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[[Ponytail]], [[White Hat]], [[Megan]] and [[Cueball]] are at a party. The first three are wearing novelty glasses in the shape of the numerals "2023", representing the upcoming New Year. Cueball has chosen to obtain cosmetic {{w|laser eye surgery}} instead. Usually, such procedures are intended to adjust a patient's corneas to correct vision problems, as an alternative to glasses and contact lenses. Cueball has apparently had the digits 2023 etched into his eyes as an alternative to wearing novelty glasses. While {{w|scleral tattooing}} is performed for cosmetic reasons, and {{w|corneal tattooing}} for both cosmetic and vision benefits, the efficacy and safety of either process is not universally accepted. The laser procedure has damaged Cueball's vision so much that he mistakes a newcomer to the party resembling [[Hairy]] as [[Rob]]. Realizing he made a mistake, his second guess is that the new arrival is named Mike. | [[Ponytail]], [[White Hat]], [[Megan]] and [[Cueball]] are at a party. The first three are wearing novelty glasses in the shape of the numerals "2023", representing the upcoming New Year. Cueball has chosen to obtain cosmetic {{w|laser eye surgery}} instead. Usually, such procedures are intended to adjust a patient's corneas to correct vision problems, as an alternative to glasses and contact lenses. Cueball has apparently had the digits 2023 etched into his eyes as an alternative to wearing novelty glasses. While {{w|scleral tattooing}} is performed for cosmetic reasons, and {{w|corneal tattooing}} for both cosmetic and vision benefits, the efficacy and safety of either process is not universally accepted. The laser procedure has damaged Cueball's vision so much that he mistakes a newcomer to the party resembling [[Hairy]] as [[Rob]]. Realizing he made a mistake, his second guess is that the new arrival is named Mike. | ||
| β | In the title text, an earlier conversation with his | + | Another explanation is that the "2023" in "2023 Laser Eye Surgery" is a pun on "20/20 Vision". 20/20 is a common way in the United States of denoting perfect {{w|Visual_acuity}}, meaning that at 20 feet away a person can distinguish objects that a person with healthy eyesight can at 20 feet. Reduced visual acuity is indicated by a larger number in the denominator, for instance someone with 20/40 vision can distinguish at 20 feet what a person with healthy eyesight can at 40 feet. In this case it may be that Cueball asked his {{w|ophthalmologist}} to use laser eye surgery to degrade his vision from 20/20 to 20/23 for the New Year (where laser eye surgery is normally used to enhance vision to become 20/20 or close to it). 20/23 vision wouldn't be debilitating or require corrective lenses, but the slight degradation might cause Cueball to mistake two similarly looking people for each other, just as a person with healthy eyesight might have trouble telling two similar people apart at a slightly farther distance. |
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| + | In the title text, an earlier conversation with his ophthalmologist established Cueball's problems trying to get his ophthalmologist to perform the surgery. The title text could support either explanation. Either Cueball is trying to get the doctor to burn the digits "2023" straight onto his eyeballs with a laser, or he is trying to explain that 20/23 is not his current vision he wants corrected, but the vision he wants after surgery (laser eye surgery works by reshaping the lens of the eye to bend light to the visual acuity desired, so Cueball could be asked the doctor for a 20/23 shape to his lens). Most previous depictions of Cueball have not shown him wearing glasses. Laser eye surgery was referenced along with other laser equipment in [[1681: Laser Products]]. | ||
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