Editing 568: Well 2

{{comic
| number    = 568
| date      = April 13, 2009
| title     = Well 2
| image     = well_2.png
| titletext = But I've made $13.72 already today! Ow, stop throwing pennies.
}}

==Explanation==
This is the second comic in the [[:Category:Well|Well]] series: The first was [[561: Well]].

The average person's lifespan is 80 years now. So, while immortality may become a reality within the coming century, [[Ponytail]] won't live long enough to achieve it.

[[Cueball]] is looking for a programming language that does not need him to be specific about his ideas. When humans comunicate ideas to other humans they may be vague but still understood, since the listener can infer a lot of detail from context and basic knowledge. Untill we start 'raising' compilers (like you would a child) compilers will not posses that feature. Hence the need for the programmer to be exact in communicating his ideas to the compiler. No language will ever be able to change that. Cueball complains that '''he knows''' what he means.

Finally we find out that one of [[Megan]]'s admirers, Mike, whom she avoids, is hiding in the well. He has been waiting for her to come for her ''uncomfortable truth'', so he can make her believe that she is actually attracted to him. But she is not so easily fooled and calls his bluff, telling him to come out of the well.

The title text suggests he might also have been down there for the money everyone is throwing in to the 
well to get this uncomfortable truth. So it has never been a working well. When everyone (or just Megan) finds out about this, Mike is bombarded with the all the pennies people have brought along.

In the comic game [[1608: Hoverboard]] there is also a well in the left part of the world. This well has the same type of covered top and at the bottom (it is very deep) there is a girl and above her a coin, like the one thrown into a wishing well. On these links, to images on {{xkcd}}; used in the game, the [http://xkcd.com/1608/980:-1077+s.png top] and the [http://xkcd.com/1608/980:-1073+s.png bottom] of the well can be seen.

==Transcript==
:[People are lined up by a well. A sign says "The Uncomfortable Truths Well." Ponytail drops in a coin.]
:Well: Science may discover immortality, but it won't happen in the next eighty years.
:[Cueball drops in a coin.]
:Well: You'll never find a programming language that frees you from the burden of clarifying your ideas.
:Cueball: But ''I'' know what I mean!
:[Megan drops in a coin.]
:Well: You avoid your friend Mike because you're uncomfortably attracted to him.
:Megan: Nice try, Mike. Get out of the well.
:Well (Mike, inside the well): Aww.

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[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]
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[[Category:Romance]]
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