Editing 1369: TMI

{{comic
| number    = 1369
| date      = May 16, 2014
| title     = TMI
| image     = tmi.png
| titletext = 'TMI' he whispered, gazing into the sea.
}}

==Explanation==
"TMI" is an acronym that means "too much information". It is typically used as a response to someone "oversharing" — telling personal details ("Sorry I just missed your call - I was urinating when the phone rang") that the listener would rather not have heard. Here, however, [[Cueball]] may be using it in a more literal and absolute sense: he feels {{w|Information overload|overwhelmed by the colossal amount of information}} that is now generally available to anyone with an Internet connection.

The title text amplifies this interpretation by evoking the image of an individual person who is overcome as he stands at the edge of the ocean, contemplating its vastness.

The mouseover text might be a reference to a well-known quote from Isaac Newton: "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton (1855) by Sir David Brewster (Volume II. Ch. 27)

==Transcript==
:[Cueball is sitting at a desk, looking at a laptop.]
:Cueball: Ugh, TMI.

:Offscreen: Oh? What?

:Cueball: Just... Everything.
:Offscreen: ''True.''

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