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awko » neu 1 years ago
Lyle spent the 80's rocking some sort of double moustache
fancypants » neu 1 years ago
ahhhh the eighties.

the golden age of facial hair.

tom selleck, robert goulet. and who could forget salvador dalì, the later years...
stonecrab » neu 1 years ago
I had forgotten...So, gee, thanks for reminding me...
leshii » neu 1 years ago
The Nineteen-Eighties were a time of excess, there is no doubt.

Another time when you watch a new generation of pointless youth rebel against the fashions of ideals from five years previous, only to repeat the same wind-sucking depravity and uselessness of their predecessors. But due to this, a time when you could buy or sell anything without the slightest hint of candor, and the term "for the right price" was rendered moot. Materialism was up, and if you wanted something done or a dark part of your life forgotten about, this was the best chance.

If you had a child that you fathered 18 years ago, who had come knocking on your door demanding something-the-goddamned-what, and you were trying to not let the putrid bastard remains of your own youth infect the hairsprayed 1.2 family in a black-and-white toned plastic and steel house life that you've created since that time, you needed to call someone who was either desperate or experienced or in the current case both, and have them sneak up behind the problem that you've since forgotten the name of but you don't care because you're a soulless and cursed First in This World, who you've told to wait at an ant-infested dirt motel on the outskirts of Gila County, and keep it quiet. And you don't want to know about the muffled sounds that The Problem makes from the back of their throat, or whether they were excited or scared at the possibility of finally getting to talk to their illegitimate blood parent before their mouths were covered with tape and they beaten into unconsciousness and dragged into the trunk of a rusty sedan.

And you don't want to know about how they were killed (garotted) or where they were buried (in the desert off route 170) or how deep they were buried (they dug it for 3 hours and they had weak university women's wrists) or in what fashion they were buried (upside down so their demonic soul would not escape, but with a cross of St Andrew so their human one may) or what happened to their flesh (cut off and purged to the nearby beasts of the land and birds of the putrid and cold air). You don't want to know any of this, but as you supply your payment after I interrupt your dinner at a Greek restaurant, I tell you. You try and convince your children that I am crazy and a vagrant, and when I drag you into the alley and insist you tell your family the truth and your children don't cry because the truth is something to be proud of, to be celebrated, then you start to beg for mercy despite the fact that I am neither the provider of mercy nor the provider of vengeance, nor did I ever claim to be, and I find the assumptions ignorant at best and insulting at worst. And sometimes I find it in me to listen to your cries and take your family instead, and sometimes I do not.

The Nineteen-Eighties were a time of excess. There is no doubt.
spectre » pro 1 years ago
Nice Pete, is that you in there . . . Hello? Pete?
dangelder » neu 1 years ago
SHUT UP! I CAN'T HEAR THE STORY OF LYLE!
history » neu 1 years ago
Lyle = Tom Petty...if he had less musical talent.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
I still see him as a pre-Hawkwind Lemmy. A roadie for Hendrix and when he died, well... with nowhere else to go he's kept living his life just the same. Lemmy got out, Lyle didn't.
history » neu 1 years ago
Petty is from Gainesville. Petty drank/smoked/freebased himself stupid and got screwed by the record company. I think Lyle's story will parallel his in some ways. Lemmy is a great comparison for facial hair though.
machineelf » pro 1 years ago
If Lyle had less talent he would be Tom Petty. Wow.

(Tom Petty needs some liquid banjo.)
excusemesenator » neu 1 years ago
Son, we all know you just tryin' DAMN hard to rack up chubbies, and shit if it ain't already workin'.
smilebuddha » neu 1 years ago
[IMGS OFF]
...Yeah.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Dali's awesome mustache continues to taunt me. I wish I could grow something even remotely that cool.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
His mustache just sitting there, saying, "pst, hey belgand? wanna hang out? oh wait you aren't man enough to grow a fucking awesome mustache like me psh fuck you cunt mutherfucka!" and belgand just weeps and weeps for hours until his mom takes him out for ice cream then he is happy again.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
The ice cream is not enough to make me happy ever again.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
Have an ice cream beard.
aliiis » neu 1 years ago
[url=http://www.last.fm/music/The Kazoo Funk Orchestra/_/Grow Up Grow a Beard]Grow up. Grow a beard.[/url]
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
:(
aliiis » con 1 years ago
I spend ages not commenting on assetbar and then I come in here and try and post this one little kazoo funk orchestra-realted link and bbcode bums me off the park. FUCK.

Dear.God.I.Am.Not.A.Religious.Dame.But.Please.Help.Me.See.The.Connection.Here.
fermatprime » neu 1 years ago
The.Conn what? The.Conn what?
flyinglemon » neu 11 months ago
You, at least, caught onto the fact that Assetbar uses bbcode. The first comment I made, I tried to use HTML.
cynara » neu 1 years ago
There are rumors that the moustache was not entirely Dali.
rockstarsatemy » neu 1 years ago
you shut your fucking face!
echidnaboy » neu 1 years ago
prettyrad » neu 1 years ago
jonmw » neu 1 years ago
That's something incredible.
tasteful » neu 1 years ago
dali is a prick
this picture made me realize that
potatoes9000 » neu 1 years ago
This is hoping to Christ that assetbar allows youtube embedding. I'm assuming they don't but simply posting the link is hell of lame. All asking you to double click on some text and then copy and paste it. And in this day and age. I could rock it as a link with the coding jawns, but I treat code like I treat cars: I know shit, but I'm lazy.
Here goes:
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7-hctfzHgl4&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7-hctfzHgl4&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>


potatoes9000 » neu 1 years ago
Fucking dammit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-hctfzHgl4

Just take it. Take it and get out. Don't look at me. DON'T YOU FUCKING LOOK AT ME.
potatoes9000 » neu 1 years ago
Also, is posting a youtube faux pas? I don't comment too much here, I mostly lurk.
dangelder » neu 1 years ago
Sit down.
dangelder » neu 1 years ago
I can't stop talking either.
hamscout » neu 1 years ago
You're making it worse!
hamscout » neu 1 years ago
FUCK! Now you've infected me!!!
tekende » neu 1 years ago
belgand » neu 1 years ago
You could just post it as a link, y'know, no need to copy and paste at all. Or, since we live in a goddamned modern age where we all use reasonable browsers and such you could install Linkification which automagically turns your puny text links into real links that you can just click on. It is really the savior of places that don't let you use proper HTML... and then screws you over for assuming that you can and failing quite a lot.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
Use url tags.
Do this:
[ url ]
without the spaces. Nothing is forbidden.
fermatprime » neu 1 years ago
Well. Child porn.
gormster » neu 11 months ago
get back to 4chan.
fermatprime » neu 11 months ago
I mean, I figured if it's not allowed there, it's pretty much not allowed anywhere... was I wrong? can we link sum CP?
paperboy_2000 » pro 1 years ago
Lyle grew the second moustache as a "fuck you" to the McDonald's hair net.
stereo » neu 1 years ago
He still has it, it just turned white.
greyfield » neu 1 years ago
Or that's just his tiger-fur, but still, good call there. I must admit I'd never seen that before.
cracklewater » neu 1 years ago
I got this impression too, which seems to indicate that Lyle is pretty much bald on top.
He used to have a barnet the same colour as his chops. The chops are still there, but white, while his luxurious upper thatch seems to have disappeared.

Lyle's combed-over and sweaty appearance at Beef and Molly's wedding could confirm this.

