#603 – Plugged
Posted on October 2, 2008 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
We had a leaky faucet in our basement for a few years. I don’t go down there much so it was never my number one priority to fix. Whenever I would see it though, I got a burst of “Aaaaaaa… I really should fix that.” Whenever I went into the basement with someone else they would notice it right away. “Hey, your faucet is leaking… you really should fix that.” A few weeks ago I got out a couple pairs of pliers, did about 5 seconds worth of twisting and fixed the leak. I stood there and stared at it trying to comprehend why it took years of buildup for me to expend 5 seconds of effort.
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and then biff realized he was thirsty…
My guess is that it’s quick fixes week!
Great comic, as usual 😀
And then Biff discovered that gravity would cause the cement to dislodge the base of the faucet, creating a whole new leak altogether.
He should just grow a miniature ecosystem in that sink…
First comment on your site. Keep up the hilariousness!
So he used a diffrent sink.
we call them taps in Australia. 🙂
Lol biff ghost o_o
Erosion should eat through the cement though XD
And as your story shows, life’s weird =p
@Colin
Same in Canada and the U.S. usually.
For Biff: how does that thing even stand anymore without bending… for the story: life’s weird like that.
the sink’s perspective seems a bit off, just something bugging me. funny comic though. and for the story, umm… it was never really all that important to fix. why SHOULD you fix it? it’s just a leaky faucet in the basement etc.
@ Stephan – I’ve never called it a tap. It’s a regional thing.
@RG Remeber…we are in Biff land…Logic and Sense does not apply..nor does normal physics…this could be some super duty rigid material. I think we should call it Biffium! Super strong, super light, doesn’t oxidize, very inexpensive, easy to cold form or hot form, easy to weld everything is good about it …but only Biff can make it. 🙁
@SEA: Actually, it wouldn’t erode. For something to erode, it needs somewhere for the eroded material to go. The concrete would stay in the concrete. The problem would be when the water soaks through the block.
I… Uh… I’ve got nothing to say.
Well, except that I empathise with the time it can take to work around to a simple repair – I’ve got a sticky toilet float that would probably take ten minutes to fix, but I just keep on jiggling the flush lever instead of taking tha tank top off and doing it right.
you didn’t get around to fixing it because you know plumbing is the devil! You’re lucky you don’t have my house, 5 seconds of twisting would have turned into 5 hours of soaking wet pipe replacement after the pipe half way into the wall broke in the most inaccessable place. We’ve come to think of this as normal so that we don’t go insane.
“Biff wonders when was the last time he cleaned the sink pipes.”
it probably wasn’t the 5 seconds of time it took to do it,
it was the other 86,400 seconds a day in which you are
busy doing something else more important.
….Or perhaps the misconception of how long it would take to fix a leaky faucet. Maybe you are a faucet-fixing prodigy and you just don’t know it? I mean, 5 seconds, that’s professional right there…
You should show the after effects of this comic where he turns on the water and the pipe bursts, causing a piece to be lodged in his head.
@Micah- Or potentially asplode the hell out of his entire kichen.
Biff upset over kitchen being destroyed isn’t as funny as Biff getting a pipe through his head, though.
@ Ian: “(…)we should call it Biffium! Super strong, super light, doesn’t oxidize, very inexpensive, easy to cold form or hot form, easy to weld everything is good about it …but only Biff can make it.”
It’s both a floor wax *and* a dessert topping!
( http://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75ishimmer.phtml )
I know its biff-land and all, but its bugging me
how cement
how did you dry like that
…guess my knowledge of stuff like that is getting worst DX
and then biff realized the leaky faucet was on the other room
Practical…… and a pretty permanent solution too…
@Colin and Stephan: I’ve always heard them called faucets, but I’ve never had faucet water, only tap water. IDK, English is crazy.