ALT TEXT: I hope to god we see more Sidney Yamahata.
straw » neu2 years ago
:sigh: It was my first and last alt-text posting. Still, I am glad that they are no longer necessary.
gussiejives » neu2 years ago
I will say that Sidney Yamahata looks like a deranged Mr. Belvedere.
Although Mr. Belvedere is already pretty deranged.
tekende » pro2 years ago
According to our new arrival, at least.
spectre » pro1 years ago
Please, God, no. Even in his clothes he is too ugly.
biznart » neu1 years ago
I see what you did there. And I enjoy it.
randombeing » neu2 years ago
I'm enjoying this week's run of strips perhaps more than I should. I'm secretly amused half to death by lolcats.com.
veck » neu2 years ago
I'm horrified that it's been Achewood that's introduced me to such a thing.
equinn2006 » pro2 years ago
I am beginning to fear a Beef reprisal here, possibly a dis-invitation to a certain civil union. At least, that's how it's going on in THIS cool cat's brain!
projectyl » neu2 years ago
Why did Ray have Roane Shaughnessy in his autocomplete list? Does he frequently contact Roane with "craaazy shit they oughta put on the damn news"? If so, why is Roane still fairly cordial to Ray here?
Time will tell, unless it doesn't.
closefriend » pro2 years ago
Well, Roane is obviously a human and he thinks Ray is one, so they can't know each other that well unless Roane has an Underground VIP pass.
equinn2006 » neu2 years ago
I feel like the unknown reason Roane and Ray have corresponded previously is the sweet bonus joke atop the larger main joke of the strip. This subtle complexity is what Achewood is all about to me. Who says a comic strip should have one focus?
featurelessvoid » neu2 years ago
Ray has hell of news producers in his autocomplete list. A mogul gots to know how to work the press.
zeroasalimit » neu2 years ago
You think they don't put Rays ideas of heads been blown off in the news?
varnish » pro2 years ago
You'll see Sidney Yamahata again. You see him everytime you turn on the local access news station. It doesn't matter where you are.
silver_lake » pro2 years ago
Truer words were never asset-bar'd. Chby.
snoozebar » pro2 years ago
I can't help but think LOLAchewood might be the stake in this meme's black, pulsing, adorable heart.
silver_lake » neu2 years ago
Yeah, if Onstad hadn't written everything they'd copied in the first place.
lateadopter » neu2 years ago
Onstad also wrote the Volvo of Despair, so he's copying his old material, too. What makes these fun is the references to old story arcs where it is actually appropriate to say the cat was in the place doing the thing. (Plus, the involvement of real cartoon cats).
"I'm in your crate, judging your badasses."
toughasnails001 » neu2 years ago
Let's not start with this. Please.
lateadopter » neu2 years ago
Start what? Several people seem to have thought I was dissing the quality of Onstad's work, when really I was praising some of the stuff other folks have posted here. A clarification was in order.
"I'm in your box, waiting to die with all the other children."
tekende » pro2 years ago
I'm in ur sister's house, bonin' ur brother-in-law
afterward » neu1 years ago
"im in ur dumbwaiter, packin hot lunches"
Sorry.
gowerski » neu2 years ago
im feeling more and more bad for mr beef.
duskbringer » neu2 years ago
Autocomplete sure can be a blessing or a curse. A blurse, if you will.
lacrimus » pro2 years ago
I believe I will.
philosophe » pro2 years ago
Nice portmanteau!
madnes » pro2 years ago
Nice use of "portmanteau"!
umbra » neu2 years ago
I'd even say it's a Natalie Portmanteau
dropkickpikachu » neu2 years ago
You might just call that a Natmanteau.
nigelchaos » pro2 years ago
This thread ate my chubbies~!
philosophe » pro2 years ago
Batmanteau?
lugosh » neu1 years ago
Would that be referring to his cowl/cape ensemble?
spicyponyhead » neu11 months ago
or a portmantard.
rogergs » neu2 years ago
Sidney doesn't get that someone who would pick up a reference to "Cat 5" would not need to be informed of the lolcats phenomenon.
tekende » neu1 years ago
I do not understand the Cat 5 thing. Not one bit.
featurelessvoid » neu2 years ago
Someone has anonymously registered channel7kacw.com in the short time since this cartoon was posted. Congratulations to the mystery web-person.
