1612: Colds
| Colds |
 Title text: The contagious period ends right around when you start to sound sick over the phone, which is probably evidence of cold viruses evolving to spread optimally in the workplace. |
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Transcript
- [A graph is shown with two curves. The Y-axis indicated how you feel, with three levels indicated with small ticks on the inside of the axis. These are labeled to the left of the Y–axis. The X-axis gives the time. The unit is given (days written in gray text) to the left and then the number of days are noted below the axis for each of the eight ticks on the inside of the axis). Both curves begin at the lowest level just off the Y-axis. One curve, indicating how bad you feel, rises rapidly, reaching it's maximum in less than two days only to fall off almost as rapidly, ending up on an even lower level than it began with before day 5. The other curve, indicating how bad you sound, start out by staying constantly low, first rising on day 3, when the first curve are drooping down. They cross between day 3 and 4, and first then does the second curve rise, reaching its max around day 5, not as high a maximum as the first curve, but it stays up longer, falling only moderately off even after day 8, where it reaches the middle level on the Y-axis. Above the two curves are two line intervals that indicated when you need sympathy and when you get it. This text is written on the broken line. All this is in gray text. Below the X-axis are the symptoms listed for the different time period. These are written in white inside gray rectangles. The rectangles are a different length depending on how many days they last. And they are in two layers.]
- [Y-axis:]
- The worst
- Bad
- Fine
- [The X-axis, with the unit written in gray just below Fine from the Y-axis:]
Days: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
- [Labels for curves:]
- How bad you feel
- How bad you sound
- [Gray text on the gray line above:]
- Need sympathy
- Get sympathy
- [Text in white on gray below, first the three to the left, then the two to the right:]
- Skin crawling
- Sore throat
- Aching
- Cough
- Hoarseness
- [Caption below the frame:]
- The worst part about colds
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Just like I have it now. I'm on the day 6 I think... ;-) --Kynde (talk) 12:42, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
- I'm feeling tired and heavy, did you do this to me!? Xseo (talk) 13:44, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
- @Kynde: You poor, poor thing ;-). --DaB. (talk) 13:48, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
Cold viruses evolve so quickly that every year your immunity to last year virus is useless. Also note that the "people will stay clear of you if you do come in" behavior is older than offices: visible (and audible) symptoms make people avoid close contact with you, therefore it is advantageous for the virus to avoid causing them as long as possible. -- Hkmaly (talk) 13:50, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
I'm not familiar with the "skin crawling" symptom. Is that just a weird name for some other symptom? 108.162.218.107 14:25, 4 December 2015 (UTC) Gus
- I get that every time I have a cold. I had a cold not long before this comic was published and I knew immediately what it was referring to. No one else that I know has ever experienced this, and no one else online makes any reference to it. Believe it or not, this comic is literally the only reference that I have seen to a particularly unpleasant symptom that I get every time I have a cold that no one else seems to get or even know about. 162.158.34.94 17:59, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
- Incomplete notice says "First draft please improve if you can. Change from second person to third person."
So I should change it to say "First draft please improve if he can"?
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162.158.56.77 23:46, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
- I think "skin crawling" refers to the chills you get when you have a cold, like the chills you get when something craws on your skin. 173.245.54.25 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
Skin crawling means (I think) you feel like you have ants crawling on your skin. I have felt that at times, however I didn't recognize the phrase right away - it took a bit of thinking (my first language is not English). 108.162.228.215 08:07, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
official transcript shows transcript of comic 1610, same with 1611 showing 1609 172.71.175.21 23:48, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
