May 20th, 2009
#767 – Metacarpal
When I was a kid I would sometimes have trouble with the order in which to put my clothes on. For some reason I frequently put my shoes on before my pants. Instead of just taking my shoes back off I would spend a half hour trying to force my feet through both pant legs at the same time. I could rarely get past the knees. I occasionally got it to work, but it was still a lot slower than just starting over.
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May 20th, 2009 at 12:11 am
@ theme : Second (or fourth) thoughts week?
@ story: When I was a kid, I always put socks on before pants, then shoes, then shirt, then coat.
I was an OCD child
May 20th, 2009 at 12:13 am
Hahaha, this week is probably the best one I’ve seen so far.
May 20th, 2009 at 12:41 am
I was taught early that shoes are the last thing to be put on… I used to wear them and nothing else, so I was retrained
May 20th, 2009 at 1:00 am
This time the thumbs are different!
My question is, what did Biff need the emergency arms for?
May 20th, 2009 at 1:09 am
flipping between this weeks three comics so far and looking at the differences is interesting.
@maddavid: what _doesn’t_ biff need emergency arms for? i’d love to have 4 arms.
May 20th, 2009 at 1:12 am
Nice easy week, right? Finding the most jokes for a single picture.
May 20th, 2009 at 1:32 am
I do too, Heinrich! Hell, why are they “emergency” arms?
May 20th, 2009 at 5:45 am
Emergency arms, maybe they’re good for hitch hiking! Or getting a job at a circus is the freak show! But in that case, Biff would have been just as well going as himself…
May 20th, 2009 at 5:46 am
The little shade lines on the elbows change places too.
May 20th, 2009 at 7:20 am
Actually, those changed yesterday. They are back to ‘normal’ today again. Also, the pants pockets and the collar shading changed today. Hey, this is fun :p
May 20th, 2009 at 7:30 am
I’m calling dinosaur comics week.
May 20th, 2009 at 7:52 am
Hey, where can I order that button?
May 20th, 2009 at 8:44 am
“I’m busy, but I don’t want to miss an update”-week.
May 20th, 2009 at 8:48 am
… are you just taking a vacation
May 20th, 2009 at 9:05 am
Kewl. “Spot the Difference” week. XD
So far, I count that the thumbs change, antenna-eyebrows change, mouth changes, pockets change and Biff lost a shade on his top-left (right to us) elbow.
*is obsessed*
Also, love the comic.
May 20th, 2009 at 10:13 am
I would’ve missed the “changes” thing, at least until his shirt turned yellow. I was going to guess a picture is worth a thousand themes. You’ve got the chilhood thing, the bones of the arm thing. Except I couldn’t look up “anconeus.” What’s up with that?
May 20th, 2009 at 10:47 am
It’s arm week. Anconeus is the elbow, radius is a bone in your forearm, and the metacarpals are the bones in your palms.
May 20th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
@i.half4: Don’t give Chris any ideas. If it’s a picture is worth a thousand themes, then we’ll be seeing this same picture for over three years!
May 20th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Hey, we could always just write more for him…
“Biff was thankful that he had only been bitten by half of the radio-active spider.”
“Suddenly, Biff’s long-time dream of being able to compose accordion music while driving had become a reality.”
“Biff discovered that practicing for the paper-rock-scissors tournament was now much easier.”
“Before today, Biff found taking off his shoes to count to twenty to be quite a hassle.”
“Biff regretted how much longer it now took to apply underarm deodorant.”
May 20th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
I noticed too…It’s arm week.
May 20th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
@Chris(the screenhog.com one): Careful, you’re increasing your chances of accidentally guessing right. Those all seem plausible. Wouldn’t want Chris(the book-de-la-Biffito one) to have to change plans on Thursday or Friday’s comic.
May 20th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
i love this week
May 20th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Have you noticed that Biff`s mouth has gotten considerably smaller then in the early panels?
May 20th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
whats going on here?…. hmmm..
I am getting a Sickening feeling of Da Ja Vu…
May 21st, 2009 at 9:31 am
Hmm, you’re right Garrett… perhaps those should have waited until Friday.