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+ | A common playground rhyme which children will often recite when divided by gender is that "girls go to college to get more knowledge; boys go to {{w|Jupiter}} to get more stupider," with the genders being interchangeable depending on the rhyme's singer. | ||
− | Starting out with this cadence, three characters (or child versions) | + | Starting out with this cadence, three characters (or child versions) jump rope and explore parts of the solar system and beyond that become increasingly obscure and less likely to feature in actual playground rhymes; meanwhile, their justifications for each visit become increasingly tenuous in order to rhyme (or "rhyme") with the destination, as with "college" or "Jupiter." So they eventually give up (and the rope jumping stops accordingly). |
− | The title text refers back to some of the rhymes the characters mention, making sure to stay consistent with whichever gender acquires which object. Speaking from the perspective of the college-bound gender, who had acquired | + | The title text refers back to some of the rhymes the characters mention, making sure to stay consistent with whichever gender acquires which object. Speaking from the perspective of the college-bound gender, who had acquired iron ("ferrous") from {{w|Eris}}, the girls playfully threaten the boys with iron-tipped {{w|stingers}}, for which the boys' armour of {{w|chitin}} (a material commonly found on the exoskeletons of various insects, along with stingers themselves) is purportedly no match. The girls then also refer to the jars which the boys had acquired from {{w|Mars}}, telling the boys that they'd better hide in them if they wanted any sort of protection from the iron-tipped stingers. To top it all off, the title text finally claims that this is supposedly a "common playground taunt" among children (which itself depends on the rhymes which the characters in the comic had made). |
In [[1202: Girls and Boys]], boys and girls both go to college ''and'' to Jupiter, both to get more knowledge. | In [[1202: Girls and Boys]], boys and girls both go to college ''and'' to Jupiter, both to get more knowledge. | ||
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− | + | Going to Mars to get more jars may be a reference to a 1955 {{w|Burma-Shave}} campaign promising a free trip to Mars for whoever sent in 900 empty jars. The joking offer was accepted by a Wisconsin shopkeeper named Arliss French. The company enjoyed the publicity, and sent him and his wife to {{w|Moers}}. | |
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− | + | {{w|Chitin}} is a polysaccharide found in the bodies of insects and fungi. | |
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− | + | {{w|Tim Berners-Lee}} is the inventor of the World Wide Web. | |
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+ | {{w|Pamplemousse}} is the French word for grapefruit or pomelo, depending on dialect. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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− | : | + | :[Science Girl, Ponytail and Cueball are jumping rope while singing a common playground song. Science Girl and Cueball are swinging the ends of the rope, Ponytail is jumping in the middle.] |
+ | :Science Girl: Girls go to college to get more knowledge | ||
+ | :Science Girl: Boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider | ||
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:Cueball: Girls go to Ceres to get more theories | :Cueball: Girls go to Ceres to get more theories | ||
:Cueball: Boys go to Mars to get more jars | :Cueball: Boys go to Mars to get more jars | ||
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:Ponytail: Girls go to Eris to get more ferrous | :Ponytail: Girls go to Eris to get more ferrous | ||
:Ponytail: Boys go to Triton to get more chitin | :Ponytail: Boys go to Triton to get more chitin | ||
− | :[The three have stopped playing | + | :[The three have stopped playing.] |
− | : | + | :Science Girl: Girls go to...Mercury...to...meet Tim Berners-Lee |
− | : | + | :Science Girl: Boys go to... ...Betelgeuse...to get more... ...pamplemousse |
:Cueball: I think we're done. | :Cueball: I think we're done. | ||
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
− | [[Category:Comics featuring | + | [[Category:Comics featuring Science Girl]] |
+ | [[Category:Comics featuring Cobson]] | ||
[[Category:Games]] | [[Category:Games]] | ||
[[Category:Astronomy]] | [[Category:Astronomy]] | ||
+ | [[Category:Comics featuring real people]] | ||
[[Category:Food]] | [[Category:Food]] |