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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | {{incomplete|Created by SANTA. There appears to be no explanation. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | |
− | + | This comic was posted on December 24, 2018, the {{w|Christmas Eve}} of 2018. | |
− | + | The evening or day preceding a special day such as a holiday is often referred to as the ''eve'' of that day (derived from the same word from which we get ''evening''). Thus December 24 is Christmas Eve. | |
+ | Some people extend this and call December 23 "Christmas Eve Eve." The day before ''that'' would be "Christmas Eve Eve Eve," adding one "Eve" for each night before Christmas morning. | ||
− | + | Cueball notes the general idea, and Megan acknowledges it. Cueball follows by naming December 24 as Christmas Eve, December 25 as Christmas, and then mentions that the following day is his favorite. | |
+ | Megan's "Oh no" implies that she knows what Cueball will say next. | ||
− | + | Since December 26 is the 364th day before Christmas (when the following year is not a leap year), it follows that it is "Christmas" followed by "Eve" 364 times. | |
− | The title text refers to the | + | Megan finds listening to Cueball recite this unacceptable; as such, she announces that she will not give him gifts, taking the extra step of returning the gifts she'd already bought. |
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+ | The title text refers to the [[wikipedia:Boxing Day|Boxing Day]] holiday celebrated the day after Christmas in the UK and many parts of the former British Empire. Although the name officially refers to servants boxing up the presents they get from their masters, most Americans don't know this and make jokes about how it refers to {{w|Boxing|the sport of boxing}}. In this title text we can presume Cueball was punched (or ''boxed'') after his litany of 364 ''Eve''s, to which he replies, "Oh, so that's why they call it Boxing Day," only to be punched again. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[Cueball with his arms | + | :[Cueball with his arms our is talking with White Hat and Megan. In Cueballs long last remark the letters get smaller from line to line.]] |
:Cueball: Today is Christmas Eve. Yesterday was Christmas Eve Eve. | :Cueball: Today is Christmas Eve. Yesterday was Christmas Eve Eve. | ||
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
− | *The day before this comic was released (that is on the actual Christmas Eve Eve day) a {{w|Nancy (comic strip)|Nancy | + | *The day before this comic was released (that is on the actual Christmas Eve Eve day) a comic with a similar theme was released on the web comic {{w|Nancy (comic strip)|Nancy]]: |
− | **[https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/12/23 Nancy 2018/12/23] | + | **[https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/12/23 Nancy 2018/12/23]. |
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*Each line has the following number of eves: | *Each line has the following number of eves: | ||
:# 11 | :# 11 |