I like the idea of an arc around the idea of pricking Boy George with a pin to see if it produces a hit record.

Come on come on come on come on come on quit burning me.
Its really sore. Its really sorrrrreeee.

Pfft, only the British charts.

I hope its true, otherwise my musical theory teacher at Interlochen was completely full of shit.

Sometimes they are.

I had a Speech teacher that failed me because I wrote a speech on not supporting legalized discrimination of Middle Easterners in the U.S. after 9/11. He was fired the next year for lying on his resume.

I'm pretty certain he made stuff up all the time.

My middle school health teacher got busted for smoking crack with students.

Why can't both be true?

It is indeed news you can use.

I hear they pay people to go to the bathroom on them. Is that true?

I wasn't aware one could play a minor key with one finger. Is it perhaps a really long finger going across the A minor scale?

It sure is.

Nah, they usually do it right on stage.

Nonsense. Everyone knows that in East Germany, the bathroom goes on you.

I invoke the great God of Lame with my incantation.

AMEN, Brother!

It's Labor Day! Labor Day! Oh what a wonderful day!

(lyrics from the 20 minute long most-unwanted song)

i must hear The Most Unwanted Song! it sounds amazing!

i love this part: "An operatic soprano raps and sings atonal music, advertising jingles, political slogans, and "elevator" music, and a children's choir sings jingles and holiday songs."

meanwhile, The Most Wanted Song sounds like it was just ripped off of Rob Thomas's latest album.

oh people, with their silly silly preferences.

You can listen to them both here.

I found the Most Unwanted much more listenable - the satirical lyrics and kitchen sink instrumentation in the soprano's verses recall The United States of America (the one-album band, not the country.)

The children's choir praising Jesus, Mary, and Wal-Mart in the same breath, now that recalls the country.

Both are absolutely fucking hilarious. Thank you.

Six albums!
(...yeah, ok, I'll admit most haven't heard of the others but still...)

I think you might be confusing the United States of America with The Presidents of the United States of America. They are two different bands, separated by much time and space.

Please feel free to use this resource:

All Music Guide

Holy crap, yes, yes I was. My brain pulled that filling-in-the-expected-word trick on me, even though it was four days too early for that sort of shenanigan. Thank you for setting me straight.

...and, having listened to some, that comparison suddenly makes SO much more sense.

Dave Barry established years ago that the Most Unwanted Song (winning for General Badness and Worst Lyrics BOTH) was "MacArthur Park." I mostly concur. Few songs would be improved by a video of Father Guido Sarducci singing them in Italian (IN the actual MacArthur Park).

I am I cried

That sucks too. Barry was surprised it didn't make the final cut. It was his personal choice.

Does anybody else think The Most Unwanted Song sounds a lot like Mr. Bungle?

Whoah, have a chubby for knowing Mr. Bungle and for making that comparison. You're kinda right!

I've talked one of my friends into playing The Most Unwanted Song on his radio show soon.

Yom Kippur! Yom Kippur! Self reflection and atonement!
Yom Kippur! Yom Kippur! DO ALL YOUR SHOPPING AT WAL-MART!

Today, they speak out, and the world, will listen, or it will burn?

Until today, I did not know how ignored I was!

[IMGS OFF]

The dastard who lamed you has a mp3 player full of mecha-Mozart.

YES

It's always nice to see Ray and Beef getting each other pumped up. It makes life seem a little better.

This is pretty much how things evolve between my friends and I. We'll discuss something for long enough that we just get FUCKING PUMPED and then have to do it immediately. Although it usually revolves around getting high, and then driving to get some Big Chief.

Less enthused about Boy George, but hey, who's to argue?

That's beautiful, man.

more the fool to cry for a brother in Heaven.

[IMGS OFF]

Assetbar would be easy if its colours were like my dreams.

Viz: something other than dental-rinse mint and cream corn.

Ray is willing to overlook [img=http://anemicroyalty.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/boy_george_og_rosie_111679a.jpg]this[/img].

I don't think it's crazy, just makeup applied with a house painting paint brush.. (what are they called??)

