Interesting Life
Interesting Life
[On the left hand side of the panel is a cutaway of several floors of an office, in gray. On the right side, a blue sky with clouds,  and green hills below. Hanging from a cable is Megan, clearly having rappelled down the side of the building, next to a Cueball at his desk, who is looking at Megan.] Megan: You know how some people consider "May you have an interesting life" to be a curse? Cueball: Yeah... Megan: Fuck those people. Wanna have an adventure?

' May you live in interesting times ' (or, in this comic, 'may you have an interesting life') is supposedly a Chinese saying, except that a few people (usually the worst-case-scenario kind) believe it to actually be a curse, even though it is usually meant in a good way when said. The quote also provides the title of the Terry Pratchett novel Interesting Times , which takes place in a fictional counterpart of China.
Cueball is shown here as an office worker, a job that, to most people, is the opposite of interesting. This is contrasted with Megan , who is rappelling down the outside of his office building, for no apparent reason other than because she can, and inviting him on an adventure. Things are bound to get at least one kind of "interesting" very fast.
The title text refers to a Cat6 cable, which is more commonly known as Ethernet cable. It would be easily found in an office building, since it is used to connect computers to a network. Its usefulness as a climbing harness is indeterminate. [ citation needed ]
[On the left hand side of the panel is a cutaway of several floors of an office, in gray. On the right side, a blue sky with clouds,  and green hills below. Hanging from a cable is Megan, clearly having rappelled down the side of the building, next to a Cueball at his desk, who is looking at Megan.] Megan: You know how some people consider "May you have an interesting life" to be a curse? Cueball: Yeah... Megan: Fuck those people. Wanna have an adventure?
