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[[Cueball]] is shown here as an office worker, a job that, to most people, is the opposite of interesting. This is contrasted with [[Megan]], who is rappelling down the outside of his office building, for no apparent reason other than because she can, and inviting him on an adventure. Things are bound to get at least one kind of "interesting" very fast.
 
[[Cueball]] is shown here as an office worker, a job that, to most people, is the opposite of interesting. This is contrasted with [[Megan]], who is rappelling down the outside of his office building, for no apparent reason other than because she can, and inviting him on an adventure. Things are bound to get at least one kind of "interesting" very fast.
  
The title text refers to a {{w|Category 6 cable|Cat6}} cable, which is more commonly known as Ethernet cable. It would be easily found in an office building, since it is used to connect computers to a network. Its usefulness as a {{w|climbing harness}} is indeterminate.{{Citation needed}}
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The title text refers to {{w|Category 6 cable|Cat6}} cable, which is more commonly known as Ethernet cable. It would be easily found in an office building, since it is used to connect computers to a network. Its usefulness as a climbing rope is indeterminate,{{Citation needed}} although it is never manufactured over 300 meters long, meaning roughly that Cueball would need a very long cable, and would not be able to rappel down from any floor above the 33rd.
  
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
:[On the left hand side of the panel is a cutaway of several floors of an office, in gray. On the right side, a blue sky with clouds,  and green hills below. Hanging from a cable is Megan, clearly having rappelled down the side of the building, next to a Cueball at his desk, who is looking at Megan.]
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:[On the left hand side of the panel is a cutaway of several floors of an office, in gray. On the right side, a blue sky with clouds,  and green hills below. Hanging from a cable is Megan, clearly having rappelled down the side of the building.]
 
:Megan: You know how some people consider "May you have an interesting life" to be a curse?
 
:Megan: You know how some people consider "May you have an interesting life" to be a curse?
:Cueball: Yeah...
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:Cueball at the office: Yeah...
 
:Megan: Fuck those people. Wanna have an adventure?
 
:Megan: Fuck those people. Wanna have an adventure?
  
 
{{comic discussion}}
 
{{comic discussion}}
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
 
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