Or it might be that I simply don't understand the complex interrelationship of facial/head hair versus the natural covering of fur that's found on anthropomorphic stuffed tigers...
fermatprime » neu 1 years ago
S-S-SCREW YOU! I ONLY WEAR THE DOUBLE MOUSTACHE!
cracklewater » neu 11 months ago
[IMGS OFF]

S-S-SCREW EV'RYONE!
sharkofsomerton » neu 1 years ago
Can I just go on the record and say that as a achewood reader three years strong I am just realizing that is in fact a mustache and not some sort of deformed tiger mouth.
wingspan » neu 1 years ago
On the topic of webcomic nose/mouth confusion, I insist that Jeffrey Rowland's Sheriff Pony has no visible mouth and just a big pink equine nose. I have never been able to see it any other way.
professorhazard » pro 1 years ago
I, too, feel this way about Sheriff Pony.
cracklewater » neu 11 months ago
I once felt this way about Sheriff Pony, but there are a few panels in a few strips where he has his mouth closed.
thescrivener » neu 1 years ago
I never saw that before, but I do now AND CAN'T STOP. Even when I sleep.
whiteturtle » neu 1 years ago
Man, you guys, i was just fine with the big pink nose. Now I don't like Sheriff Pony anymore since I found out his face was a lie. FUCK YOU NEW INFORMATION.

Plus, I wish there was someway to make myself see Lyle with a giant mouth and dangling tongue, but I can't make my eyes do it. Help. Help.
salvar » neu 1 years ago
I thought the same thing for so long, but in the newer strips there actually are frames where Sheriff Pony isn't speaking. It's kind of freaky.
fattybeaver » neu 1 years ago
I found out that his insanely huge aerosmith mouth was a mustache from assetbar too.
aliiis » neu 1 years ago
yeah, that shit goes all the way to the burns
stopareclosed » neu 1 years ago
Does young Lyle have a mustache on top of a mustache?
snitchy » neu 1 years ago
Lyle has the fur on his face under the mustache. That counts as a double mustache as far as I can tell.
telescreen » neu 1 years ago
That's what a daily fifth of Jack will do to you.
smallblackdog » neu 1 years ago
I misread that as a 'daily filth of jack'

I was going to applaud it for poetic effect.

'If I had all the money I'd spent on drink; I'd spend it on drink'
Vivian Stanshall.
tekende » neu 1 years ago
...And that's why you should always refresh the page before attempting to make the first comment, boys and girls.
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
Ah, but he who hesitates is lost. And apparently so is he who does not. I'm not sure where I'm going with this but surely you get my point. Maybe.
smallblackdog » neu 1 years ago
'The way that can be spoken of is not the way'

Lao Tzu
daidai » neu 1 years ago
Lyle's ideal honeymoon would have been drunkenly driving one of those fan boats around the everglades with Darlene and ramping over alligators.
daidai » neu 1 years ago
Wait. This is my ideal honeymoon too.
hamscout » neu 1 years ago
Romantic as hell, man.

This wasn't our honeymoon, but damned if it didn't seal the deal on this marriage!
[IMGS OFF]
thegoodwillgirl » neu 1 years ago
Thank you for having a picture of yourself and your wife on a fan boat.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Seems like it's missing a fat, crooked Southern sheriff to me.
hamscout » neu 1 years ago
Who do you think is taking the picture?? It ain't Rosco P. Coltrane!

My wife and I still laugh about the name of the company--it was one of those sad attempts to get your name first in the phonebook:

AAA Awesome Airboat Rides
professorhazard » neu 1 years ago
Worked on you!
cpnglxynchos » neu 11 months ago
profhazard!

i miss you.

the end.
cpnglxynchos » neu 1 years ago
uh...that would be AAR.


GET IT?!
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
Considering the setting you're in there I had a brief flash of the first few scenes of The Rocky Horror Show. Except the aliens are Lyle's hallucinations and you two lovely looking kids are just cowering as the shotgun continually blasts.
chagment » neu 1 years ago
did someone already say that gainesville is not the everglades? do i need to say that? how can he know archer road and not that? Why hate my state? Like California doesnt have vapid wealth, trashy people, lame politics, and a Disney park. We do have the Dali museum though...
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
Lyle states this in panel four.
chagment » neu 1 years ago
huh... i see what you mean now... i read that as a statement of affirmation the first time around. clearly not the intended meaning. i still wish achewood didnt hate on florida so hard, but maybe its just like playground flirting
blastradius » neu 1 years ago
playground flirting? does that involve a white windowless van with the words "free candy" spray-painted on the side?
cbtbone » neu 1 years ago
"There is no candy" spray-painted on the inside.
hamscout » neu 1 years ago
The Candy Is A Lie!
jeffspaulding » neu 1 years ago
Get used to it kid, it don't look like Disney from here on out.
machineelf » neu 1 years ago
I gots to say, why not hate on Florida? It's got the Dali Museum on one coast and Coral Castle on the other, and nothing else decent. The state's a dick, every one in it is a dick. The entire Florida economy was built on drug running, which sounds cool at first and maybe it used to be but not anymore, oh no sir. People talk about The Everglades like they're some magical prehistoric utopia. It's a swamp. It's a big fucking swamp that used to be The Entire State before the white man drained everything north of Miami.
(Said drainage, by the way, has fucked up the ecosystem possibly beyond repair.)


Quick history lesson here. As a child learning the local history of Florida I was told, with pride, about how the Seminoles are the only undefeated Indian tribe in the entire country. Why is this? Because the Seminoles used to live in and around the Carolinas, but the white man kept killing them and pushing them farther and farther south until they had nowhere else to go but south Florida. The white man followed them, took one look around and said, "Fuck it." No one wants to live in Florida. It's not even worth killing Indians to live in Florida.


I regularly would find insects in my back yard that science has yet to classify. Love bug season: there are clouds of bugs so thick they blot out the sun, roaming the streets reproducing. Land crab season. What the shit kind of apocalypse is it when crabs, which live in water in case you didn't know, migrate across dry land only to be crushed by the thousands under the treads of SUVs?


Red tide on the Atlantic coast. Red Fucking Tide. The ocean itself is telling people: leave this place or you will breathe toxic fucking algae that grows in the water and kills pets and old people. I am completely serious when I ask, %u201Cwhy not hate on Florida?%u201D What is good, or even un-horrible, about that place?
machineelf » neu 1 years ago
Wow, I guess I really had that on my chest for a while. Jai alai is kind of cool if you're into sports. I am not into sports. And just to make this little rant tangentially related to the web-comic, Tacodor in panel 6 is priceless. That on-the-fly smart-ass bit he does once in a while is genius.
chagment » neu 1 years ago

Jai alai is definitely not what is good about florida.

its actually a beautiful place. that is the main thing. people (not the seminoles) have lived here for thousands of years. if you dont like nature, yeah, what can i say, there are bugs and other animals. and swamps, whats left of them. whats so bad about swamps though? are they scary? do your feet get wet?

thing is, its people who couldnt stand / appreciate nature who drained the state and filled it full of air conditioned golf themed communities. they are the guy who sucks.

i dont actually care that achewood takes shots at florida every now and then... its usually hilarious. i appreciate that chris doesnt focus on most of the cliches people usually associate with florida, he usually aims right at the poor, trashy roots.

i guess i just wondered why he picks on us? california and florida have a bunch of things in common, nice climates, beaches, both initially conquistador-colonized, still have ties to latin america... its almost like we are a brother he is ashamed of. Florida is the Showbiz to California's Roast Beef.

