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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
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The comic shows a newspaper with a large headline: | The comic shows a newspaper with a large headline: | ||
− | :National Scheduling Conflict | + | :National Scheduling Conflict |
:'''Championships canceled''' | :'''Championships canceled''' | ||
− | + | When reading this the first obvious questions are | |
+ | :"What national championship has been canceled?" | ||
+ | :"Why has it been canceled?" | ||
− | However, | + | However, there is a {{w|syntactic ambiguity}} in this headline as can be seen in the picture below. Here we see, above an empty Lectern, a banner with the text NSCC 2015. This means that the headline should be read like this: |
:National Scheduling Conflict Championships (NSCC) | :National Scheduling Conflict Championships (NSCC) | ||
:canceled | :canceled | ||
− | This comic thus envisions a "National Scheduling Conflict Championship" (NSCC), presumably as the culmination of some larger scheduling-conflict competition. It is unclear if the goal of the event is to have a scheduling conflict and miss it, or if there are actual challenges at the event, but this | + | This comic thus envisions a "National Scheduling Conflict Championship" (NSCC), presumably as the culmination of some larger scheduling-conflict competition. It is unclear if the goal of the event is to have a scheduling conflict and miss it, or if there are actual challenges at the event, but this years event has been canceled, most likely due to scheduling conflicts. Whether it is the contestants that miss the event, as it's their nature to always have a scheduling conflict, or if it is the organizers that have an issue is untold. The question is whether the event's cancellation is a success in it self or just a predictable failure of such an event? |
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− | The | + | The comic could be a reference to the very common political ploy of using a "scheduling conflict" as an excuse to miss an event where the politician expects to be challenged or questioned on an issue he wishes to avoid. This is so frequent that it has become a cliché in American politics. |
− | The | + | The Abbreviation NSCC is related to many other national sports organizations like {{w|NFL}} and {{w|NBA}}. (The most common use of the NSCC abbreviation on-line seems to be for the {{w|Nova Scotia Community College}}). |
− | It is not a necessity for a spokesperson for a sports organization to be good at the sport in question. | + | The title text mentions that is was impossible to reach either a spokesperson for the organization or for last years world-champ for a comment. So continuing the problem with schedules for people involved in the NSCC. The world-champion must be assumed to be able to content in this national championship, since the paper is looking for a comment. But at least this proves that at least a world championship was found last year, so this type of competition is not always canceled. It is not a necessity for a spokesperson for a sports organization to be good at the sport in question. It is, however, often former competitors within the sport or at least people with interest in this kind of activity that takes an interest in such an organization, thus making it likely that they would also be good at achieving scheduling conflicts. |
− | A similar type of competition was mentioned earlier in [[1466: Phone Checking]] | + | A similar type of competition was mentioned earlier in [[1466: Phone Checking]] where the result of the competition is hard to reach as the web page is overloaded since all those entering the contest continually tries to reload the home page of the CPCC (ie. compulsive phone-checking championship). |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[Picture showing a newspaper with a big headline over a picture. In the picture there is a banner over an empty | + | :[Picture showing a newspaper with a big headline over a picture. In the picture there is a banner over an empty podium with a microphone. Only the headline and the text on the banner in the picture is readable. All other text in the newspaper is just lines.] |
− | :National Scheduling Conflict | + | :National Scheduling Conflict |
:'''Championships canceled''' | :'''Championships canceled''' | ||
:Banner text: NSCC 2015 | :Banner text: NSCC 2015 | ||
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} |