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Achewood => Achewood => Topic started by: lprkn on April 08, 2008, 05:29:58 am
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I need to find ways to work the verb "to roger" into everyday speech.
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i "rogered" your mom... last night.
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It is just a week of strips that is summed up as:
"ENGLAND ENGLAND ENGLAND ENGLAND ENGLAND"
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coo coo cluck cluck sign me book
ONSTAD I HAVE SUCH A goddamn, it ain't even fucki*g worth it.
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I actually liked this one until mr. Bear's last line. It had such a newspaper cartoon feel of 'oh shit I guess we have to remind readers what the joke is' that it put me off
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Pub Landlord, tragically, is a better representation of current British culture than Mr Teal. I wish it were otherwise.
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I mean, I'm sure the average Britisher in the 1950's was spouting off like the Publican, just in a 1950s way. I doubt there was some golden age where all Britishes spoke perfect Queen's English and wore tweed jackets and smoked pipes and studied Horace.
Kind of like if I were to say there was never a golden age where every American studied Locke and had the constitution memorized and worked every day honestly with his hands on his own land in order to support his wife and children, who were proud to contribute to their sustenance, able to be educated in simple 1-room schoolhouses and make pies to leave out on the sill. Homespun cloth and protestant work ethic and tri-cornered hats and love for the union. citizen soldiers, pious to God and the ideals of Democracy and Freedom.
Except, of course, America actually was like that, I'm pretty sure. Whereas, you know, England is just a country made up of people who have changed over time and been influenced by the times they lived in and stuff. History.
I don't really know what I'm trying to say, here. Maybe I want to see a British comic take on America. Due to having read a Stephen Ambrose book about D-Day at an impressionable age, the first thing that comes to mind is his description of British troops standing on one of the beaches and shaking their heads at the sheer volume of crap the American soldiers had carried all the way across the ocean, only to dump it on the beach when they realized how heavy it all was. Piles and piles of all the stuff the British were on short supply of. Basically everything I love and hate about the US is summed up there, and in general in that book/WWII as I understand it. I think it was Asherdan who said you can't have one side of that coin without the other, and I am inclined to agree the more I think about it.
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I actually liked this one until mr. Bear's last line. It had such a newspaper cartoon feel of 'oh shit I guess we have to remind readers what the joke is' that it put me off
But I liked that. Because it is otherwise so not newspaper-cartoony, you know?
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TWEET
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But I liked that. Because it is otherwise so not newspaper-cartoony, you know?
Yeah I guess I shouldn't complain that Achewood is fuck*ng with my expectations. That's basically why I read it after all.
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I have to say - I don't normally literally laugh out loud at achewood these days - I enjoy it, but I tend not to laugh aloud at things I read when I'm alone - but I was just giggling today.
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I'm not all that happy with this week or so of Achewood really, going for the really obvious British stereotypes is pretty grating. It's like, if I did a week of comics on a French computer where it would only, A) Chat to me in enigmatic philosophical quips, B) Constantly go "I AM ZURRENDURING" when it's got an error or C) Strike.
I'm not offended at all, I'm not that precious. It's mainly all the people laughing this stuff up (mostly on Assetbar). If I posted a series of comics where my American computer ate ridiculous amounts of junk email, spread loads of viruses onto computers and belched noxious fumes everywhere, most Achewood fans would find it crap (though lots of culturally blinkered English folk would.. love it.. CHRIST I THINK I'VE GOT IT
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judy your ideas intrigue me and i would like to subscribe to your rss feed
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I'm not offended at all, I'm not that precious. It's mainly all the people laughing this stuff up (mostly on Assetbar). If I posted a series of comics where my American computer ate ridiculous amounts of junk email, spread loads of viruses onto computers and belched noxious fumes everywhere, most Achewood fans would find it crap (though lots of culturally blinkered English folk would.. love it.. CHRIST I THINK I'VE GOT IT
Ooooh oooh! Do me next, do me next!
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Once again I assert that this computer was built in New Jersey by people seeking to capitalize on the Anglophile market.
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no... Mr Bear will wake up to find it was all a dream. No company makes such a fine computer.
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Wait, is going on strike a French stereotype?
And you forgot their tendency to berate Alton for washing mushrooms and improperly blooming yeast.
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Nope. I think we'll find that this computer was designed and manufactured in Mexico by one Mr. Lonis F. Edison.
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Wait, is going on strike a French stereotype?
And you forgot their tendency to berate Alton for washing mushrooms and improperly blooming yeast.
Well, of course, I mean, you never wash a mushroom.
Nope. I think we'll find that this computer was designed and manufactured in Mexico by one Mr. Lonis F. Edison.
You, sir --
Brilliant. Just...Brilliant.
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Wait, is going on strike a French stereotype?
Well, having the farmers wheel carts into the intersections and dumping fresh produce to cause gridlock is a French innovation. Or manure. French farmers are a surly lot, drunk on their power to bring the economy to its knees.
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Italians, they go on strike at the drop of a hat.
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Ooooh oooh! Do me next, do me next!
In keeping with this week's English theme I will respond to this only with a "Carry-On" style OOER MISSUS
Also, I need to stop posting under the influence.