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[Jay!]

I have attempted to create a new thread in keeping with the customs and practices of this messageboard.

The first post in a new strip thread was tempting, like a beautifully-wrapped and mysteriously-scented package, and I was unable to resist it.

So, I guess my big question on this strip is:  is Beef's speech pattern in the last panel representative of a return to his normal reticence, or has he crossed through his anger into an open plateau of matter-of-fact badassedness?

[cellardoor]

He's though the "gramma barrier" and living clean on the other side.
Of course, there's a world of guilt coming his way but I also foresee a reunion with Molly.
Beef has finally done it!
All I hear now are choral voices carrying me to sweet, sweet paradise.

its like there is music coming out my ears

Hurrah!

[Steve Hogan]

I live in your poolshed now.

[Bobby Isosceles]

Of course, there's a world of guilt coming his way but I also foresee a reunion with Molly.

So Molly returns to the trailer and gets attacked my Gramma?
Or Pat, thinking Beef lives there?

I'm still hoping Onstad works the tragedy angle.

[sensate]

Haha. Brilliant, Bobby. Sounds like Pat, who will have his world rearranged by an offscreen Gramma K. who thinks he's Beef. Achewood karma, here we come!

[arkabee]

hoooray!

[Bobby Isosceles]

Haha. Brilliant, Bobby. Sounds like Pat, who will have his world rearranged by an offscreen Gramma K. who thinks he's Beef. Achewood karma, here we come!

That would be the perfect tragedy too. Pat, through his wrath and avarice, comes to a terrible fall from grace at the hands of the once-jester and sometimes-villian Gramma K.

• Pat has a very literary tragic flaw; namely he is a dick.
• Gollum references go here.

[palm trees]

beef and punctuation? 's been a while.

[CortJstr]

beef and punctuation? 's been a while.

You have no idea how stong the urge is to go backwards through the archives to find out exactly how long.

It's a sickness, really.

[ndpatel]

but why the poolshed? why not just move into ray's big damn house?

i guess i don't understand perserving the outward appearance of independence even though you're still kinda imposing.

[V-Adore]

I presume that the poolshed is an intermediate step between leaving the house and finding a better place, i.e. one that isn't Ray's poolshed. The change in speech patterns really represents a newfound forcefulness, and one hopes that Beef will not settle.

[Bobby Isosceles]

I presume that the poolshed is an intermediate step between leaving the house and finding a better place, i.e. one that isn't Ray's poolshed. The change in speech patterns really represents a newfound forcefulness, and one hopes that Beef will not settle.

Chris, if you are reading, I humbly suggest that Beef gets his new Balls (TM) and gets his own place (TM) and then goes and finds Molly in her new job a la "An Officer and a Gentleman".

[AugustWest]

I presume that the poolshed is an intermediate step between leaving the house and finding a better place, i.e. one that isn't Ray's poolshed. The change in speech patterns really represents a newfound forcefulness, and one hopes that Beef will not settle.

Chris, if you are reading, I humbly suggest that Beef gets his new Balls (TM) and gets his own place (TM) and then goes and finds Molly in her new job a la "An Officer and a Gentleman".

That's not very tragic.  That's downright heartwarming.  And we all know how painful that can be.

[Bobby Isosceles]

I presume that the poolshed is an intermediate step between leaving the house and finding a better place, i.e. one that isn't Ray's poolshed. The change in speech patterns really represents a newfound forcefulness, and one hopes that Beef will not settle.

Chris, if you are reading, I humbly suggest that Beef gets his new Balls (TM) and gets his own place (TM) and then goes and finds Molly in her new job a la "An Officer and a Gentleman".

That's not very tragic.  That's downright heartwarming.  And we all know how painful that can be.

The tragedy would be Gramma K and Pat mutually killing each other -- or trying to, and falling in love.

Maybe they can bond over their shared hatred of Laplanders. What's wrong with Laplanders? Why can't they give up their nomadic ways like every other people on earth? Besides, reindeer are filthy. If you're a Laplander, the only decent thing to do would be to renounce your ethnicity and pretend to be a Finn.

I can seriously see them getting tipsy on some jug wine and raging against laplanders. The next panel would be Pat, horrified, to find out that he just made sweet nookie with Gramma K.

[slink]

The tragedy would be Gramma K and Pat mutually killing each other -- or trying to, and falling in love.

Everything about this just makes me think of that horrifically disturbing episode of The Simpsons...

Worst. Episode. Ever!

I could CJ it, but well, that is the episode title, and I'm hogging all my own bandwidth...