Comments on: #425 - Klaxons http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2008/01/21/425-klaxons/ new comics every monday through friday Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:46:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: solar http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2008/01/21/425-klaxons/#comment-72388 solar Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:02:46 +0000 http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2008/01/21/425-klaxons/#comment-72388 the first memory i have of a fire alarm was one going off in a hotel at like 1 am (i dont rember how old i was but i must of been pretty young as i rember having my old sucrty blanket with me) the first memory i have of a fire alarm was one going off in a hotel at like 1 am (i dont rember how old i was but i must of been pretty young as i rember having my old sucrty blanket with me)

]]> By: Dan Dan the Ice Cream man http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2008/01/21/425-klaxons/#comment-67041 Dan Dan the Ice Cream man Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:53:23 +0000 http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2008/01/21/425-klaxons/#comment-67041 A few years ago I was at a summer camp being held in an old college. I was awoken by a noise one night. It sounded like a very loud fan. I stayed in bed but my roommate was up getting dressed and insisted that it was a fire alarm. Eventually I got up and went outside. Everyone was standing around in the dark and I did not have my contacts in. After a small wait we all went back inside, only to have it go off two more times. Evidently it had also gone off one other time earlier that I had slept through entirely. There was no fire. A few years ago I was at a summer camp being held in an old college. I was awoken by a noise one night. It sounded like a very loud fan. I stayed in bed but my roommate was up getting dressed and insisted that it was a fire alarm. Eventually I got up and went outside. Everyone was standing around in the dark and I did not have my contacts in. After a small wait we all went back inside, only to have it go off two more times. Evidently it had also gone off one other time earlier that I had slept through entirely.
There was no fire.

]]> By: Andy Tuba http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2008/01/21/425-klaxons/#comment-48671 Andy Tuba Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:18:12 +0000 http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2008/01/21/425-klaxons/#comment-48671 On a school trip back in grade school, our hotel's fire alarm went off around 5 in the morning. Apparently the hotel doesn't come equipped with alarms in the bedrooms, but our trip came equipped with responsible parents -- and persistent, too. They hammered on our door for a good five minutes while the four of us young'ns decided who had to roll over to the door to see what was the matter. Apparently the matter was someone incompetent cooking breakfast down in the hotel kitchen, much to our chagrin: pulled out of bed, for burnt toast! Burnt toast can't compare to the fire drills they ran at my internship last summer. Since it was a theatre program, people made a point of not sleeping in their own bed. They also made a point of taking an extra five minutes to find their dressing gowns before they came downstairs and tried to sidle discreetly out of the building, into the mass of their fellow apprentices and interns. Yes, walking out in a pair and turning right around is, in fact, more obvious. On a school trip back in grade school, our hotel’s fire alarm went off around 5 in the morning. Apparently the hotel doesn’t come equipped with alarms in the bedrooms, but our trip came equipped with responsible parents — and persistent, too. They hammered on our door for a good five minutes while the four of us young’ns decided who had to roll over to the door to see what was the matter. Apparently the matter was someone incompetent cooking breakfast down in the hotel kitchen, much to our chagrin: pulled out of bed, for burnt toast!

Burnt toast can’t compare to the fire drills they ran at my internship last summer. Since it was a theatre program, people made a point of not sleeping in their own bed. They also made a point of taking an extra five minutes to find their dressing gowns before they came downstairs and tried to sidle discreetly out of the building, into the mass of their fellow apprentices and interns. Yes, walking out in a pair and turning right around is, in fact, more obvious.

]]> By: Kitsunie http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2008/01/21/425-klaxons/#comment-44877 Kitsunie Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:03:24 +0000 http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2008/01/21/425-klaxons/#comment-44877 D8 The fire alarm at my high school went off like five times in the middle of winter. Turned out to be broken. Auuughfghh. D8 The fire alarm at my high school went off like five times in the middle of winter. Turned out to be broken. Auuughfghh.

