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March 18, 2008 -- Already mining dark veins in the service of your craft.
« on: March 18, 2008, 05:56:50 pm »
I dunno.  Funny stuff, but out of character for Phillippe.

Edited for permalink.  [jld]

http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=03182008
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Re: March 18, 2008 -- Already mining dark veins in the service of your craft.
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2008, 05:59:27 pm »
I like this one, but I tend to like any strip that involves Mr. Bear imparting his years of wisdom on Phillipe.

P.S. The alt-text mentions slow-release triple entendre. I'm afraid to know what that is.
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Re: March 18, 2008 -- Already mining dark veins in the service of your craft.
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2008, 06:09:15 pm »
Evil Philippe in panel 6 is pretty badass. He should tap into the nether-regions of the soul more often.
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Re: March 18, 2008 -- Already mining dark veins in the service of your craft.
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2008, 06:20:57 pm »
This was pretty funny, but the last joke in particular was a little sophisticated for sweet little Phillipe. I felt like the athlete's foot one was more in character.
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Re: March 18, 2008 -- Already mining dark veins in the service of your craft.
« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2008, 06:21:59 pm »
Quote from: AugustWest on March 18, 2008, 05:56:50 pm
I dunno.  Funny stuff, but out of character for Phillippe.

Philippe has displayed out-of-character abilities to Mr. Bear before, however.
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Re: March 18, 2008 -- Already mining dark veins in the service of your craft.
« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2008, 06:22:55 pm »
I think... our little boy is growing up. *sniff*
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Re: March 18, 2008 -- Already mining dark veins in the service of your craft.
« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2008, 07:00:39 pm »
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Re: March 18, 2008 -- Already mining dark veins in the service of your craft.
« Reply #7 on: March 18, 2008, 07:29:44 pm »
Has anyone else ever had to endure a 7 year old who has just discovered what sarcasm is?  It can be bad.  I have to imagine that I was intolerable.
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Re: March 18, 2008 -- Already mining dark veins in the service of your craft.
« Reply #8 on: March 18, 2008, 08:07:03 pm »
Quote from: Victoria Waterfield on March 18, 2008, 06:21:59 pm
Philippe has displayed out-of-character abilities to Mr. Bear before, however.

Very specific out of character quirks are great.  Like Homer Simpson's obsession with Supreme Court Justices.
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Re: March 18, 2008 -- Already mining dark veins in the service of your craft.
« Reply #9 on: March 18, 2008, 10:52:49 pm »
Well, he already had the ability to create polyglot palindromes.

Still, though, look at the people Philippe lives with and hangs out with. His sarcasm and unique worldview is going to develop superfast.
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Re: March 18, 2008 -- Already mining dark veins in the service of your craft.
« Reply #10 on: March 18, 2008, 11:54:41 pm »
Quote from: Golfhaus on March 18, 2008, 10:52:49 pm
Well, he already had the ability to create polyglot palindromes.

Still, though, look at the people Philippe lives with and hangs out with. His sarcasm and unique worldview is going to develop superfast.

Three words here.

HOT.  BLOODY.  FAT.

Shit, man.  Some even got on the mayor.  Like.  Shit.  Cleanup on aisle mayor.
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Re: March 18, 2008 -- Already mining dark veins in the service of your craft.
« Reply #11 on: March 19, 2008, 03:01:40 am »
Children can be dark in ways that they do not fully understand because, like, we tell them horrifically gory stories about anthropomorphic animals that die in gruesome fashions.
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Re: March 18, 2008 -- Already mining dark veins in the service of your craft.
« Reply #12 on: March 19, 2008, 04:10:53 am »
Whoah! Philippe's working some rough chuckles these days!
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Re: March 18, 2008 -- Already mining dark veins in the service of your craft.
« Reply #13 on: March 19, 2008, 04:15:17 am »
Ok peopler, seriously, the joke is built within the strip. Establish a trend and then brake it - joke formula of the times. The otter has been building a trend for years, so whever he breaks that trend it is "a joke". He compacts that here by telling X and Y then Z breaks the pattern. The joke is the meta irony of the irony of the strip.
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Re: March 18, 2008 -- Already mining dark veins in the service of your craft.
« Reply #14 on: March 19, 2008, 05:41:32 am »
A character in Super Smash Brother brawl is called Meta Knight, and I know that he is a Kirby character, but... is he Meta? How is he Meta?

I want to be Meta-Knight because I imagine that if I hit the right combination of buttons he will act Meta in a way which allows me to win.



OH, also, maybe A-CAP is Meta Knight.
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