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Author Topic: Can someone tell me why The Tenmen is funny?  (Read 23089 times)

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Can someone tell me why The Tenmen is funny?
« on: February 21, 2007, 07:05:09 pm »
I just can't seem to understand The Tenmen.  I brought it up with my English professor but he wasn't really sure, and he couldn't tell me what a tenman was or why they'd be in a band together.

What is the overall joke with this part of the Acheverse?
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Re: Can someone tell me why The Tenmen is funny?
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2007, 07:09:48 pm »
I don't really think it has any deeper meaning other than that the words 'ten' and 'men' rhyme and are kind of fun to say together.
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Re: Can someone tell me why The Tenmen is funny?
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2007, 07:14:05 pm »
Firstly, they are just the kind of band that Beef would be into. Costumed for anonymity/uniformity. Playing it low-key, playing it cool. Workman-like and in it for the music. Their image plays straight into the weird kind of indie elitism that intersects perfectly with depression. "Yeah, I'm depressed, but I can understand terrible things you can't even FATHOM."

Secondly, the name seems to both be a riff on the Blue-Man-Groupness of their image as well as on the fact that... it is ironical that they are called the Tenmen. There are definitely not ten of them. There were three guys in the Ben Folds Five, for example, and there are not ten of them.

Again, this is a joke such as Beef would enjoy.

The joke is that they are exactly the kind of band for a depressed intellectual to get way into, for Ray to like but not totally get, and for dudes like Spongebath and Emeril to just get their groove on to... suggesting that perhaps Spongebath and Emeril are the fellows on the Buddha's middle path.
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Re: Can someone tell me why The Tenmen is funny?
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2007, 07:23:23 pm »
Just a question but how do you know what Roast Beef would or wouldn't like?  Have you asked Christopher Onstadt?  I'm going to have to assume from now on that your posts are merely some perverse form of fanfiction, rather than canonical Achefacts.

You really just blew it, buddy.  Really just blew it.
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Re: Can someone tell me why The Tenmen is funny?
« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2007, 07:28:18 pm »
Well done LFM. Although I'm not sure the question is square in asking what the 'joke' is. They are amusing for the reasons you put forward, definetely, but I don't think they're a one joke note. 'stad develops a remarkable amount of charicterization for us to chew on, 'mongst the rude ta-ta's and junky trunkies and man-douches. I think a lot of what you put forward has to do with scene dressing, mood building and the type of finely textured backgrounds you put together when playing with rather good imaginary world settings. For all you said (well) it could be that they're just some dudes what like Rickenbachers and jumpersuits. As with most of the things going on in Acheiverse, they're a question open to reader interpretation, who can take it as far as they dare.

[EDIT] Ernest Fuckhead Hummerway can go toss hisself. Ass. Don't ask an interpretaion based question and then nut a dude who gave you an effort you shitheeled ingrate.[/EDIT]
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Re: Can someone tell me why The Tenmen is funny?
« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2007, 07:28:51 pm »
Nah.

But being a real person with anxiety problems that sometimes mimick the problems of depression, I believe that I can make some assumptions about a cartoon cat on the internet's dealings with depression.

There is a twisted sense of superiority that comes with a neurotic disorder, even when you know that's what it is.

You can't escape the feeling that, for all the pain you're in, you actually see things the real way.
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Re: Can someone tell me why The Tenmen is funny?
« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2007, 07:34:05 pm »
So was that like a Robin Hood edit.
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Re: Can someone tell me why The Tenmen is funny?
« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2007, 07:43:52 pm »
That was intellectual honesty you failed to recognize you putz.
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Re: Can someone tell me why The Tenmen is funny?
« Reply #8 on: February 21, 2007, 07:45:08 pm »
Well forgive me if I seem too brash but it's in my nature.  I'm not always kind but I'll speak my mind when I feel my friends need defending.
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Re: Can someone tell me why The Tenmen is funny?
« Reply #9 on: February 21, 2007, 07:45:59 pm »
Oh man, both insulting LFM's excellent answer and not even being able to spell Onstad's name correctly... They're just not making those TOUAMB n00bs like they used to.
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Re: Can someone tell me why The Tenmen is funny?
« Reply #10 on: February 21, 2007, 07:47:55 pm »
Quote from: wombat on February 21, 2007, 07:45:59 pm
Oh man, both insulting LFM's excellent answer and not even being able to spell Onstad's name correctly... They're just not making those TOUAMB n00bs like they used to.

I KNEW today's strip would bring out some rough n00bs.
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Re: Can someone tell me why The Tenmen is funny?
« Reply #11 on: February 21, 2007, 07:48:14 pm »
Quote from: wombat on February 21, 2007, 07:45:59 pm
Oh man, both insulting LFM's excellent answer and not even being able to spell Onstad's name correctly... They're just not making those TOUAMB n00bs like they used to.

You mean sick fucks and hot nerd-girls? Agreed.
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Re: Can someone tell me why The Tenmen is funny?
« Reply #12 on: February 21, 2007, 07:50:45 pm »
ONSTAD'S BEEN SLIPPING ONSTAD JUST ISN'T UP TO HIS OLD STANDARD OF ONSTAD QUALITY LATELY.  ONSTEAD SHOULD JUST GIVE IT UP REALLY SHOULDN'T ONSTAD DO THAT.

Can anyone tell me what Criterion Collection DVDs you all are asking you parents for right now maybe we could get a potluck going?
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Re: Can someone tell me why The Tenmen is funny?
« Reply #13 on: February 21, 2007, 07:54:10 pm »
Broke him in six posts. Good job people.

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Re: Can someone tell me why The Tenmen is funny?
« Reply #14 on: February 21, 2007, 07:55:38 pm »
So like is this a resume building activity!
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