"Flagrant homosexual" is a hilarious phrase.

What does that even mean?

And by OP, I mean Onstad. D'oh.

Ah, okay, excellent. Thanks for the explanation!

This is a 5 for Portland and for Beef's lines in panels 10 and 13

Portland is an awesome city. It is known for its soft souls and the awesome Saturday Market in Burnside.

It is my city. And yes, the market is such as astonishing. I will be there tomorrow and I will rejoice.

Mine as well, and I also frequent that market. I wonder if we've met.

Probably. I'm at school right now but when I get home for break I will be there every Saturday once more.

I desperately hope to attend college there (at Reed). Anything I should know about the fair city of Portland?

I'm sorry to have to be the one to tell you this, but it's kind of not there anymore.

...what?

I'm so sorry....

I hear Provo is nice.

Teodor is, at the least, bicurious (see "Hiram the Blacksmith").

it just makes sense.

This is another chock full strip that could have ended on panel 4,6,7,10, or 11 and still been great. The Dreamwheel & The Child frame is indeed perfect. I like the concept of a false Thanksgiving, and I really want to know how Beef envisions pulling it off. But Téodor is wise enough to just let that comment go.

Beef's first idea for reconciliation is a false Thanksgiving.

I'm not going to say it, but you know what I'm thinking.

It rhymes with third-gum glances.

I have *no idea* what you're thinking. I fail.

(I did not want to say "circumstances".)

I should've known that. Allow me to dock my slowboat.

For some reason, I keep pronouncing 'glances' with a lisp, despite not typically having said lisp.

This is the absolute best turn Pat's character could have taken. The runner-up has the Mexican camera revealing him to have an uncontainable desire to start a family with Bea Arthur. Yeah, Onstad chose correctly.

The concept of being so angry you rent someone an apartment in another city nets this strip a five.

It is the angriest a person can be, to do this

"FILTER-- OTHER-- MAPPLETHORPE" was the funniest anything I have ever read. Seriously.

Yeah, I used to love that little Logo Turtle. I wrote a Logo program where a guy got shot by the mafia in a drive-by and then a little ambulance ran over him.

I was just scrolling down to see if anyone was going to enthuse "dead tern! hooray!"

I like the last panel very much.

I loved the last panel too, and not just because I used to play around with Logo.

Simon genuinely cares so much he still remembers the computer languages Roast Beef wrote as a kid. Roast Beef is so considerate and respectful that he doesn't mention he hasn't programmed in Logo or Pascal in several years.

It's a very sweet moment and we see a lot about just how virtuous both characters are.

Dammit, why doesn't this comment have a green background yet?

You are a Frist Pots Nerd.

I didn't say frist... I didn't say pots... and it wasn't the first post. You confuse me.

Life is confusing. You are a serious nerd commenting about perfection, then. Have another chubby.

Wow Pat that's harsh, what a dick.

Nice Pete's blog is great.
"[Tyler Florence's hair] looked quite fine and full, but soft and easily changed."

God I respect Roast Beef and his parent-talk, he is definitely that friend that handles all the parents soo well.

Everyone has one friend that gets on better with your parents than you do.

This comic is chock-full of goodness. Dreamwheel and the Child, Pat making his Dad move to Portland, Beef's code vs. a dead tern AND the alt text. I would give this a six if it were possible, it's just so damn good.

I would add raging cat boner, but that premiered last comic, this one can't really lay claim to it.