Do either of these meet your criteria or is "dead guy" a retroactive thing with you
I do not know if retroactive is the word I should be using but you GET IT
katsura » neu2 years ago
There was also that Steven character in the early strips, right? You know, the moons over my hammy guy.
equinn2006 » neu2 years ago
As well as Mr. George Micheal's implied fornication with a certain robot.
http://achewood.com/index.php?date=07252006
tekende » neu1 years ago
That's a really good one!
padijun » pro2 years ago
Saddest thing: I've actually seen a spot about this on my local news :(
songbirdspectre » pro2 years ago
they had an entire 3 page article in our local paper.
methadone » neu2 years ago
when did ray even take this picture?
songbirdspectre » pro2 years ago
good question. i thought he was too depressed to take photos when they were in the volvo of despair.
judahnielsen » pro2 years ago
Not only that, but Ray was nowhere near beef when he applied the shoe polish.
gussiejives » neu2 years ago
Magic realism works in mysterious ways.
dhinson » neu2 years ago
I reckon he downloaded it from www.achewood.com
So pomo...
professorhazard » neu2 years ago
Perhaps it was taken by a traffic cam.
jujubeesforjesus » con2 years ago
Here here. These could be guest strips.
jujubeesforjesus » neu2 years ago
Sorry, 'almost' be guest strips. Needs to be a gosh dang edit on this here forum.
straw » neu2 years ago
So I suppose all those brilliant references to Wikipedia and eBay don't count, then?
autrepoupee » neu2 years ago
There is a difference between referencing the 'internet' (Wikipedia, eBay) and referencing 'internet culture' (lolcats, other memes). That being said, I think these strips were both quite funny. I usually hate references for reference-sakes, but this fits in with the Achewood universe pretty squarely. Ya see, theys cats, and theys funny!
straw » neu2 years ago
I agree. I think that lolachewood is as relevant as Ray thinking he's jerking around an e-mail con artist. lolcats mixed with Achewood seems like a natural fit just as Ray thinking he knows his internet.
grayfox » neu2 years ago
Referencing memes, especially one with relation to 4chan is basically scraping the bottom of the barrel. Granted I do loves me some lolcats.
jujubeesforjesus » neu2 years ago
The issue is not referencing 'the real world' (if lolcats can even be included in that category) but rather the quality of the reference. Keith Moon's head in a jar? Weird, unexpected, and clever. An online comic strip about the latest internet fad? Obvious, lazy and unclever. Vive la difference.
neonfreon » neu2 years ago
also
CALLS CALLS CALLS, CALLS FROM THE PUBLIC!
I'd say that the average caller on sifl and olly was much more intelligent than the average poster on assetbar
jujubeesforjesus » neu2 years ago
Yes. Sifl and Olly is the best thing that no one knows ever happened to television.
The forum most often brings to mind either the Mexican Jumping Bean Bag guy or mr Crescent Fresh. Its just so crescent...
neonfreon » neu2 years ago
i found a 4 hour youtube collection of sifl and olly episodes the other day
loaded up the pipe, had some good times
phoenixultima » neu2 years ago
ROCK!
jujubeesforjesus » neu2 years ago
I have the entire series on boot leg DVD. Its a truly wondrous thing.
apocowarg » pro10 months ago
I will pay you money for making me a copy of that.
I am completely serious.
phoenixultima » neu2 years ago
lolcats is cool, though, plus it's at least tangentially related to achewood (because they be cats n' shit). It's not like they're doing a strip about All Your Base.
jujubeesforjesus » neu2 years ago
This does not seem to me a particularly meaningful distinction.
farqussus » neu2 years ago
By this rationale Garfield is cool.
hardcorebrat » pro2 years ago
Thank you Mr Onstad, now my boyfriend is a bigger nerd then ever thanks to finding lolcats.
grayfox » neu2 years ago
He obviously isn't a very big nerd if he only found out about lolcats from Achewood.
moraiat » neu2 years ago
AND! If he has a girlfriend.
aperson » neu2 years ago
"Off to production!"
Roane Shaughnessy is a game lass.
riazm » neu2 years ago
She sends rich text emails. Plaintext is for newspaper journalists.
tekende » neu1 years ago
For some reason "Off to production!" really annoys me. It makes me hate Roane Shaughnessy despite the fact that she is not real.
monsterboy » pro2 years ago
I read yesterdays all wrong I thought Ray was all shamed for posting himself and getting caught!
I mean cats posting LOLcats is pretty counterproductive kinda like being Samuel L. Jackson!
augeno13 » neu2 years ago
that.
is.
awesome.
aperson » neu2 years ago
Enjoy my derivative 'humour' while it lasts. One more disapproving reader will consign it to oblivion...
paperboy_2000 » pro2 years ago
It is awesome. At first, I thought it migh be a haiku:
I AM IN UR BASE
RAIN FALLS AND WHITE DOVES SCATTER
IM KILLING UR DOODS
aperson » neu2 years ago
That is so evocative. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Railgun.
nigelchaos » pro2 years ago
Damnit. I ran out of chubbies.
philosophe » pro2 years ago
Wait... that isn't what happened? RB was disappointed in him and now he's trying to cover it over.
thicker » neu2 years ago
When and why would the photo of Beef in this situation have been taken?
rlauriston » neu2 years ago
Ray's computer must by like George Burns's TV:
http://achewood.com/index.php?date=05252005
plezure » neu2 years ago
The Bill Gates Address was delayed due to a Roast Beef rampage at the studio.
hifitoy » neu2 years ago
I haz no feelin. Luvz strip.
mrcool1122 » pro2 years ago
KACW;
K-Achewood?
stevepants » neu2 years ago
hahaha...roast beef on the news...yesss
overmedicated » neu2 years ago
Todays effort could've ended at panel 2 and given me the same laugh, if I'm frank.
