#719 – Eye
Posted on March 13, 2009 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
I spend most of my time sitting in front of a computer. When I was a kid I did a lot more things outside that involved climbing up trees or playground equipment. This would build up callouses on my hands. That of course allowed me to painlessly stick a pin through the dead skin, walk over to a friend and simultaneously show it to them while screaming “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”
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I just made fake dead skin using glue, myself.
Long time reader, first time commenter!
I remember sticking safety pins through the tips of calloused fingers and giving teachers heart attacks, the good ‘ol days of youth, right?
I’m sensing from the little blog entries it’s cherished childhood memories week!
At least needles through hand are easier to deal with than splinters. I remember using a needle to open the cut so that the tweezers could eventually pluck out the splinter.
I think I’m weird. I could stick pins through my skin without having callouses. The trick was to push it deep enough so it holds but not too deep so it stays in the outer, dead skin part. Once I had a needle in each of my fingertips…
…hmmm, can I still do it?
Where’s the title?
@Edem
I assume we probably won’t find out, since if you succeed you will either have needles in your fingers making it hard to type, or very sore fingertips, making it impossible to type.
Aaaaaagh, oh my god that is NOT THE WAY TO DO IT BIFF.
OW.
Hmmm.
“Biff misses his pin cushion.”
“dont squeeze porcupines”
GAH!!! Biff! There’s got to be a better way!!!
I think this one does fine without a title really….
Also @Edem I wish you Godspeed in attempting it again
Friday the 13th Biff. You should have known.
ouch!
You too? Yeah, that was *ALWAYS* good for a scream. The ultimate geek-trick…
Ouch! ‘It is easier for a rich man to drive a camel through the eye of a needle than Biff can’
That’s the title, right?
@Micah – Weird, I don’t know what happened there.
Oh, how I sympathize with poor Biff. I’ve embedded needles in myself more times than I can count. Worst was when I accidentally sewed through my finger on one of the industrial sewing machines in the costume shop.
O_o… This one just makes me shudder.
Rope climbing.
Shreds the callouses later, though.
That’s a big bottle of needles! Do they all get too rusty to safely used?
I used to stitch the callouses I had around my fingers and gross out my friends.
Well… That’s one way to do it…
I usually throw the thread at the eye of the needle and hope for the best….
“Marks1stwife” nailed the code. Nice find!
@MaskedMan – I think that was the first time I did that. I’m impressed that someone noticed.
I like putting thread on the needle and pulling it through my skin to form words and pictures. 😀
Needles totally creep me out. I can’t stand getting vaccinations or having my blood drawn.
This reminds me of the time I stapled my thumb, twice.
Surprisingly, it doesn’t hurt THAT much.
Owww… I used this hand cream the other day and now my hands are all dry and soar (in retrospect that hand cream has been there for years and has probably gone bad) and now my hands are all dry and soar 🙁
I can still stick needles through the dead skin on my fingers. Hurts a bit if you pull them out wrong, but it’s fun to pull thread through and freak everyone out. It doesn’t work so well on the back of my hands or my arms though. I guess the layer of dead skin is too thin there.
Soggy, Petite, Abscond, Concealed, Eye.
SPACE?
my friend and i sewed our hands together once. 🙂
When I was a kid, I lived on a sloped street, so My outdoor activity in the summer consisted of taking my big wheel(like a manly tricycle) to the top of the block, turning it downhill, and letting go of the ground. Then I would break the 25 MPH speed limit before stopping three blocks down without stopping for the intersections. So all my exercise was walking the Big Wheel back up to the top of my block to do it again.
@Maskedman,@Chris- It’s a disease, I make acronyms of everything. ^.^
@Chris- A friend introduced me a while back and I didn’t love the eyebrows at first, but the content kept me coming back. Now I like it all, eyebrows included. (!)
@ Marks1stwife
the eyebrows were enough to allow me to not click on the ad (if it was not for the eyebrows I would have probably broken my vow to never click on an ad ever).
It was not enough (remotely) to make me not want to go there though, and so I promptly looked on some site which i don’t go to any more and found a new comic by the Book of Biff there, so I promptly clicked the link and read the entire comic archive. I started to like the eyebrows at most 100 comics in.
WHERE IS THE DUCK
So “between the lines” was close…..Tonight I’ll look up into the darkened sky and marvel about the immensity of the galaxy and think gosh, Biff reminded me about SPACE! Wonderful art this week too.
I didn’t stick anything through my fingers as I enjoyed drawing and my tips were supersensitive. So instead I would put them through the lobes of my ear. It was always amusing (still is!) to walk around wearing safety pin earrings with various bead decorations dangling from them!
Paperclips make excellent impromtu earrings as well 🙂
i used to do that too! and then i showed this little kid my mad skillz and he freaked out and reported me to the chief-adult-in-charge. she pulled me aside and gave me a talking to, going on about how she used to cut herself and would tell people it didn’t hurt – just like i was doing with the needles. looking back now, i realize she was under the impression i was taking steps toward a self-mutilating, angst-filled adolescence. I was like… nine.
How could anybody not like the eyebrows? The eyebrows are the best part of Biff, followed by the mouth!
… Ok, spent the last few days reading all (yes, ALL) of the comics, and only since Gaia I discovered this commentsection…
Anyways …
I know this girl who (for fun) uses needle and thread to make patterns on her finger…
Creeps me out…
I know it doesn’t hurt, but it just looks strange…
@ MadDavid
They are a very impressive stylistic choice, its just that to me they looked like they were a symbol for something I didn’t want to know at first. It took me almost 100 comics to decide that they were not and then the eyebrows were promptly awesome.
Oh my god! This one made my skin on my hand crawl!
@Matt Lee – Thanks!
(Lol, hurray for late comments) Forget calluses. I can stick needles through a single layer of skin on my fingertips. (when I was 8) I’d then show my parents, and say; See the needle? Then turn it over; Look, magic! And then after that, I’d show them it wasn’t glued by plucking it off my hand.
“Biff realises he should probably get a fake rock for his spare keys instead”