Except California's the one thats broke... ha ha! Maybe if you blow through the dough from the pot tax too fast, you can sell some ads on "The World's Website".

tripleg » neu 1 years ago
don't forget who had a disney related theme-park first, bub. also, there seems to be plenty of fierce parody of CA, too, just more subtle
chagment » neu 1 years ago

Yeah, of course there is. Thats where they live.

This isnt about which state is better or worse or second or first. I was just asking why he talks about florida at all. Why pick on us? west virginia is the only other state that gets more than a passing one-off mention. but at this point he has launched a full-on attack on FL.
tripleg » neu 1 years ago
oh. sorry. p.s.-i was just being silly and have no idea why florida.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
I went to the Everglades once. It looked like a field that had gotten flooded somehow. I want more of a bayou feel to my swamps. Not impressed at all.
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
Once again, Belgand gives the Creator a 'U' for Unsatisfactory.
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
He messed up the fjords.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
LOVE HG2G.

LOVE IT.

BOOKS.
stonecrab » pro 1 years ago
I'm pining for the fjords.
fineoakstructure » neu 1 years ago
I've been to the Moon once. It was basically just dirt at night. Not impressed at all.
tripleg » neu 1 years ago
chubbied less out of agreement (there is none) and more out of awe
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
Rowboat: Hey, machineelf, you see Madea Goes to Jail yet?

Machineelf: Yeah, I saw it. It was just OK. Not worth killin' indians over.

Rowboat: Yeah, that's what I hear. I think he's lost a step, recently. Now Diary of a Mad Black Woman, I could kill some serious amounts of indians for that film.

Machineelf: Yes, my friend. You are correct when you say that.

Rowboat: [dap]

Machineelf: [dap]
machineelf » pro 1 years ago
of all the things people have pretended i've said, this is simultaneously the most accurate and least offensive.
machineelf » con 1 years ago
You know, except for that Madea Goes to Camp, Madea Saves Christmas, Madea Scared Stupid, etc. are all terrible. But I didn't think that was even your point.
rowboat » pro 11 months ago
You serious wouldn't kill indians for DoaMBW? And I thought I knew you....
johnny_diamond » neu 1 years ago
nice orange shirt.
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
It's doing his complexion no favours!
johnny_diamond » neu 1 years ago
dork a la orange
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
[defensive of Hamscout] this coming from johnny_diamond. Sounds like a 70s P.I. with large dorkish moustache. [/defensive of Hamscout]

I'm sorry if it's a reference to a public culture source of which I'm unaware.
johnny_diamond » neu 1 years ago
no moustaches in the 70's were dorkish. they were straight up sex. you could literally ladle sex out of a cauldron if you had a moustache.
hamscout » neu 1 years ago
[defensive of johnny_diamond] I am a bit of a dork, and that shirt was picked out by my ex-girlfriend.

Also, Johnny is a dandy of a dancer! [defensive of johnny_diamond]
johnny_diamond » neu 1 years ago
aw fuck i managed to pick a diva-like blackface dancer as my name. man, that is just typical. if i ever had a kid i'll probably accidentally call it himmler or something.
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
Oh no! Burn it. That shirt smells of failure!
belgand » neu 1 years ago
You have a bitchin' 'stache, a Trans Am cranking Space Ritual (also acceptable: customized '76 Econoline with quadraphonic sound, strobe and/or blacklight, waterbed, and Frank Frazetta-inspired graphics), and later on we're all gonna head over to the planetarium for Laser Floyd.

This is a lifestyle that causes halter tops to become lost forever and hot pants to evaporate.

If you can show me something more awesome then you are lying to us both.
stereo » neu 1 years ago
Electric van with a perfect acoustic chamber in it, and mass driver suspension to keep in absolutely smooth riding on any terrain.


I'm talking "kids in the back won't even know you started moving" smooth.
cincinnatus » neu 1 years ago
Could someone please explain panel 6?
snitchy » neu 1 years ago
T was going to start decorating the house in a girly way unless Lyle spilled the beans about Florida.
retinarow » neu 1 years ago
I think they're referring to a system that used to be in vogue of designating oneself as a summer, winter, summer, or fall, depending on various facial and dermatological characteristics. One would use the result to figure out what colors and types of makeup to wear.
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
How delightfully Hippocratic.
deusoma » neu 1 years ago
What's the difference between summer and summer?
whiteturtle » neu 1 years ago
one year
deafwhisperer » neu 1 years ago
I recognize this interrogation technique - my friend Rob spent a few years in Burma, six of which in an internment camp where the new prisoners who were still acting tough had their mineral aura chiromancy astral alphabet read to them from the Big Burma Book of BoreLore.
gormster » neu 1 years ago
It's now Myanmar.
octafish » neu 1 years ago
Damn Junta always ruining the alliteration.
tekende » pro 1 years ago
Fine, fine, the Massive Myanmar Magazine of...okay, I don't know what "bore" means in this case, so someone else will have to help me finish this up.
stereo » neu 1 years ago
Meaningless Monotony
taftd » neu 1 years ago
Symetrical avatars, finishing each others' sentences; you two are too cute!
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Mandating Mellifluous Mammaries
jeffspaulding » neu 1 years ago
Burma!

(sorry, I panicked)
ethelthefrog » neu 1 years ago
Penguins don't come from next door! They come from the Antarctic!
jeffspaulding » neu 1 years ago
And . . .
It can't have come from the zoo! If it had come from the zoo it would have "Property of the Zoo" stamped on it!
hedonismbot » neu 1 years ago
Shave!
crazylikezaxon » neu 1 years ago
it seems that t. is implying that they have noting but time on their hands and that they have nothing better to talk about. early comics have them functionally trapped inside onstad's house. big o seems to be abandoning that though.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
[dickishnerd]Yeah, he abandoned it about six years ago.[/dickishnerd]
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
In other news crazylikezaxon is entirely correct.
fineoakstructure » neu 1 years ago
[rowboat]Ya'll some dickish nerds[/rowboat]
fineoakstructure » neu 1 years ago
wow, I live in the South and spelled "y'all" incorrectly.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
Y'all some Southerners.
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
There is no incorrect spelling of ya'll in the South.
whiteturtle » neu 1 years ago
I believe the only incorrect spelling of Ya'll is "You all".
tripleg » neu 1 years ago
if it must be spelled without an apostrophe, the preferred morphology is "yew all"
hedonismbot » neu 1 years ago
The hell youse guys talkin bout?
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
ya'll's mom.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
It's spelled "vos". Start using a language that properly handles 2nd person plural.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
And make it formal, in case you have a king to greet.

Save your "thee"s and "thine"s for your lowly goat-hoarding farmer peers.
stereo » neu 1 years ago
What the fuck is up with English pronouns anyway? It seems like we're missing at least half a dozen useful ones... why did nobody make up words for these?
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
We need a gender neutral, and plural second person. What else?
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Well, we have a plural second person, but some people just aren't capable of grasping that it's the same as the singular form. They can discern the number of sheep from context, but they think second person is too hard.

I think most people are already pretty OK with using "they" as a gender neutral pronoun even if it is technically incorrect. It works and makes sense. I am fine with saying that it can be singular as well as plural.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
We need a word that more or less sums up how bad I want you when you speak this way.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
It does sound as if he is organizing a rather bitchin' orgy.
tripleg » neu 1 years ago
i'll tell you what the fuck is up. it's a tongue so badass it's perfectly content with its incidental ambiguities. english, motherfucker, do you speak it?
stereo » neu 1 years ago
Yes, we do.
woodjay » neu 1 years ago
what?
tripleg » neu 1 years ago
say what again! say what again!
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
Que?
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
Engrish muthafucka! Yous-a speak...it?
aperson » neu 1 years ago
'D' muthafucka 'D'!
lynnym » neu 1 years ago
Weak introduction, yet riddled with potential.

