836: Sickness
explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
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| number = 836 | | number = 836 | ||
| − | | date = December 20,2010 | + | | date = December 20, 2010 |
| title = Sickness | | title = Sickness | ||
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
| − | (The three panels are arranged diagonally, upper left to bottom right.) | + | :(The three panels are arranged diagonally, upper left to bottom right.) |
| − | [Two people are walking past a tree. One has a hat.] | + | :[Two people are walking past a tree. One has a hat.] |
| − | Hat person: So, has this sickness opened you up to looking for answers beyond science? | + | :Hat person: So, has this sickness opened you up to looking for answers beyond science? |
| − | + | :Cueball: ... no, not really. | |
| − | [ | + | :[Cueball turns to face the one with the hat.] |
| − | + | :Cueball: We've groped for comfort before the slings and arrows of fortune for millenia, and I begrudge nobody their sources of solace. | |
| − | + | :Cueball: But Science provides ''tools''. | |
| − | ''tools'' | + | :Cueball: $100 billion a year in scientific studies and medical R&D has bought us some pretty damn powerful slings and arrows of our own. |
| − | . | + | :Cueball: This world is amazing, and I'm going to live to experience more of it thanks to people who refused to gracefully accept the ineffability of reality. |
| − | + | :Cueball: I find my courage where I can, but I take my weapons from science. | |
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| + | :Cueball: Because they ''work'', bitches. | ||
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Revision as of 23:28, 13 December 2012
| Sickness |
 Title text: At least, with p<0.05 confidence. |
Explanation
Do not begrudge your fellow human being, regardless of where they find comfort.
Also, any sentence is instantly funny if, at the end of it, you address your audience as "bitches".
Transcript
- (The three panels are arranged diagonally, upper left to bottom right.)
- [Two people are walking past a tree. One has a hat.]
- Hat person: So, has this sickness opened you up to looking for answers beyond science?
- Cueball: ... no, not really.
- [Cueball turns to face the one with the hat.]
- Cueball: We've groped for comfort before the slings and arrows of fortune for millenia, and I begrudge nobody their sources of solace.
- Cueball: But Science provides tools.
- Cueball: $100 billion a year in scientific studies and medical R&D has bought us some pretty damn powerful slings and arrows of our own.
- Cueball: This world is amazing, and I'm going to live to experience more of it thanks to people who refused to gracefully accept the ineffability of reality.
- Cueball: I find my courage where I can, but I take my weapons from science.
- Cueball: Because they work, bitches.
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