Man I am pretty sure Boy George uses some crazy instrument to apply that madness to his face

Something made out of goose down and camel bone or whatever

That shotgun that Homer Simpson invented/

Oh, infinite chubbies for the Spaced reference. "Abstract expressionism is so mid-to-late eighties."

Hooray, Spaced!

"Vulva, I'm talking to Damien!"

I can't believe some of the shit I used to do with you!

yesssssssssssssss

Agh I can't believe my first thought seeing the picture was The Mighty Boosh. I now have to step down as president of my local Cult-Hit British Comedy Series club.

This is getting scary.

Last night (being Thursday night), I purchased the complete series of Black Books. Upon reaching the counter, the DVD shop girl was all like "OMG! I like, totally love T.V. from England! Don't you just love Little Britain?"

I wept.

Look at this wine. I mean, look at it. Look at the colors. All the colors. Well, yellow.

"It's like looking into the eye.. of a duck."

It is entirely criminal to compare Little Britain to Black Books in any way, let alone a favourable one. It's not worthy.

Do you love me?

Are you playin' your love games with me,?

I'm Old Greeeeegggggg

Fuzzy little man peach

That was a hilariously awesome episode.

I have to confess to watching it whenever I blow a job interview or choke in a similar situation. If all else fails, at least I have a promising career as a performance artist!

When i read this, my eyes stumbled through the words "blow," "Job" and "choke." It became a very interesting sentence indeed.

I read your comment before his and that's still what my eyes picked out first.

RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT

THANK YOU FOR COMING

IT'S BEEN VERY USEFUL

RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT

IT'S NOT FINISHED

...

IT'S FINISHED

...Twiglet?

They make me violent.

Chubbies for Insincere Dave!

yeeeessss!

I have to confess to thinking (and quite often saying) "I knew I should've bought Huge Fat Cocks!" whenever I fail at anything.

[IMGS OFF]

In fact, the above was my livejournal icon for the longest time, and I was always slightly worried that somebody wouldn't get it. but everybody who is nice and good gets it.

"Remember the boat times?"

All to well Gregg, the boat sequence is probably one of the greatest moments in comedy history.

But don't take my word for it, take the word of an indepenedant jury!

"Mr Ellis, please stop calling us, we have crimes to solve"
See!

reminds me of Liquid Sky

He probably lost a bet.

What the fuck people, Boy George is obviously the least horrifying thing about that picture.

Boy George's voice is tender like good steak.
It pleases the ears, and could likely halt terrorism.

i mean,just listen to this shit. the pipes of a goddamn angel.

shit. i'll have another go.

I thought you were going to say "and could likely accompany a tasty mushroom sauce." I feel so used.

He fills your ears with those tasty vocal steaks

Just a couple nuckleheads gettin their Boy George on.

[insert]of k[/insert]

I knew I was missing something. Fuck silent k's

This strip makes me want to watch The Wedding Singer, and that's all right. That's all right.

Does it speak something of my character that I found the transexual Arquette attractive? Is this a Bad Thing?

Your comment has spurred me to learn about this Arquette, who I heretofore did not know existed.

The aforementioned Arquette may in fact have a penis, so it is up to you to decide whether or not that is a Bad Thing.

professorhazard, I quake at the responsibility you have laid at my feet. If I cannot find the answers to my most troubling queries in the Achewood forum, then what hope is there for me in this world? What hope, indeed?

On the original note; the back-up singer that sings Boy George in the 'Wedding Singer' is the Arquette of which I speak. She was born a man, but became a woman... at least that is what I was led to believe by watching the Surreal Life. I could be mistaken, though. I also believed the Urban Legend that Jamie Lee Curtis was born a hermaphrodite; I recently read that she was, in fact, a woman from day one.

Jamie Lee Curtis is neither man nor woman nor both. Jamie Lee Curtis is not a human being.

Based soley on your avatar, I believe that you are educated and knowledgable. Therefore you only speak Truth. I will now take you at your word no matter the subject.

This is the correct thing to think/do.

I think he was talking to the cat.

No, the cat just types faster than I. I was most assuredly speaking to the Christian Bale ala American Psycho avatar.

