#541 – Slosh

My mom really liked rose bushes. We have 3 by the end of the sidewalk right now. I usually trim back the old dead growth in the spring. No matter how careful I am, I always get at least one deep gash from a thorn. The worst ones are when I get stabbed in the tip of my index finger. It turns out I use that finger for a lot of things throughout the day.

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35 thoughts on “#541 – Slosh”

  1. PsychoDuck says:

    Yeah, the index finger is only slightly necessary, hmm? Drawing, eating, typing, writing… That must really suck for a cartoonist.

    The Duck Has Spoken.

  2. 3davideo says:

    Gardening, that’s it.

  3. Three of Nineteen says:

    It’d be scary if they’re special Biff-created rose bushes that can throw water balloons back. They’d undoubtedly have thorns on/in them, and would HURT on impact.

  4. Dzelda says:

    Well, as long as the rosebushes enjoy the fight……………

  5. Vinss says:

    I know what you mean, I worked as a gardner in summer 2007 with my uncle and got all types of rashes and cuts from all sorts of plants. I think the worse was whn I accidentaly cut my own thumb open with the cutters on my last day of work; it bled alot and wasn’T that pleasant at all.

  6. Haywire says:

    Whenever I try to have a water balloon fight, the balloons just bounce right off without popping. It looks like Biff has found a clever solution to that.

  7. Torg says:

    That’s one way to water your plants.

  8. brickface says:

    Man, my trees are the same way, but when they lose, they call the weeds over, those guys are annoying.

  9. trevor says:

    Hope there are no bees biff can’t see when he throws a water ballon.
    Hey now, bee week, that might work.

  10. Mike says:

    I have some rose bushes in my garden that smell or Turkish Delight, it’s great!

  11. TwitchyHug says:

    You never notice the bits of your hand that you use until you’re doing a printmaking woodcut and your hand slips and you jam a ridiculously sharp tool into the end of your thumb. That stuff sucks.

  12. Maarten says:

    only biff kan know if a plant enjoys a water balloon fight

  13. Micah says:

    Let’s just hope he doesn’t trash talk the roses. They may not grow.

  14. Jackson says:

    This comic is pretty funny, but I think it would be even funnier if Biff were soaking wet.

  15. speearr says:

    Yes, I believe they do….

  16. MaskedMan says:

    @Jackson; *Excellent* point – This would indeed be much funnier if Biff were losing the waterballoon fight with the roses!

    I like roses, too – Growing up, we had scores of roses around the yard and near the house, including some really incredible climbing roses with really fragrant, deep red velvety flowers. Going outside on an early summer morning and taking a deep breath was like inhaling cotton candy. Only not so sneeze-inducing.

    I bet Biff would inhale real cotton candy.

  17. Halo ChIef says:

    @ Micah: Biff doesnt talk at all

  18. PsychoDuck says:

    @ Halo Chief:

    Well, who’s to say Biff doesn’t resort to alternate means of taunting? He could make signs saying “Screw you, roses!”, or even make recordings of Microsoft Sam insulting their mothers.

    The Duck Has Spoken.

  19. Seraphine says:

    You’re a good son.

  20. no name says:

    Haha gardening week.

    @ PsychoDuck – Seriously, how many Biff cartoons have you seen with text on them (besides the caption)?

  21. no name says:

    Sorry for the double post, but I just realized that all the 1’s in the dates and times of the posts are green. Does anyone else see that or am I losing my mind?

  22. Gobbledegook says:

    I love having rosebushes, but not in a walkway… I always get assaulted by those $&^#% thorns whenever I have to pass them. I truly think they’re out to get me.

  23. PsychoDuck says:

    @ no name:

    There’s no rule saying Chris can’t add a bit of text, is there? Doesn’t matter, really. The comic’s still brilliant without Biff taunting innocent plant life.

    The Duck Has Spoken.

  24. Chris says:

    There are some very strict rules that I follow for each comic unless I forget and then that rule doesn’t apply anymore.

  25. AdmiralChaos says:

    @noname: i think youre losing your mind. theyre black to me

  26. Cpt.Ziggy says:

    @no name
    Black to me too dude,
    must be goin’ nuts
    Mabye cause ya got
    no name?How about
    carl?

  27. no name says:

    Carl maybe. I don’t know. I think I’ll stay with nothin.

  28. Chris says:

    When I was a kid I had frequent fights with blackberry bushes, I always found them much more daunting enemies than rose bushes.

  29. Bazza says:

    @No Name

    Green for me too.

  30. starseedjenny says:

    I really like rosebushes.

    I just don’t like when I have to get close enough to do Flower Recon.

  31. no name says:

    HAHA!!! I’m not insane!!!

  32. Bazza says:

    @No Name.

    Possible we’re both insane.

  33. Marmaduke says:

    Plus, if you get cut on the very tip of your finger you can bleed to death.

    (True fact, they used to torture and kill people by cutting all the tips of their toes and fingers.)

  34. Rargrape says:

    I cut halfway through my thumb at work one day. Hurt like hell (surprise surprise) but the pain went away fairly quickly. That on it’s own, not a problem. Dropping a 10 lb box of cherry tomatoes on it the next day, that was a problem. I almost fainted in the refrigerator, then I nearly threw up.

    Don’t do that.

  35. xanthias says:

    i has a story…
    in my wearable art class early this year, we made a bunch of stuff out of metal. one of the requirements was to make this thing called a bezel sett (go here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezel_setting if you don’t know what one is, sorry there’s not pictures) as a jewelry piece. i made one of my first wrapping/holding pieces too wide and decided it was a good idea to try to cut it in half, using a wire frame saw – i had used them before in a different project, so i wasn’t worried – but i also thought to save time by holding it between my index finger and my thumb to cut it instead of securing it to the table… which would have been more difficult to cut, but also safer. i ended up sawing a nice deep cut across the tip of my index finger, parallel with the nail. My teacher was nice and gave me a band aid.

    later in the year we were still working with soldering wires and whatnot, the band-aid came off several weeks ago, and it no longer hurt. one of the other girls in my class was having issues soldering one of her pieces to a wire connection, and asked for my help to fix it. unthinkingly i took the end of the wire, and it burned me. in the same place i had sawed it open. luckily it was a very short contact, and there was water nearby for cooling the finished pieces so it only swelled up a little bit. i still have a scar though, and some speckles where i think some of the silver i was sawing stayed in my finger when it healed over.

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