#311 – Tube
Posted on August 14, 2007 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
I have lots of things “piped” into my house. Water, electricity, gas, the internet. It’s always a pain when there is anything wrong with one of them. I think electricity is the one that we lose the most… I think it’s also the most inconvenient. We never seem to lose power during the day. It’s always at night when I’m trying to get something important done. Then the power comes back five minutes after I go to sleep and I’m woken up by the TV and all the lights in the house coming on.
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Thankfully, we’ve never had a water pipe or gas pipe leak or break, but out electricity can be very volatile during a storm.
It goes on and off, and I like to scare my brother by saying it’s a ghost. =D
And why does Biff need a macaroni tube? Is he being fed like a hamster?
Or…
Maybe he creates such disastrous situations when he leaves his home, the city actually gives him all the amenities he could want if he just stays home?
Who knows? Not me!
Maybe he just really, really like macaroni.
I want a tube like that. 😀
One time, we lost our electricity during a stiflingly hot day. When Dad came home from work, we grabbed the pets and ran into the car to cool down.
Ive got a little spray bottle thingy i use when i get too hot, simple and cheep. as for stuff going out, they sell devices called UPS, or Uninteruptable Power Supply, basically its a big battery, shaped like a pair of brcks with plugs on it. the idea is that you would hook your computer monitor and tower, and anything else you want, but not too much, and when the power went out, it would switch from the main power coming from the wall, and run everything connected into it off of a battery. the more stuff you have running, the faster it would die out. most have ratings for stuff like that, some will run a half hour before it dies, others an hour to and hour and a half, depends on the battery it has installed
My dream house will have one of these.
Note that the tube “backed up”, which means that the macaroni tube is a DISPOSAL system, it goes OUT. This suggests to me that Biff does a lot of stuff that creates surplus amounts of macaroni which must be disposed of.
I read a story about some guy that accidentally let his cat get into his car in central Australia. The cat exploded.
I walked into a small service room once that had a gas leak. I was in hospital for a few days.
I’m kinda ashamed, but I have done a fair few of the things Biff has.
Ben:
Sucks about the gas leak… I can relate:
I work with liquid nitrogen a lot at my job, and the first time I used it no one trained me how to handle it properly (awesome safety training there, I tell you). When liquid nitrogen is exposed to air, it expands rapidly and has a chance of merging with the oxygen in the air to create nitrous oxide(laughing gas), which it did. I got higher than a kite and couldn’t figure out why I was laughing so much. Luckily a co-worker found me before I could suffocate myself (the nitrogen was pushing all the oxygen out of the room).
Funny that you should mention pipes breaking, a pipe to mybathrom randomly decided to explode. It flooded my entire room and nearly destroyed the downstairs cieling. We use copper pipes which are much less reliable and much more expensive than good ole’ PVC.
I hate copper pipes -.-
Oooooh….
Yeah I can relate Kokits. But I have a small single story house. So instead of flooding one room like in your situation, all of the rooms in my house had stinky wet carpet. Bathroom water is evil.
When finishing our basement we had to redue some parts of the plumbing at least 3 times cause they just wouldn’t hold… They were copper pipes, so Kokits, I feel your pain.
huh… Biff calling the city for help… not sure what I think of that…
I’m more curious why this is the only situation he’s yet encountered where he felt that he Needed the cops.
Must put alot of faith into those flaming hammers 🙂
just a macoroni pipe, what about the cheese-idy-cheesey-nes
Zod: I don’t think he’s calling the cops, considering the wording. He’d instead be calling the city department that handles macaroni service. If you have problems with your water service or sewer service, you’d call “the city”.
this looks like a job for flamming hammers
He actually calls someone and we STILL have no spoken words from him.
Nice job, though, Chris.
Kokits, having worked in plumbing, I know that copper is more reliable than pvc, also mice eat the copper less.
To Gobbledegook, you were lucky, similar things have happened to some friends, but they were “nanging” with a 20KG NO2 bottle.
In my case, the fireball pushed (burnt) all the oxygen outta the room, according to the bloke that sure it, it looked cool.
Micha: Well he’s calling the city, so he’ll probably be on hold for most of the day.
I’ve never been in a house with gas pipes. We use electric stoves here in Sweden. . . yay for no explody.
Anyway, it would be fun to have a macaroni tube. Or even better, a generic food pipe. It’d be even more awesome than the 20 pound bags of food I’ve seen people buy in supermarkets. In cartoons. You know, the bag just says “food”, perfect for the distinguished young bachelor who doesn’t care what he stuffs in his face. It would be fun if you could just buy generic food and not have to pick and choose between all the available dishes.
Macaroni? Looks like Mac & Cheese. My favorite…
When something in the house that is normally piped in goes wrong, I cry in agony, grab a plunger and attack the nearest person.
Or I tell someone something’s wrong and have them help me (There is an upside to living with family).
That should have a cap.
Mom had to use a knife to get the new cap off a tube of Airborne (tm, etc.). It’s more adult=proof, cuz kids are less adverse to breaking things.
That would be awesome! I wish I had one of those, even overflowing. I really hope it comes out warm. Cold mac and chchchcheese sucks.
The last time the power went down, I lit some candles and read on my cellphone. Very relaxing.