November 13th, 2007
#376 - Squirt
We observe daylight savings time here and just recently turned the clocks back an hour. Apparently our dog doesn’t use a clock to tell time. She used to get fed dinner every night at 7:30. Since the time changed she has started to get agitated around 6:40. First she’ll hop around excitedly thinking that the food is about to come. After a few minutes of that when she gets no results she goes into stare down mode. She sits on the very corner of the mat by the front door and stares at Amanda. Somehow this works and she gets fed. It’s weird having an animal actively trying influence your behavior like that.
November 13th, 2007 at 12:02 am
I always thought Daylight Savings Time was backwards. Shouldn’t we be adjusting the clocks so that we have more evening sunlight in the winter, when days are shorter?
November 13th, 2007 at 12:17 am
Penny is Biff’s dog I can only assume. I admire it’s … reach there, though Biff clearly should seek the services of a professional dog trainer.
November 13th, 2007 at 12:53 am
no! its a llama!! right?
November 13th, 2007 at 12:59 am
No! It’s a cow! See the milk?
November 13th, 2007 at 1:26 am
No, no, silly, it’s a goldfish. See the water?
November 13th, 2007 at 2:06 am
at the height its coming from id say some sort of giraffe, elephant or dragon.
November 13th, 2007 at 2:07 am
Or a budgie.
A really big one.
(With teeth).
November 13th, 2007 at 2:17 am
the image along with the name is a bit, well, disturbing.
November 13th, 2007 at 2:25 am
hmmmm.
the title of the previous page, added to this one made me laugh. my screen now says ’sticky squirt’
cant stop laughing
November 13th, 2007 at 2:42 am
It could be his pet spider, which would explain the size of the spider webs in the attic a few comics ago.
November 13th, 2007 at 2:54 am
This one looks abit wrong. o.O
I must just have a dirty mind.
November 13th, 2007 at 3:17 am
I didn’t get it =(
November 13th, 2007 at 6:03 am
At least Penney didn’t pee on the remote.
November 13th, 2007 at 6:21 am
heh…my dog is just like that! we force her to wait now though.
November 13th, 2007 at 7:54 am
Heh!
Nicely ambiguous… Could be a baby with great distance… Or a cobra (spitting variety, of course!), or a giant horned lizard with anemia (hence the almost clear blood squirting from its eye), or an camel, or…
Love it!
November 13th, 2007 at 7:56 am
Penny could very well be a camel.
November 13th, 2007 at 9:31 am
Stupid trivia timem, simply because I’m an insufferable know-it-all with access to Wikipedia:
Winter time is actually “normal time”… Summer is the time that is turned back. Daylight savings time was thought up by Ben Franklin as a way for farmers to get the most out of their day. Since they were early risers, turning the clocks forward during the longer summer hours would allow them to begin work when the sun rose (when the animals woke up).
November 13th, 2007 at 9:36 am
I say Penny is a penny. Or Biff’s pet rock, but most likely a penny.
November 13th, 2007 at 9:49 am
I was assuming penny was a parot….but the other ideas here are…interesting.
November 13th, 2007 at 9:49 am
Or some other kind of bird.
November 13th, 2007 at 10:34 am
I get the feeling that knowing Biff Penny is some form of owlbear or camelllama (that’d explain the spitting)
November 13th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
I wonder if Penny’s a giant archer fish, or whatever they’re called: The fish that spit at bugs on leaves and grass to knock them into the water.
November 13th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Maybe it’s whatever was in that box.
November 13th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Penny is a parrot!
About daylights “savings” time: I’ve always felt that it should be Spring forward, stay the f@$k forward. I HATE normal time, and am in league with the farmers on this (though not the silver standard) that we should abolish it.
My dogs like to be fed at 5, and they get agitated starting around 4:30, so when daylight savings ends, and we go back to that abysmal “normal time” they want to get fed at 3:30, when no one is home! It generally takes about a month for them to get used to the fact that we won’t feed them for another hour. Agitated means barking, yipping, snapping, knocking things over, jumping over and on people, and bringing presents such as children’s toys, or office supplies.
November 13th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
You got it right, Bronze Dog. They are called archerfish.
November 13th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
i once had a dog who could eat food off the top of the frezer
maby penny is an irish wolfhound
this is my first post in a long time
November 13th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
his name was Sam
November 13th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
I agree, it is a camel. Nasty buggers! D
November 13th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Dangit, it cut me off.
November 13th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
“It’s weird having an animal actively trying influence your behavior like that.”
Yeah, it’s almost like they’ve got some of us trained…
November 13th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Knowing Biff, that’s probably an actual penny sitting on his desk.
November 13th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
I use to have a big female Potamotrygon leopoldi that’d squirt water out of the top of the tank to get your attention…
My dog has adjusted well to the new time for eating… we’re still working on piddle schedule… having to wake up a hour before I need to actually get out of bed is getting annoying, never can get back to sleep.
November 13th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
i invoke the almighty author!
Chris! Hear our prayers! Bestoweth unto us the knowledge of what manner of beast this penny is!
(10 pts if you get the reference in the first line)
November 13th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
I’m finally through with the backlog!
Chris, I must say thank you for two things:
1) A hilarious webcomic and…
2) Making each of those comics one panel so reading through 376 of them at once isnt impossible!
November 13th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
Thanks Tim, it’s cool to see that people are still trying to make it through them all.
November 13th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
Penny is Biff’s pet rock? Maybe. You never know. That thing was big as hell.
November 13th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
I just read all of the Biff comics myself.
It took less time than watching a movie, and there were a lot more punchlines.
The simple style kind of makes me want to take up comicing again. I won’t because of time constraints, and the fact that I’m neither clever or funny, but it still made me want to do it.
In the spirit of Biff, I think Penny is probably his fire hydrant.
November 14th, 2007 at 12:33 am
Hey, Chris showed up and didn’t answer our begging about what Penny is! I guess he wants to keep up suspense? Maybe we were never meant to know?
November 14th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
Babies are the same way! My friend’s daughter had to be adjusted to the time change five minutes at a time so she wouldn’t wake up and go to bed too early.
November 15th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
I say. O_o that…is a wee bit disturbing…
November 22nd, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Obviously your dog has access to something similar to the classic “cat vibe”. My cats sleep-vibe me all the time by curling up on or with me and passing out in hedonistic comfort, dragging me along with them. A cat I used to know would walk into a room and stare at the back of his owner’s boyfriend’s head. This guy, normally thick as a brick about anything going on around him, would promptly pop up saying “Hey, has anyone fed the cat? I think I should feed the cat.”
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:21 pm
Penny is a monkey. Definatly a monkey.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:54 am
actually Franklin proposed DST for the Winter, But I agree with the Spring Forward, and stay there Idea.
February 14th, 2008 at 12:57 am
Is Penny a goldfish?
March 21st, 2008 at 10:29 pm
I’m a bit of a trivia nut myself. The phrase is “Daylight SAVING Time”. We tried year-round DST in 1973—repealed because of the increase in morning school bus accidents. While DST may save on lighting costs, these savings are (possibly more than) balanced by an increase in heating and cooling costs. Basically, there is very little reason to keep DST, and even less to keep switching the time around.
(>_<)
April 10th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
I can’t help but wonder what Penny is and what Penny is hitting biff with…
June 6th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
((Malachite Dragon Says:
November 15th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
I say. O_o that…is a wee bit disturbing…))
Pun intended?
November 28th, 2008 at 12:18 am
We acquired a kitten last week (discovered a stray…hadn’t been stray long.). I wonder how long it’ll take before she has us trained? She obviously has the ability to drag people into sleep with her; what other cat-skills might she have?