]]> By: Colin http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2008/01/21/425-klaxons/#comment-44785 Colin Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:24:02 +0000 http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2008/01/21/425-klaxons/#comment-44785 alsoalsoalso i was at the museum of science and industry when it caught fire in one of the kitchens that one time in like...2002? i dunno, i was there for the titanic exhibit w/ my school. I got to talk to a tv reporter! :3 alsoalsoalso
i was at the museum of science and industry when it caught fire in one of the kitchens that one time in like…2002? i dunno, i was there for the titanic exhibit w/ my school.
I got to talk to a tv reporter! :3

]]> By: Colin http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2008/01/21/425-klaxons/#comment-44784 Colin Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:20:27 +0000 http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2008/01/21/425-klaxons/#comment-44784 steam from the hall shower activates my smoke alarm. u have to shut the door and leave the fan running the whole shower to be able to leave it open in the next ten minutes. also, 4 times at school one day also also making fries one time when the grease caught fire and set it off. fries tasted good, and non stick pan waseaner than when i started making them. steam from the hall shower activates my smoke alarm. u have to shut the door and leave the fan running the whole shower to be able to leave it open in the next ten minutes.
also, 4 times at school one day
also also making fries one time when the grease caught fire and set it off.
fries tasted good, and non stick pan waseaner than when i started making them.

]]> By: opalin http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2008/01/21/425-klaxons/#comment-44753 opalin Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:29:38 +0000 http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2008/01/21/425-klaxons/#comment-44753 Nrgh... I hate the dorm fire alarm. I've got fairly sensitive hearing when it comes to electronics, and I can always hear it just before it starts up, but it's still annoying... For some reason they always come in groups... The worst day was when it went off four times in the space of three hours or so midnight-3:30ish.... By the third time, the entire group of students had begun to chant dark things and advance slowly on the people keeping us away from our dorms. We were out there for over thirty min, because as it turns out, they had just sent a rookie the final time, and he didn't know where the shut off switch was... Mind you, since our building practically hums with electricity to the point where a Deaf person can hear it, and we're the oldest building on campus, perhaps it's a good thing the alarms are so sensitive... My floor got commended for "Good obedience during emergency situations" which pretty much translates into "You either really are getting up, or you hide really well..." According to our RA. I have a bad habit of getting the kitchen overly smokey when I forget that chocolate chips don't go with the microwave. Yet I have yet to set a fire alarm off. Nrgh… I hate the dorm fire alarm. I’ve got fairly sensitive hearing when it comes to electronics, and I can always hear it just before it starts up, but it’s still annoying… For some reason they always come in groups… The worst day was when it went off four times in the space of three hours or so midnight-3:30ish…. By the third time, the entire group of students had begun to chant dark things and advance slowly on the people keeping us away from our dorms. We were out there for over thirty min, because as it turns out, they had just sent a rookie the final time, and he didn’t know where the shut off switch was… Mind you, since our building practically hums with electricity to the point where a Deaf person can hear it, and we’re the oldest building on campus, perhaps it’s a good thing the alarms are so sensitive…

My floor got commended for “Good obedience during emergency situations” which pretty much translates into “You either really are getting up, or you hide really well…” According to our RA.

I have a bad habit of getting the kitchen overly smokey when I forget that chocolate chips don’t go with the microwave. Yet I have yet to set a fire alarm off.

]]> By: Envious Luna http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2008/01/21/425-klaxons/#comment-44604 Envious Luna Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:12:16 +0000 http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2008/01/21/425-klaxons/#comment-44604 The only times I've ever needed a fire alarm have been when they don't go off. Once my friend and I decided to go to Barnes and Noble for about an hour. Her brother invited a friend over (keep in mind these children were only about 7 or 8 at the time, and yes, the parents were home), and the brats went into my friend's room, took her candle collection, heaped woodshavings over them, and lit it all on fire. When we got back, we had near to a bonfire to put out. And when we opened the door to get a bucket of water in, the hall alarm (finally) went off and her dad came out to yell at us, assuming we'd set the fire. That was annoying. The only times I’ve ever needed a fire alarm have been when they don’t go off.
Once my friend and I decided to go to Barnes and Noble for about an hour. Her brother invited a friend over (keep in mind these children were only about 7 or 8 at the time, and yes, the parents were home), and the brats went into my friend’s room, took her candle collection, heaped woodshavings over them, and lit it all on fire.
When we got back, we had near to a bonfire to put out. And when we opened the door to get a bucket of water in, the hall alarm (finally) went off and her dad came out to yell at us, assuming we’d set the fire.

That was annoying.

]]> By: b5200 http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2008/01/21/425-klaxons/#comment-44594 b5200 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:31:01 +0000 http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2008/01/21/425-klaxons/#comment-44594 ^ You obviously haven't read that many of these comics then. ^ You obviously haven’t read that many of these comics then.

]]> By: dragonbrad http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2008/01/21/425-klaxons/#comment-44586 dragonbrad Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:55:58 +0000 http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2008/01/21/425-klaxons/#comment-44586 and nobody seems to have acknoledged the fact that it makes no sense and nobody seems to have acknoledged the fact that it makes no sense

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