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ishuta » neu 1 months ago
Wow!
gormster » neu 1 months ago
Philippe is so adorable sometimes.

Scratch that, Philippe is so adorable all the time.
invidious » neu 1 months ago
With the glasses on, Philippe bears an uncanny (i.e., worrisome) resemblance to Paul Shaffer.

[IMGS OFF]
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
worrisome, indeed.
ratacat » neu 1 months ago

http://www.cwgp.org/gurewitch_and_onstad.php

appears to be in Rochester New York
Nick Gurewitch and Chris Onstad Wednesday, February 10, 2010

luckypyjamas » neu 4 weeks ago
whoever wrote the copy for that really fucking sucks
cracklewater » neu 3 weeks ago
I didn't know about this, as I feel twitter is a giant pile of shit, but for those interested (who already probably know):
achewood twitter - you can read Onstad's 140 character stream of consciousness.
samhayler » neu 1 months ago
Oh my goodness, the raised eyebrow in panel two. Sometimes, the machinations of Ray confuse even the five-year-old otter.
raptorattack » neu 1 months ago
Philippe isn't confused. He just knows that if Ray is asking him to do something it must be super important. That is Philippe's concentrating face.
shinkusan » neu 1 months ago
He is just the cutest little Ray.
m3tanoia » neu 1 months ago
[IMGS OFF] [IMGS OFF]
falseprophet » pro 1 months ago
If you look at it the right way it looks like one half of the cover of The Beatles "Let It Be"
raticus » neu 1 months ago
That pose of Ray wasn't there! Are you seeing things?
How could you overlook that WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU
cracklewater » neu 3 weeks ago
I could be wrong, but the Ray head looks like his raction to 'hot tranny mess'.
raticus » pro 3 weeks ago
Holy shit ladies and gents, it is in fact his made Teodor look at a dick I drew and he was so pissed face.
raticus » neu 1 months ago
[IMGS OFF]

Fixed that for you.
greenkoolayd » neu 4 weeks ago
hell of awesome!
hamscout » neu 4 weeks ago
I don't know if I like where this is going...

[IMGS OFF]
duperando » neu 4 weeks ago
Arghhhhhhh, why doesn't this have more chubbies?
Phillippe be straight-up mackin'.
mockereo » neu 3 weeks ago
mackin til her eyes roll back in her head! barbed wire arm tattoo!
plummet » neu 4 weeks ago
I love where this is going.
soup_alex » neu 4 weeks ago
You had me at "Herro!"
greenkoolayd » neu 4 weeks ago
im going to steal this.
deus » neu 4 weeks ago
BRILLIANT! BEYOND DESCRIPTION!
ARE YOU ONSTAD?!
raticus » pro 3 weeks ago
Philippe is versatile. Also, she's so savvy she doesn't even need to look it up. Woo!
celesticles » neu 3 weeks ago
he's supposed to be wearing a thong.
higuma » neu 1 months ago
what is the sack of onions for
oldhusky » neu 1 months ago
it is for winning
actualtaunt » neu 1 months ago
I can dig the onions.
shelbydavis » neu 1 months ago
I can dig your avicon (assuming it's from Metropolis?)
stereo » neu 1 months ago
Even in the 20s, they knew that robot chicks would be freaky hot.
shelbydavis » neu 1 months ago
In science fiction, is perhaps most basic concept.
zapatos » neu 1 months ago
Thank you NetFlix
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
word to your mnom. thats going in my qway.
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
**mom
soup_alex » neu 1 months ago
om mnom mnom
gunsofray » neu 1 months ago
om mnom mnom mnom on my mom, Tom!
gunsofray » neu 1 months ago
Or Alex.
farqussus » neu 4 weeks ago
you thought no-one would get that reference didn't you
greenkoolayd » neu 4 weeks ago
typo?
reference?
which one was it?!
the suspense is killing me!
soup_alex » neu 1 months ago
om mnom... Mnomquah?
usversusthem » neu 1 months ago
Good. Once you've dug them up, let me know and I'll send you a tape of something to play them.
deus » neu 4 weeks ago
You mean...dig them down the dirt or that they are pretty cool guise?
drewvreeland » neu 4 weeks ago
chubby for the pbf avitar
drewvreeland » neu 4 weeks ago
hell of relevant
hatstand_mcq » neu 1 months ago
They are there to listen Tony Robins. Unfortunately, Ray forgot that onions can only extract information from the spoken word while their roots rest in the dark earth. Those onions aren't listening. They are screaming.
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
Like in Harry Potter!
hatstand_mcq » neu 1 months ago
Harry Potter and the Onions Which Wouldn't Listen.
mockereo » neu 1 months ago
it is after the seventh book when he finishes his training to be an Auror but then since voldemort is gone there is no need for him.

He is now a prep cook.
invidious » neu 1 months ago
Severous Snape has been replaced by Gordon Ramsey.
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
Gandalf died but came back as Dumbledore's hand.
gormster » neu 1 months ago
And after Hitler died, everybody lived in peace for the rest of time!
dusty » pro 1 months ago
we don't seriously debate things here, and we're certainly not starting with a serious debate about the sociopolitical climate in the Harry Potter world. Mockereo's statement stands as a basis for absurdity. Continue.
granularsilica » neu 1 months ago
[quote]And after Hitler died, everybody lived in peace for the rest of time![/i]
At least in Europe, so far.
hatstand_mcq » neu 1 months ago
The Bosniaks might beg to differ.
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
Well Canada's doing alright, yeah?
mockereo » neu 1 months ago
nobody really realizes but we're at war in Afghanistan.
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
speak for yourself.
wazza » neu 1 months ago
We've always been at war with (a small country in) Eastasia.
gunsofray » neu 1 months ago
Next target: that place where people look and talk different.

Canada.
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
In my opinion America and Canada are, for all intents and purposes and disregarding obvious cultural differences, very very similar with more similarities than differences. This is from having met a few Canadians from various places (BC, Nova Scotia, Toronto, Ottawa, among some other places). Canadians can yell at me starting now.
granularsilica » neu 1 months ago
Mon dieu! You forget about the French-speaking Quebec! Very obvious cultural difference there.
fineoakstructure » neu 1 months ago
Ottawa is basically part of Quebec.
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
Is it though? They wear Blue-Jeans and listen to Rock And Rolls.
onepapertiger » neu 1 months ago
word
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
Ugh, Afghanistan ruins everything.
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
fuck YOU, afghamistam.
granularsilica » neu 1 months ago
Quote:
The Bosniaks might beg to differ.


Ah yes, the Balkans. Have they ever been still? Sorry to have slighted the Southern Slavs, I was more thinking of France, Germany and Russia.
veerex » neu 4 weeks ago
You know Russia dogs on Georgia like all day, right? France is kinda its own worst enemy, its never been able to get its shit together to start something since old times.

Its mostly just Germany has been very quite after it had a temper tantrum, embarrassed itself, then had a suicide in the family.
nice-on-water » neu 4 weeks ago
But as penance they must never be patriotic or think their country is good at anything. "Oh ja you know the school system in Germany is so underfunded, you know, and the students are all so blah blah blah complain whine bitch moan we can't like our country because that's Nazism." I paraphrase.
granularsilica » neu 4 weeks ago
Top exporter in Eurozone should be enough the be proud of.
nice-on-water » neu 4 weeks ago
I've never met a German that hasn't qualified anything positive they say about Germany with something negative. And that's like seven Germans.
granularsilica » neu 4 weeks ago
Oh man, I meant like World Wars, or really big empires clashing, or Napoleonic mass attacks. Everybody's got a province that needs a whupping now and then, pesky Chechnyans!
mrchuckletrouzd » neu 4 weeks ago
The Magyarok are actually in quite a bind.
granularsilica » neu 4 weeks ago
Are they "hungary"?
soup_alex » neu 3 weeks ago
*TISH*

granularsilica did you say that you would be here all night.
i_love_kate » neu 3 weeks ago
I heard he would be here all weekend! Wow!
nice-on-water » neu 3 weeks ago
He loves the city he's in and its inhabitants.
granularsilica » neu 3 weeks ago
One show tonight, private! (I'm at a resort with my better half.)
missbee » neu 1 months ago
I have no mouth and I must scream.
wazza » neu 1 months ago
Introducing the new iScream!
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 months ago
How many flavors?
shelbydavis » neu 1 months ago
None. Mr. Ellison has sued and the product has been recalled.
deusoma » neu 1 months ago
The End. No Moral.
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 months ago
You know he's a lititgious little fuck ( another true anecdote).
Years ago on usenet people were posting scanned ebooks of his stories and the guy heard about it; was all kinds of red-assed ready to sue them for loss of income- all 3 paying readers.
Had his barrister in on it, whole 9 yards.

