May 4th, 2009
#755 – Torr
I had an old 20 gallon aquarium I was getting rid of that was still full of water. I brought a shop-vac over to the counter that the aquarium was sitting on but the hose was too short. I took the hose off and opened the lid to the shop-vac’s reservoir. I put the hose into the aquarium and figured I could start a siphon with my mouth and then aim the water into the bucket. I underestimated the speed of gravity. I just barely started the water moving through the hose when I felt like someone had punched me in the face. I was stunned for a moment as gallons of water enveloped my head and poured onto the floor before I regained my senses and steered what was left into the bucket.
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May 4th, 2009 at 12:13 am
Oooh shiny special effects this time.
May 4th, 2009 at 12:14 am
If only this actually worked
May 4th, 2009 at 12:27 am
I don’t know about you guys, but when I first saw the picture, my initial split-second reaction was that it was some kind of religious figure.
May 4th, 2009 at 12:31 am
And thus Biff gets ’sucked’ into the past.
May 4th, 2009 at 12:34 am
one of life’s great disapointments is finding out nothing special happens when you try to combine two vacuums.
May 4th, 2009 at 12:59 am
No biff! It’s too much power! D:
May 4th, 2009 at 1:05 am
dude… if stuff like that actually worked, my bedroom would be a science lab. n i have a feeling a lot more would be screwed up because of it. like the space-time continuum.
May 4th, 2009 at 1:12 am
You need to throw a clock into that equation, Biff. The vacuum cleaners only bend the space component of the continuum…
May 4th, 2009 at 1:17 am
First thing I thought when seeing this panel about an hour ago: The scene in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, with the over-dramatic plugging-in of the lights, followed by an angel’s chorus.
Then I read the text, and laughed so hard I forgot all about my initial thought until just now.
The Duck Has Spoken.
May 4th, 2009 at 1:27 am
Don’t cross the beams, Biff!
May 4th, 2009 at 1:34 am
i… i have to try this now, i know i wont time travel but i must know what happenes when 2 vaccum’s meet!
May 4th, 2009 at 1:45 am
I’ve never done this… good thing we have two hoovers
May 4th, 2009 at 5:46 am
Good Lord, that’s the most badass comic I’ve seen in quite some time.
May 4th, 2009 at 5:52 am
This needs to happen
May 4th, 2009 at 6:50 am
I just wanted to let you know that I particularly enjoyed the imagery in your post today. I feel like I need a shower just from reading it.
May 4th, 2009 at 7:16 am
i always wondered what would happen if you did that.
May 4th, 2009 at 7:35 am
Anyone ever try this with two leaf blowers? if you can keep them together, it’s weird..
May 4th, 2009 at 7:44 am
try it with a gas tank! gas is much less friendly than water is…even fishy water : )
May 4th, 2009 at 8:55 am
@PsychoDuck
Or in Back to the Future, when Doc Brown couples two wires together just as lightning strikes. Perhaps the Doc traveled to this day for his inspiration.
May 4th, 2009 at 8:56 am
you like to live on the bleeding edge, don’t you?
May 4th, 2009 at 11:10 am
When I was kid, we could always tell when my father was changing out the water in his aquariums. he used a siphon, you see, so when we heard coughing, swearing and retching, followed by the clear rush of water hitting the bucket, we knew exactly what was happening. Siphoned water is always faster than you expect.
This is why I clean my aquarium with a turkey baster. It’s slower, but it’s safer.
May 4th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Almost wet my pants I laughed so hard when I read the text. I would have loved to see that in person.
May 4th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Dang, now I feel inclined to try that..
May 4th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Must…try…this… O.O
May 4th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
i wonder how many people will try this now…
May 4th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
lol! I was wow’d by the epicness of this comic!
May 4th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Only Biff could make Time Travel suck…
May 4th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
This made me laugh hard.
But the shiny hurt my eyes, which doesn’t explain why i want a wallpaper?
Seriously I wallpaper would be awesome.
mine screen is 1440 * 900
If you don’t make it, its no big as it dose hurt my eyes.
May 4th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Also theme guesses (I plain on doing this every week):
- Vacuum week
- Time travel week
- Discovery week
- Special effects week
- Meeting week
- 2 week (should be negative and have an exclamation point)
- Chores week
- Theoretical Science week
I think that is enough guesses
May 4th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
What Biff fails to realize is that he’s also going 88 mph!
May 4th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
-2! – “2 week (should be negative and have an exclamation point)”
LOL
btw, I concur with the wallpaper idea
May 4th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Haaaaaaaaalelujia! Hallelujia! Hallelujia! Hallelujiiiiia! XD
That Biff cracks me up he does.
May 4th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
@ ZackDarK
I was hopping some people would laugh at that
May 4th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
I iz laffing hard!!! Oh, Biff you master of the universe…the glow gives that in control ethereal feel. I want to open a time portal too, but alas I only have one vacuum
May 4th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
XD Doom and Win
May 4th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Important safety tip: Don’t cross the streams!!
May 5th, 2009 at 8:01 am
@speearr thats actually not right.. a clock does not measure time it measures itself..
May 5th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
@-2! I laughed as well, hopping is also good exercise.
May 7th, 2009 at 11:24 am
I’d love to try this if I didn’t have an irrational fear of vacuum cleaners..
May 18th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
This is by far my favorite panel so far.
June 5th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
No! don’t cross the streams!
March 22nd, 2010 at 8:19 pm
I dunno why, but I allways love this consept that regular everyday objects can be twisted in some idiotic manner to produce the most grandurous events.
July 7th, 2010 at 1:48 pm
I’d go off to try this, but my future self said it didn’t work.
Wait a minute…