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there is a real mastery he has for conveying the meaning behind selecting a specific a brand to someone who hasn't heard of it. I know cheap liquor full well but never noticed Christian Brothers- but I knew entirely what he was talking about in a combination of dialog and visual presentation. one thing that threw me for a loop is when he references Roast Beef's Zauberpunkt Licorice near the end, which I was certain was a real brand but all search results just return achewood
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Pastry of the Year posted:This is really well-observed and there are a lot of great examples of this. What was the context of this strip?
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Oct 24, 2019 12:24
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Young Roast Beef is at the laundromat waiting for his mom to come back.
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Who What Now posted:What was the context of this strip? http://achewood.com/index.php?date=12242008
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Oct 24, 2019 13:47
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I'll cop to not fully understanding why Corliss was faster Meth
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I'll cop to not fully understanding why Corliss was faster 
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I'll cop to not fully understanding why Corliss was faster She was with some nasty dude, neglecting her child, and probably getting high. She was faster because she was looking forward to whatever it was she wanted to do without her loser kid in the picture.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I'll cop to not fully understanding why Corliss was faster It's not super deep; Roast Beef's childhood is so sad that he spends a lot of time paying attention to and mentally cataloging the delay between when his Mom started two machines at the laundromat.
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What was that thing Little Nephew bought that could have its contacts corroded unless protected using a petroleum-based lubricant?
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I have definitely referred to a couple of people as “a crappy little bullshit man” in several instances, that one gets some use outta me. I rarely if ever get to avail myself of it but perhaps my favorite Achewoodism of all time is to surmise: “Hold on a minute. This guy is partying. Pentaro posted:What was that thing Little Nephew bought that could have its contacts corroded unless protected using a petroleum-based lubricant? I’m not sure it’s ever clarified, but the only electronic type thing I’ve ever weatherized for any reason is spark plug contacts? Maybe Little Nephew has a moped or something. Peanut Butler posted:one thing that threw me for a loop is when he references Roast Beef's Zauberpunkt Licorice near the end, which I was certain was a real brand but all search results just return achewood Onstad also has a knack for inventing words that seem so etymologically plausible that it’s surprising that it doesn’t appear to be a concept outside of his work. Margreaux dogs and baying hematites and so forth. Archyduchess posted:
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Peanut Butler posted:one thing that threw me for a loop is when he references Roast Beef's Zauberpunkt Licorice near the end, which I was certain was a real brand but all search results just return achewood https://shop.americanlicorice.com/pages/sour-punch Sour Punch is a candy produced my the America Licorice Company
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Daaamn! That answer could use some work! (I say this to my wife a lot and she hates it)
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I don't understand; zauberpunkt means "magic dot."
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Yesterday I was looking at some pictures of nachos and I caught my mouth watering, and I thought it was funny how stereotypical my body was being. And I thought "drat, what's next, body, you gonna go make a smell in a room?" And if those last seven words aren't already an onstadism I don't think they would be easy to pick out in a lineup of real ones
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I forgot how sad Roast Beef's life was. Which is to say, extremely.
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Who What Now posted:I forgot how sad Roast Beef's life was. Which is to say, extremely. 
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The phrase "the dude is from Circumstances" is definitely up there with his all-time best. You don't need context to get that one.
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Peanut Butler posted:there is a real mastery he has for conveying the meaning behind selecting a specific a brand to someone who hasn't heard of it. Orangina! What's "Godiva"?
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I have never in my entire life seen blue Nehi, and had to look it up to make sure it wasn't a figment of Onstad's imagination.
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Pentaro posted:What was that thing Little Nephew bought that could have its contacts corroded unless protected using a petroleum-based lubricant?
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Lemma posted:Onstad also has a knack for inventing words that seem so etymologically plausible that it’s surprising that it doesn’t appear to be a concept outside of his work. Margreaux dogs and baying hematites and so forth. If you'd told me that a "chemus witch" was an actual thing from Appalachian folklore, I would've believed you.  There is a complicated power dynamic in that house.
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davidspackage posted:The phrase "the dude is from Circumstances" is definitely up there with his all-time best. You don't need context to get that one. We had a rescue dog who I described as From Circumstances whenever I needed to excuse her behaviour. It always worked.
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The picture of baby Beef crying in a Wonder bread bag tied off with a power cord is more or less the state my first parrot was in when I got her.
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Shibawanko posted:Sound effects were also usually good, like the ones for Cartilage Head's car or the boot of one of the members of the Tenmen stepping on gravel. It's a comic for people who like detail Dude's got mane was where Mr. Dick got on board Achewood. Probably because Cornelius said "porpentine" and Mr. Dick recognized that as a Sandman Word.