I knew that, I thought it a laugh to think that Ray, with his penchant for the lolcats, would conclude that a dude might have something to say due to the fact that he is a kitten uttering internet colloquialisms. This is what I think.

I shouldn't have been a Cock to a Stranger.

Allow me to wage Peace on you.

PEACE!

I will respond in kind. I am not confident enough with my skills in BBS code, but imagine there is an olive branch or something appropriate preceding this.

This is a Good Thing.

You know who's great?
Huey Lewis and the News.

YES

I don't really like...singers.

I had a feeling we were talking about whoever played George in the movie - in fact, my first thought was "That was David Arquette?" Then ol' Wikipedia started callin' my name, and I learned it up.

I am sorry that I can't make all your decisions for you, donward2, but seeing as your ambiguous gender of "Hip Server" leaves me unable to determine whether or not it would delight you to have a floppy she-male cock in your life, I just don't feel that I am in possession of enough data to shake or nod my head in that great loud dance club of telling you to Get Some.

Ah, I saw 'hip server' as being a cool Acheworld way of saying "I'm a dude who loves the ladies, and would like to broadcast it to all the available honies who may find some joy in my 'not quite unique' avatar of a cartoon cat who is the main character of the comic of which forum I member of. Come and get it."

I can understand the confusion however.

The Meat and Potatoes of my question is this:
Is it not normal for a 92.7% hetero man to think that a transgendered woman (male to female) is attractive?

I still think that she is a good looking lady for her age (which I estimated to be early forties) and I think that I would probably hit it, but in my naivety it never occured to me if this would be frowned upon by the general population.

Nowadays, it just doesn't matter, dude. The solid descriptors of sexual orientation are becoming a thing of the past.

~Do what you feel
But be safe all the while
Or when you're banging a trannie
You might get the AIDS~

Am I taking my cunt pill to protect others from AIDS? I think I lost you on this one.

It's entirely in keeping with Todd's macho idiocy that he should think that the Pill protects you from STDs.

I can't even begin to think why that wouldn't be normal, especially if she's post-op.

Your eyes don't know any better.

I saw this woman once wearing a very short leather skirt and leather jacket in a bowling alley once. I pointed her out to a friend mostly because she looked so out of place. On closer inpsection it was a dude.

Until he/she turned around, I probably would have hit it.

And even after he/she turned around, you were still pretty 50/50 about it, yeah?

It's okay, you can admit it. This is a safe place.

I wonder if Ray found a magazine that's been lying around since, like, 1991.

No. The magazine is a magazine from the future.

hilarious!

This is what most of my college days were like.

Bad decisions ABOUT being high on cocaine. I've only made the good ones, thanks.

That decision being not being high on cocaine.

All the time.

I have made some pretty superb decisions about being high on cocaine.

That's what you think. Your parole office might beg to differ.

"I have done cocaine." - R. Beef Kazenzakis, September 2, 2003

I made hell of bad decisions forcing a tired reference.

Gambit will always be my homeboy... With his glaringly stereotypical canjun accent and his tendencies to use playing cards as his weapon of choice.

Damnit Gambit! Throw a hammer! Be a man! You can't take down a two story tall homicidal robot using a deck of Bicycle cards!

He can, and will!

Oh man I have had such a crush on Gambit for like the entirety of my life.

Mmmm. I would totally hit that Cajun black-and-red-eyed cartoon mutant.

This is high-quality fanfiction waiting to happen.

This makes me wish I didn't have to leave for dinner RIGHT NOW. If Dr. Manflesh doesn't beat me to it, I promise that your wishes will be fulfilled upon my return.

Oh no I'm starting to regret this.

Indeed, chilles doth fail to realize how Fickle a Creature is Woman. Yea, though he has declared his intent to write a fanfiction as prescribed in the rites of Courtship, before his return a Ladye so Faire will have chosen from among her many suitors the male who is the most Alpha.

So anyway, how you doin'?

Either achilleselbow left to attend the longest dinner in all recorded history, or is a liar.

