December 14th, 2007
#399 - Grande
For a time we were using toothpaste that came in a pump type dispenser. Push down on the top and squirt a little toothpaste on to your brush. After a few months of this my brain had developed a special connection to this point in space. 8 inches to the left of the faucet + push down = toothpaste. Over the summer we stayed at Amanda’s parent’s house for a week and we brought our toothpaste with us. We got there late on the first night and Amanda set up all of our stuff in the bathroom. I went in there at around 2am to get ready for bed and was surprised when I squirted hand soap onto my toothbrush.
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December 14th, 2007 at 12:07 am
I don’t see the connection to the comic, to be honest with you, Chris.
December 14th, 2007 at 12:22 am
To Ryan: Grande is a term used in coffee shops, particuarly Starbucks, to describe a large cup of coffee. On that note, why in the world do they refer to it as a grande? It’s a large cup of coffee! Cmon, just call it what it is! In regards to the comic, jeez that looks painful.
December 14th, 2007 at 12:25 am
Ouch! Coffee in clothes is like napalm - it clings and burns!
Been there, done that.
Ryan, the connection is the habit of physical motion. Biff so automatically reaches for his keys with the one hand that his muscle-memory overides any awareness of possible changes or differences in what else is going on, as Chris experienced with the soap dispenser.
December 14th, 2007 at 2:15 am
at first sight i thought it was something else
December 14th, 2007 at 2:30 am
Man, I was getting a ride home from a friend’s mom once, and she stopped at Starbucks on the way.
She ordered something incredibly complicated that I didn’t understand, and immediately wondered; do they sell, by any chance, COFFEE at Starbucks?
December 14th, 2007 at 2:56 am
Why not call it enormo coffee? then everyone’d know what they were on about.
MaskedMan’s right, though. Conditioned reflexes are quite difficult to stop.
December 14th, 2007 at 3:10 am
Ouch…
As for keys, digging them out of my purse is a struggle I deal with when I leave for my evaluation tests at the vocational program I go to. Especially when locking the door is a must where you live.
December 14th, 2007 at 4:29 am
Before I read the caption, It looked like Biff farted
December 14th, 2007 at 6:02 am
I havent done that with coffee,
Cup of sprite tho.
here the ideo of what happened
cold… Cold..COLD COLDCOLDCOLD!!!!
also happy birthday to me!
12/14/07!
December 14th, 2007 at 6:04 am
nice touch with the steamy pants, Chris
December 14th, 2007 at 6:45 am
My routine is make a cup of black coffe, lift up pants, and turn cup 180 degrees, and enjoy. Nothing beats pouring fresh hot coffe down your pants. Great one chris, my favorite at the moment
December 14th, 2007 at 7:21 am
See, now I want coffee.
Of course, I wanted coffee anyway, since I’m up at 8 am and am a nocturnal creature.
December 14th, 2007 at 7:50 am
I remember this time I was eating dinner, and my water was sitting right next to the salt shaker. At the time I was exhausted, and wasn’t watching where I was going, and the next thing I know, I have a mouthful of salt. I like the flavor of salt, but it just caught me by surprise, then after a second I realized what I had done, laughed, then ate the salt.
I’m going to end up with clogged artieries pretty soon because when I was a kid I would sneak a few helpings of salt when my parents weren’t looking. Either I really needed sodium, or I just loved the flavor… don’t know what it was. I still like salt though.
Then there was this time I put a box of crackers in the refrigerator, and I put the milk in the cup cabinent… then I took a cup out when I needed a bowl, and I tried to use a knife to eat cereal… then the time I was unwrapping a bar of chocolate, I threw the chocolate in the trash and stuffed the wrapper in my mouth… there’s tons of weird things I’ve done, I could type for hours.
At any rate I love the new Biff comic! Can’t say I’ve done THAT before (looks painful!), but there was also a time where I was carrying a cup full of water, and I forgot about it, and I bent down to pick something up off the ground and ended up spilling it everywhere.
December 14th, 2007 at 8:29 am
I’m fairly cautious with hot coffee
and I spill it anyway. Knock on wood.
December 14th, 2007 at 9:43 am
Did we have a food/drink theme week???
Before I read the caption, I thought maybe he was trying to put chocolate in his pants….
December 14th, 2007 at 10:06 am
I drank a cup a syurp instead my O.J. because we staying at a hotel and the syurp and O.J. come in the same cups. I felt silly and sick.
December 14th, 2007 at 11:20 am
Another good one is putting cereal in the fridge and milk in the cupboard after you’ve made breakfast. It’s only funny if you notice it right away.
