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Muffin Loaf posted:no one knows yet, man, they don't ship til the 15th I can't remember whether I pre-ordered or not and I feel really dumb.
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Oct 14, 2009 05:52
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Volga Boatman posted:I remember reading that many big animation studios have a lot of their work done in NK these days. No idea how reliable that info was though. There's an interesting graphic novel memoir about it by Guy Delisle called 'Pyongyang.' He's also written graphic novels about working on contract in animation in China, and being the spouse of a Medicins Sans Frontières worker in Burma. He goes to the wackiest places. Personally I hope that the payoff from this strip is just 'Todd is gone, nobody particularly notices' and something else happens. Todd is the kind of dude who just exits your life at random from time to time. And Spillane, I think your opinion is valid but people would take it more seriously if you expressed it more coherently.
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Oct 16, 2009 08:01
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Mrs. Badcrumble posted:I like that not knowing how to operate it does not stop him whatsoever and that that is probably his ticket out of the general rules of the game. Knowledge is power but ignorance is absolutely unstoppable.
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Oct 18, 2009 09:25
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pseudosavior posted:I love the concept of Juche. That's also 'The Secret' and Scientology.
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Oct 30, 2009 23:54
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Uncle Caveman posted:Isn't Ray orange? I've never known an orange male cat to be anything but totally relaxed and cool with whatever situation he was in. I think Ray is brown. I had a grey cat who was very happy (until she died of a tumour, of course) so grey cats don't HAVE to be sad. Aren't all these embarrassment issues the exact reason why condoms should be sold from vending machines? That is something the Japanese have got right.
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Dec 4, 2009 22:44
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:You guys don't have condom vending machines in mens rooms? I meant a machine that would dispense a box of condoms, not just singles. If I've just invented it in my mind that they have that kind in Japan, I apologise. Also, I'm not allowed in the men's room!
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Dec 6, 2009 00:17
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Uncle Caveman posted:I don't care what anyone says, I love that he was so excited about Flavor Flav's blinking tooth. I still love the strip where he is not afraid of the loving police - and the callback to it months or years later that's actually in character.
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Dec 22, 2009 22:26
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CannonFodder posted:What was the callback? I remember tequila getting him all not afraid of the po-lice, but not the callback. http://achewood.com/index.php?date=06242004 If you drink Pimm's, you will still be a little bit afraid of the police.
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Dec 24, 2009 06:59
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Smoke posted:
Awwwww, if only Ray had adopted him.
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Jan 15, 2010 22:31
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Awesome Andy posted:I am ten pounds of man in five pounds of underwear. I know I'm supposed to be infuriated by how none of them have paid attention to her saying that this is an OLD PICTURE of her, but that doesn't make my fury less furious.
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Jan 18, 2010 00:45
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Silentman0 posted:The Youtube part is disturbingly accurate, right down to the guy getting flamed for offering good advice. I think if he'd said 'that's something he could work on' rather than 'he lacks discipline' Mom wouldn't have minded. I'm taking this too seriously aren't I.
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Jan 18, 2010 22:08
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Weedle posted:The Magician's Thermometer actually looks pretty fun.
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Feb 18, 2010 09:55
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Wanderer posted:It occurs to me that Ray's house is unique in all of fiction for being a place where you could destroy random objects and find vast sums of cash inside without it being unusual. Look up, if you can, the children's book series about an elephant called Uncle by J.P. Martin. He lives in a giant rambling house called Homeward that he inherited, and spends most of his time exploring it with the help of a monkey who he pays in typewriters. Occasionally they are attacked by a man called Beaver Hateman and Uncle kicks him in the rear end so hard he flies through the air. It's a fine entry in the long tradition of absolutely barking mad English children's literature.
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Mar 1, 2010 09:15
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Did Beef watch a Lost marathon and fall asleep face down in Molly's lap?
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Mar 13, 2010 03:59
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Skadi posted:Looking at the merkin, I don't quite get how it works. It's got those tabs on the side but it seems like it would be pretty obvious you're wearing a piece. And the big reveal seems like the worst time to tell someone you're hiding something about yourself. You could probably conceal the tabs under a suspender belt or the lower edge of your corset, and keep that on during the proceedings. Also, if you were wearing a merkin you were by definition a hooker (as Ray explains) and it probably didn't matter THAT much. Oh, but Kate Winslet is not a hooker. The merkin was for historical authenticity, because she's been bikini-waxing for years and her pubes didn't look right for a character living in the 30s/40s. I just don't want anyone thinking ill of Kate Winslet; you got to admit, she looks just like an angel.
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Mar 13, 2010 21:12
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OR - Philippe could bring his mom out to live in Achewood. Do you think she would like that? She and Sondra could be friends.
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Mar 27, 2010 07:37
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Irish Taxi Driver posted:Onstad doesn't like dogs. Therefore I don't like him. Cats sitting in windows don't curl up beside you and purr, son.
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Apr 3, 2010 03:15
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Irish Taxi Driver posted:Its just hungry. Cats are assholes. Actually, she does that after she's eaten and feels full and happy. You can't write off all cats like that with any justice. I have definitely known cats who were assholes but also cats who were friendly and fun, and good to watch 'Braveheart' with.
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Apr 3, 2010 23:54
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glug posted:Also, I'm confused at what is going on, and who else is in that car. Téodor hired a service that provides a car, a driver and an animal transportation specialist. The specialist sits in the back with the animal being transported to make sure it is okay at all times.
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Apr 10, 2010 00:06
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Chris Onstad posted:Sondra. That's Ray's mom. Cassandra is Roast Beef. I always liked the fact that Beef's girl name is after somebody totally doomed and miserable. And Greek!
