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[[Beret Guy]] is showing [[Megan]] one of his daily activities: Building a [https://rangerrick.org/crafts_activities/float-a-leaf-boat/ leaf boat] and throwing rocks at it. He acknowledges that the hobby is useless, but relaxing. In contrast, Megan contemplates one of her own daily activities: reading online comments on news articles. Realizing that it is an equally pointless, but presumably much less relaxing activity, she joins Beret Guy in throwing rocks at his leaf boat. | [[Beret Guy]] is showing [[Megan]] one of his daily activities: Building a [https://rangerrick.org/crafts_activities/float-a-leaf-boat/ leaf boat] and throwing rocks at it. He acknowledges that the hobby is useless, but relaxing. In contrast, Megan contemplates one of her own daily activities: reading online comments on news articles. Realizing that it is an equally pointless, but presumably much less relaxing activity, she joins Beret Guy in throwing rocks at his leaf boat. | ||
| β | It is an unfortunate property of news articles that their comments become dominated by those which are [http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/some-news-sites-cracking-down-on-over-the-top-comments/2014/05/07/4bc90958-d619-11e3-95d3-3bcd77cd4e11_story.html deliberately offensive or devolve into flame wars] | + | It is an unfortunate property of news articles that their comments become dominated by those which are [http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/some-news-sites-cracking-down-on-over-the-top-comments/2014/05/07/4bc90958-d619-11e3-95d3-3bcd77cd4e11_story.html deliberately offensive or devolve into flame wars]. |
The title text makes it clear that they hit the leaf with a stone. The rest is a pun on the name of the 11th century Viking explorer {{w|Leif Erikson}}, who was believed to have been {{w|European_colonization_of_the_Americas|the first European}} to discover and settle North America, which he named "{{w|Vinland}}", at the time this comic was released. | The title text makes it clear that they hit the leaf with a stone. The rest is a pun on the name of the 11th century Viking explorer {{w|Leif Erikson}}, who was believed to have been {{w|European_colonization_of_the_Americas|the first European}} to discover and settle North America, which he named "{{w|Vinland}}", at the time this comic was released. | ||