I just want to take this moment to say that Gambit needs to be in the Wolverine movie, and that he MUST be played by Jean Claude Van Damme. No one else will do.

I thought Sawyer from Lost would be the perfect Gambit.

Oh God yes.

I was totally pissed that Gambit wasn't in any of the X-Men films. I mean, what the hell! But I hadn't heard of this so called "Wolverine movie" before now. TO GOOGLE!

Peoples! Gambit IS in the Wolverine movie, and will be played by a fellow named Taylor Kitsch, who is in Friday Night Lights, apparently.

Hmm. Hmmmmmm.

He'll do.

I never got or understood why people liked Gambit. I mean, his defining characteristic, to me, is that he was continually turning out to be a douche to Rogue.

And now he's a villian, so what?

Duh. French accent.

"*Guttural throat noises*

Mon ami."

But Jean Claude Van Dang is like a million years old.

Yes, and I would like to see Gambit played well. We all know what the Van Damme guy did to the Street Fighter movie.

Everyone sucked in that, you can't pin that on him. When everyone sucks in unison you have to assume it's the director.

When everyone sucks in unison, all it means is every one of them sucked. At the same time.

Virtual chubby.

OOH one of my bestest friends dressed up as him something like four hallowe'ens ago and I still have the nine of hearts in my bag from that night! I have/had/always will have a crush on/did actually hit the boy who was dressed as Gambit, so high-five and a chubby for fellow Gambit crushing, sista.
I was dressed as Harley Quinn at the time. It was a good party!

Gambit used cards because it's easy to carry around 52 of them. If he threw a hammer, what would he throw next? His shoes?

...and now you know!

Actually, it's pretty easy to carry around about 208 for a dude* wearing standard jeans.

*Words importing one gender shall be taken to import the other unless the context requires otherwise

Actually now that you mention it, I wonder how many decks Gambit was/is prone to haul around? Standard jeans can probably pack around three per front pocket, but he still needs to carry his wallet and keys. He also seems like a bit of a holster kind of guy, and i think he pulled them from his sleeves sometimes.

Also, when Gambit plays poker, does he ever accidentally charge up his entire hand by force of habit?

I was thinking one pack in each pocket (two at the side, two at the back), with one maybe kept in hand instead of in the pocket.

As to poker playing, I think the answer is no, because if he did, no-one would play poker with him.

They have twenty pouches on their outfits for a reason, folks.

I always imagined Gambit pulling his cards from the inside pockets of his trenchcoat, or his sleeves, as you mentioned. Storing them in jeans seems awkward, and in the photos I found online just now, he usually wore space-age tight pants with armor all over them. Must go page through my back issues.

You'd better start with Age of Apocolypse because those books FREAKING ROCKED.

AofA is/was awesome, but in general I prefer Marc Silvestri's frenetic pencils to the smooth computer-drawn colors of the late 90's Marvel comics. The cartoon series ushered in a new era of comics readers, but I am not one of those people.

Yes, but if I'm not mistaken, his charge was only a knietic energy charge. Therefore if he were to use objects with more mass, i.e. a hammer, then he would need fewer projectiles to do more damamge.

So, by carrying the 209 hammers that a pair of standard jeans are capable of carrying, then Gambit would be able to turn any Middle Eastern country into a democracy.

Plus, I could never get my cards to fly straight and on target, so playing as Gambit in the backyard always led to me getting my ass kicked by my friend who would always play as Wolverine.

(I took him down with that hammer before my dad started locking his toolbox)

It has often occurred to me that Gambit could have been completely unstoppable if he'd just spent 15 minutes in a Modell's in 1992. Cards may have panache, but imagine if he was rolling with a bandolier of Aerobies, and maybe a Foxtail strung to his belt for mortar-type purposes? Of course there's always the chance he might replace the trench coat with a closeout Shawn Kemp jersey, but it's equally possible he'd end up with some Bo Jackson apparel. Awesome.

"That really hurt! Who throws a shoe? Honestly!"

YEAH WELL DID YOUR GENERATION WRITE MACGYVER FANFICTION?

Almost assuredly.

