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This strip ruins me. The first time I read it, I realized that I'm well past the point in my life where "Road trip, no plans, we leave in five minutes" is feasible.
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Dec 31, 2019 01:25
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The older I get the more I realize that element of Achewood isn't about youth so much as it is about being friends with a rich guy, and I feel slightly it.
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Dec 31, 2019 01:43
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Archyduchess posted:The older I get the more I realize that element of Achewood isn't about youth so much as it is about being friends with a rich guy, and I feel slightly it. I feel this. I read Achewood as a barely teenage kid, and through that lens a lot of Ray's exploits seemed like they were about some idyllic freedom you have in adulthood, you know, when you have a car and resources and you can do what you like with your friends. Open a bar! Throw a party! Who cares! It is absolutely not that, it's about being friends with a guy who can afford Ketel One and a Cadillac and has a spare house you can live in if you're feeling low. The tone is definitely sadder in retrospect.
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Dec 31, 2019 01:55
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Yeah, it’s clearly Onstad’s wish fulfillment re: “What kind of parties would I throw and what kind of food would I eat daily if I had infinite money and infinite free time.” Ray’s bottomless generosity with the wealth he stumbled into and complete fictionality keep him more sympathetic to me now then, say, Larry David on curb
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Dec 31, 2019 03:18
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Trumps Baby Hands posted:Yeah, it’s clearly Onstad’s wish fulfillment re: “What kind of parties would I throw and what kind of food would I eat daily if I had infinite money and infinite free time.” Yup. Ray is the cool guy Onstad would want to be if he were rich, or maybe the cool guy Onstad wishes rich people actually were. Just wants all his friends to be happy and safe and that's how he fills his days, with maybe a little drinking/weed and Braveheart in his spare time. And even if it's total fantasy (even setting aside the fact that Ray is a comic cat, I mean), it's not hard to like that dude, 'cause he's a good dude.
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Dec 31, 2019 03:30
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disaster pastor posted:Yup. Ray is the cool guy Onstad would want to be if he were rich, or maybe the cool guy Onstad wishes rich people actually were. Just wants all his friends to be happy and safe and that's how he fills his days, with maybe a little drinking/weed and Braveheart in his spare time. And even if it's total fantasy (even setting aside the fact that Ray is a comic cat, I mean), it's not hard to like that dude, 'cause he's a good dude. Reading the blogs where Cornelius and Teodor fleeced Ray has me conflicted. On one hand, Ray isn't experiencing any financial hardship due to them, and he's clearly enjoying himself even though he loses. On the other, those guys come across as cynically taking advantage of Ray's dumbassed overconfidence.
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Dec 31, 2019 03:34
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Oh, neat! Fifty bucks!
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Dec 31, 2019 03:46
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Pham Nuwen posted:Reading the blogs where Cornelius and Teodor fleeced Ray has me conflicted. On one hand, Ray isn't experiencing any financial hardship due to them, and he's clearly enjoying himself even though he loses. On the other, those guys come across as cynically taking advantage of Ray's dumbassed overconfidence. I like the part in Cornelius' blog where he briefly considers reading up on the results of the day's Olympic games so he could fleece Ray when betting on them, because Ray doesn't realize the competitions they show on TV all happened hours ago, but Cornelius decides against it and soon finds that Ray will bet hard against any country with green in its flag, which Cornelius is more than happy to take advantage of because it's more sporting.
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Dec 31, 2019 04:11
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YOU KNOW WHAT I WANT TO BUY?! SOME FUCKIN' RAD-rear end CAR TIRES!
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Dec 31, 2019 05:18
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Too bad Sun Tzu ain't got a chapter for when the enemy is yourself
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Dec 31, 2019 08:12
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:YOU KNOW WHAT I WANT TO BUY?! SOME FUCKIN' RAD-rear end CAR TIRES! My car parts are on my car, by the way.
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Dec 31, 2019 12:58
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Well yeah the thing you gotta remember is that if Ray loses 60 bucks to you playing pool, he's gonna scratch the green and discover a lost erotic masterpiece by Titian beneath the surface that he then sells for 200 million dollars without actually trying.
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Dec 31, 2019 13:01
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I can’t believe Taco Bell sodium came up and no one quotes “man I can’t buy a burrito from someone who’s done oral on me “
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Dec 31, 2019 17:41
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Jerusalem posted:Well yeah the thing you gotta remember is that if Ray loses 60 bucks to you playing pool, he's gonna scratch the green and discover a lost erotic masterpiece by Titian beneath the surface that he then sells for 200 million dollars without actually trying. If Ray's game touches some eggs the mother bird will kill the eggs
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Dec 31, 2019 17:50
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Zefiel posted:I can’t believe Taco Bell sodium came up and no one quotes “man I can’t buy a burrito from someone who’s done oral on me “ BURRITOLINGUS. NOUN. MEANS, EATING A BURRITO WITH THE MOUTH.
