3209: Plums - Revision history

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Doctor o: Allow Cueball to be considering other actions besides eating. Explain the title text WCW trap more. Include "another day" in TT musings. Use "one less traveled by" (quote from the poem) not "path least traveled". Discuss off-screen title text author.

2026-05-01T18:35:12Z

Allow Cueball to be considering other actions besides eating. Explain the title text WCW trap more. Include "another day" in TT musings. Use "one less traveled by" (quote from the poem) not "path least traveled". Discuss off-screen title text author.

2A06:61C1:795F:0:53D8:A96B:A044:B192 at 14:06, 24 March 2026

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2601:280:4601:4B00:B5CE:F0EE:262C:68AC: There's a laptop but the poet died in 1963

2026-03-18T01:23:20Z

There's a laptop but the poet died in 1963

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CMoney087: replaced AI generated source with more reputable source

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82.132.237.60: /* Transcript */ Usually, any Real Person character is more featured than a Cueball, whether a linguist or a (zombie) poly-mathematician...

2026-02-21T03:06:42Z

‎Transcript: Usually, any Real Person character is more featured than a Cueball, whether a linguist or a (zombie) poly-mathematician...

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2026-02-21T02:19:45Z

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	==Explanation==		==Explanation==
−	~~{{incomplete\|This page was created by a rebellious icebox. Don't remove this notice too soon.}}~~
	This is a reference to the {{w\|William Carlos Williams}} poem [https://poets.org/poem/just-say This Is Just to Say], in which the narrator gives an apology (possibly [https://poemanalysis.com/william-carlos-williams/this-is-just-to-say/ sincere], possibly [https://www.litcharts.com/poetry/william-carlos-williams/this-is-just-to-say insincere]) for eating the plums in the icebox. In this comic, the joke is that [[Cueball]] (not likely intended to actually be William Carlos Williams given the laptop) learns that the person out of view has left themselves some plums in the refrigerator for tomorrow, and cannot resist doing something that he should not (maybe eating them, maybe using them as bait - as in the title text) because he recognizes the situation from the poem.		This is a reference to the {{w\|William Carlos Williams}} poem [https://poets.org/poem/just-say This Is Just to Say], in which the narrator gives an apology (possibly [https://poemanalysis.com/william-carlos-williams/this-is-just-to-say/ sincere], possibly [https://www.litcharts.com/poetry/william-carlos-williams/this-is-just-to-say insincere]) for eating the plums in the icebox. In this comic, the joke is that [[Cueball]] (not likely intended to actually be William Carlos Williams given the laptop) learns that the person out of view has left themselves some plums in the refrigerator for tomorrow, and cannot resist doing something that he should not (maybe eating them, maybe using them as bait - as in the title text) because he recognizes the situation from the poem.

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 ==Explanation==
 {{incomplete|This page was created by a rebellious icebox. Don't remove this notice too soon.}}
-This is a reference to the {{w|William Carlos Williams}} poem [https://poets.org/poem/just-say|This Is Just to Say], in which the narrator gives an apology (possibly [https://poemanalysis.com/william-carlos-williams/this-is-just-to-say/ sincere], possibly [https://www.litcharts.com/poetry/william-carlos-williams/this-is-just-to-say insincere]) for eating the plums in the icebox. In this comic, the joke is that [[Cueball]] (not likely intended to actually be William Carlos Williams given the laptop) learns that the person out of view has left themselves some plums in the refrigerator for tomorrow, and cannot resist doing something that he should not (maybe eating them, maybe using them as bait - as in the title text) because he recognizes the situation from the poem.
+This is a reference to the {{w|William Carlos Williams}} poem [https://poets.org/poem/just-say This Is Just to Say], in which the narrator gives an apology (possibly [https://poemanalysis.com/william-carlos-williams/this-is-just-to-say/ sincere], possibly [https://www.litcharts.com/poetry/william-carlos-williams/this-is-just-to-say insincere]) for eating the plums in the icebox. In this comic, the joke is that [[Cueball]] (not likely intended to actually be William Carlos Williams given the laptop) learns that the person out of view has left themselves some plums in the refrigerator for tomorrow, and cannot resist doing something that he should not (maybe eating them, maybe using them as bait - as in the title text) because he recognizes the situation from the poem.
 The title text is another joke about trapping poets with situations based on their own poems. Since William Carlos Williams confessed he has a hard time resisting plums in a refrigerator potentially left for breakfast, they are perfect bait to capture him. The text compares this poet trap to one inspired by another well-known poem, [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken|The Road Not Taken] by Robert Frost, which was referenced in another comic, [[3076: The Roads Both Taken]]. Constructing a network of infinitely branching paths seems physically impossible [[:Category:Strange powers of Beret Guy|for Cueball]], though some kind of circular or looping arrangement might work. The choice that Frost makes would change over time in such an arrangement, if he always takes the one less traveled by, so this could prove complex. Additionally, if the journey takes more than a day, then the path more traveled (which was saved for another day) would also be an option.