Dudeliness and ugliness often walk hand in hand. Who can care that a man is ugly when a man is dudely?

Also, the jacket is extremely sharp.

Case in point: Wario.

ASCII MACGYVER BBS

We also wrote fanfiction involving Magnum P.I. and Sonny and Crockett. We OWN other generations when it comes to writing disturbing fanfiction.

So I take it when the Achewood machine broke, they presumably lost any real conclusion to the prostitute subplot. Then again, what I'm really dreading is a combination of the prostitute and Boy George subplots. That would not be pretty.

Do your nightmares always have conclusions?

not every strip is a subplot.

old school

this is totally perfect.

Oh no oh no no no, I did not mean to lame you good sir! I would take it all back in a second if I could.

I'll forgive you, but you should know that it's more than a little bit because you are a polite, eighteen-year-old female on the Internet.

That's what you think...

You should know by now that 95 percent of teenage girls on the internet are 45 year old men in divers helmets, revolver precariously pressed against the side of said helmet.

I have to keep some degree of optimism. I met my wife of eight years on the Internet!

Sir, I must applaud you.

I have read these archives backwards and forwards. I have read every comment, examined every tidbit. A short while ago I registered in order to reply to a comment with some sort of Shadownrun-themed witticism but halted myself when the pun I had intended to make became obviously less funny.

You sir, have recieved my first Chubby and my first Reply. Your ability to percieve alternate meanings in simple sentences is a shining beacon in the depths of the internet.

Bravo, peterjoel, bravo.

The most irritating part of the relationship is trying to get the blood stains off of my clown suit.

NOOOO

i don't get it

Neither do I. Therefore I think you failed in your attempt, donward2. Sorry!

"Ray whistled for Todd, and when the squirrel came near
The license plate implied that he'd been known to go queer"

Question: Is Todd dead? I mean completely and utterly dead. He has not appeared since Teodor made his head explode if I'm not mistaken.

If you think about it, basically nobody has appeared recently except Ray and Beef. I miss Lie Bot.

He's still trying to figure out the secret hidden page in the menu.

I'm not one to just mindlessly parrot the comic but, haha, "fuckin' A!"

I have to say, I sympathise. That was my immediate desire upon reading this as well.

The best we can do is go forward in our lives saying "Fuckin' A!" as much as humanly possible.

It pales after a while.

Also, straw poll: Are people more comfortable with my comments if they are in all-caps?

No. All-caps are so uncomfortable.

They give you BLISTERS

And HALITOSIS.

And HEMMOROIDS

And SCABIES

And THE SNIFFLES

Most uncomfortable you are ever being?

Dunno man, I, along with everyone else tend to hate all-caps but you got kind of a shtick going on.

I would accept it if you stuck to talking like a robot, kind of like the guy from Grandma's Boy.

Why didn't more people see that movie?

It is tragically underrated. I got a contact high from watching it.

There is a time in The Big Lebowski where the Dude is blazing one and, strainedly, says "Fuckin' A".

A friend at the time argued me for months that what he was, in fact, saying was "You look like an egg".

That makes me LOL in a way that hurts my sides.

The absurdity of that line synched with the mental rewind of Walter smashing a Corvette with a baseball bat is pure gold.

Beware of Strangers in the Alps.

Entirely possible. Or, my friend at the time might have just been a stubborn dunce.

I had another friend who insisted that when Wario is selected in Mario Kart 64, exclaiming "I'm-a Wario, I'm-a gonna win", he was actually stating "I'm-a wop, I'm-a gonna win".

I always used to think Mario saying "Let's-a-go!" in Mario Kart 64 he was saying "Mexico!"

Nintendo does weird things to a person's brain.

"So long, gay Bowser!"

I don't think ANYBODY knows what Mario is supposed to be saying, there. "So longy, Bowsie" is what I've always heard.

So long KING Bowser is the logical assumption.

We still say "Mexico" in the way he said it, as that's what we heard as well.

I should point out I am Mexican and a lot of my friends are as well, so it gives us occassion to say it more than the average person might.

