1054: The Bacon
| The Bacon |
 Title text: Normally pronounced 'THEH-buh-kon', I assume. |
Explanation
This comic plays off the American colloquialism "bring home the bacon", which generally means to work hard and bring money home to your family to put food on the table. If a man is out of work he may be stressed out about how to "bring home the bacon."
Some men would not be assuaged if their wife takes over but at first it seems that White Hat is happy that his wife, who work as a pharmacist, do bring home the bacon, and he tells this to Cueball.
Later, however, Cueball finds out, that what White Hat actually was saying was "Thebacon", which is a the common name of dihydrocodeinone enol acetate an opioid commonly market under names like Acedicon and Diacodin. As a pharmacist White Hat's wife has easy access to such drugs, and this may be the reason that he is so calm, because his wife supplies him with painkiller drugs.
Thebacon is compared to the more known drug, Vicodin also an opioid, which is a very common painkiller, that can become a drug of abuse.
The title text lists what [Randall]] assumes to be the normal pronunciation for Thebacon.
According to Wikipedia, Randall seems to be mistaken in no less than three places:
- The proper name is
- Dihydrocodeinone enol acetate, not
- Dihydrocodeine enol acetate.
- It is a semisynthetic opioid not a synthetic.
- The pronunciation is /ˈθiːbəkɒn/
- THEE-buh-kon, not
- THEH-buh-kon.
- This title text "error" may be intentional though, as he also write I presume after it.
Transcript
- [White Hat is holding out a hand towards Cueball while telling him about his job situation. The space between the and bacon is very small.]
- White Hat: I'm out of work, but I'm not stressed about it because my wife is a pharmacist and she brings home the bacon.
- [Caption below the panel:]
- Only later did I learn that "Thebacon" is the common name for dihydrocodeine enol acetate, a synthetic opioid similar to Vicodin.
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A doc White Hat's wife will not have her job for long. 108.162.245.69 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
Suggest marking as incomplete. Source is Wikipedia? Is there someone who has more familiarity with opioids who can comment? And what's the purpose of the title text? Stating it's incorrect does very little to explain the joke (which I don't really get). Wikiiscool123 (talk) 12:30, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
It is just me or the title comic is showing as The窶叡acon for someone else? 172.68.25.39 20:23, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
The title is showing The bacon for me. Is the title showing different unicode characters to different people? [Gopher] 15 Dec 2019
