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Title: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Hobot on April 10, 2006, 12:04:40 pm
I guess we can talk about Emeril's blog here or in the "Exciting New Character Blog" thread; you know, whatever floats your boat.

I thoroughly enjoyed Onstad's newest entry about playing the Lottery.  Of course, it reminded me of that Shirley Jackson short story, but I got over it.  My favourite part: "She gave me that one-eye-squint look she gives to me when I ask how to do basic life functions...."  Brilliant.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: CortJstr on April 10, 2006, 01:00:33 pm
I've gotten that look. I often have no idea how to do basic chores because my mom is OCD and nobody can clean up to her standards. So even if I tried to help and vacuum she'd just do it again. Around age 7 I decided to just give up and not even attempt to clean anything.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: theinevitable on April 10, 2006, 01:25:30 pm
oh jeez, I get this squint all the time.
I have realized how much my parents basically do for me, and it is horrifying.
also, I am very hesitant to do a large number of things because of a few experiences where I assumed I knew how to do something, did it incorrectly, and then failed spectacularly. I now ask how to do things-- every time.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Mite on April 10, 2006, 02:19:15 pm
I give this squint to my husband whenever his supremely bad sense of direction rears its ugly head, and he returns it to me when he says things like "What do you mean you've never seen Hudson Hawk?!"

Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: pmcd9 on April 10, 2006, 02:30:51 pm
Quote from: Chris Onstad's Blog Post
Talk about a guy who pulls his testicles away from his body with both hands.
.

Is this something done for pleasure?

~Paul
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: misterqueue on April 10, 2006, 02:32:59 pm
I took that to be the lift-n-spread of someone getting inspected in prison, but that didn't make 100% of sense to me either.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Beatrice on April 10, 2006, 05:49:35 pm
as distance from testicle grow, manhood diminish
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: goldenchurchhill on April 10, 2006, 06:44:26 pm
I thought he had big balls?  I guess it would be hard to have to use both hands no matter how big they are.  MAybe he does it because he is a prick.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Drygioni on April 10, 2006, 07:04:51 pm
I can play the lottery in three months or so. Among other things.

I've always enjoyed Onstad's blogs over the 'real' characters. Sometimes there's just a limit to the enjoyment I can get out of knowing the lives and backstories of cartoon characters, whereas most here relish the prospect of finding out just that little bit more about Achewood. Obviously, I'm not a true fan; I don't even have the cookbook, for chris'sake.

I do enjoy this man who shouts at phones and tells the Internet about his newborn baby, though.



   
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: pmcd9 on April 10, 2006, 07:45:02 pm
I'm not a true fan; I don't even have the cookbook, for chris'sake.

Buy the cookbook for Chris' sake and your own.

~Paul
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: theinevitable on April 10, 2006, 08:14:35 pm
ok people

I think it was a joke about the man's balls not having descended. he is trying so hard to make them come down, and they will not.

also: does this really happen to people? I mean, I don't to be awkward by asking this, but... I don't seem to remember any such event. I know it happens to dogs and such, but... people? really?

just ignore that if that is too awkward.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: jough on April 10, 2006, 08:20:15 pm
I cannot remember a moment in my life where my balls weren't right where they are now.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: pmcd9 on April 10, 2006, 08:21:54 pm
I cannot remember a moment in my life where my balls weren't right where they are now.

In your boyfriends mouth?  Oh damn!!!

~Paul
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: littlefallsmets on April 10, 2006, 09:00:50 pm
I'm often mocked for putting two dollars on each lottery drawing that I remember when in a convenience store (I live in California, so that's two Superlottos and two Megamillions a week, eight dollars a week) once its found out that I do as such.

People tell me "Mike, you are not a Dumb Person. You have a degree from a college that is not made-up. You have read many books. Clearly, you know that you will not win the lottery. The odds are millions to one every time and they are not cumulative. You will not build up luck in the lottery by involving yourself many times. Every time, it is millions to one again you. Every lottery will always be won by a nurse's assistant in one of the poorer parts of Orange County. This is how it works."

