3198: Double-Pronged Extension Cord

Double-Pronged Extension Cord

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Title text: 'Oh, and can I borrow 50 sacks of loose flour, a pile of lithium-ion batteries, a bucket of bleach, and a bucket of vinega--' 'NO!!!!!!'

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Explanation

This is one of 58 incomplete explanations: This page was created by THE EXTENSION CORD FROM COMIC #509. I can't explain the anchoring it to the wall part yet, and I didn't do the title text. Don't remove this notice too soon. If you can fix this issue, edit the page!

As ponytail correctly points out, extension cords with prongs on both ends are lethally dangerous. They are also known as suicide cords for this reason.

Ponytail seems to relax when she persuades Cueball to use a regular extension cord instead, but then he elaborates that he is performing an experiment similar to Louis Slotin's infamous "Tickling the dragon's tail" experiment, which proved fatal. Understandably, this horrifies Ponytail even more.

Transcript

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[Cueball is approaching Ponytail from off, who is sitting at a desk, with a laptop.]

Cueball: Do you have an extension cord with prongs at both ends? Can I borrow it?

Ponytail: No!!!

[Close up of Ponytail raising her arms in an exasperated fashion]

Ponytail: No one should ever buy or make those!

Ponytail: They start fires, destroy equipment, and risk electrocuting you or grid workers!

Cueball: OK, OK, I get it.

[The view zooms back out, showing Ponytail handing Cueball an extension cord.]

Cueball: Can I just borrow a regular cord, then?

Ponytail: Sure. Here.

Cueball: The prongs aren't important. I just thought they'd help anchor it to the wall.

Ponytail: Wait, what are you-

[Cueball is walking away from Ponytail, who sits at her desk with her hands to her head.]

Cueball: I need it to help hold up the top half of the reflector for this plutonium core that I'm-

Ponytail: AAAAAAAA!!!!

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Discussion

F1rSt!1!!1!1!!1!1!1!11!11!1!!!!1!1!Qwertyuiopfromdefly (talk) 02:08, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

curses, im too early on the scene for an explanation of what he's gonna do with the items in the titletext; such are the woes of being one of the people writing the explanations that you have to actually understand the comics - Vaedez (talk) 02:15, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

Same This isn't a good name (talk) 02:17, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

This is the third comic to reference the Demon Core experiment, after 1242 and 2593. Soupgirls (talk) 02:21, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

>"Demon Core experiment": Demon CoreNo, I don't understand either --PRR (talk) 03:26, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

If you're otherwise creating fire hazards, a lithium ion battery is a terrible thing to have, and none of the horror stories you've heard involved a sack of them. Flour is a serious explosion hazard. Vinegar and bleach will release chlorine gas when combined. It sounds like an attempt to have the highest ratio of destruction to materials cost with the least effort. MrMatt (talk) 03:32, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

The title text just sounds like a bunch of flammable/noxious substances. So really, he has good intentions. Tanner07 (talk) 03:57, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
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