#1126 – Boxed

Back in college I would send packages out to friends every so often and I made a point of using weird boxes. Grocery stores and office supply stores had plenty available. It was much more interesting to send something in a box from a big calculator or a bunch of diapers rather than plain brown cardboard. My favorite is when I mailed a casette tape suspended in solid wax inside a frozen soup box.

The Book of Biff #5 is big! At 142 pages it is 29% larger than the previous books but costs 0% more! It’s practically bursting with eyebrows! Check it out in the store! This sentence also ends with an exclamation point!

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15 thoughts on “#1126 – Boxed”

  1. Gwid says:

    I usually send packages by putting whatever it is in a box 50 times its size – or better yet, in a box inside a box inside a box inside a box (etc.). It’s fun to imagine them opening it.
    Plain cardboard boxes are good for decorating, though! Almost like that stamp-covered envelope in Harry Potter (I keep making references and I have no idea if you read it, aren’t I great?).

    For the comic:
    “Hello, sir. Please sign here for this letter box.”

  2. i.half4 says:

    Gwid reminds me of a Bizzarro: A man is going through customs and there’s a dozen suitcases open and stacked inside each other like Russian nesting dolls. The inspector is holding up a tiny closed one and saying with a very straight face: “Very funny monsieur.”

  3. Lexxilicious says:

    Lol. Reminds me of the time my parents gave my brother a truck for his birthday. He got a HUGE box ((for a microwave, I believe)) that was completely wrapped in duct tape. I mean, several layers of duct tape around the WHOLE box. And then there was tons of plastic grocery bags, old newspaper, and bubble wrap shoved inside. And at the VERY bottom, duct-taped to the very bottom, was the key to the truck. My bro was SOOO steamed by the end, he almost gave up..

  4. kmurphy says:

    We moved when I was in high school. One freind and I sent things back and forth through the mail in a plastic fish.

  5. Baughbe says:

    The best I know of was done by an old friend of mine. Underneath layers and layers of alternating shrink wrap, duct tape, aluminum foil and whatever else he could find was the box. Protected by a layer of hand made chain mail that had taken him around a month to make. I don’t even remember what was in the box as I wasn’t the recipient.

  6. Cyndaquazy says:

    Unfortunately, my experiences of getting mail and packages has thus far been fairly normal — just normal envelopes and boxes. 🙁

  7. Rico says:

    I don’t send much packages but when the birthday of someone cames we always try to be as annoying as we can with the package also we force the victim to use only his own hands or teeth (or anything they want of his body) to open it 😀 Have someone tried to rip duct tape with your own hands?

    P.D: I’m looking forward the books… Can I get them in Spain?

  8. Chris says:

    @Rico – Sure, that’s no problem.

  9. DHowett says:

    So, today’s comic is especially hilarious due to an unrelated bug.
    My browser has decided to render every character in the header font as, you guessed it, boxes.
    I’m not sure if I can post a link, but, here is a screenshot snippet: http://grab.by/6I8o

    Boxed indeed. =D
    (Also, amazing as always.)

  10. MaskedMan says:

    Biff being literal, much? 😀

    @Rico; Sure – Tearing duct tape is a skill – if you do it often enough, it beomces no big deal. I was a sailor, so duct tape was part of my every day life…

    IRT indestructible wrapping: My grand mother was teh queen-god empress of impenetrable wrapping, Only she wasn’t doing it as a joke – she was seriously paranoid that things wouldn’t arrive, or would arrive damaged. Craft paper, glass-reenforced strapping tape, twine, packing tape, more craft paper, newspaper buffers… You’d need a SAR team equipped with chainsaws and machetes to get through the package’s defensive carapace.

  11. Stranger says:

    One of my favourites was when I gave my ladyfriend a $50 bill stuffed inside a glass vase with a thin neck worth $60.

  12. Daniel says:

    Yup, it’s definitely green week. Also, does any one know how long the preorder special will last?

  13. MissKmae says:

    *beams* Finally, I have caught up with the comic! I must say, I really really like it! Only… Biff with teeth is always extremely creepy.

    Once, I got two presents in laptop boxes for Christmas. When I opened the first one, I was extremely excited, but it was a bunch of books instead (which was still a rather nice present). Unwrapping a second box, and, when it turned out to also be a laptop, I was just irritated with my dad for doing it again. It actually was a laptop! And that was the start of my internet addiction.

  14. Chris says:

    @Daniel – The preorder will be 2 or 3 weeks. I’ll be sure to announce the official cutoff date.

  15. KamenZero says:

    Not one of my stories, but my uncle’s.. He once gave a friend two chocolate bars (they went with a chocolate fountain machine) for Christmas.. he taped the two bars (in their wrappers) together, wrapped it in wrapping paper, put it in a box, wrapped that in paper, put that box in another box, wrapped that in paper, put that box in yet another box, and wrapped it in even more paper.

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