It takes a while to explain to people that I don't really think I'll win, you know, or at least that I understand how nearly-impossible it is for me to win. What I'm doing is... renting the fantasy. For two dollars, I can rent that fantasy for three or four days, the fantasy that everything will be okay. That every problem that money caused can disappear and that every problem that money can fix can be fixed in the blink of an eye.

It is not such a high cost for a fantasy of those heights, eight dollars a week.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Carlos del Vaca on April 10, 2006, 09:05:46 pm
I tend to agree with you.  I did the math and figured out that Mega Millions and PowerBall need jackpots of well over $200 million before they're a good bet.  But I still drop a buck on them every once in a while, because it's nice to dream.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: smick on April 10, 2006, 09:25:31 pm

I've always enjoyed Onstad's blogs over the 'real' characters. Sometimes there's just a limit to the enjoyment I can get out of knowing the lives and backstories of cartoon characters, whereas most here relish the prospect of finding out just that little bit more about Achewood.
 

That's really weird.   When you mentioned that, I realized that I've never thought of Onstad's blog as anything other than a character blog.   He's the cartoon legs that picked up the cartoon cat that one time.

And falls... 8 dollars a week to rent the fantasy that everything is going to be ok, is better than the $6 a day for a pack of smokes.  Cheaper anyway.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: goldenchurchhill on April 10, 2006, 09:39:25 pm
yea, I really enjoy the lottery as well, nothing like that hope for the first couple days.  God, I wish I could win it though.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Lister on April 11, 2006, 11:05:36 am
I purchased lottery tickets when the Mega Millions was over $300 million, when the return finally favored the odds.  I had plans for this money, oh yes.  I figured out how much I would have after taxes, then I determined what portions would go to investments, etc.  Except for the world of technology, I am not a man driven to excess.  I would have been the most boring lottery winner ever, but I would have had a PHAT computer system.

I would probably have created a foundation of some type and been the sole employee of it.  I don't know exactly, because financial planners will not talk to you about the money you are going to win in the lottery.  Not for free, anyway.

This is important to know.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Mite on April 11, 2006, 11:38:35 am
I've never played a powerball-type lottery. I just don't see the point. Every once in awhile I'll do the scratch-offs, but at least those give you something to do for the 20 seconds you're scratching.

Humans just aren't wired to really understand statistics. Sure the odds are 40 trillion to one, but it's hard for our little ape-minds to grok that. As long as people aren't using up the rent money there's no harm.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: robot_god on April 11, 2006, 12:54:46 pm
I hate the lottery.  One of the worst ways to gamble.  But I love to play it.  Despite the poor return for the risk, someone does win once in awhile.  And they don't deserve it.  So I play it now and then.  Gambling is probably the Greatest Thing.  American dreaming at its purest.  Stay gold.

Onstad is a bullshit artist, he most likely plays the lottery compulsively, or at least fairly often.  I will refer to Cornelius' blog entry on gambling.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: theinevitable on April 11, 2006, 03:26:13 pm
no no no
we learned from NPR (when they started the first ever NC Lottery last week) that compulsive (ie: addicted) gamblers rarely play the lottery. They normally favor games that allow them to think a measure of skill is involved.

although, I don't know how legitimate that is.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: pmcd9 on April 11, 2006, 06:07:42 pm
no no no
we learned from NPR (when they started the first ever NC Lottery last week) that compulsive (ie: addicted) gamblers rarely play the lottery. They normally favor games that allow them to think a measure of skill is involved.

although, I don't know how legitimate that is.

They've overlooked the fact that there are people so fuck*ng stupid they think winning the lottery involves skill.

~Paul
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: AlohaDawg on April 11, 2006, 06:15:11 pm
I thought the objection was not the gambling aspect as much as the disproportionate amount of spending per household dollar on the lottery by the poor - the people I've heard talking about it consider it more-or-less a tax on the poor.

My argument would be that it's a dollar not spent on what? Since it's unspent you don't know if it would have went into the kids college fund or to cigarettes and bundled copies of Mayfair and Oui at the local beer-smoke-porn-lotto shop.

Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: robot_god on April 11, 2006, 10:31:41 pm
no no no
we learned from NPR (when they started the first ever NC Lottery last week) that compulsive (ie: addicted) gamblers rarely play the lottery. They normally favor games that allow them to think a measure of skill is involved.

although, I don't know how legitimate that is.

