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In this strip we check back in with Bensington Butters, whom careful readers will recall is actually a man named Jimmie "Darnell" Hockawock, from Flokes County, Florida. Along with Ray and AKKOLADE, he is a "Brother in the Syndicate," a term for the members of a halfhearted group of musicians who do not like one another all that much, and meet at odd intervals in a Best Western conference room.

Spoiler alert ahead! Do not read the next paragraph before the comic, as it will spoil the punchline.

Seriously, spoiler alert ahead! Do not read the next paragraph before the comic, as it will spoil the punchline. 

"Sabbath titties" are mammary glands which do not produce milk after the birth of young; the reference is to a Jewish ban on doing work from Friday evening to Saturday evening. It is not a reference to the musical act Black Sabbath, or to 18th century French literalist Jacques Sabbattittie. "Sabbath titties" is in-universe slang; please do not go around using it and expecting to make great social inroads. (I felt obligated to place this definition here because ending a strip with a piece of virtually unknown and not-entirely-intuitable slang prevents the sensation of closure which is a critical hallmark of all the best fiction.) 

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bootblacking

FUCK YOU FRIDAY IS BACK, BAYBEE

Cayce

Tremendous language in this strip, fantastic stuff

Josh Egbert

When in the HELL did Lonis's voodoo wear-off? Butters should still be neck deep in frosted tips and BMW-butts

Jay Y

"a horny geoduck in a deli cup" The Pacific Northwest has finally rubbed off on Onstad.

Miles McMahon

You just KNOW Ray doesn't know that Geoduck is spelled that way

Oppido

Yeah, the Portland influence is strong in this one.

Oppido

Seems like Pat's performance a couple weeks ago inspired Ray to some new heights of sass-mouth.

Brody

like...who the fuck thinks like this (Onstad thinks like this).

Brody

I've never heard it pronounced (checks online). Thank you for saving me from that formerly-gifted-child thing of mispronouncing words wrong because I've only ever read them!

Jacquelyn R Walters

Chuckling to myself having a solo lunch break in a pub near the office. The words are perfect, as always. But the speechless panels of Ray listening - sublime.

Clench and Cheese

So sad, so nasty. How did it feel when they picked out the casket? One for each nut that they plucked from your basket?

b.zap

It is always good to ketchup with Butters.

Rob Satterfield

Ray forms Black Sabbath Titties, to use Ozzy's AI voice to sing Dance Like There's Ass in You Pants

souvlaki Alabama

There are two rights of passage for new residents to the PNW. One is eating geoduck, and the other is getting Norovirus from an Ivar’s- I’ve only done one of these.

Jenn

Sister graduated from Evergreen. Knew the mascot was a geoduck, but was stunned they had a song about it. Go, Geoducks go, Through the mud and the sand, let’s go. Siphon high, squirt it out, swivel all about, let it all hang out. Go, Geoducks go, Stretch your necks when the tide is low Siphon high, squirt it out, swivel all about, let it all hang out.

Michael Ryan

pretending like we didn't know about sabbath titties already, the nerve

Jay Y

@Brody in most cultures, one's profane initiation into the world of body horror comes via Cronenberg or Eraserhead. In the PNW, you visited a tide pool in elementary school and know the rudiments of marine biology.

Jay Y

@souvlaki Alabama I was born and raised there and have only done the former, although it's possible that I risked the latter and an order of garlic fries foreclosed the possibility of anything taking root in my body.

Matt Mitchell

I am also wondering about how Lonis’s Irish dancing spell has worn off. Or maybe it is/was able to coexist with Butters’ prior life and predilections?

Paul Dunn

Coming up with new slang like that is just one of the reasons we love you Chris. Sabbath titties was utterly believable until I read that text above.

Spyguitar

Surely you mean catsup

Jenn

God, BB is about to get his car horn fired up

Eric Bradford

Need a sticker of Hockawock with the caption "So Sad, So Nasty"

Rob Dalton

I'm changing my dog's name to "Sabbath Titties" forthwith.

Jay Williams

Hockawock’s failure is so large and undeniable that mere ordinary, daily-type sass isn’t enough. Ray is simply staggered by the measure of Bensington’s failure and so forgets to bring the sass required for the occasion, and that he came up with Sabbath titties but didn’t use it is evidence of the gravity of the situation. If I’m honest, nothing less than a withering haiku assist from the JVJL HS English honors class, a la Showbiz, can bring true closure here. Finest kind, Onstad, finest kind.

Andrew Gillies

I thought that Bensington was getting whipped cream licked off his stomach by women who ain't bought an album since Rumours?

Oppido

Wasn't Ray enabled to write "Ass In Your Pants" by selling his soul to the devil? I wonder how Satan feels about unlicensed sampling.

Sedric and Charlie

Theft is a sin, so he's okay with it. He'll get his royalties one way or another

John Hart

Sabbath Titties: L'esprit de l'escalier is the name of Ray's next jam

Scott Chapman

Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law

Glenn Ramsy

This is funny. Just letting you know.