#191 – Darts
Posted on February 15, 2007 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
When I was a kid we had this fantastic game called lawn darts. Giant foot long heavy metal darts that you would toss from one side of the yard to the other trying to get them into a ring placed on the ground. I’m still amazed that my parents let us have them. I’m even more amazed that none of us were ever seriously injured.
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He’s playing darts in a tornado…
That simply adds a more complex layer of fun to the game. 10 points for a forehead hit, 20 for an earlobe, but if you dodge you’re right out. No points for dodging.
WoooooOOooo I think I’ve played that game before XD
Cept with paper airplanes…vicious things…
Heh, jarts. I played that when I was little… too bad they’re pretty much banned now…
Lawn Jarts! I always called them Lawn Jarts… I think thats because it was a cross between a dart and a javelin. Those things were massive to a 6 year old, and no matter how good you were no six year old had the skill, or the hight required for depth perception to pull that off without hitting a foot.
If the tip on that dart is long…Biff may have just lobotomized himself.
It explains a lot.
We used to play “Dodge the Lawn Dart”
Somethimes I wonder if I weren’t lobotomized as a child until I turned 21.
Amazingly noone ever got hit by a lawn dart. Altho a friend once got hit with a regular dart.
in the calf ๐
well amazingly at a new years party (when your all hyped on sugar and caffeine) i got a dart in the wall, great comics chris, these are genius.
But how’d that happen really? If he throws against a dartboard…the wind can’t blow through the dartboard…right?
You know, I’ll call it “Biff’s Universe” and let that answer all my questions of that kind from now on. ๐
I found my way here via the link on Bob and George and I have to say that this is among the best comics ive ever read. Sheer brilliance. Congratulations, Chris, you have gained yet another loyal reader.
Live long and prosper.
Robert, it depends how far he is away from the dartboard.
geeklord, thanks. I’m glad you like them.
Jeff Foxworthy does a bit on dangerous toys that we’d never let our kids have these days, and he mentions lawn darts. I only ever had the plastic ones that flew right away and never came back, because they were so light. Those things could end up a state away… Keep up the nostalgia, Chris!
Oh yes… lawn darts. They’re illegal now…too many kids throwing them at each other instead of the drunk uncle walking across the lawn in front of the goal.
No injuries from any kind of dart, however, since my siblings and I are so terrible at darts, the wall around my dartboard has almost as many holes as the board itself from darts that stuck.
Also amusing… there’s this print of a Jesus painting roughly three feet to the right of the dartboard… i’ve hit it once or twice.
Odd how kids can do such idiotic stuff and not get injured isn’t it? I used to do all sorts of stupid things when I was little, and now that I think about it, I was actually seriously hurt quite a lot, so I’ve just ruined the point of my own comment, thereby proving once again that I have moved on to newer, more mature stupid things.
It would be worse if he were playing lawn darts.
I think it’s a good thing that my brothers and I never played lawn darts. We were a rowdy bunch. I remember stabbing one of my brothers with a pencil, at least twice. We fought all of the time up until a few years ago when both of my brothers discovered that I had suddenly become stronger than both of them. They do not like fighting any more. I wish we played lawn darts.
That looks like it hurts.
Wow, I absolutley love Biff’s expression
See, what I’M wondering is…
If he’s in an open field, what’s the dartboard attached to? (Then again, he IS Biff.)
lawn darts you mean those things that if you tie bottle rockets to themm they can take down a elephant,sweet, those are illeagal aren’t they.:(
yo chris are you able to make a comic every day ,or on weekends do you make them ready to go ( like at crappy mc’donalds ) please reply.
Never try to shoot an apple off your brother’s head either with a dart.
it took me two weeks to relize that i can leave comments that sucks, well time for leftover valentine steak and lobster ( or surf,n,turf ),love the comics,keep doin good. ๐
Someoney, try lighting a candle and then hold up a broom handle between your face and the flame. Now try to blow out the candle.
>yo chris are you able to make a comic every day ,or on weekends do you make them ready to go ( like at crappy mcโdonalds ) please reply.