I have a friend of mine who is a very compulsive, habitual gambler, that plays scratch off tickets constantly ever since I told him losing lottery tickets are tax deductable.

I have another friend who gambles less habitually, but is very addicted to scratch offs.  One of those 'scratch-em in the store' dudes.

There is a dude down the block who comes into the deli in which I work who is a GA-recovering-lost-almost-everything gambler and he keeps himself away from any kind of lottery because he says he could just as easily get addicted to buying tickets as he could calling a bookie.

So, in my experience, it really varies from person to person, but alot more people are addicted to the lottery than you may think.  Lotto addicts seem to try to keep their playing very secretive.

I'm a mildly compulsive gambler, but I only buy tickets every now and then.

Shit.  Now I have to gamble tonight.

Awesome.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: AugustWest on April 11, 2006, 11:12:56 pm
...losing lottery tickets are tax deductable.

Mmmmm, sort of.  You can deduct gambling losses from your gambling winnings.  You can't deduct gambling losses from any other income.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: wombat on April 12, 2006, 12:43:24 pm
It is perfect that Beef doesn't say a word about the fight in his blog entry.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: CortJstr on April 12, 2006, 01:01:17 pm
It is perfect that Beef doesn't say a word about the fight in his blog entry.

What fight? He was with Showbiz (http://mollysanders.blogspot.com/2006/04/achewood-list-my-mans-on-it.html), remember?
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Beatrice on April 12, 2006, 01:55:01 pm
how the hell does Lyle manage to correctly find and sign into his blog site?  seriously, this dude can hardly read, much less write.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Hobot on April 12, 2006, 02:11:57 pm
That junkie has the same real-life name as me.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: littlefox on April 12, 2006, 02:25:15 pm
how the hell does Lyle manage to correctly find and sign into his blog site?  seriously, this dude can hardly read, much less write.

He might have it bookmarked. Maybe his password is just "lyle." Dude can spell his own name.
B'sides, Phillippe is 5 and he writes a damn fine blog.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Drygioni on April 12, 2006, 02:25:53 pm
That junkie has the same real-life name as me.

Nah, too easy.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: misterqueue on April 12, 2006, 02:38:49 pm
That junkie has the same real-life name as me.

There's a reason for that, junkie.


(Not too easy for me!)
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Hobot on April 12, 2006, 04:22:09 pm
Damn, that's another Terrible Secret of mine revealed.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: robot_god on April 12, 2006, 04:32:27 pm
how the hell does Lyle manage to correctly find and sign into his blog site?  seriously, this dude can hardly read, much less write.

Lyle can write quite well when he wants to. (http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=05302002)

He just don't wanna.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Drygioni on April 12, 2006, 04:33:16 pm
Lyle can write quite well when he wants to. (http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=05302002)

He just don't wanna.

Note also his entries when he was trapped in that prepatory school in bonnie Scotland. That was hella amusing.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: V-Adore on April 12, 2006, 07:06:58 pm
Yeah, people tend to forget how well-written he was when he was forcefully being sobered up in Scotland. Dude is clearly running from something and doing it well.

I'm not sure what the best part of Beef's entry is: the steak "Flavor Window," or the meditation on people who are probably dead now. (I do this all the time, particularly when depressed.)
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: oball on April 13, 2006, 03:32:43 am
Lyle can write quite well when he wants to. (http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=05302002)

I assumed that was going to link to his Harry Potter fanfic (http://achewood.com/index.php?date=08082005).
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: smick on April 13, 2006, 04:04:18 pm
I'm not sure what the best part of Beef's entry is: the steak "Flavor Window," or the meditation on people who are probably dead now. (I do this all the time, particularly when depressed.)

I do something similar, like some statistical metacounting.   I'll be driving along on the freeway passing all of these houses.   Then I'll tick them off in my head.  "Someone is crying right now.   Someone is very high on drugs.   Someone is having sex.  Someone is watching television." and I'll be picturing all of these people I've never met doing these mundane, and sometimes outrageous things.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Drygioni on April 13, 2006, 04:11:15 pm
The welcome return of Pat! I have to admit, buying a pack of breast is very insulting. I loved the PAT. at the end. Is so Pat and all that.

