#790 – Twister
Posted on June 22, 2009 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
I was scared to try and make balloon animals when I was a kid. The anticipation of the balloon popping drove me nuts. I really just liked to inflate them and then let them fly around the room. I wonder if anyone has invented an air compressor attachment that is a rapid fire balloon inflater/launcher. I guess that wouldn’t be a very accurate weapon.
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Tags: summer
tok m awhile to get it until i read the WATER part. its still funny though
My favourite kind of Biff joke, this one. The kind of thing that just makes you facepalm at what Biff was trying to do.
Actually, “snake” is pretty good for a water-ballon animal.
I can make a water balloon Pat Sajak’s head and a paramecium and a French Poodle…out of the same balloon…at the same time. Ha!
Try harder, Biff. Takes some practice.
The anticipitation of the balloon popping…i do not enjoy it. D:
Knowing Biff, hes lucky he didnt try filling them with hydrogen or gas. XD
THAT woulda ended with a bang.
@Dzelda: Only if he used fire to pop them, and in any case helium is non-reactant. Hydrogen is, but it’s nowhere NEAR as loud (or shockwave-ish) as a hydrogen-oxygen mix. My ears are still ringing from that demo in chem class…
I fail at making balloon animals. But my chem teacher was a master at it, he’d make hats and dogs and giraffes and you name it, he could make it. It was originally for a 30 minute show he used to do for a news channel, but when that stopped he couldn’t see why he shouldn’t continue balloon animals. They’re actually pretty amusing to put in a vacuum. XD
At first I thought it was blood what covered Biff, so I had problems reading the text correctly. At some point I read water-mellon animals, probably an unconscious attempt to turn the blood into something harmless.
Not sure if we’ve ever seen Biff with a “WTF?” look on his face until now.
Hey Chris,
How well do you handle those Pillsbury dough canisters where you strip off the outer layer and it pops open? My wife can’t stand those for the same reason as the balloons popping. I usually end up chasing her around the house with the bisquit canister (:
@BeefUnit – Haha, yeah those drive me nuts as well 🙂
I totally thought that was blood on Biff, and that he was trying to make water balloons out of animals. Remember in “Shrek” (or is it Shrek 2?) when he makes a snake into a baloon? I thought that was what Biff was doing. Took me a few disgusted seconds to realize he is just making animals out of water baloons.
Anyway, I think it might work if you remember to leave more slack in the baloon. Like when making air-baloon-animals you don’t fill the baloon all the way or it will pop, it should work with water as well. But that is gonna be a very heavy baloon, those are pretty big baloons that they use to make animals out of.
I also initially thought of shrapnel wounds… But whatever. The fact is, Ic an’t make regular balloon animals, unlis you count ‘stick’ or ‘banana’ as a baloon animal. No doubt, water balloon animals *would* give me shrapnel wounds!
Embarasingly, my pre-teen daughter can turn out balloon animals like a veteran circus clown on crank. 😛
it’s the effort that counts biff.
My favorite balloon trick was in the movie ‘The Mask’. I’ve been trying to figure out how to make a balloon Tommy-gun ever since.
…..balloon animals, oh those delightful little things, how I used to get one at my cousins partys and pop them against a cactus, then ask for another, and another, and another, then they’ed make a sword a shield and I stop bothering everyone
Woah…just finished reading every single Biff, now I have 19 Webcomics to check daily…need to find my twentieth some time soon…
Also need to decide whether to order the books…or a wireless keyboard and mouse…
@5butjam – Personally, I’d go for the books. 🙂
Theme guesses:
– Summer week
– Balloon Week
– Water Week
– Liquid Week
– Only week
– Animal Week
– Snake Week
– Bad Combinations week
Yes, only 8 things, I am tired
if you inflate a balloon in a paper towel roll, and make some kind of nose cone, it will fly somewat accuratly chris
Try again, Biff. Try again.
I hate when balloons pop.
@weerd2normal: Balloon rocketry FTW! 🙂
I’m guessing it’s summer week.
@ Chris
Hmmm…I have enough for the best set of 4 books while the dollar is still weaker than Sterling…but the XKCD store is so tempting..and my wall is so bland!!!!
And wired keyboards annoy me, I’ve spilt about 5 litres of orange in the past two months…