April 11th, 2008
#484 - Stealth
I work in a cubicle-farm style office. It’s interesting to see what happens when someone leaves the company and vacates their cubicle. First there is sort of a mourning period where people will walk by and look into the empty space… pause for a moments contemplation and then move on. After 2 or 3 days go by something magical happens. One person will enter the cubicle and start going through the office supplies that were left behind. Once that first person breaks the seal, a feeding frenzy begins. Folders and pens and coat hooks and chairs are all up for grabs. If you miss out on the initial rush then you are usually out of luck unless you had been searching for a half empty box of staples.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:11 am
http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2006/04/10/invisible/ - 1/2 2/2?
April 11th, 2008 at 12:13 am
I wonder what Biff’s new job IS.
It involves reading, a computer, and a very impractical chair…
April 11th, 2008 at 12:19 am
44 - Invisible
http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2006/04/10/invisible/
181 - Chair.
http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2007/02/01/181-chair/
THAT chair, invisible? Fuggedaboutit. You’re NEVER going to be ergonomic again!
April 11th, 2008 at 12:29 am
Great way to save on coin if he has to otherwise park in a pay for parking zone.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:32 am
How can it be green AND invisible *head hurts*
Part 2/2? –> http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2007/02/01/181-chair/
April 11th, 2008 at 12:40 am
That is obviously an aqua colored invisible chare not a green one.
April 11th, 2008 at 1:12 am
Wow, for a combo of two different comics, this one makes sooo much sense.
April 11th, 2008 at 1:55 am
At least i would be easy to tell if someone put a pin or whoopie cushion.
April 11th, 2008 at 1:56 am
Actully Stonehydra I think its more of a turquoise hue
April 11th, 2008 at 2:19 am
i misread chivalrybean’s post, and it just gave me an idea. put a coin or something small on the chair (not thumbtacks) so he can see where it is.
but knowing biff, they wouldn’t allow it at his job.
April 11th, 2008 at 2:20 am
last post was sent before seeing ¡el pingüino bilingüe¿’s post
April 11th, 2008 at 4:33 am
I’m an early scavenger myself, harvesting items before the cubicle goes ‘cold’.
It’s one of the benefits of being the ‘office ghost’ (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=office+ghost&defid=2421982)
April 11th, 2008 at 5:02 am
if you cant see the chare look at it with the corner of your eye i swear it shows up and is some shade of bluish green.
April 11th, 2008 at 5:55 am
…Gah! It’s spelled C H A I R!! It’s even spelled like that in the comic? How can you keep spelling it C H A R E?
April 11th, 2008 at 5:57 am
stonehydra … i don’t know if that’s the power of suggestion talking cause I think I saw it too. o.O power of suggestion is huge though. uhm. >.> -goes to work now. doesn’t have a cool invisible green chair though.-
April 11th, 2008 at 6:21 am
SEA, I think the better question is: how can it *not* be green and invisible… Maybe I find that funny cause i am so tired… whatever
April 11th, 2008 at 7:27 am
Ok, I get the invisible, but the green? How is it green? Is it green as in evironmentally friendly? Or is it coloured green?
For that matter, was his invisible car a hybrid?
April 11th, 2008 at 7:41 am
Why are you all saying that the chair is reaal Blue-greenish? The chair is purple for crying out loud.
I’m happy with this comic. It’s the first one where I guessed the comics that inspired it. Yay, ingenuity!
April 11th, 2008 at 7:50 am
I’m pretty sure the chair is green, guys.
Second-hardest part of Biff’s new job: keeping track of his invisible red chair?
April 11th, 2008 at 8:12 am
Wouldn’t Biff know what color his own chair was? Unless of course all the people that are arguing about the color are saying that their eyesight is better than Biff’s, which I highly doubt, especially considering the fact that at least one of you misspelled the word “chair!”
April 11th, 2008 at 9:00 am
Look, folks… Haven’t *any* of you heard of “Green Screen” technology, what the movies and TV have used to replace the older, less hip “Blue Screen”..?
It’s the technology that allows you to make backgrounds invisible to the camera. So… In BiffWorld, people’s eyes work on a similar principle to video cameras. Or at least Biff’s eyes do. Or maybe it’s just us, and we’re spying on Biff via camera, a’la The Truman Show.
April 11th, 2008 at 10:39 am
My job doesn’t have cubicles, but we tend to replace people pretty quickly when someone leaves. It’s not uncommon for someone to get moved into a desk a day or two after their predecessor has left, so our feeding frenzies usually start immediately after (and sometimes before) someone leaves. The sly workers “borrow” stuff from the soon-to-be-ex employee and simply don’t return it.
@MaskedMan: You have just blown my mind.
April 11th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Hehe, at least it’ll go well with his car…
April 11th, 2008 at 11:24 am
If you don’t get in on the first
day’s cubicle raiding, the
stapler is already gone.
April 11th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Yay! Today’s combination is my favourite….
April 11th, 2008 at 11:42 am
hehehee… this is my favorite of the week.
April 11th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Very funny (I refuse to say LOL, 33k! I can’t stop ) Adam_Y
Stonehydra, are you sure it is not just Biff’s jeans his shoes and/or the green background of the site your seeing?
It’s a dark day, no Flame Pummeling Hammers
April 11th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
you guys, he’s not even sitting on it. his muscles are so used to sitting, they’ve lock in that position for when he’s standing, and he’s reading “how to find your invisible green chair for dummies”. Because, as we can all clearly see, someone stole his chair, because they thought he was leaving. it all makes sense!
April 11th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
I gotta get myself an invisible green chair, along with an invisible green screen and video equipment to make those invisible. Would be very fun to play with.
April 11th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
it would solve the colour confusion if it was octarine.
if it was a colour, that would be the most likely one.
April 11th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
If it’s invisible, how can you tell it’s green?
>_>
<_<
April 11th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
I remember the days when my father worked in a cubicle. I always loved watching everyone else prairie dogging…
April 11th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Wow, hey! It is ‘S’ week as well as combination week! Look, all the names this week have started with the letter S!
You know how awesome it would be to have an invisible chair? You could become some amazing illusionist!
April 12th, 2008 at 2:17 am
S week? I thought it was still continuation week- remember the Invisible Green car?
April 12th, 2008 at 8:38 am
Maybe the invisible green chair is made by the same company as the invisible green car?
April 12th, 2008 at 9:40 am
Hmm, in computer graphics, you really can have a green invisible texture/image, you see, theres these 4 values that tell a renderer what it is, 1 for red, 1 for blue, 1for green, and 1 for alpha. alpha is its clearness factor, 255 being invisible, 0 being solid, thus, biff’s chair is 0, 255, 0 , 255
April 12th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
The chair obviously gets something like 100 miles per gallon
April 12th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
has biff put on weight since the last comic?
April 12th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Half empty? Why the pessimism?
April 12th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2007/06/01/259-cup/
I randomly picked that comic out, I predict it will be used.
April 12th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
*sigh* no no no. If we get to pick out one for a continuation, it has to be http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2008/02/20/447-velocity/
I mean come on, we all want to see how that works out =D
April 13th, 2008 at 5:05 am
No, wait…the one that has to be used is…*whispers something about cereal getting soggy*.
April 13th, 2008 at 8:54 am
why not stop guessing and wait for the surprize?
the duck hasn’t spoken recently…
April 14th, 2008 at 12:41 am
Did he take it out of his invisible green car?
October 1st, 2008 at 3:57 pm
I think the point the colour people are complaining about is that an invisible chair neither reflects nor absorbs any wavelength of light, and therefeore can not have any colour - it doesn’t make sense.