Editing Talk:748: Worst-Case Scenario

Done! [[User:Herobrine|Herobrine]] ([[User talk:Herobrine|talk]])

"frothy mix" is a reference to Rick Santorum. [[Special:Contributions/75.60.27.102|75.60.27.102]] 03:17, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
:The comic was published on June 2, 2010. I strongly doubt it was a reference to Santorum. [[Special:Contributions/166.182.3.247|166.182.3.247]] 17:36, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

The original {{w|Campaign for "santorum" neologism|"frothy mix"}} incident occurred in 2003 and came back into the news during Rick Santorum's Presidential primary campaign in 2013. So frothy mix could still be a reference to that incident. [[User:Dawfedora|Dawfedora]] ([[User talk:Dawfedora|talk]]) 21:40, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
: But probably isn't, given that fluids being agitated forms a froth. So it's just the correct word for the situation. -Pennpenn [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.162|108.162.250.162]] 03:31, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Isn't this tantamount to blackmail: "In 2010 Savage said he would take the site down if Santorum donated US$5 million plus interest to Freedom to Marry"? {{unsigned|Weatherlawyer}}
:No, blackmail is the practice of withholding information that may be damaging to a person's reputation in return for money. Putting that "information" up on a freely accessible website is pretty much the opposite of withholding it. Maybe it's coercion, but it's a "threat" to leave something up that is already there. I'm not sure if there is a word for it, but "blackmail" isn't it. -Pennpenn [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.162|108.162.250.162]] 05:45, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
:The word is "extortion". [[User:The Cat Lady|-- The Cat Lady]] ([[User talk:The Cat Lady|talk]]) 16:30, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

The link to Jeff Masters's blog is down, apparently due to some restructuring of the website. The only current blog written by him I could find on that website is Category 6 (co-authored by Bob Henson): https://www.wunderground.com/cat6
[[Special:Contributions/162.158.89.23|162.158.89.23]] 19:37, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

:Good catch.  Found the relevant article to the comic ("What would a hurricane do to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill?") in the WunderBlog archives and changed the link to that; but the pictures are still broken, so also added a Wayback Machine link to the original from when the comic was published.  – [[User:Yfmcpxpj|Yfmcpxpj]] ([[User talk:Yfmcpxpj|talk]]) 14:34, 4 February 2021 (UTC)