I like the babe's little breasts. They are somehow relaxing, non-threatening.
fancypants » neu 1 years ago
your immediate family was beaten to death with rude ol' titties, weren't they?
lynnym » neu 1 years ago
...yes.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
Smashed like beer cans on a man-oriented television program.
gormster » neu 1 years ago
oh god i hate that show. it's like "here we have all these hot chicks with no inhibitions... let's sit at a bar and talk about masturbation for forty-five minutes."
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
I've never even watched it, I just saw that clip on Youtube. Fuck that noise all the same.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
I'm so proud that I have no idea what you are talking about.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
The Man Show. NOW YOU KNOW.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
AND KNOWING IS SJDJSDFASASDASDAS
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Isn't that typically what a strip club is all about though?
tekende » neu 1 years ago
Hey! HEY! My family once beat to death a pair of rude titties! Not funny, not cool, not a good comment.
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
Your family's bonding rituals both confuse and arouse me.
daidai » neu 1 years ago
You know, the more people you say that to the less it means.
slodowy_slicer » neu 1 years ago
Correct. I wanna cum.
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
Oh, let's not make that a thing.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
Make what a thing?
tekende » neu 1 years ago
I wannohhhh no you don't, I see what you're trying to do!
daidai » neu 1 years ago
Do 'er? I hardly know her!
tripleg » neu 1 years ago
She wanna cum.
slodowy_slicer » neu 1 years ago
Dewar? I hardly isom 'er!
hamscout » neu 1 years ago
Y'all are harder in summer?
emosexy » neu 1 years ago
As well as lopsided nipples?
rasteroid » pro 1 years ago
oh shit I lamed this comment when I meant to chubby it ! ah, small non-threating breasts. precisely. sry dudes there seems to be no undo. sry powers that be *poof*
nonamejoe » neu 1 years ago
The cameltoe is grossing me out. Grossed me out in January. Grosses me out now. Like moms at an ice cream social.
lynnym » neu 1 years ago
Every woman has them. I...I think it's handsome on her. Not your mother's camel toe, so to speak.

Eugh. Bad phrase.
daidai » neu 1 years ago
I can't tell whether you mean that every woman has a cameltoe at some point in her life as some sort of weird "rite of passage" into womanhood...

...or if you live in a world of delusions where every woman you see is rocking a cameltoe at all times.

Or worse still that every woman you see actually does have a cameltoe at all time.
deafwhisperer » neu 1 years ago
Some assetbar posters are from Florida.
jeofredo » pro 1 years ago
Yep, Gainesville even. Apparently, I was 2 and about 3 miles away when Lyle was managing that McDonald's. It's still there, by the way.
woodjay » neu 1 years ago
I was actually wondering if this comic was employing an IP sniffer to find your location and add it to the text, but the rest about florida didn't fit with that hypothesis
7a65726f » pro 1 years ago
Sir, are you suggesting an Achewood Live of sorts? One where, after supplying some personal information to your profile, the comic undergoes slight changes in order to allow you to personally connect even more?

That sounds dangerously... addictive.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
Like smoking marijuana like a cigarette!

(I'm watching Reefer Madness! The Movie Musical right effing now.)
belgand » neu 1 years ago
No! These are just strippers! Look how hot they are!
bixschmix » neu 1 years ago
And yours... and yours... AND YOURS
woodjay » neu 1 years ago
likewise, i would have been 3 and about 15 miles away
kittydragon » pro 1 years ago
The one on Archer and 75 was supposed to be getting torn down when I worked at the Burger King across from it... Guess our information was wrong.
woodjay » neu 1 years ago
it did get torn down, then it was rebuilt
woodjay » neu 1 years ago
by the way, how many Gainesville assetbarians do we have here? it looks like 3 so far.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Seriously... this is creeping me out a bit. Not only do we have a bunch of 'barbarians from Gainesville, but a number of others from Florida as well. I mean, shouldn't we have maybe more from Miami at least? I always personally find it odd how few there are from the Bay Area.
leonassan » neu 1 years ago
Gainesville here. I know that McDonald's. I also know it's Gator Nationals this weekend and I am not going over there.
senseihollywood » neu 11 months ago
Other things I experienced growing up in Gainesville FL:

I once saw a car accident right in front of my high school (GHS Hurricanes!) where this chick (who was driving a VW Bug) rear-ended this other car knocked a bunch of her front teeth out, and then got out and crawled around the street trying to pick them up, a la Jackie Kennedy on that fateful day in Dallas.

I had a bass player in the band once express a preference for Sammy Hagar over David Lee Roth in the Van Halen pantheon ("dude, he's a Top rocker!").

I had to fire him on the spot. This was serious business in Gainesville in the 80's.

You had to pick a side.

Also, I knew yet another Bass player who had a wife who was an awful lot like Darlene. He was 25, and she was pushing 60 easily, and had a retarded baby because she drank while she was pregnant.

Sigh.
Yeah.
Gainesville.
60teeth » neu 10 months ago
Hooray Gainesville. That's where i spent the first eighteen years of my life. Pretty sure I had my third birthday at that mcdonalds, too.
preston » neu 1 years ago
kittydragon » neu 1 years ago
Yup, turn around and you can see the burger king I worked at.
whiteturtle » neu 1 years ago
In the tradition of pointing out things about which I am familiar: Mission of Burma. I am listening to that right now.
fineoakstructure » neu 1 years ago
Shave!
machineelf » neu 1 years ago
Oh. I didn't even get the reference the first time, from higher up the page. According to Wikipedia they stopped that ad campaign in 1963, so how do any of us even know that reference to begin with?
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
Because, believe it or not, people learn about stuff that isn't even in there time period. They do this all the time, even!
octafish » neu 1 years ago
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQtYrQjgV3E]Tom Waits taught us.[/url}
octafish » neu 1 years ago
Oh you cun...

Tom Waits taught us.
machineelf » neu 1 years ago
Thank you for that. I was listening to Blood Money as I was reading the comments. I only knew about it because of XKCD. And don't bother to click, it's not funny.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
Man, you ain't gotta tell me that XKCD ain't funny. I was born knowin' that.
fineoakstructure » neu 1 years ago
Yeah, it was a real corker, wasn't it?
kittydragon » neu 1 years ago
I learned it from Stephen King, "Children of the Corn," if I remember correctly.
octafish » neu 1 years ago
We have your woman Outlander!
preston » neu 1 years ago
In the tradition of equating tastes with personal value: you kick ass.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
Hey, what are you trying to say about Florida? That we are all a bunch of backwards, inbred, no-nothing rednecks?

You know a lot about Florida then.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
How does gator taste?