And how ironic: (http://touamb.com/index.php/topic,2692.msg61016.html#msg61016)

Quote
Daylight Savings Time
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: CortJstr on April 13, 2006, 04:28:09 pm
Yeah, I was going to point that out but didn't want to harp. Even if it did involve proving Pat wrong about something.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: lprkn on April 14, 2006, 12:57:36 am
I do something similar, like some statistical metacounting.   I'll be driving along on the freeway passing all of these houses.   Then I'll tick them off in my head.  "Someone is crying right now.   Someone is very high on drugs.   Someone is having sex.  Someone is watching television." and I'll be picturing all of these people I've never met doing these mundane, and sometimes outrageous things.

Right now, Van Halen is planning a world tour. (the video was on VH1 Classic today)

Also: Smick, you in Spokane! I live two hours away from you!

Note to others: In the Inland Northwest, two hours is not very far.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: mrdna1 on April 14, 2006, 03:00:30 am
Yeah, people tend to forget how well-written he was when he was forcefully being sobered up in Scotland. Dude is clearly running from something and doing it well.

I'm not sure what the best part of Beef's entry is: the steak "Flavor Window," or the meditation on people who are probably dead now. (I do this all the time, particularly when depressed.)
Holy shit, I never read Lyle's blog since I thought it was all gibberish, but these eloquent detox entries are great.

edit: I actually think a brief story arc featuring a sober Lyle would be kinda interesting, sort of like Nice Pat.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: wombat on April 14, 2006, 02:45:01 pm
Here's some pictures of a Scottsh fold unhappily getting a bath. (http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2006/04/lets_get_friday.html)  My excuse for posting it here is thinking of what a good blog entry Ray would make of the experience.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Mite on April 14, 2006, 03:26:05 pm
Cute Overload is treasure. Not even just basically like treasure. They are equivalent.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: jough on April 14, 2006, 03:27:16 pm
I don't know if terrified/pissed-off cats are cute, but that one wide-eyed horror shot did make me laugh.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: AugustWest on April 14, 2006, 03:50:46 pm
Now can we watch the owner taking a bath?
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Turbo Ninja on April 14, 2006, 04:27:57 pm
Lyle's contribution to the Achewood cookbook is also lucid not not as refined as his Scottish blog entries.  Too bad - I was hoping for a Diamond Juice-enhanced rant about sfcukin' sanitaco biz got ray all futc n prono shoot guz ca''tn wrk onar kichns n fk when I saw that Lyle wrote one of the forewords.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: CortJstr on April 15, 2006, 03:35:39 pm
So how long before an Isetta shows up in the strip just so Chris can draw one?
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: wombat on April 15, 2006, 04:20:54 pm
Regular-bottom women need love too!

That is the weirdest little car I have ever seen.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: misterqueue on April 15, 2006, 04:57:07 pm
As far as weird cars go, I've always been fond of Things (http://www.iltis.us/images/76VW1.JPG) and Karmann Ghias (http://www.dyna.co.za/cars/1957_VW_Karmann_Ghia_Red_sf11.jpg).

Also wtf? (http://www.car.co.nz/images/articles/kaz/kaz_01_lg.jpg?PHPSESSID=a827d615747b8c8fff042e500c1a8e38)
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: CortJstr on April 15, 2006, 05:03:26 pm
Regular-bottom women need love too!

That is the weirdest little car I have ever seen.

I dislike big butts and I cannot tell faslehoods. In fact I'll take a tiny non-butt over a big one any day of the week so of the 3 main categories big comes in dead last.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Hobot on April 15, 2006, 05:05:42 pm
SmartCar (http://www.pc-parents.com/images/Misc-Smart%20Car%20in%20Helsinki%20B.jpg)!
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Drygioni on April 15, 2006, 05:14:13 pm
SmartCar (http://www.pc-parents.com/images/Misc-Smart%20Car%20in%20Helsinki%20B.jpg)!