Now you can say
The End No Moral, Dr. House
daedala_x » neu 1 months ago
he also sued CBS for the revision and misinterpretation of his script for the Star Trek episode "The City on the Edge of Forever" which was in the original series but he didn't sue until like 2009.

Harlan Ellison is a man who keeps a list of people and things he dislikes. that list is then subdivided into "angry but will not sue", "might sue", "sue immediately" and "bag of goddamn onions".
deus » neu 1 months ago
You forgot the "intelligence of an artichoke" category.
daedala_x » neu 1 months ago
[IMGS OFF]
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 months ago
snort!
made me laugh. would chub again.

Quote:
Ellison attended Ohio State University for 18 months (1951-53) before being expelled. He has said that the expulsion was a result of his hitting a professor who had denigrated his writing ability, and that over the next forty-odd years he had sent that professor a copy of every story he published.[3]


Moving to Chicago, Ellison wrote for William Hamling's Rogue magazine. As a book editor at Hamling's Regency Books, he published novels and anthologies by such writers as B. Traven, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Bloch and Philip José Farmer and Harlan Ellison..

[...]
In 1976, Ellison married his fourth wife, Lori Horowitz. They later divorced.
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
he sounds like a dude that ladies would not want to spend much time with.
shelbydavis » neu 1 months ago
He gets with women but in the end they do not like him!
granularsilica » neu 4 weeks ago
Story of my friggin' life!
greenkoolayd » neu 4 weeks ago
two out of three aint bad.


please someone get that lame joke. please! my ego cant take any more deflation........
firedmyass » neu 3 weeks ago
He is complex and unpredictable. And also crap-back crazy.
mercuri0us » neu 1 months ago
Is it a game about fucking hard or a fucking hard game?
daedala_x » neu 1 months ago
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
for some people a victory in both is an equally challenging task.
deus » neu 1 months ago
HAHAHA! Oh god that guy is a douche!
I like his books though....so its kinda like Hamsun....sorta...
deus » neu 1 months ago
NO! I'm not comparing Harlan Ellisons writing with Hamsun's.

I like his sci-fi but come on!

Who won the nobel peace prize.....then sent it to Hitler....

You see where the Harlan Ellison comparison comes in?!
wazza » neu 1 months ago
the prize for literature, not the peace prize. And he mailed it to Goebbels, not Hitler.
wazza » neu 1 months ago
I had never heard of him before wikipedia
deus » neu 1 months ago
sorry...i suck...TIRED TIRED! Im sorry im TIRED!
cproseedcakeksc » neu 3 weeks ago
Just to clarify for the curious: it was Knut Hamsun who mailed his Nobel prize to Goebbels. Harlan Ellison is not a Nazi, nor has he won a Nobel prize. He does however have NINE subsections under "Controversies" on his Wikipedia page.
deus » neu 3 weeks ago
HAHAHA!!!
deus » neu 3 weeks ago
No really!

I love you.
deus » neu 1 months ago
Thing is Harlan is a sci-fi Pat....but still he still have some Fuck you Friday dickiness moments...

Fuck it he's my hero.
invidious » neu 1 months ago
Much like a volcano, he's wildly entertaining to watch from a safe distance. Besides, if there's one thing history has proven it's that severe personality defects are in no way an impediment to being a great writer.

Ellison survives on his sci-fi rep, but much of his non-sci-fi stuff is brilliant, also. "Neither your Jenny Nor Mine" very well might be the greatest short story of all time.
mr-siegal » neu 1 months ago
What about 'My Jenny is Your Jenny'?
i_love_kate » neu 1 months ago
Doublechubbied.

By Calvin Klein.
vermy » neu 1 months ago
Later counterfeited as:
Chobbyduce
by Young Men in China.
deus » neu 1 months ago
The question is; what does the onions want in life!?
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 months ago
They...want to be potatoes?
deus » neu 1 months ago
THEN THEN NEED TO COPY THE POTATOES!!!!
firedmyass » neu 3 weeks ago
Potatoes are useful, but they just a damn substrate. Onions are flavor.
i_love_kate » neu 1 months ago
Not to have their nuts shot off with a sawn-off shotgun?
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
we all(who have nuts in the first place) want that.
evilsteve » neu 1 months ago
First Ray has the onions, then he gives Philippe the onions so as to transfer possession of the onions. In this case no one named Lester has the onions.
tekende » neu 1 months ago
That was a stretch even Stretch Armstrong would have difficulty making.
allenphreak » neu 1 months ago
Ah man, and his arms stretch out to next week!
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 months ago
Philippe has a wicked sack of onions
headphones » neu 4 weeks ago
'a onions
fermatprime » neu 1 months ago
They're there to tie to your belt, which was the style in my day!
jaypage » neu 1 months ago
i'd assume they've got the glasses and necklace in them.
overman » neu 3 weeks ago
Ray monitored the other veggies himself, but Onions man....everyone knows you outsource that shit.
cracklewater » neu 3 weeks ago
I'm ashamed to say it took me a week to work out that Ray was not trying to improve Phillipe with the Robbins tape, he just wanted the otter to monitor the onions while they absorbed postive ideas.

I know the Whole Foods $7 potato story is still going on, but at first it simply didn't click.

Perhaps that's why this has been the current strip for 10 days - to make sure thickos like me got it...

WHOOPSY-DAISY! SORRY, EVERYBODY!
greenkoolayd » neu 3 weeks ago
you are awarded one forgiveness chubby.
mattylite » neu 3 weeks ago
I too took like six viewings to get it. I was just too ashamed to admit it until you emboldened me. Now I wanna admit everything, like how I used to think there was a word "shiek" that meant cool, and also a word "chic" (pronounced like 'chick') that also meant cool, and for some reason I'd hear people say shiek, but never see it written, and I'd read the word chic, but never hear it spoken.
onegoodmonkey » neu 1 months ago
Those onions are gonna be really good though
puguglypress » neu 1 months ago
Phillippe looks like a Christian rapper... from the future.
actualtaunt » neu 1 months ago
I pity the fool who dares to cross a Christian rapper.
lordparadise » neu 1 months ago
Depending on your interpretation of the Bible, that cross might have exactly the same effect as the Medallion of King Chochacho. Then again, it might also have something closer to a Volvo of Despair effect.
jeffspaulding » neu 1 months ago
[IMGS OFF]
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
Looks alright.
daidai » neu 4 weeks ago
jeffspaulding that looks like something I would photoshop.

I kind of expect better from you.
scorpio_nadir » neu 4 weeks ago
You'll have to subscribe to jeffspauldingshopsthebar.com Subscriber Content for the better stuff.....dai dai.
jeffspaulding » neu 4 weeks ago
Fair complaint. I wasn't happy with it either, but I was actually trying to do work at work.

Also, I don't have photoshop. I have only ever used the MS Paint that comes with XP.

[insert Luddite joke here]
jeffspaulding » neu 4 weeks ago
Also, if it was done well, you'd see that he has the Volvo symbol around his neck (which approximates the necklaces that guidos wore in the 70's).