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 ==Explanation==
 {{incomplete|This page was created by a rebellious icebox. Don't remove this notice too soon.}}
-This is a reference to the {{w|William Carlos Williams}} poem [https://poets.org/poem/just-say This Is Just to Say], in which the narrator gives an apology (possibly [https://poemanalysis.com/william-carlos-williams/this-is-just-to-say/ sincere], possibly [https://www.litcharts.com/poetry/william-carlos-williams/this-is-just-to-say insincere]) for eating the plums in the icebox. In this comic, the joke is that [[Cueball]] (not likely intended to actually be William Carlos Williams given the laptop) learns that the person out of view has left themselves some plums in the refrigerator for tomorrow, and cannot resist eating them as a direct reference/inspiration to the poem.
+This is a reference to the {{w|William Carlos Williams}} poem [https://poets.org/poem/just-say|This Is Just to Say], in which the narrator gives an apology (possibly [https://poemanalysis.com/william-carlos-williams/this-is-just-to-say/ sincere], possibly [https://www.litcharts.com/poetry/william-carlos-williams/this-is-just-to-say insincere]) for eating the plums in the icebox. In this comic, the joke is that [[Cueball]] (not likely intended to actually be William Carlos Williams given the laptop) learns that the person out of view has left themselves some plums in the refrigerator for tomorrow, and cannot resist doing something that he should not (maybe eating them, maybe using them as bait - as in the title text) because he recognizes the situation from the poem.
-The title text is another joke about trapping poets with situations based on their own poems. It is about another well-known poem, [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken The Road Not Taken] by Robert Frost, which was referenced in another comic, [[3076: The Roads Both Taken]]. Of course, constructing a network of infinitely branching paths seems physically impossible [[:Category:Strange powers of Beret Guy|for Cueball]], though some kind of circular or looping arrangement might work. Of course, the choice that Frost makes would change over time in such an arrangement, if he always takes the path least-travelled, so this could prove complex.
+The title text is another joke about trapping poets with situations based on their own poems. Since William Carlos Williams confessed he has a hard time resisting plums in a refrigerator potentially left for breakfast, they are perfect bait to capture him. The text compares this poet trap to one inspired by another well-known poem, [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken|The Road Not Taken] by Robert Frost, which was referenced in another comic, [[3076: The Roads Both Taken]]. Constructing a network of infinitely branching paths seems physically impossible [[:Category:Strange powers of Beret Guy|for Cueball]], though some kind of circular or looping arrangement might work. The choice that Frost makes would change over time in such an arrangement, if he always takes the one less traveled by, so this could prove complex. Additionally, if the journey takes more than a day, then the path more traveled (which was saved for another day) would also be an option.
 ==Transcript==

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 ==Transcript==
 :[Cueball is sitting at a desk with a laptop on it. He is looking backward towards someone offscreen.]
 :Out of view: I got you the ingredients for dinner tonight.

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 ==Explanation==
 {{incomplete|This page was created by a rebellious icebox. Don't remove this notice too soon.}}
-This is a reference to the {{w|William Carlos Williams}} poem [https://poets.org/poem/just-say This Is Just to Say], in which the narrator gives an apology (possibly [https://poemanalysis.com/william-carlos-williams/this-is-just-to-say/ sincere], possibly [https://www.litcharts.com/poetry/william-carlos-williams/this-is-just-to-say insincere]) for eating the plums in the icebox. In this comic, the joke is that [[Cueball]] (perhaps intended to actually be William Carlos Williams) learns that the person out of view has left themselves some plums in the refrigerator for tomorrow, and cannot resist eating them as a direct reference/inspiration to the poem.
+This is a reference to the {{w|William Carlos Williams}} poem [https://poets.org/poem/just-say This Is Just to Say], in which the narrator gives an apology (possibly [https://poemanalysis.com/william-carlos-williams/this-is-just-to-say/ sincere], possibly [https://www.litcharts.com/poetry/william-carlos-williams/this-is-just-to-say insincere]) for eating the plums in the icebox. In this comic, the joke is that [[Cueball]] (not likely intended to actually be William Carlos Williams given the laptop) learns that the person out of view has left themselves some plums in the refrigerator for tomorrow, and cannot resist eating them as a direct reference/inspiration to the poem.
 The title text is another joke about trapping poets with situations based on their own poems. It is about another well-known poem, [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken The Road Not Taken] by Robert Frost, which was referenced in another comic, [[3076: The Roads Both Taken]]. Of course, constructing a network of infinitely branching paths seems physically impossible [[:Category:Strange powers of Beret Guy|for Cueball]], though some kind of circular or looping arrangement might work. Of course, the choice that Frost makes would change over time in such an arrangement, if he always takes the path least-travelled, so this could prove complex.

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 :Cueball [thinking]: Oh no.
 :[Caption below the panel]:
-:Help. It actually happened. I shouldn't, but how can I not!?
+:Help. It actually happened. I shouldn't. But how can I not!?
 {{comic discussion}}<noinclude>

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