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Re: I have never met a man as shiny as you - 8/02/07
« Reply #15 on: August 03, 2007, 09:11:10 pm »
Well, I think this strip is mediocre, and previous strips have been mediocre for some time.

Am I wrong, or did the strip pretty much peak with the GOF?

I did love the "Will Beef pop the question?" thread, but it too lacked teeth (but it made up for it with heart, so I guess that's okay).
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Re: I have never met a man as shiny as you - 8/02/07
« Reply #16 on: August 03, 2007, 10:27:45 pm »
You didn't like the Mexican Magical Realism arc?
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Re: I have never met a man as shiny as you - 8/02/07
« Reply #17 on: August 06, 2007, 09:39:49 am »
Quote from: CortJstr on August 02, 2007, 09:00:38 pm
I can't recall if there's been a canonical reference to his origins. I could just be that in the minds of us Americans cultured and gentlemanly = English but I think things like Scotch eggs and his pub are pointing in that direction as well.

There is a reference to it - he's pretty certainly English. In the arc where Roast Beef, Lyle, Mr Bear, Teodor and Nightlife Mingus (I think), are trapped in Ray's dumb waiter (during the time Ray and Phillipe are meeting Mark Twain). When they're playing the Porn Star Name game Mr. Bear has a thought bubble that the street he first lived on was Roxx Street in Cambridge.

http://achewood.com/index.php?date=09092003
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Re: I have never met a man as shiny as you - 8/02/07
« Reply #18 on: August 07, 2007, 05:27:44 am »
Quote from: jaydub on August 03, 2007, 10:27:45 pm
You didn't like the Mexican Magical Realism arc?

I have a pair of Levis that are made in Mexico that I just bought, and whenever I wear them, I know think of them as my Mexican Realism blue jeans.
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Re: I have never met a man as shiny as you - 8/02/07
« Reply #19 on: August 07, 2007, 10:31:31 am »
Quote from: side_show on August 07, 2007, 05:27:44 am
Mexican Realism blue jeans.

When you wear these is there automatically a Porsche 550 Spyder in your driveway with a glass bottle of coke in the govebox?
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Re: I have never met a man as shiny as you - 8/02/07
« Reply #20 on: August 07, 2007, 01:01:16 pm »
Quote from: side_show on August 07, 2007, 05:27:44 am
I have a pair of Levis that are made in Mexico that I just bought, and whenever I wear them, I know think of them as my Mexican Realism blue jeans.

Do they make your butt look magically sexy?
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Re: I have never met a man as shiny as you - 8/02/07
« Reply #21 on: August 07, 2007, 02:40:04 pm »
this reminds me.
there is one kind of jeans. they are the worst kind of jeans.

these jeans have no butt-pockets, and a seam right along the, um, middle of the butt.

Ladies, these jeans make your ass look horrible. Do not wear them.
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Re: I have never met a man as shiny as you - 8/02/07
« Reply #22 on: August 07, 2007, 02:52:03 pm »
This has reminded me of the plot where ray met his [thing] dog as a foretelling of his death... anyone remember where that plot started??
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Re: I have never met a man as shiny as you - 8/02/07
« Reply #23 on: August 07, 2007, 03:02:52 pm »
Quote from: MrCB on August 07, 2007, 02:52:03 pm
This has reminded me of the plot where ray met his [thing] dog as a foretelling of his death... anyone remember where that plot started??

http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=09062006

Which was the day after a Saddest Thing strip.
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Re: I have never met a man as shiny as you - 8/02/07
« Reply #24 on: August 07, 2007, 03:09:49 pm »
Quote from: theinevitable on August 07, 2007, 02:40:04 pm
this reminds me.
there is one kind of jeans. they are the worst kind of jeans.

these jeans have no butt-pockets, and a seam right along the, um, middle of the butt.

Ladies, these jeans make your ass look horrible. Do not wear them.

I second this motion.
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Re: I have never met a man as shiny as you - 8/02/07
« Reply #25 on: August 07, 2007, 03:24:21 pm »
Quote from: CortJstr on August 07, 2007, 03:02:52 pm
http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=09062006

Which was the day after a Saddest Thing strip.

Thanks! I was looking through the archive and knew it was near the Magical Realism arc with Bensington Butters, but somehow completely passed it by...

Can for you!
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