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Title: 10-14-05 Children are pretty good, you know.
Post by: 1Lofapilot on October 14, 2005, 05:43:00 am: http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=10142005

I had to register, finally, just to post in re. this strip. Is Ray donating his own heart to Sick Children? We've gone way beyond Milklin here. Also, why is Ray alive while holding his own heart?

This is the most confusing strip I've ever read. Philippe could stand on thousands of manuals and still make more sense than this. Help me, Achewood Community, to understand Ray's Ultimate Sacrifice.
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Post by: mudokon on October 14, 2005, 05:49:29 am: Dear lord, this wasn't a dream sequence. Why wasn't this a dream sequence?

Anyhow, no, Ray is not donating his heart to sick children. The doctor just notes that Ray's donation will go towards helping the sick children.

Ray merely paid an exorbitant amount to have a surgeon cut him open so he could play with his own heart. That is what an eccentric cat does. This was pretty funny.
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Post by: AugustWest on October 14, 2005, 05:51:29 am: This was a dream/deus ex machina sequence.

Mark my words!
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Post by: rumpy doppelganger on October 14, 2005, 06:01:54 am: ker-blop
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Post by: pmcd9 on October 14, 2005, 06:07:59 am: The failure to cope with the demands of raising a child has driven the artist insane.

~Paul
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Post by: miles on October 14, 2005, 06:15:53 am: Daaamn! Man, this is special!
Title: teh funny.
Post by: char * on October 14, 2005, 06:29:12 am: CLASSIC RAY.
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Post by: jough on October 14, 2005, 06:37:55 am: I once had a hole in my knee and I totally put my finger inside of it.

Ray wanted a photo of him holding his own still beating heart.

TINY HAT: $68

OPENING A NEW CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $47,000,000

BRIBING A DOCTOR TO HELP YOU TAKE A CHRISTMAS CARD PHOTO OF YOU HOLDING YOUR OWN HEART: PRICELESS

FOR EVERYTHING MONEY CAN'T BUY, THERE'S THE RAY CARD (TM)
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Post by: robot_roll_call on October 14, 2005, 06:41:50 am: eeeeewwwwwwwwwww
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Post by: evan on October 14, 2005, 07:12:47 am: Quote from: "jough"

FOR EVERYTHING MONEY CAN'T BUY, THERE'S THE SMUCKLESCARD (TM)

Surely you mean The Ray Card (http://achewood.com/index.php?date=07062005)?
Title: Re: 10-14-05 Children are pretty good, you know.
Post by: starlight on October 14, 2005, 08:04:10 am: Quote from: "1Lofapilot"
Also, why is Ray alive while holding his own heart?

This is the only question that went through my mind when I saw this strip

...then I remembered it was achewood.
Title: 10-14-05 Children are pretty good, you know.
Post by: jough on October 14, 2005, 08:24:36 am: Quote from: "evan"
Quote from: "jough"

FOR EVERYTHING MONEY CAN'T BUY, THERE'S THE SMUCKLESCARD (TM)

Surely you mean The Ray Card (http://achewood.com/index.php?date=07062005)?

Fah. Too tired to post.

Fix'd.
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Post by: misterqueue on October 14, 2005, 10:27:13 am: Total Ray all the way.

Plus the alt text.. kissing it would've been over the top.

You just know he's putting that photo over his mantle. Beef will be all "dang ray why you have to keep that nasty old photo of yours up where everyone can see how clogged your arteries are dawg"
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Post by: V-Adore on October 14, 2005, 11:59:15 am: This strip is incredible and unsettling. And that's the way I like my Achewood.

Question: what kind of tiny hat did he get for his heart?
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Post by: Null on October 14, 2005, 12:17:33 pm: This was...disturbing.

Ray should remember he can always PhotoShop the hat onto the heart, for the purpose of making his Christmas card more festive.

I would imagine that the hat, it is a tiny Tyrolean hat.
Title: Re: 10-14-05 Children are pretty good, you know.
Post by: Null on October 14, 2005, 12:21:47 pm: Quote from: "1Lofapilot"
http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=10142005
Also, why is Ray alive while holding his own heart?

