537: Ducklings

2013-05-17T01:54:19Z

159.13.220.224: /* better explaination */

{{comic
| number = 537
| date = January 30, 2009
| title = Ducklings
| image = ducklings.png
| imagesize =
| titletext = DUCKLOOP'D?
}}

==Explanation==
The comic shows an elaborate, albeit useless, plan.

The mother and her ducklings will always walk in a line.
The ducklings will either follow their mother, or the duckling in front of them.

[[Cueball]] scares the mother duck, so she starts running away, her children following her in a line. Then [[Megan]] snatches the mother duck, leaving the first duckling to start following the last duckling, causing the ducklings to walk in a loop. Hence the caption at the end - "Operation: Duckling Loop."

The title text refers to a meme called "Duckrolled", where one would post a link to [http://www.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS9ZqD3N_DuAvMnN9Pl5k4Km6HCdCFXCLs3Gi4uJhge1ytfG3_qUgNU4To a picture of a duck on wheels.] It became much more famous in its later incarnation as the {{w|Rickroll}}.

==Transcript==
:[A mother duck and her ducklings.]

:Megan: Ready?
:Cueball: Ready.

:[The duck and ducklings move.]

:Cueball: ROAR! BOO!

:[The mother duck is frightened, and turns back. Her children follow.]

:[Megan snatches the duck with a yoink.]
:Duck: QUACK!

:[The ducklings are now trapped in a circle of sorts.]

:OPERATION: DUCKLING LOOP

{{comic discussion}}

[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]

575: Tag Combination

2013-05-16T02:23:36Z

159.13.220.224: /* added some more info about the titles megan thought up */

{{comic
| number = 575
| date = April 29, 2009
| title = Tag Combination
| image = tag combination.png
| titletext = I love Eileen / and want you to love her / When you're around / I'm one floor above her / If you could see / just how much I adore her / Oh, that pretty red dress / I'd do anything for her / (Too ra loo ra too ra loo rye ayy)
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|If people could elaborate on the specific tags used in the comic, that would be great. Not a music buff, don't know much about these tags.}}
Song tags are a form of file {{w|Metadata}} used to categorize music. Tags will typically describe the content and genre of the song, and many music organization programs and services will allow users to find all songs that contain a particular tag; so when a user searches for "Country breakup music," they will receive a list of {{w|Country music|country}} songs about breaking up.

In this comic, [[Cueball]] tests [[Megan]]'s claim that she can make a song name for any set of tags by coming up with a collection of mostly unrelated words: "{{w|lesbian}} {{w|voyeurism}} {{w|one-hit wonder}} {{w|Mashup (music)|mash-up|}}." In response, Megan almost immediately replies with two song titles that look like they would fit the tags well.

Megan's first title, "I Wish That Stacy's Mom Had Jessie's Girl" is a ''mash-up'' of Jessie's Girl by Rick Springfield, and Stacy's Mom by Fountains of Wayne, which were both ''one-hit-wonders''.
The second title, "When You Come on Eileen I Touch Myself" is a ''mash-up'' of Come on Eileen by Dexy's Midnight Runners, and I Touch Myself by Blondie.

The title text is a set of potential lyrics to Megan's second title.

==Transcript==
:Cueball: So you can come up with a song title fitting any tag combination?
:Megan: Try me.
:Cueball: Lesbian voyeurism one-hit wonder mash-up.
:Megan: "I wish that Stacey's Mom had Jessie's Girl."

:Cueball: Well, that was one, but-
:Megan: "When you Come On Eileen I touch myself."
:Cueball: Okay, wow.

{{comic discussion}}
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
[[Category:Music]]

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537: Ducklings

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