(From Wikipedia) A lolcat is an image macro featuring a photograph of a cat with a humorous and idiosyncratic caption. The name "lolcat" is a compound of lol and cat.[1][2] lolcats are also referred to as cat macros.[3] lolcats are created for photo sharing imageboards and other internet forums, especially on Saturdays ("Caturdays").[4] lolcats are similar to other animal-based image macros such as the O RLY? owl,[5] but the cuteness of cats "enhances"[6] the appeal and increasing prominence[7][8][9] of the Internet meme. lolcats are examples of anthropomorphism. Common graphical themes include cats holding invisible objects.[6]
straw » neu2 years ago
I want to know what's so uncute about owls. Is it that they sometimes eat cats? Does that subtract from the mean cuteness?
grayfox » neu2 years ago
O RLY?
estutius » pro2 years ago
Why can't I give myself lames?
notcool » neu10 months ago
VER RLY.
philosophe » pro2 years ago
Owl pellets are voted #1 factor in decreasing owl cuteness.
philosophe » pro2 years ago
Tonight at 11.
slanger » neu2 years ago
OWLLZ R CUTEN UP UR ACHEWUD BRD, ROCKN THR PELLETZ. (Tonight, after Will and Grace)
tetsujin » neu2 years ago
You know, people criticize Wikipedia for bad or unreliable information - but worse still is the bad -writing-. When a bunch of people get together to collaborate on writing a -single paragraph- it shows - especially when some of the major contributors are verbal slobs.
steerpike66 » neu2 years ago
This is true in many cases but usually not on authoritative wiki pages about big serious things. The idea that a page about something as ephemeral and futile as lolcats should be meticulously written and researched seems pointless and awful to me, like a glorious epic poem about Rosie O Donnell.
darthemed » neu2 years ago
Have you seen the Batman page? It is a featured article.
steerpike66 » neu2 years ago
Batman is not ephemeral trash; he is one of about five of the most iconic fictional American Noir characters of the 20th century, like Philip Marlowe, and has proven his popularity and durability for 50 years. He is not an lolcat.
rogergs » neu2 years ago
lolcatwoman
neonfreon » neu2 years ago
IM IN UR COMIC BUHK
BOOZTIN UR FEMENISM
darthemed » pro2 years ago
The numbers!
aaron_haynes » pro2 years ago
Mr. Yamahata looks a little like Paul Begala.
cousinted » pro2 years ago
Warning: Looking directly at this image may cause uncontrolable vomiting
heyman » neu2 years ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one who got that reaction from looking at sidney's mug
rolotonybrowntown » neu2 years ago
everything ray knows about Australia, he has learned from Outback Steakhouse commercials
luckypyjamas » neu2 years ago
so, it has been mentioned several times that Roast Beef is a gray cat.. could this be a reference to the song "all cats are gray" by the cure?
just throwing that out there
fatcat » neu6 months ago
oh god i hope so
dueledge » neu2 years ago
This is exactly how those god-damn fake newscasters talk, god I hate their puns. So glad I live in the UK were we take the news a little more seriously
tekende » pro2 years ago
It's Star Wars right here at home! Or at least, this cat is sitting in a car!
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Although Mr. Belvedere is already pretty deranged.
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Time will tell, unless it doesn't.
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"I'm in your crate, judging your badasses."
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"I'm in your box, waiting to die with all the other children."
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Sorry.
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Excluding dead guys?
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http://achewood.com/index.php?date=03222002
Do either of these meet your criteria or is "dead guy" a retroactive thing with you
I do not know if retroactive is the word I should be using but you GET IT
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http://achewood.com/index.php?date=07252006
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So pomo...
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CALLS CALLS CALLS, CALLS FROM THE PUBLIC!
I'd say that the average caller on sifl and olly was much more intelligent than the average poster on assetbar
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The forum most often brings to mind either the Mexican Jumping Bean Bag guy or mr Crescent Fresh. Its just so crescent...
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loaded up the pipe, had some good times
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I am completely serious.
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Roane Shaughnessy is a game lass.
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I mean cats posting LOLcats is pretty counterproductive kinda like being Samuel L. Jackson!
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is.
awesome.
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I AM IN UR BASE
RAIN FALLS AND WHITE DOVES SCATTER
IM KILLING UR DOODS
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http://achewood.com/index.php?date=05252005
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K-Achewood?
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BOOZTIN UR FEMENISM
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just throwing that out there
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Ray: Goin' to Australia.
Pat: Soytopia a few steps closer to opening.
Philippe: A guy with a butt is next door!
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"Tantric SkyFucking with Melody Rain and Dan."
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