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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
+ | {{incomplete|Created by MR. JONES. Believe in me / Help me believe in anything / 'Cause I wanna be someone who believes / Yeah / [Chorus]}} | ||
Some things are associated with being seen so much in a given context that it can be surprising to see them anywhere else. This comic starts with the initially trivial incident of a famously night-time outdoor insect, a {{w|firefly}}, being discovered indoors and during the day. | Some things are associated with being seen so much in a given context that it can be surprising to see them anywhere else. This comic starts with the initially trivial incident of a famously night-time outdoor insect, a {{w|firefly}}, being discovered indoors and during the day. | ||
− | This quickly becomes another typical observation, that of the experience of a schoolchild seeing someone, | + | This quickly becomes another typical observation, that of the experience of a schoolchild seeing someone, who they normally only encounter in the classroom, 'in the real world'. This may not be strange in small, close-knit communities, but can still be seen as extraordinary, and is sometimes an event that happens after the child (and/or teacher) has left the school and is a sign that they are now more equal citizens rather than tutor and student with vastly different lives outside of education. |
− | Unlike fireflies, teachers | + | Unlike fireflies, teachers generally do not {{w|Bioluminescence|bioluminesce}} or flit around in the open air.{{Citation needed}} But that scenario is where the analogy quickly turns, imagining Mr Jones (the teacher) behaving like such an insect. Such an encounter would be at least as awkward as bumping into a them in a semi-social situation, and the conversation you'd be having could be terribly stilted. |
− | + | The title text continues the conversation with some sage advice, to the firefly-teacher, to avoid [[Miss Lenhart]], another teacher whom they believe to belong to an {{w|Photuris|aggressively mimicking genus of predatory firefly}} and thus a potential danger to his existence, as the females of that species copy the blinking mating patterns of other firefly species in order to lure in the males of those species to be eaten. The speaker is clearly concerned that Mr. Jones will be fooled by Ms. Lenhart and then cannibalized. | |
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− | The title text continues the conversation with some sage advice, to the firefly-teacher, to avoid [[Miss Lenhart]] | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
+ | {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
:[Cueball is pointing at a flying insect to the right. Megan is walking towards it.] | :[Cueball is pointing at a flying insect to the right. Megan is walking towards it.] | ||
− | :Cueball: There's a bug in | + | :Cueball: There's a bug in there. |
:Megan: Oh, it's a firefly! | :Megan: Oh, it's a firefly! | ||
:Cueball: Wait, really? | :Cueball: Wait, really? |