September 3rd, 2008
#582 - Henning
A scene from my childhood:
My older brother: “Hey, wanna play 52 pickup?”
Me: (picturing an old 1952 beat up Ford pickup truck in my head) “Sure!”
My older brother then reveals the deck of cards in his cupped hand, squeezes and shoots the 52 playing cards into my face and walks away.
So here’s a cool thing. The United States had a holiday and I get a bunch of international book orders! That’s pretty neat. I’m going to see what I can do about cramming in a few more holidays into the calendar.
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:16 am
I’m glad this has happened to someone besides me at one point.
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:26 am
Ah yes, that’s a good one, my dad got me with it and then I got my brothers with it.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:16 am
52 is such a weird number…
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:27 am
52 card pickup is nothing compared to 208 card pickup when all four decks are the same
P.S. I have never had to do that
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:57 am
My sister did it on me, then helped me pick them back up. 52 card, not 208.
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:14 am
Aw, man now I want to try it…
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:47 am
I learn something new everyday o_o
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:49 am
or learn how much to conjure. “hmm… I’m thirsty. Think I’ll conjure me a drink of lemonade” *sploosh blub blub gurgle drown*
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:17 am
lol..i think i’m enjoying magic week =]
my older brother wouldn’t even ask if i wanted to play, he would walk up to me…say, ‘hey guess what?” and shoot the cards in my face and just walk away
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:18 am
This was an interesting one. He should do this trick at a friends house^^ Wait… Does Biff have friends?
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:01 am
Yes! Biff can fill offices with balloons and packing peanuts at a moment’s notice!
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:21 am
OR (response to starseedjenny)
HE COULD USE HIS POWERS FOR GOOD!!! Imagine, infinite food for the world!
ULTRABIFF!!
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:27 am
Exceedingly, it is important to know when to stop. Especially since his long-dormant near-fatal pollen allergy.
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:40 am
@William
pfffffffft, that’s boring
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:16 am
@starseedjenny;
Just so - Boooooor-ing! This is the skill of the ultimate prankster! Olympic pools filled with infinte numbers of rubber duckies! Fountains laced with metric butt-loads of fizzies! Niagra Falls, colored birght pink with food color! The super bowl burried under popcorn! A joint session of Congress deluged with REAL pork!
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:01 am
What? Your brother never said “pick ‘em up?”
Is this one of the keys to successful magic? To remember that you may claim to be uninformed of the rules?
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:06 am
So it applies to flowers as well as broomsticks…
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:08 am
Ever notice how management is always the least likely to be required to work on Labor Day?
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:54 am
@ William Slyer:
But curing world hunger would be the obvious thing to do! Biff tends to do things unpredictable… so maybe the fact that curing world hunger is predictable means Biff would do it to be unpredicatble, but that means- oh forget I ever said anything. XD
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:03 pm
I like magic week.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:19 pm
All the comics I read update differently, and they all take the same amount of time to catch up on….
This leads me to conclude that all of them make the same amount of comic: not enough…
September 3rd, 2008 at 3:08 pm
@ MaskedMan
…I must admit, those are genius. I can’t stop laughing
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:36 pm
52 card pickup is best when done into an awkward place. through a letterbox, for instance. into a pond. outside on a windy day. be inventive! more importantly, be cruel.
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:48 pm
I think that biff needs to work on learning things al the way through, but then we wouldn’t have the comics in the first place.
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Biff’s flower Delivery service, clearance sale!
September 4th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Pretty…