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+ | There appear to be several very different ways to interpret the tagline, a short list: | ||
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+ | # The funny part in the actual comic is that Megan is actually (just) working on a way to print a tax form as PDF (as suggested by Waterhorse800 or Dgbrt | ||
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+ | # Megan is preparing to receive a tax form related to receiving the nobel prize (as suggested by Rtanenbaum, but personally I don't get this one) | ||
+ | # In the comic Megan is simply working on something that would in fact be nobel prize winning which she tries to hide and deny because it is not published yet, and the tagline is a separate joke that reveals what the author is currently working on, and how he hopes to win the nobel prize by his efforts because it is so difficult to print tax forms (as suggested by me, Testrider) | ||
+ | [[User:Testrider|Testrider]] ([[User talk:Testrider|talk]]) 07:26, 3 March 2017 (UTC) | ||
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This is my first time writing an explanation. It's still just a stub. [[User:Waterhorse800|Waterhorse800]] ([[User talk:Waterhorse800|talk]]) 17:02, 1 March 2017 (UTC) | This is my first time writing an explanation. It's still just a stub. [[User:Waterhorse800|Waterhorse800]] ([[User talk:Waterhorse800|talk]]) 17:02, 1 March 2017 (UTC) | ||
:You are welcome. But it's too descriptive. The pun is that Ponytail talks about science while Megan is working on a profane computer task like printing an email. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 17:18, 1 March 2017 (UTC) | :You are welcome. But it's too descriptive. The pun is that Ponytail talks about science while Megan is working on a profane computer task like printing an email. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 17:18, 1 March 2017 (UTC) | ||
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:::* If readers can read here only that what they've already seen they won't come back. And if they are overwhelmed by suspicious explanations they probably won't too. | :::* If readers can read here only that what they've already seen they won't come back. And if they are overwhelmed by suspicious explanations they probably won't too. | ||
:::So everybody is welcome to contribute, but this isn't a writers wiki -- it's for the readers.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 21:14, 1 March 2017 (UTC) | :::So everybody is welcome to contribute, but this isn't a writers wiki -- it's for the readers.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 21:14, 1 March 2017 (UTC) | ||
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According to [https://www.irs.com/articles/online-tax-forms Online tax forms] saving and printing could be tricky: | According to [https://www.irs.com/articles/online-tax-forms Online tax forms] saving and printing could be tricky: | ||
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--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 18:34, 1 March 2017 (UTC) | --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 18:34, 1 March 2017 (UTC) | ||
− | I took the title text to imply that | + | I took the title text to imply that Meghan was preparing for the possibility of receiving a tax form related to receiving the Nobel Prize and needing to print it out to submit to the IRS when filing her taxes. [[User:Rtanenbaum|Rtanenbaum]] ([[User talk:Rtanenbaum|talk]]) 19:06, 1 March 2017 (UTC) |
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Whoo boy.... This seems like one of those entries where overthinking it has introduced confusion where there was none. Yikes! "This is one of those comics where the reading of the title text is mandatory for understanding the entire pun.". This is positively, absolutely untrue. I had initially though this was referring to the comic's title - to which I was going to say that I always forget to read the title until after, and I understood the joke fine. Then I realized this is referring to the mouse-over text. Well, still true. I read this on an iPad, there's no mouse-over on the iPad, so I can only see this text when I come here to the Explain site, which I do after reading the comic (I like going in "pure", taking in the comic unassisted first). This is NOT part of the joke, as has often happened before this is taking the joke in a new direction, giving a second punchline. In the comic, Megan clearly DOES have such an unpublished scientific paper on her computer, as suggested by her tilting her screen away and the comedic cliche/rule of convenient conversational timing. Then Randall, as he is wont to do, uses the title text to take the joke in a new direction, giving another scenario where she might want to keep her computer screen private. | Whoo boy.... This seems like one of those entries where overthinking it has introduced confusion where there was none. Yikes! "This is one of those comics where the reading of the title text is mandatory for understanding the entire pun.". This is positively, absolutely untrue. I had initially though this was referring to the comic's title - to which I was going to say that I always forget to read the title until after, and I understood the joke fine. Then I realized this is referring to the mouse-over text. Well, still true. I read this on an iPad, there's no mouse-over on the iPad, so I can only see this text when I come here to the Explain site, which I do after reading the comic (I like going in "pure", taking in the comic unassisted first). This is NOT part of the joke, as has often happened before this is taking the joke in a new direction, giving a second punchline. In the comic, Megan clearly DOES have such an unpublished scientific paper on her computer, as suggested by her tilting her screen away and the comedic cliche/rule of convenient conversational timing. Then Randall, as he is wont to do, uses the title text to take the joke in a new direction, giving another scenario where she might want to keep her computer screen private. | ||
− | Also, the current Incomplete text, "What does the title "Unpublished Discoveries" mean to science", seems rather unnecessary, Ponytail answers this question pretty concisely in the comic itself. Maybe this is a call for more clarity on WHY someone would wait to publish - as I understand it, it's in order to do more research and analysis, so as to have something more solid and complete before publishing, and that the whole thing is a balance between completeness and publishing first - but as worded this question seems pre-answered. - NiceGuy1 [[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.129|162.158.62.129]] 04:03, 3 March 2017 | + | Also, the current Incomplete text, "What does the title "Unpublished Discoveries" mean to science", seems rather unnecessary, Ponytail answers this question pretty concisely in the comic itself. Maybe this is a call for more clarity on WHY someone would wait to publish - as I understand it, it's in order to do more research and analysis, so as to have something more solid and complete before publishing, and that the whole thing is a balance between completeness and publishing first - but as worded this question seems pre-answered. - NiceGuy1 [[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.129|162.158.62.129]] 04:03, 3 March 2017 (UTC) |
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