The heart is still attached if you look closely, but he should at least be in severe shock and probably, thus, dead. (I can't imagine Ray can take severe shock.)

Onstad has probably been alternating David Lynch with Lucio Fulci on the DVD 5-disk player.
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Post by: Imperator Severn on October 14, 2005, 12:39:57 pm: Ol' Ray, he has a big heart.

Seriously, that thing's like a roast.
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Post by: cellardoor on October 14, 2005, 12:51:13 pm: Whilst questioning the internal logic of this strip (holding his own heart?) please remember these are cartoon cats.
I think the hat would've been a little santas hat and if I received that christmas card I would've puked all over my front door.
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Post by: andalucia on October 14, 2005, 01:09:57 pm: Man, so I did this MRI study in which I did math problems in a tube while Scientists took pictures of my brain, on account of they paid me $80 for it, but then I asked them to email me some pictures of my brain, and they said they would. And the idea of Christmas card fodder had not occurred to me, but IT HAS NOW, and no, I'm definitely not above photoshopping a jolly wee hat onto my exposed brainy-picture.

Thanks, Achewood!
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Post by: aparrish on October 14, 2005, 01:40:39 pm: I'm hoping it was a jimmy hat. Now there's a way to say "Happy Holidays."
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Post by: MattFish on October 14, 2005, 02:15:45 pm: I think it's the constant "ker-blop ker-blop" that sells this.

I enjoyed this strip! More random disturbing imagery!
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Post by: 1Lofapilot on October 14, 2005, 04:50:49 pm: [The rest of this post was removed because if I'd read the thread I'd have realized it said the Exact Same Thing as another post. I don't deserve the Internet.]

You. Go. Ray.
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Post by: Golfhaus on October 14, 2005, 05:06:35 pm: Yes. This hits on all the little things that make Achewood great.

GOD BLESS.
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Post by: Mantonio on October 14, 2005, 05:31:03 pm: Quote from: "Golfhaus"
Yes. This hits on all the little things that make Achewood great.

GOD BLESS.

Yes. This strip makes up for all those Philippe Times Friday Fun Facts. This is one for the ages.
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Post by: acoxcae on October 14, 2005, 05:34:14 pm: The way that I originally read this, instead of donating a new clinic for children, Ray was donating one of his own organs or something to a child, and Andretti was just letting him hold his own heart since he was already in there.

Now that I reread it, and notice the difference, I think it's better this way. I like to picture the conversation Ray must have had with Andretti:

Ray: "So, I'm thinkin' about maybe making a children's clinic. How's that for you?"

Andretti: "Ray! How absolutely generous and thoughful of you! I'll get the paperwork underway."

Ray: "Yeah, about that - do you think that first, you could snap a picture of me holding my own heart for a Christmas card? It's a kinda conceptual thing I wanted to try out."

Andretti: "Ah...hmm....."

Or something like that. Good strip, would read again.
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Post by: Roger on October 14, 2005, 06:17:46 pm: And here I was ready for another nice, harmless installment of Friday Facts.
This is soooooo much better.
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Post by: CortJstr on October 14, 2005, 06:18:15 pm: Quote from: "evan"
Quote from: "jough"

FOR EVERYTHING MONEY CAN'T BUY, THERE'S THE SMUCKLESCARD (TM)

Surely you mean The Ray Card (http://achewood.com/index.php?date=07062005)?

It's nice to know that when I take a sick day you people can look after yourselves.
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Post by: miles on October 14, 2005, 06:21:39 pm: Quote from: "acoxcae"
The way that I originally read this, instead of donating a new clinic for children, Ray was donating one of his own organs or something to a child, and Andretti was just letting him hold his own heart since he was already in there.

Now that I reread it, and notice the difference, I think it's better this way...

Yeah, I had a similar experience with it, though I really had no fuck*ng idea what was going on at first. But organ donation was my first thought.

