#189 – Lamp
Posted on February 13, 2007 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
My first job (other than a paper route) was working at a lighting store. I did a lot of assembling and display of all kinds of light fixtures for the display room. After the third time I shocked myself and didn’t die I got pretty fearless around electricity. Toward the end of my 3 years there I stopped cutting the power to the section I was working on. Those sparks are really bright If you let those 2 wires touch.
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It’s funny… not in a humorous way, really, but my girlfriend has been having back trouble for the last few days and everyone’s been telling her to go to the chiropractor…
Anyway, as for the comic itself, good stuff. 😀 You know, once those things get bent into an odd shape, it’s hard to get them to do what you want them to. I’ve mentioned before that I clean carpet for a living – hoses have a similar “memory”. They refuse to be wrapped unless you know the pattern… Maybe I should take them to the chiropractor. 😉
and thats what you get for using one of those adjustable things XD gets sometime that dosent move so much. i had a lamp like that once…. i broked it.
I like sparks
Shocked 3 times? Makes me think of Tasers.
I broke a lamp like that too.
Well…actually…
I don’t remember what happened to it.
I would always be looking for some way to make the bulbs blow up when customers were nearby…I think there are a lot of places that wouldnt hire me because of that sorta attitude actually.
I did help a guy wire a load of remotely controlled variable resistors into a dark corridor at his university once. It was fun scaring the hell out of people by turning the lights off behind them as they walk and then run and then huddle in a corner along when the one spot of light you are standing in turns off too. After we did it to someone we let them do it to someone else too. So its all good.
realy funny but the the exprssion on biffsm face throws me of, its like hes mad
dragonbrad, do you like sitting in waiting rooms?
Naughty Chris, you shouldn’t be so careless with electricity. 🙂
We don’t want our only source of tBoB to be zapped to oblivion do we?
Electricity makes me giggle. Especially the kind that is too bright to look at. Anyway. I never took my lamp to the chiropractor. It sits in the back of my closet all alone, never to be used again, because it uses some stupid german lightbulb I can’t seem to find here. Stupid Ikea…. Keep it up Chris, you’re a genius!
I’m looking at these and the old comics of Biff, and the older ones seem to have more flava.
That reminds me of a story… i was working with the electric box at a house and touched a ground wire we were running to the live strip on the box since we hadent put the front plate on yet… that sparked pretty nicely, though i wonder who was more worried, me or the guy who owned the house? All good though, we’re close friends.
Just the same, be carful with electricity!… it’s all fun and games till you burn yourself to a crisp, or run 480v through your chest, whichever comes first. (and yeah i know a guy who ran 480 through his chest, the guy actually lived through it too)
I guess this shows Biffs caring side… but thats what i think anyway.
I wish I’d thought of that! My lamp’s neck got so bent it kept falling over. Now it lives in the dump.
I think Biff always looks a bit angry…I think it’s because of those eyebrows, giving his eyes a >_
…I think some HTML formatting cut my previous post off. Anyway, I think you get what I meant to say…
reply to chris no, it smells like old people, and the vending machines have no honey buns or pretzel (or cash) ,but biffs kind of crazy, and tired of waiting, when toast bashes through you skull you know you dont like waiting,love the comics.
actually your right chris i dont like waiting,sorry 🙁
I actually do this. Twice a month I get my lamp adjusted. It’s an old lamp, so it will drop if I don’t do that.
Sorry, spelling error. I meant droop.
I hate waiting room. There’s nothing to do there. You just sit there and… wait… SPARKS ARE COOL!!!
Boo waiting rooms!!!
I had to wait in a waiting room for two hours for a 10 minute doctor appointment.
can’t he ajust it without a doctor?
I have a Sims games, got it for Christmas, and when reading the manual, I noticed this sentence:
If your Sim attempts something it is not experienced at, such as cooking on the stove or repairing the TV, it may go onto to it’s final voyage…..
Rachel:
Yes, but it wouldn’t have that proffesional edge!
You’ve never been to a chiropractor, huh?
Bah, electricity’s nothing. I’m building a power supply for a robot and in the past week I’ve been popped about six times by around 300V; once it was enough to trip the GFCI outlet in my loft. That was fun. Had to make sure the heart was still beating.
I always have the urge to take some of these comics, print them out, and post them in pretty frames all over the house… Do you offer prints?
@Anna Tramell – Yes I do! Click on the Store link and scroll down a bit to find the prints.
@DragonBrad: You and I are opposites, then. I’m rather fond of waiting rooms.
The old people smell: Transports me to the realm of my childhood. Most of my childhood memories take place in the home of my great-grandmother, always ready with a tomato sammich (mm) and a kind word.
The waiting: I’m a very patient person, and I have a lot of music stored in my head and a lot of things to think about. I don’t mind a good solid wait.