[IMGS OFF]
mensch » neu 4 weeks ago
Mars, banger of whores.
soup_alex » neu 4 weeks ago
I am apparently too friendly, but I just want everybody to know that this comment has my chubby.
hatstand_mcq » neu 4 weeks ago
And my axe.
puguglypress » neu 3 weeks ago
And my press!
actualtaunt » neu 3 weeks ago
What news from the North?!
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
Just commenting on your avicon--it's amazing, number one, but number two, is that the woman from Metropolis after she's been replaced with the skank-bot? She looks pri-tay devilish there.
ethelthefrog » neu 1 months ago
Skank-bots!
zapatos » neu 1 months ago
Yes please, I'll take two!
hedonismbot » neu 1 months ago
They are not as neat as one would think. Lubrication is a huge issue
wazza » neu 1 months ago
you mean you don't engage in all your sexual activities in a giant vat of motor oil?
mockereo » neu 1 months ago
realistically, no.
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
melted butter.
daedala_x » neu 1 months ago
not in Heavy Metal 2000 it's not.
hedonismbot » neu 1 months ago
You damn kids and your remakes of friggin classics! The original was one of the greatest things ever. To say nothing of the comics (an early source of pornography for a growing bot). Also, at least half of the bands on the 200 version's album are terrible, and I have no idea how they got Bauhaus on there. Damn kids.
granularsilica » neu 4 weeks ago
You kids, get off my lawn!
gormster » neu 1 months ago
puguglypress you are the first person to come off my ignore list ever.
puguglypress » neu 1 months ago
yeah im pretty cool
rowboat » pro 1 months ago
So you read through your ignored comments? Weird.
puguglypress » neu 1 months ago
It might have been a context thing, like he saw someone replying to my comment and the reply made him curious about the original comment.
actualtaunt » neu 1 months ago
HERE COMES A SPECIAL ENTREPRENEUR!
deus » neu 1 months ago
Right, okay.
salvar » pro 1 months ago
Props for the Orgone reference. Now sneak in some Radium Water and we've got a deal.
onegoodmonkey » neu 1 months ago
Onions are best if you pee on the plant while it's growing AND talk to it
smallblackdog » neu 1 months ago
but.. what is the correct etiquette for such conversations? Cornelius would know.
i_love_kate » neu 1 months ago
So, would you like a drink? I should have offered you something to drink.
magreaux_dogg » neu 1 months ago
I wonder if my mom knows.
freewilliam » neu 1 months ago
"Are you a dirty little onion?"
hedonismbot » neu 1 months ago
My onions' favorite music is scat.
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
[[giggle]] thats a musical style named after poop......
smallblackdog » neu 1 months ago
Hedonismbot is clearly a man who knows his onions
smallblackdog » neu 1 months ago
It's even better if you don't urinate on your shoes while talking to the plant - avoid expectorations.
dougthehead » pro 1 months ago
Philippe's idea of a successful greeting is to offer money in a voice filled with music and love. Which isn't a bad idea, actually.
quinlaenar » pro 1 months ago
I thought that Philippe was saying he wanted to get money, like if Ray hadn't interrupted, the next line would have been "It's ME!" But that's awesome, too.
srikamaraja » neu 1 months ago
Do I smell a check for six dollars on its way?
hedonismbot » neu 1 months ago
What? No. That's the sack of onions you smell.
expellens » neu 1 months ago
I'm waiting for the camera to pull back and reveal Phillipes' tite new thong. You know he's rocking the Speedo right about now.
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
AAAAAAAAH
actualtaunt » neu 1 months ago
Is that "AAAAAAAAAH I'M SCARED AND CONFUSED," "AAAAAAAAAAH I'M LOUD AND YOU'RE ADORABLE,"
or "AAAAAAAAAAAH THIS WAS SOOOO REFRESHING"?
(by the way, on a personal note, I've been out. Glad to see you nice-on-water. I plan on chubbying witty things you say. It's been a long time, ol' pun pal)
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
:D

I look forward to punny chubs.

But yeah, that was a AAAAAH I'M SCARED AND CONFUSED kind of, because young folks don't need genitalia enhancing or at least prominencing clothing for some time. This is something I have a real issue with. Ten year olds' boxers or training bra straps showing...no. This is not a good thing ever.
actualtaunt » neu 1 months ago
In troth, I hate even more than 10-year-old-bra is the section in Wal*mart where there are many bras that, were in not for their prodigious size, would be children's clothing (little cute flowers, smiley faces &c)
I look, and I think "Are these bras for large women who never grew up, or has the nation's tween become a gluttonous mass of DD flowerpower?"
pmbarrett » neu 1 months ago
maybe you guys should get a room.
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
Hello vomit my old friend
shelbydavis » neu 1 months ago
I've found the lingerie again
Because a vision somewhat shocking
Left its seeds while I was shopping
And the vision
Of the children in my brain
Still remains
Of training bras... and DD sizes.
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
In restless anxiety I shop aloooone...etc
goddamnstain » neu 1 months ago
I'm really glad Chris Onstad put this comic up.
lordparadise » neu 1 months ago
At this point I don't think anyone will complain about the storyarcishness of this. Assuming this will make a full transition into a comic about Philippe trying to be Ray, this is just the sort of old-school simple premise that made the original story arcs so wonderful. Compare: Beef, Metrosexual; Anarchist's Cookbook.
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
Well now that you've said it, of course it's been thoroughly jinxed. Hopefully not. I hope this one is handled with care like the precious cargo a Philippe arc should be.
wic » neu 1 months ago
In Finland we have this special place for people who don't want to go to the otherwise mandatory army service for able men, where they remain a month and then start a year lasting slavery for the country. (Which is actually only 11 months these days, yay progress.)

In any case, while I was there, I had the pleasure for me to meet an actual Orgone salesman. Instead of spending time in Orgone box he carried these iron pipes, "cloudbusters" in his backpack. The sticking iron pipes made him to look like a spaceman or at least a scary lunatic with a strange view on the world (he of course made a speech on how William Reich was nothing but a misunderstood genius and how dirt in a pipe can make cure everything and make rain), so I was too afraid to ask if he was planning on selling to cloudbusters or if they were there to cure the backache caused by the heavy backpack in the first place.
hatstand_mcq » neu 1 months ago
Dear wic. I have read your post three times, but its meaning still eludes me. I feel like I'm chasing an old witch through a labyrinth. Every time I grab at her she rounds a corner and disappears further into the maze.
gormster » neu 1 months ago
Whilst at a Finnish slave camp (to which he was sentenced for evading conscription) he met a guy who believed in a bunch of hippy crap.
actualtaunt » neu 1 months ago
In an east Finnish Slave Camp, born and raised
Sellin' Orgone is how I spent most of my days
Chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool
and sellin' some orgone outside of the school
Then a couple of soldiers who were up to no good
started drafting hippies in my neighborhood
I got in one little court case and my mom got scared
said "Olet muuttamassa kanssa täti ja setä Bel Air"
actualtaunt » neu 1 months ago
oh, cool, I'm dancing to the rhythm.
mockereo » neu 1 months ago
will smith dances better though
actualtaunt » neu 1 months ago
your bear dances better than will smith
Dancing woman < Will Smith < Your bear
Sorry public school
morbo » neu 3 weeks ago
chub for metropolis
granularsilica » neu 3 weeks ago
V-chub for Wings of Desire
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
that was fuckin' cool, dogg.
jeffspaulding » neu 1 months ago
Nice. Two Wilhelm Reich references. 1st panel ("little man") and last panel ("Orgone box").

This makes me happy.

[IMGS OFF]
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
Last time you posted the "You laugh at jokes made about you" drawing with it. You're slipping.
cracklewater » neu 1 months ago
And your first reply was from nice-on-water, wearing the face of JD Salinger, who used to hang out in an orgone box from time to time.

Spooky.
nice-on-water » neu 4 weeks ago
This should've been intentional but lo, it was a coincidence. He also used to drink urine, so maybe a beaker full of urine would've worked too. I don't know why a beaker, but I thought of a beaker so why not.
scorpio_nadir » neu 4 weeks ago
A sterilized beaker of urine thoughtfully imbibed by a Wilhelm implies Science cred; whereas a bottle of Thunderbird in a brown paper bag honked by a guy named Willy does not.
nice-on-water » neu 4 weeks ago
A beaker of urine says professionalism.
mockereo » neu 4 weeks ago
I keep telling people that! but nobody understands my favourite beverage
nice-on-water » neu 4 weeks ago
The philistines...
cracklewater » neu 3 weeks ago
A Beaker full of urine?

You've been reading my Muppet watersports fan-fiction.

Stiv, get over here.

BTW - the title for this strip now says "rb %was here" - does that mean there's a new strip about to drop?
nice-on-water » neu 3 weeks ago
I saw that too. No clue but it should mean that.
wingspan » neu 3 weeks ago
a lot of people's statuses are now set to "rb was here", including mine and I can't seem to change it. I think a certain assetbarrister got bored again and found some mischief.
nice-on-water » neu 3 weeks ago
WHOOP!
cracklewater » neu 3 weeks ago
Hmm, well spotted. I hadn't noticed that.

