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It’s a pun on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_knife

The joke is that the user is asked for their mother’s maiden name, and they think it’s a website/application on the laptop. However, it’s actually the laptop itself that’s asking. The laptop then starts romancing the user’s mother, telling the user that their mother’s maiden name won’t remain that for long, presumably because the laptop plans on marrying the mother.

As @agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works points out, that’s not actually how maiden names work though. Your maiden name stays the same before and after marriage, it’s your last name that changes.

I think the joke would’ve worked better if the user responded “She doesn’t have one” and the laptop replied “She will soon!!” or something like that.

Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

I got lucky on this one. The first version seemed to be exactly what I was looking for, and very little had to be changed in the final. (I know most of those people behind the glass.)

Thanks for transcribing and adding the links!

It would’ve made the joke a little more verbose, but this would also have worked:

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Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

Actually, I rejected the first version of this (on the left) myself. I knew my editor would ponder the good-taste quotient of this cartoon, so I decided not to risk it and closed the door a few more inches.

If you’re looking for it, seems like it’s this one:

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4730

I see the first part you pasted in a footnote, but not the second part.

Sorry about that, had some issues with the hosting provider. Should be fixed now, are you able to see them? I’ll be making an announcement post about the outage today.

Some background on this comic:

Transcript (sketch):

“Oooooo!.. Mr. Van Horn!.. The duck is back–staring at your back.”

Raymond could feel it…First a tingling at the base of his neck and then a cold sweat would quickly engulf his body–yes, the duck was staring at him again.”

Transcript (commentary):

Another example of perhaps overworking a cartoon. In hindsight, I wish I had used the final drawing but with the second caption in the sketch above, which begins, “Raymond could feel it…” It just seems a little more interesting to me.

In coming up with the name for the phobia, I played around with words like “quackaphobia” and “duckalookaphobia” and so on. But then I got the bright idea to look up the scientific name for ducks, and discovered their family name is Anatidae. Ad so, I ended up coining a word that twelve ornithologists understood and everyone else probably went, “Say what?”

Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

THE WRONG NUMBER

Larry lived alone in his small inner-city apartment. He had no friends and most people ignored him at all costs.

Then one day, unexpectedly, the phone rang. And Larry was surprised to find himself talking to God.

“Is this 555-3178?” God asked.

“No, this is 555-7138.”

“Sorry.” And God hung up.

The chapter opened with:

Sometimes ideas have come out of short stories or ramblings I write just to shift gears once in a while. Cartoons are, after all, little stories themselves, frozen at an interesting point in time. What follows are several stories that either led to cartoons, could have led to cartoons, or were just ideas in and of themselves.

Interesting that this seems to have been published after its inclusion in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prehistory_of_The_Far_Side. Or maybe they just forgot to include the resulting comic. Some of the other short stories have the resulting comic included.

It’s a play on the term “La-Z-Boy”. The name comes from people being able to be lazy in it, but the joke is that the chair itself is no longer lazy.

There’s a quote I can’t find the source for, but is along the lines of “If you want to punish a cartoonist, give him daily syndication”

The coloring made it a little weird because it just looks unfinished. Here’s a B&W version that makes it IMO a little clearer:

I see now in the colored version that it’s supposed to be red at the end of the neck, but I thought that was the bottom part of the head. It looks like they redrew it a bit while coloring.

EDIT: Turned it into a comparison gif:

I think it’s also a little thrown off by the phrasing. “That’s my last day in this second-rate lab!” is kind of a setup for a punchline where they don’t get to advance and are stuck in the same lab, but that doesn’t seem to be the joke here. It would probably work better with the second panel first, and then an “Earlier” narrative box, and just “Behold! An instant sex change pill!”

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