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[Teldin]

At first I thought Ray was singing in the first panel, but then I realized it's actually his inbox message sound. He's looking all excited because he has email. Oh, Ray.

If my inbox sang to me I would totally be checking my email every few seconds, perhaps hitting F5 to refresh just to make sure.


...I smoke two joints in the morning... YES EMAIL

[CortJstr]

no. she was being utterly lazy. I just remembered, I was not telling the story correctly at all.
it was the girl in the room next door. and it was "can you email it to me so I don't have to come over there?"

The SO wanted me to sign up for Google Talk so that she could ask me stuff from the bedroom without getting up. I pointed out that our cordless phones already have a built-in intercom system but apparently the phone is too far away from the bed.

I've often considered turning on a New E-mail sound just like old times. Like back in college when everybody seemed to use either "<twang> Message for your, Sir!" or "You've got mail, motherfucker."

[linnea]

No, no LFM, all of Beef's e-mails are replies: He is replying to all the stuff Ray has forwarded him. Of course Ray would be that guy.

I personally like 'dancing baby turns ten - hella poignant'

Yeah, we can tell that these are things that Ray sent to Beef from the subject line, "RE: check out this bald dog Beef (hilarious!)"

Ray would find the dancing baby's 10-year anniversary hella poignant. Beef would not.

[linnea]

The SO wanted me to sign up for Google Talk so that she could ask me stuff from the bedroom without getting up. I pointed out that our cordless phones already have a built-in intercom system but apparently the phone is too far away from the bed.

I've often considered turning on a New E-mail sound just like old times. Like back in college when everybody seemed to use either "<twang> Message for your, Sir!" or "You've got mail, motherfucker."

my boss has this recorded .wav file of applause that she has set to play really loudly whenever she gets email.

[RMJ12345]

Am I the only person who has never gotten one of these email giraffeing scam things? I have been getting email since I was 12 (I'm 21 minus three weeks now) and I have never received a misspelled plea for my bank number.

And also, I've read about those things....and what kind of pathetic scam artist spells that badly? Spell check is not hard to use.

I bet this goes somewhere, and I hope Phillipe somehow gets involved. If Phillipe had email, he would get caught up in this stuff all the time. And he would be the other guy in the Achewood universe who would send those things out.

[CortJstr]

I bet this goes somewhere, and I hope Phillipe somehow gets involved. If Phillipe had email, he would get caught up in this stuff all the time. And he would be the other guy in the Achewood universe who would send those things out.

You mean like SmileCash? Or huge uncut asian jerkboys?

[coldfrog]

In terms of that joke, like, it is funny but has been done so many times that it has kind of lost its punch. It would be akin to making a joke about mistaking a man talking into a cell phone headset for an insane homeless gentleman...

I have to be honest, this was the first time I had ever heard a joke about a crazy guy on a cell phone and I laughed a bunch.  Of course, I bet the execution of it is better than anyone else's anyway.

In a similar vein, I felt like hot or not spoofs have been way overdone and therefore was not as amused by the hero or fatso line.

[Caustic Armadillo]

You mean like SmileCash? Or huge uncut asian jerkboys?

or The Most Important E-Mail in the World.

[Doc Benway]

My take on this: Ray may very well fall for it but a) it will be a genuine plea and he will add to his vast pile, or b) he'll dig out Mengis Adoso's number from his rolodex (they met at some fancy do and agreed they should really catch up some time over nachos and crispy stellas) and call to ask him why he didn't call Ray direct if he is in Serious Times. Adoso will be shocked at the deception and have the person who sent out the e-mails hunted down and killed for his families honour, but Ray won't realise this.
Am I straying close to fan fiction?

My hope is that Ray falls for it hook line and sinker, but Beef finds out and helps him to scam the scammer ala 419 Eater

[Doc]

Am I the only person who has never gotten one of these email giraffeing scam things? I have been getting email since I was 12 (I'm 21 minus three weeks now) and I have never received a misspelled plea for my bank number.

I've never got one to my personal e-mail address, though I've had them as part of bulk e-mails at my work. I like to think this is becuase I don't act like a damn fool with my personal information on the internets.

My hope is that Ray falls for it hook line and sinker, but Beef finds out and helps him to scam the scammer ala 419 Eater

Ooh, I've seen these anti-scammers before but not this one specifically. Thanks for this new source of amusement.

[Nabubrush]

My hope is that Ray falls for it hook line and sinker, but Beef finds out and helps him to scam the scammer ala 419 Eater

I so enjoy doing this. I love to get all indignant and shit. I especially love when they say that some individual who happens to share my last name has died, and I write back and say "Oh sweet Jesus, Uncle Robert is dead? Why did I have to find out this way?"

[jaydub]

Likewise, I'm hoping this gets spun out into an internationally ranging, surreal riff on "what would happen if this were true".

I smoke two joints before I smoke two joints,
And then I smoke two more....

[littlefallsmets]

I have to be honest, this was the first time I had ever heard a joke about a crazy guy on a cell phone and I laughed a bunch.  Of course, I bet the execution of it is better than anyone else's anyway.

In a similar vein, I felt like hot or not spoofs have been way overdone and therefore was not as amused by the hero or fatso line.

See, perhaps this is a cultural artifact of living in Southern California.

Pretty much the moment I stepped off a Greyhound bus in a flannel shirt with a stalk of wheat in my mouth and into Los Angeles, I saw a dude talking to himself and another dude joking that he didn't know if the dude was homeless or a powerful businessman.

You could make this joke ten or fifteen times a day, just off observations of that same scene.

Whereas... I dunno... "hot or not" jokes seem so old to me that it flipped the dial and became insanely funny because it was so very old and so far away from my consciousness. It would be like turning on your computer and finding a webpage about Mr. T eating your balls.

"Holy shit! I somehow woke up in 1995! So funny!"

That is why a hot or not reference is so funny to me. It was so long ago that I forgot about it.

[ktoad]

Here's something I found interesting:

There actually IS a song called "Gravity Train".  Track 14 on disc 2.

Well actually, that isn't the interesting part.  Check out the first song on disc 2.  The same song Ray's PC is playing in panel one. 

An eerie coincidence.

[littlefallsmets]

Less a coincedence, more someone breaking Onstad's secret code.

We will only find out Molly's origin by listening to surfing-themed mix albums.