Oh well, hope he's having fun, though I would have expected different intials than 'rb'...
neonfreon » neu 3 weeks ago
You sound kind of like a pussy

I wish you'd shut up
greenkoolayd » neu 3 weeks ago
same to you, gladys.
heccibiggs » pro 1 months ago
Philippe's face in panel two: he's taking this shit seriously.
hatstand_mcq » neu 1 months ago
He doesn't want to mess up like he did last time. He thinks he's ready now. He won't let Ray down again.
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
Right. Okay. With you so far.
i_love_kate » neu 1 months ago
Onions. Okay. I am in control of this information.
shelbydavis » neu 1 months ago
That's pretty much the way I look when my thesis adviser explains stuff to me. "Right. Okay. Beta is a measure of detection bias. I am in control of this information."
radioelectric » neu 1 months ago
Hey, what are you studying?
greenkoolayd » neu 4 weeks ago
he is studying your mother.
nice-on-water » neu 4 weeks ago
He said without the faintest trace of irony.
hedonismbot » neu 4 weeks ago
His mother is often studied by students of statistical analysis.

Along with everyone else that owns a car.
shelbydavis » neu 4 weeks ago
I'm studying tactile processing... which, as it turns out, is grounds for even more innuendos than mom jokes.
radioelectric » neu 3 weeks ago
I'm studying visual processing, high-five!
granularsilica » neu 3 weeks ago
Kudos for handface of famous person icon .. Pope Paul?
radioelectric » neu 3 weeks ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Bailey
"Derek Bailey (January 29, 1930 %u2013 December 25, 2005) was an English avant-garde guitarist and leading figure in the free improvisation movement."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkEnrrnTiYw
nice-on-water » neu 3 weeks ago
Okay. I'm an open minded dude. I've gotten on board with Schoenberg, Captain Beefheart, the Residents, Sun City Girls, Caroliner, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, but this is just beyond that for me. He's not doing anything. He's just hitting random strings. Come on now.
radioelectric » neu 3 weeks ago
*sigh*, you're such a <i>square</i>.

His music takes a bit of a brain-shift to appreciate. The best entry-route is via his Ballads album, where he transforms a bunch of jazz standards into a fluid, continuous solo performance.

<a href = "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED_iX8JxkiE">Laura - Derek Bailey</a>

P.S. I'm off to see The Residents later this year, :-P
radioelectric » neu 3 weeks ago
Well, I guess HTML is NOT the answer.
nice-on-water » neu 3 weeks ago
It never was/is. But I will give this guy a shot.
mockereo » neu 2 weeks ago
I also followed that link and I don't think its anything i'll ever appreciate.

I appreciate the drummer, but I wish the guitarist would quit it. It sounds unfortunately like when i let my non-musical and also non-rhythmic friends play my guitars.

also ten minutes is a bit excessive for this sort of canoodling.
nice-on-water » neu 2 weeks ago
I agree with your agreement of me. It's alright when musical people go atonal because to sound bad good you have to know how to play good then play bad. But just not knowing and being bad bad is not good.
mockereo » neu 2 weeks ago
yeah there just wasn't enough music left in that to hold my interest. I can give some allowance to the atonal stuff that's interesting rhythmically, but this was not that listenable.
granularsilica » neu 3 weeks ago
Okay, the guitar strap looked like an embroidered collar at first.
shelbydavis » neu 3 weeks ago
nice decides to pursue a musical style based solely on the advice of a stranger. granular explains why he misunderstood a profile pic. html falls short, and life on assetbars continues as always.
nice-on-water » neu 3 weeks ago
ShelbyDavis was here.
shelbydavis » neu 3 weeks ago
Oh. Are YOU the one behind the "rb was here" buggery of late?
nice-on-water » neu 3 weeks ago
Ha. I have no way of knowing how to use computers ever.
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
I've known onions:
I've known onions ancient as the world and older than the
flow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the onions.
zapatos » neu 1 months ago
These are onions.
I know onions.
actualtaunt » neu 1 months ago
Whose onions these are, I think I know;
His sack is in the village, though
He will not see me stop and hear
This tape of Tony Robbins, bro!

My little otter thinks it queer
To stop without medallions near
While I consume this Whole Foods steak
And drink a fifty dollar beer.

He gives his little thong a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
My missed appointment makes him weep
To hear the whole foods guy's a flake.

The orgone box is dark and deep.
But I have appointments to keep,
And spuds to sell that won't be cheap,
And spuds to sell that won't be cheap.
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
I won't chubby this out of spite because no one recognized my Langston Hughes reference.

Aw hell, here ya go.
actualtaunt » neu 1 months ago
A contraire; I recognized your american poet, and I raised you an american poet.
You may choose to counter with... an american poet?
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
I must've missed it then, so whoops, my "B."
howl » neu 4 weeks ago
I did (shout out to my 8th grade language arts teacher)
nice-on-water » neu 4 weeks ago
Ah, language arts: the retarded cousin of english that no one talks about. "Reading class" is language arts' dead goldfish.
expellens » neu 1 months ago
That is amazing Ms. Robot Dance Party. All ryhming iambic tetrameter, and [aaba bbcb ccdc dddd] structure and such.

Ooooohh shiiiit!!!
hatstand_mcq » neu 1 months ago
I hope I am not too late for the 20th century American poetry/Achewood mashup. I have a submission.

Call the roller of fat jays
The tubby one, and bid him whip
Three egg yolks for the aioli.
Let the low dudes dawdle in such dress
As they are used to wear, and let the boys
Bring cold white wine and crispy stellas.
Let us hope the small bear does not start undressing.
The only emperor is the emperor of wasabi dressing.
smilebuddha » pro 1 months ago
I laugh sometimes when I think about
say
Cornelius at a typewriter
or Lyle...
or Ray...
ordinary animals with feet, ears, eyes,
ordinary animals with hair on their heads
sitting there typing words
while having difficulties with life
while being puzzled almost to madness.

Lyle gets up
he leaves the machine to piss,
comes back
drinks a fifth of Old Grand-Dad and thinks about
the football and
shoving it three feet.

Cornelius stops, gets up, walks to the
window, looks out, thinks, my last regular
at the Dude and Circumstance died today,
I won't have to murmur platitudes
to him again.
when I saw him last
he paid his tab up;
it's those who don't pay their bills,
they live on and on.
Cornelius walks back, sits down at the
machine
is still for a good two minutes
then begins to type.

Ray stands over his machine thinking,
I wonder if they are going to believe
all these things I write?
he sits down, begins to type.
he doesn't know what a writer's block
is:
he's a prolific son-of-a-bitch
damn near as magnificent as
the Chochacho Sun.
he types away.

and I laugh
not out loud
but all up and down these walls, these
dirty yellow and blue walls
Roast Beef asleep near the
table
hiding his eyes from the
light.

he's not alone tonight
and neither am
I.
capslock_annliv » pro 1 months ago
Droning a drowsy Tony Robbins tune,
Inanimate to a mellow croon,
I saw an onion learn.
Down on Via Vera the other night
By the bright white glare of Cadillac headlights
It laid there in a bag . . .
It laid there in a bag . . .
To the tune o' Awaken the Giant.
With its sienna roots dead out from the ground
It made that poor hipster spend her money.
Social awareness!
Rolling to and fro on a rickety table
It cost that sad hobo dude a seven-dollar toll
Sweet cash!
Coming from an American Curl%u2019s soul.
O Scratch!
In a deep song voice with a courageous tone
I heard that veggie sing, that old onion scream--
"Ain't got no knowledge in all this world,
Ain't got no care but for ma self.
I's gwine to quit bein%u2019 ignorant
And put ma self up on the shelf."
Thump, thump, thump, went dumb onions on the floor.
He played some chess then he screamed some more--
"I got the Cameroon Blues
And I can't be sold for cheap.
Got the BBC Blues
And can't be sold for cheap--
I ain't a dummy no mo'
And I wish that I was alive."
And far into the night he crooned %u2018bout Cameroon.
The choppers touched down and so did the Giant.
The onion stopped caring and went to bed
While the Political Blues echoed through his layers.
He slept like an onion or a man that's dead.
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
This Is Just To Say

I have eaten
the onions
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for dinner

Forgive me
they were delicious
so organic
and so knowledgeable
shelbydavis » neu 1 months ago
You do not do, you do not do
Any more, US News
From you I have read like a fool
For thirty minutes, dull and white,
Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.