I loves SmartCars. They fulfil all the needs of the city; they can fit through small gaps, have ejector seats, look awesome, AND its size means people won't try to get lifts with you!
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: CortJstr on April 15, 2006, 05:37:01 pm
SmartCar (http://www.pc-parents.com/images/Misc-Smart%20Car%20in%20Helsinki%20B.jpg)!

The Post wrote a story about those like 2 years ago claiming they were coming to the US any day now. The funniest part were the ones with the removable panels so you could change the color of your car basically at will.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Drygioni on April 15, 2006, 05:44:17 pm
The Post wrote a story about those like 2 years ago claiming they were coming to the US any day now. The funniest part were the ones with the removable panels so you could change the color of your car basically at will.

Do they not sell them in the US yet or did I just misinterpret? They're everywhere in most of Britain's cities, and Pizza Hut delivery boys use them (a sure sign of Speed and Handling). The removable panels are well awesome, I'm not sure but I think custom-made panels are available. If I get one of these, I'm hoping to give it an Achewood makeover.

Maybe a side panel with Ray saying 'You lookin' damn fine ladies'
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: robot_god on April 15, 2006, 06:50:14 pm
Do they not sell them in the US yet or did I just misinterpret? They're everywhere in most of Britain's cities, and Pizza Hut delivery boys use them (a sure sign of Speed and Handling). The removable panels are well awesome, I'm not sure but I think custom-made panels are available. If I get one of these, I'm hoping to give it an Achewood makeover.

Maybe a side panel with Ray saying 'You lookin' damn fine ladies'

Nope, they don't sell those [yet].  If you parked one of those on the street around here, you would probably find it tipped over the next morning.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: swinehund on April 15, 2006, 07:11:53 pm
Nope, they don't sell those [yet].  If you parked one of those on the street around here, you would probably find it tipped over the next morning.

We have them in Canada, they seem to be gaining in popularity in the cities. Then again, the Echo was really popular here too.

Isetta with trailer (http://www.car.co.nz/images/articles/kaz/kaz_01_lg.jpg?PHPSESSID=a827d615747b8c8fff042e500c1a8e38). This picture is awesome. I expect 300 clowns to come piling out of it.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Hobo Frenzy on April 15, 2006, 11:05:39 pm
The Karmann Ghia...oh man I can't begin to tell you how much I love this Volkswagen. It's a beetle with grace and style. It's the predisessor to my current car. And it still looks good after all these years. It's aged well. Yumm.

Smartcars are cool and all but if they ever brought those things over here I'd have to go for a Smart Roadster (http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Smart%20Roadster&sa=N&tab=wi), grrrrr!

(we need to talk about cars more often here)
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: AlohaDawg on April 15, 2006, 11:51:13 pm
Do they not sell them in the US yet or did I just misinterpret? They're everywhere in most of Britain's cities, and Pizza Hut delivery boys use them (a sure sign of Speed and Handling).

Even if I were inclined to have one (not, I have three kids) I can't imagine taking any kind of long trip in it, let alone sharing the road with all the big SUVs and commerical trucks. If you were on a windy bridge and a huge semi went by you at 70mph, wouldn't that little car just blow right off the bridge?
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Ben-San on April 16, 2006, 12:41:50 am
Even if I were inclined to have one (not, I have three kids) I can't imagine taking any kind of long trip in it, let alone sharing the road with all the big SUVs and commerical trucks. If you were on a windy bridge and a huge semi went by you at 70mph, wouldn't that little car just blow right off the bridge?

There is a company importing SmartCars from Canada and modifying them to US legal standards. On their site is a blog of a cross-country rally (LA to NY) in SmartCars. Obviously being an advertising stunt it is preferential to the SmartCars but nobody died or got hurled off a bridge.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: pmcd9 on April 17, 2006, 12:49:07 pm
My Buddy Dave has an Issetta.  He calls it  The Aerocar (http://www.paulmcrae.com/FEATURES/MN_PARADE_05/IMAGES/AC_3/1024/DSCN6858-E-1024.jpg).

~Paul
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Hobot on April 17, 2006, 02:12:27 pm
Even if I were inclined to have one (not, I have three kids) I can't imagine taking any kind of long trip in it, let alone sharing the road with all the big SUVs and commerical trucks. If you were on a windy bridge and a huge semi went by you at 70mph, wouldn't that little car just blow right off the bridge?