Currently I’m drawing the comic the night before it goes live. I have a full time job. I come home after work, eat dinner, draw the comic and then go to bed. The comics take me somewhere between 3 and 5 hours each. I just finished tomorrows comic before posting this reply.
long time reader here, don’t think i ever posted although i might have done once or twice :S
really enjoying the comic and its currently my faviote 1 panel comic so far,
when i was a child i was always really violant with darts myself, so many holes in the shed door because of that (we played outside) although we never got any major effect from wind
Huh.I would think if it was windy enough to blow that dart back into his forehead, Biff’s eyebrows would be blowing back too.That dart must be made of a light material.Or Biff’s eyebrows are really heavy.
Probably just physics messing with him again.
I t could have been a sudden gust of wind
It probably hit him a good hour ago, the wind’s since died down.. unfortunately the dart found a critical part of his motor system.. poor Biff.
I love the position, and can just picture the “Oh god I’m so friggin’ dumb” thought in his head right now.
Seriously, one of my fave drawings.
Lawn darts were banned before I even got the chance to touch one (me being 14) But this is a classic one.
Iethloc: That’d explain the “paused” pose he’s in, too XD
That, or he’s in shock or something.
“what about the dart in my skull, ’tis but a flesh wound. now I think I shall lie down because the turnips have stolen my post”
^^ Woah, Chef Brain, is that you?
A CAD reference.
Haha, I love chef brian!
Oh, and darts are very deadly. I mean, come on, in africa (or whereever) they use poisoned darts as weapons.
:/ Biff…
windy
Kid games are fun. Especially when you find them again when you’re at university and old enough to drink.
Simple Catch degenerated a bit for us like that. Now we play it with firelighters. Lit ones. The only rule is, no dodging (it’s called CATCH for a reason)
This reminded me of one event in my childhood. I was throwing darts at dartboard. I tried throwing them with upward curve when our cat strolled under the dartboard. The next thing which happened was that one of the darts hit the cat. Luckily it didn’t go under his skin it only “nailed” him to the ground. As soon as I saw what happened I went to take off that dart and the cat waited there without moving an inch until I took it off. After that incident our cat didn’t go by that dartboard anymore if my memory serves me right.
Owie >_
It was really freaking windy on my way home today…sometimes it helps me and pushes me up the hill…but today it was blowing the other direction….Guh…
All this talk about lawn darts being banned reminds me of one thing:
The time when I was around 10 years old and lodged one into my foot.
I had finished playing with lawn darts outside by myself and decided I would just throw the last one down into the ground in front of me, which didn’t work out so well because I threw the damn thing right into the skin between my first and second toe of my left foot.
I remember being able to feel the tip of the dart through the sole of my foot and starting to very slowly walk my way to the door, until my older brother came out explaining it to him, but he thought I was just messing around, carrying the dart around between my toes.
Anyway, one trip to the Emergency Room later, the doctor told me that I had very good aim, because I hadn’t hit any bones or nerves at all.
I think they had a valid reason to ban those things, although I don’t harbor any dissatisfaction from my experience with them.
They make those magnetic now.
Maybe Biff has a plate in his head?
I woudn’t be surprised.
Bars with darts – the best way to clear the gene pool.
when they were younger my uncles and their friends used to play a version of Lawn Darts where you put your allowance into a pile if your going to play and throw the dart straight up and watch it raise and decend but if you move while it’s in the air you lose, and it went on untill there was only one person left who got to keep all the money… my uncle still has a scar on the right side of his face where it hit him when he actually tried to move out of the way but moved underneath it even more. if it had been even 1 centimeter more to the left it would have gone through his eye ๐
we actually still have the longdarts in my grandma’s basement… we sometimes pull them out and play the *correct* way
my great grandfather decided that the lawn darts weren’t sticking well enough, so first he sharpenned them. that wasn’t enough, though, so then he welded a collar on them and weighted them with led shot. again, it’s amazing no one got killed by them.
i once got a dart stuck in a ceiling lamp while playing darts while drunkish at a cinco de mayo party, and probably in the wall too, it’s probably just luck none of the really drunk people there injuried themselves.
Imagine if that dart had gotten tangled in his eyebrow….
Oh, BTW, third post, I’m working my way thru the archives- funny stuff!
Followed a link from Schlock Mercenary and now I’m hooked
Lawn Darts…I got those for my birthday one year, I think year 7 or 8. I was born on the fifteenth of February, so this is just a bit more than a little coincidental.