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1419: On the Phone

2014-09-10T10:52:08Z

Qoyyim: /* Transcript */

{{comic
| number = 1419
| date = September 10, 2014
| title = On the Phone
| image = on_the_phone.png
| titletext = 'No idea what I was thinking! Haha! But anyway, maybe we should check out what this Ba'al guy has to say.'
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|More detail required}}
Megan is wandering around the house, and discovers things which have been left in strange places, or arranged in piles.
On questioning an out-of-panel person (presumably [[Cueball]]), he responds that he tends to pick things up and fiddle with them while on the phone.

Fiddling with objects, doodling on the nearest surface, or otherwise getting distracted are fairly common habits which many people can probably relate to.

The final panel takes this to the extreme, where an obelisk inscribed with a worrying prayers to 'Ba'al, The Soul-Eater' has been erected in the garden.
Ba'al the Soul-Eater is also in the title-text of [[1246: Pale Blue Dot]].

==Transcript==
[Megan is standing looking off-panel in one direction and pointing in the other.]
: Megan: Why is there a teapot in the bathroom?
: Off-panel voice: Sorry. When I'm on the phone I always zone out and pick stuff up and carry it around.
[Megan is in front of an open fridge. She holds a hammer.]
: Megan: There's a hammer in the fridge.
: Off-panel voice: Another phone call. I was just fidgeting.
[Megan walks through small, curious towers of household objects:
first tower have lightbulb on one book,
second tower have blender on three books,
third tower have uh six books ?,
last tower have two tennis ball on three books]
: Megan: Did you put all our stuff in weird stacks?
: Off-panel voice: Long call. Sorry.
[Megan, outside, looks up at a large straight-sided object]
: Megan: ...Why is there a giant obelisk in the backyard?
: Off-panel voice: Phone again. My bad.
: Megan: It's carved with prayers to "Ba'al, the Soul-Eater."
: Off-panel voice: Haha! I'm so absentminded.

{{comic discussion}}

1419: On the Phone

2014-09-10T10:51:27Z

Qoyyim:

{{comic
| number = 1419
| date = September 10, 2014
| title = On the Phone
| image = on_the_phone.png
| titletext = 'No idea what I was thinking! Haha! But anyway, maybe we should check out what this Ba'al guy has to say.'
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|More detail required}}
Megan is wandering around the house, and discovers things which have been left in strange places, or arranged in piles.
On questioning an out-of-panel person (presumably [[Cueball]]), he responds that he tends to pick things up and fiddle with them while on the phone.

Fiddling with objects, doodling on the nearest surface, or otherwise getting distracted are fairly common habits which many people can probably relate to.

The final panel takes this to the extreme, where an obelisk inscribed with a worrying prayers to 'Ba'al, The Soul-Eater' has been erected in the garden.
Ba'al the Soul-Eater is also in the title-text of [[1246: Pale Blue Dot]].

==Transcript==
[Megan is standing looking off-panel in one direction and pointing in the other.]
: Megan: Why is there a teapot in the bathroom?
: Off-panel voice: Sorry. When I'm on the phone I always zone out and pick stuff up and carry it around.
[Megan is in front of an open fridge. She holds a hammer.]
: Megan: There's a hammer in the fridge.
: Off-panel voice: Another phone call. I was just fidgeting.
[Megan walks through small, curious towers of household objects: first tower have lightbulb on one book, second tower have blender on three books, third tower have uh six books ?, last tower have two tennis ball on three books]
: Megan: Did you put all our stuff in weird stacks?
: Off-panel voice: Long call. Sorry.
[Megan, outside, looks up at a large straight-sided object]
: Megan: ...Why is there a giant obelisk in the backyard?
: Off-panel voice: Phone again. My bad.
: Megan: It's carved with prayers to "Ba'al, the Soul-Eater."
: Off-panel voice: Haha! I'm so absentminded.

{{comic discussion}}