I like the idea of Ray suggesting the donation, and using it as leverage to get what he wants. Dr. Andretti's a good guy, and if Ray had simply offered him a large sum of money, he might have declined. But, this is for the kids! Children are pretty good, you know.

Although, I think the picture of Ray with the heart was more of an afterthought. I think Ray wanted to hold his heart because it's a Ray kind of idea to have--something that rich cats do.
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Post by: AugustWest on October 14, 2005, 06:25:01 pm: What's disturbing to me is that there are real people who are as rich as Ray out there. Lots of them. I think they do stuff that is just a crazy that we never find out about.
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Post by: Golfhaus on October 14, 2005, 07:26:33 pm: Quote from: "acoxcae"
Or something like that. Good strip, would read again.

Hell, I would buy a high-res, autographed version of this. This would be a good one to have.

Then again, if he ever offers the Cartilage Head series as a single unit, I'd have to mortgage the house if it came to that.
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Post by: Bobby Isosceles on October 14, 2005, 07:41:35 pm: Quote from: "andalucia"
Man, so I did this MRI study in which I did math problems in a tube while Scientists took pictures of my brain, on account of they paid me $80 for it, but then I asked them to email me some pictures of my brain, and they said they would. And the idea of Christmas card fodder had not occurred to me, but IT HAS NOW, and no, I'm definitely not above photoshopping a jolly wee hat onto my exposed brainy-picture.

Thanks, Achewood!

I gave pictures of my colonoscopy as gift cards -- it wasn't christmas, but it was still festive enough and a good way to share my pain.
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Post by: AlohaDawg on October 14, 2005, 07:56:36 pm: I have some photos of the inside of my stomach I can use for that too. I could photoshop Santa's Workshop in there.
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Post by: pmcd9 on October 14, 2005, 08:13:11 pm: Here's me getting a root canal... Should I be wearing a sweater with snowflakes and reindeers on it?
(http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/DSCN1721-E-450-Getting_a_Root_Canal.jpg)

~Paul
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Post by: AugustWest on October 14, 2005, 09:49:49 pm: Paul, how do you afford the camera crew that follows you everywhere?
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Post by: pmcd9 on October 14, 2005, 09:56:28 pm: Quote from: "AugustWest"
Paul, how do you afford the camera crew that follows you everywhere?

I had to buy her lunch.

~Paul
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Post by: Bobby Isosceles on October 14, 2005, 10:18:40 pm: Quote from: "pmcd9"
Here's me getting a root canal... Should I be wearing a sweater with snowflakes and reindeers on it?
(http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/DSCN1721-E-450-Getting_a_Root_Canal.jpg)

~Paul

SIX PENCE AND A HUZZAH TO THE FIRST STRAPPING YOUNG GENT OR LASS WHO WILL PHOTOSHOP GENITALIA DESCENDING UPON THIS POOR SOUL'S OPEN MOUTH.
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Post by: pmcd9 on October 14, 2005, 10:44:47 pm: Quote from: "Bobby Isosceles"
SIX PENCE AND A HUZZAH TO THE FIRST STRAPPING YOUNG GENT OR LASS WHO WILL PHOTOSHOP GENITALIA DESCENDING UPON THIS POOR SOUL'S OPEN MOUTH.

I have such pictures [unphotoshopped] of genetalia descending upon this happy souls mouth. Or vice versa actually. Although not the same brand of genetalia you are referring to i'm quite sure. Don't worry people, i'm not going to post that.

~Paul
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Post by: V-Adore on October 14, 2005, 10:55:28 pm: Paul, you are some kind of photo-miracle.

Anyway, I unfortunately have no documentation of my one invasive surgery (adenoid removal), or I'd be making the best cards ever. "Merry Christmas from V and V'S ADENOIDS, IN A LITTLE JAR, FOR SAFEKEEPING"
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Post by: MattFish on October 15, 2005, 12:22:40 am: Quote from: "V-Adore"
Anyway, I unfortunately have no documentation of my one invasive surgery (adenoid removal), or I'd be making the best cards ever. "Merry Christmas from V and V'S ADENOIDS, IN A LITTLE JAR, FOR SAFEKEEPING"

God bless our adenoids, every one.
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Post by: Imperator Severn on October 15, 2005, 02:44:58 am: Quote from: "Mattgiraffe"

God bless our adenoids, every one.

