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Johnny Aztec posted:Thanks to that strip, I had added "pickles on parade" to my choice of phrases. That, “rough chuckles,” and “Thermometer Lane” are permanent additions to the vocab.
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ullerrm posted:That, “rough chuckles,” and “Thermometer Lane” are permanent additions to the vocab. "Gruesome Little Curls" is still my favorite
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Oct 16, 2019 07:43
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I got a big package of chicken thighs for $4 so I made the fried chicken recipe. It's good! The skins crisped up nicely. I usually like a bit thicker breading/flour on my fried chicken, but for homemade it's drat good.
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Zereth posted:It's "place by the intersection", which I was assuming meant it was a mexican restaurant because it was just after a taqueria You know what? I let science chop off my dick last night, my mind is all over the place http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=09102008
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Oct 18, 2019 14:26
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Taco Bell is now serving DUDEMEAL, a special meal for dudes at eleven PM!
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Oct 19, 2019 00:28
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Normally, I wouldn't call that lucky, no. No one in science would. PS I got shot by Ray again
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Oct 19, 2019 04:53
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ullerrm posted:That, “rough chuckles,” and “Thermometer Lane” are permanent additions to the vocab.
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Oct 20, 2019 23:08
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CannonFodder posted:I'm also a fan of "rough chuckles" and also "Peel Out Summer" and "Banned in seven states" "[X] so bad it made the news" for me.
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Oct 20, 2019 23:23
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Apparently, Blue Nun really was a wine so bad that it made the news.
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Oct 20, 2019 23:27
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"He folded with a focus and intensity normally seen only in successes" is a phrase that has come in handy every once in a while.
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Oct 20, 2019 23:44
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Oct 21, 2019 03:27
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He said "human being" the way old time telegrams say stop.
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Oct 21, 2019 11:20
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Johnny Aztec posted:Thanks to that strip, I had added "pickles on parade" to my choice of phrases. I do have an irreversible habit of quixotically capitalizing words and terms to the mystification of most people I happen to be texting with. "You capitalize like a serial killer," I have been told in No Uncertain Terms. Speaking of pickles, "make pickles" as a euphemism for incontinence is a pretty handy term to have in mixed company. You know, not often. But, sometimes. In terms of other Achewoodisms that have annexed significant swaths of my lexicon, I would be remiss not to cop to having directly informed friends and acquaintances that "you dis my dog you fluff my hog."
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Oct 22, 2019 02:01
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Halloween Jack posted:Apparently, Blue Nun really was a wine so bad that it made the news. Reminisce Magazine is a real thing too, which is horrifying. "Dang, man, a Jehovah's Witness. Let me get the hose."
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ullerrm posted:Reminisce Magazine is a real thing too, which is horrifying. I used to read it when I was like 11-12. No, I don't have any idea why.
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Oct 22, 2019 06:38
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I have a bad uncle that always brought Blue Nun to Thanksgiving
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Jerusalem posted:What!? What did you just say!?! Milklin! ♩He's the guy...♪♬ ♫Who's about to get...♬ ...kicked out of his religion! ♩ ♩♭
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Oct 22, 2019 14:33
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All the dopeman did was not marry Strawberry.
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Oct 22, 2019 14:36
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Halloween Jack posted:All the dopeman did was not marry Strawberry. "Ray misremembers his NWA" is the load-carrying piece of that particular alt text, IMO.
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tzirean posted:"Ray misremembers his NWA" is the load-carrying piece of that particular alt text, IMO. extremely agreed.
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the concept of doing cocaine “at” someone is a useful achewoodism
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Trumps Baby Hands posted:the concept of doing cocaine “at” someone is a useful achewoodism Don't say cocaine ideas near this kid! It's his birthday, fool!
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ullerrm posted:Reminisce Magazine is a real thing too, which is horrifying. Onstad's policy of always evoking an extremely specific brand of thing really does enhance the comedic and/or depressing verisimilitude of a scenario. Ray doesn't regard Beef's teenage, supine form through just any pair of sunglasses; he does so through "some brand new tortoiseshell Vuarnets." Arachnea Gehenna's (from high school times) Senior page had a date and time stamp showing, revealing her photo in a grave yard to have been taken as like 7:35 PM, which ain't exactly too petrifying of an hour (no sir, not exactly the witching hour); not because she couldn't work her camera, it's because she couldn't work her Nikon. And of course, what "scene" of a retired band teacher with a self-inflicted gunshot wound be half as poignant without a bottle of Christian Brothers Brandy and an unopened Safeway roast turkey @$1.29/lb? Moe_Rahn posted:that little boy thinks for all the world that he is drinking king piss Kids like dinosaurs and tractors and stuff. Trumps Baby Hands posted:the concept of doing cocaine “at” someone is a useful achewoodism Related, but not as frequently occasioned, the notion that a dude might enjoy "getting his leech on."
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Lemma posted:Onstad's policy of always evoking an extremely specific brand of thing really does enhance the comedic and/or depressing verisimilitude of a scenario. This is really well-observed and there are a lot of great examples of this.  This is all from one strip.
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Oct 23, 2019 13:21
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Pastry of the Year posted:This is really well-observed and there are a lot of great examples of this. "Corliss was faster for all of the wrong reasons." is one of those ones that didn't hit me until about an hour later.
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Pastry of the Year posted:This is really well-observed and there are a lot of great examples of this. Oh my god yes. I guess that observation should be expanded to include specific titles/professions, as well as his storied culinary fluency. (Though that’s more Onstad’s personal interest looming large in his fiction.) But for some reason, I always loved that strip where Ray spends like five panels ordering consomme a la bohemian and tournedos bordelais, even before we get to the punchline of Showbiz’s dinner. It’s an oddly relaxing read.
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Oct 23, 2019 20:45
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I like to use name brands of stuff when making this sandwich. Name brands are important to a kid. It makes everything taste better to them.
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At times the specificity bogged things down, mainly when Cornelius became a walking thesaurus.
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Oct 23, 2019 21:25
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Halloween Jack posted:At times the specificity bogged things down, mainly when Cornelius became a walking thesaurus. Yeah, Connie-isms gradually became prolix and convoluted to the point of being structurally unsound. Chalk it up to him finally getting senility. Dude needs Activities.
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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
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Oct 23, 2019 22:55
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Lemma posted:Dude needs Activities. I've moved his laptop over here. What will he do?
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Oct 24, 2019 05:45
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Lemma 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.
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Pastry of the Year posted:This is really well-observed and there are a lot of great examples of this. This is one of my favorite Achewood strips, I think as much as it's easy to look back on some of the dated elements of the series and be like "huh," I think Roast Beef is a super well-realized character and a really fantastic vehicle for Ontad's spot-on and bleak stuff about the American city and town as, like, haunted landscapes where weird characters like the guy dictating to RB just float around with only the most provisional and contingent connections to the rest of the world and anybody in it. This intersects with his knack for writing food too-- as good as he is at gourmet stuff, I love how intimately and viscerally he gets cheap fast food and crummy little "wipe-down" chains. The line about the "folded over" top on the KFC Corliss has is incredible and conveys so much not only about how the characters' class informs their relationship to food, but about how little sharp moments of sense detail lodge themselves in the brain for decades. Like, of course the folded over top, of course that carried through to the little black narration panel of recollection.
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