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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
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+ | Another comic in the My Hobby series. This comic is making a play on the typical "secret agent" code phrases such as the one above or "The Eagle has landed." or "The cobra has struck." The word "eagle" is especially popular for code phrases, referring to craft containing a VIP. Randall says that his hobby is to follow field biologists around and interpreting everything they do as a code phrases. As they are only biologists doing their jobs and saying ordinary things. | ||
− | The title text is saying that when the character in the comic is not following field biologists | + | "The Eagle has landed" was also the first sentence {{w|Neil Armstrong}} send back to earth on the first manned moon landing by {{w|Apollo 11}} back in 1969. |
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+ | The *KHHHKHT* noises that the character is making are imitations of the static sounds made when using a walkie-talkie or other radio devices. | ||
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+ | The title text is saying that when the character in the comic is not following field biologists, he is making actual eagles land in front of actual agents, but they are not allowed to report eagles landing, because that would use the secret code phrase. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
:[Ponytail is looking up into a tree, holding a clipboard in one hand and a radio in the other.] | :[Ponytail is looking up into a tree, holding a clipboard in one hand and a radio in the other.] | ||
:Ponytail: The eagle has left the nest. | :Ponytail: The eagle has left the nest. | ||
− | :Off- | + | :Off-Panel: *KHHHKHT* Roger that. Alert the agents. *KHKKHHKT* |
:Ponytail: Will you ''stop that?'' | :Ponytail: Will you ''stop that?'' | ||
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:My hobby: Following field biologists around and interpreting everything they say as code phrases. | :My hobby: Following field biologists around and interpreting everything they say as code phrases. | ||