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Dec 31, 2019 18:05
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Deathlove posted:BURRITOLINGUS. NOUN. MEANS, EATING A BURRITO WITH THE MOUTH. I love the exasperated "I am...so sorry..." Ray gives to an incredibly judgemental Teodor when that happens.
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Dec 31, 2019 18:53
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davidspackage posted:If Ray's game touches some eggs the mother bird will kill the eggs Ray's game is a melted down chili pepper nailed to a board (lol I got to "down" and my autocomplete had the rest)
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Dec 31, 2019 19:41
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When I got into Achewood somewhere around my third consecutive post-college slump year, it was no small surprise to learn that Ketel One and Stella Artois really aren't that expensive. Christian Brothers brandy is some cheap poo poo though.
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Dec 31, 2019 21:31
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Yeah I once bought a bottle of Christian Brothers and was hell of disappointed.
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Jan 1, 2020 00:06
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Was about to forward this comic about paying attention to a friend for the last panel. Completely forgot about the first panel and changed my mind. Perhaps I should change it again.
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Jan 1, 2020 01:51
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Yeah I once bought a bottle of Christian Brothers and was hell of disappointed.
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Jan 1, 2020 02:11
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Brandy is really lacking in acceptable midrange brands, compared to most other spirits.
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Jan 1, 2020 05:09
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Moe_Rahn posted:There are worse ways to get trashed for seven bucks, I guess. I also drank a lot of Blue Nun during that time. The wine so bad,it made the news!
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Jan 1, 2020 06:36
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Jet Jaguar posted:Was about to forward this comic about paying attention to a friend for the last panel. (man it sounds a lot worse when you type it out like that, you only see the invisible blood appear, you all know what I mean)
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Jan 1, 2020 14:45
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Jet Jaguar posted:Was about to forward this comic about paying attention to a friend for the last panel. Did you change your mind because you didn't think they could handle such an awesome first panel?
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Jan 1, 2020 15:52
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Yeah I once bought a bottle of Christian Brothers and was hell of disappointed. Dude you don't like Christian Brothers. What you like is that you're holding something the police will wrestle you for.
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Jan 1, 2020 16:59
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Moe_Rahn posted:When I got into Achewood somewhere around my third consecutive post-college slump year, it was no small surprise to learn that Ketel One and Stella Artois really aren't that expensive. In the US Stella has a much higher end rep than it has in Europe. It used to be like the 4loko of beers in the UK. I tried Stella because of achewood and was kind of dissapointed. Loves me some ketel one on the rocks though.
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Jan 1, 2020 17:12
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All the bad booze works in character just fine. Ray is sold his soul rich, not classy rich. He's one of the good ones.
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Jan 1, 2020 18:42
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Ray Smuckles is a poor person's idea of a rich person.
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Jan 1, 2020 19:48
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Moe_Rahn posted:Ray Smuckles is a poor person's idea of a rich person. He's not even that. He's the PG-13/light-R version of Richie Rich's dad. There are entire generations of homeless people who have survived and thrived due to Ray's unwitting largesse, because he likes to hide vast sums of cash in weird places on his property and then forget he's done it. The hardscrabble working poor of Achewood County know that when the rubber hits the road, they can go poke around on the Smuckles estate until they find a low four digits in a plastic bag in a hollow tree or underneath brand-new sporting equipment or laboriously rolled up inside the hollow struts of a child's playset that has never been used by a child. They also know that, like an edible animal that doesn't reproduce often, this is not an entirely renewable resource and cannot be relied upon. Somehow, though, when the need is highest, it keeps the wolves from your door.
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Jan 1, 2020 22:18
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We should not be asking whether the world would be a worse place without the Smuckles foundation. We should be asking how it is that so much wealth was able to be amassed in the first place.
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Jan 1, 2020 22:37
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"I'm sorry, Ray," Teodor whispered as he marched his friend to the scaffold. "I just joined the DSA to meet girls, I never thought it would come to this."
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Jan 1, 2020 23:00
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:"I'm sorry, Ray," Teodor whispered as he marched his friend to the scaffold. "I just joined the DSA to meet girls, I never thought it would come to this." lol
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Jan 1, 2020 23:53
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Moe_Rahn posted:Ray Smuckles is a poor person's idea of a rich person. Pretty sure that's just Donald Trump
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Jan 1, 2020 23:59
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Jet Jaguar posted:Was about to forward this comic about paying attention to a friend for the last panel. http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=12132007 "I have hired a variety of men to create a certain sort of relationship with you" lmao
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Jan 2, 2020 18:31
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I have a very particular set of men
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Jan 2, 2020 21:39
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If ordinary people could commission the murder act on main perverts, the world would be a better place.
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Jan 2, 2020 22:04
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ONLY RAPISTS AND PEOPLE WHO USE VANS AS CARS SMOKE, RAYMOND.
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How would you like to smoke...forever?
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