On a related note to that related note, I once found a Rubik’s cube in my fridge. What. The. Frick?
December 14th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
I tried to put an armful of dirty clothes in the toilet when we moved house once. I’ve also used salt instead of sugar, sugar instead of salt, the wrong oven on the aga, a plate instead of a bowl (messy), a nail instead of a spoon, eaten BB pellets instead of solero shots, gotten changed back /into/ my gym clothes after PE, had a shower with socks on, put foil in the microwave instead of the potato and wandered around looking for my glasses whilst wearing them.
December 14th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
i saw the steam and it took me a little while to realize that it was steam from the coffee and not biff forgetting to take his beano…
December 14th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
That was brilliant!!! You’ve made my day!!!
December 14th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Not too related to the comic, but I find now that most of the weirds thoughts I have now involve Biff doing whatever it is, or something similar.
December 14th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
I once carried a gallon of milk with me back to my bedroom…and then realized what I was doing.
My family laughed at me. D:
I have yet to spill coffee on myself.
MAYBE BECAUSE I DUN DRINK IT.
Ohhh okay shutting up.
December 14th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
That’s a very angry face, by the way. It’s not supposed to be mad…o___o;
December 14th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Ouch that has to burn like HFIL
December 14th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
(Home For Infinite Losers- like Hell)
December 15th, 2007 at 12:31 am
Sigh… Look at the bright side Biff, at least it wasn’t an Iced coffee. I can’t imagine freezing the “Pocket” area feels any better than burning it.
December 15th, 2007 at 12:34 am
I think the connection between the comic and the story, is the thought of repetition in which Chris had remembered too well, and Biff should have remembered sooner. Both ending in unhappy campers and I’m guessing sanitized teeth and steamed pants.
By the way, starbucks sells numerous amounts of drinks, most amongst which are crazily strong with Espresso shots. Peppermint Frappucino’s = win though.
December 15th, 2007 at 8:21 am
@Eleanor;
How are you still alive?
Are you related to Biff, by chance?
December 15th, 2007 at 8:45 am
*Ignores ImpostorDuck*
Hand soap, huh? How’d that taste, Chris?
Also, as Biff now knows, third-degree burns are not fun. I too learned this the hard way…
The Duck Has Spoken.
December 15th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Great comic! I actually work for Starbucks so I can relate to the “accidents” people have with their coffee.
As in reference to the size questions. It’s in Italian. Which explains the names.
Tall - A small coffee, which was the only size they had when they started 20 years ago.
Grande - Does mean big but the largest…
Venti - means 20, as in its 20 ounces
Then of course we also have the short - which is 8 ounces, and stays true to the name :p. Thats what they threw in to Americanize it a little more.
(sorry for the educational tid bits)
December 15th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Gosh, this one had me in stitches!
In regards to coffee, I only drink the fake stuff made of barley. Is just as good just no caffeine! Yay!
Good work as ever!
December 16th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
@ Every-one making fart comments:
When was the last time you saw someone fart out of their KNEES? You have to be trying to see fart.
December 16th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
There is only one way to describe this: Classic Biff
December 17th, 2007 at 10:31 am
@Prospero
I work at starbucks too!
‘cept I didn’t know that… I just serve drinks and laugh at the over-priced sandwiches.
December 19th, 2007 at 2:08 am
@Prospero and steam punk
Awe yes what us baristas do in our free time. Isn’t it grand ^_^
Have either of you tried a green tea americano?
@Knight Blazer
Are you the kind of person who orders a drink using the term grande thinking it is the large and complain when you get the medium? Don’t worry you will get it with time.(you can use small, medium, and large it you want)
December 20th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
@Knight Blazer: they refer to a large cup of coffee as grande for grande is French for large. Don’t ask me why the french call a grande cup of coffee a large cup though.
December 22nd, 2007 at 1:01 pm
“Biff Learns that Laxatives do NOT make a suitable replacement for cream and sugar.”
August 28th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
I so understand the problem of muscle memory.
I’m currently suffering from stress-induced tendonitis (sp?) -and that’s why I’m investing my precious time browsing Biff comics instead of wasting it in some work-related activity-, and I can’t help doing things I shouldn’t with my right arm. Yesterday I tried to get the cigarettes from my shirt’s pocket; the hand reached the pocket before the bicep could send a STOP signal to the brain. Whoops, hand in pocket, arm weighs down, pocket rrrrrips away from shirt, cigarettes and lighter to the floor, me with a HUH? face, arm swinging back and forth like a fake limb. Awkward.