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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | This comic is a reference to revolutionary physicist {{w|Albert Einstein}}, who got his first big ideas about physics while he was working as a Swiss | + | This comic is a reference to revolutionary physicist {{w|Albert Einstein}}, who got his first big ideas about physics while he was working as a Swiss Patent Clerk. His list of accomplishments is too big to go into here, but Wikipedia should help you out if you want to know more. |
− | The title text | + | Hence this huge pressure on future Swiss Patent Clerks to also come up with genius ideas while they are working there. |
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+ | The title text makes the joke that instead of a patent clerk making the next breakthrough theory, as everyone is supposedly expecting, it's instead made by someone wearing "patent" shoes and working on a movie called "Clerks" II. There by suggesting that anytime something called a "patent" crosses with anything called a "clerk", radical breakthroughs in physics result. {{w|Clerks II}} is the second movie in the Clerks series by Kevin Smith, widely regarded as not nearly as good as the first - which could be said about most sequels, but you get the point. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
:[Ponytail walks up to Megan examining documents] | :[Ponytail walks up to Megan examining documents] | ||
− | :Ponytail: So | + | :Ponytail: So.. what"ve you been up to? |
:Megan: Handling patent applications. | :Megan: Handling patent applications. | ||
:Ponytail: Yeah, but... besides that? | :Ponytail: Yeah, but... besides that? |