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umbra » pro 2 years ago
it's like the ultimate solution to agoraphobia, although would be better if it was tinted glass. I think the only way it could be even better is if he could put Ray's pool house on wheels and move it over onto the field.
ge7243 » pro 11 months ago
It is amazingly in character. Onstad manages to make their dislike for dogs apparent in the most subtle of places.
saint » neu 2 years ago
he gets the ladies, but in the end they do not like them....but he doesn't get the ladies, either.
gompo » neu 2 years ago
WHAT? How dare you even make that insinuation before building a complete frame of reference??? If you check my blog post from August 15th, 2002, it clearly states that the nickname "'stad" is an artifact from my stuttering days. The post can be found just below the description of my current mood (rambunctious) and just above the posted results of a suprising test revealing that my personality most closely matches that of Sailor Mercury. If you can't even do some basic research, I hardly want to talk to you.
straw » con 2 years ago
Hey guys, who else is happy that asherdan doesn't comment any more?
tekende » pro 2 years ago
I don't know, the whole situation was kind of entertaining. But now we have Poing around, I guess? So it's sort of the same.
straw » neu 2 years ago
I will say this, a la tekende citing poing, I was never even tempted to put you on ignore.
tekende » pro 1 years ago
That is a good point.
daidai » neu 1 years ago
alreadyinuse sucks way more.
retinarow » neu 2 years ago
THIS IS THE INTERNET
fineoakstructure » neu 1 years ago
Dang, I must've chubbied gompo's comment ages ago, but I wish I could do it again.
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
Hey guess what guys I find myself sympathising with Asherdan in this exchange.
atom » neu 2 years ago
Man that would be such a good CSI. THE CASE OF THE MESSAGEBOARD POSTER WITH A STRANGE ENTITLEMENT COMPLEX
gethen » neu 2 years ago
The Dude Has Got No Perspective
jackparsons » neu 2 years ago
I heard they did furries. If so, they'll do anything. Especially with fat nerds running unix posting on anonymous message boards and getting shot at through their monitors. Linux sux.
tekende » neu 2 years ago
They did do an epsiode with furries. It was creepy and weird. My friend who is a furry who is also my ex who was not a furry when we dated made me watch it.
mattylite » neu 1 years ago
The chubby, it is for the slo-reveal description of the furriness/dating timeline.
boredom_man » neu 1 years ago
I was crashing at a client's pad for a particularly claustrophobic job; he's in his 50s and watches CSI. I saw CSI for the first and only time; he was hearing about furries for the first and only time. There was awkwardness. You know what happened next.
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
Did you beat him?

Did he beat you?
fermatprime » neu 1 years ago
Y- Yiffin'?
aperson » neu 8 months ago
Tekende made a lady Turn Furry, pass it on.
fineoakstructure » neu 2 months ago
Aha! So tekende's weird history with furries is explained. Or not. Whatever.

Wait, is tekende even still around these days? Is aperson still around?
capslock_annliv » neu 2 months ago
Chubbied because I also have a friend who is a furry etcetera etcetera. He gave me a flash drive of hentai, without my even asking for it, and the majority of it was furry. And then he pestered me to give it a chance. I did. I think my experience is worse than yours.
mr_wilson » con 2 years ago
He's just mad because when he and all the other poopypants formed an Achewood messageboard, after Chris put the ax to the old one, Onstad didn't care and even thought they were a bunch of dinks. Now Chris has stolen their little secret thunder by bringing back a messageboard and they are pouting about it and trying to be annoying (and succeeding). Asherdan I seriously doubt Onstad will start killing posts like the old days, so you should probably just stop trying to be a turd sandwich.
flynn » neu 2 years ago
Dude is butthurt over a messageboard? Has anything of any importance ever been said on a webcomic messageboard? Maybe he should try saying the words "Who gives a shit?" more often. Christ.
atom » neu 2 years ago
Ha ha, sweet, I basically said the exact same thing to him earlier today on said messageboard and even used the word "butthurt" too

GREAT MINDS, as they say
apocowarg » pro 2 years ago
you know you're in need of a man-douching when the only person who comes to your defense is retardo.
snowman » pro 2 years ago
don't do a grody mouth
tagrineth » pro 2 years ago
Oh my God, an Asherdan post with ZERO lames and ZERO spam marks!
fosters » con 2 years ago
I love the classic dork defense of "hey I secretly WANTED everyone to think I'm a loser!" The longer any internet argument goes on the probability of this statement appearing approaches 100%.
neonaoneo » neu 1 years ago
Ah, this one.
boredom_man » neu 1 years ago
No, the one.
saint » neu 10 months ago
these knives?
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
I guess it drove the merch.
asherdan » neu 1 years ago
Noted: astute.
becauseofaproblem » neu 2 years ago
There will be a league to this effect starting in the NY metro area within a few weeks. Thank you for the inspiration, Ray Smuckles.
nyu » neu 2 years ago
Awesome
jeannetteandre » pro 2 years ago
bring it to Gainesville; i will start a team for the sole reason of challenging you! we have lots of burrito places here for nourishment and all the soda pop you can drink.
schnappm » neu 2 years ago
I gave this comment a chubby, but really, this comment gave me a chubby
jackparsons » neu 2 years ago
I misread this as the metropolitan subway. That would rule.
thereminhero » neu 2 years ago
Dang. Roast Beef is getting so sassy.
donsoze » neu 2 years ago
Maybe it's just a trick of the light, but it seems to me that Roast Beef's plexiglass suit is sportin' a baseball mit incubator arm on the left side.
2kings » pro 2 years ago
chris i have never really gotten the chance to say thank you