They're more practical in Europe and the UK, where crazy mothers driving their single child to soccer practice with a cooler of Capri Suns in a Suburban that could easily seat three border-hopping families are not as much of a problem.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: AlohaDawg on April 17, 2006, 08:52:41 pm
They're more practical in Europe and the UK, where crazy mothers driving their single child to soccer practice with a cooler of Capri Suns in a Suburban that could easily seat three border-hopping families are not as much of a problem.

Europe has negative population growth. Europe has shorter distances and more expensive gas. Europe has smaller average vehicles (due to smaller and windier roads). It's natural to have a vehicle like this there because the driving culture evolved to it.

In the US of today, it's like putting webbed feet on a donkey unless and until general driving habits and the driving culture in the US change dramatically.

I can maybe see these in an urban environment where maybe you don't drive far and use surface streets (i.e. the same kind of areas where mopeds are practical) but once on the highway I can't see this being safe or practical, and especially since average family size in the US makes this a useless toy (especially with increasing migration to the US).

Edited to avoid HELL of negative cans because Karma can ban you now.


Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: lprkn on April 18, 2006, 08:53:14 pm
Europe has negative population growth. Europe has shorter distances and more expensive gas. Europe has smaller average vehicles (due to smaller and windier roads).

Europe probably has self-image problems, too.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: robot_god on April 18, 2006, 09:21:43 pm

I can maybe see these in an urban environment where maybe you don't drive far and use surface streets (i.e. the same kind of areas where mopeds are practical) but once on the highway I can't see this being safe or practical, and especially since average family size in the US makes this a useless toy (especially with increasing migration to the US).

So Dawg, what kind of vehicles are popular in the Aloha State?
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: AlohaDawg on April 18, 2006, 09:52:02 pm
1) Largish Pickup trucks and SUVs

2) Ricers of all types and modifications

3) any kind of Jeep

4) Hoopdies

There are also some weirdos driving this little electric bubbles around. They look foolish and probably die quickly.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: theinevitable on April 18, 2006, 11:20:27 pm
this is the part where AlohaDawg posts a picture of a smartcar-wreck, and the internet comes full circle.

we all have a party with everyone else who has helped it on its way.


I feel that I am stealing this concept from someone. Sorry.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: lprkn on April 19, 2006, 12:02:41 am
1) Largish Pickup trucks and SUVs

2) Ricers of all types and modifications

3) any kind of Jeep

4) Hoopdies

There are also some weirdos driving this little electric bubbles around. They look foolish and probably die quickly.

Man, I thought everyone just surfed everywhere. Now I'm never going to go to Hawaii. And not just because AD's there, either.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: AlohaDawg on April 19, 2006, 07:27:57 am
this is the part where AlohaDawg posts a picture of a smartcar-wreck, and the internet comes full circle.

we all have a party with everyone else who has helped it on its way.

I feel that I am stealing this concept from someone. Sorry.

Not a SmartCar. We have GEM (http://starbulletin.com/2000/04/21/features/story1.html)

Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Hobo Frenzy on April 19, 2006, 01:24:26 pm
this is the part where AlohaDawg Hobo Frenzy posts a picture movies of a smartcar-wreck, and the internet comes full circle.

Smart Car Crash Test (http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=smart+car+crash+test) in slow motion without sound. These are pretty cool and it looks like the smart car held up fairly well. I know it's a small car versus a small hatchback car but you have to consider this is a high speed test so I'm guessing their traveling at about 60-70mph. That's not bad!

EDIT: Oh shit, this (http://www.mercedes-benz.ca/mbccustom/smart/safety/event_clips.cfm) might be a gold mine if you were one to mine and cherish Smart Car crash footage. This is a Smart vs a MB E320.

EDIT2: Smart car meets a concrete wall. High speed crash with British commentary from Tiff Needell. What fun!


