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24 May '05 -- a skeleton busking
« on: May 24, 2005, 04:26:14 pm »
This strip wins. I am tired and harried and may have more to say about it later, but for now it just wins.
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24 May '05 -- a skeleton busking
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2005, 04:40:10 pm »
Man, what complete despair.  Roast Beef really was much happier when he was 239,000 miles from The Cure.

I still want to see Mr. Bear in the Volvo, though.  His despair would likely be quite entertaining.

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24 May '05 -- a skeleton busking
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2005, 04:43:28 pm »
Today's strip caused me to learn what the word 'busking' meant.  Achewood is about education.
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« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2005, 04:49:01 pm »
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Today's strip caused me to learn what the word 'busking' meant.  Achewood is about education.


I've been trying to figure out what segment of the population it is that is familiar with the term.  I'd thought it might just be a Canadian word after some of my American friends didn't know it.  Anyways, whoever you people are, it's your loss.  busker busker busk.  It is a useful word.

I'm not really all that much into this storyline but I did get a kick out of the way Beef's application of eyeliner consisted in drawing circles around his eyes, which makes a pleasant kind of cartoon sense.
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« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2005, 04:56:15 pm »
So wait, Trent Reznor liked The Cure? Or is the presence of that tape just to increase the despair level, due to it's non-radness?

Bobby, did you get a job writing Chris's alt-text?
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« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2005, 05:34:38 pm »
Busking is used in jolly old england quite a bit.
It's begging but with music!
Love this strip but peeps need to leave The Cure alone.
Disintegration is a great album!
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« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2005, 07:04:27 pm »
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Love this strip but peeps need to leave The Cure alone.

Onstad Started it.

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« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2005, 07:29:57 pm »
I learned "busking" from Moxy Fruvous, God bless 'em. Anyway, the stuff is probably Ray's; he no doubt pimped out the Volvo just to make it more totally despairing.
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« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2005, 08:27:56 pm »
Clearly, my favorite new word is "nincompoopery."

Onstad knows to give the people what they want, too. And what they want is more pictures of Ray sticking his tongue out.
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« Reply #9 on: May 24, 2005, 09:15:10 pm »
Panel 6 is the best silent panel in recent memory, for me anyway.  Just looking at it makes me chuckle.
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« Reply #10 on: May 24, 2005, 09:18:04 pm »
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Panel 6 is the best silent panel in recent memory, for me anyway.  Just looking at it makes me chuckle.

Panel 6 is also totally rad, yes. That said, my favorite new detail may be what I just now noticed going back to look at said panel: the ambiguity as to whether Beef is using the shoe polish on his hair or whether he is using the shoe polish to draw Hair of Despair on himself. Rad.
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« Reply #11 on: May 25, 2005, 01:29:02 am »
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I've been trying to figure out what segment of the population it is that is familiar with the term.  I'd thought it might just be a Canadian word after some of my American friends didn't know it.


Busking is a common term is Australia too, this makes me think it may have a strong link to english culture and just been one of those words that America decided to just forget about.
Or maybe you guys just don't have talented beggars over there? Which is a shame because buskers can be seriously awesome.

I'm still kind of wondering where Onstad is going with this, last time Beef got freaked out in a vehicle he ended up going over a cliff so anything's possible. My money is on paying a visit to Molly though.

And the eyeliner makes him look like he's got his eyes wide open so I keep thinking he's just looking really really intense, for Beef anyway.
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« Reply #12 on: May 25, 2005, 03:49:54 am »
I like it so much, I made it my icon!  I was happy to get the Reznor-riffing that I did, but I never expected it to go this far.
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« Reply #13 on: May 25, 2005, 11:46:42 am »
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I'm still kind of wondering where Onstad is going with this, last time Beef got freaked out in a vehicle he ended up going over a cliff so anything's possible. My money is on paying a visit to Molly though.

Are you writing the strip now?


~Paul
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« Reply #14 on: May 25, 2005, 12:38:23 pm »
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I'm still kind of wondering where Onstad is going with this, last time Beef got freaked out in a vehicle he ended up going over a cliff so anything's possible. My money is on paying a visit to Molly though.

Are you writing the strip now?


~Paul


Apparently so.
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