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Published: 2012-10-08 04:34:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 55151; Favourites: 2251; Downloads: 165
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Read more "I'm My Own Mascot!" here: www.kevinbolk.com/comic/mascot…Before you guys panic....no, I didn't actually cut my thumb off.
This comic was based on a conversation Sarah and I had during a long night of cutting art cards for our next convention appearance...which tends to happen during our patented pre-con all-nighters. SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK....and thumbless.
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Oh god... You have AP art history too?
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I once cut the tip of my finger off while chopping vegetables and my first remark was in fact "DAMNIT I HAVE TO CUT MORE ONIONS." >.>
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Dang, a cut while chopping onions? That must have stung...
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I rate this comic...two thumbs up!
Or rather, one-and-a-half.
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Haha I can relate to this! Kinda... I was working as a nanny and was rocking the baby to sleep in my room. I got up to put him in his crib and stumbled and cut my toe (clear to the bone) on the bed frame... I started crying because I was getting blood all over my boss's white carpet!
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Haha! That's why I cut my art cards first before I draw on them!
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I don't know how you aren't on the front page more often; your comics just keep getting better!!
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I have toooootally done similar things on a matte cutter. OH CRAP I'M BLEEDING. OH CRAP THE PROJECT! I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO BUY MORE!
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I'm more the type of person who picks up their thumb and crys over the phone to 911... again.....
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Oh man this is FAR too accurate; I was doing dishes once and this heavy pottery dish with thin edges my mom had made before I was born was put at the bottom for some reason by my dad. Trying to pick it up enough to get my hand under it since it took up most of the sink, the edge of it snapped and scooped a chunk of my thumb out. My first thoughts were "OH GOD I BROKE THE ART-PLATE!"
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I did that while sewing a costume at 5am once..... thank god I only went through the first layer of skin or my costume would have been stained D:
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I had a friend who cut off his palm with a deli meat slicer at work. Needless to say much meat needed to be thrown out afterwords once we found the chunk belonging to him
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Oh, look, a story that further engraves into my mind the terrors of working in the deli department!
...No, really, seriously, I knew those meat slicers couldn't be trusted. Watching people use those scares me on a borderline phobic level. I don't think I'd ever be able to use one myself.
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the one we use you got to have your hand on the meat to cut it, and under the blade to catch the slices, double danger!
Iv heard many horror stories working in a grocery store, but other then that one and my own I haven't been present for them
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Yeah, my mother used to work at a bagel shop...I heard way too many horror stories about those kinds of slicers.
"Welcome to Locs 'N Locs of Bagels! My name is Stumpy, may I help you?"
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I could write a book on close calls, injury stories, and stories Iv heard but arnt sure if there true but they just might be. Its like one of the only three things I like about my job
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They probably are true, for the most part. You'd be amazed at the kind of accidents that can happen with machinery like that, and how common they are.
My mother also once worked at a thrift store where they had basically a big machine that made corded bundles out of loads of clothes in the back room. One day, one of the cords snapped, and whipped one of the workers across the face. Sliced his cheek wide open.
I'm happy my job doesn't usually involve crazy accidents like that...worst that can happen is that we get robbed.
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lets see, off the top of my head of notable injuries from my work: Sliced off palm, one of our guys doesnt have a middle finger, one of our guys has pins in all his toes cause they got torn off, I got a nasty chemical burn from a broken garbage bag that had oven cleaner in it, im pretty sure someone got ran over by the power jack once.
No ones ever tried to rob us, though we do get shoplifters
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Wow, all those injuries make your workspace sound like a disaster area. Doesn't surprise me, though.
We got robbed once...actually, no, make that twice, just only once recently. With a bomb threat. He left quietly, but the girl he gave the note to was only sixteen years old. All for not even two-hundred in cash...pathetic.
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I know, people who have never worked with a register always seems to assume theres less money in there they think
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Oh god. That must have been horrible.
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it was, we had to shut the whole deli down for 3 hours, cant have anyone getting some human in with the beef and chicken 
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Aww gosh, that sounds painful. Yeah, gotta take those safety precautions...
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strangely enough it seems like the only time someone gets hurt is when theyr actually trying to do some work :/ with the shinaninigans that go on slow days its a wonder someone hasnt died yet
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*grabs medical thread, a needle, and your severed thumb and reattaches it to the stump* ok now im going to need leaches those help cause blood flow to the reattached limb or thumb in this case.
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Sleep is for the waek, so it spelling. Apparently. Nah it's just my keyboard. That's why coffee was invented.
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This... happened to my brother when he procrastinated on his graphic design midterm. lol
I had to clean it up D:
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i love you for this comment.
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Yeow. My thumb just got sympathy pain.
I kind of feel like that would be my reaction too. Nasty cut? Ok, that'll heal or something. Works of art? Cannot be replaced.
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OH SWEET JESUS IN A MANGER!!
Seriously, I gasped pretty loud upon seeing that. Dude, the closest I EVER came to that was stapling my finger. But no need to panic (over the art cards) get the saved files and reprint them! THEN TAKE YOUR BLEEDIN' BEHIND TO THE HOSPITAL!! YOU GOT MORE ART CONVENTIONS TO GO TO AND YA CAN'T GO IF YOU BLEED TO DEATH, MISTER!!!
(don't worry, I read the author's notes but seeing THAT much blood sends me slamming on the panic button!)
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I was a teacher's aid in the eighth grade for the art teacher...I cut myself more than once on that stupid thing, but I always managed to get out of the room before the blood REALLY started flowing. I don't think she ever knew that I cut myself!
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it's so true
though while not working on some artwork, I'm very careful not to injure my hands since I need them to make art
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The reaction of a true artist. This one really made me laugh.
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I'd probably see my detached finger, cry out, then see my destroyed art, then scream like a maniac XD
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You know for a split second I'd go on saying the same thing.. the cards (not my hand) are ruined xDDD
Poor guy.
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I've actually seen this happen once before. It was in my high school art class. The dude cut off his finger, passed out, people were throwing up and screaming, they forgot to take the finger with them so it was just laying there for a while on the counter... It was quite horrifying.
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That was my worst nightmare in woodcutting class back in the day. I was so paranoid around those saw machines...oh, you have no idea. Every time I got within two feet of one, I'd begin having horrible thoughts of losing my fingers.
Your story, however, is strangely hilarious at the same time it's completely horrifying. I'm sure it really wasn't funny at the time though. Augh.
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It's pretty funny now but it was so scary when it happened. Lots of scary things happened in that class.
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"I never envisioned art class including so much carnage!"
I know that feel, though. Considering in my own high school art class one year, I was carving linoleum blocks to make block prints on a morning when I was particularly sleep-deprived, and forgot the golden rule of using linoleum-carving knives: Always carve away from yourself, not toward.
I ended up holding the block with one hand and carving toward that hand like a retard-- and, of course, the knife slipped. I ended up stabbing myself in my middle-finger nail, dead center. I had a V-shaped cut that went right through the nail. I'm surprised it didn't bleed more than it did. I had to keep a bandage on that finger for ages until the nail grew out...
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