#368 – Rush
Posted on November 1, 2007 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
Sometimes when I wake up in the morning I’m crazy thirsty. My body really wants water but it seems like I can’t drink enough to make the thirst go away. It’s like I’m not craving the water to be inside me, I’m just craving the feeling of water going over my tongue. Maybe next time I’ll just take a shower with my mouth open.
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^_^ I love biff’s arm strength and determination to drink from it with his arms
once i was so thirsty that i downed 3 glasses of water one after the other. on the last gulp, it felt like the water was resting above the level of my stomach. i felt really sick, so i went to lie down for a while. a few minutes later, i had to get up and run to the half bath.
and that’s how i learned that you don’t have to have food poisoning or an allergic reaction to medication to throw up water.
o.o wait that sounds like he’s trying to drink with his arms. I meant holding on >.> or at least i hope i did.
Have you ever drank so much water that you could feel it slosh in your stomach as you moved around? It’s rather uncomfortable.
Sometimes i drink so much water that it seems like i’m gonna throw up…
and yes, i have felt water slosh in my stomach *shudders*
A friend of mine drank an entire litre of water at once to impress people, then spent the next three hours lying on the bathroom floor holding his stomach and crying.
yes! I love it when my favorite webcomics reference each other 😀
now we need xkcd to do something with a Biff gag.
.dantheman: Now THAT would be pure win! Although razor bush torn sick hands are hard to draw :
I like a good drink of water (usually to make my iced tea).
I actually like that sloshing feeling in my stomach, especially after drinking milk. Then, my mom would sometimes ask “Do you have a milk belly?” in a condescending, but laughable, tone.
You know what would have made this comic (even more) awesome?
Biff’s eyebrows trailing outside the water stream.
First off…
HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
more importantly, great comic as always! The water looks frozen in mid-stream. Another invention perhaps? Instant Ice? Is it winter? Will he ever get out of there without chipping off his own body and running around without a head? All these questions and more will be answered on next weeks episode of “Lot’s of useless questions!”
last?
Man, Biff’s neighborhood has cool fire hydrants.
Although now the firemen won’t be able to save the houses
Though it doesn’t matter much because
a)There’s no people in Biff-world
b) The only one they would need to save is Biff.
On a side note, who’s the idiot that let Biff have a wrench?
Point of interest: getting an MIT education has been compared to trying to take a drink from a fire hydrant.
Just sayin’.
mmm water….drinking lots and lots of water, and then going on a trip where you have to stop every couple minutes to use the restroom….now THAT’s fun
1.) In Dungens and Dragons their’s an item called a “Flask of Endless Water” and when you remove the cap water comes out…um…endlessly. Well anyway, you can control how fast it comes out from a slow trickle to jet turrent. One of our characters had one of these flasks and would use it as a weapon by turning it to full power and pointing it at the enemies, and when he’d do it he’d always call out “WHO WANT’S TO DRINK FROM THE FIRE HOSE?”.
2.) I’ve been pretty thrusty latly as well for some reason. I’m guessing it’s because the weather’s getting cold so we’re turning on the heat. This in turn is making the humidity go way down thus making you instincitivly thrusty….Either that or your turning into a fish.
First time that I’ve laughed BEFORE reading the caption in a couple of comics. Well done, Chris =D
Doom, I’m pretty sure BIff bought that wrench off a television commercial.
“NEW! Wrench! Cheap! Fix that leak! Whack your friends! Unlock your neighborhood fire hyrant so you can drink from it! (that means you, Biff!) Order now for only $9.99!”
Dr. Doom is right. Also it’s not like Biff has never been on fire before. He can handle it.
Biff lacks foresight. I’m not 100% sure
his hindsight is aligned either. It must
be his eyebrows. Definitely eyebrows.
I just think it’s really cool that Biff has a stream of water tucked under his arm!
Ooh, ooh! Application for Knowledge(Biology)!
Actually Chris, when you are so thirsty in the morning, you really do want water in your system; however, if you drink it too quickly,the water rushes into your blood-stream, and the stretch receptors think, ‘Oh, noes! We’re over-hydrated! We’d better rid our system of all this water!’. So, in shocking your system, you’ve totally defeated the purpose of drinking that water, and you still feel thristy, since you’re still de-hydrated. If you drink the same amount of water in sips over a longer period of time, you’ll stop being thirsty and re-hydrate your system. Yay!
You get to drink from THE FIRE HOSE! This picture reminded me of that moment from UHF.
I Love UHF! That movie owns my socks-orz.
Also, twas a really great comic, Chris, keep up the good work.
Is it just me, or does the art seem a tad different? I like it, it kinda seems more detailed!
Lol. I’ve never been overly thirty. I really don’t drink ‘water’ all that much. Soda and this red dimond tea though… I hate it when you drink water and it has like this…hot kinda dirty taste.
Nice! I love Biff! He is my hero!
Bubble out!
xx
Drinking a liter of water in one sitting? It’s not TOO hard…just a little excessive. Unless you’ve been running for an hour.
Hmm, useful bit of information, Sleeping Orange person.
As for the RSS feed, I actually preferred it the old way, because Thunderbird just loads the webpage, comments and all. BUT, I often wind up opening it in my browser anyway, because Thunderbird doesn’t save my name and addresses in the comment field. Either way, it’s not really much of an inconvenience the new way. I figure this new way might be better in some RSS readers that would only display a link.
That throwy-upy feeling is from minor water poisoning.
Your Body: ger-WHAT?! TOO MUCH WATER!
Your Stomach: OMG IM SORREHS! :O
-throws up-
I used to chug whole gallon of water when I was working at a Deli. I was the only person there most of the time and had an average of 120-200 people per hour for 8 hours straight. You dehydrate very fast working like that, and use a lot of deodorant when you get a chance to get a breather. I learned if you Chug very fast at first, then slowly get the rest in while breathing through your nose after every gulp, you can effectively chug that gallon fast. But going to the bathroom every 2 hours is a pain, because after 1 and a half hour, your bladder starts to feel..very full. very full.
p.s. I still need 1 gallon a day to be in the good, but not 4-5 gallons like I was doing before.
trueblaze… is thrusty lately for some reason? I don’t want to even know why you want to thrust <.<
Also, is it me or does the water coming out under Biff’s arm seem to be coming out at a different angle than it goes in at? The way it looks it couldn’t be water just running off of him.
During Basic Training we were ordered to carry around these big square two quart canteens full of water. Then every night before falling into the Barracks we used to have what was called ‘Hydration Formation’. Basically everyone was required to show up to formation with an absolutely full canteen. Then the Drill Sgts. would shout ‘DRINK WATER!’ And we would chant ‘Beat the heat drill sgt.! Beat the heat! ‘Cause there ain’t no heat like the Carolina heat ’cause the Carolina heat is hot!’ and then promptly upend our canteens into our gullets. We were required to drink the entire contents of the canteen in a short period of time and then hold them upside down over our heads. If you didn’t finish your canteen by the time the Drill Sgts said stop, you would end up dumping water all over yourself and were quickly in trouble.
I used to find it amusing to try and finish my canteen before everyone else in the platoon, why I’m not sure because I always ended up with a horribly full gut where I could literally feel the water level in my esophagus. Luckily I never threw up 🙂
On the contrary, it can be VERY refreshing!
Living in the desert, one summer with NO electricity, I learned when you are really thirsty, as mcuh of it as you drink, warm water just isn’t refreshing.
Even when the pipes freeze, something will come out.