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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
| − | Extremely flashy advertisement banners used to be more common on websites, often | + | Extremely flashy advertisement banners used to be more common on websites, often falsely claiming that the person viewing the page had won a prize. In the comic, the guy with the car tried to give away the car on his website, but the winner never claimed the prize because they assumed it was an ad. |
| − | The | + | The title text refers to the many fake advertisements for "male enhancement" drugs, suggesting that if such a drug were created, it would be very difficult to advertise effectively, since most people would assume it was a scam. |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
| − | + | :Cueball: When'd you get the car? | |
| − | + | :Friend: It's the darndest thing. We bought it as a prize for the 100,000,000th visitor to our website. | |
| − | + | :Cueball: And they didn't want it? | |
| − | + | :Friend: Apparently. | |
| − | : | + | :Cueball: Maybe they didn't see the notice. |
| − | : | + | :Friend: It was flashing and everything! |
| − | : | + | :Cueball: How bizarre. |
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
| − | + | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | |
Revision as of 13:01, 26 January 2013
| New Car |
 Title text: Somewhere out there is a company that has actually figured out how to enlarge penises, and it's helpless to reach potential customers. |
Explanation
Extremely flashy advertisement banners used to be more common on websites, often falsely claiming that the person viewing the page had won a prize. In the comic, the guy with the car tried to give away the car on his website, but the winner never claimed the prize because they assumed it was an ad.
The title text refers to the many fake advertisements for "male enhancement" drugs, suggesting that if such a drug were created, it would be very difficult to advertise effectively, since most people would assume it was a scam.
Transcript
- Cueball: When'd you get the car?
- Friend: It's the darndest thing. We bought it as a prize for the 100,000,000th visitor to our website.
- Cueball: And they didn't want it?
- Friend: Apparently.
- Cueball: Maybe they didn't see the notice.
- Friend: It was flashing and everything!
- Cueball: How bizarre.
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This is the first explanation I've contributed. Feedback is welcome. gijobarts (talk) 00:40, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
- Very nice. Ekedolphin (talk) 09:44, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
There is a community portal discussion of what to call Cueball and what to do in case with more than one Cueball. I have added this comic to the Category:Multiple Cueballs. Since the one in the car is the most interesting of these two Cueball I have renamed in the transcript (and added explanation) so he is called Cueball, so it may be OK to keep him listed as Cueball. But since the other guy also looks like Cueball and they have about the same amount of lines this is one of the comics where there is no special reason to say one is Cueball and the other not...--Kynde (talk) 11:23, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
im not brave enough to do this, but someone should change the "here" in the clickbait example message from random page into the dont stuff beans up your nose uh huh page172.69.62.67 13:40, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
- Nvm, I did it >:] 172.70.110.65 18:03, 19 March 2022 (UTC)Bumpf (I'm pretty sure the IP i'm responding to is me from a year ago)
