#161 – Leak
Posted on January 4, 2007 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
When I first moved into my current house the faucet in the bathtub leaked. Since it was leaking into a drain and not onto the floor it was one of those things that are easy to put off. But it sure felt good when I finally got it fixed. I had learned to live with the leaky sound but the silence after it was gone was beautiful.
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Haha, poor Biff… great concept, Chris. I have often wondered what would happen if you left the faucet run over too long…
Well hopefully you’ll never find out in real life.
gives new meaning to the term water-bed. the upside is he can just lean over if he gets thirsty during the night. 😛
Downside is that there’s about 10 or more electric gizmos in the water that will probably kill you in electric death 😛 Upside number two is that you dont need to worry about drowning then 😀
Yeah, somehow I don’t think Biff is worried about electrocution.
http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2006/11/20/140-heater/
gee, hardcore wetting the bed
…but the water is blue. 🙂
That makes me want to be a plumber, but that has nothing to do with the comic…oh well. Nice one though I liked it.
Hahah, ok, that was rather cryptic.
Sorry I happen to do that from time to time. Call it impulse behavior or just a random observation and now i will shut up.
All real, all true, and based on real events!
Wet eyebrows. I hate that.
Three words. OH. MY. GOD.
How come my bed doesn’t float like that ;_;
Yes, it’s another person from one of those banner ads…they’re addicting.
Love your comics, they’re jeenyis. And you update much more often than is usual…
This one’s probably my fave though XD
He could have left the faucet on or he could have a pipe leaK or he could have a pipe burst or he could have frozen pipes and all the extra water came out the wrong end.
Thanks Knownimus. This one was fun to draw.
It’s a good thing the matress floated O_o
Actually, I just thought of something. As soon as the water covered up the faucet… wouldn’t it be unable to put out any more water? If I remember correctly, once the pressure is equal on both sides – which it isn’t normally, since the water pump is pushing it out of the faucet via higher pressure than the outside air – which it would be since the water would be pushing back just as hard as the pump was pushing water out of the tap.
But of course, since when has Biff had any regard for physics? Just saying, I’m glad it wouldn’t go higher than faucet level in real life 😛
after I get used to any noise that is constant and slightly annoying, I actually need that noise to exist for me to get anything done. Like I cant sleep without the news radio on (WBUR for me).
but anyhoo, loving the comic, found my way here from B and G,
Hey, welcome darktrb. Yeah I know a few people that need white noise like a fan of some sort to sleep.
>But of course, since when has Biff had any regard for physics? Just saying, I’m glad it wouldn’t go higher than faucet level in real life
Actually, because the faucet is actively pumping the water, it would continue to come out. Albeit at a slowwr rate
three things
1. Amazingly, Biff hasn’t hit his ceiling fan yet
2. That must be his fifth bed by now…
3. there wasn’t a leak, Biff had a bad dream and accidently bent water out of the fascet
XD
Jetman123, what if the leak was on the floor above?
Of course, he was bending water.
Jetman123, sideways gravity (Because leaks on the floor above aren’t cool). If it was just a leaking faucet, normal, wouldn’t it go down the drain? Knowing Biff, he could have tried mixing his water system with… His vaccum or something… But, my theory is still sideways gravity. It floated sideways until there was too much, and flowed… Something. o.O
I’ve been woken up by the ceiling before. But that’s because my brother kicked the bottom of the top bunk and launched me into it haha.
it would’ve been funnier if he woke up outside (being that the water busted out of the house and biff rode it on his matress like a water slide)
one time when i was little and my parents were gone i made a matress water slide, they were super pissed when they got home
I think its the eyebrows that really got me reading this comic. XD
Wheeeee! I just picture him opening the door, riding the wave all the way outside and down the street, then getting his tounge caught in the mailbox again. XD
Love the “comic-is-world” effect in this one, and the floating lamp is absolutely fantastic.
Nice.
He never would have been woken by the ceiling if he was still sleeping in the matress.
I left a tap on filling the bath when I was a kid. It didn’t make my bed float, it just soaked through the floor and made rain in the garage.
Looks like a water main break.
Biff will now have to do some unintentional skinny dipping to get free.
Too bad he goes to sleep naked…
I love how he is woke up by… the top border of the comic!
way to long.
There is a great little kiwi movie that is somewhat similair to this.
A tap in the house starts leaking and the occupants just “ignore” it.
They all pretty much die.
Actually, something sorta similar to this happened to me.
thankfully, I was not in that house (or sleeping on that bed) when it did.
During hurricane Katrina, my dad’s house got flooded, and at the time, my bed was an air matress.
So we come back after everything, and find that everything is completly soaked, except for the things on the air matress, because the air matress floated above the water.
It was kinda funny. My biology notes were saved because they had been on the bed
Low ceilings strike again!!
of all the things to save…biology notes….too bad you didn’t have…like…everything else on there…
The pressure would have to be greater PUSHING INTO THE PIPE, which could take a while.
Otacon, no! Don’t be a plumber! They get attacked by evil turtles and mushrooms and sentient bombs and stuff!
Waaah, Biffs poor holy sneakers!
*Thunk*
..Well, hello, Mr. Ceiling. Imagine meeting you here.
Glub Glub.
Green Shoe alert
Ohh i love finding green shoes, just yesterday i saw a kid coming out of a shoe store with GREEN SHOES
When my sister was two or so she stuffed cotton balls in the sink drain on the ground floor and then left the water running. Six hours later, there was standing water throughout that entire storey.
(I dread to think what might have happened had we been on holiday at the time — although if Biff had been, the consequences would undoubtedly have been even more drastic!)