January 10th, 2007
#165 – Painting
I live about a block away from some train tracks. Paintings never stay straight for very long in this house and DVDs slowly creep off the shelf. If there is ever a precarious stack of objects here they will eventually fall. Unfortunately I have so many piles of things, when I hear something fall in another room it’s hard to track down what it was.
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January 10th, 2007 at 12:19 am
Wow Biff is a genious! I cant even get paintings or posters or anything to hang straight and i live nowhere near train tracks haha
January 10th, 2007 at 12:47 am
Hahaha! Very clever!
January 10th, 2007 at 1:02 am
I must admit, that is a very unique solution.
January 10th, 2007 at 1:08 am
It’s all about taking the easy way out, I suppose.
January 10th, 2007 at 2:25 am
The tricky part is when your furniture is crooked but the painting insists on hanging straight.
Just read through the archive after seeing your ad on Bob and George, and it was definitely worth the time and an even larger bookmark list.
January 10th, 2007 at 3:08 am
Thanks, Sage. Biff enjoys being bookmarked.
January 10th, 2007 at 3:27 am
Hey just found your comic and read all of them funny stuff. i look forward to seeing the update tomorrow
January 10th, 2007 at 3:33 am
Thanks Messiah zack, see you tomorrow.
January 10th, 2007 at 8:26 am
Err… dang. Wish I’d thought of that when I was trying to hang my wood block prints, that would’ve saved a lot of time.
Too bad I’d always be picking my penguins up out of the floor after that.
January 10th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
I live about a block away from train tracks, but that never happens to me, and we get hundred-plus car long freight trains. When I was younger, I used to run outside and count how many engines there were, and then how many cars there were.
January 10th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
WARNING: side effects may include neck pains, and for no explained reason nausea!
January 10th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
Well I guess you have a well built house
January 10th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
Yeah, I know how Yuccadude felt when he was younger… I live about 100 meters off a train track in a valley, I used to do the same when I was 4.
Although, now that I think about it, my glassware tends to rattle when that coal train goes by…
January 10th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Wonderful comic you have going here sir. I stumbled across your banner while reading Questionable Content, and never bothered to click. Five minutes later I saw the same banner on Bob and George, further spiking my interest. It was well worth the look.
Bookmarked as well.
January 10th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
There’s only one emoticon proper for this comic. XD
January 10th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Haha great solution to that, but shouldn’t he put some books under the left side of the chair to even things out? ^^
Well another great one, Christ. Love the creativity in this one!
January 10th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
hhhmmm…..yeah and I meant Chris…. Don’t know why I wrote Christ O.o
January 10th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
the usual method is to use 2 nails to hang pictures if you live in a wobbly house, but this solution is good if you have run out of nails.
January 10th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Dadi, he did saw down the legs on the right side of the chair… it has a curved top so it may not be obvious.
January 10th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
Hey i know this doesnt have anything to do with the comic but is biff gonna have a forum that we can all get together and talk about things other than biff and biff related things too? Just wondering.
January 10th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
Yes I think I will put up a forum at some point. It can be hard to hold a conversation in the comments section.
January 10th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
True… And could you think about putting in a link archive for easy access to previous Biffs?
January 10th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
I have a link archive being built courtesy of ohnorobot.com. I’ll be changing over to their search engine soon.
January 10th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
Woo alright sounds good your the best chris haha
January 11th, 2007 at 12:27 am
Hehe, I love this comic, Mr. Chris, but this is one of the two or three times that your personal insight into your own experience is just as funny as the frame itself.. Hey, it might comfort you to know that stuff randomly falls in non-traintrack homes too.. I know what ya mean about not knowing what it was
January 11th, 2007 at 12:36 am
Sometimes it’s such a loud sound I can’t believe that I can’t figure out what happened. It can be freaky.
January 30th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
The trick is to catch it in the act – before the falling stuff has come to rest…
April 13th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
…There are no words for how flawed Biff’s logic is…
May 25th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Just a wild guess, but you read a lot of Douglass Adams, don’t you, Chris?
June 20th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
Wow. Staring at this picture makes my head hurt.
July 14th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
Why didn’t I think of that? Who needs painting straightened?!?!?!? >.
July 15th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Hmm, I should tilt all the pictures in my studio to match the tilt of my drawing board! Too bad I have functional shelves that should stay level. Not sure if people would catch on that it’s with the desk, either.
Better yet though, part of the room is under a staircase, so I have this…. / slanted wall! I should slant the pictures with that wall so it looks like there’s a wall falling in from the next room over. Maybe even trim a poster so it looks like some is still in the other room. THAT is an awesome idea. I’m so glad you made this comic.
July 24th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
thats a uniqe concept.
June 24th, 2008 at 1:00 am
Reading through the comments, I noticed Chris said that Biff enjoys being bookmarked. I must ask: Is that why he laminated his head?
June 25th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Wait, I thought Biff lived on a hill?
So of course his paintings won’t hang straight…..
http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2006/02/20/bath/
January 7th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Oh dear god that picture gives me really bad vertigo just by how subtly off it is. >,<
March 6th, 2010 at 6:11 am
Actually all it requires is lateral thinking…