It has solved most of my political, financial, and romantic issues. With robotic violence.

Cartooning as a shameful waste of potential or so much wank and sewage.
Genius.