so...thank you
tokyobuttpatrol » neu 2 years ago
oh my lord

achewood with rating and comments

what the fuck this is so great
caw-zeeyay » pro 2 years ago
i'm pro this strip
i'm anti this feature, i'm probably gonna lose a lot of sleep being a dipshitty forum fly on here
heatbag » neu 2 years ago
Agreed!
antsama » neu 2 years ago
In your opinion what was his last solid strip?
bk » neu 2 years ago
I have never actually read a decent webcomic other than Achewood, which is completely awesome.
hexjumper » neu 2 years ago
It has to do with history.

When a webcomic first starts out, you remember the good ones and forget about the bad ones - so, for instance, you remember "Not Afraid of the Fucking Police" and don't remember, say, the one where Chris couldn't think of an ending and said so.

As time goes on, and the archive builds up, new comics are measured against the highs rather than against the comic strip as a whole.

Gabe explained it one time on Penny Arcade; I thought that it neatly explained why comic strips seemingly drop in quality. I think that this is a little light for Achewood - stoned is kinda funny, but not particularly memorable - but I don't mind. There'll be better ones coming.
junko » neu 2 years ago
Actually, the one where Lyle announces that there will be no ending because the cartoonist couldn't think one up is one of the funniest ones, in my opinon. But yeah, I agree with the gist of this.
rizzle » neu 2 years ago
Chris

You are my linguistic hero

And I could never tell you until today
schroedingrscat » neu 2 years ago
Why linguistic hero?
rizzle » neu 2 years ago
His mastery of the modern English language melts me like a stick of butter
happycat » neu 2 years ago
A format like this makes me think of when achewood had a forum on dumbrella. That was neat.
mattfish » neu 2 years ago
I think word on the street was that dumbrella was an awful failure
niggar » neu 2 years ago
word on the street is that it still is
donjolly » neu 2 years ago
I thought Ray's Mom was a very nice lady.
pnewman » pro 2 years ago
i was reading my old volumes the other day, i think beef might be a little mad at ray for forgetting his birthday, 4/22. not actually mad at ray you know, but full of the depression and all.
mczapp » neu 2 years ago
I heard there were girls...? Oh, Onstand. <i>That guy</i>.
thommy_h » pro 2 years ago
I don't trust the alt text for this strip. Ray sounded like he was surprised. My thought is that he had a number of possible resolutions in mind for this situation and 'plexiglass dome with baby-incubator hands', while certainly *on the table* was not what he was expecting. Probably because he was so stoned.
mrflunchy » pro 2 years ago
What is slow pitch softball? Is it something like baseball? I'm a stranger from a foreign land.
boojit » neu 2 years ago
Softball is like baseball except you use a bigger ball. The idea is it's harder to hit a softball as far as a baseball, so it's easier for people to field. Also since the ball is bigger (and the ball therefore will move slower), it's less likely that someone will get hurt by a ball clocking a dude upside the head.

Slow-pitch softball is just softball, but the pitcher is not allowed to throw the pitch over his sholder. He can only pitch "underhand" with a predictable arc. In addition, slow-pitch softball uses an even bigger ball with longer pitching distances than "fastpitch" softball (where maximum-speed pitches are allowed). The idea with "slow pitch" is that it allows more offense in the game, so that even people like you and me that can't play baseball to save our lives can still get a hit now and then.
ferrets54 » neu 2 years ago
I don't even know what softball - slow or fast pitched - is.
tekende » neu 2 years ago
Well, I will tell you one thing. A softball is NOT soft.
pie4me6 » neu 1 months ago
Next thing you know you'll be saying Greenland isn't green.
wolfslice » neu 2 years ago
Is Beef in the plexiglass chamber because he is afraid on the weed smoke?.
connellingus » neu 2 years ago
More likely because he is afraid of getting hit by a ball.
iidebaser » neu 2 years ago
when a person is naturally filled with paranoia, social anxiety, and self-doubt, the effects of weed can be really horrible. I don't know if that's what chris meant, but I've always assumed that's why beef would want a little sealed-up room.
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
Roast Beef has died from weed.
percy » pro 2 years ago
That chamber will not provide RB with food opportunities.
supernintendochalmers » neu 2 years ago
they should jam a tube in there and dutch him out

hi dbot
supernintendochalmers » neu 2 years ago
so why you whinin at me then man i mean i know your mom was a bitch but i didn;t know she had a puppy.

