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[guns and cigarettes]

http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=09112006

I really like the idea of Teodor blowing his brains out onto a monument of himself and then laughing about it, and then probably going to listen to Arcade Fire.

[pmcd9]

I guess Onstad ran out of ways to torment Philippe so he's been picking on his second favorite whipping boy Teodor.

Funny strange.

~Paul

[Pimp_skitters]

  I love this! Teodor's statue has a vaguely Cabaret Emcee feeling about it though.

[elfbabe]

According to Babelgiraffe, Teodor is saying "Dogs do not like fruit... dogs may [bumsen] and sleep!"
Paralink gives the last part as "Dogs may thump and sleep!" while FreeTranslation.com says "Dogs like to bang and sleep!"
Suspicious, I asked Urban Dictionary and odge.info what "bumsen" means. And yes, it's a slang term for sex.




I once had a dog who liked fruit... she was spayed, though, so that might explain it.



Edit: I hate to ask, but it looks like someone either doesn't like me or likes me enough to have somehow found out I don't drink Dr. Pepper. Nothing bad happens due to lack of tiny cans, does it?

[KeithHernandez]

No, but I remeber the thread that is the reason why this is happening.  I believe you said something bad about Pat's cock or something.

[isaacs_law]

The visual reference for Teodor's statue is this album cover by the 70's avant-garde singer Klaus Nomi:

http://www.araglin.nl/archives/archive_2005-m03.php

It is not impressive that I know this. I am only aware of Nomi because I'm the type of Morrissey fan who owns his Under the Influence compilation CD, which is to say, the type of Morrissey fan who is going to hell.

[stringph]

dict.leo.org is the place to get German words translated. Bumsen comes out as about ten different earthy synonyms for copulation.

I guess this strip isn't aimed at the German audience. Otherwise... 'Dogs don't like fruit' should be 'Hunde mögen KEIN Frucht' ...

and Löwenbräu is a pallid mass-product that no self-respecting Thuringian would drink.

Try Köstritzer Schwarzbier: http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/648/1774

_{I live in Germany and drink so much that I lie}

[Undertoad]

I was all set to not like this strip until issacs_law pointed out the Klaus Nomi reference.  Old friend of mine was a Bowie completist and bought the Nomi albums because at one point Bowie worked with him. 

It's been 24 years since I heard it, but from what I remember... kind of industrial 80s pop songs with this totally bizarre-looking flamboyant German guy launching into an all-out totally operatic soprano falsetto at full lung, sung in English with a gruff German accent.  Most people ran screaming for the volume knob.

Despite your protest, that was a remarkable catch issacs!

[wombat]

As I have said before (it is a recurring theme), I am always pleased by the unexpected reappearance of one of these recurring themes.

[smick]

An excellent first post from Issacs_law.  It contains EDUCATION and repentance for wrong-doings.

[Hobot]

The little "OH, JA!" in the last panel was the best part.

I noticed that in the third panel, Téodor is making the same face as he does in this strip.

[Drygioni]

For maximum points, Teodor needs to do that "Hor hor hor hor hor!" laugh. I'd make a voice clip but that would be overstating the point.

This strip made me laugh, not particularly on it's own merit but by bringing back the image of Deutsch Ray's reflection saying "Nein". Damn, it's hilarious. Here.

[jough]

Edit: I hate to ask, but it looks like someone either doesn't like me or likes me enough to have somehow found out I don't drink Dr. Pepper. Nothing bad happens due to lack of tiny cans, does it?

If your cans stay negative for more than 90 days your account is deleted and you owe the board the amount of cans of Dr Pepper that you're in the red for.

Also, I threw you some cans due to your scholarship on today's strip.

Keep it up and you'll have spendin' cans in no time.

[jough]

It is not impressive that I know this. I am only aware of Nomi because I'm the type of Morrissey fan who owns his Under the Influence compilation CD, which is to say, the type of Morrissey fan who is going to hell.

At least there's a place there for you and your friends.

I'm a pretty big Morrissey fan, but I didn't get the visual reference.  Good on you.

[pmcd9]

(Nomi) from what I remember... kind of industrial 80s pop songs with this totally bizarre-looking flamboyant German guy launching into an all-out totally operatic soprano falsetto at full lung, sung in English with a gruff German accent.  Most people ran screaming for the volume knob.

So what you are saying basically is Nomi makes you appreciate the good work that Yoko Ono did in the 60's.

~Paul