573: Parental Trolling - Revision history

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 :Girl: What? No, you couldn't have bleegle warble yargle arrgh!
 :Cueball: Teehee.
 {{comic discussion}}
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 [[Category:Internet]]
 [[Category:Rickrolling]]
-[[Category:Kids]]
+[[Category:Comics featuring children]]

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 Set in the future, a daughter approaches her father playing a music video of {{w|Rick Astley}}'s "{{w|Never Gonna Give You Up}}". The daughter insults her father's generation's versions of playing pranks, specifically {{w|Rickrolling}}. The daughter refers to this as "{{w|trolling}}" (part of the comics title), which is popular jargon for trying to disrupt a person or community via an action to elicit an emotional response. She then comments that Cueball's generation's trolling efforts suck.
-The humor is in that the dad reveals he has 'trolled' his daughter by creating a reaction in which her speech centers would shut down when she gets upset, thus eliciting an emotional response which perfectly displays his prank. This would not be possible in real life unless he messed with her brain, which would be dangerous{{Citation needed}} and possibly illegal.<ref>https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/003018.htm</ref> This could also be referring to how most people tend to get confused in their speech patterns when upset, meaning that the dad '''could''' in fact be trolling his daughter through her misunderstanding.
+The humor is in that the dad reveals he has 'trolled' his daughter by creating a reaction in which her speech centers would shut down when she gets upset, thus eliciting an emotional response which perfectly displays his prank. This would not be possible in real life unless he messed with her brain, which would be dangerous{{Citation needed}} and [https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/003018.htm possibly illegal]. This could also be referring to how most people tend to get confused in their speech patterns when upset, meaning that the dad '''could''' in fact be trolling his daughter through her misunderstanding.
 In this comic, the girl holds an ultra-thin tablet, a futuristic technology when this comic was released, a year before the release of the iPad. It also shows a curved computer monitor and keyboard, both of which seem to float above the desk.

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 :Cueball: Did we? I once raised a kid with conditioning so her speech centers shut down when she was upset.
-:[The girl has dropped the device on the floor and is fisting her hands. Cueball has turned back and is typing on the keyboard.]
+:[The girl has dropped the device on the floor and is balling her hands into fists. Cueball has turned back and is typing on the keyboard.]
 :Girl: What? No, you couldn't have bleegle warble yargle arrgh!
 :Cueball: Teehee.
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 [[Category:Internet]]
 [[Category:Rickrolling]]

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 Set in the future, a daughter approaches her father playing a music video of {{w|Rick Astley}}'s "{{w|Never Gonna Give You Up}}". The daughter insults her father's generation's versions of playing pranks, specifically {{w|Rickrolling}}. The daughter refers to this as "{{w|trolling}}" (part of the comics title), which is popular jargon for trying to disrupt a person or community via an action to elicit an emotional response. She then comments that Cueball's generation's trolling efforts suck.
-The humour is in that the dad reveals he has 'trolled' his daughter by creating a reaction in which her speech centers would shut down when she gets upset, thus eliciting an emotional response which perfectly displays his prank. This would not be possible in real life unless he messed with her brain, which would be dangerous{{Citation needed}} and possibly illegal.<ref>https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/003018.htm</ref> This could also be referring to how most people tend to get confused in their speech patterns when upset, meaning that the dad '''could''' in fact be trolling his daughter through her misunderstanding.
+The humor is in that the dad reveals he has 'trolled' his daughter by creating a reaction in which her speech centers would shut down when she gets upset, thus eliciting an emotional response which perfectly displays his prank. This would not be possible in real life unless he messed with her brain, which would be dangerous{{Citation needed}} and possibly illegal.<ref>https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/003018.htm</ref> This could also be referring to how most people tend to get confused in their speech patterns when upset, meaning that the dad '''could''' in fact be trolling his daughter through her misunderstanding.
 In this comic, the girl holds an ultra-thin tablet, a futuristic technology when this comic was released, a year before the release of the iPad. It also shows a curved computer monitor and keyboard, both of which seem to float above the desk.

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 Set in the future, a daughter approaches her father playing a music video of {{w|Rick Astley}}'s "{{w|Never Gonna Give You Up}}". The daughter insults her father's generation's versions of playing pranks, specifically {{w|Rickrolling}}. The daughter refers to this as "{{w|trolling}}" (part of the comics title), which is popular jargon for trying to disrupt a person or community via an action to elicit an emotional response. She then comments that Cueball's generation's trolling efforts suck.
-The humour is in that the dad reveals he has 'trolled' his daughter by creating a reaction in which her speech centers would shut down when she gets upset, thus eliciting an emotional response which perfectly displays his prank. This would not be possible in real life unless he messed with her brain, which would be dangerous and possibly illegal.<ref>https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/003018.htm</ref> This could also be referring to how most people tend to get confused in their speech patterns when upset, meaning that the dad '''could''' in fact be trolling his daughter through her misunderstanding.
+The humour is in that the dad reveals he has 'trolled' his daughter by creating a reaction in which her speech centers would shut down when she gets upset, thus eliciting an emotional response which perfectly displays his prank. This would not be possible in real life unless he messed with her brain, which would be dangerous{{Citation needed}} and possibly illegal.<ref>https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/003018.htm</ref> This could also be referring to how most people tend to get confused in their speech patterns when upset, meaning that the dad '''could''' in fact be trolling his daughter through her misunderstanding.
 In this comic, the girl holds an ultra-thin tablet, a futuristic technology when this comic was released, a year before the release of the iPad. It also shows a curved computer monitor and keyboard, both of which seem to float above the desk.