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| ==Explanation== | | ==Explanation== |
− | [[Beret Guy]] is showing [[Megan]] one of his daily activities: Building a [https://rangerrick.org/crafts_activities/float-a-leaf-boat/ leaf boat] and throwing rocks at it. He acknowledges that the hobby is useless, but relaxing. In contrast, Megan contemplates one of her own daily activities: reading online comments on news articles. Realizing that it is an equally pointless, but presumably much less relaxing activity, she joins Beret Guy in throwing rocks at his leaf boat.
| + | {{incomplete|First draft, probably incomplete. Also, I haven't explained the title text.}} |
| + | Beret Guy says to Megan that he likes throwing rocks at floating leaves, adknowledging that the hobby is useless, but relaxing. Megan compares this to reading online comments on news articles. |
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− | It is an unfortunate property of news articles that their comments become dominated by those which are [http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/some-news-sites-cracking-down-on-over-the-top-comments/2014/05/07/4bc90958-d619-11e3-95d3-3bcd77cd4e11_story.html deliberately offensive or devolve into flame wars]. An additional metaphor may compare the article to the leaf boat while comparing the thrown stones to the flaming comments, essentially taking this most likely carefully constructed, fragile and perhaps beautiful creation (article or leaf boat) and lobbing offenses (comments or thrown stones) at it until it is dragged into the abyss (Internet "graveyard" or pond).
| + | This comic makes fun of reading comments on news articles, by pointing out that it is pointless and only done for amusement. |
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− | The title text makes it clear that they hit the leaf with a stone. The rest is a pun on the name of the 11th century Viking explorer {{w|Leif Erikson}}, who was believed to have been {{w|European_colonization_of_the_Americas|the first European}} to discover and settle North America, which he named "{{w|Vinland}}", at the time this comic was released.
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| ==Transcript== | | ==Transcript== |
− | :[Beret Guy is throwing a rock in the water while talking to Megan who walks down to him.]
| + | Beret Guy (shown throwing something at water): Every day I make a little leaf boat, then throw rocks until it sinks or floats away. It's pointless, but at least it's relaxing. |
− | :Beret Guy: Every day I make a little leaf boat, then throw rocks until it sinks or floats away.
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− | :[Rock lands in water, near a leaf boat.]
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− | :Rock: '''Plunk'''
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− | :Beret Guy: It's pointless, but at least it's relaxing.
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− | :[Megan and Beret Guy are both holding rocks. Megan looks down at her rock.]
| + | [The rock is shown landing into the water, possibly sinking the boat.] |
− | :Megan: Every day, I read the comments on a news article.
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− | :[The two throw their rocks.] | + | Megan (now also holding a rock): Every day, I read the comments on a news article. |
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| + | [Both Megan and Beret Guy start throwing rocks.] |
| {{comic discussion}} | | {{comic discussion}} |
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