#771 – Dent

Currently my cellphone is my alarm clock. Most days this works out fine. The biggest problem is the way the snooze alarm works. I have to fumble for the phone in the dark, flip it open without touching any of the 4 outside buttons and then press the one single button on the inside marked “snooze.” If I touch any of the other 23 buttons first, it turns the alarm off. I sometimes don’t realize my mistake and wake up a half hour later with my phone somewhere under the bed or under my pillow.

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34 thoughts on “#771 – Dent”

  1. Kratospie says:

    Its Spaceship week! I love space! 🙂

  2. TCC says:

    lol, I’m thinking maybe you should pick up an orthodox alarm clock… maybe… just a thought… ^_^

  3. dartigen says:

    My alarm clock is on the other side of the room. This forces me to get up out of bed to switch it off. Such an annoying but practical arrangement.

  4. clintendo says:

    space week?! biff should be careful out there in space, those space pirates have been on the rampage lately

  5. speearr says:

    My phone is the exact opposite.

  6. Micah says:

    Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy week! Arthur DENT and Ford Prefect got sucked out of the airlock after the Vogons found them on board.

  7. DracoZereul says:

    I’m horrible with alarms; when I was a kid, two buzzes at 5:30 in the morning and I was up, eating breakfast and watching cartoons before the sun was even up, and this could have been while simultaneously going to sleep somewhere close to midnight. Now, whether I fall asleep at ten o’clock, midnight, or 3 in the morning, I’ll damn near always wake up at noon if I don’t have stuff to do, and that’s usually after the alarm’s been going off every snooze cycle for 2-3 hours! Why do I keep using it, you may ask? Simple……I like getting up early?

  8. greenimp says:

    biff in spaaaaaaaaaaace week!

  9. Dwarg91 says:

    I too use my phone as an alarm clock set to go off at 10 minut intervals and each individual “alarm” has the snooze function on
    P.S. I use an original Iphone

  10. MaskedMan says:

    I have a dog.
    I need no alarm clock.
    😛

  11. SEA says:

    I have my phone to wake me up with the alarm.

    Half of the time i just turn it off and go back to sleep. =p

    Then it rings again, i never did get the snooze feature. XD

  12. Nilly says:

    Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy week. TOTALLY.

    I like how he appears to be looking up at the ship like ‘oh not again’.

  13. soulofaqua says:

    My alarm is my mother. I always sleep right through noise so she has to shake me. If I ever have to live alone I’ll just get a wristwatch with an alarm function and alter it to run a small current through my body when I need to wake up…. or so I hope. I just might electrocute myself in my sleep.

  14. I’m confused… Does that mean he dies if he hits the snooze button!?!

  15. Dzelda says:

    Space Rocket Mishaps Week, it seems ol Biff has an affinity for spaceships.

    And on that note, what makes Chris’ character ever so lovable to the general public for that? I just cant seem to point it out.

  16. Hershey says:

    Ha, I have this annoying alarm clock that goes off again and again, getting louder and louder until someone turns it off. That might be me, might be someone else. But I set it so early that I just fall back asleep for two hours, then get ready for school.

  17. Lorcan says:

    I’m glad Biff isn’t late for work anymore, but what exactly does he do?

  18. Ziggy Stardust says:

    I love the angle on this one!

  19. Chris says:

    @Ziggles – Thanks, it’s definitely not one of my usual ones.

  20. Nicoli20 says:

    Wow, my alarm clock is my cell phone, too. And I have those exact same problems.

  21. Jack Pumpkinhead says:

    Lol, I have the same problem (mobile phone, not airlock), also if someone texts me or calls me it turns my alarm off too! Grrrrrrr, PHONES!!!

  22. cyber95 says:

    @dartigen I have that system going on, except my method works like “Let alarm go off for several minutes, get up, hit button, get back in bed, be late for school”

  23. Matt Lee says:

    I have to do the same thing! A normal alarm clock just won’t get me up!!!

  24. ZackDark says:

    my cellphone is my alarm clock too, but it works the exact opposite
    there’s only one disable button, all the other ones are for snooze, so I keep forgetting to actually turn it off only to be reminded in the middle of gulp of milk…
    turns out colored table cloths don’t stay colored for long after milk washes…
    😛

  25. Matt Lee says:

    It doesn’t help that Biff stole my rocket but now he’s using MY alarm clock!!!

  26. Radical Edward says:

    I don’t use alarm clocks anymore. I just wake up when I’m good and ready. Then again, I’m taking heavy psych drugs that put me to sleep.

  27. Space Butler says:

    My alarm clock system is unique. First, I set my alarm for two hours before I actually need to wake up, then I wake up exhausted (as always), and the payoff is that I set it for two hours later and go back to sleep. I know the trick behind it, but my body seems to achieve the extra rest and relaxation gained from getting “bonus hours” of sleep.

  28. IDK says:

    I have this app on my phone that makes me go through a bunch of mazes and math questions before I can snooze it or turn it off. If I don’t, I just end up hitting the alarm off button and defeat the purpose of an alarm…
    BTW, Biff is awesome! I go here every day.

  29. -2! says:

    I have insomnia

    That said I seam don’t have it when i wake up and need a blasting alarm!

  30. -2! says:

    Also awesome on the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy week.

    <large friendly letters&gt,DON’T PANIC</large friendly letters>

    One of the few books I have read.

  31. i.half4 says:

    They’re probably the *only* grownup books I’ve read more than once. And me not much of a reader. This is probably why I like comics so much.

  32. i.half4 says:

    …and what (as if) were those cell phone designers thinking? Boy, did they get that function backwards.

  33. babseth says:

    Biff must be part Luxan! Or else Luxans are part Biff… (sorry, going through a bit of a Farscape addiction)

  34. Random McPerson says:

    as in ARTHUR Dent???? hoooooooooo!! i was wondering how long it would take for a Hitchhiker’s reference!

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