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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 152<br />
| date = September 3, 2006<br />
| title = Hamster Ball<br />
| image = hamster_ball.png<br />
| titletext = Reportedly, double-walled inflatable balls like this exist somewhere. Now to find that place.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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The comic starts with a Genie, or Jinn having been freed from a magical lamp granting the owner three wishes.<br />
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Asking for a Human-Sized hamster ball which he proceeds to roll around and have fun in.<br />
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The Genie then asks what he would like for his other two wishes, to which having being granted already his heart's desire he states he wouldn't need the other wishes for anything.<br />
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The comic plays on the activity of Zorbing.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
Genie: You have awakened me from the lamp. You may have three wishes. what does your heart desire?<br/><br />
Cueball: I'd like a human-sized hamster ball.<br/><br />
Cueball: SWEET!<br/><br />
[Cueball enjoying and running around in his newly acquired human-sized hamster ball.]<br/><br />
Genie: And your other wishes?<br/><br />
Cueball: Why would I need other wishes?<br/><br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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