Ray, I have had to read for you.
You dialed before I had time--
Marble-heavy, a box full of orgones,
A ghastly statue with one gray suit,
Big as a seven-dollar tuber.
notdavidbowie » neu 1 months ago
I've seen the onions of my generation
Read to in a bag by Tony Robbins.
hatstand_mcq » neu 1 months ago
The apparition of these faces in the crowd,
Onions in a wet brown bag.
nice-on-water » neu 4 weeks ago
Changing it up for some synergy here:

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was planted and what my lousy harvesting was like, and how my roots were occupied and all before they grew me, and all the self-improvement tapes I had to listen to and all that Farmer's Almanack kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, Tony Robbins and Ray would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them.
janeausten » neu 4 weeks ago
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a hipster in possession of their parents' income, must be in want of trendy vegetables.
However little known the feelings or views of such a hipster may be on his first entering a Whole Foods, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the marketers, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their product lines.
jamesjoyce » neu 4 weeks ago
Once upon a time and a very progressive time it was there was an onion coming down along the road and this onion that was coming down along the road met a nicens little otter named philippe.

Ray told him that story; Ray looked at him through sunglasses; he had a cat face.

He was Philippe. The onion came down the road where Teodor lived; he sold pot to Little Nephew.

O the words of Tony Robbins
On the little yellow onion.

He sang that song. That was his song.

O the worst of Tony's robins.

When you wet the bed first it is warm then it gets horrifying. Teodor lit a joint. That had a queer smell.
expellens » neu 4 weeks ago
Portrait of the Otter as a Young Cat
nice-on-water » neu 4 weeks ago
You're blowing my mind expellens.
falseprophet » pro 1 months ago
Philippe has been potty trained. He knows never to take a shit with a devil-may-care attitude.
woodenteeth » neu 1 months ago
God of fun 'round Ray's neck...
neonfreon » neu 1 months ago
Fellas, i'm sitting here listening to some music - the beatles rooftop concert - and i have this cat on my lap

the cat is all black - 100% black, and it acts like a dog - follows me on 3 mile walks etc

it's licking itself all over right now and I have never felt more strongly that Ray Smuckles is not a cat

I'm looking at him right now and i'm having to admit he looks a lot more like yogi bear with nipples than a fucking cat

My challenge to ACHEWOOD dedicated posters: post the jpegs of cats that more closely resemble Ray Smuckles than Yogi bear

neonfreon » neu 1 months ago
[IMGS OFF]
neonfreon » neu 1 months ago
Compare that to the first cat - it's clear that Ray Smuckles is a bear or at least a genetic mistake

[IMGS OFF]
lolsworth » neu 1 months ago
I have never seen a cat that looked more like Ray than that li'l guy.
emosexy » neu 1 months ago
Someone please lame him for me. I am supposedly too mean to do it. :(
mockereo » neu 3 weeks ago
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

clicking on that link is so fucking annoying. Don't. It makes your internet window jump around really fast and plays an audio clip that says "Hey everybody! I'm looking at gay porno!"

please people this to oblivion so the disease does not spread
ratacat » neu 3 weeks ago
too fuckin' hilarious. I have been bested. I thought for sure there was no more exploits in Asset Ghetto... yet at the same time I suspected I might be wrong... sure enough...

the non-malicious link would be this :
http://www.achewood.com/raysplace.php
lolsworth » neu 3 weeks ago
I can neither lame nor mark as spam. Had I known someone was going to post Last Measure I would have been more scrupulous. Damn.
edd36 » neu 1 months ago
It's the ears that make you think this but
[IMGS OFF]
edd36 » neu 1 months ago
Sorry, I meant to post THIS

[IMGS OFF]
wazza » neu 1 months ago
or this?

[IMGS OFF]
iduf » neu 1 months ago
Let's play "THE CAT IS SLOWLY EVOLVING INTO RAY"!

[IMGS OFF]
iduf » neu 1 months ago
Or "Mess up your BBcode".

[IMGS OFF]
autrepoupee » neu 1 months ago
you stay away from my son, ray the cat
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
aaaa ray the cat get away from me!
i_love_kate » neu 1 months ago
Ray the cat isn't allowed near public schools anymore.
hatstand_mcq » neu 1 months ago
Ray the Cat is not allowed near local schools.
Ray the Cat understands that what he did was very wrong.
Ray the Cat has served his prison sentence, and just wants to get on with his life.
A local mother is running a petition to get Ray the Cat removed from the area.
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
Ray the Cat is not cool with his past life decisions but hopes to make better ones now that he has help because life is hard and we all need a little bit of support from others.
Ray the Cat is no different.
Ray the Cat wants to be better.
Ray the Cat wants what we all want.
Ray the Cat is doing his best.
Ray the Cat is taking it one day at a time.
hatstand_mcq » neu 1 months ago
There once was a feline called Ray
Who behaved in a terrible way.
He succumbed to temptation,
So he's now on probation.
What was it that made him that way?
autrepoupee » neu 1 months ago
[IMGS OFF]
"Phillipe, what did I tell you about bringing girl's to our business meetings?"
wazza » neu 1 months ago
girl's what?
autrepoupee » neu 1 months ago
boobs
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
amen.
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
is that a defaced picture of david berkowitz(sp?)?
rowboat » pro 1 months ago
I was thinkin' Jim Jones.
un_malpaso » neu 1 months ago
Show me where Ray asked you to touch him on this stuffed kitty.
greenkoolayd » neu 4 weeks ago
'stuffed kitty' sounds like title of some nasty porno.
soup_alex » neu 4 weeks ago
I don't see it.

In the UK (and the Commonwealth?), a "stuffed kitty" could mean a jar full of money. But nobody would say "stuffed kitty".
varnish » neu 1 months ago
I don't like what you're doing here. I don't feel like I have a lot of outs.
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
Pilippe-Ray is the cutest thing since Philippe's bee costume MAYBE.
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
LET'S SPELL HIS NAME REALLY WRONG TODAY OKAY GUYS
lolsworth » neu 1 months ago
Misspelling Philippe I can understand. (is it two ells or two pees or both oh god I am not ready for this it makes no sense IT MAKES NO SENSE !) It's the people who keep calling Téodor "Téodore" and such that gets to me. It is the third most straightforward name (after "Ray" and "Beef") and what's more YOU ONLY EVER SEE IT WRITTEN DOWN. IT IS NOT LIKE THIS IS RADIO AND YOU HAVE TO GUESS AT HOW THE WORDS WOULD LOOK WHEN WRITTEN DOWN. WHAT THE HELL PEOPLE.
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
Also if you're unsure it's so much easier to spell T or Tacodor! COME ON PEOPLE THIS IS SIMPLE STUFF
wazza » neu 1 months ago
I think "Pat" and "Nice Pete" are more straightforward than "Teodor"
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
Secondary characters to Teodor's primary. Put your thinking brain on, boy, shit.
wazza » neu 1 months ago
you didn't specify that.
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
It shouldn't even have to be said. Shit, fool. Thinking brain. Invest in one.
mr-siegal » neu 1 months ago
Aisle brain, waz.
wazza » neu 1 months ago
I ain't in the business of mentally covering for your failings, dogg
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
Good thing I never fail mentally.
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
...and then you woke up and realized it was all a dream.
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
WAY TO MAKE FUN OF THE MENTALLY CHALLENGED
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
BOO GREENKOOLAYD BOOO
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
would it feel any better coming from your ladyfriend gladi? in surri ei dint misepll awll da werdz. hoo du yu fink yoo r?
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
Wait what?
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
it was a tantrum. pay no mind.
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
Oh.
actualtaunt » neu 1 months ago
i'm basically a shit dude but spelling things wrong isn't a thing of intent it is like i have not done it right and then it will not such as let me edit man its just the way man
lolsworth » neu 1 months ago
An edit function is sorely needed, this is entirely correct.
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
Is that what he was saying? I agree.
un_malpaso » neu 1 months ago
it's not a bug, it's a creature
quinlaenar » neu 1 months ago
I had to read this one twice to notice Philippe thought that a book about being successful was about a giant living in a mountain. Success on Onstad's part.
redmange » pro 1 months ago
Yes, yes, yes, I love where this is going, I am excited, this is good, this is what should be. This is what was meant to be. There was a time before this, but that time is gone, and we will never speak of it again. We will never again speak of the time before Rhillipe.
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
Ray-leep? Phil-ay. Filet! Good! Bad?
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
Phray.
mockereo » neu 1 months ago
THE MOST SUCCESSFUL FIVE YEAR OLD EVER
daidai » neu 1 months ago
Somewhere, the kid on the Life Cereal box is furious
pmbarrett » neu 1 months ago
everywhere he's furious. he peaked at five, on a cereal box, for the whole country to see.
mawk » neu 1 months ago
shame on that kid. it's too bad that life has made him idiotic.
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
Wishin' he died from them Pop Rocks and Coke but damned if God didn't have other plans. He liked Life; he must suffer through life.
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 months ago
You gots any fresh shreemp gumbo?
i_love_kate » neu 1 months ago
Philippe has no shoulders. My guess is that he stopped paying attention to the CD/onions as soon as he heard "be like someone you like!" and thence wandered off to begin carefully stapling that chain to his neck.
charchar » neu 1 months ago
I was about to make this comment and then I decided to see if it had been done.