I really want to know if you eat gator.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
I, personally, do not eat gator but that's because you have to go further South and inland where the swamps are to find good places for gator. I have friends that have tried gator and said it tastes like chicken, basically.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
So yes, to answer your question, we do eat gator down South but I wouldn't say it is a thing of rednecks, if that is what you think.
spectre » pro 1 years ago
In Tallahassee, we barbecue gators every year before the Florida / FSU game. Freshwater gator tastes like a shrimp / chicken combo. Gator from the coast tastes more like low-rent lobster. Yes, I know -- "tastes like chicken" is a cliche, BUT DAMN IT'S TRUE. Gator can be tough and must be slow-cooked.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
See, you are lucky. In Tampa we don't get nearly as many gators as the swampier areas in Florida, certainly not enough to justify hunting and cooking them.
deafwhisperer » neu 1 years ago
I had gator in Missouri when I was fifteen. In soup. It felt badass back then to cityboy me. And I agree with Spectre for the taste. I'd add that the texture is beeflike and sort of pleasant.
autrepoupee » neu 1 years ago
what is fred durst like in real life
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Fred Durst is not real. He is an elaborate costume.
awko » neu 1 years ago
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
This mad emy day. He's better than me, sure (I have never attempted to play the guitar), but he really tried it in front of a concert, on live TV?! What a moron. I love how he leans back slightly in order to get those tricky notes. This is pretty funny too. Just the whole article. What a joke.
wozzeck » neu 1 years ago
Unless he enlisted at 17, how was he out of the Navy at 20? OTH for playing horrible, morale-killing clap-trap at sea?
whiteturtle » neu 1 years ago
The best part is how he recovers by yelling at the crowd:

Dweep.

Dworble.

Dweedle-dwee...dwink-dwonk-[/i]

"fuckWHERE MY FANS AT TONIGHT!"

woooo!
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
I hear "Shag my friends tonight!"
woodjay » neu 1 years ago
it is a bland fibrous, very white meat. When people say alligator tastes like chicken, they mean it tastes like stringy, overcooked, skinless chicken breast. novelty or desperation are the only reasons to eat gator over any other meat.

Armadillo is another story though, it tastes like a porkchop.
expellens » neu 1 years ago
A porkchop made of chicken!
cbtbone » neu 1 years ago
your avatar is like if The Shining took place at a water park.
explodingbat » con 1 years ago
I am so sorry: [IMGS OFF]
hamscout » neu 1 years ago
Come slide with us, Danny...

Forever and ever and ever and...
kittydragon » neu 1 years ago
The best gator meat I ever had was at the Texas Renaissance Festival in Huston. It was deep-fried and served on a stick, and it was heaven in my mouth.
tekende » neu 1 years ago
That's what she said.
bixschmix » neu 1 years ago
It's delicious. Cliche or not, it tastes like chicken.
autrepoupee » neu 1 years ago
also technically women do constantly have vaginas
smilebuddha » neu 1 years ago
Pfff. I guess.
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
It's like... it's one of those things that you assume, but no-one can ever really know... y'know?
tekende » pro 1 years ago
Just constantly. ALWAYS with the vaginas. It never ends with the vaginas!
biznart » neu 1 years ago
...so the third guy says, "If I had my car, we could drive out of here"
fattybeaver » neu 1 years ago
She has more cleavage in her twat than her breasts. This makes me angry.
fattybeaver » neu 1 years ago
She even has more cleavage in her old lady neck vagina. Fuuuck I am pissed
pursesnatcher » neu 1 years ago
i seek out your avatar.
deafwhisperer » neu 1 years ago
Pursed snatch and fat beaver, you two have a nice synergy going on here. Thank you.

Oh lord, now I'm writing things that will make Sje think he's going to hell for reading them.
octafish » neu 1 years ago
Listen sje, synergy is a sin, if you even read that word you will go to hell.
fancypants » neu 1 years ago
like dads at cheerleader practice.
tripleg » neu 1 years ago
but you gotta love the bitchin bangs. those are the bangs that disbanded the FDN.
irondave » neu 1 years ago
I think Lyle showed a lot of forbearance in not punching T's lights out as soon as he started blathering about auras.
stupidanddumb » pro 1 years ago
lyle looks like a comic strip bear or whatever version of the BTK killer.

roughly how old is he now? he looks like he could be a young guy who looks old and like 6 turds sewn together. but he's also a drawing and fictitious so my perception may be off.

that broad looks like a drum teacher.
mystkmanat » neu 1 years ago
she looks like a Ramone, in high heels.
deafwhisperer » neu 1 years ago
She's negative-hair Lyle. She's all hair where he's not and bald in the face right where he's furry.
You see her, you know that later they better half-each other into one decent sized hairball of soulmating.
deafwhisperer » neu 1 years ago
Hyphen failure-number N[plus sign]1.
gormster » neu 1 years ago
god dammit, there has got to be a way to make a plus sign on assetbar.

\
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%2B
&#43;
&#x2B;

ONE OF THESE HAS TO WORK.
gormster » neu 1 years ago
FUCK.
stereo » neu 1 years ago
| is one way to do it.
deafwhisperer » neu 1 years ago
Wh... How???
daidai » neu 1 years ago
That thing is so ugly it makes me want to cry.
thing » neu 1 years ago
That's what she said.
dangelder » neu 1 years ago
Me[IMGS OFF]Your Mom
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
Oh Obama!
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
That's what she said.
greyfield » neu 1 years ago
? As in, shift-enter?
greyfield » neu 1 years ago
Well, that's peculiar. The more you add to it, the more confusing it becomes.
invidious » neu 1 years ago
Congratulations, you just described Assetbar in 12 words or less!
octafish » neu 1 years ago
She looks like a tweaking Suzi Quattro wannabe. I wouldn't can that can, or maybe I would. I don't know what "can the can" means.
ethelthefrog » neu 1 years ago
box the box?
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
Ouch.
tekende » neu 1 years ago
Is that that move you see in porn sometimes where two girls will kind of interlace their legs and then slam their pelvises together as if they were fucking? Based on my knowledge of female anatomy, that never really seemed like something that would actually be pleasurable.
cpnglxynchos » neu 1 years ago
you mean how Scissor Sisters got their name.
tribadism.
(Philippe: "noooooooo")
wozzeck » neu 1 years ago
It's more of a grinding motion than a slamming one, when done properly, hence the term derived from the Ancient Greek for "to rub".

Would we really have a word for this activity dating back to antiquity if it weren't a grand time to be had, Isle-of-Lesbos style?
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
~~* Female inhabitants of the Isle of Lesbos feelings on this asset are con *~~
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
Not like a lesbian cloud, an actual cloud full of lesbians.
tekende » neu 1 years ago
Good evening, passengers, this is the captain speaking, we're about to be flying through a few clouds of lesbians, so we may experience some turbulence here in the next few minutes.
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
If the male passengers would leave your seatbelts undone... we don't want any problematic constriction.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
Question: A 'lingus cloud?

Answer: YES
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
Also NO
whiteturtle » neu 1 years ago
cumulo-lingus
hedonismbot » neu 1 years ago
Lemme try this on:

Correct. I wanna cumulo-lingus.

