June 20th, 2008
#534 - Anchor
When I got my first pair of Converse shoes back in college they freaked me out. The soles were so thin compared to anything else I had worn in many years. I left the house to walk to class and was amazed at how I could feel the different textures that I was walking on. I could feel the cracks in the sidewalk. After wearing only the Converse for a few weeks I put on a pair of my old sneakers. Suddenly it felt like all the floors were covered in two inches of rubbery foam.
June 20th, 2008 at 12:01 am
Saturn Gravity Boots strike again!
June 20th, 2008 at 12:02 am
Wow! I wonder if the other comics have had connections to past comics…..
June 20th, 2008 at 12:16 am
Wait! The first one this week had a reference to his funky chair at work. What about the other three?
June 20th, 2008 at 12:49 am
nothing better to wear to a doctors appointment than gravity boots. Besides pants. I hear they ask funny questions when you don’t wear those.
June 20th, 2008 at 1:16 am
soles were so thing–> thin i presume?
Wow, metal shoes, how appropriate o-o
June 20th, 2008 at 1:45 am
Didn’t I refrence the saturn gravity boots im the last comic?
Biff, did I insipire you to do this…kind of?
June 20th, 2008 at 1:46 am
Not biff, CHRIS.
June 20th, 2008 at 2:28 am
I don’t care who inspired what. I just want a pair of Saturn Gravity Boots of my own.
June 20th, 2008 at 4:29 am
Remember those aqua socks things, basically rubber socks, they had thin soles!
June 20th, 2008 at 4:30 am
hmm i remember my first pair to just 15euro’s and now you 60euro’s just because they became popular again
June 20th, 2008 at 6:01 am
I had this problem recently. XD
I’ve worn my Easy Spirit slip-on-sneakers for so long and got used to the arch support… then I put on flip-flops the other day, and felt like I was walking on cardboard… Even though these were Aquaducs, extremely expensive with more arch support than those Dollar Tree flipflops. XD
June 20th, 2008 at 7:06 am
@SEA - Thanks, fixed the typo.
June 20th, 2008 at 7:08 am
@Chris - I knew a guy in high school that wore aqua socks to school everyday.
June 20th, 2008 at 7:09 am
Man…that’s like the opposite of orthopedic shoes.
June 20th, 2008 at 8:56 am
I wear hiking boots whenever I wear shoes. I have bad ankles so it’s much better support, and you can be on your feet all day and not notice it nearly as much. I go through the same thing when I put on sneakers. They just feel so thin and flimsy. I don’t understand how people do that.
June 20th, 2008 at 9:20 am
I know that feeling! I’ve had two pairs of Vans Classic shoes (the canvas ones similar to converse), and they have the same feeling to them. It’s really cool to feel all of that underneath your feet.
I need to get a pair of either Converse or of the Vans again, now.
June 20th, 2008 at 9:37 am
My tabi boots are like that, but it’s not the thickness of the soles, it’s the amazing pliability of the rubber. It is indeed a strange feeling when you can feel every crack in the driveway, like you’re not wearing shoes at all.
June 20th, 2008 at 10:51 am
As far as references to past comics, I suppose that yesterday Biff thought “I didn’t like stepping out of a plane with a lot of extra parachutes, so the fewer the better.”
Two days ago is the incident that inspired the orange juice pool.
I know that both of those are a stretch, but it’s the best I’ve got.
June 20th, 2008 at 11:15 am
I wear combat boots every day… Would that make me strange?
June 20th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Where do you live?
June 20th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Me? Southern California.
June 20th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Those are pretty absurd shoes!
My 2nd pair of Nikes were my favs, they were so flexible they were like wearing a second skin.
June 20th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
I had a pair of aqua socks once. I wore them on vacation to a lake and the lake ate them.
June 21st, 2008 at 2:35 am
I think Biff has been playing to much Zelda…
June 21st, 2008 at 8:57 am
If you live in California, then yes wearing combat boots would make you weird.
June 21st, 2008 at 3:45 pm
I would hate to be Biff’s doctor.
June 21st, 2008 at 5:08 pm
If being cut in half by a piece of paper is a minor thing, what do you go to the doctor for?
June 21st, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Reminds me of wind waker link. He could hardly walk with his iron boots on. I’m surprised he could, he is only 11. I wear burkin stocks all the time.
Don’t panic: FSOneblin
June 21st, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Concerning the converse shoes, same here.
I’ve loved them ever since I could do that. <3
June 22nd, 2008 at 12:00 am
everybody has got to know that feeling. I just have to wear normal socks, as mine are a centimetre thick (about 0.4 inches). Then I put on a normal pair of socks, about as thick as paper. wow it feels weird. Like I can feel the stitching on the inside of my shoe. That’s my contribution =P
June 22nd, 2008 at 9:56 am
When trying on shoes, i had 1 of 2 newbalance models (i gots flats feet). I had the model like my old one. (except bigger harder faster stronger…) or the ones with ‘cushioning’. i was swimming in those, my foot goes forward then the shoe gets pulled along, and the shoe goes down then the foot.
those things were HORRIBLE
June 22nd, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Tuesday’s comic might be a referrence to 184-Ice. It’d be helpful if Chris could verify some of these guesses.
June 22nd, 2008 at 4:31 pm
My feet don’t have weird arches, but they are pretty wide. I wonder if gravity boots come in 4E…
June 22nd, 2008 at 5:01 pm
I need 6E, the widest they are made. AND i think I have flat arches too. Foot problems run in my family.
June 22nd, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Oh god, I just realized I made a bad pun without intending it! LOL
June 22nd, 2008 at 5:54 pm
“I have a fear of doctors…”
- Ray Liotta
June 22nd, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Perfectly rational. It is never healthy to visit a doctor. They’ve got all those sick people there.
July 1st, 2008 at 11:27 am
IM WITH YA MASKED MAN!
July 29th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
When I am roofing, I wear thin volleys, so I can grip and feel what I am walking on.
When I am working underground, I wear boots that have soles over an inch thick.
I feel taller, but it is soooo much harder to walk.
There is a guy at work with aus size 15(us16) feet. haha, his boots are massive, almost like clown boots.