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With the possible (though still unlikely) exception of the employees, I believe Nice Pete might be the most normal person in the room.
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Jun 5, 2010 02:13
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Allow me to use Philippe to express how I'm feeling right now! Philippe?
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Jun 5, 2010 02:48
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You can tell Onstad has been to Denny's in the middle of the night.
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Jun 5, 2010 03:07
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I'm trying to remember the last time I've been to Denny's that wasn't at around 3:00 am.
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Jun 5, 2010 03:37
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This storyline has been making me reflect on my own time in high school, and I realized that late night dinners in my town weren't at Denny's, but rather at Steak'n'Shake. We had a Denny's in town, but all the kids would rather have greasy kind of awful hamburgers than greasy kind of awful eggs. I wonder if this was a regional thing, like how some parts of the country have Piggly Wiggly and other parts have Kroger.
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Jun 5, 2010 04:05
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EndOfTheWorld posted:You can tell Onstad has been to Denny's in the middle of the night. It's something we're all familiar with. Just last week I somehow ended up at one at 3 AM and the subtle feeling that something was just plain off about everything there was unignorable.
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Jun 5, 2010 04:26
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McGravin posted:This storyline has been making me reflect on my own time in high school, and I realized that late night dinners in my town weren't at Denny's, but rather at Steak'n'Shake. We had a Denny's in town, but all the kids would rather have greasy kind of awful hamburgers than greasy kind of awful eggs. Sorta. In the south, you don't go anywhere but Waffle House. There's Dennys and Steak n Shake there too, but honestly if you're going anywhere at 3AM that isn't Waffle House, you're clearly not drunk enough. If you're a dapper sort you end up at a Perkins I guess. But that's for fancy people. And of course off in California they have no Waffle House, or Steak N Shake. The only options are loving godawful Jack in the Box or Dennys I think. I've found it best to just go home when it's late and forget trying to find anything worth going to when you're drunk.
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Jun 5, 2010 04:28
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Expiration Date posted:rse off in California they have no Waffle House, or Steak N Shake. The only options are loving godawful Jack in the Box or Dennys I think. I've found it best to just go home when it's late and forget trying to find anything worth going to when you're drunk. There's Carrows, which is sort of like Denny's non-union Mexican equivalent, to steal a phrase. But if you're ordering anything at Jack in the Box that isn't the real-ice cream Oreo shakes, something has gone terribly awry. Actually, if you order that thing something has already gone terribly awry with your weight management, or you're Rod Huggins and there's a shoot coming up.
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Jun 5, 2010 05:03
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Expiration Date posted:In the south, you don't go anywhere but Waffle House. There's Dennys and Steak n Shake there too, but honestly if you're going anywhere at 3AM that isn't Waffle House, you're clearly not drunk enough. If you're a dapper sort you end up at a Perkins I guess. But that's for fancy people. Unless your small North Carolina town is without a Waffle House; then you must choose between Hardee's (the original Monster burger was the best drunk food of all time), or...Huddle House. Huddle House people. A terrible place to be hammered, as you spend your entire meal wondering what circumstances would lead a 75-year-old woman to be serving coffee at 3:30am at a place that sees the occasional shootout.
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Jun 5, 2010 05:20
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We even have Denny's in New Zealand. The last time I went there was a few weeks ago, after my sister's ridiculously late-running evening graduation ceremony. We had wanted to go somewhere nice for a late dinner/supper afterwards, but we were all exhausted, everywhere we liked was closing (weeknight), and we just wanted to put some food inside us before going home, so Denny's it was. I ordered the grilled cheese sandwich with fries, and the menu said I could have curly fries for $2 extra. Well! I have NEVER seen curly fries in New Zealand, having experienced their weird, spiral pleasures only on trips overseas, and I thought $2 extra was just about worth it to taste them again. What arrived with my grilled cheese was so off-target it's hard to describe. You know how crinkle-cut fries have ridges running latitudinally across the width of each fry? These had longitudinal ridges, running along their length. (Yes that was redundant, I am just trying to be clear.) Otherwise they were completely ordinary and somewhat dry fries/hot chips. Let me just say, if I were another kind of person, and if it wasn't a special occasion for my sister, someone might have been Taken.
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Jun 5, 2010 05:21
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Huddle House people. I swear at one point I was totally convinced that Huddle House was the same thing as Waffle house because the signs looked really similar. (squares around the letters, etc)
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Jun 5, 2010 05:27
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Steak well done, eggs over hard? Strangely apropos for Nice Pete.