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Pentaro posted:What was that thing Little Nephew bought that could have its contacts corroded unless protected using a petroleum-based lubricant? A Cox model airplane. It's a little model airplane with a tether and a tiny engine. You hold the tether and the plane flies in circles. Mr. Dick isn't really sure that they're super anachronistic or if they're reserved for super nerds as Mrs. Dick had never seen one before either.
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Mr. Dick posted:Dude's got mane was where Mr. Dick got on board Achewood. Probably because Cornelius said "porpentine" and Mr. Dick recognized that as a Sandman Word. It's a Shakespeare word. A Shakespeare-era word, I guess.
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Mr. Dick posted:A Cox model airplane. It's a little model airplane with a tether and a tiny engine. You hold the tether and the plane flies in circles. Mr. Dick isn't really sure that they're super anachronistic or if they're reserved for super nerds as Mrs. Dick had never seen one before either. I had one of those as a kid in the 90’s, but the tether was meant to be tied to something like a ceiling fan for the one I had.
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Mr. Dick posted:Dude's got mane was where Mr. Dick got on board Achewood. Probably because Cornelius said "porpentine" and Mr. Dick recognized that as a Sandman Word. don't talk in third person unless you're taking us to the Super Secret Ice Cream Shop
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Pastry of the Year posted:don't talk in third person unless you're taking us to the Super Secret Ice Cream Shop ~Gelati~
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Mr. Dick posted:Dude's got mane was where Mr. Dick got on board Achewood. Probably because Cornelius said "porpentine" and Mr. Dick recognized that as a Sandman Word. Porpentine is just another word for porcupine, I think Pynchon used it
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Pastry of the Year posted:
I loving love this so much, it always blows me away. Pat is such a dick that even his natural fear of Nice Pete eventually fell to the wayside so he could enforce his bullshit rules on him  The blogs for all the characters were all wonderful but Pat's was something special. Onstad absolutely nailed the character in a way that was simultaneously hilarious, pathetic and utterly infuriating. Halloween Jack posted:The picture of baby Beef crying in a Wonder bread bag tied off with a power cord is more or less the state my first parrot was in when I got her. Oh no, poor bird 
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Pat is such a dick that Nice Pete doesn't even mess with him.
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Jerusalem posted:I loving love this so much, it always blows me away. Pat is such a dick that even his natural fear of Nice Pete eventually fell to the wayside so he could enforce his bullshit rules on him YES? HELLO?!
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Schwarzwald posted:https://shop.americanlicorice.com/pages/sour-punch Oooooooh. I never caught that! Halloween Jack posted:I don't understand; zauberpunkt means "magic dot." I think it's Beef buying the cheap off-brand version of a common product. Habit built from a lifetime of Circumstances. Jerusalem posted:The blogs for all the characters were all wonderful but Pat's was something special. Onstad absolutely nailed the character in a way that was simultaneously hilarious, pathetic and utterly infuriating. Ugh I always wanted to get deeper in to the blogs, but I can never seem to navigate well beyond the handful that I've already read for some reason. This reminds me to give it another go, but drat I wish he would publish a print compilation. (And maybe a full-on Achewood novel.) Lemma fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Oct 26, 2019 |
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Everyone is absolutely spot on about the Beef At The Laundromat strip. Onstad is so good at using things in these strips. The thing that’s always driven me nuts about that strip though, is this: I live in Minneapolis, and Edina is a suburb, which does have 952 as the area code. Except we didn’t get 952 as an area code until I was in high school, the internet tells me the year 2000. It doesn’t parse with a young 1980’s Beef. In all seriousness though who gives a gently caress? Why would Onstad give a poo poo about Minnesotan area code minutiae? I just love that it’s something I DISCOVERED. ON MY OWN. Also we don’t really have any Bank Of America’s up here either. But if we did, they’d probably be in Edina anyways, buncha cake eaters over there.
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Jerusalem posted:I loving love this so much, it always blows me away. Pat is such a dick that even his natural fear of Nice Pete eventually fell to the wayside so he could enforce his bullshit rules on him I've always liked how Pat's character development, aside from his coming out of course, was mostly just Onstad refining what was initially a more or less generic cranky dweeb rear end in a top hat into something very very specific and very very damning of a certain kind of Californian in a certain moment in time. I still often think of the phrase "gravity sensible skitter-cart" and as somebody who was vegan in the aughts I get a shudder of recognition from all the made-up health food brands in his blog.
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As weird and kinda off as the "Teodor meets Penny" arc was, the moment where Pat runs in just to take a russet potato away from them and destroy it before yelling "I cure the world!" and running away was an absolutely incredible encapsulation of his character.
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