I tried to make the Google search as specific as possible but I still ended up with a video about philosophy from Daniel Dennett. Fuck THIS guy !
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Mite on April 19, 2006, 02:14:02 pm
Unfortunately, I think "high speed" in these instances is only 40 mph (cite (http://autopedia.com/html/Insure/CrashHighList.html)). It did hold up pretty well, but I think it'd look significantly different after hitting a semi at highway speeds. I still want one, though.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Hobo Frenzy on April 19, 2006, 03:05:04 pm
Hmm you may be right as far as the official crash test goes. But I remember the Fifth Gear crash test (the one with the concrete barrier) was done at a very high speed. 70mph is sticking out in my mind for some reason. I'll try to find out more though.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: CortJstr on April 19, 2006, 04:06:18 pm
Why is Emeril requiring a 7-layer mexican dip for club gatherings? That's just West Coast Bias.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Hobot on April 19, 2006, 04:59:42 pm
Onstad wrote better in the fourth grade than the girl whose Psych paper I just peer-edited does now.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Simms on April 26, 2006, 10:42:21 am
In Ray's latest blog entry, the wine he drinks is a wine mentioned in a Beastie Boys song.

"Like a bottle of Chateauneuf-du-Pape/ I'm fine like wine when I start to rap."

I just figured I'd mention this.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: CortJstr on April 26, 2006, 12:56:07 pm
So did this guy have an actual Iroquois or does Ray just think that Huey is a generic slang term for helicopter?
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: wombat on April 26, 2006, 04:05:42 pm
In Ray's latest blog entry, the wine he drinks is a wine mentioned in a Beastie Boys song.

"Like a bottle of Chateauneuf-du-Pape/ I'm fine like wine when I start to rap."

I just figured I'd mention this.

This post makes me want to cry and go home and drown my sorrows at the state of Youth in a nice Cote du Rhone.  I just figured I'd mention this. 

(Also, how come everyone knows how to put foreign alphabets in their posts but me?  Is this punishment for the years I spent shoving funny characters down the gullets of innocent Youth who would never again in their lives need to use the International Phonetic Alphabet or any variation thereof?)
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Carlos del Vaca on April 26, 2006, 04:42:03 pm
I had to look up what goujons are.  (They're basically fancy-ass giraffe sticks.)

wombat:  If you're on a PC, Start --> Programs --> Accessories --> System Tools --> Character Map.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Hobot on April 26, 2006, 05:03:21 pm
I've always liked Ray, but have never appreciated him in the way that I do Beef.  This latest entry has changed that.  Ray is now a much more complex, multilayered character to me.  Truly, this was an awesome blog post.

Also, somebody make a prototype of the two-roses-making-love-to-a-clock logo, stat.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: wombat on April 26, 2006, 07:37:27 pm

wombat:  If you're on a PC, Start --> Programs --> Accessories --> System Tools --> Character Map.

Óòõòôöø!
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: jough on April 26, 2006, 07:48:52 pm
Thanks, Carlos.  Any one of us could have told her that years ago.  But now look what you've done!  You've created a high-ascii monster!
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: V-Adore on April 26, 2006, 08:06:55 pm
I'll freely confess that I'm a bit confused by Ray actually thinking through his actions and admitting fear, especially of bad luck. Maybe the GOF really did force him a little more into adulthood? I suppose time will tell.

And yes, the two-roses-making-love-to-a-clock logo must be seen. I want to see just how the idea comes across real clear when there's no penetration or even motion lines.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: theinevitable on April 26, 2006, 08:53:01 pm
hm.

I'm wondering if maybe the clock is just near the roses, and this is just Ray being Ray.

he is going to get a helicopter, and then die in a crash. he will disappear, they will have a memorial service, and then he will show up-- hell of Huck Finn style.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Simms on April 26, 2006, 10:43:44 pm
This post makes me want to cry and go home and drown my sorrows at the state of Youth in a nice Cote du Rhone.  I just figured I'd mention this. 

I promise that this wasn't just me trying to flex my knowledge of Beastie Boys. I was just saying maybe there's a connection between him getting that wine and the Beastie Boys lyric. Maybe it's the only wine he knows and he knows it through the efforts of MCA and crew.

I am not a big rap fan. I am good person, I promise.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: lprkn on April 27, 2006, 01:26:27 am
...Also, somebody make a prototype of the two-roses-making-love-to-a-clock logo, stat.
...And yes, the two-roses-making-love-to-a-clock logo must be seen. I want to see just how the idea comes across real clear when there's no penetration or even motion lines.

