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In this comic, when faced with the question "Will you marry me?", Cueball approaches it in an empirical way. The word empirical denotes information gained by means of observation or experiments. Thanks Wikipedia! So, in this comic, Cueball completes the "Will you marry me?" experiment, by as you see in frame 3, actually getting married and the results are "yes". | In this comic, when faced with the question "Will you marry me?", Cueball approaches it in an empirical way. The word empirical denotes information gained by means of observation or experiments. Thanks Wikipedia! So, in this comic, Cueball completes the "Will you marry me?" experiment, by as you see in frame 3, actually getting married and the results are "yes". | ||
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| − | + | :[Two people are standing together, one with long hair (presumably female) and one without visible hair (presumably male).] | |
| − | + | :Woman: Will you marry me? | |
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| − | + | :[The male person throws his hands in the air excitedly.] | |
| + | :Man: Let's find out! | ||
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| + | :[The couple are now standing in front of an altar. A flower arch stretches over the couple and a person is standing behind the altar. The female person is wearing a knee length white dress and a veil. The male person is wearing a bow tie. They are holding hands.] | ||
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| + | :[The couple stand together, still dressed from the wedding and still holding hands.] | ||
| + | :Man: Apparently, yes! | ||
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Revision as of 08:34, 9 October 2012
| Empirical |
 Title text: I'm as surprised as you! |
Explanation
Jeff's explanations
In this comic, when faced with the question "Will you marry me?", Cueball approaches it in an empirical way. The word empirical denotes information gained by means of observation or experiments. Thanks Wikipedia! So, in this comic, Cueball completes the "Will you marry me?" experiment, by as you see in frame 3, actually getting married and the results are "yes".
Transcript
- [Two people are standing together, one with long hair (presumably female) and one without visible hair (presumably male).]
- Woman: Will you marry me?
- [The male person throws his hands in the air excitedly.]
- Man: Let's find out!
- [The couple are now standing in front of an altar. A flower arch stretches over the couple and a person is standing behind the altar. The female person is wearing a knee length white dress and a veil. The male person is wearing a bow tie. They are holding hands.]
- [The couple stand together, still dressed from the wedding and still holding hands.]
- Man: Apparently, yes!
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Past results are not necessarily indicative of future results, Cueball might not be willing to marry Megan next month. Empirical measurements of human behavior are naturally flawed due to the complexity of our decision making processes. Davidy²²[talk] 09:05, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
- Are you still happy that you wrote this comment? 108.162.219.223 19:21, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
We may never know 😔