Has anyone played Sonic Heroes? It's definitely OK if not, but it has a special place in my heart for some reason. Anyway, it's kind of a kids' game, but when punching things, Knuckles certainly says "Shit!" and Tails most certainly accompanies his boosted flights with "Gay!". Adds something.

In Batman: The Movie (the one with Adam West, not Michael Keaton) there is a point where Bruce Wayne, having been kidnapped by the villains, claims he's "clever enough to outwit you, you stupid thugs!" but it sounds completely like he says "you stupid fucks". It is hilarious.

He also says, "This is what happens when you feed a stranger scrambled eggs!"

Weirdest shit.

Spouted by angriest Sobchak.

I had always assumed that finding a stranger in the Alps would involve more spiritual awakening, less tire iron.

Maybe the stranger in the Alps mugged you and you were so mad you just took a tire iron to the first car you saw.

That's a long walk, though; I mean, wouldn't the day-long trek down from the Alps be plenty of time to get over the mugging?

What kind of emotional ogre am I!?

Well, the mugging occurred after you took the stranger home from the Alps.

I have been laughing for a good five minutes, sir. A chubby for you.

Oh GOD I saw that version too! Fucking CLASSIC.

O hey, there you are. In a couple days once new comments have chilled out, can you link up the blogs as is your wont? It would be rad.

Hey llama man. We got a big deadline on Monday. I will resume my assetbar magnum opus come April, no worries. For now, not so much free time.

"Fuckin' A" is the only English language phrase used in Michael Cimino's "The Deer Hunter"

And then turn our backs to the camera to show that it is our Mission.

They should find a way to listen to Boy George's tender and good voice singing to Chris Isaak's good guitar notes.

Especially that third one. Maybe he'll play it again a little later.

His notes are so good, dude.

In the end, it may be true, but who among us wants to truly acknowledge it? Tender AND good, though? hmm

I don't know about "best singer," as that would be an extremely subjective judgment, but he is pretty good, really. Whether or not you like Culture Club as a band, you can't really say Boy George is a bad singer.

quick someone deconstruct this so I can understand what they're doing in the last panel

They are walking together to the place that Ray keeps his Boy George music.

They have their backs to the camera to show that they are on a Mission.

The cats are walking away to listen to some Boy George.

The talking cats have decided to go listen to the tender and good voice of the former Culture Club singer.

Oh, dang, I didn't know we were doing it minimalist-alt-text-style.

I sort of preferred your description, but mostly just because it suggested that Ray has a special place for his Boy George music and that they are going there.

Well, yeah! .....Right?

To your credit, jorsh, at first I thought they were just staring out the window, shuddering.

Are you talking about your avatar?

Roast Beef is sitting in what looks like the least comfortable chair ever. It's like a skinny lazy boy in italics.

Based on the fact that an interior is only depicted in the last panel, he may be sitting poolside.

Nope. It's the same chair as depicted here.

Listen, tekende. I don't wanna tell you your business or nothin', but Ray is the kind of cat who might relocate this chair anywhere that strikes his cat fancy.

Just something to think about.

This is true. But even if it is the case, then it's irrelevant to the start of the discussion, which was about how comfortable the chair looked.

But yes, I suppose it could be the same chair, moved outside. Who knows, dude. Who knows.

Not to be the guy who won't stop beating the dead horse, but I must interject that my point does remain - that chair may be a poolside lounge chair, such as one that always makes you feel like it will collapse under you if you put your full weight back on it - and at some times, it is inside the house.

This is all I am saying.

Ah, I hadn't thought of it that way.

This has been a Kindly Fuck Along Thursday, brought to you by tekende and professorhazard.

Note that they could be in the pool house, Roast Beef's former (at this point, yes?) home.

The last three little panels; we all have moments like this. Well, I do anyway. You should.

The last time I had one of those moments was yesterday. My friend and I came to the Decision to go trap shooting and thus it was said, thus it was done.

Is that where you go out and hunt Alexis Arquette?

Nice. I like how you incorporate new knowledge. Consider this to be my chuppy to your post as I am out. Alas.

*chubby*

Damn Me!!

Snuppy?

