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| − | | number = 576
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| − | | date = May 1, 2009
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| − | | title = Packages
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| − | | image = packages.png
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| − | | titletext = Day six: 'The hell? Who mails a bobcat?'
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| − | ==Explanation==
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| − | [[Cueball]] wrote a script that searches online shopping sites for items that cost US$1 with free shipping. Because the script is programmed to use an account with a $365 balance, this script will buy one random item per day for a full year. [[Megan]] comments that Cueball might just end up with "lots of crap" but he replies that he might get something interesting.
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| − | Over five days the script orders a length of rubber hose, a ski mask, a bear trap, a map of {{w|The Pentagon}} and "lube" (sexual lubrication). This pattern prompts Cueball to stop the script out of fear of being placed on a FBI watch list; to a paranoid passerby, the purchased items make Cueball look like a terrorist who plans to kidnap and {{w|Rubber-hose cryptanalysis|torture}} federal employees. And also a pervert; such a contrast is considered funny.
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| − | In the title text a sixth item is sent, a {{w|bobcat}}. This is probably connected with [[325: A-Minus-Minus]] where [[Black Hat]] delivered a bobcat instead of a chair.
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| − | ==Transcript==
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| − | :[Cueball is sitting at his computer.]
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| − | :Cueball: I love getting packages.
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| − | :[Megan enters and Cueball turns towards her.]
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| − | :Cueball: I set up a script to search eBay et. al. for $1 items with free shipping.
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| − | :[Cueball comes home with a backpack on his back and find a package waiting for him on his doorstop.]
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| − | :Cueball: I gave it $365, so each day it can buy me something random.
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| − | :[Cueball, again sitting at his computer.]
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| − | :Megan (off-screen): What if you just end up with lots of crap?
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| − | :Cueball: I'll give it away.
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| − | :Cueball: But I'm sure I'll end up with some interesting stuff.
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| − | :[The next five panels have a caption in a black frame at the top. The caption is written first for each panel. In the first panel Cueball has unpacked a hose. The paper lies in tatters on the floor. Megan stands next to him.]
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| − | :Day 1: Length of rubber hose
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| − | :Cueball: Could be handy around the house.
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| − | :[Cueball stands with a black item and the packaging material it came in. Megan looks on.]
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| − | :Day 2: Ski mask
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| − | :Cueball: It's spring, but hey.
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| − | :[Cueball is standing alone with a bear trap and the box it came in on the floor.]
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| − | :Day 3: Bear trap
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| − | :Cueball: Huh.
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| − | :[Megan is back as Cueball looks at a piece of paper that came in an envelope.]
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| − | :Day 4: Tourist map of the Pentagon.
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| − | :Megan: Uh oh.
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| − | :[Cueball is standing alone with a bottle of lube in one hand and the box it came in in the other hand.]
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| − | :Day 5: Lube
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| − | :Cueball: I'm stopping this before I end up on every F.B.I. watch list ever.
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| − | ==Trivia==
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| − | Someone has set up an [http://bobcatinabox.com/ actual service] inspired by this comic, which does exactly what this comic describes, and has been featured in the advertisements section to the left.
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| − | {{comic discussion}}
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| − | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
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| − | [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
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| − | [[Category:Bobcats]]
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| − | [[Category:Money]]
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