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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1518<br />
| date = April 29, 2015<br />
| title = Typical Morning Routine<br />
| image = typical_morning_routine.png<br />
| titletext = Hang on, I've heard this problem. We need to pour water into the duct until the phone floats up and ... wait, phones sink in water. Mercury. We need a vat of mercury to pour down the vent. That will definitely make this situation better and not worse.<br />
}}<br />
{{Incomplete|First draft}}<br />
==Explanation==<br />
Waking up to an alarm can be annoying, especially when one has difficulty in turning the alarm off. This comic takes this to a ridiculous extreme, whence the comic derives its humour, especially when paired with the title describing it as "typical." <br />
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In this comic, Cueball is shown using his phone as his alarm clock. Often times, it can be hard to turn off the alarm on a smartphone when groggy. Cueball has apparently exited the alarm app by mistake. As such, he his taking an unusually long time turning the device off. Getting annoyed, he's decided to remove the battery to forcefully shut off his phone. However, in the process, he accidentally drops his devices down an air vent. Unable to get it out, Cueball tries to remotely brick it (erase important system files rendering the device as useful as a brick). However, he seems to have accidentally gone into airplane mode in the confusion, thereby cutting off all wireless communications with the device.<br />
Rather than dealing with the noise for weeks, Cueball proposes that they just move out instead.<br />
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Mercury is a very dense liquid. The phone would certainly float on it, though the quite toxic nature of mercury makes pouring it into the air supply a somewhat less-than-stellar idea.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[The panel is completely black, with white text]<br />
:Alarm: BLEEP BLEEP<br />
:Hairy Cueball: Urgh<br />
:Off-Screen: Your alarm is going off<br />
:Hairy Cueball: Huh?<br />
:Off-Screen: Make it stop.<br />
:Hairy Cueball: Urrgh<br />
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:Alarm: BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP B<br />
:Off-Screen: Hit snooze.<br />
:Hairy Cueball: I'm trying. I closed the alarm app and I can't... I'll just pop out the battery.<br />
:Hairy Cueball: Whoops!<br />
:[CLANG]<br />
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:[The lights have turned on; Hairy Cueball is on a bed, looking down the air vent he has dropped the phone into]<br />
:Alarm: EEP BLEEP BLEEP BLE<br />
:Off-Screen: Make it stop!<br />
:Hairy Cueball: It... fell down the vent.<br />
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:[Hairy Cueball is at a desk with a computer]<br />
:Alarm: EP BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP BLE<br />
:Off-Screen: Can you brick it remotely?<br />
:Hairy Cueball: Trying... I think I fumbled it into airplane mode?<br />
:Off-Screen: The battery could last for weeks.<br />
:Hairy Cueball: You know, maybe we should just move.<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
*In this comic, Cueball has messy hair, unlike the round head he normally has.<br />
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