Eh, not too bad
belgand » neu 1 years ago
The male equivalent (assuming we're not talking about docking here) would be intercrural sex and similarly dates back to antiquity. Also cheap, cheating street prostitutes in an era before birth control when you'd transact business standing up in the alley.
lastlarf » neu 1 years ago
Careful Tekende, you are straying in to South Park Territory. Someone might take exception!
tekende » neu 1 years ago
I don't know what you're talking about? I don't watch South Park.
lastlarf » neu 1 years ago
That is for the best.
morypcaina » neu 1 years ago
so she looks like Dee Dee Ramone.
lordparadise » neu 1 years ago
Lyle is a stuffed tiger, or he's supposed to be.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
It's not funny, it's character development.
woodjay » neu 1 years ago
there is a mcd's at i-75 and archer rd. but in 1987 it was a cowfield
woodjay » neu 1 years ago
and T really doesn't know, the people who deep fry spray paint cans are called ACRs around here (around here being living in the 352)
woodjay » neu 1 years ago
by the way, it is extremely odd to see your hometown mentioned in achewood, especially one as small as gainesville.
mystkmanat » neu 1 years ago
What does ACR stand for?
woodjay » neu 1 years ago
Alachua County Resident, the people who share the county but live outside of Gainesville proper. Basically the people T was talking about.
utv » neu 1 years ago
Ha! I love how Lyle says "left coast."
chloraloner » neu 1 years ago
Ah, sass and violence. T is learning valuable things.
achewood » con 1 years ago
Toedor is an Asshole.
iwannacum » con 1 years ago
Correct. I wanna cum.
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
You seem to want to get something off your chest?
stereo » neu 1 years ago
It's more inside, and a little lower in the body.
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
I'm guessing he'll want to get it off his chest at some stage.
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
> iwannacum looks around the room, he sees boxoftissues
greyfield » neu 1 years ago
> Look west.

There is a man.

> Bugger that man.

That man is iwannacum.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Toedor likes toe sex.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
I'm not so certain yet. My feelings on this are all over the place. While T's response was ideal I'm worried that this seemed like a cool thing in the "Coming in '09" strip, but it just isn't going to work.

Basically my issue is the same problem you have with grindhouse. The trailers are awesome and you think to yourself, "that trailer is so awesome I must see that film!" even aware of the phenomenon it is hard to resist. But when you actually see it you realize that the idea is a lot more interesting than the execution could ever hope to be. You've got five minutes of awesomeness, but you need to stretch the brief sketch out into something whole and it just doesn't work at that level.

Also, the story of Lyle was already told, or at least, the Genesis of Lyle. I'd link to it, but some other assetbarbarian with better skills will need to find it in the depths. There's no way I can search through these things.
dicklet » neu 1 years ago
That's nice. Now go away.
greyfield » neu 1 years ago
See, now that this actually exists, I'm worried we'll soon have to deal with a protracted period of Nazi Philippe.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
Tonight is the first night of...Küddlenächt!
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
fuck, I didn't realize metal umlauts didn't work in Assetbar, even with the Barista.
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
There is no umlaut on "Nacht".
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
I'm not sure about "Kuddle", seeing as in German I think you just use the phrase "To take someone in your arms."
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
I just wanted to throw a whole bunch of umlauts in it and see what stuck. Now we'll never know.
whiteturtle » neu 1 years ago
In Germany, apparently, there is no such thing as cuddling.
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
Zat iss true. Zey go straight to fucking. Zey believe in efficiency.
notcool » pro 1 years ago
In the words of my favorite Woot auction: as fast, clean, and efficient as German sex.
stereo » neu 1 years ago
I could show you a few things about how clean German sex is. But you wouldn't want to see them.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
Apropos of nothing, Woot's main office is two doors down from my apartment. I sometimes play softball with the people who started it.

This has been a boring comment. Thank you and goodnight.
cpnglxynchos » neu 1 years ago
"The Actual Story of Lyle."
gladi8orrex » neu 1 years ago
Win I play videos games is often case is team game, ya no? on the line, but what is deh case so often is I 'm so gr8 'n doin' my thing gr8 but 'n deh ''n ma team looses but I 'm best playa 'n 'm like
"Damnit ib I could only hab a team of only me's, that is to say, ib I could be on eery part of team maself at same time i'd nebeh loose."
Do yalls feel same ways suntines?
fancypants » neu 1 years ago
i feel like opening an artery after reading that post.

one of your arteries
octafish » neu 1 years ago
I don't play many on the line games, sorry.
zaratustra » neu 1 years ago
The correct answer is "Nah, I'm not really into Pokemon."
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
hey it's a refernce to something but I forget what. Oh, I know. Is it Penny Arcade? DAisy Owl? White Ninja? Another, more popular webcomic? I'm not sure.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
It's Dinosaur Comics, duhh.
woodjay » neu 1 years ago
i think it is actuially XKCD
woodjay » neu 1 years ago
i think it was one of the "my hobbies strips, like saying blag instead of blog, or moving the hyphen around in sentances: sweet-ass car -> sweet ass-car
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
The hyphen one wasn't a hobby strip, but yes, it was xkcd. Sje and I were making what is known in the business as "sarcastic remarks" due to xkcd's unpopularity here.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
Also, way to spell everything wrong you could possibly spell wrong. I hope you are drunk, that's the only excuse.
cpnglxynchos » neu 1 years ago
all he spelled wrong was 'sentences', man..
cpnglxynchos » neu 1 years ago
but still, seriously, we must sentence him to a lamestorm.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
He spelled actually wrong too. He spelled that word with an i. There is no i in actually yet that is exactly what I see here.
woodjay » neu 1 years ago
i was unaware that it was unpopular, it seems like the two comics would appeal to a similar crowd
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
I like the comic, it's just that most everyone else doesn't. I got and appreciated your reference, don't worry.
mystkmanat » neu 1 years ago
I also like XKCD! Though i do think Achewood is a superior comic.
machineelf » neu 1 years ago
I'll bet Roast Beef likes KXCD. He sees stick figures writing complex math and his pupils go all big as dinner plates.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
I'll assume the misspelling is a joke.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
There is someone else here who likes XKCD, but their identity is being kept secret for their own protection.
stereo » neu 1 years ago
Yep, nobody here knows who I am.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
I chubbied it, in my ignorance.
aperson » neu 1 years ago
(glad is angling for his own personalised clone-on-clone fanfic homage)
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
Sometimes I feel that everyone else on this page let's you down. Other times it feels the other way around. I'm confused and lost in a strange world.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
Suntines I get gellus th@ gulz wre skorts an I dot.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
You should at least start with just some culottes and see if this is really something you want to be doing. If so, I encourage you to move forward with it.

Interestingly the first three Google results for culottes included two sites selling "modest clothing" for women and both included the same bible verse commanding such. This is far, far creepier to me than a dude wearing skorts which I basically have no problem with.

The example we ought to be setting for girls isn't to wear modest clothing, but wearing revealing clothing that actually makes you look good and not just some cheap skank with no sense of taste.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
Ha, I forgot that skorts were actual things! Man, I just looked up images, and they look stupid. I like skirts; I like the idea of a woman's panties being exposed to the open air. Am I pervert? Probably.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Panties? You clearly don't understand how skirts are designed to work. They are intended to be worn sans panties.

Incidentally one of the biggest problems of waxing is that it can cause a bit of tenderness for the next few days.
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
I am blanking this thread.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
I do not know this expression.

It sounds kinky, though.
ethelthefrog » neu 1 years ago
Our little sj is growing up.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
I think he is becoming Japanese as he grows up though. Not that people from other countries aren't also interested in panty-shots, but let's face it, the Japanese totally have us beat.
cpnglxynchos » neu 1 years ago
YEAH, ACTUALLY!! last night i was playing Halo 3 and my teammates were hella suckin' so we lost and i ended up having ten more kills than the next teammate and i was just ALL SORTS OF FRUSTRATED. so then i put in Skate 2 and forgot about it all. yay
saulbellow » neu 1 years ago
Hey, buddy! Are you lost? Do you want me to page your mommy? Let's page mommy.
cpnglxynchos » neu 1 years ago
[IMGS OFF]
fineoakstructure » neu 1 years ago
It is a bit of a theme with saul, isn't it?
saulbellow » neu 1 years ago
Okay, we know you like Homestar. We get it.

