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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | The saying "you catch more flies with honey than vinegar" means that people are more likely to be won over with | + | The saying "you catch more flies with honey than vinegar" means that people are more likely to be won over with persuasion than hostility. |
− | When [[Cueball]]'s friend tells him this after he replies to a "{{W|noob}}" using swear words, he then says that the saying is literally false by saying that {{w|balsamic vinegar}} attracts more flies than | + | When [[Cueball]]'s friend tells him this after he replies to a "{{W|noob}}" using swear words, he then says that the saying is literally false by saying that {{w|balsamic vinegar}} attracts more flies than honey. He then tells his friend to try it with his own fruit flies. |
− | When Cueball's statement is found true | + | When Cueball's statement is found true (because balsamic vinegar has a higher sugar content than white vinegar or honey), his friend complains to his mother that she lied to him. He then says that another saying, "a watched pot never boils", is also literally false. That saying means that an event that is monitored with impatient attention will seem to take longer. |
− | In the title text | + | In the title text it seems that [[Randall]] explains why he wrote this comic - his vinegar bowl attracted a lot of fruit flies. However, he has not done the experiment with house flies! Still he hails science - so someone should do some more science, to test if the saying would be correct if you insert a ''house'' in front of flies... |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
:[Cueball is typing on a computer, and his friend is lying on the floor.] | :[Cueball is typing on a computer, and his friend is lying on the floor.] | ||
− | : | + | :Cueball: *$@#! |
− | :Friend: Hey, ease up on the noobs. Like my mom always said, you catch more flies with honey | + | :Friend: Hey, ease up on the noobs. Like my mom always said, you catch more flies with honey then with vinegar. |
:[Cueball has turned his chair around.] | :[Cueball has turned his chair around.] | ||
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− | :[Cueball's friend is standing in front of a table, talking into a phone | + | :[Cueball's friend is standing in front of a table, talking into a phone, and on the table, there are two bowls, and the bowl on the left seems to be surrounded by flies.] |
:Friend: Mother! You ''lied'' to me! And it gets worse. I was watching a pot yesterday, and guess what it did? It ''boiled,'' mother. | :Friend: Mother! You ''lied'' to me! And it gets worse. I was watching a pot yesterday, and guess what it did? It ''boiled,'' mother. | ||