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 In this comic, [[Megan]] is unwrapping a present while [[Cueball]] looks on (perhaps it's the present he gave her). The premise is that the definition of a present is not what's inside the box, but what's inside the region of space that the blank side of the wrapping paper faces. So if you wrap the box with the printed side towards the box, everything in the universe outside the box is the gift. Apparently, the box contains a pair of headphones, which would be a nice present, but not nearly as impressive as almost ''everything'' in the universe.{{Citation needed}} And since the rest of the universe contains millions of headphones, many of which are probably nicer than the ones in this box, she still gets headphones as well.
-The title text extends this to {{w|Regift|regifting}}, which is the practice of using a received present (usually unwanted and hopefully unused) as a present for someone else. This practice is often considered to be impolite because it's assumed to simultaneously show a lack of appreciation of a gift you've received (because you want to get rid of it), and an unwillingness to spend much time, effort, or money on a gift for someone else. But if you wrap an ordinary present inside out, all the gifts you've ever received in the past are part of the entire universe except for that present, so you're actually doing an enormous amount of regifting ''including stuff belonging to other people'', which is as rude as regifting can get.
+The title text extends this to {{w|Regift|regifting}}, which is the practice of using a received present (usually unwanted and hopefully unused) as a present for someone else. This practice is often considered to be impolite because it's assumed to simultaneously show a lack of appreciation of a gift you've received (because you want to get rid of it), and an unwillingness to spend much time, effort, or money on a gift for someone else. But if you wrap an ordinary present inside out, all the gifts you've ever received in the past are theoretically part of the entire universe except for that present, so you're actually doing an enormous amount of regifting ''including stuff belonging to other people'', which is as rude as regifting can get. Of course, in practice, you're not regifting ''every'' gift anyone has ever received, as some gifts no longer exist (such as food, or virtually anything from more than several hundred years ago), and some gifts are fleeting, temporal concepts impossible to transfer to a different situation (such as a gesture, like a kiss).
-{{w|Douglas Adams}}'s novel ''{{w|So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish}}'', the fourth in the {{w|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy}} series, contains a similar joke. A man living in an inside-out room in a desert treats the rest of Earth as an insane asylum, with himself living outside of it as the only sane man.
+{{w|Douglas Adams}}'s novel ''{{w|So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish}}'', the fourth in the {{w|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy}} series, contains a similar joke. A man, "Wonko the Sane", living in an inside-out room in a desert treats the rest of Earth as an insane asylum, with himself living outside of it as the only sane man.
 This may also refer to a math joke about how to create the smallest fence around a group of animals. Rather than finding the obvious fence, a mathematician would build a small, circular fence around themselves and declare the region on the other side of the fence "inside", thus enclosing all the animals!

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 ==Explanation==
-This comic was published on Christmas Day, 2020, a day where people who celebrate Christmas traditionally open presents.{{Citation needed}}
+This comic was the [[:Category:Christmas|Christmas comic]] of 2020 and was published on Christmas Day, a day where people who celebrate {{w|Christmas}} traditionally open presents.
 In this comic, [[Megan]] is unwrapping a present while [[Cueball]] looks on (perhaps it's the present he gave her). The premise is that the definition of a present is not what's inside the box, but what's inside the region of space that the blank side of the wrapping paper faces. So if you wrap the box with the printed side towards the box, everything in the universe outside the box is the gift. Apparently, the box contains a pair of headphones, which would be a nice present, but not nearly as impressive as almost ''everything'' in the universe.{{Citation needed}} And since the rest of the universe contains millions of headphones, many of which are probably nicer than the ones in this box, she still gets headphones as well.

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 ==Explanation==
-This comic was published on Christmas Day, 2020, a day where people who celebrate Christmas traditionally open presents.
+This comic was published on Christmas Day, 2020, a day where people who celebrate Christmas traditionally open presents.{{Citation needed}}
 In this comic, [[Megan]] is unwrapping a present while [[Cueball]] looks on (perhaps it's the present he gave her). The premise is that the definition of a present is not what's inside the box, but what's inside the region of space that the blank side of the wrapping paper faces. So if you wrap the box with the printed side towards the box, everything in the universe outside the box is the gift. Apparently, the box contains a pair of headphones, which would be a nice present, but not nearly as impressive as almost ''everything'' in the universe.{{Citation needed}} And since the rest of the universe contains millions of headphones, many of which are probably nicer than the ones in this box, she still gets headphones as well.