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Apr 11, 2010 00:41
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The Missing Link posted:A collectors edition of a TV guide seems absurd to me. Just like collectible Nascar KFC chicken tubs seemed at first, but people still bought them. I bet the granddad from The Lost Boys has all the collectors editions of the TV Guide.
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Apr 17, 2010 11:24
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Well I enjoyed it. And I really enjoyed the fact that we got to see Philippe's dad. An otter in a beret with a Gauloise (it had better be a Gauloise or failing that a Gitane) is as good as or better than anything I could have imagined on my own.
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Apr 24, 2010 02:21
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I suspect this is one of those neighbourhoods that Beef blogged about walking through late at night to keep himself grounded.
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May 19, 2010 11:08
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Vitriol posted:you know how originally the strip was about Teodor, Mr Bear, and Phillipe, then Ray and the other cats showed up? I fear that they're going to be consumed by the flames, just two more victims of Nice Pete's high school tomfoolery. Even when Nice Pete is just having innocent prankish fun, people die horribly. It is the nature of the beast.
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May 22, 2010 21:02
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SeanBeansShako posted:I still think that the inventor of the comic sans font is lucky to be alive. I can only forgive him because he never intended the font to be used outside of one application. Even then, he shouldn't have done it, but he clearly had no idea of the magnitude of what he was unleashing. I'm a teacher and occasionally the lady in charge of special needs education sends round emails about things like how to help dyslexic students; one tip was that they find serif fonts harder to read (even harder to read?), so for worksheets and handouts we should use a sans serif font. This was fine by me until I read the end of the sentence, 'such as Comic Sans.' Goddamnit, lady, they're dyslexic, that doesn't mean they have no TASTE.
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May 29, 2010 06:10
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I started at the beginning because THAT WAS ALL THERE WAS. Well, I exaggerate, it had been going for a few months at least, but not for so long that starting at the beginning was in any way confusing. The changes in characterisation just grow on you gradually, and in time you accept that Mr Bear probably would not be unironically excited to see Flava Flav.
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May 30, 2010 08:35
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bloodychill posted:I think that showing the film to Nice Pete would be a terrible idea insomuch as it would be the kind of thing he would consider inspirational. Would he ditch the Bible and write Human Caterpillar fan-fiction?
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Jun 3, 2010 01:50
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I am sorely vexed because I've just sprung for three months of fanflow but it's doing weird things. I am trying to read July 2008 (old school), and at some stage in the loading of the flow page it always suddenly goes white and tries to take me to a closed PollDaddy poll that I gather Onstad ran around that time. It's done the same thing in both Firefox and Safari (I'm on a Mac), and it does it whether I have it in list view or expanded view. Can anyone here deduce why it might be doing this and how I could get it to stop? If this is an inappropriate question for here and now I apologise. McGravin posted:The movie you're thinking of is Human Centipede, but caterpillar sounds more innocent and yet somehow simultaneously more horrifying. Maybe it's the thought of what the human caterpillar will metamorphosize into when it cocoons itself.
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Jun 3, 2010 06:15
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Chris Onstad posted:I'm looking at July 2008 in list view, but there are like fifty updates a day, because it was the "live coverage" of the wedding. Which date seems to make the poo poo fly? For reasons I cannot understand, it seems to have got better on its own. I'm going to blame gremlins. Sorry for wasting some time.
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Jun 3, 2010 06:55
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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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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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I very much want that young lady to get RIGHT on the phone to the police. I don't know if it will do any good, though.
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Jun 9, 2010 10:41
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Do we need a Téodor Prayer Circle? The ones for Frank from Lost worked pretty well.
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Jun 23, 2010 09:22
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Ashenai posted:I'm guessing cancer! I just lost a bunch of weight with a horrible chest infection! Since I got back to work people have kept complimenting me. Feeling like poo poo will do it every time!
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Jun 24, 2010 10:22
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choobs posted:It seems like all the longest pauses in this story arc are happening at the most dramatic/terrifying moments. OH GAWD WHAT HAPPENS TO TEODOR??? I like to think Onstad is agonising over this as much as we are. SO MANY DRAFTS. IT MUST BE JUST RIGHT.
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Jun 27, 2010 00:47
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ManiacClown posted:I just thought of something. What if Nate's old homsexual identity is actually a mask for him being a serial killer? Pete goes back there, makes to kill T, and Nate surprises him with a knife in the back or skull. Maybe instead Nate is actually an old GOF champion who could easily kill Pete with his bare hands. Nate's dismay upon Pete's mention of Jimmy Carter was simply an act to lull Pete into a false sense of security. Well, I don't see why a fellow can't be an old homosexual AND a GOF Champion.
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Jun 29, 2010 10:53
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Poor Téodor. I hope he doesn't end up 'tossing more salad than a seasick rabbit.'SeanBeansShako posted:This comic has a pretty progressive amount of gay characters. One of the bots as well as Pat and his boyfriend and Nice Pete. On the other hand, it's less progressive in that the presentation of gay characters is often through a lens of straight characters being made uncomfortable by them and their gayness.
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robot roll call posted:Some of them, but I think Pat and Rod are handled pretty well. Yeah, Pat'n'Rod are okay (apart from Pat's rear end in a top hat status, which exists independent of his interest in actual assholes).
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Erebus posted:Yeah, I think this is what some people are reacting poorly to. It's not so much him experimenting (I doubt that many people were angry about him and Hiram the Blacksmith), it's that gay experimentation is appearing as an element of horror here. Exactly! Hiram was a gentleman about it (and I always imagined him as pretty hunky). Perhaps Onstad doesn't intend it this way, but yes, the homosexual element of the evening's antics does appear to be one more reason why we should be horrified, rather than a soupçon of titillation to lighten the mood.
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