Rate this Comment: Cloned Dog Created by a Disreputable Korean Scientist

Did my mentioning Snuppy lead to a comic about Laika?

I'm also out of chubbies, but hopefully this comment will suffice.

I have had moments like this, and I concur with your statement.

HEY! Girl on the interwebs! Look at me! See my sexually arched eyebrows? See my stylish shades? What about my Aztec pendant? Do you like it? Do you notice me? Hello?...

Would you like to see my MacGuyver fanfiction?

It would work better if your avatar was Roast Beef instead of Ray and you just died over and over again and waited for her to make a few nice comments on your posts instead of having an A-type personality.

Then she would be all up on your MacGruber fanfiction.

Or whatever the fuck.

This actually made me laugh for a long time.

I will only read your fanfiction if MacGuyver makes a dildo out of a paper bag, a Webster's dictionary book jacket, a bouncy ball and a strand of his own hair.

I swear i saw an episode of MacGuyver that had Brian Blessed in it, how messed up is that?

Man what. And I bet he was just all goin buck wild and yellin' shit too.

Hooboy, that Brian Blessed.

Lord, spare me.

This is because it is not an incongruous thing for Ray to be doing.

YES that is totally the best part. He's just settin' himself up for failure.
I like to think he has been standing there doing that and making gradually more irritated comments since the last time we saw him. On Friday.

As his thought flow chart indicates, a lot of Ray's mind works in loops. Very little if anything is every learned.

I'd say about 60% of Achewood arcs involve him thinking up a new completely ridiculous business plan, and then trying to follow through before becoming distracted. The boy just don't have much common sense.

I admit, I laughed at it when I read it, but I'm laughing longer and harder at my having been reminded of its predecessor. Chubbies all around!

Roast Beef has done some rude things on cocaine. Like making a business plan for a restaurant chain that would compete with Ramono's Macaroni Grill by featuring a waterfall in the main dining area.

This is because adding waterfalls to things is an essential part of making bad decisions about being high on cocaine.

Or perhaps waterfalls are cocaine's contribution to the world?

Cocaine is the unsung hero of many industries: restaurant, music, film, publishing, financial, etc. But apparently not the webcomics industry.

It however is the un-un-sung hero of the drug industry, or at least it was for a period in the mid-late 80s.

when you think about it, this strip just continues the hyper-masculine tone of the past few strips, because only a "real" man can straight up enjoy some pop music.

Hell yes, man.

Keep telling yourself that.

I'm such a man that I listen to Britney Spears in the gym while lifting weights. So I WILL keep telling myself that.

And yet your profile claims you are female. Which is it, dino_grill. Which is it.

My masculinity is strictly metaphorical.

Isn't everybody's?

(Most folks is frightened 'cause it's true.)

I'm pretty sure that my rad chillies are not metaphorical, but literal.

SO, NO

LAWBOT HEY HOW ARE YOU DOING RIGHT NOW MAN

JUST AWESOME MAN HOW YOU DOING RIGHT THIS SECOND

IT'S 11:23PM ON A FRIDAY NIGHT AND I'M ON THE INTERNET

HOW D'YA THINK I FEEL BABY

ARE YOU THE THING THAT CRAPPED BY THE GAS STATION

YEAH! DID YOU LIKE THAT?

IT MADE A LOT OF SENSE TO ME

I really don't understand. In 9 out of 10 cases, when someone decides to quote another strip verbatim, it gets lamed at least a couple or three times.

Tekende, people must like you. That, or there's a new strip up so no one is reading this anymore.

OH MY LORD DOVEY, I WAS LOOKING ACROSS THE COMMENTS AND I READ THAT ONE AT EXACTLY THAT TIME ON EXACTLY THAT DAY! HOW WACKY IS THAT?

PRETT WACKY CATGIRL

*ahem* catgIrl? CAT-FREAKING-GIRL!??!?!?!?!?!?!?

She's so mad that you spelled "pretty" wrong.

Hey, have you guys heard of this shit, apple jack? It's like apple whisky. Alton Brown says it's good to make apple pies with, because of some sort of crazy science horseshit about flour and water and I don't know what the fuck, and though I bought it to cook with I think it's pretty good just to sit around drinking with.

