#767 – Metacarpal
Posted on May 20, 2009 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
When I was a kid I would sometimes have trouble with the order in which to put my clothes on. For some reason I frequently put my shoes on before my pants. Instead of just taking my shoes back off I would spend a half hour trying to force my feet through both pant legs at the same time. I could rarely get past the knees. I occasionally got it to work, but it was still a lot slower than just starting over.
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@ theme : Second (or fourth) thoughts week?
@ story: When I was a kid, I always put socks on before pants, then shoes, then shirt, then coat.
I was an OCD child
Hahaha, this week is probably the best one I’ve seen so far.
I was taught early that shoes are the last thing to be put on… I used to wear them and nothing else, so I was retrained 🙁
This time the thumbs are different!
My question is, what did Biff need the emergency arms for?
flipping between this weeks three comics so far and looking at the differences is interesting.
@maddavid: what _doesn’t_ biff need emergency arms for? i’d love to have 4 arms.
Nice easy week, right? Finding the most jokes for a single picture.
I do too, Heinrich! Hell, why are they “emergency” arms?
Emergency arms, maybe they’re good for hitch hiking! Or getting a job at a circus is the freak show! But in that case, Biff would have been just as well going as himself…
The little shade lines on the elbows change places too.
Actually, those changed yesterday. They are back to ‘normal’ today again. Also, the pants pockets and the collar shading changed today. Hey, this is fun :p
I’m calling dinosaur comics week.
Hey, where can I order that button? 🙂
“I’m busy, but I don’t want to miss an update”-week. 🙂
… are you just taking a vacation 😉
Kewl. “Spot the Difference” week. XD
So far, I count that the thumbs change, antenna-eyebrows change, mouth changes, pockets change and Biff lost a shade on his top-left (right to us) elbow.
*is obsessed*
Also, love the comic. 😀
I would’ve missed the “changes” thing, at least until his shirt turned yellow. I was going to guess a picture is worth a thousand themes. You’ve got the chilhood thing, the bones of the arm thing. Except I couldn’t look up “anconeus.” What’s up with that?
It’s arm week. Anconeus is the elbow, radius is a bone in your forearm, and the metacarpals are the bones in your palms.
@i.half4: Don’t give Chris any ideas. If it’s a picture is worth a thousand themes, then we’ll be seeing this same picture for over three years!
Hey, we could always just write more for him…
“Biff was thankful that he had only been bitten by half of the radio-active spider.”
“Suddenly, Biff’s long-time dream of being able to compose accordion music while driving had become a reality.”
“Biff discovered that practicing for the paper-rock-scissors tournament was now much easier.”
“Before today, Biff found taking off his shoes to count to twenty to be quite a hassle.”
“Biff regretted how much longer it now took to apply underarm deodorant.”
I noticed too…It’s arm week.
@Chris(the screenhog.com one): Careful, you’re increasing your chances of accidentally guessing right. Those all seem plausible. Wouldn’t want Chris(the book-de-la-Biffito one) to have to change plans on Thursday or Friday’s comic.
i love this week
Have you noticed that Biff`s mouth has gotten considerably smaller then in the early panels?
whats going on here?…. hmmm..
I am getting a Sickening feeling of Da Ja Vu…
Hmm, you’re right Garrett… perhaps those should have waited until Friday. 🙂
This one made me laugh out loud.