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Jun 5, 2010 05:36
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Dove from Above posted:What arrived with my grilled cheese was so off-target it's hard to describe. You know how crinkle-cut fries have ridges running latitudinally across the width of each fry? These had longitudinal ridges, running along their length. (Yes that was redundant, I am just trying to be clear.) Otherwise they were completely ordinary and somewhat dry fries/hot chips. This is the new Saddest Thing. It is in every way an antipodean replica of the Mickey Mouse pancake Teodor makes for Philippe. 
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Jun 5, 2010 05:37
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I have only one dissatisfying experience at Denny's. It took us twenty minutes to get our drinks, and they were brought out by a manager who looked like he was stoned. We waited another twenty for someone to take our order before walking out, to a Steak n' Shake across the street. I think we generally to go Denny's over Steak n' Shake because we can smoke there, and they don't mind you staying there for a while. I mean, all you can eat pancakes for $4. A full breakfast for $6. These are good prices and I don't care if that means eating at Denny's. Somberbrero fucked around with this message at 06:14 on Jun 5, 2010 |
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Jun 5, 2010 06:10
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Some people find a kind of romantic realism in places like Denny's at 3am - those people are wrong. This strip..... 
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Jun 5, 2010 12:31
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Nice Pete is a master improviser.
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Jun 5, 2010 14:36
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Nice Pete looks so genuinely happy to have drawn an odd caricature on his belly, that someone wants to touch. ... 
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Jun 5, 2010 15:50
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rotinaj posted:Nice Pete looks so genuinely happy to have drawn an odd caricature on his belly, that someone wants to touch. It's a meeting of soulmates. I feel such compassion for that poor little night manager. I hope she lives.
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Jun 5, 2010 21:51
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Look what I just saw someone link to on Facebook. Onstad, you may wish to keep an eye on this situation so you can git yo' money.
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Jun 6, 2010 20:19
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I will buy a Solo, I will pay any amount
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Jun 6, 2010 20:52
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http://www.geekologie.com/2010/06/why_no_seriously_why_iphone_ba.php Why isn't she rocking the TriplePlay?
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Jun 6, 2010 21:44
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Onstad, is it cool if I troll my local papers " Letters to the editor" under the name Pat Reynolds?
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Jun 6, 2010 21:57
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Jet Jaguar posted:http://www.geekologie.com/2010/06/why_no_seriously_why_iphone_ba.php She can't threeball with the best of them.
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Jun 7, 2010 02:14
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rotinaj posted:Nice Pete looks so genuinely happy to have drawn an odd caricature on his belly, that someone wants to touch. Nice Pete's smile is far and away the most disturbing thing about the strip. The manager just giving in and handing him the pen without protest is the best thing.
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Jun 7, 2010 21:36
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ManiacClown posted:Look what I just saw someone link to on Facebook. https://www.phoneballs.com what the hell, is Onstad involved in this or is someone actually trying to steal a joke business idea from a webcomic
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Jun 7, 2010 23:16
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RolandTower posted:https://www.phoneballs.com They don't have triple or single sacs. Not buying. 
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Jun 7, 2010 23:58
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Ain't you ever even thought about running a business before? You offer one version to start out with and then when the market's nearing saturation that's when you roll out the large and designer editions.
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Jun 8, 2010 00:07
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Wandering Knitter posted:They don't have triple or single sacs. Not buying. Karl Lagerfeld will cold choke a bitch if they try that.
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Jun 8, 2010 18:28
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New strip I have nothing to say on this matter.
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Jun 9, 2010 00:35
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Hey there's  A New StripEDIT: drat! So close!
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Jun 9, 2010 00:36
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No words. Only SOUNDS.
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Jun 9, 2010 00:37
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no no no no no no no no
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Jun 9, 2010 00:37
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Everything is possible... in a nice van
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Jun 9, 2010 00:40
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Oh God oh no dear God no no oh God no 
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Jun 9, 2010 00:41
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I had just had a couple of loaded tequilas with my lunch a bit ago (I'm housesitting on my own and bored, so what) so I was more than slightly drunk when I started reading that strip. While reading it, I completely sobered up and ended up more than a little scared.
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Jun 9, 2010 00:41
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oh god oh jesus god
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Jun 9, 2010 00:41
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drat onstad i mean what the poo poo man
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Jun 9, 2010 00:45
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Hey, maybe they all just drive back home and Pete and Nathan engage in a long relationship that enriches the lives of both men. Teodor's going to have to help Pete dump the body, isn't he?
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Jun 9, 2010 00:51
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I fear the next strip more than anything
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