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0099 — Roast Beef, Couples Therapy
🕑 Added 2024-12-06 18:00:14 +0000 UTCExtras from this strip post at noon in tiers 2 & 3!
In panel four, Roast Beef is referring to the popular copulatory position you may know as "missionary." Why is it called missionary? When I was a very young boy, this term led me to assume it was the position in which priests had sex, because it was more "godly." I had no mental inventory of any other types of sexual position, so I'm not sure what I meant by this, other than that the priest got to be the boss because he was on top — like when a wrestler won — which imputed that he was also successfully spreading the word of Christ.
The only other thing I will add is that in the final panel, I visualize the men on the hillside as bearded, and kind of sleepy.
Thank you for reading this small essay.
Comments
Jonathan
That would be mean 😕
Sam J
I would have gone with "Backing away slowly."
Alexander Rediger
As I age, I agree with the gravity and ass-odor part more and more.
Peter Griffiths
He loves them as family.
Peter Griffiths
it's about 20 years too late for that. Perhaps something to dissolve the callouses? Some sort of positivity pumice, perhap.
Jonathan
A chick at my gym introduced herself and asked me to describe myself in three words, and all I could think of were negative words
blair
Cornelius has had it figured out since Presidents smoked on TV
Ruxine
roast beef needs some golden tabloid before his negativity hardens on his skin, forming a sticky exoskeleton of synonyms for everything he doesn't like about himself
Meadow Green
This is a very esoteric one, Onstad (not derogatory)
Josh Egbert
While I love Beef once again proving himself the Poet Laurate of circumstances, what I appreciate most here is the glimmer of hope Onstad gives us for Beef & Molly. Every update to this point had painted a grim picture.
Sedric And Charlie
I have excluded Pat in this overview, because there's no way Cornelius tolerates Pat. Pat is the one guy who would absolutely think he was on Cornelius's level, and Cornelius would have to school that fool very firmly
Sedric And Charlie
I suspect he enjoys the mental sport of bringing his own refined wits to bear on this bedraggled assortment of affluent foolishness, worldbeaten navel-gazing and drunkard hellraising
TheEmbiggenedBadger
Sleepy? Or intoxicated?
GruntyGinMan
Hey now I met the commandant on OKC it turned out pretty great for me.
Joseph Johnston
Man, don't describe me on a hillside please.
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
Go-to bed moves need shuffling. It is known. And it's not fair for women to own the 'crazy is hot' trope. Beef go on with yourself, mind your hygiene, and all will be well.
Crumbles
But we all know Dracula has the skills when the purple pumps and the SO-SAD lamp comes out, MWAHAHA!
48 Minutes of Dogs Barking
if this is AFTER couples' therapy, imagine what he was saying in the room~
J Hardy Carroll
And he's saying this or loud. Beef's inner monologue must be so much worse, which is hard to believe.
Oppido
That is some serious archivin', thank you. I guess at the end of the day, she just really likes the way Beef blots coffee.
Rob Dalton
thank you for writing this small essay.
James Cash
At one point she's mentioned ogling a cyclist at the grocery store "a particularly fit young manimal" (in the blogs)
Oppido
I'd be curious to know whether Molly has ever been tempted by attraction to another man. And if not, then, like... why.
Colin Sueyres
Sometimes I wonder why Connie tolerates these lunatics. But I'm glad he does.
blair
But never mind that: "fart-trustin' lunatic" is pure gold.
blair
"Missionary position" allegedly comes from the locals being scandalized upon finding out that it was the only way missionary couples did it. It can't have been a great incentive to sign up, really.
Pubdoggy
Let's all thank gravity for putting things in places
