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[wombat]

I've come around to thinking ADawg is right about what Beef is doing with the tweezers.  But now I'm wondering why on earth Beef thinks that science experiments with rats would involve chasing them off a table with hammers.   I guess I'm just never satisfied.

[Formica]

While I do find the tweezers discussion quite fascinating...

Beef is a programmer. Why in the bejesus can't he get a code monkey job?

[CortJstr]

But now I'm wondering why on earth Beef thinks that science experiments with rats would involve chasing them off a table with hammers.

For the same reason he thought he had to bury his new shirt.

[arkabee]

so i'm stuck doing stuff for awhile tonight, so i'm staring at today's strip hoping it will give me some deeper insight into why people seem preoccupied with the notion of me not sleeping (i need you to do "X".    -i'm not entirely sure that's even possible.-    oh, i have faith in you.    -!!!-)....

1. what is with the shadows from the chairs from panel 1.

2. there is a "motion line" from the hammer in panel 3, but not in panel 4.  i surmise and speculate that beef is waving the hammer menacingly in frame 3 (menacingly for beef, not the public at large) and in panel 4 he's "calmed" since all the rats have fled but one.

3. the "motion lines" in panel 6 confuse me.  is the rat trembling in fear?  the rat emenated head lines in the previous panels, but they seemed exclamatory.  are those eyebrows or motion lines?  or is he simply "fuzzy", a phantom penis crawling up onto the table as the "Real" rats flee the table.  Beef's subconscious desire to fight against the flow of the popular reaction to a cartoon cat with a hammer?  is he greeting him?

[Chris Onstad]

...why on earth Beef thinks that science experiments with rats would involve chasing them off a table with hammers...

Now I think we're getting somewhere people.

[AlohaDawg]

See Wombat? It's like Deus ex Machina up in this Bi-atch.

I was thinking about Beef's ideation of the impossible tetris shapes during this as well; his dang ol' mind just works differn than our'n. He should be picturing people chasing HIM off a table with hammers; we all know that when they advertise for experiments in the want ads, they usually aren't looking for the scientist...

[Chris Onstad]

Looking back on this thread, anyone who thinks that someone would use tweezers to shake hands with a penis that is about to fall off a table lacks the certain brain chemical (C)(H)(O)(C)(H)(A)(C)(H)(O)

[starlight]

I'm even more tired than the night/morning before, but honestly!  shaking hands?!
[edit:  I should note that I still considered this silly before Onstad said anything about it..... I just didn't have time to post earlier when I checked this thread]

For some reason, I'm thinking my speculation isn't as silly as I thought after that one... my thought (though I didn't entirely finish it since I was about ready to fall out of my chair) was that he was picking the penis / rat up with the tweezers cause he needed one to run the experiment and all the rest ran off the table.  don't his thoughts usually involve disaster?  so the idea that they were supposed to all fall off seems ridiculous, too.

Now, I'm not sayin' the idea of him picking up the penis to bring him back on the table to do something to it with the hammer is the absolute correct answer speculation, but since I'm obviously procrastinating going to bed, I thought I'd elaborate on my theory... if one is even needed.

[Steve Hogan]

But now I'm wondering why on earth Beef thinks that science experiments with rats would involve chasing them off a table with hammers.

Actually, I know a chick who works in a lab with mice and it's really like that.  It's all about fuck*ng with them.

[V-Adore]

But now I'm wondering why on earth Beef thinks that science experiments with rats would involve chasing them off a table with hammers.

Actually, I know a chick who works in a lab with mice and it's really like that.  It's all about fuck*ng with them.

I once did an experiment in my introductory neuroscience course that involved isolating baby rats from their mothers and then testing just how long and loudly they cried under varying circumstances (alone, with some morphine, with a group of unconscious littermates, etc.). It may very well have been the saddest thing.

[Va]

It's certainly the saddest thing I've heard today.

[IsoYrBel]

My first impression was that Beef was just shaking hands with him. I didnt even ponder anything else until I visited here. It still looks to me as though he has this hammer, the mice run, his eyes get bigger with surprise, then hes even sort of playing with his hands a bit, nervous even, having put the hammer down while he looks at this poor face still clinging on. So he either shakes hands or pulls him up. He wouldnt necessarily see the risk of shaking hands.

And the shadows in panel one I just suppose are washing.

[Steve Hogan]

But now I'm wondering why on earth Beef thinks that science experiments with rats would involve chasing them off a table with hammers.

Actually, I know a chick who works in a lab with mice and it's really like that.  It's all about fuck*ng with them.

I once did an experiment in my introductory neuroscience course that involved isolating baby rats from their mothers and then testing just how long and loudly they cried under varying circumstances (alone, with some morphine, with a group of unconscious littermates, etc.). It may very well have been the saddest thing.

I thought the saddest thing involved retarded baby rats and broken eggs.

[IdiotIdiotIdiot]

Beef´s job is to whack the rats with the hammer, obviously he´s a bit hesitant about it, and all, but one, of the rats get away. Well, he knows he´s supposed to hurt the rat, but thinking that whacking the poor rat with a hammer is to harsh, he chooses to pinch it with tweezers.


AlohaDawg:

"They also make awesome pets. I used to have these two Norway rats, named 'This' and 'That'. They used to ride around on my head or shoulders. They are smart little buggers, too."

- I hear you, in Denmark we used to have Norwegians as pets too, but then the sweets...hmmm  sweeds? ehhh... the people from Sweden took ém away from us.

ohh, and thankyou.

[pubdoggy]

Looking back on this thread, anyone who thinks that someone would use tweezers to shake hands with a penis that is about to fall off a table lacks the certain brain chemical (C)(H)(O)(C)(H)(A)(C)(H)(O)

I don't know. I DON'T KNOW what I was thinking. But still - even after all the nay-saying and the stark realisation that I may have been misinterpreting SO MANY OTHER strips - I STILL see Beef shaking hands with the rat. Hell - just because this rat is one of the very few animals that doesn't talk in Achewood, doesn't necessarily mean Beef sees him as a verminous lab experiment. Jesus, Beef and that Rat could be best friends for chrissake. HE PROBABLY HAS A NAME.