Yeah, I'm drunk in an empty apartment with the stove on. It's a regular saturday afternoon

Virtual chubby. This is good.

I wholeheartedly agree, pop music is popular for a reason. This statement is not going to be so POP-U-LAAAR on the internet on the main, but Blackout is really an awesome album.

Was that...was that a Wicked reference?

I totally got that vibe too! I thought of Glinda (or was it Galinda at the time?) the second I read the word.

I hate to let everybody down but it's actually a Peter Gabriel reference. Games Without Frontiers, a real hoot of a song. Although, I'd feel less of a pasty pop anachronism if I was referencing Wicked.

Actually, I think that, as far as Acheworld is concerned, referencing Peter Gabriel is probably a lot better than referencing Wicked. It is for me, anyway.

Peter Gabriel, yes

Games Without Frontiers, no.

What the hell, Pete?

As far as Acheworld is concerned, referencing Peter Gabriel probably IS a lot better than referencing Wicked. As far as the rest of my life is concerned, however, it really isn't.

Oh how I dislike on the Peter Gabriel.

But he's in a Geico commercial. A pretty rad one.

I must've missed that one. And lord knows I'm a Geico commercial fan. (I wish that was sarcasm. It wasn't.)

It was great, he used that guitar talky-box thing, you know? Where he talks in the microphone and uses the guitar to modify the vocals?

I bet it's on Youtube. I'm not going to look right now, though.

I too am a fan of Geico commercials.

That... that was Peter Frampton. I don't know why I felt the need to correct this. But I do.

Yeah, I realized my mistake later. Sorry, everybody!

Boy George's face IS starting to melt a bit...

At least he wrote a song about an African American lady in the south during the 1800s. There arent too many of those.

I think that last panel is like the final scene in Blair Witch, where their plan went awry when Boy George made them to stand in the corner.

It is silly to like The Cure but it is a thing to like Boy George.

As an achewood fan who likes The Cure alot, I am amused by this.

I like to think that Chris Onstad exists in a state of duality, where he simultaneously likes (Teodor) and hates (the other achewood characters) The Cure.

Boy George: Lady looks like a dude.

Other...other way around, dude.

ARE YOU SURE? ....

NO

Man, there hasn't been a for serious arc since Leon Sumbitches. Or does Onstad just not label things?

Goddam man I am still waitin to find out what happened with Molly and Lyle at the gas station bathroom!

Did they make it out in time?

Chubbied for spelling your obscenities in the manner of Holden Caulfield.

Chubby for reminding me of that arc!

Well Beef proposing to Molly is post-Leon Sumbitches so I'm gonna say that Onstad is just neglectful in making the little box in the bottom left say things.

Agreed. Brother needs to maintain, if you ask me.

If you view the source code, you can see how many arcs each year has:

2001: 0
2002: 7
2003: 17
2004: 10
2005: 4
2006: 7
2007: 1
2008: 0

A return to form.

Kids, do not listen to Boy George. He is a ridiculous man.

Ray would not only beg to differ, he would inform you that you have no Fuckin' idea what you're talkin' about.

Chubbied for the effort and because I recognize the "Watching T.V." lyrics, but Roger Waters is too randomly racist to be a convincing humanist....

No endorsement was intended.

Roger Waters is racist?

racist against interesting people

You are wrong. He transcended ridiculousness. He made ridiculousness itself ridiculous.

Pushing boundaries. Setting new records. Getting the train to stop at Funtime.

In the reporter's break room:
". . . And that's how I uncovered a scandal of corruption leading all the way to the prime minister. So, Dave, what's the next thing you're working on?"
"Oh, you know, I got some stuff like that. I'm focusing on this story of a company that hires prostitutes for its executives to beat up as a team-building exercise. I've also working on the Andre Agassi story."
"Oh! Andre Agassi! What's your angle?"
"He's pretty. Very pretty."
"Whoa."

Speaking of contributions to the world, good comic today :)

your avatar should be captioned "the dark side of the beedog"