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[theinevitable]

I feel like Ray is going to:
-Make more money
-feed Africa
-get the guy's millions of dollars, which he is trying really hard to give to people.

[iron_felix]

I could be wrong, but I think Ray's "what the hell" in the first panel implies that he has only just now decided to actually do this.  Ray isn't messing with the guy, of course; he fully intends to follow through and open up the account.  He is writing in the past tense because after he has sent the email that is what he is going to do.  At some point.

My prediction:  This is the last we hear from Leon Sumbitches in the strip itself.  In a blog entry in May or June, Ray remembers that he forgot to actually set up an account for him and/or wire the money over and feels kind of bad about it, but is prevented from making amends in such a way that he remains completely ignorant that the whole thing was a scam to begin with.

EDIT: Also, just noticed - the "tap tap tap" keyboard sounds end with a carriage return "TING!" in the last panel.  Brilliant.

[V-Adore]

I want to see Ray open the African burrito restaurant chain. How awesome would that be?

"CHOCHACHO BURRITO: FEEDING THE WORLD, ONE MEGA-BURRITO AT A TIME"

[DanSC]

I can't decide if he's messing with the guy, or serious.

[Lister]

I had a California burrito with guacamole just today.  It was delicious.  I am on board with Mr. Ray Smuckles' plan to feed burritos to Africa.

I dipped it in Salsa Verde before I ate it.

It came from the Roberto's by the strip club, which is way better than the Roberto's by the check cashing place.

I tip them a dollar and I go every week so they like me.  There.

Africa will like burritos, I am sure of this.

[littlefallsmets]

I can't decide if he's messing with the guy, or serious.

Ray could not be more serious.

Ray does not have time to mess with the guy. Ray would lose his attention span if he was just messing with the guy. Ray has the resources to have way better things to do than just messing with some guy. For, like, two seconds messing with a guy would sound awesome and then...

Ray would remember that he has the money to completely commission a pinball game about himself and his friends. Or Ray would remember that he has the money to import a glacier and throw a Christmas In March party.

Or Ray would remember that he has some leftover takeout and a DVD of "Braveheart".

Ray is a man of action who doesn't have much time to spend on just-messin'-with-guys.

Ray is sincere in the belief that he is going to save the goddamn world with money and semi-authentic Mexican cooking. This is evidenced by the fact that he did not lose interest after three seconds.

Ray is just that kind of fictional talking-cat thing.

[wombat]

Look at his expression in the first panel. I say he's messing with him.

[littlefallsmets]

That ain't the look of a man (fictional cat) who is messing with someone.

That is the look of a man (fictional cat) who knows that what he wants to do will be judged as wrong and yet he knows, in his heart, is The Right Thing To Do.

That is the look of Jesus on the cross bein' all tempted with a life of nailing Mary Magdaline and all explaining to Dennis Hopper that h(H)e Totally Wasn't That Guy and just making a real life of things... but knowing that it isn't the way it is supposed to go down.

Ray knows he's gotta help this dude out, damn the judgements of his friends and well-wishers.

That is the look of The Passion of the Smuckles.

[Doc Benway]

It was my friend's birthday last night, and we tried to go for mexican food. Unfortunately everywhere was tres busy, and we would have had to wait around a while to a table for 10 people, so we went to the Fondue place across the street instead.

Only now do i realise what a foolish decision this was... I would kill for a burrito right now.

Ray is most definitely serious about this; his dealings with Bono have taught him that things ain't always the best in Africa, and he's going to improve things the only way he knows how - by bringing the gift of mexican food. I expect Bono will have reservations, feeling that a Currywurst franchise would be the way to take this thing, but I have it on good authority that those things are hell of gross.

[CortJstr]

Dude.  $5k is like Bazooka Joe money to Mr. Ray Smuckles.

Exactly. This is the same cat who sent $10,000 to Oreos because he enjoys their product and felt they needed some "walkin' around money"

And since Ray opened a new account just for this his personal accounts should be insulated. When Ray doesn't hear back he will fly everybody to Africa to look for Leon, assuming something has happened to him.

[dejavroom]

They should just give Africa to Ray, as an experiment in fun. I mean c'mon.

[Bobby Isosceles]

I don't think it's in Ray's nature to mess with a spammer and have the patience to really get him instead of just saying "PSYCHE!" or something along those lines at the end of the email. I think his signoff is really sincere, like he's feeling really good about himself for doing this.

leon sumbitches... have my retarded baby

[Carlos del Vaca]

I love burritos.  They are my favorite food.  Unfortunately, I'm on Weight Watchers right now, and since pretty much all your major burritos are like 1000 calories, I can't eat one.  This makes me sad.

I also love baseball, and can'd LFM for his extended third base analogy.

[littlefallsmets]

leon sumbitches... have my retarded baby

Ah, but "fuckin' with Cathy" is a holy goddamn crusade.

The creators of Cathy have basically gone at their eldritch art of sucking for decades without any real and substantive retribution.

While hipster comic-nerds such as we will spin theories that she is actually drawn by Bob Dole to set the women's movement back a generation (hence why he fakes a damaged hand as his clever cover story) we have all the mass-cultural relevance of a fart in a tornado. We cannot punish Cathy.

But Ray is a man on the inside, literally inside the fiction world of comic strips.

Ray can enact the vengence for us in a way only a fictional thing can, while we stand out here in reality, cracking wise on joshreads.com or whatever, read only by the hundred other dudes and ladies who read that site, basically preaching to the choir.

Messin' with a dude ain't no thing.

But a holy crusade like Saving Africa or Defeating Bad Cultural Artifacts, these boil the ol' Ray blood.

...plus, in the case of Cathy, Beef was totally there to egg him on.

That helps.

[Roger]

Don't worry kids, Ray obviously followed this link, as I'm sure we all did Monday, and decided to try some scambaiting himself.