A perpetually five year old child is the Great Bane of older women who's friends are all grandmothers already.

I'm not sure that 'celtic' is a language. Irish, Scots Gaelic, Welsh, Manx, Breton, Cornish, I've heard of.

Is it spoken by celtics? That is, the sports teams who pronounce the word as if it's spelled with an 's'?

Yeah my fault. I meant Scottish Gaelic.

I'm so sorry about this.

Now I feel bad for pointing it out. Appy polly loggies.

I just like words, is all.

this should have way more chubbies

My old Irish friend, educated for the first 5 or so years of his schooling days in an Irish school before living abroad for several years, could only remember how to count to about 20 and say "The ball rolled into the shop" in Gaelic. Luckily, when he returned to Ireland, he continued to live in the east, where he had very little occassion to talk about vendors as they relate to geometrical recreation, even in English.

(He still lives there, I just heard from him for the first time in 15 years last month.)

It says something big about a culture that they have a word that means that, particularly well versed in Irish history at all but man, I wish English had one word that said "I disagree but respect your opinion". Do you know the correct pronunciation cause I know Gaelic is all ridiculous with that.

"not particularly well versed", I should be more careful about what I say, and there should probably be a question mark somewhere in there near the end.

(psst. say it out loud)

seriously? I was always under the impression that the pronunciation tended to be completely different from what you would think it is from an English viewpoint.

(i- it's a joke)

you seriously don't need to know any more irish other the yehcontyeh :P i spent 12 years in the irish educational system learning irish almost everyday and have no more knowledge of it then yehcontyeh lol

Chubbied for mentioning Julie Fowlis. I'm glad I never had one of those dolls.

rydw i yn dod o gymru ond rhydw i ddim gallu cofio llawer o cymraeg...tin iawn mae ef yn iaith ddoniol,rydw i ddim yn gwybod be tin meddwl efo "good on bets."

prick.

Dych chi'n dod o Gymru?

ydw, ond rwy ddim yn siarad cymraeg yn dda...iawn

Dw i ddim yn siarad da iawn ychwaith, ond dw i'n ceisio.

That might be completely horrible. I'm just a simple Americanwr.

Ah yes, but is Sindarin the High Elvish tongue or the one spoken by the "commoners"? I can never keep them straight. I also don't do much on Saturday nights.

Oh, believe me, I know that Sindarin is not the Common Tongue. What I meant is, was it the language spoken by the "common" elves and not the "high" elves. I really hate to push this further as well, but just wanted to set it straight.

LET'S DICK THIS UP A NOTCH

I think we all all know what kelsotimebomb met by common tongue (of elves), he shouldn't have capitalized. If he was talking of the Westron, or the Common Speech, well, we, all of us, might have been some nerds, right rb?

GIN GIN GIN

I'm literally going to steal the Lord of the Rings DVDs when I visit home next weekend.

yeah we should definitely hang out, i don't have any plans. what i do have is an elvish tattoo (not kidding)

And Finnish! Never forget Finnish!

Actually, I'm wrong here. Carry on.

They actually like vowels so much that they decided to have more than English does.

luh-well-in. just in case you were having trouble pronouncing it, fella from 2 years ago.

I actually used to play tennis against a Llewelyn Ash. Pretty crazy, not really a name I expected to see on anyone else

woaaaaaah

Hooray!

Man, you need to be telling us about your baby now. Or are you to busy being a mother for Achewood now? Priorities shifted, huh? I see how it is...

i dont understand why thats funny. i dont even know if its supposed to be. all i know is i laughed like a ding dang gufoon.

gafoon

I'm about 5 months away from being a father, and I'm praying mine comes out with this calibration feature.

I'm (or more likely, my offspring) is doomed without it.

He should have sounded Welsh?

You...you thought Llewellyn Ash sounded like Rachel Weisz?

It sits extremely well with me, man. All hunkered down, bein' amusing...

you played with dolls!? what a wuss......


sike

Didn't they develop a doll like this for teen "family life" classes?

Nah, those things just cry when you screw up, none of this conversation going on.

You're both very amusing. Enjoy a chubby each.

"Baby Think-It-Over". It's intended to give teens the experience of the nonstop, stressful care that a baby requires. Generally it just ends up making them lose sleep and fail their other classes.

Hey, wait.. that *is* just like a real baby.

Man, I remembered that. I named my baby Esteban.

you just jealous you can't pull of that hat.

I could pull off those sideburns. Just rip 'em right the fuck off his face.

Thank you for enhancing the experience of this strip x10. You, sir, are a positive force.

We know that steerpike66 is capable of Wonderful Things.

