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sargasm » neu 10 months ago
It is good jail-bra licking etiquette to offer the unused cup to your friends.
atmus » neu 10 months ago
I like to believe that Lyle sticks his pinky out while lifting the cup.
lolcatdeluxe » neu 10 months ago
Perhaps Chris will update it just for you.

I doubt it though Lyle thinks Cornelus' car shoots a doily onto parking spaces, so I think Lyle is an established Philistine. That and he douches his balls in the salad bowl.
atmus » neu 10 months ago
I also imagined he was doing it to mock Corneleus.

That seems like something Lyle would do.
straw » neu 10 months ago
No, this is something Lyle would do:

mobro_4000 » neu 10 months ago
Not the left cup, necessarily. That's the dregs.
ctrl-s » neu 10 months ago
Chubby for thinking of, typing out, and posting the words "jail-bra-licking etiquette."
whiteturtle » neu 10 months ago
Watching TV is the opposite of licking a bra you found that might have touched a boob.
mikemcg » pro 10 months ago
Wow, Lyle went from heroic drunk to completely disgusting drunk in the span of two frames.

Nice.
gsurge » neu 10 months ago
You can't say Lyle isn't a philanthropist, at least.
rolotonybrowntown » neu 10 months ago
how do you find a bra at a police station?
gormster » neu 10 months ago
evidence locker?
featurelessvoid » neu 10 months ago
Policewoman with slow reaction time?
soticoto » neu 7 months ago
For some reason police-women by appearance give me wood... but then I remember they're actually police and police have more trouble with the truth than Lie-Bot.... and I lose it again.

Slow reaction time in a woman is never good besides.
deimosrising » neu 10 months ago
haven't been arrested much huh
tim_simmons » neu 10 months ago
yeah they are like pens you can pick a couple up from every desk and flat surface
wae » neu 10 months ago
The pharmaceutical companies just go around handing them out, so that you will remember the name of their allergy medicine.
tim_simmons » neu 10 months ago
flontitafen
darthemed » pro 9 months ago
Teamocil!
duskbringer » neu 10 months ago
"Turn on the lights". I'm quoting because it's a horrible joke and I never would have typed it without prompting. Shame on you rolotonybrowntown.
killerlimpet » neu 10 months ago
Dad's car is going into your garage?
whiteturtle » pro 10 months ago
Also, Lyle could never live with himself if he didn't taste a place that a boob might have been.
rolotonybrowntown » neu 10 months ago
who am i kidding, lyle doesn't wear condoms
lateadopter » neu 10 months ago
He could sell them, thereby generating more money for booze. He might sell them to Philippe as balloons, but in that case he would most likely save the step of washing them.
twohundredninety » neu 10 months ago
Unless his plan was to find a way to get Philippe to stick money in them.

Although I doubt Lyle spends much cash at places that would really care what you've done to the bills.
barrymorefm » neu 2 months ago
Not great business in any case; Philippe has no way of making any money ever.
stuart » neu 10 months ago
Lyle's job provides several condoms for him.
spinynorman » neu 9 months ago
I think the phrase "rawdoggin it" may have been made for Lyle.
morelaak » neu 10 months ago
I do believe this is Lyle at his Rudest.

no wait, puking at a football is kind of hard to beat....

...especially since he got the spiral so perfect....
arcibi » neu 10 months ago
Scientists are still figuring it out
choobs » pro 10 months ago
That doesn't just happen by not caring.
tekende » neu 4 months ago
No one said it could be done
iandorrinson » neu 10 months ago
The tiger prefers this to television.
mortshire » pro 10 months ago
In highlighting the stuffed tiger's preference to suckle a bra of unknown affiliation rather than engage in the socially more acceptable activity of watching television, is Onstad subtly "ripping on" the quality of today's "TV," condemning the the culture at large which is responsible for both the decline of the visual medium and underwear fetishization, or did he just want to convey to his audience, through the distorted prism that is Acheworld, that licking bras is awesome, 'cause it's almost certainly been on TITS, man.

