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 » pro11 months ago
It is amazingly in character. Onstad manages to make their dislike for dogs apparent in the most subtle of places.
saint » neu2 years ago
he gets the ladies, but in the end they do not like them....but he doesn't get the ladies, either.
gompo » neu2 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 » con2 years ago
Hey guys, who else is happy that asherdan doesn't comment any more?
tekende » pro2 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 » neu2 years ago
I will say this, a la tekende citing poing, I was never even tempted to put you on ignore.
tekende » pro1 years ago
That is a good point.
daidai » neu1 years ago
alreadyinuse sucks way more.
retinarow » neu2 years ago
THIS IS THE INTERNET
fineoakstructure » neu1 years ago
Dang, I must've chubbied gompo's comment ages ago, but I wish I could do it again.
i_love_kate » neu1 years ago
Hey guess what guys I find myself sympathising with Asherdan in this exchange.
atom » neu2 years ago
Man that would be such a good CSI. THE CASE OF THE MESSAGEBOARD POSTER WITH A STRANGE ENTITLEMENT COMPLEX
gethen » neu2 years ago
The Dude Has Got No Perspective
jackparsons » neu2 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 » neu2 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 » neu1 years ago
The chubby, it is for the slo-reveal description of the furriness/dating timeline.
boredom_man » neu1 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 » neu1 years ago
Did you beat him?
Did he beat you?
fermatprime » neu1 years ago
Y- Yiffin'?
aperson » neu8 months ago
Tekende made a lady Turn Furry, pass it on.
fineoakstructure » neu2 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 » neu2 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 » con2 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 » neu2 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 » neu2 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 » pro2 years ago
you know you're in need of a man-douching when the only person who comes to your defense is retardo.
snowman » pro2 years ago
don't do a grody mouth
tagrineth » pro2 years ago
Oh my God, an Asherdan post with ZERO lames and ZERO spam marks!
fosters » con2 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 » neu1 years ago
Ah, this one.
boredom_man » neu1 years ago
No, the one.
saint » neu10 months ago
these knives?
rowboat » pro1 years ago
I guess it drove the merch.
asherdan » neu1 years ago
Noted: astute.
becauseofaproblem » neu2 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 » neu2 years ago
Awesome
jeannetteandre » pro2 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 » neu2 years ago
I gave this comment a chubby, but really, this comment gave me a chubby
jackparsons » neu2 years ago
I misread this as the metropolitan subway. That would rule.
thereminhero » neu2 years ago
Dang. Roast Beef is getting so sassy.
donsoze » neu2 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 » pro2 years ago
chris i have never really gotten the chance to say thank you
so...thank you
tokyobuttpatrol » neu2 years ago
oh my lord
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caw-zeeyay » pro2 years ago
i'm pro this strip
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heatbag » neu2 years ago
Agreed!
antsama » neu2 years ago
In your opinion what was his last solid strip?
bk » neu2 years ago
I have never actually read a decent webcomic other than Achewood, which is completely awesome.
hexjumper » neu2 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 » neu2 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 » neu2 years ago
Chris
You are my linguistic hero
And I could never tell you until today
schroedingrscat » neu2 years ago
Why linguistic hero?
rizzle » neu2 years ago
His mastery of the modern English language melts me like a stick of butter
happycat » neu2 years ago
A format like this makes me think of when achewood had a forum on dumbrella. That was neat.
mattfish » neu2 years ago
I think word on the street was that dumbrella was an awful failure
niggar » neu2 years ago
word on the street is that it still is
donjolly » neu2 years ago
I thought Ray's Mom was a very nice lady.
pnewman » pro2 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 » neu2 years ago
I heard there were girls...? Oh, Onstand. <i>That guy</i>.
thommy_h » pro2 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 » pro2 years ago
What is slow pitch softball? Is it something like baseball? I'm a stranger from a foreign land.
boojit » neu2 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 » neu2 years ago
I don't even know what softball - slow or fast pitched - is.
tekende » neu2 years ago
Well, I will tell you one thing. A softball is NOT soft.
pie4me6 » neu1 months ago
Next thing you know you'll be saying Greenland isn't green.
wolfslice » neu2 years ago
Is Beef in the plexiglass chamber because he is afraid on the weed smoke?.
connellingus » neu2 years ago
More likely because he is afraid of getting hit by a ball.
iidebaser » neu2 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 » neu1 years ago
Roast Beef has died from weed.
percy » pro2 years ago
That chamber will not provide RB with food opportunities.
supernintendochalmers » neu2 years ago
they should jam a tube in there and dutch him out
hi dbot
supernintendochalmers » neu2 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 » neu2 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 » pro2 years ago
The chamber needs weeks, or a nonstick bottom so Beef can move with ease from base to base.
dsquid » pro2 years ago
Wheels. Not Weeks. Ugh.
dsquid » neu2 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 » neu2 years ago
Barbecues are hell of carcinogen
scottintheway » pro2 years ago
Chris. I hate to be that guy, but the alt text seems to be "missing".
scottintheway » neu2 years ago
Damn. Sorry Dsquid. I am clearly a late-comer who does not read all the comments before commenting myself.
arzasmi » pro2 years ago
The hell you should flap your boys in my face...
Classic.
majormajor » pro2 years ago
i did chortle
oak » pro2 years ago
rocketeer » pro2 years ago
I generally give strips with the phrase "Don't do a grody mouth" a five.
nessotron » neu2 years ago
I've used this "I didn't know she had a puppy" about 100 times today. Thanks Chris :)
ariela » neu2 years ago
Where are the alt tabs, Chris?
doctorother » pro2 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 » neu2 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 » neu2 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 » neu2 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 » neu2 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 » neu2 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 » neu6 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 » neu1 months ago
That's pretty damn cool.
wino » neu2 years ago
ray knows roast beef.
jimmykey » neu2 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 » neu2 years ago
Onstad should have a party... and invite all us cool cats.
splendide » neu2 years ago
It is kind of cool, but I am not stoned.
mortshire » neu2 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 » neu2 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 » neu2 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 » neu2 years ago
You think i just fell off the not knowin' you boat yesterday?
faburobin » pro2 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 » pro2 years ago
Ray knew it would come to this
tttt2 » pro2 years ago
'the hell you should flap your boys in my face' is a classic line from a man known for providing those
saru » pro2 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 » pro9 months ago
Why does this remind me of the Militant Feminists vs. Reefers ultimate frisbee game in PCU?
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Did he beat you?
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Wait, is tekende even still around these days? Is aperson still around?
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GREAT MINDS, as they say
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so...thank you
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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.
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You are my linguistic hero
And I could never tell you until today
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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.
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best line
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Alt-text is CRUCIAL to proper and full enjoyment of Achewood as such and like.
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Classic.
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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.
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Isn't this strip awesome? This strip is awesome. Those panels, they're so good.
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