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[Franz.]

Is the Stick Corner possible?

Yours truly

[ Franz. ]

[slink]

Not even remotely.

I love the inset, bottom left, on the violent teacher. Great picture!

[CortJstr]

I'm suddenly reminded of my school serving salmon nuggets during Lent. It was quite disturbing.

[Franz.]

I'm suddenly reminded of my school serving salmon nuggets during Lent. It was quite disturbing.

Salmon nuggets?

[6tm]

I'm just a little bit unnerved by the cat-wife-beater photo... It doesn't seem right, with the whole, "a photo is not a cartoon".

Though the caption fits perfectly.

[Bobby Isosceles]

I love the assholish way Beef asks questions which imply foregone conclusions. In a court of law he'd be "leading the witness."

Your obligatory Scandinavian camp video (oldie but goodie)

Yes, those are actually the Sunshine girls singing.

[CortJstr]

I'm suddenly reminded of my school serving salmon nuggets during Lent. It was quite disturbing.

Salmon nuggets?

They were breaded on the outside but pink on the inside! With tartar sauce for dippin'!

[andalucia]

The stick corner was absolutely rad, but I second being creeped out by the teacher-cat being a photograph.  Oh, and by salmon nuggets.

[PinkStainlessTail]

One day of this=rad
2 or more=not rad

[Limmo]

Is the Stick Corner possible?

Yours truly

[ Franz. ]

No, but it is genius.

[V-Adore]

Is it wrong that I think salmon nuggets could be rad?

Anyway, the teacher-cat being a photograph somehow fits to me. It kind of works with the general Drudge Report aesthetic of the publication. I'm confused by the cartoon cat in the witch's hat -- is this the Achewood Unified High mascot?

[AugustWest]

Is it wrong that I think salmon nuggets could be rad?

Me too.  I think I'll make salmon croquettes this weekend.

[CortJstr]

Spouse does something similiar to this with salmon, although with a little more of that 'seasoning' and 'spices' thing that makes it excellent.  This leads me to thing salmon nug's could be OK.

But not in an institutional serving setting.

No way, that is ass.

Exactly. I firmly believe that all cafeteria food should be misspelled like Cheeze Whiz. Calling them salmon nuggets might lead people to believe that they taste like salmon. However if the menu listed "sammon nuggets" then people would be better prepared for the horrors that awaited them.

[St_Zartan]

I really like institutional food. I like scrambled eggs served with an ice cream scoop. I like rectangles of pizza with perfect, tiny little cubes of "pepperoni".  I like the compromise between the taste of Real Food and approximated Food Flavor that is the Nugget. And I love the Filet O'giraffe's uglier sister.

The photo is creepy on a couple of levels; Achewood's stabs at realism (the landscapes in "Philippe Kidnapped", Onstad's ongoing logo fetishism) have all been within the currently existing aesthetic. So, yeah, the reminder that these are supposed to be real cats leading these secret humanesque Underground lives is a little jarring. It doesn't help that Onstad picked a cat that looks like a methamphetamine-inspired hybrid of cat and chihuahua.

"Ask for Thank You" = awesome.

[CortJstr]

I was entertained. I would actually love for Onstad to write up a bunch of these one-shots and throw them up on days when there otherwise wouldn't have been any strip at all.

I also don't mind toying with the reality of the strip. It's like baby Stewie, sometimes the family can understand him other times not. Ray appearing to drive a tiny, cat-sized Escalade while Beef's car appears to be human sized doesn't bother me. In the past he generally made photographs appear more like drawings. Like the on the Emeril box. Maybe if he'd done that with the cat people wouldn't be so creeped out.