That is one of the most cloying and idiotic plays ever written, but the worst part of all is how most every production does that line. Logically, it should be

"God blesses everyone!"

A simple enough, if foolishly optimistic statement. Everyone can be happy or something to that effect.

But instead we get

"God bless us, everyone!"

So we have a command, "God, bless us!" and an extraneous "everyone!" Perhaps it means "Bless everyone, God!" An act of hubris to be sure. I'm not sure I like a god that puts up with that. I mean, when Niobe opened her fat mouth, did Leto just sit back and take it? Hell, no, she sent Apollo and Artemis to kill all the bitch's children. Now, that's the sort of goddess I can rally behind.
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Post by: jough on October 15, 2005, 03:43:26 am: It's not a play - at least not originally.

It was from the character of Tiny Tim, in Charles Dickins's novel "A Christmas Carol."

fuck*ng philistines. Well, at least you didn't say it was a one-man show starring Patrick Stewart, or a movie starring George C. Scott.
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Post by: pmcd9 on October 15, 2005, 03:52:21 am: Quote from: "jough"
A Christmas Carol...was a one-man show starring Patrick Stewart

No Shit?

~Paul
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Post by: miles on October 15, 2005, 05:08:35 am: Quote from: "pmcd9"
Quote from: "jough"
A Christmas Carol...was a one-man show starring Patrick Stewart

No Shit?

Nice use of the ellipsis there, Paul.

Edit: I'm a retard when it comes to puncuation.
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Post by: Ben-San on October 15, 2005, 05:11:25 am: Quote from: "Imperator Severn"

So we have a command, "God, bless us!" and an extraneous "everyone!" Perhaps it means "Bless everyone, God!" An act of hubris to be sure. I'm not sure I like a god that puts up with that. I mean, when Niobe opened her fat mouth, did Leto just sit back and take it? Hell, no, she sent Apollo and Artemis to kill all the bitch's children. Now, that's the sort of goddess I can rally behind.

Leaving aside the "play" thing.. "God bless you/us/him" is and was a standard accepted shortening of "May God bless you/us/him". As for the "every one": part of the point of A Christmas Carol is that everyone deserves God's blessing. Even an asshole like Scrooge has good somewhere in there. "God bless us, every one" diagrams out equivalently to "May God bless every one of us": less naive than "God blesses everyone" (which would imply a lot less suffering in the world), and rather hopeful.

I still don't like A Christmas Carol, but that line's not the reason.
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Post by: Imperator Severn on October 15, 2005, 06:12:05 am: I realize it was written by Dickens, but I thought he wrote it as a play.

Having seen numerous film/televison versions of it, and having found every last one of them to be saccharine and preachy, I never felt any desire to pick up a copy of it.

Now, Keith Laumer, that is literature.
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Post by: Beatrice on October 19, 2005, 06:35:07 pm: Quote from: "pmcd9"
Quote from: "jough"
A Christmas Carol...was a one-man show starring Patrick Stewart

No Shit?

I would watch that, and I would love it
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Post by: jough on October 20, 2005, 01:53:03 am: Well, I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not, but if he does it again this year it's worth getting on a plane to see. It is awesome.

Stewart totally made it so.

And thus my geek points are used up for the day.
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Post by: Mantonio on October 20, 2005, 04:21:22 am: Quote from: "jough"
Well, I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not, but if he does it again this year it's worth getting on a plane to see. It is awesome.

Stewart totally made it so.

And thus my geek points are used up for the day.

I'd go see it. The only thing cooler than Stewart reading a Christmas Carol would be Avery Brooks playing Othello. (Alas I can't quite afford to pop on down to DC for that.)
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Post by: Imperator Severn on October 20, 2005, 05:09:27 am: And Spot could play Rumpelteazer.