#213 – Scoop
Posted on March 29, 2007 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
I worked at an ice cream store for a few summers. We just had soft serve there but it was very high quality. I got pretty good at filling the cones after a few days. We sold 3 different sizes, small, medium and large. One of my favorite customers always ordered a “large small” vanilla cone. I was confused the first time he ordered it. He then said “Ok here’s what I want you to do. Take a large cone and pile on the ice cream as if I ordered a large, then when you would have stopped keep going and put another small cone’s worth of ice cream on top.” It was about 10″ of ice cream on top of a 6″ cone. He would then sit and chat with us while eating the whole thing.
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Some of the ice cream should’ve hit Biff’s shirt. Ice creams seems to be magically pulled onto clothing when it falls.
;_; I bet Biff’s not happy with that outcome. I know I’d be unhappy if my ice cream tower crumbled.
11 scoops? Imagine the Ice cream headache you would get from that.
He really needs to use that mental power of his for things like this. Then he would have no problem getting 22 scoops on…..mmmmmm 22nd flavor. lol
11″ of icecream? how big was the large .. and where was this .. thats amasing the most ive seen was 5 or 6″ as a large
Where does Biff get the funds to do all of these things?
I’ve never seen a comic where I look as forward to the creator’s side notes as I do the comic. It’s addictive.
if biff needs someone to eat that ice-cream,iwould eat it (only if the the counter is clean)i’m kinda a germafobe,a small one,but still
wait why is his cone green,is it pea flavored
maybe he did not have eny cones and used a green flashlight ^^
The cake cones that my mom always bought came in a variety pack of colors. Green, pink, yellow and brown. I think the pink, yellow and brown were supposed to be strawberry, vanilla and chocolate… I have no idea why they made green ones. I don’t remember any of them actually having any flavor to them.
I can imagine green being mint.
Mint! Of course! But they all tasted like cardboard 🙂
xD Nice.
But shouldn’t they all have fallen together, in one giant splat tower?
awesome 😀
or perhaps the cone is pistachio-flavored?
What flavors did he use. You need to be key in your choice. They look like sherbert, strawberry, and vanilla. Nice choices, for flavor. Oh and by the way what flavor did that guy get?
If I did I might have to go for Rainbow Sherbert, if hard.
And twist if soft.
And if your saying I’m an idiot for liking Rainbow Sherbert I”m not the stuff is just addictive. Okay addictive kind of like this comic, and how it makes me read it then comment on it.
I just noticed that on your side bar you have T.K.T under your comics you like. I have to agree that kicks ass. All the nice poop jokes and low brow comedy it just works. Think Biff could pull off a poop joke? XD
I’m just surprised Biff could reach that high
Eighteen luscious scrumptious flavors, chocolate, lime, and cherry. Coffee, pumpkin, fudge-banana, caramel-cream and boysenberry. Rocky road, toasted almond, butterscotch, vanilla dip, butter brickle, apple ripple, coconut and mocha chip. Brandied peach and lemon custard. Each scoop lovely, smooth and round. The tallest ice cream cone in town. Lying there! (*snif!*) on the ground!
(Shel Silverstein. Recited from memory, and potentially mildly incorrect.)
Mmmm cardboard ice cream cones… LOL. I remember those. Sounded sort of like biting into Styrofoam, didn’t it? Ew. XD
I can relate a little to chatty customers. I work at Cold Stone right now and I love the customers who actually take time to stop and talk with me. Makes working a little bit easier. And besides, they usally tip better too! 😉
But I think I would have to shoot anyone who ordered 11 scoopes of ice cream.
shel silverstien,oh i loved his books,he was a crazy man,hold on, maybe biff is the twisted reincarnation of shel silverstien
“LLCoolDave”: You’re right – it’s one of those “Murphy”-type laws, like how buttered toast will almost ALWAYS land butter-side down… …& on the carpet!
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“Blargen-Vargen”: I think he has a job as a “crash-test dummy”, or perhaps he’s paid to have “medical experiments” done to him… …some sort of job that exploits his innate inability to die.
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“Chris”: I’ve not thought of those 4-color packs of cones in DECADES! wow! But, why are the scoops scattered? Wouldn’t they all land in a row – like a toppled tree? There’s no evidence that Biff was jerking his hand around, in a last-ditch effort to save the stack. Considering his accident-prone lifestyle, he looks rather resigned, like he made no movement at all – just watched it as it started to fall…
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“Jennifer”: Did you know that Shel Silverstein is also the guy who wrote that Johnny Cash classic “A Boy Named Sue”? Just a bit of trivia for those who thought he was only known for “Where the Sidewalk Ends”, “C D B?”, & other children’s books.
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I needed that laugh.
maybe a weird domino effect………
or his cat maybe jumped right into it…
were is the cat hair then,wait,knowing biff , he would probobly wrap his cat in seran wrap so he can prevent unsightly fur lying all over the place
I worked at Coldstone as well, and I have to agree with StriplingWarrior (if you recognize the name Helaman, I think we have something in common religion-wise!) that the chatty customers are more fun, but I don’t think a gun would be necessary. Eleven scoops at Coldstone’s portions? A person would explode long before finishing that, and even if that didn’t work, the wallet damage might be lethal anyway.
I assume Biff has a third ice cream box offscreen, seeing as he has three flavors?
Biff probably does it this way now (huge stack) because he originally just peeled apart the box and ate the whole block and had his head frozen for a couple days because of it.. just a guess.. but an educated guess 🙂
Wait, that reminds me of the time my little sister froze her lips to the big (Rocket I believe) popsicle that she got from the ice cream man.. haha.. we laughed at her so hard :).
BRAAAAAAIIIIIINNNNNN FFFRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZE!!!!
I really like the way his hand is still up in the air, even though the icecream is all fallen down. In my head it’s been a good minute and a half since the icecream fell, and he’s still thinking, being dissapointed and trying to work out where it went wrong.
ive ruined at least 4 shirts with ice cream this summer! 1 with coffee ice cream, 2 with chocolate, and 1 with mint chocolate-chip.
In response to Synchro- I’ve eaten a styrofoam cup before. It had ramen in it, so it tasted kinda like that.
The eleventh scoop was beyond his reach, so he was squishing the tower, which couldn’t take the stress (Think Gus from “Cinderella” collecting chicken feed). This explains the scattered scoops better than the ice cream tower simply falling over.
New reader here, and this strip is really old in your archive, but it reminds me of this Sesame Street bedtime storybook Mom used to read us. Grover worked at an ice cream store, some muppet kid came in and couldn’t decide what flavor he wanted, so he had Grover scoop him a cone of everything (a few exotics like spaghetti), it got really high, then the kid decided he just wanted vanilla.
I want my icecream cone to be a bowl 6″ in diameter.
Or this
http://blog.westervillelibrary.org/teens/?p=274