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| titletext = At least if you're really into, like, Turkish archaeology, store clerks aren't like 'hey, how 'bout those Derinkuyu underground cities!' when they're trying to be polite. | | titletext = At least if you're really into, like, Turkish archaeology, store clerks aren't like 'hey, how 'bout those Derinkuyu underground cities!' when they're trying to be polite. | ||
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
| − | + | {{Incomplete|For the Turkish archaeology geeks out there: flesh that part out!}} | |
| − | + | Social norm accepts casual small-talk as an ice breaker for interaction -- usually it is always safe to talk about the weather without hitting any disagreement as there are rarely any personal view point about the weather -- in contrast small talk is never about political subject or similar where chances are that that there are strong personal view points. | |
| − | + | In this strip [[Cueball]] is an expert in weather systems, and when [[Hairy]] makes a comment about the weather he has problem deciphering if [[Hairy]] is asking for his expert opinion or is simply trying to make small-talk -- only weather experts would have this problem, as almost no other topic is suitable for opening a conversation in casual small-talk. Cueball switches to small-talk once he understand that Hairy is confused and didn't expect to get detail expert tech-talk. | |
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| − | + | As to the jargon; | |
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| + | * {{w|Jet stream|Jet streams}} are strong air currents high in the atmosphere which have a big influence on the weather. | ||
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| + | * 18z is 18:00 {{w|Coordinated Universal Time|UTC}} (6 PM in Greenwich, England, 10 AM in California). See {{w|ISO 8601}} at Wikipedia. The letter "Z" is used as 'Zulu' in the {{w|NATO phonetic alphabet}}, meaning just UTC. | ||
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| + | * GFS is the {{w|Global Forecast System}} (also known as NCEP-GFS). It is a computer model used by the {{w|National Weather Service}} to predict the weather up to 16 days in advance. The model is run 4 times a day and the output is distinguished by the UTC hour it was started (18z in this case). | ||
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| + | * Part of the prediction is the {{w|atmospheric pressure}} expressed in {{w|Bar (unit)|mbar}} (or mb). 960 mbar is very low pressure, which is usually associated with seriously bad weather (record low pressure for Minnesota was 963 mbar till 1998). | ||
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| + | Store clerks are known for small talk about the weather as part of their sales talk. In title text, a clerk instead makes small talk about {{w|Derinkuyu Underground City|Derinkuyu Underground Cities}}, one of the most well-known {{w|History of Turkey|archaeological sites in Turkey}}, which is a country very well known for its many well-preserved ancient sites from a broad range of time periods. It would be very tempting for Turkish archaeology geek to launch into a detailed conversation on the subject or related news. | ||
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:Cueball: ...Right. Sorry. Uh, yeah! Weather sure has been crazy. | :Cueball: ...Right. Sorry. Uh, yeah! Weather sure has been crazy. | ||
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:Weather geeks have it tough. | :Weather geeks have it tough. | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]] | ||
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