January 6th, 2006
#3 – Fan
We always had a couple big box fans in my house when I was a kid. They were great for cooling off on hot days but I liked them for other reasons. Chopping up pencils was a main one. Strips of paper were better though… it wasn’t as loud so you were less likely to get in trouble. And I could never get tired of putting my face right up to the fan and talking like a robot. My dad, on the other hand, tired of this quickly. The knobs on the top of the fan never seemed to last very long. We usually needed a pair of pliers to change the speed on most of them.
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January 16th, 2007 at 3:24 am
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January 24th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Anyone who’s been a kid and been near a box fan has to have done that. Anyone who didn’t do that needs to find a box fan, or even a smaller rotary fan and talk through it, just to get that experience. Anyone who doesn’t go do that needs to stick his tongue in the spinning fan blades. Cuz then the can amuse everyone else….for not amusing themselves….
April 19th, 2007 at 10:20 am
oh man. that’s great.
April 29th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
I’ve done this. Not with a fan, with an exercise bike, one of the old ones where the fan was encased in plastic. I used to chop up uncooked spagetti in it, too. I was 4, gimme a break @_@
May 23rd, 2007 at 2:42 am
When I was little i used to turn the lawnmower on and throw pvc pipe into the blades.
May 31st, 2007 at 8:36 pm
…pvc pipes and a lawnmower…now THAT’S enertainment!
June 6th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
i used to put my toung on the center of a fan when i was a kid
XD
June 21st, 2007 at 5:39 am
i never did anything with a fan when i was a kid. i do now though
we are so grown up
June 27th, 2007 at 12:19 am
We are so grown up…we are so grown up…hmmm…quite…
July 8th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
We are? o.o
July 13th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
I had old box fans too. I think I did the robot voice, but our fan’s blade was plastic, so the pencil thing never happened. I did tie balloons to the front though. I also turned it on it’s side and levitated napkins. I haven’t seen one in years though.
July 31st, 2007 at 6:36 pm
I just did the spagetty thing a few minuts ago with my metal fan but i put it under my sheets so the spagetty would not fly evrywhere
August 14th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
Once, at my grandparents’ house I was talking into the fan with my face right in it and the motor burned out. I was out of that room so fast…
August 20th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
We have a couple of box fans. They helped up when we lived in an apartment WITHOUT air conditioning.
August 21st, 2007 at 7:56 am
haha i loved talking into fans, and still do, even though society is screaming at me GROW UP, i still cant help but do what pleases me. i used to play golf in my block of flats, and hit the darn ball with a 5 iron until the ball came whooshing at myself. i stopped when i hit a car with it.
August 31st, 2007 at 11:43 pm
I think what was meant here was that it’s best not to get ‘involved’ with a ‘fan.’ Or, maybe, to acknowledge them at all… whatever, I’ve always prefered the broad-bladed oscillators. They’s got a gentler touch.
October 20th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
most classic of all biffs
November 10th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
ive jus found out about this comic yesterday an im lovin it!! ll
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November 28th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
la-la-la-luuuuuke
LUUUUUUKE
I a-am y-ou-r f-a-t-h-e-r
10 reference points at stake here!
December 20th, 2007 at 11:09 am
Wayne’s World
December 23rd, 2007 at 3:37 pm
REALLY?! Awww….
February 7th, 2008 at 9:35 am
Love the old comics… This really allows you to see how his style improved.
February 14th, 2008 at 2:32 am
i like getting some friends in a small room and throwing bottle lids at fans so they ricochet off and hit people. we stayed up all night doing it once with a few handfulls of lids
March 19th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
I remember that when I was a kid, I tried sticking a whole bunch of crap in my parents fan. One day, I stuck a pencil in, not knowing that the plastic blades had a crack in one of them. Next thing I know, a chunk of one of the blade broke off, whipped out, and imbedded itself in the ceiling.
Hindsight is always 20/20…XD
June 10th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
reference is from tommy boy. Give me my ten points.
July 9th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
LIES!!!!!!
November 27th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Owie…
January 12th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Lumanaru, just be happy the plastic blade didn’t embed itself in you. I love those fans, for the way they affect your voice.
March 30th, 2010 at 12:03 pm
How for to grow up?