42: Geico - Revision history

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172.70.91.130: Undo revision 364714 by 162.158.114.97 (talk) Noneof those things relate to the image description. All are also mentioned elsewhere.

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Undo revision 364714 by 162.158.114.97 (talk) Noneof those things relate to the image description. All are also mentioned elsewhere.

162.158.114.97: /* Transcript */

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‎Transcript

FaviFake: that was a joke

2024-11-16T07:26:08Z

that was a joke

Pego: added statement stating that we have no way to know weather or not david threatened his insurance agent with a golf club

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added statement stating that we have no way to know weather or not david threatened his insurance agent with a golf club

162.158.118.124 at 01:14, 30 October 2024

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FaviFake at 07:54, 31 August 2023

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 | date      = November 28, 2005
 | title     = Geico
-| ognumber =38
+| ognumber  = 38
-| ogtitle =Monday's Drawing: Geico
+| ogtitle   = Monday's Drawing: Geico
-| oglink =https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/#:~:text=Monday%27s%20Drawing%3A%20Geico
+| oglink    = https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/#:~:text=Monday%27s%20Drawing%3A%20Geico
-| ogprev =35
+| ogprev    = 35
-| ognext =38
+| ognext    = 38
 | image     = geico.jpg
 | titletext = David did this<br><br>''<span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/#:~:text=Monday%27s%20Drawing%3A%20Geico Original caption</span>]:'' <small>'''Current Mood:''' ''[[File:sick.gif|12px|link=]] sick''</small>
 }}
-This was the thirty-eighth comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[35: Sheep]], and the next one was [[38: Apple Jacks]].
+This was the thirty-eighth comic [[LiveJournal|originally posted to LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[35: Sheep]], and the next one was [[38: Apple Jacks]].
 ==Explanation==

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 | date      = November 28, 2005
 | title     = Geico
-| before    = <big><big><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/#:~:text=Monday%27s%20Drawing%3A%20Geico Original title</span>]: '''Monday's Drawing: Geico'''</big></big>
+| ognumber =38
 | image     = geico.jpg
-| titletext = David did this<br><br><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/#:~:text=Monday%27s%20Drawing%3A%20Geico Original caption</span>]: <small>'''Current Mood:''' ''[[File:sick.gif|12px|link=]] sick''</small>
+| titletext = David did this<br><br>''<span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/#:~:text=Monday%27s%20Drawing%3A%20Geico Original caption</span>]:'' <small>'''Current Mood:''' ''[[File:sick.gif|12px|link=]] sick''</small>
 }}

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 }}
 This was the thirty-eighth comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[35: Sheep]], and the next one was [[38: Apple Jacks]].
 This comic references a long-running ad campaign for {{w|Geico}} insurance in which a character (different in each commercial) lists a series of horrible events or news, but then caps it off with "but I've got good news: I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to Geico" – news that may be good, but is usually either trivial compared to the magnitude of the preceding bad news, or else is said to the person whom all of the preceding bad news applied to, giving them false hope that the good news was for them. It became a recognizable pop culture phrase. In this one-panel comic, [[Cueball]] parodies the punchline by saving money on his car insurance by intimidation, instead of choosing the best provider. A golf club would later also be used for similarly socially unacceptable actions in [[81: Attention, shopper]], and Geico's ad would be mentioned again in [[870: Advertising]].

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 | before    = <big><big><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/#:~:text=Monday%27s%20Drawing%3A%20Geico Original title</span>]: '''Monday's Drawing: Geico'''</big></big>
 | image     = geico.jpg
-| titletext = David did this<br><br><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/#:~:text=Monday%27s%20Drawing%3A%20Geico Original caption</span>]: <small>'''Current Mood:''' ''[[File:sick.gif|12px]] sick''</small>
+| titletext = David did this<br><br><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/#:~:text=Monday%27s%20Drawing%3A%20Geico Original caption</span>]: <small>'''Current Mood:''' ''[[File:sick.gif|12px|link=]] sick''</small>
 }}

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 :[Cueball holding a golf club.]
 :Cueball: I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by threatening my agent with a golf club.
 ==Trivia==

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 This comic references a long-running ad campaign for {{w|Geico}} insurance in which a character (different in each commercial) lists a series of horrible events or news, but then caps it off with "but I've got good news: I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to Geico" – news that may be good, but is usually either trivial compared to the magnitude of the preceding bad news, or else is said to the person whom all of the preceding bad news applied to, giving them false hope that the good news was for them. It became a recognizable pop culture phrase. In this one-panel comic, [[Cueball]] parodies the punchline by saving money on his car insurance by intimidation, instead of choosing the best provider. A golf club would later also be used for similarly socially unacceptable actions in [[81: Attention, shopper]], and Geico's ad would be mentioned again in [[870: Advertising]].
-In the title text, [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] attributes this comic to the unknown friend [[David]]. He does the same in [[51: Malaria]] and [[100: Family Circus]]. We can assume (or rather, we can ''hope'') that "this" refers to the act of writing the comic, as opposed to the act of threatening his insurance agent (though this can not be confirmed).
+In the title text, [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] attributes this comic to the unknown friend [[David]]. He does the same in [[51: Malaria]] and [[100: Family Circus]]. We can assume (or rather, we can ''hope'') that "this" refers to the act of writing the comic, as opposed to the act of threatening his insurance agent.
 ==Transcript==

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