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[jough]

I think Denny's is too obviously horrid, whereas Friendly's is neither great nor horrible, just kinda "eh."

I mean, the Best Western isn't the most horrible hotel chain (that would be either the "Red Roof Inn" or "Motel 6") but it's just sub-standard, it's mediocre, it's neutral.

Like the Swiss.

[CortJstr]

My thoughts exactly. Friendly's doesn't carry the awfulness of Denny's but it's still well below a Ruby Tuesday or whatever. Best Western is above Econo Lodge but below Hampton Inn. While KFC rides the line between Roy Roger's and Popeye's.

Apparently hell (or at least the section they're in) isn't actively bad, just the low end of "meh."

Maybe rapists sleep at the Super 8 after pushing their Ford Pintos back from Arby's.

[andalucia]

My thoughts exactly. Friendly's doesn't carry the awfulness of Denny's but it's still well below a Ruby Tuesday or whatever. Best Western is above Econo Lodge but below Hampton Inn. While KFC rides the line between Roy Roger's and Popeye's.

Man, I'm glad to be Canadian at times.  A good 50% of those sound made-up to me.

[V-Adore]

Maybe rapists sleep at the Super 8 after pushing their Ford Pintos back from Arby's.

I'm starting to think that I'm the only person on the face of the Earth who doesn't think of Arby's as some sort of despicable hell-pit. There's probably a sound reason for this, but it is severely off-topic.

It does strike me that the mediocrity of their Hell experience does have a lot to do with the mediocrity of their reasons for being in Hell -- both Ray and Beef, and presumably Robert Johnson, are more or less in Hell on technicalities. (You can make an argument that Ray's lifestyle would have landed him in Hell anyway, though.)  The overall ehness of the occasion seems only appropriate.

Damn. Now I stone miss my Hampton Inn experiences.

[slink]

Man, I'm glad to be Canadian at times.  A good 50% of those sound made-up to me.

Scottish: 85%.

I mean, who the fuck calls their business Econo Lodge?
It's like Pig Latin for cheapass lodging.

[wombat]

My thoughts exactly. Friendly's doesn't carry the awfulness of Denny's but it's still well below a Ruby Tuesday or whatever. Best Western is above Econo Lodge but below Hampton Inn. While KFC rides the line between Roy Roger's and Popeye's.

Apparently hell (or at least the section they're in) isn't actively bad, just the low end of "meh."

Wait, now I get it.  So they're in some upper circle of Hell for the sins that aren't the worst.  If they were just in Limbo, they'd get to eat at Ruby Tuesday's, but they're a little worse off than that.  They are maybe just Lustful, so they get Friendly's, but if they were heretics, they'd only get Denny's.

[AugustWest]

So Satan is basically eatin' nothing but McDonalds (with maybe the occasional White Castle thrown in when he gets drunk on Night Train).

[Paisley]

I mean, who the fuck calls their business Econo Lodge?
It's like Pig Latin for cheapass lodging.

Then you, in particular, will be amused that before they got all international and culturally sensitive, Econolodge's logo used to incorporate some Scottish plaid, and before that, a dude in a kilt turning his pockets out.

In the US, cheapass is okay as long as you can pin it on some ancestral minority.

To bring this back to topic (of thread if not the strip), I concur with the developing consensus of Hell depicted by Achewood as being unrelieved eh-ness. The banality of evil and all that.

[slink]

Econolodge's logo used to incorporate some Scottish plaid, and before that, a dude in a kilt turning his pockets out.

In the US, cheapass is okay as long as you can pin it on some ancestral minority.

What the hell!? Bizarre.

And... wow, what a nation!
I like the fact that stereotypically, and that is, in general, the British look for a little more where available. Comfort and whatnot.
Mind you, the scottish do cope with the cheapass way now and then.

[CortJstr]

I just noticed that old Beef has some stubble action going on. That's a new tidbit of info for how the 'wood-verse works. Apparently animals can get 5 o'clock shadow

[Bobby Isosceles]

The ones in NoVa tend to be plagued by horrible service and complete ignorance of the concept "clean"

I've never actually had any non-ice cream items from one though. Much like I had no idea that DQ even served food until I stopped at the Gateway off the PA Turnpike. Ice cream places serving hot food, that's craziness right there. I mean, you don't see restaurants serving ice cream . . . oh, wait.

The one in Columbia, MD is rather nice.

[slink]

I just noticed that old Beef has some stubble action going on. That's a new tidbit of info for how the 'wood-verse works. Apparently animals can get 5 o'clock shadow

in hell...