#173 – Jacket

I like pockets. When I’m shopping for a new jacket, the number of pockets, and their size and location are of top priority. In the winter when I go out I have in my jacket and pants a pair of gloves, a knit hat, wallet, keys, money clip, change, cell phone, digital camera, gum, business cards, 2 pens, advil and some mints. As the season goes on lots of little bits of paper and objects wind up inside. It’s always a trip down memory lane each year as I put my winter jacket on for the first time and clean it out.

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  1. How very true! I like to laugh at people who say they have a hole in their pants/shirt/socks/whatever. After their inevitable query, I respond, “You mean a whole that’s not supposed to be there? It’d be rather difficult to put it on if it had no holes at all…”

    Yeah, I guess I’m a bit of a stickler when it comes to specific word choice.

    Great image, by the way. Very dynamic. 🙂

    As for jacket objects – don’t forget a pocket knife! …and a USB storage device… 😀

  2. DeiMiles says:

    I agree holeheartedly. (Ok, that was bad…) When someone tells me they have a hole in their shirt, I tend to let them know that they in fact have four, “unless I’m mistaken.” Same joke different execution. 😛
    Great job, Chris. You have this amazing way of poking fun at the little tiny bits of potential humour in our lives that we normally take for granted. I like that.

  3. Iethloc says:

    It seems rather unintelligent (or mischievous) of them to do that to his jacket. Rather Biff-esque, if you will. Perhaps Biffness is actually a deadly contagion? *gasp* Is Biff a secret bio-weapon developed by people with too much time on their hands?!

  4. Andrew says:

    Iethloc: That accually sounds plausible now that I think about it. How else do you explain his stupidity?

  5. Fenix says:

    There are some things that cannot be explained xD…

  6. Cl0cK* says:

    Hahaha great, made me laugh.

  7. Ashe says:

    I really like when I find money I’d forgotten about in last years winter coat, it’s like a present from myself. I really hate when I find things like some really hot girls number I’d thought I’d lost.

    I never have the nerve to call after all that time.

  8. Xeed says:

    That happend to a friend in the navy. We where all standing in line, getting our uniforms inspected since we sew our patches on. They get to the last person (after 20 min of CLOSE inspection with rulers) and the officer asks “But Anderssen, you’ve sewn the sleeve together”. The room burst out laughing and the officers had to leave, not showing their lauging.

    Again, I apollogize for bad english, I’m still swedish.

    Great comic Chris! Struck home with me!

  9. Roy_vf1s says:

    Xeed, that is utterly hilarious! And your English is far superior to my Swedish. I can’t even pronounce anything other than names. 😛

  10. Chris says:

    Thanks Xeed, great story. 🙂

  11. Robert says:

    (Psst! I’m Swedish too and it’s not an excuse! :-P)

    For once, it’s not Biff being stupid…I guess that’s what overwhelmed me at first, heh.

  12. Leon says:

    How have I never read this comic before? I’m a webcomic freak. Chris, you’re a god. Biff is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. You’ve just earned a reader!

  13. Zheden says:

    Love it!

    Thanks for the laughs Chris!

  14. Skips says:

    “…a pair of gloves, a knit hat, wallet, keys, money clip, change, cell phone, digital camera, gum, business cards, 2 pens,

    advil

    and some mints.”

    Just to be clear on this because Ive never heard of ‘advil’ this isnt a typo and you actually meant anvil right?

    Im having some odd thoughts…it mainly involves hoping that the anvil isnt kept in any front jacket pockets as that may be painful for the testes on sitting down.

  15. Skips says:

    Also Ashe I do the exact same thing, this winter I put on a jacket I havent worn in a year and found the £50 note I wrote a hot girls number on, the theory being that if I wrote it on a fifty I wasnt going to loose the number as Im apt to do with telephone numbers.

  16. Chris says:

    Hahaha. Advil is a brand name for ibuprofen. I take it for headaches. Works great on me.

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Ibuprofen is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) originally marketed as Nurofen and since under various trademarks including Act-3, Advil, Brufen, Dorival, Herron Blue, Motrin, Nuprin and Ipren or Ibumetin (Sweden), Ibuprom (Poland), Moment (Italy). It is used for relief of symptoms of arthritis, primary dysmenorrhoea, fever, and as an analgesic, especially where there is an inflammatory component. Ibuprofen was developed by the research arm of Boots Group.

  17. J says:

    advil is a non-prescription painkiller.

    and if you end up spending the 50, not only do you lose the number, but you end up with some potential competition.

  18. J says:

    and chris; i too am big on pockets. they’re alwayse of top concern when purchasing a new jacket or pants.

    do you also find anoyance during warm weather at not having enough of them?

