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| title = Question | | title = Question | ||
| image = question.png | | image = question.png | ||
− | | titletext = The universe long dead, | + | | titletext = The universe long dead, Isaac surveyed the formless chaos. At last, he had arrived at an answer. 'I like you,' he declared to the void, 'but I don't LIKE like you.' |
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | The comic | + | The comic depicts a note to “Isaac”. The note asks Isaac whether Isaac likes the note-writer and asks Isaac to choose either “yes” or “no” as the answer, but Isaac (whose pen is red) has filled in a third answer and selected that one. |
− | + | Notes of this form – “Do you like me?”, “yes”, “no” are sometimes written by young schoolchildren to each other as a way of gauging or inciting romantic interest. That is, the note-writer is interested in Isaac, or maybe is wondering why Isaac is staring at her so much, and passed him this note to get his answer without the embarrassment of asking face-to-face. Isaac is supposed to check an answer and hand the note back. | |
− | + | The joke is that Isaac is overthinking the note, and instead of answering whether he wants to try being friends with that person, answers the literal question by saying that he hasn’t figured out his feelings yet. Another part of the joke is that Isaac’s write-in answer uses a complex vocabulary more suited to scientific literature than to notes to classmates. He could have instead written “maybe” (in fact, many notes of this format also include a “maybe” option, though this note did not). | |
− | The | + | The title text shows that Isaac is overthinking the question so much that he doesn’t give an answer until the universe has lost all of its entropy and all of the stars have died out, which will take trillions of years. Isaac (somehow existing even at this time) gives his answer seriously, even though it is no longer relevant, since the note-writer is presumably dead. “LIKE like” is a childish euphemism for “love” – Isaac is saying he likes the note-writer as a friend, but not as a romantic partner. |
− | + | This comic is likely to be a reference to 'The Last Question' by Isaac Asimov. | |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[A | + | :[A piece of paper.] |
:Dear Isaac | :Dear Isaac | ||
:Do you like me? | :Do you like me? | ||
− | : | + | :□Yes |
− | : | + | :□No |
− | :[ | + | :[Written in red.] ☒there is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer |
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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