1542: Scheduling Conflict - Revision history

Char Latte49 at 01:31, 26 September 2022

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Reverted edits by 👖🔥 (talk) to last revision by Jacky720

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Reverted edits by X. K. C. D. (talk) to last revision by Netherin5

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‎Explanation: This always bugged me

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 There are two humorous features in this comic:
 :a pun formed by {{w|syntactic ambiguity}}; and
-:the {{w|farce}} of a major national event that is by nature self-defeating (also an example of {{w|situational irony}}.
+:the {{w|farce}} of a major national event that is by nature self-defeating (also an example of {{w|situational irony}}).
 The comic shows a newspaper with a large headline:

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 There are two humorous features in this comic:
 :a pun formed by {{w|syntactic ambiguity}}; and
-:the {{w|farce}} of a major national event that is by nature self-defeating.
+:the {{w|farce}} of a major national event that is by nature self-defeating (also an example of {{w|situational irony}}.
 The comic shows a newspaper with a large headline:

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 ==Transcript==
 :[Picture showing a newspaper with a big headline over a picture. In the picture there is a banner over an empty lectern with a microphone. Only the headline and the text on the banner in the picture is readable. All other text in the newspaper is just lines.]
 :National Scheduling Conflict
 :'''Championships canceled'''
 :Banner text: NSCC 2015
 {{comic discussion}}

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 The comic could also refer to the very common political ploy of using a "scheduling conflict" as an excuse to miss an event where the politician expects to be challenged or questioned on an issue he wishes to avoid. This is so frequent that it has become a cliché in American politics.
-The abbreviation NSCC is related to many other national sports organizations like {{w|NFL}} and {{w|NBA}}. (The most common use of the NSCC abbreviation on-line seems to be for the {{w|Nova Scotia Community College}}).
+The abbreviation NSCC is related to many other national sports organizations like {{w|NFL}} and {{w|NBA}}. (The most common use of it online seems to be for {{w|Nova Scotia Community College}}).
 The title text mentions that is was impossible to reach either a spokesperson for the organization (NSCC) or last year's world-champ (winner of the WSCC) for a comment. Thus continuing the problem with schedules for people involved in this type of championship. The world-champion could be assumed to be able to comment in this national championship (probably the American championship given that [[Randall]] is American), since the paper is looking for a comment on the national championship. But this proves that at least a world champion was crowned last year, so this type of competition is not always canceled.