And am I briefly turning into Grover? I resent that insinuation - that hasn't happened in a long time.
cpnglxynchos » neu 1 years ago
cookie monster, sucka'.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
The One Electronic?
varnish » neu 1 years ago
The Story of Lyle is the kind of book you read in the late summer, when any real exertion of the mind could lead to exhaustion and unnecessary thoughts.

Out on the porch, sitting in one of those white plastic lawn chairs. Trashy book in one hand, glass of something cool in the other. That's the way to do it.
stereo » neu 1 years ago
Inside the glass are two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.

Try not to drink it too fast.
octafish » neu 1 years ago
Did you see want GOD just did too us?
octafish » neu 1 years ago
Did you just see what careless TYPING just did to ME?
stereo » neu 1 years ago
I take off my pants. An antelope screams. I take off my pants. Somewhere in Russia, a baby is born. Under the pants are pants. You put on the pants. I am born. An antelope is in Russia. Pants are on a baby. I am you.
greyfield » neu 1 years ago
Then who was the pants?
morypcaina » neu 1 years ago
not to mention PHONE
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
It is finals week. Students start doing crazy things, especially in the Hell Towers dorms, a 12-story X-wing architectural salute to Stalin. After dark, longhairs begin creeping out on the campus, stoked on psychedelics, for a few leisurely laps around the Towers.

On the 6th floor, a stressed-out freshman reaches the flashpoint of a semester-long disintegration. He has totally lost focus, can't concentrate in any of his classes, his grades have gone in the toilet, he can never face his stern father now. He is an 18-year old failure at life.
He strips off his clothes, goes out into the 6th floor lobby, and sprints at one of the full-size plate glass windows.
On the sidewalk below, two freaks hear a crashing noise above their heads, and look up to see a naked, hacked body haloed in shards of glass come hurtling down to the concrete with a splatting sound akin to meat being tenderized.

They really, really hope they are hallucinating, but they know in an instant they are not. They are both seeing this, hearing it, smelling it, and know it is not a hallucination, it cannot be a hallucination, although by all rights it should always be only a hallucination they can laugh back into the shadows. They try to laugh. They fail.
What tenuous grip they have on their minds slips away. They thought this was going to be a fine, frosty December night acid trip. They thought wrong.

They end up in the hospital E.R., strongly sedated, gibbering the rest of the night away. And gibbering the next few weeks also. The story is told and retold, becoming part of the lore of the Towers.
varnish » neu 1 years ago
I killed a man in Reno.

Just to watch him die.
irondave » neu 1 years ago
Please, sir: "I SHOT a man in Reno..."

Some things you just need to be careful with.
flazisismuss » neu 1 years ago
Every time I hear that song it bothers me that while he shot the man in Nevada, he's in a California prison. Now there are any number of explanations for this (parole violations, multiple shootings, etc.) but Johnny Cash gave none of them. I stopped a great karaoke rendition of that song once because this issue bothers me.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
Thank you for ruining a perfectly fine song by being a Dick about Jurisdiction Laws. Fuck you sir.
irondave » neu 1 years ago
You must be a blast at parties.
foea » neu 1 years ago
It's not actually against the law to shoot people in Reno. He was in jail for something else altogether.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
This has bothered me too. I am glad to know that I am no longer alone in this.

Perhaps he meant the general Reno area up to and including Truckee which would make Folsom a pretty reasonable place for him to end up.

I mean, nobody is writing a song about "I shot a man in Sparks*". It just doesn't work nearly as well or convey the feeling that Reno brings so perfectly.

*Yes, I know that's still in Nevada, but my point remains valid!
flazisismuss » neu 1 years ago
I guess I've always felt that it would have been nice to include another verse about how, after shooting a man in Reno, just to watch him die, he went to Truckee for some other criminal endeavor.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
I think visiting Truckee is close enough to a crime to qualify.

If he decided to add a felony on top of that I suspect it was likely cannibalism.
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
Johnny Cash also shot the first 9 people who asked for that explanation. After that, well....the thing sort of died down.

But, you never know. He might make an exception and crawl out of his grave just to put your mind at ease if you keep busting up his karaoke tributes, flazisimuss.
You know how dead celebrities hate that.
flazisismuss » neu 1 years ago
I was the one singing it, so if the dead Mr Cash wasn't pissed at me from the awful singing I doubt he'd really care about my quibbling.
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
Dude, even the dead have the saying, "royalties are royalties."
tekende » neu 1 years ago
Maybe he's not in prison for the shooting. Maybe he was never convicted for that.
fineoakstructure » neu 1 years ago
Maybe you should just listen to Cocaine Blues, instead; it has a more linear narrative.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
I think he should listen to Corbin Bleu instead.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
The Story Of Lyle by Hunter S. Thompson?
wozzeck » neu 1 years ago
There is nothing babe-like about that... specimen. Oh yes, "eye of the beholder" and all that, but to my eye her appearance is that of a homosexual Ramone.
fankjankler » neu 1 years ago
This better be the start of a long-running arc, or I am going to be *pissed*.
daidai » neu 1 years ago
Nope. This is it. The end. No moral!
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
...but with your scalp condition you're bound to be a winter aura, glowing with death and human decay. Plants die when you are around. When I look at you all I say is blackhole where your third eye should be in the middle of a fleshless skull.

So you need to turn that frown upsidedown mister!
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
Like THIS?

[IMGS OFF]
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
That's about accurate. I ask though, would Lyle smoke from a pipe?
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
that's his skele-tongue.
tekende » neu 1 years ago
I don't think so, Tim.
cpnglxynchos » neu 1 years ago
[IMGS OFF]
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
Don't make fun of people with Down Syndrome.
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
What. Did that sonofabitch say it first? Damn him and the Binford-MonsterMobile he rode in on!
daidai » neu 1 years ago
Wait just a GOD DAMNED MINUTE.

How does a skeleton has eyelids on his third eye? He has no skin! That can't happen!
daidai » neu 1 years ago
Oh LORD my grammar. I sound like a lolcat.

im going to shoot myself in the heart with a crossbow
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
Can I Haz Crozbeau? K Thnx Bai.
saulbellow » neu 1 years ago
You accidentally the Internet.
jwbixby » neu 1 years ago
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=3826 SW Archer Rd Gainesville, FL 32608&sll=29.619318,-82.381239&sspn=0.033353,0.047379&gl=us&ie=UTF8&z=17&iwloc=addr
woodjay » neu 1 years ago
close, but that is about 2 blocks from the actual address
woodjay » neu 1 years ago
on street view you can see it from there though
hausea » neu 1 years ago
Lyle makes me feel just like a natural woman.
miaou » neu 1 years ago
Hey, talking about natural women, you guys know why Aretha Franklin never married Sean Connery?...
miaou » neu 1 years ago
She would have to wear the name of Aretha Connery! Ah. Arrête ta connerie. Ah.

