#446 – Distracted
Posted on February 19, 2008 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
Sometimes directions can be unnecessarily complicated and hard to follow. I find that it really helps if I read through all the steps from start to finish before trying to begin the project. There’s nothing worse than getting to page 7 and realize that you made a mistake in step 3 and have to start over again. I’ve been getting very used to the way Ikea makes their instruction books. All pictures and no words. Less is more.
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Hilarious! Haha, thats what I’d do!
Wow, Biff must really be limber to saw off the ARM THAT’S HOLDING THE SAW!
I’m happy to see Biff in pain.
His arm is off o_o
What… how, and… what!?
Only one thing to say about that: Whoops.
It’s a physical impossibility of Benderesque proportions.
Hmmm… He sawed off the arm he was sawing with…
Perhaps he’s thinking with portals.
I can’t see what he’s building anywhere…he must have defaulted to his arm.
I’ve barely ever read instructions, so I’ll just say it’s like that with school, if you give us knowledge, package it in something other than a spiked box with a electrified 3-d maze that you have to make your hand go through to get the knowledge.
hand saw…saw hand…
dude…. his hand is still gripping the saw. it’s still alive.
oh and bunnyman – lulz.
I’m pretty good with instructions for building stuff, I spent a lot of my childhood playing with those lego sets that have instructions. And a hell of a lot of Mousetrap. That game was the best.
I’ve heard of biting the hand that feeds you, but……………..!!
Ikea directions – a picture is worth 1000 words
Maybe he was sawing in n-dimensional space? Leave it to Biff to forget what frame of reference he was supposed to be using. Oh, and it looks like he sawed off part of his mouth, too…
Instructions are only for when
something doesn’t work.
That’s why I love putting together stuff from Ikea.
The instructions are designed for illiterate people from other countries, and therefore are near-impossible to screw up. Plus once you’ve done one piece of furniture, the rest just kinda go together like legos.
PLUS NO SAWS!
maybe he was sawing with his other hand, but it didn’t want the blame so it planted the saw in the other hand.
Y’know, this reminds me of the instructions and warnings in my chainsaw’s owner’s manual:
“Warning – do not stop with hands or genitals.”
Anyone else notice that this comic and the last one have captions that don’t match the standard “Biff learns/discovers/finds/etc.”?
The Duck has not spoken!?
Wait, wait, wait- how did he cut off his arm with the hand holding the saw?!
@ Kitty: I too have noticed the change in captions. Maybe it’s just for this week.
Well he probably had to put the saw down to pick up the instruction book, and needed somewhere to put the saw while he read what he did wrong, and the severed limb seems to be the most handy place.
Maybe the new captions are one of his theme week things?
His saw loves him.
Lost in his books, it looks like…
He… he sawed off the arm that was holding the saw. That, or after sawing off the other one, he put the saw into the removed arm to hold while he read the directions.
i lost the game looking at this picture. go figure 8)
How does one saw off the hand which is holding the saw? It requires an amount of flexibility similar to the sort exhibited by serpentine creatures. Is Biff part snake?
Is biff contaminated with that space stuff that made the fantastic 4?
The funny thing about directions, manuals and stuff is, that, when buying stuff that isn’t made in Finland, but has Finnish directions, you’ll usually understand more if you read the directions in English (or sometimes Swedish)… The Finnish ones are often created with a babelfish-like translator and have no sense in them.
For some reason, your drawings remind me of IKEA instructions. They are very clear and visually explanatory.
…he hasn’t even noticed his arm isn’t attached anymore…
and…
@Deteramot – Yeah, he probably is, who knows what’s in his genes?
(apart from maybe TEH AUTHRO)
How did he saw of his hand in which he is holding the saw?