May 18th, 2007
#249 - Flour
Whenever I use any sort of drain cleaner I get really paranoid. I’m always afraid that I’ll get some on my hand and not realize it and then rub my eyes. Sounds like something Biff would do. 
The newer gel style liquid drain cleaners aren’t so bad. The older splashy liquid or powdered stuff was a lot worse.
May 18th, 2007 at 12:06 am
Yeah, we gotta unclog the bathroom sink tomorow. for sinks and shower drains, they sell these little net things that looks like baby bottle nipples only with a wire mesh surrounded by a round metal ring. you put this on the drain, no glue or whatever, and it catches the larger stuff like hair and bits of paper, very valuable when you have a shower shared by people with long hair, like hippies
May 18th, 2007 at 12:11 am
Darn it, so close to first post. Honestly it took me a few times reading that to realize it said “flour” and not “floor” I was wondering what Biff was doing using his floor to unclog his sink. The answer of course was the same as all my questions about Biff….”it’s Biff”. Frankly, I’m not sure why the flour didn’t work.
May 18th, 2007 at 12:32 am
Doesn’t flour kinda become dough when mixed with water? Either way, it can only make things worse…I hope Biff knows a good plumber. Or that he can hold his breath for a very long time.
May 18th, 2007 at 1:37 am
“Doesn’t flour kinda become dough when mixed with water?”
Thank you Ted, that was the joke.
Why yes, yes I am going to say that whenever somebody states the obvious about the joke. Why? Because I can! >.>
May 18th, 2007 at 2:59 am
Flour can’t unclog the drain, but it can tell you the phone number of a decent plumber if you ask it nicely.
Trust me, I’ve tried. =D
May 18th, 2007 at 3:26 am
Someone else might have closed the tap by now, to stop the water from running. Biff? No.
I love Biff.
May 18th, 2007 at 4:04 am
On the bright side, he has his”amphibian heritage” in case it completely floods the house.
May 18th, 2007 at 6:19 am
He should call Mario. That guy hasn’t done any plumbing since the Beanbean Kingdom, he needs the work.
May 18th, 2007 at 6:25 am
i guesse all pourose rubber bands are out of the question
May 18th, 2007 at 6:49 am
I think it’s the flour company’s fault for not explaining it better.
Tim:
Go to youtube and enter “mario:game over”
very funny
May 18th, 2007 at 7:08 am
Whoot! False advertisment!
May 18th, 2007 at 7:20 am
lol nice ok i actually did that once O.o, though in my case i mixed up the powdered drain cleaner with the flour cuse my sister set them down together, when cleaning the cabinets out.
May 18th, 2007 at 7:52 am
I can see a rich future for Biff if he decides to sue the flour company for a misleading product title. He might just want to put some in his eye’s in lieu of contacts just for some extra leverage, though.
May 18th, 2007 at 9:16 am
flour + water /= dough
flour + water = glue
May 18th, 2007 at 10:10 am
Its not biff’s fault it’s the flour company’s fault for not putting “not all-purpose flour” on the label.
May 18th, 2007 at 10:11 am
‘“Doesn’t flour kinda become dough when mixed with water?”
Thank you Ted, that was the joke.’
Meh. Couldn’t remember if it did or not. I don’t cook enough for it to stick in my head.
May 18th, 2007 at 10:50 am
I had food class today and we were making scones. I started washing up and realised I had this very same problem. Coincidence? Maybe.
May 18th, 2007 at 11:04 am
The daring the cunning Biff is a true hero showing us you don’t have to stop the source of the problem you just have to stop the thing stopping that source. I mean come on that water keeps flowing but it doesn’t bother Biff all he has to worry about is that flour.
May 18th, 2007 at 11:25 am
Knowing Biff, he probably has an inside-out food dehydrator so he can dry out his entire garden at once, and find that it takes care of spills just dandy.
May 18th, 2007 at 11:35 am
My mind keeps returning to the very first comment about clogs from Bob– wondering *why* he showers with hippies?!
May 18th, 2007 at 11:50 am
I wonder what clogged it in the first place? His homemade peanut butter?
May 18th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Ha ha! That’s so much hilariousness. That’s a gag you could come back to some day in the future, too. I’m envisioning Biff flying towards the ground wearing a back pack with a rip cord in his hand and a trail of flour behind him.
“Once again, Biff realizes..etc”
May 18th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Chris, this is genius! I believe Biff has entered a new era of comedy: “KITCHEN BLUNDERS”
May 18th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Biff had that problem too? I’m glad I’m not the only one who played into the lies of the flour company.
May 18th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
Actually, those hair catcher things don’t work…not for me anyway…
May 18th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
Did he think to just turn on the garbage disposal? On second thought, mayhaps he shouldn’t. He’d probly’ get an eyebrow caught in there.
May 19th, 2007 at 12:54 am
lol funny
May 20th, 2007 at 6:51 am
I’VE FOUND PROOF OF THE EXISTANCE OF THE “LITORIA CAERULEA BIFFUS” (Bifffrog for short)
http://gamefactory.ga.funpic.de/GameFactory/images/bifffrog.PNG
May 20th, 2007 at 7:13 am
why doesen’t biff just turn off the water ?
May 20th, 2007 at 11:59 am
I love it all!! I was sent it by a friend, and I’m sure I’ll pass it on.
May 20th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
Nah, he’ll think of a device that will stop the water from overflowing, which then does something else catastrophic.
May 21st, 2007 at 9:23 am
Lawsuit time. For false advertising, house damage (all of them), and any other terms that can be tacked on. Get some lawyers and go for class-action status against as much of the business sector as possible. Get millions for the lawyers, thousands for yourself, pennies for the consumers, and new restrictions against all purchases/higher costs.
May 25th, 2007 at 12:07 am
pity
May 25th, 2007 at 1:43 am
“i mixed up the powdered drain cleaner with the flour cuse my sister set them down together, when cleaning the cabinets out.”
Geez, better be glad the inverse didn’t happen when you were baking something. O.o
July 20th, 2007 at 12:28 am
An icky story. My folks live in a manufactured home they bought used and have massively remodled. The bathtub drain wouldn’t drain very well, they’d tried all sorts of cleaners but nothing worked.
So I finally decided to see about fixing it. The drain has this crossed bar shaped thing in it, there was hair looped over the bars so I took a pocket knife (one of the five different folding knives that always inhabit my left front pants pocket) and cut the hair on top of the bars.
Next I got out my 4″ pair of Diamond channel lock pliers (same pocket as the knives, and the 4″ adjustable wrench) grabbed hold of some of the hair and pulled, and pulled and pulled some more. It was at least a 6″ long tangled mass of hair that was clogging the drain. Since it wasn’t sitting down in the P-trap, the drain cleaners would just flow through it without causing much damage to the hair.
July 26th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
August 28th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Our toilets are always clogging, and I always have to plunge them. The worst one, went to plunge, no smell. plunged once, smell so bad I almost threw up. not fun.
October 31st, 2007 at 10:53 pm
OMG that is incredible!!! I love this one
November 15th, 2007 at 9:35 am
Darkpheonix, that happens to me all the time…luckily not as often now that i don’t have to share a bathroom with my sis…but the smell just sort of lingers under the water until the water is disturbed by the plunger…so gross…
December 28th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Bob: We have always had one of those. Are you northern or something?
June 4th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Flour can be used for a great many things, but I think Biff is kind of wrong here. He should have used NaOH, or something of that sort.