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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | This comic plays off of an old shaving cream product's {{w|Burma-Shave}} advertising campaign employed on American highways from {{w|1925}} to {{w|1963}}. These ads used short poems, each line arranged sequentially on a sign along a highway, the last line always being "Burma Shave, | + | This comic plays off of an old shaving cream product's {{w|Burma-Shave}} advertising campaign employed on American highways from {{w|1925}} to {{w|1963}}. These ads used short poems, each line arranged sequentially on a sign along a highway, the last line always being "Burma Shave", the name of the shaving cream. Originally these ads only described the product, but others included driving safety messages. |
− | {{w| | + | [[xkcd]] uses the image html-title-attribute text (sometime confused with {{w|Alt-text}}) as a major part of the joke-telling — on most browsers the title-text shows as a "{{w|tool-tip}}" when the cursor is left hovering over the image. {{w|Firefox 2}} had the longest standing annoying bug where only the initial part of the title text were shown as a tool-tip, creating a "Burma-Shave" effect of only being able to see some of the text. Unlike Burma-Shave where you would see the rest of the text as you were driving down the highway, Firefox didn't actually show you the rest of the text unless you right-clicked-show-property and you would be able to see a sideways scrollable field of the (alt)-title-text in the properties for the image. |
− | + | {{w|Twitter}} is a messaging service where your messages are restricted in length, so to get a longer easay sent you will need to break it up in smaller fragments — like the {{w|Burma-Shave}} messages. | |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[Cueball | + | :[Cueball is sitting in a caster office chair typing onto a smartphone.] |
− | + | :''Beep beep'' | |
− | : | + | :Phone: "On Twitter feeds" |
− | : | + | :[More typing.] |
− | : | + | :Phone: "an odd regression:" |
− | : | + | :[More typing.] |
− | : | + | :Phone: "ancient memes" |
− | : | + | :[More typing.] |
− | : | + | :Phone: "find new expression" |
− | : | + | :[More typing.] |
− | : | + | :Phone: "Burma-Shave" |
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] |