May 7th, 2009
#758 – Fujita
Whenever I’m at a hotel or other large buildings I can’t help but notice all the inconveniently located light bulbs. I wonder what kind of equipment must be necessary to change them. I wonder how large a building has to be before they need to hire someone full time just to deal with ordering and changing all the different bulbs. I imagine the storage room of shelving filled with all the different bulbs necessary to keep on hand. Then the elevator door opens and I go back to my life.
May 7th, 2009 at 12:14 am
According to an article I ran across recently, Grand Central Station in New York has six full-time light bulb changers.
May 7th, 2009 at 12:17 am
Damn, they need some longer-lasting bulbs. As for the comic: ironically, the air that feels the thickest/heaviest (warm, humid) is the least dense. This is why bicycle course/time records tend to be set in hot, humid conditions.
May 7th, 2009 at 12:39 am
The only problem is that once it comes unscrewed, it falls into the blender…seems to fit Biff, though!
May 7th, 2009 at 1:07 am
This is good…. very good. Also his brows look extra long today!
May 7th, 2009 at 1:17 am
I wish my blender could churn up a cyclone…
May 7th, 2009 at 2:06 am
Ah, so it’s unorthodox uses for home appliances week.
May 7th, 2009 at 2:20 am
At the UofS in Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada, there is a lecture theatre in the old Chem building where they regularly put ads in the school newspaper for people that can do mountain climbing to come change the light bulbs… There are even Pitons and hooks permanently set in the walls to help out with it…
May 7th, 2009 at 5:40 am
Hey, looks like Biff uses energy-efficient bulbs
May 7th, 2009 at 6:49 am
The theme is “Misuse of Household Appliances” this week.
May 7th, 2009 at 7:00 am
Extraordinary uses for everyday appliances?
May 7th, 2009 at 7:02 am
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-2! week was going so well…
Biffy appliances it is, then
May 7th, 2009 at 8:58 am
i just finished work on a hotel, and what you said is quite accurate. they have 2 full time maintenance guys, there, the back of their workshop is filled with all 15 types of light bulbs they need, one day when i wasn’t busy i when around changing the burnt out ones it was a full 9 hour job. (say how many sparkys does it take to change a light bulb?; one. but it will cost you)
May 7th, 2009 at 9:45 am
Hey Kelemvour (2:20 am), I remember that beautiful old classroom in the Thorvaldson building (105, if memory serves) from my freshman year in cough1980cough. Do the ceiling tiles still have pencils and paper airplanes stuck in ‘em?
May 7th, 2009 at 10:01 am
This is SO happening in Florida summer…
Humidity is so high, you never need a shower, a drinking glass, a swimming pool…you open the garage door and swim out to your car.
May 7th, 2009 at 10:39 am
Turn it off Biff! YOU know glass shards are painful.
May 7th, 2009 at 11:32 am
Biff: I AM THE AIR GOD! BOW TO MY SUPERIORITY!
May 7th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Unorthodox air week! I think Biff could give the avatar (for those of us who still watch Nickelodeon) a run for his money.
May 7th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
My house has a room with cathedral ceilings, and there are six recessed spotlights way up there on the slanty sides. About 20 feet up there. 2 have been burnt out now for a year but I am afraid of heights.
May 7th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Hey, Biff’s got one of those energy-efficient bulbs! So if he’s going to put back in a light bulb, would he still use the blender?
But speaking of putting things up in high places, I hate having to change the battery in the smoke alarm in some areas of my house. They’ll keep beeping until you go crazy, then you have to go find the ladder, find the battery, climb the ladder, pull open the battery holder without yanking to hard and falling off in the process (o_0), swap batteries, get down the ladder, and put up the ladder. You know what – maybe I’ll go get a blender next time…
May 7th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Good one!
May 7th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Wow, Biffs eyebrows may be long but today they seem longer than usual.
May 7th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Totally got it yesterday! unconventional uses for common household items week!
May 7th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Energy displacement week…
May 7th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Measurements or alterations in atmospheric pressures week? Suck, blow, press, and tornadoes!!! Thanks Reynard61 for the start of my brain cloud!
May 7th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
Will it blend? That is the question.
May 7th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
i’ll have to keep this one in mind.
May 8th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
I never set any time records in the real world. Only on my video games.
I still think that Biff prefers energy-saving bulbs. He did try to change every lightbulb in the area.
May 9th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
After going back to read the comments on the past few days (i did not have my computer i have to say that ZackDark just made my day
May 13th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
Intrestingly enough I’ve visited the Boing plant which was at one time the largest building in the world.
It’s so large they heat the place with the lights and the heat sometimes causes weather systems… making it rain indoors… !
July 3rd, 2009 at 1:21 pm
The vortex vacuum scale levitates the bulb. Don’t people study aerodynamics anymore?