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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1554<br />
| date = July 22, 2015<br />
| title = Spice Girls<br />
| image = spice_girls.png<br />
| titletext = The Earth's five major mass extinctions were the Posh Extinction, the Sporty Extinction, the Scary Extinction, the Ginger Extinction, and the Baby Extinction.<br />
}}<br />
''Not to be confused with [[1511: Spice Girl]]''<br />
==Explanation==<br />
{{Incomplete|Please explain each pane separately, maybe in a table}}<br />
Cueball and Megan are apparently playing a game in which they name all of the elements in some category. Megan is supposed to name all of the Spice Girls, a pop group whose stage names were "Posh Spice", "Sporty Spice", "Scary Spice", "Ginger Spice", and "Baby Spice". Instead, she winds up naming members of other categories (senses, stages of grief, and the four horsemen of the apocalypse), with "Spice" tacked on the end. In the final panel, she comes close, but says words that are phonetically similar to the correct answer (Pog, Story, Sarah, Gender, Baleen).<br />
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This seems to be a continuation of [[1417: Seven]], where Megan asks Cueball to name the seven dwarfs. Apparently Megan confuses sets of five just as Cueball can't distinguish between different sets of seven.<br />
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The title text has the correct Spice Girl names, but uses them as names of {{w|Extinction event#Major extinction events|Earth's five mass extinctions}}. The [http://www.endangeredspeciesinternational.org/overview.html five worst mass extinctions] are the Ordovician-Silurian extinction,<br />
the Late Devonian extinction,<br />
the Permian-Triassic extinction,<br />
the End Triassic extinction,<br />
the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript}}<br />
:Cueball: Your turn: Can you name all of the spice girls?<br />
:Megan: Hmm... Hearing spice, vision spice, smell spice, touch spice, taste spice?<br />
:Cueball: That's senses.<br />
:Megan: Denial spice, anger spice, bargaining spice, depression spice, acceptance spice.<br />
:Cueball: Stages of grief.<br />
:Megan: War spice, famine spice, plague spice, death spice?<br />
:Cueball: You're not even trying.<br />
:Megan: No, wait, I can get this for real. Uhh... <br />
:Megan: Pog spice, story spice, sarah spice, gender spice, baleen spice?<br />
:Cueball: ...Close enough.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}</div>Myr