best line
spinynorman » neu 2 years ago
I occasionally do this with the marijuana outside and the grill inside, because the greatest high in the world is smelling the simmering flesh of dead creatures. Also lavender.
dsquid » pro 2 years ago
The chamber needs weeks, or a nonstick bottom so Beef can move with ease from base to base.
dsquid » pro 2 years ago
Wheels. Not Weeks. Ugh.
dsquid » neu 2 years ago
The problem with this site is you lose the alt-text.
Alt-text is CRUCIAL to proper and full enjoyment of Achewood as such and like.
zefiel » neu 2 years ago
Barbecues are hell of carcinogen
scottintheway » pro 2 years ago
Chris. I hate to be that guy, but the alt text seems to be "missing".
scottintheway » neu 2 years ago
Damn. Sorry Dsquid. I am clearly a late-comer who does not read all the comments before commenting myself.
arzasmi » pro 2 years ago
The hell you should flap your boys in my face...

Classic.
majormajor » pro 2 years ago
i did chortle
oak » pro 2 years ago
rocketeer » pro 2 years ago
I generally give strips with the phrase "Don't do a grody mouth" a five.
nessotron » neu 2 years ago
I've used this "I didn't know she had a puppy" about 100 times today. Thanks Chris :)
ariela » neu 2 years ago
Where are the alt tabs, Chris?
doctorother » pro 2 years ago
I love how he refers to the arms as "baby incubator arms." I'm sure they have a name, but I'm not sure what it is myself. Baby incubator arms is sufficient.
jackparsons » neu 2 years ago
Waldos. Like who took my goddam waldos. But those go inside the chamber not outside. He looks like Robbie The Robot from "Lost in Space".

saru » neu 2 years ago
Just because the space inside is bigger than the space outside doesn't mean the arms aren't inside the box.
Also, sorry, but a waldo is a remote manipulator, as in radio controlled, not just a fancy glove. I think it comes from such as a sci-fi story by Asimov.
saru » neu 2 years ago
I apologize for my ignorance. Heinlein, and the glove things are included in the definition of "waldo". At least, the ones for dealing with radioactive stuff are, because typically, they aren't just gloves, the hands are controlled indirectly.
odvo » neu 2 years ago
This strip is OK. Chris, do you really want to open this pandora's box further? (It was opened a crack before so only smaller things escaped, but now the larger things can join them in the helter skelter.) Instant feedback on your strips will make writing comics like doing stand-up before a crowd that will chuck tomatoes at you before you even finish a joke. The only thing that will satisfy them is continuous slapstick on loop and repeat.
antsama » neu 2 years ago
I think the idea is that Onstad won't even read these comments, it's just for us to vent maybe? I don't know.
smallberries » neu 6 months ago
When I was a wee lad I sent a postcard to Douglas Adams announcing my intentions to be Just Like Him when I grew up. He sent me a postcard reply, assuring me I was aiming too low. His wife's not my type however.
pie4me6 » neu 1 months ago
That's pretty damn cool.
wino » neu 2 years ago
ray knows roast beef.
jimmykey » neu 2 years ago
It's like the conversations Ray and his friends have remind me of like things my own friends say when we hang out dude whats on tv
a_dude » neu 2 years ago
Onstad should have a party... and invite all us cool cats.
splendide » neu 2 years ago
It is kind of cool, but I am not stoned.
mortshire » neu 2 years ago
it's nice to see roast beef bringing some sass. i only wish i had one of those plexiglass chambers on wheels for similar social escapades.
billyamericana » neu 2 years ago
I'm certain there is a small times circumstance with Beef and grilling and second degree burns that needs to be elaborated on.
epicurus » neu 2 years ago
I could have gone either way on this one, but Ray saying "Of course!" to beef's conditions makes it all worthwhile.
stephicologist » neu 2 years ago
You think i just fell off the not knowin' you boat yesterday?
faburobin » pro 2 years ago
Stoned people in general make me want to slap them, even Ray. But this strip is great. Is it freaky that I love Roast Beef? I am jealous of the strip where Chris hugs him.
geerolla » pro 2 years ago
Ray knew it would come to this
tttt2 » pro 2 years ago
'the hell you should flap your boys in my face' is a classic line from a man known for providing those
saru » pro 2 years ago
What is up with almost everyone having at least one lame for ever comment here?
Isn't this strip awesome? This strip is awesome. Those panels, they're so good.
m-dynamite » pro 9 months ago
Why does this remind me of the Militant Feminists vs. Reefers ultimate frisbee game in PCU?
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