GodDAMMIT, i_love_kate, you have ruined my day.
i_love_kate » neu 1 months ago
There is no silver medal in knife fighting, but there is a consolation chubby in this.
miaou » neu 1 months ago
I gave this comment a lol.
puguglypress » neu 1 months ago
I think he actually became a success and got a high-paying job in that time just to impress Ray
stereo » neu 1 months ago
I figure like a false beard, it's just hooked behind his ears or something.
taiga81 » neu 3 weeks ago
not to be a subscriber dick, but in the extra content was a diagram of the setup, a rosary from his mom glued to some reading glasses, because "he's not a 'shoulders-type guy'
greenkoolayd » neu 3 weeks ago
it is extraordinary to be able to be a dick without trying.
taiga81 » neu 3 weeks ago
sorry mom, sorry dad, sorry greenkoolayd
greenkoolayd » neu 3 weeks ago
i meant in general. the combination of words you posted did not offend me.
carrett » neu 1 months ago
Speaking of onions, is there presently any way to purchase the Achewood cookbooks? They're out of stock here and on Amazon and I really want them.
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
bla bla bla $10k up front bla bla bla
zapatos » neu 1 months ago
Man I ordered the CookBook II six months ago. I still do not have my copy.

I did get the kick-ass limited edition Phillipe Pint Glass though!
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
i have heard this complaint from others, as well. i have yet to buy the first one.
platnmplus » pro 1 months ago
Is it just me or does it look like when he puts on the sunglasses, Philippe is as bald as Suge Knight (sans cigar)?

[IMGS OFF]
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
phillippe is considerably less menacing. and hes covered in fur, so i wouldnt consider him bald.
platnmplus » neu 1 months ago
I wonder if the chain Suge's wearing there is a cross or a medallion...
mawk » neu 1 months ago
Two Rays. One is five. The other is not.
miaou » neu 1 months ago
Two Rays. One is a cat. The otter is not.
mawk » neu 1 months ago
reading this, I felt simultaneous jollity and nausea, as if while the rest of me was laughing, my central organs were straining to escape from a world in which such puns could be stated so casually.

I believe anyone who can expertly give rise to such an amalgam of emotion deserves at least a chubby for technique -- a "technichubby," if you will, although you won't.
pmbarrett » neu 1 months ago
miaou and the amazing technichubby dream-post.
pmbarrett » neu 1 months ago
sorry everybody
stonecrab » neu 4 weeks ago
Don't apologize. I kind of lol-ed!
un_malpaso » neu 1 months ago
Oh, I will. I give out chubbies like Alec Baldwin gives out Glengarry leads. You want them, and you can't have them. And this comment made me curse my unborn children for having a father who was so clever yet failed... failed to see the otter pun. May Moe have mercy on my soul.
quinlaenar » neu 1 months ago
Every single one of Philippe's first eight words have a punctuation mark after them.

Food for thought.
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
regarding dialogue, phillippe is the anti-roast beef.
hatstand_mcq » neu 1 months ago
That's a very good observation. You obviously have an eye for these things. Have you considered the high flying world of being an English student?
theirateturk » neu 1 months ago
Best comic in months

Don't like the repetition of little massive man though
hedonismbot » neu 1 months ago
Neither did she
i_love_kate » neu 1 months ago
Little Massive Man

the astonishing debut single

from

M.U.M.ford & tha $onzzzz
gladi8orrex » neu 1 months ago
lol isnt dat teh guy whose gf got her snatch swarmed on by teh bassball team?
granularsilica » neu 1 months ago
I thought we buried that. Oh well.
gladi8orrex » neu 1 months ago
buried that like a penis in ir8trucks gf's clam, maybe
mrchuckletrouzd » neu 4 weeks ago
It felt intentional, though. There is humor in Ray immediately creating a pet name for Phillipe that he wants to use multiple times in his joy and surprise. It's not as if it's a repetition which could be noticed by any old ''Guest2625'' but not the brilliant author.

Besides, real people are very repetitive.

SUBTLE CHARACTERIZATION.

ALSO: 2625; anybody?
neonfreon » neu 3 weeks ago
The height of the Burj Dubai, the recently opened tallest building in the world.
pumpinpedal » neu 1 months ago
I totally love this.
falseprophet » pro 1 months ago
Business Deals Are Like Basketball

I am there

And the client is there

And it is just the two of us

And I put the client in my limo

And then I am the winner.

crom » neu 1 months ago
[IMGS OFF]
doppelganger » neu 1 months ago
It's really just a place to jerk off.
cracklewater » neu 1 months ago
THIS IS THE BOX WHERE THE ORGONES SHALL ACCUMULATE
plummet » neu 1 months ago
Oh my God

this

this is AWESOME

gladi8orrex » neu 1 months ago
azn fact: alotta them need glasses. waaay too many glass

azn fact: they have they kids learn classical instruments (piano, mostly chinese)

that is jus' somea the things i know abot slopes. thx for listlinin
plummet » neu 1 months ago
gj bruv, you get a chubbie
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
they make rad food. chinese food is the shit.
plummet » neu 1 months ago
BRO TIP: the chinese food you get in Chinese-American restaurants is not real chinese food.

Authentic chinese food has chicken feet and gizzards and heads and other fun things
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
duh. chinese people make it, so i call it chinese food.
i_love_kate » neu 1 months ago
When actually Chinese-American peole make it, so you should probably just go ahead and call it Chinese-American food.

The key difference between Chinese-American food and Chinese-British food is the profusion of hilarious inappropriate faux-British pet names that you recieve in response to your order.
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
what is a faux-british pet name?
stereo » neu 1 months ago
Guv'nah, chum, mate, the whole rozzle tov.
hatstand_mcq » neu 1 months ago
I assume that i_love_kate is talking about the way that terms of address which sound natural in the voice of a white northern barmaid in her fifties (love, pet, chuck etc.) sound rather different, although still very charming, when spoken by a young Cantonese girl who is taking your order for Beef in black bean sauce. I remember being very amused when I heard a Sikh cabbie in Glasgow call my sister 'hen' in a thick Punjabi accent.
i_love_kate » neu 1 months ago
I am glad that there are people on this board who are not completely overcome by my incoherent babblings.
i_love_kate » neu 1 months ago
So I am.
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
[[nod]] when i see 'faux-british pet name', i think of the phrase 'faux-dago sexuality'. im sure it is because they are constructed similarly.
gladi8orrex » neu 1 months ago
Mustard: a common spice foraged from the roots of the mustard plant. oftren uset in amercian quizine. (i.e, frankfarts, hambrugers, french frys, 'junior' tacos, sammichs.)

i oslo got food facts. i no a lil abot alot an thast okay
wazza » neu 1 months ago
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Gladi8orrex is dangerous in many ways.
shelbydavis » neu 1 months ago
Alexander Pope's all, "drink deep, or taste not the Pierian--" and Gladi's all "Fuck yeah man, gimme a swig a that."
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
how does a 'junior taco' differ from a 'taco'?
mockereo » neu 1 months ago
but the most important member of the taco family is definitely the Macatacahodo 360
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
that is the coolest name for a foodstuff that i have ever heard.
wazza » neu 1 months ago
I made myself a plate of those last year. They were... filling.
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
i bet they make your poops mad sturdy, yo.
hedonismbot » neu 1 months ago
(pre-apology)

One is legal, the other is not.
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
Maybe you should've gotten us a pre-pre-apology.
un_malpaso » neu 1 months ago
junior taco only has to do 3 to 5 and can ditch probation
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
Chinese-Scottish has been nothing but a delight so far, thank you very much.
tekende » neu 1 months ago
Depends where you go. Yeah, Super China King Buffet or whatever ain't very Chinese. But most of the nicer sit-down places tend to be more authentic.