Gosh... What in the hell happened yesterday for me to feel like telling such a crappy joke!
wingspan » neu 1 years ago
Because back in the 80's Sean Connery went on national television and insisted that it is ok to hit women as long as you've told them several times already and they still haven't listened to you. Aretha would have made him cut out that bullshit.
morbo » neu 1 years ago
hold the brew in your mouth babe
keep it there
waiting for me...
greyfield » neu 1 years ago
Teodor is especially sassy today.
niggar » neu 1 years ago
I dig the camel toe on Lyle's paramour.
telescreen » neu 1 years ago
I really don't. Really.
soupkaty » neu 1 years ago
anyone have any name suggestions for a new pet mouse?
ethelthefrog » neu 1 years ago
Camel Toe the Mouse
jeffspaulding » neu 1 years ago
Reepicheep. One of the famous (and valiant) literary mice.
plummet » pro 1 years ago
my feelings on this asset are pro, especially since you can't spell Reepicheep without EPIC

woodjay » neu 1 years ago
Eccentrica Gallumbits
stereo » neu 1 years ago
Ronald Reagan.
smilebuddha » neu 1 years ago
"Satan Laughing Spreads His Wings"
"Timmy"
"Royal Fireworks"
...
Shit. I got nothing.
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
Cartilage Head.
irondave » neu 1 years ago
Archer
telescreen » neu 1 years ago
Jesus.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
Horatio Fellatio (c)
7a65726f » neu 1 years ago
Michael Huntsucker, but he probably won't go by Mike.
paperboy_2000 » pro 1 years ago
Fenwick - the name of the country in The Mouse That Roared
belgand » neu 1 years ago
I applaud this as the single best suggestion. Not only is it a clever allusion, but it sounds like a perfect name for a mouse. We have a winner.
tripleg » neu 1 years ago
phillipe
stereo » neu 1 years ago
What next, Conellius?
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
Ralph S. Mouse
hamscout » neu 1 years ago
...but only if he can make the noise that makes the motorcycle go.
talix18 » pro 1 years ago
Holy crap I can't even tell you how much I loved that book.
talix18 » neu 1 years ago
And I am apparently too friendly to chubby. (That's what he said?)
irondave » neu 1 years ago
No one says that.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
Kitty.
autrepoupee » neu 1 years ago
Pleasing Stars in the Shadow of the Sun, the mouse
wozzeck » neu 1 years ago
Perhaps she should have specified a good Christian name.
wozzeck » neu 1 years ago
Name him Edwin 'Balaclava Ned' Hughes and throw him at cats.
woodjay » neu 1 years ago
Frankie and Benjy were the two mice that Tricia McMillan took from earth in the "Hitchkiker's guide to the Galaxy"
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
Dire Mouse.
hedonismbot » neu 1 years ago
This gets my vote, and has helped me name my next dog. Hell, even my next wife
tekende » neu 1 years ago
Fievel.
miaou » neu 1 years ago
Keyboard.
He's gonna freak out.
soupkaty » neu 1 years ago
i ended up naming her millicent, but she bit me and then just wasn't friendly at all, just not having a good time of it, so i took her back and traded her in for a little strawberry blonde mouse i named penny, short for penelope. it was a toss up between penny and regina. i probably should have specified that its a lady mouse. thank you everyone for your contributions, of which i'm sure i will use on future critters.
wingspan » neu 1 years ago
The most pressing question is now "Does your new mouse have a boat?"
woodjay » neu 1 years ago
Or is it her Dad's boat?
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
[IMGS OFF]
hedonismbot » neu 1 years ago
Mouse in a boat!
Love it!
Moist!
metatronatra » neu 1 years ago
Things ain't never the same, once you've tasted a dude's brew.
zebra » neu 1 years ago
Oh goodness, what is happening?
It appears LYLE is happening.
Now if only women could create this level of excitement within me. BUT that's a story for sharing hour (it is not sharing hour).
autrepoupee » neu 1 years ago
i've seen Lyle's lady-in-waiting climbing out of a Thyssenkrupp truck and back into a Stuckey's for a pecan log and a slice of gas station pizza once


or twice
wozzeck » neu 1 years ago
She's all over south-eastern Ohio.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Metaphorically or sexually?
tripleoptics » neu 1 years ago
Um...okay. Maybe so...but is this the proper forum for such a discussion?
wozzeck » con 1 years ago
If the world is no better off for the billions it spends on defense it is due to the unfortunate possibility that what it is defending is an inordinate population of trite hacks.

Pah, philistine.
everything » neu 1 years ago
yeah... palestine... let's not even go there.

so what is up with this lame/chubby thing?

is there anyone here who like myself never gives lames and chubbies?

And is there anyone here who utters a primordial grunt when giving out a lame or a chubby? Wouldn't that just make the whole interaction more satisfying, if it actually required physical effort to give out a lame or a chubby? If you had this big button with this 5 pound spring that you had to smack with a billy club to register your lame. all plugged into your USB port. The force of the blow all registering proportional lame status.

And for chubbies, well... That could be an entirely different USB peripheral... basically, so as not to be overly obscene, a simple doughnut shape, with infrared light emitters and sensors on the inner periphery of the doughnut, and you just use whatever is... convenient... to break the light beams, and to register your chubby.
wingspan » neu 1 years ago
The first device you described does not exist. The second is readily available in arrangements even more intricate than you mentioned.
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
<Grunt!>
plummet » neu 1 years ago
UNGH

I chubbie'd.
tekende » con 1 years ago
Too longstupid; didn't read
stereo » neu 1 years ago
"Do you want to ignore everything in all strips forever?"

I clicked yes
everything » neu 1 years ago
tough crowd. they hate me. they hate me.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
You don't expect me to believe that a post like that is intended to be a crowd pleaser, right?
everything » neu 1 years ago
it depends on the crowd I guess
stereo » neu 1 years ago
Hate is too strong a word for what I feel. I just don't care what he says.
everything » neu 1 years ago
sorry i should try to make it up to you
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Man, I've been out of lames for a long while too. It's worse since I've rated just about everything and none of the new strips are upping my allotment.

I've been on nothing for a while now. Not that I usually give out many lames, but it's like, well... a chubby, if it's not there when you expect it to be, well, it's mighty distressing.
bixschmix » neu 1 years ago
Is... is it you, AIU?
everything » neu 1 years ago
BOOGA BOOGA BOOGA!!!
irondave » neu 1 years ago
Mmmmm, exhibiting sense of humor... I say no.
seffirth11 » neu 1 years ago
This is "Double Length?" PISS POOR.
the_loa » neu 1 years ago
I remember eating at the Mc.D's on archer when i used to live there.

Traffic on that street, I mean god damn.

Used to be a good pizza place near my apartments I'd walk to.

I avoided that Mc.Donalds.
hobit » pro 1 years ago
5 star camel toe
hobit » pro 1 years ago
i mean 4-star
hamscout » neu 1 years ago
Moose-knuckle?
vheissu » neu 1 years ago
Moose knuckle is the male equivalent. Moose knuckle is worse to observe to a man, because you feel like the man sporting MK is in pain, and that hurts you.
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
MK - The urge to bulge

[cue man with dark hair and nordic features jogging and swaying down the beach]
hamscout » neu 1 years ago
I'm sorry, I was misinformed.

I was thinking of this: (sje, don't click here!)
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
NSFSJE
spectre » pro 1 years ago
Speaking as a Tallahassee resident and FSU fan, Gainbesville really does suck. They used to call it "Hogtown" back in the 1800;s -- no lie; "Hogtown Creek" still runs right through the center of the bedroom community.
wingspan » neu 1 years ago
Speaking as a PSU fan, our crazy old football man is older and crazier than your crazy old football man.
woodjay » neu 1 years ago
older and crazier than bowden? seriously?
wingspan » neu 1 years ago
Joe Paterno has three years on Bowden. Crazy is a bit harder to substantiate, but last year at the age of 82 he broke his glasses showing a linebacker how to hit somebody and could barely walk for most of the season after injuring his hip demonstrating an on-side kick and refusing medical attention for three months. If you say hi to him on campus his response is "Hey kids, how ya's doin?" regardless of whether or not you are actually only one person.