So that's how he gets himself ears-deep in cleavage.

Professorhazard why are you so awesome

But that would be ... inconceivable.

this is one of the funniest achewoods ever- FACT peope! FACT!!!

It's one of my absolute favourites and is harshly underrated.

I have absolutely no recollection of this strip. Woah. How did I miss something so cool?

She struck me as sounding like a kind of uptight Minnie Driver.

Llewellyn is a Welsh male name, generally.

Minnie Driver used to kind of look like a dude. Does that help?

Frighteningly enough, it does.

That song hella creeps me out

In the movie of this strip, Llewellyn should be voiced by Roddy McDowell (Cornelius from Planet of the Apes, VINCENT from The Black Hole, Do Jonathan Willoway from The Fantastic Journey oh hell I have to find some of that on youtube...)

But the movie would have to be made before 1998.

GOD I love this one. I wish I could say "pro pro proooo" for feelings.

For some reason this one made my eyes tear up five minutes after I had read it the first time. I don't know why it grabbed me like that.

This one weirded me out the first time, but I teared up reading it this time.
Maybe it's the fact that I'm now a father, I don't know.

I don't find this strip particularly funny, but it's still one of my favorites. The little doll is so weird but also like some highly advanced toy of the future.

After all this kid must deal with, this strip is like sunshine and rainbows and unicorns and shit!

This link doesn't go anywhere, so it may be some kind of joke that is now impossible to get (maybe something having to do with Ultra Peanut?). But this assertion had fooled for a long time. This was back before Facebook informed me that she is, in fact, Caucasian.

I liked this the first time I read it, but I like it even more thinking the doll sounds like Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men.

But Llewellyn Moss was played by Josh Brolin.

That is not the issue here. Bardem has the better voice for a doll that talks to you. That is the issue here.

Step out of de car, ser.

Don't lose this Chubby, Rowboat. Don't let it mix in with your other Chubbies.

I really need to go watch that movie again now. Thank you jems, professorhazard, and rowboat.

Please accept chubbies as a token of my appreciation.

Aw shit, that was supposed to be a chubby. Computers plus weed does not equal good.

Unless you're Ray Smuckles.

I'm not sure exactly WHY, but this one creeps me right the fuck out.

Philippe can certainly do Wonderful Things.

He can spell "Llewellyn" and he is only five.

He can pronounce it, anyway.

Man I had to stop reading halfway through the last paragraph because I'm experiencing and all-day hangover and it's 4pm and I haven't eaten yet and all that talk of food was making me both incredibly hungry and slightly nauseous.

On a different note, "puberty lip", hahahaha. How incredibly spot on.

It has the manner and look of a young Alfred Hitchcock, appearing gigantic in the last frame.

I strongly suggest you go to youtube and watch "Hitchcock Loves Bikinis." He explains the Kuleshov effect in the best possible way ever.

Let us assume he sees an otter holding a baby in his arms. Now we cut back to his reaction to what he sees. And he smiles. Now what is he as a character? He's a kindly man, he's sympathetic, he's thoroughly used to the concept of anthropmorphized creatures nurturing hunks of talking plastic with orange-flavored pacifiers.

You, my good man, are incredibly responsive.

Now we'll put in a... a piece of film of an otter with a bikini. He looks: otter in a bikini; he smiles. What is he now? A dirty old man! He is no longer the benign gentleman... who loves babies.

I do whatever the talking chicken tells me.

This is hell of crazy.

Of all the things that bring Phillipe joy, I think this is my favorite.
Phillipe is capable of AMAZING things.

I sort of imagine Llewellyn Ash's voice to be something like the HAL 9000 from 2001.

such costumes are not inexpensive.

I know right. Those things cost hell of moneys and then the kid grows out of them in about twenty minutes.

I imagine Llewellyn Ash's voice to be all like a bad 1980s educational video, all high-class British with a fake smile and slightly too much reverb and random synth / theremin swirls and splashes in the background

This strip is extraordinary.

And debate rages in my mind as to what sort of voice this would sound best with.

i'm betting she sounds like my own daughter who, at 18 months has already developed a highly condescending tone. this worries me, but only slightly. which in turn worries me more.

Dude. His mom seems like the coolest broad in the animal kingdom. I never got toys like his back in the day.

I swear to God I would just punt that thing and shoot it much in the manner of a clay disc.

I think the best part of this, aside from the hilariously creepy doll in general, is the fact that Philippe actually writes that down in panel four, paper and all.

This comic kind of stirs my gag reflex. Not really sure why...

Dammit, I want to make a Nativity scene featuring the final panel so hard.