(http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/4986/roses0kq.png)

My picture skills are mediocre at best. The picture is visible, right?
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: theinevitable on April 27, 2006, 01:51:36 am
yes.

this is actually basically exactly how I imagined it.

but I don't know if I would say they were making love to it. Ray is just a romantic guy.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: wombat on April 27, 2006, 02:11:14 am
I promise that this wasn't just me trying to flex my knowledge of Beastie Boys. I was just saying maybe there's a connection between him getting that wine and the Beastie Boys lyric. Maybe it's the only wine he knows and he knows it through the efforts of MCA and crew.

I am not a big rap fan. I am good person, I promise.

No, that is not it, I am resigned to rap in general despite my Advanced Years.  My tears were for the fear that the only place you'd ever heard of Châteauneuf-du-Pape was in a rap lyric.

(Look!  Funny character!)
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: swinehund on April 27, 2006, 02:20:12 am
Also, somebody make a prototype of the two-roses-making-love-to-a-clock logo, stat.
(http://www.venge.net/frances/assortedjunk/imaginationn.jpg)
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: V-Adore on April 27, 2006, 03:37:42 am
Hmm. See, I was sort of picturing something different, but that's probably exactly what it was: two roses next to a clock, in a position that a normal person would think of as vaguely artistic but Ray would immediately associate with bonez0rs. God bless Ray's monomania.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: thedudeabides85 on April 27, 2006, 05:33:30 am
(http://x3e.xanga.com/948b81e76803350880727/w34155922.jpg)

Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Drastic Action on April 27, 2006, 05:57:13 am
At first... at first I thought those were carrots.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: littlefallsmets on April 27, 2006, 06:39:21 am
So did this guy have an actual Iroquois or does Ray just think that Huey is a generic slang term for helicopter?

Long answer, yes, Ray is characterized as the sort of dude who will bandy about the random swatches of knowledge he's been able to absorb in a fashion as though they apply in any situation remotely related to their topics.

He knows that something hot directly in the fridge will only ruin everything in the fridge with its heat, for example, but not because it is Common Sense. Rather because he saw Alton Brown say it once. He probably owns many of the puppets from the "Land of Confusion" video but probably has no idea that Peter Gabriel was once in Genesis, even though he also owns some of the clay figures from the "Sledgehammer" video.

Short answer, yes, but he will soon do the research to know better because a helicopter is a serious thing.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: lprkn on April 27, 2006, 09:42:51 am
The cock clock is indeed disturbing.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: wombat on April 27, 2006, 12:39:58 pm
Trashspotting messageboard!   Now I really have to start a club so I can post on it.  Because God knows I don't already spend enough time on Achewood-related messageboards.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: wombat on April 27, 2006, 12:48:02 pm
This (http://www.marriedtothesea.com/042706/impress-her.gif) seems relevant somehow.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: Mite on April 27, 2006, 12:51:44 pm
Do I even want to know where you found that?
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: CortJstr on April 27, 2006, 01:03:50 pm
Do I even want to know where you found that?

Married to the Sea is done by the same guy as Toothpaste for Dinner. And his wife. So it's not actually weird that Wombat found it.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: misterqueue on April 27, 2006, 01:19:00 pm
This (http://www.marriedtothesea.com/042706/impress-her.gif) seems relevant somehow.


Yeah.. that one always confounded me.  I mean.. can you actually impress the pu$$y itself?  I always assumed it was the attached person with the feelings and emotions that was sacrosanct, but now I have to deal with sentient pu$$ye?
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: wombat on April 27, 2006, 01:32:57 pm
So it's not actually weird that Wombat found it.

I'm trying to decide if this is sort of insulting?
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: CortJstr on April 27, 2006, 02:40:47 pm
I'm trying to decide if this is sort of insulting?

Not at all. I was explain that you didn't discover the image in the bowels of the internet but on a respectable (although unfunny IMO) comic site.
Title: Re: April Blogs Bring May Flowers
Post by: wombat on April 27, 2006, 04:37:54 pm
But why do I always have to be respectable?