There's a place here called Dot Wo. I ate there a while back with my family and a couple of visitors from China (parents of an exchange student who stayed with my grandparents a couple years ago). I asked one of the visitors if the food we were eating was about like what they eat at home or if it was more Americanized and he said it was about the same.

To be fair, he didn't speak English really well so it's possible he didn't know what I was saying. I don't know.
gladi8orrex » neu 1 months ago
he was bein' polite bro. dint wanna damage ur views on stuff he was prob like 'man dis guaylo aint never come to fatherland. the fuck i mess up his enjoyment of a dish. i'll jus' lie to 'em. hope he d8s my daughter'
mockereo » neu 1 months ago
please tell me you learned "guaylo" from Fast and the Furious : Tokyo Drift. thats where i learned it.
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
so thats like an asian equivalent of the word "gringo", right?
wazza » neu 1 months ago
I thought it was the Tau word for human soldiers

it's spelled Gue'la, by the way
plummet » neu 1 months ago
For Chinese, it's Gwailo, yes

for Japanese, if they call you a Gaijin they are basically calling you a nigger in their own language
fineoakstructure » neu 1 months ago
I always saw it written as "gwei lo" when I lived in Hong Kong in my youth, but it doesn't really matter.

General translation was "white devil".
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
r u azn? or did you grow up in a military family?
fineoakstructure » neu 1 months ago
Neither.

sup u got smthng aganst milatary cuz i gotz r-me peepz

no srsly tho im rme of won
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
nuh, dud, muh yonger bruh id in teh r-me. have mad respek 4 da miletairi doodz en chiks, reguardlezz.
puguglypress » neu 1 months ago
i misread that as "miletairi doodz en chinks", which would have tied the discussion together quite nicely.
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
Them japs sure are racist.
i_love_kate » neu 3 weeks ago
Gaijin is a perfectly acceptable term in many situations. It just means foreign person.

Don't go spreadin' hate, Plummet.
gladi8orrex » neu 4 weeks ago
i learn quailo form balls of fury cuz m that kinda smart
hedonismbot » neu 1 months ago
I'm going to sidestep this white devil stuff to jump up and down while clapping. I ate at Dot Wo all the time in high school. I've spent a good deal of time in Beijing lately, and I can say the Dot Wo menu is fairly accurate, if a little limited. Pei Wei is not at all Chinese.

Next time you are at Dot Wo, ask them to get you my special chair. Doing so gets you a 10% discount and trouble walking properly.
smilebuddha » pro 4 weeks ago
You mean the chair that...{i]boned you[/i]?
smilebuddha » neu 4 weeks ago
Up your ass, brackets. Up you ass to hell.
smilebuddha » neu 4 weeks ago
This thread is rapidly falling apart, so I'll note this and take off.
hedonismbot » neu 4 weeks ago
Seriously man. I was just saying something pleasant about watching tekende eat and recommending he be sodomized with a chair I have, and then you come in and make it all weird.
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
He's right, though.
mawk » neu 1 months ago
man, glass. ha ha. you have no idea.
odog » neu 1 months ago
I smell a wonderful story arc. Just when I started to think Chris Onstad was entering a cycle of repetition that any artist can fall into, he comes up with a new twist on the whole Whole Foods thing. I'm glad it's not just Ray being a badass about being a businessman and Ray being snarky about having bad ideas.

Good for you Onstad.
aristagoras » neu 1 months ago
"It's where I win. Watch." made me laugh out loud, which few comic strips out there have made me do of late (except Tony Millionaire, he always makes me laugh out loud and then feel awful for doing so).
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
UNCLE GABBY LOOK DOOK DOOK DOOK BLAUAHGUAHAGH SLICE SPURT SPURT WAAAAUUGGGH ::pun::

Always works for me.
nice-on-water » neu 1 months ago
I forgot AMAZING ART, it goes between the slice and the spurt.
plummet » neu 1 months ago
*dook dook dook*

I think it is rad to have alcoholism
miku224 » neu 3 weeks ago
DOOK might be my favorite sound effect. Its use establishes what kind of a comic it's going to be very very quickly.
sprkfv39 » neu 3 weeks ago
Between the slice and the spurt falls the AMAZING ART.
un_malpaso » neu 1 months ago
I agree, but I hate the smell of arc in the morning. It smells like... closure.
aristagoras » pro 1 months ago
Good stuff overall. Panel Eight should be a tattoo.
hatstand_mcq » neu 1 months ago
Wow. That would be extremely creepy to anyone who did not read Achewood. That would be horrible. Imagine seeing that picture engraved on someones flesh and having no idea what it meant. Your reptile brain would be screaming at you to smash the tattooee in the face with a pint pot and run for the hills. Other poor Achewood tattoo choices would be Teodor in a black unitard massaging his 'goooood tiiiiits' and Ray rising out of the trash can with his bad tasting cookies. On the other hand, Pat's rock hard cat cock would probably be quite forgivable, thanks to its exuberant and joyful rudeness.
mawk » neu 1 months ago
as a general rule, I do not think tattoos should contain speech bubbles.
plummet » neu 1 months ago
I have a tattoo on the tip of my penis, near the urethra. It is a speech-bubble saying, Put me in your Vagina!
wazza » neu 1 months ago
totally not worth the agony of having a needle repeatedly driven into your glans.
plummet » neu 1 months ago
by agony you mean sweet ecstasy I presume
mockereo » neu 1 months ago
i gave this a chubby because the thought of it GAVE me a chubby!
mr-siegal » neu 1 months ago
True story:

At a pharmacy I worked in a young man asked an assistant for something for a mouth ulcer. The assistant asked to see the ulcer so that she could recommend an approppriate product. The patient initially refused, but on the assistant's insistance opened his mouth. Tattood on the inside of his bottom lip was "sit here."
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 months ago
well that's a novel pickup line
un_malpaso » neu 1 months ago
as a general rule, I do not like tattoos placed on any mucous membrane
dusty » pro 1 months ago
The The E-Onion Inspire, with Tony Robbins and Karl Lagerfeld. Yours for only $7 at Zales Foods.
gladi8orrex » neu 1 months ago
karl legerfeld? i love.
xi » neu 1 months ago
That's the cutest thiggity thing I ever did see.
srikamaraja » neu 1 months ago
PHILIPPE. IS. MASSIVE.
sdskyle » neu 1 months ago
I was kinda hopin Philippe would want to become a bike messenger and maybe he would get a fixie and some skinny jeans and wear glasses like Lyle...
plummet » neu 1 months ago
NO. NO.

DO NOT SPOIL A BEAUTIFUL THING.

Onstad is on the fucking ball right now and I will not have you push him off
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
fuck you, asshole! dont you EVER blaspheme on my assetbar again! i will cut you a third asshole.
neonfreon » neu 1 months ago
good posts
granularsilica » neu 4 weeks ago
Yes, it took days before a penis tattoo was mentioned.
neonfreon » neu 1 months ago
good non posts
mr_november » neu 1 months ago
Phillipe's eyebrows in panel two clearly indicate he is ready for a situation involving onions in a sack.
steerpike66 » neu 1 months ago
That look of incredulity in P2 is simply wonderful.
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
Garfield: First Blood

A tale of adventure, passion and romances!

It was a sunny day when Garfield was practicing Tai Chi on the roof top to harness his inner strength when he heard panic.

%u201CGarfield there is panic!%u201D Said Jon Arbuckle.

%u201CStop behaving like woman, Jon Arbuckle, what is the matter?%u201D Scolded Garfield as he put on his members only jacket.

%u201CNatalie Portman has been kidnapped you must come to the rescue!%u201D Said Jon Arbuckle with bone chilled eyes.

%u201CWHAT.?!%u201D Said Garfield as he bolted down the stairs with speed of a buffalo hoard.

Garfield switched on the tv showing Natalie Portman taken captive by vampire gangsters.

%u201CHelp Garfield, I am being taken captive by vampire gangsters!%u201D Cried Natalie Portman in hysterically.

%u201CHAHA Garfield!, We demand the blood Bank of USA give us 600 million gallons of blood, all in one hundred dollar bills or else we will be making evening breakfast out of Natalie Portman!%u201D Said the head Vampire Gangster with menace.

