#630 – Drag
Posted on November 10, 2008 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
It’s weird how there doesn’t seem to be a universal sound for different kinds of alarms. The fire alarm went off at work recently and my first reaction was “What the heck is all that racket?”
The Book of Biff #3 fun fact: When getting a book printed there are usually inevitable delays that make the whole project take a week or two longer than planned.
Somehow, this time the books got made a week faster than planned!
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Oh good God, I need one of these. My entire extended family smokes. I would greatly enjoy the Irony. Maybe if I can find two pennies to rub together I’ll make one.
I’m surprised they didn’t relieve him of his jacket…
Speaking as an Asthmatic, that would come in handy.
Package it with free earplugs, and I’ll buy one of those from you RIGHT NOW.
Impractical clothing week?
The fire alarm at our church sounds like a brachiasaur-sized cricket.
One of my favorite pastimes in college was to snag peoples unsmoked cigarettes when they weren’t looking and with a needle poke tiny holes in them, evidently this makes them extremely difficult to get a decent lung full of smoke and no frustrated my friends to no end.
Adding an extra word week (smoking [alarm] jacket)?
Also, maybe you planned on having extra book delays, so when they didn’t appear it happened faster. More likely, it was because of the recession the publisher had less work than expected.
I would seriously buy that for my dad. 🙂
Ok Chris, what easter egg are you hiding in this comic?
I’d buy it
My guess is add-on inventions. Such as adding “alarm” to “Smoking Jacket” and “ing” to “Smoke alarm.” Not sure what it’s called. But that term week.
That looked a lot more awesome before I read that it was just covered in smoke alarms.
At work, we used to have a bird that would constantly make a short, but ear-splitting, chirp. Someone came in and thought it was the fire alarm going haywire.
I always think about how in no other context could you just stand in a public space, emitting toxic and foul-smelling smoke and chemicals, disturbing and endangering those around you, and it be generally acceptable. The worst is when you’re walking behind a smoker and you can’t get around them. I wonder what a smoker’s opinion on this stigma would be.
Impressive symmetry on that jacket.
Also, I can spot at least three different relevant meanings for today’s strip’s title. How many can *you* spot?
Seems to me, that jacket would be more annoying to the wearer, than the smokers… All they have to do is walk by, and set you off. They amble on, serenely leaving you to stand there listening to the piercing and strident alarms. Or, as in this case, they boot you out the door, and you get to stand there, alone with your ear-shattering electronic jacket.
I think what Biff needs to make is a limpet smoke alarm, that he can stick between the shoulder blades of a smoker; where they can’t easily reach to remove it. And them maybe a limpet smoke alarm launcher, so he can get a little stand-off, to provide a head start on his getaway sprint!
I should get one of those for my mom.
It’s a good thing Biff doesn’t have ears
I second £cake’s motion. Send me some earplugs with it and I’ll take 12.
Portmanteau week?
what an awesome idea!
Oooh, I want one of those!