Egads, I have found my thesis!
morelaak » neu 10 months ago
the latter.
mr_pete » pro 10 months ago
MLA Conference 2008
Symposium: "Sexual/Textual Anxieties: WebComix in the Post-Comedy Millennium"

2 PM, Ponderosa Ballroom

Panelist 2 (mortshire, U Maryland College Park): "Mother's Milk or Fetishwear? Syntextual Commentary on Boobs and Tubes in Achewood."
helmstreet » pro 10 months ago
You've obviously been to way too many of those. That is fucking dead on.
stuart » neu 10 months ago
"Post-Comedy Millenium" is one of those things you hear at all of these things, and it makes you want to kill people.
mrclarinet » neu 10 months ago
If police stations gave out bras violent crime rates would drop 22% within a year
jrpigman » neu 10 months ago
Has anyone else noticed a trend on assetbar where a good half of discussions wind up either condemning or intellectually fellating the author?
zefiel » neu 10 months ago
Barrel of GOLD, dude.
coldfrog » con 10 months ago
Criticism is one thing, as I am pretty disappointed in todays strip, but I think this is a prime example of being a cock to a stranger.

negative points man.
stormypinkness » neu 10 months ago
No one should be a cock to a stranger, ever!
randyleepublic » pro 10 months ago
>> pretty disappointed in today's strip
!! Huh!?
I started laughing as soon as I read, "found it at the police station."
I didn't stop laughing until I forced myself to stop laughing because it hurt.
Onstad is first and foremost a superb humorist. Social commentary is just spice for the meat.
Thanks Chris!
meetzorp » neu 5 months ago
It made me giggle like a schoolgirl, but I'm all about the peurile humor.
wae » neu 10 months ago
I think it's neat how you can glean so much about a person's intellect and character from which day's comic strips they liked.
That must help you out a lot in life. (Like when you get into fights with people on the internet about how much you liked a comic strip)
lastlarf » neu 10 months ago
Ray buying weird shit on eBay has been done quite a lot, I can give you that, but it was still funny. Phillipe struggling with simple tasks or concepts due to being five/possibly retarded, also a common occurence, but also still funny. Lyle being dirty is a well established character trait, but this is a new, and funny low for him. I don't see the problem. Onstad is working with the characters he has, doing what they do. What do you want? New characters and ridiculous events constantly happening like in a Sitcom that knows it is becoming stale?
straw » pro 10 months ago
Well, maybe it's more in the line that they're not really shocking developments of the character. Phillipe's struggles somehow fell flat with me, even though all the apparent elements were there, and today's felt like the b-side to the vomitting on a football, a classic. Ray's strip was immense because of the final frame, however. But that may be due to Ray being a much more developed character. Granted, when I'm "disappointed" in a strip in the ways I've pointed out, it usually means giving it a 3 instead of a 4. 1s and 2s are inherently lame and, like 5s, must be completely deserving.

(Even though all of these strips are about Teodor, essentially; all the different ways he attempts and occasionally fails to interact with the people around him. In this way is Onstad is cleverly developing his character in a fairly original way, as far as webcomics go.)
lastlarf » neu 10 months ago
This is a good explanation. Thank you.
straw » pro 10 months ago
Anytime chochacho
wae » pro 10 months ago
Love the Theodor angle! Hadn't really seen the connection until you pointed it out.

Dynamic.
odei » neu 10 months ago
OH MY GOD STOP HAVING OPINIONS
boredom_man » neu 8 months ago
That is almost an exact restating of "I appreciate the muppets on a much deeper level than you," except with lolspeak. Congratulations, unclety, you are Onion of the month
randombeing » neu 10 months ago
Agreed. Academically, this isn't Achewood at its best, clearly, but fuck it all if it ain't the funniest goddamned strip of the year.
straw » neu 10 months ago
From the academic side, I'm not too sure that this, as a part of the previous two strips, isn't some of Achewood's better offerrings as I've described to lastlarf. I, personally, didn't find it extremely funny (frankly, it was the Alt-Text for reasons I haven't yet committed intellectual analysis to), but when I stepped back and looked at the relationships this strip had with this week's other strips, it enriched this particular strip more.
lastlarf » neu 10 months ago
Teodor is sure having an odd week, even by Achewood standards.
randyleepublic » pro 10 months ago
You betcha!
factorial » neu 10 months ago
I like the idea of Data telling someone to go fuck themselves. Chubby.
ntopp » neu 10 months ago
Yeah. It was kind of like a mini "Fuck You Friday: Special Star Fleet Edition."
drskradley » neu 10 months ago
Where can I get these "eyeball lessons"?
lastlarf » neu 10 months ago
Ask Robert Johnson, Doctor of Ocular Shennanigans.
johnstephens » neu 10 months ago
At B. A. Cocktoo Estranger School
comrade_tom » neu 5 months ago
I have wonnerd thees too, maybe ju an me are amigos!
featurelessvoid » neu 10 months ago
What do you guys think this is, Friday?
twoply » pro 10 months ago
Pubescent males are more likely to lactate than males of other ages. Except for babies. A mother's hormone levels can produce a baby that lactates shortly after birth.
So it's either; a cracked out whore's milk, pubescent boy's milk, cracked out pubescent boy's milk, uncracked out whore's milk, babies milk, or crack baby milk. For the baby milk scenario one must create a likely course of events. Lactating baby kept in a bra used as a sling during a daring crack whore robbery?
mortshire » pro 10 months ago
Don't forget, men and women under estrogen therapy or women with pseudocyesis (imaginary pregancy)!

spectre » pro 10 months ago
What we need more of is Science!

