#842 – Mach
Posted on September 2, 2009 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
Seeing shoes or other items that I wore as a baby is always interesting in a detached sort of way. What’s crazy is when something survives that I have real memories of wearing. I still have my cub-scout uniform for example. It’s hilariously small but I can remember getting it out of the closet and putting it on. It’s strange to hold tactile evidence from when I was just a kid.
Tags: rocket
do those shoes have suction cups AND rockets!?
Heck, I’ve still got a model airplane that I built 25-or-so years ago. Compared to my more recent work it’s quite primitive, but I’m still rather proud of it.
If those were Biff’s first shoes I would guess that Biff’s parents are the why he is the way he is Today
No wonder Biff turned out the way he did. We can now officially blame his parents!
Can you imagine bronzing your shoes? I suppose that is to prevent moths….
Better than mothballs at it even.
Man, finding my old Girl Scout vest in the closet was weird. It was really small.
Yup. “Things found in the basement.” Or, just maybe, “Trip down mommory lane.”
It’s in Biff’s genes… It isn’t just the shoes, but the mindset that created the shoes. His parents were Biff-tastic before Biff ever was.
Ergh. ‘Memory lane.’ Can’t speel before I get my coffee. 😛
Hi Chris, I’ve finally gotten to the last comic. I think it took me over a half a year xD
That’s a record for slowest ever!
It has a strange reason though 😛 I love you’re comic and have taken all the time to read them all very carefully.
Hope to see way more of Biff and his painfull powertools, inventions, bodyparts etc.
Assile
@Assile – Congrats!
I wore baggy clothes as a little kid (mostly due to hand-me-downs), and my mom’s a pack-rat. So when she decided to finally go through all the boxes of old clothes, I received a bunch of awesome t-shirts from my childhood that still fit, including a legendary wolf shirt!
Do they have “ACME” stamped somewhere on them?
Have to admit finding a T-Shirt from when i was in first grade. It was one of those that had all the names of the teachers and students on it. Looking at it just weirds me out since it’s so TINY.
One of the few things that survived since my childhood is a small gold medal that I won in a swimming meet when I was in elementary school. My parents were so proud that they had it bronzed.
finn went to his first cub scout meeting last night. he is so pumped.
I still have this shirt from when I was in PreK-4. Gosh, it’s hard to believe I was even that small at one point.
But on Biff, I wonder which parent bought him those shoes, let alone decided to bronze them: His mom or his dad?
I wonder if they were bronzed before they put them on him. You know, to save on the wear and tear.
Strangely, I have no clothes, but I’m clinging to a bracelet I found in a pet shop when I was 6. Someone had dropped it on the floor and…well, y’know, finder’s keepers.
Still manages to fit around my wrist too.
I created a whole series of “Dino-World” stories when I was in elementary school. I always drew myself wearing the same green and blue sweater. I recently found it again while going through some old clothes. Naturally, I had to dig out the books and read them all again with THE sweater on display. 😀
Biff must have had a very exciting childhood.
I just had a horrible thought… Maybe those aren’t Biff’s shoes… Maybe there’s a Biff, Jr. running around out there somewhere!
@MaskedMan
Oh dear… that would also mean there’s a bunch of crazy antics we’re missing, though…
Ooooh. It’s “old crap you find in your basement” week!
“A shame”!? I wish the loudness could be preserved somewhere in an unknown basement as soon as the babies learn to make it…actually, sometimes I wish that you could preserve the babies in little jars as well…
@MaskedMan: It could’ve been worse. You could have said “mammory lane”.
I never remember anything from my younger years unless I sit, and think, and think. Its just hard to remember.
I found a notebook with pictures of a girl weaing an egg hat, and remembered the imagination worlds my little brother and I hate. We’d think if we sat down with our eyes closed, we could see these worlds which we owned, and should tell each other what was going on. I stopped seeing my little world at eight or nine, but missed it dearly :C
I have a plush cow that, when squeezed, let out a moo. It was one of the remaining things from my infancy. Of course, my parents remember when I was little and I said “I wanna ride a cow.”
Why is everyone questioning the bronzing of the shoes? It’s a tradition in Biffworld. Oh, wait…. you don’t live here, do you?
Anyway, bronzing things is a way of showing how valuble they are.
Totally Unrelated Part:
This tradition reminds me of what I read in the booklet for Croc: Legend of the Gobbos (*ps1*)
Apparently, every year, a kitchen utensil is named, and it is called lucky to stick said appliance of the year down your pants. According to the book, they started to stop believing this during the year of the electric can opener.
Random Moment Over.