Difference between revisions of "382: Trebuchet"
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| − | Straightforward comic playing on [[Megan]]'s contradictory stance on [[Cueball]]'s {{w|trebuchet}} project and her own {{w|Automatic target recognition|auto-targeting}} {{w|Laser#Examples by power|kilowatt}} {{w|laser}}. | + | Straightforward comic playing on [[Megan]]'s contradictory stance on [[Cueball]]'s {{w|trebuchet}} project and her own {{w|Automatic target recognition|auto-targeting}} {{w|Laser#Examples by power|kilowatt}} {{w|laser}}. |
The title text is referring to {{w|egging}}. | The title text is referring to {{w|egging}}. | ||
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:[Cueball is working on something on a table, and Megan is sitting at a computer.] | :[Cueball is working on something on a table, and Megan is sitting at a computer.] | ||
:Cueball: The trebuchet is almost done! | :Cueball: The trebuchet is almost done! | ||
| − | : | + | :Megan: Mm. |
:Cueball: The range should be over 150 meters. | :Cueball: The range should be over 150 meters. | ||
:Megan: Look - I'm sure it's a cool project. | :Megan: Look - I'm sure it's a cool project. | ||
:[Picture of a trebuchet.] | :[Picture of a trebuchet.] | ||
| − | :Megan: But eventually you'll need to outgrow these toys, and focus your energy on something practical. | + | :Megan: But eventually you'll need to outgrow these toys, and focus your energy on something practical. This mad science is getting out of hand. |
:Cueball: Says the girl who mounted an auto-targeting kilowatt laser on the roof. | :Cueball: Says the girl who mounted an auto-targeting kilowatt laser on the roof. | ||
:Megan: That's practical! It keeps the squirrels off the feeder! | :Megan: That's practical! It keeps the squirrels off the feeder! | ||
| − | :[From off-frame] | + | :[From off-frame.] |
| − | : | + | :''GZZZZZAPP'' |
:''Squeak!'' | :''Squeak!'' | ||
Revision as of 22:56, 15 May 2013
| Trebuchet |
 Title text: It was also fun when those teenagers tried to egg our house and it insta-cooked the eggs in mid-air. |
Explanation
Straightforward comic playing on Megan's contradictory stance on Cueball's trebuchet project and her own auto-targeting kilowatt laser.
The title text is referring to egging.
Trebuchets are referred to in later comics: 1160: Drop Those Pounds and 1190: Time.
Transcript
- [Cueball is working on something on a table, and Megan is sitting at a computer.]
- Cueball: The trebuchet is almost done!
- Megan: Mm.
- Cueball: The range should be over 150 meters.
- Megan: Look - I'm sure it's a cool project.
- [Picture of a trebuchet.]
- Megan: But eventually you'll need to outgrow these toys, and focus your energy on something practical. This mad science is getting out of hand.
- Cueball: Says the girl who mounted an auto-targeting kilowatt laser on the roof.
- Megan: That's practical! It keeps the squirrels off the feeder!
- [From off-frame.]
- GZZZZZAPP
- Squeak!
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It should probably be noted that a 1 kW laser is ludicrously powerful, as in, enough to vaporise stone in a localised area for etching 108.162.216.36 04:31, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT Nafedalbi (talk) 19:04, 15 April 2022 (UTC)Nafedalbi