Thanks!
shades » neu 10 months ago
Socket puppet
dewb » pro 10 months ago
Stellar. Did anyone else notice that each panel after the first could serve as the punchline? A lesser strip would have stopped after the first giggle, but no, Lyle is going to keep on pushing that button. With his tongue.

Panels 1 & 2 alone would make for a nice minimalist strip, though.

coldfrog » neu 10 months ago
Nah, you NEED him to explain the logic. Pretty solid in my opinion.
foolio » pro 10 months ago
It's pretty cool that you picked up on this. Chubby!
spectre » pro 10 months ago
You're right.
wae » neu 10 months ago
Good concept!
Sort of like how the merkin strip could have done without the last panel (it was sort of an unnecessary denouement).
straw » neu 10 months ago
I disagree. I thought the final panel in the merkin strip was a fantastic punchline. Teodor can't believe that Ray's game is so bad that in his desperation he would end up misunderstandingly buying an antique merkin. And then the alt text just hits it out of the park.
straw » pro 10 months ago
In fact, I just laughed harder at this strip having mentally eliminated all but the first two panels. Good form, sir. Good form indeed.
drskradley » neu 10 months ago
It looks like Lyle's licking the outside of the cup. This is ineffective if he wants to lick where tits have been.
rogergs » neu 10 months ago
That's Lyle's idea of foreplay.
mortshire » pro 10 months ago
Like licking the foil lid of the pudding cup before tucking into the Main Event.
tim_simmons » neu 10 months ago
the bra will never get into it otherwise.
mikeleffel2 » neu 10 months ago
tiny boobs.
solobuttons » pro 10 months ago
"A Bra." is the best title.
randombeing » neu 10 months ago
Maybe four or five times a year, I'll read an Achewood strip that has me giggling by the second or third panel. Each successive panel has a cumulative effect on the giggles, and then by the end of the strip I can't stop laughing to save my soul. This is one such strip.
catachresis » neu 10 months ago
This strip is great but has left me queasy. It's almost as bad as the maggot one.
killerlimpet » neu 10 months ago
I was eating breakfast at the time.
Cereal.

With Milk.
ntopp » neu 10 months ago
Well, the maggot one was very "slice of life". Lyle licking a bra is more "slice of insanity." Or desperation, maybe? I dunno.
ishuta » neu 10 months ago
lyle is fucking creepy sometimes
homepie » neu 10 months ago
Lyle cares not where the bras he licks are from, just so long as they are bras.
stuartc » pro 10 months ago
A rookie question perhaps, but how do you know when you've exhausted the licking potential of one cup? And do you always start with the right cup? So many bra-licking-ettiquette questions go unanswered...
tim_simmons » neu 10 months ago
check wikipedia. i think they have a 3000 word article on that.
coogs » neu 10 months ago
this is the first strip in 2 weeks I've laughed out loud at. Fuckin' Lyle man, the dude is priceless
wae » neu 10 months ago
I can see how some folks would be turned off by some of these strips, but I think that if you hate this one, there are probably a lot of other ones for you to hate that have gone before it.

I like it though.
pogogogo » con 10 months ago
dj » neu 10 months ago
Haughty words for someone who'd drag eBayed merkins through breakfast eggs, Teodor.
tombsgrave » pro 10 months ago
Lyle's hygiene makes the Middle Ages look like a 23rd century surgery.
bovine » neu 10 months ago
pre or post apocalypse? there is some difference.
tombsgrave » neu 10 months ago
Pre-. Although Lyle's hygiene is not dissimilar from a postapocallyptic 23rd century surgery, if the superpowered-zombie-mutant ratio was reasonably high.
arborwin » neu 10 months ago
Lyle's use of exclamation points makes it for me
goosey » neu 10 months ago
Teodor looks so disappointed in that last panel.
cailetshadow » pro 10 months ago
Why do people feel the need to comment negatively (and lengthily) on free entertainment? Just close the browser window, people. Onstad is allowed his off days just like everyone else.

Oh, Téodor. The lonely, stoic voice of sanity in an otherwise mad world.