698: You Hang Up First - Revision history

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unless it's gotta be transcribed exactly from somewhere, removed ambiguity

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 :Cueball: You hang up first.
-:[Megan is lying on a bed, on the phone.]
+:[Megan is lying on a different bed elsewhere, on the phone.]
 :Megan: No, ''you'' hang up first.

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 ==Explanation==
-Telephone conversations end when someone hangs up. There's a traditional cliche of young romantic partners, both of whom are so besotted that they can't bear to hang up on the other. As a result, the end of the call devolves into a cycle where each one teasingly insists that the other one hang up first.  It's a sweet, if somewhat mawkish display of how infatuated they are with each other.
+Telephone conversations end when someone hangs up.{{Citation needed}} There's a traditional cliche of young romantic partners, both of whom are so besotted that they can't bear to hang up on the other. As a result, the end of the call devolves into a cycle where each one teasingly insists that the other one hang up first.  It's a sweet, if somewhat mawkish display of how infatuated they are with each other.
 As xkcd often does, this comic takes the cliche to its logical extreme with [[Cueball]] and [[Megan]], by turning it into an argument resulting in their breakup. What's normally a cutesy game between lovers becomes a battle of wills, leading them to break up because neither is willing to back down.  And then, even after they break up, both are still unwilling to back down, with Megan insisting that Cueball "move on and find somebody else first."