#502 – 1990
Posted on May 7, 2008 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
Our basement flooded a number of times during my childhood. It always resulted in a strange mix of lost and found. Many things would be “lost” in the sense that they were damaged and had to be tossed out. But strangely there would always be things that were “found.” Misplaced objects or toys would be discovered undamaged amongst the soggy mess. As a kid I didn’t store any of my personal belongings down there so I always came out ahead at the end of the cleanup.
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I used to live in a place where it was the first floor which flooded, not the basement… It was more than inconvenient at times.
If I ever have to worry about flooding build an ark.
My basement has only flooded once, when a pipe burst. It really sucked, too, ’cause our basement is completely finished.
What 1990 flood are you referring to? Shadyside? Somewhere in Canada that Google doesn’t seem to care about?
Incidentally, it really is amazing that Biff manages to turn the most mundane tasks into life-threatening mishaps (to mortals, anyway), but can squeeze natural disaster lemons into elegant, ironic lemonade.
Unless something freakish happens here, I don’t think it’ll ever flood. I live a considerable height above Lake Ontario, and the Rouge Valley is practically next door. The water wouldn’t get more than a foot deep before it ran downhill.
Plus, I live in an above-ground apartment 🙂
The Duck Has Spoken.
J.R., your comment deserves to kept in a Quote Hall of Fame.
I have flooded our basement once, just forgot to turn off water on the garden and the rest was matter of the slopes, leading right into the basement window. It took us whole day to get rid of all the water. But surprisingly enough, some lost items became found and basement was nice and clean after that, so this is a good way to either clean up your basement or to discover anything misplaced.
J.R.: When you get cut in half as many times as Biff does, its not hard to turn hurricanes into lemonade.
those tennis balls look to be higher than usual from the water. good comic though
4th floor of a HDB flat
If it floods, i’m in trouble X_X
@Jake:
Knowing Biff, he probably filled the tennis balls with something like pure hydrogen or Flubber or the Strange Matter equivalent of helium.
I don’t even HAVE a basement…
Flooding retrieves all manner of things… Tennis balls, old pill bottles, empty soda cans, spiders…
Yeah, we’ve been flooded.
That reminds me of the Mythbusters episode where they used ping pong balls to raise a sunken ship.
are you talking about the flood in Fort Madison? thats the only flood I know about
and the closest it came from flooding was up to the back porch the basement was dry as a dirt
I used to live in West Virginia, and the next town over flooded over so often that the local supermarket had a canoe on the roof to get people home if it happened while people were shopping.
@J.R. – It’s a brand new record for 1990.
My basement flooded once. Apparently something went wrong with the toilet, as it started spewing water. Luckily, the toilet was empty at the time.
Awesome. I can picture Biff sitting around patiently for months just waiting for a flood.
Ugh.. Where I live now, the basement basically put, semi-floods at least once a week… No better way to ruin a good day than to have to get the water vac out to go through a muck of toliet paper scraps and Lord knows what else.
I remember on April 15th 2007 (Tax day) we had a HUGE rainstorm and we got at least 5 inches of water in our basement. There were naighbors who said they got 5 feet, so I guess we were lucky.
Regarding basement floods;
we didn’t realize the idiocy of putting valuable paper documents in the basement until the basement became a pond.
Whoopsies.
I guess those things happen.
People find long lost possessions by flooding their basements? I think I should really get around to doing that… but I have too many electronics down there, so oh well.
@Chris – The new site is better in some ways but also worse in others. Like how do I find a comic only by the number?
@no name – Hey good point! I just added a search box at the bottom of the right column. Now finding a comic by the number is a snap!
I think this is one of my favorite Biffs. Not really sure why. XD I just like how Biff looks.
Awesome. It feels so weird having influence on the site like that! 😀
@no name – What color should Biff’s shirt be tomorrow?
@Chris – lol. thanks, but I’m not the person to decide that.
Biff should have a shirt that clashes with everything. Not for tomorrow, just on general principle.
Haha the ad at the bottom of the page for me is for water damage and flood repair!
Seems to me that the tennis balls don’t appreciate Biff losing them in the first place, and now that they’re at his head level they’re going to do something about it.
I bet the name of this comic is related to a certain They Might Be Giants album released in a certain year.
@ye olde backereader – Yay, it only took a little over one year for someone to say it 🙂
I hope those aren’t the electric tennis balls again…Biff probably wouldn’t even wait for them to dry out before plugging them into the near wall socket.