March 3rd, 2008
#455 - Trajectory
I thought slingshots were cool but for some reason my mom would never get me one. The best I could do was fling rocks with a plastic spoon. It had to be the right kind of spoon. Some of them were too brittle and snapped in half on the first try. Some were too soft and just kind of folded. Some had the perfect amount of elasticity that let me hit the dead end sign from 100 yards away.
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:02 am
One of my favorite video games growing up was Secret of Mana. In it, you got to travel by cannon, which is LIKE slingshot, but more explosive. And expensive.
So you grew up in a cul-de-sac?
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:05 am
Biff just impresses me more and more with every amazing thing he does
o_o
Amazing…he really looks like he’s flying =D
Slingslots? Closest thing i got was flinging rubber bands ^_^’
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:09 am
I think traveling by slingshot would be cool, but traveling by trebuchet would be cooler.
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:15 am
Slingshots and Sparrows
of outrageous fortune…
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:17 am
Heinrich- I think, just for today,
you “outcooled” even Biff!
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:55 am
Did he get it from Acme?
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:11 am
=O I hope being a traveling salesman works out better than putting dirt on the road!
Then he can afford all of his nifty gadgets X3.
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:30 am
I remember once me and my little brother made a huge slingshot out of a pair of star picket and a bicycle tube. It could fire pretty far and lasted for ages before it finally broke.
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:33 am
I live in a dead end/cul-de-sac. But we don’t get a dead end sign
Possibly because my street comes of a more main street, which has dead ends and U-shaped streets all along it…bizarre city, strangely designed. Full of circles and spirals.
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:25 am
so that’s what he is. a travelling salesman….
does he sell hairdryers on Proxima Island?
March 3rd, 2008 at 7:12 am
This reminds me of the mashed potatos on my parent’s celing… That one blob is still there after all these years.
March 3rd, 2008 at 7:15 am
Even as a fan, I must point out that Dilbert did this roughly 10-15 years ago.
March 3rd, 2008 at 9:44 am
Sleepingorange, I totally remember Secret of Mana. That game was pretty rad, transportation-wise. I say this because later you got a dragon.
In today’s comic Biff looks like he’s standing on that cloud behind him. This is probably actually something he can do.
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:16 am
So Biff is a shaved Elbonian?
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:46 pm
DAMN YOU JACKSON! youve just got the image of biff in mary poppins’s clothes… that is freaky.
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:36 pm
I made my own slingshot, out of wood(duhr) an elastic, and two band-aids put together to hold whatever I was slinging, usually these weird nuts all the kids would steal from a tree at the end of the block. It was pretty sweet.
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:43 pm
he should be wearing his antigravity boots
i know he has at least one pair
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:00 pm
How’s he supposed to get back?
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:26 pm
I had originally assumed Biff had gone to heaven…
slingshot would definitely be the way to go, it beats the secret of mana cannon!
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Frugal’s an awesome word. I need to apply that to daily life more often.
But I shouldn’t use it too much. I must be frugal about it!
Great comic as always, Chris
The Duck Has Spoken.
March 3rd, 2008 at 9:06 pm
seraphine, i dunno. that’s saying a lot.
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:07 pm
That is awesome!
When I was a kid, I used to find those sticks that have a fork in it, and then tape a rubber band between the two parts. It made a really bad slingshot, if I was lucky I could shoot a rock maybe 100 feet. Then I just went to the store when I got older and bought a real slingshot, that thing was awesome!
March 4th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Is the theme work?
March 4th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
One of my elderly teachers would always say she was frugal. I would love to see her try to travel by slingshot. I think Biff is the only on great enough to accomplish it without killing himself.
March 4th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Biff prefers Albanian Airlines?
June 7th, 2008 at 12:26 am
I’m with Heinrich, but I’m more of a Roman type. I’d prefer onager travel over even a trebuchet.