%u201CThe only deposit being made will be yours!%u201D Said Garfield with triumph, while shooting the tv in anger with his Desert Eagle.

%u201CGarfield what will you do?%u201D Asked John Arbuckle with audacity.

%u201CA man must do what he must do I will rescue Natalie Portman with these hands.%u201D Said Garfield fist clenched with justice.

Garfield strutted to his closet where he took his steak firing machine gun. He then hopped into his ALL AMERICAN four wheeled pick up truck.

%u201CGarfield let me come with you%u201D said John Arbuckle with intent.

%u201CNo you must stay, if I do not return in 24 hours call Tiger Woods.%u201D (Timely Joke)

%u201CThat was a timely joke Garfield.%u201D Said John Arbuckle, getting his joke.

Garfield than drove off into the thickness of summer night, determined to deliver justice through personal delivery.

When driving, Garfield turned on the radio for inspirational music.

%u201CHere is inspirational music for Garfield so that he may save the day again.%u201D Said the DJ.

The DJ started playing heart thumping rocking music to pump Garfield up.

%u201CThis is the beat to my groove.%u201D Said Garfield as he let himself get pumped.

As Garfield drove he saw a kid taking drugs and ruining his life. Garfield was enraged by the waste of the youth and ran him over with his pickup truck.

%u201CDrugs are for dopes go back to education!%u201D Said Garfield.

%u201CYes you are right Garfield.%u201D Said the kid who stopped doing drugs and went back to school for degrees.

Garfield than arrived at the vampire warehouse where the vampire gangsters held their Natalie Portman. Garfield notices there was a vampire gangster guarding the entrance.

%u201COh, no its Garfield I must make alarm!%u201D Said the vampire gangster.

%u201CThe only alarm you will be making is in hell!%u201D Said Garfield as he shot the vampire gangster in the chest with his Desert Eagle.

%u201CHA Garfield! Vampires can only be killed with steaks and suns!%u201D Said the vampire gangster.

%u201CFool my bullets are made of suns.%u201D Said Garfield with astrophysics.

%u201COh no I am dead!%u201D Said the stupid vampire gangster as he burned away.

Garfield lit a cigarette on the burning vampire and continued his mission. During exploration, Garfield encountered two other vampire gangsters guarding a room.

%u201CHere is a prime rib meal ready for serving!%u201D Quipped Garfield as he shot the vampire gangsters to their deaths with his steak gun.

Garfield than bursted into the room seeing the Natalie Portman captured with the menacing vampire gangster leader her at her side.

%u201CHaha Garfield you have entered a trap! Look around you are surrounded!%u201D Said the Vampire Gangster leader.

Garfield looked around him seeing vampire gangsters all around, closing in, when Garfield heard a familiar voice.

%u201CAMAKOOOO%u201D

John Arbuckle crashed in from the ceiling with his two golden revolvers daftly firing all around at the vampire gangsters.

%u201CThank you for my back up John Arbuckle, I was in a pit of danger%u201D Said Garfield with sternness.

%u201CNo problem, you have gotten me out of more jam than I can remember.%u201D Said John Arbuckle.

%u201CThe jig is up Vampire Gangster, time to face the face of justice.%u201D Said Garfield with justice coming out of his eyes and ears.

%u201COh no Garfield I have a terrible secret to unveil!%u201D Said the vampire gangster as he ripped off his face to reveal that he was really Odie!

%u201COdie how could you.%u201D Said John Arbuckle.

%u201CAfter all the adventure and bonding we shared you have fallen into criminality?%u201D Said Garfield with disappointment.

%u201CYes Garfield I am tired of you having all the glory and women. No more this time the glory and women will be my own!%u201D Said Odie with bitter triumph.

%u201COdie I thought you were a man but you are just a mutt.%u201D Said Garfield with sadness in his heart.

%u201CYou do not have the heart to kill me Garfield so say your good byes to your precious Natalie Portman!%u201D Leered Odie with evil.

%u201CYou are forgetting one thing Odie, you may have drawn first blood, but I always draw last.%u201D Said Garfield with cool style as he shot Odie with his Desert Eagle.

%u201CNOOOO%u201D Said Odie as he staggered and fell out of the window into acid.

Garfield went to the tied up Natalie Portman and freed her swiftly.

%u201CThank you Garfield I am forever in debt.%u201D Said Natalie Portman with love to Garfield.

%u201CNo problem babe I liked you in Space Balls, now lets dance a sexy tango.%u201D Said Garfield.

%u201CThank you for complimenting my acting.%u201D Said Natalie Portman with gratitude.

So after Garfields gracious compliments they both danced a sexy tango and got all tens.

%u201CWow Garfield you are great dancer are you doing anything tonight?%u201D Said Natalie Portman.

%u201CI am now, I will take to four stars restaurant called Olive Garden it has food of one of a kind taste.%u201D Said Garfield with class.

%u201CThat sounds delicious and romantic.%u201D Said Natalie Portman with romance on her mind.

With these words Garfield and Natalie Portman rode to Olive Garden on a black stallion with wind flowing through their hair.

The End??
teezee » neu 1 months ago
Never thought the day would come to use this, especially on assetbar, but:

%u201CTL;DNR%u201D
mr-siegal » neu 1 months ago
Unfortunately I did. Yours was the better choice.
ratacat » neu 1 months ago
it was pretty good. it had the style of when Philipe writes on the typewriter
stereo » neu 4 weeks ago
I think I liked this joke better when Hark! A Vagrant did it.
nice-on-water » neu 4 weeks ago
Go back to education. Oh, but it stings.
i_love_kate » neu 4 weeks ago
I won't lie. I loled.
neonfreon » neu 4 weeks ago
[IMGS OFF]
dongleaid » neu 4 weeks ago
New here. Is there a posting protocol i should know about?

[IMGS OFF]
notdavidbowie » neu 4 weeks ago
When in doubt, make an obscure cultural/intellectual reference.
granularsilica » neu 4 weeks ago
Play nice, don't start fights, learn the buzz words and key Achewood quotes, such as "Those knives!" and "You mean your mom that I boned?"
gladi8orrex » neu 4 weeks ago
'those knifes?' wtf you twokin' abot yuou piecea shit. fuck you

678 999 8212 call me we set up a match. u bitchass prob wont call tho.
plummet » neu 4 weeks ago
yoooooooo bro

you wan exchng no.s? we shoud party
gladi8orrex » neu 4 weeks ago
no doubt
granularsilica » neu 4 weeks ago
Umm, Okay, it's "these knives." (Shit)

Achewood - December 7, 2001

[[Téodor and Lyle are sitting on the sofa watching TV. Both are holding drinks and there is a bottle of liquor between them.]] / Téodor: Hey, that actually seems like a pretty good knife set. / Lyle: Wow, 10 knives for $19.99?!
Téodor: A 50-YEAR guarantee, dude! / Lyle: It FELL through that onion, man.
[[Both punching the air].] / Téodor: "These knives can do anything! Just ask...Baby Jesus!" / Lyle: Your basal nervous system wants these knives!
[[Both standing up with their arms in the air]] / Téodor: Oooh, these knives! / Lyle: I think my heart's explodin'! THESE KNIVES!

http://achewood.com/index.php?date=12072001
soup_alex » neu 4 weeks ago
It's okay, granularsilica. I just thought that you were aiming to get someone to reply with "you mean THESE KNIVES?!"

I would have, but I was afraid that gladi8orrex might beat me up.
granularsilica » neu 4 weeks ago
His convoluted iconography can be intimidating, if you can read it.
mockereo » neu 4 weeks ago
Like a boss
scorpio_nadir » neu 4 weeks ago
Demonstrating the self-defense technique of Glad Maga which he teaches to the military of Bumfuqistan, our expert will leg-sweep the safety walker out from under this old person, causing him to fall and break his hip.
nice-on-water » neu 4 weeks ago
Gladi will FUCK you the FUCK up you dumb JIVE ASS MOTHER FUCKER.
granularsilica » neu 4 weeks ago
Sounds painful.
plummet » neu 4 weeks ago
Imitating Groucho Marx will net you a thousand chubbies
i_love_kate » neu 4 weeks ago
Imitating another member of the board with your avatar will make everyone feel slightly uncomfortable when reading or responding to your posts.
plummet » neu 4 weeks ago
Posting lengthy sexual fanfiction will make everyone feel slightly uncomfortable about browsing Assetbar at work. </