1069: Alphabet

This is comic number 1069. It was posted on June 15, 2012.

Image text: Do I get to remove letters entirely? Or just rearrange them? Because the 'k/c' situation is ridiculous. Look, we can make out whenever. This is *immortality*!

This comic is a joke on the traditional pick-up line that goes something like this: "Baby, if I could rearrange the alphabet, I'd put 'u' and 'I' together." Terrible I know.

However, in typical XKCD fashion, rather than continue with that tired pickup line, Cueball jumps at his change to rearrange the alphabet and fix the English Orthography (An orthography is a standardized system for using a particular writing system (script) to write a particular language. It includes rules of spelling, and may also concern other elements of the written language such as punctuation and capitalization.)

The joke there in is that hooking up with this girl can wait because this is a chance in a lifetime to rearrange the alphabet and change the English language.