  19. Amanda says:

    With all of those pockets Chris usually finds himself having to carry other people’s belongings as well. 😀

  20. Chris says:

    Yeah I don’t like the cold weather but I like all the extra pockets. 🙂

  21. Fenix says:

    Hahaha, it sounds useful xD… I like to have as many pockets as possible too 🙂

  22. Phlegmatic says:

    I have to agree on the pockets. I’m not big on jackets — my comfort temperature sits just above zero, so I stay cool — thus I almost always wear cargo pants. Being able to carry a weekend’s worth of provisions (Minor change of clothes included.) in your pockets is well worth it, and better than most bags. Just remember to wear a belt.

  23. It’s also nice to have pockets big enough to carry a hardback book in. 😀 Then in the corresponding pocket, carry two Nintendo DSes… ^_~

    My sister bought me a coat for Christmas that has pockets for the express purpose of adding handwarmers to them. I live in the Midwest, not Alaska, so it’s a bit of overkill, lol.

  24. Lsharp says:

    i got a jecket with 13 pockets w0o0o0o0h0o0o0oh0o0ho0oh0oh0oh o/ 😀

  25. Greywolf says:

    Chris, you need a Scott-E-Vest!

  26. Rocky A says:

    personal note; when wearing cargo-pants, it is best to do so with a belt.
    is quite astonishing how much i wished my belt didn’t fall out the pack that weekend.

  27. Oddly Frozen says:

    i like pockets too, when i was little my dad had these pants with huge pockets, he would carry me and my younger sister in them when we were bored…..i have wierd parents

  28. dragonbrad says:

    i get back-packs only for the double large pokets ,organizers,and
    cell phone case

  29. Bob says:

    oh man, i had a nice one back in junior high, i kept an entire box of gob stoppers, an old PDA, a large pack of gum, my keys, notes, parts and bits of stuff i had taken apart over the year, like lenses and LEDs, maby an AA battery or two, and my pencil

  30. Mint Sharpie says:

    laughing…. too hard….

  31. ratboy says:

    I agree with ur little comment under the comic. I have a pair of pants with lots of big pockets. i call them my “gaming on the go pants.” each side pocket on the legs could carry 3 games in their cases, normal pockets for controllers, and a little pocket at my ankle was just big enuf for my GBA SP.

  32. Darkpheonix XIII says:

    Wow chris. You make my wearing a black leather jacket, black t-shirt, black shoes, black socks, black sweatpants, black gloves, black scarf wrapped completely around head so only one eye shows, black glasses, and black hoodie with the hood up in winter seem normal… well, maybe not. Hehe, when I’m wearing all that, you would never find me in the dark, but it’s hot as hell.

  33. DemonRex says:

    I like my pockets to be in my pants.

  34. Angel says:

    I lawled very loudly when reading this. Almost shot a bogie out of my nose.

  35. Seikonai says:

    Delicious. *Rereads the archives*
    I just popped into today and started reading ^_^
    I saw the ad on….erm….come to think of it, what was I doing when I saw that ad? O_o
    *cough* anyways….
    I have a Leather Jacket that I fished out of the neighbors junkpile before it was hauled away..It has 12 pockets inside and out as well as 15 Zippers that dont do anything except zip and unzip. Not even pockets. It’s my favorite jacket ^_^

  36. Garrett says:

    The thing I hate about cargo pants is that I can’t put anything hard in the pockets that constantly bang against my knees when I walk.

  37. Rachel says:

    Biff isent the only one who does these things… is this place full of all sorts of Biff-like people?

  38. Elkian says:

    Garrett – either reinforce the pockets or wrap the things in soft cloth.

  39. AMusingFool says:

    With this appreciation of pockets, how many people here’s favorite clothing store was Banana Republic (back before they got bought out by the Gap)? I remember buying a vest from them with about 13 or 14 pockets (and they had another one, a photographer’s vest, that had about 30).

  40. Tarkus says:

    I once borrowed a coat from my step-dad with 10+ pockets, I put my keys in one pocket and later tried to retrieve them, only to discover a bag of phlegm which he had forgotten in said pocket, it turned out he had coughed into the bag for a sample for a possible lung infection… probably the worst thing I’ve ever had the misfortune of discovering.

  41. Deteramot says:

    I’ve recently begun packratting more stuff into the pockets of my jacket. I’ve got a calculator, my cellphone, a comb, my DS, a pair of headphones, several receipts, my wallet, and a few other things. At the beginning of winter, I emptied my pockets. My jacket was about ten pounds lighter.

  42. Drauda says:

    If you like jackets with Pockets… Look up Scotevest, I am the proud owner of a few of them.

  43. cloud9ine says:

    It is 100 times funnier without the caption. I did not see the caption at first.

  44. Eh? says:

    Just started reading through the archives, after encountering some reference to this comic somewhere…
    Pockets are lovely, but I never seem to use them, except to keep something separate from my “tiny-ass” purse, which holds anything and everything I could need, except DVD and CD cases (which fit nicely into my trench coat’s pockets…).

  45. Note toSelf says:

    I loved this comic, I have a sort of dependency on my jacket (its just so useful!) and would wear it year round if i could, I wish someone would just invent a sort of pocket jacket that would be too warm but would have alot of pockets on the inside and the outside, I would never take mine off!

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