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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | {{incomplete|Created by a SELF WASHING CAR - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | |
+ | Ponytail and Cueball are having a discussion about car washes. Based on Cueball's comment, they're discussing the automatic kind, not events where you bring your car and someone hand-washes it for you (usually done as fund-raisers). | ||
− | Ponytail is incredulous that Cueball doesn't like them, because everyone else likes them. He points out that you're trapped in your car (a "dark shaking glass box"). The car wash | + | Ponytail is incredulous that Cueball doesn't like them, because everyone else likes them. He points out that you're trapped in your car (a "dark shaking glass box"). The car wash itself is a huge, loud robot, and some of the brushes are like big tongues that lick the car. |
− | After hearing it described this way, Ponytail has come around to Cueball's side. He then mimics the sounds he's described | + | After hearing it described this way, Ponytail has come around to Cueball's side. He then mimics the sounds he's described. |
− | The | + | The title text implies that modern car washes use "synthetic baleen" for their brushes, contrasting with an imaginary scenario where 1800s car washes (which didn't exist; {{w|Car_wash#1946|the first commercial car wash began in 1914}}) used real baleen harvested from whales. Real baleen was indeed harvested from whales in the 1800s, most notably for use in fashion. While motorized vehicle washes didn't exist at the time,{{Citation needed}} there might be a visual resemblance between baleen and some modern car wash brushes. |
− | + | Baleen, which was processed into whalebone in the 1800s, was used for large brush bristles as well as fine clothing and many other things, due its combination of flexibility and stiffness. Evidence of this today is mostly [https://www.scran.ac.uk/packs/exhibitions/learning_materials/webs/40/utilitarian.htm preserved in museum displays]. It is possible Randall's comment was inspired by seeing a brush in a museum. In 1808, Samuel Crackles of Hull patented a method of cutting plates of whale-bone to provide an effective substitute for brush bristles. These hard wearing bristles were in much demand, particularly for chimney-sweeps' brushes. Another Hull company, John Bateman and Robert Bowman of Silver Street, were also trading in whale-bone at that time, offering a wide range of small goods including sieves, nets, ornamental blinds, bed-bottoms and brushes. | |
− | + | The title text mentions {{w|baleen}}, which is the filter system of whales. It works well on cars. Cueball points out that they at least use synthetic baleen, otherwise, it would be disturbingly similar to being in the mouth of a whale. (This paragraph is a joke and is false except the first sentence.) | |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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:[Ponytail looks enthused, whilst talking to Cueball] | :[Ponytail looks enthused, whilst talking to Cueball] | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
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