Extrapolating
Extrapolating
My Hobby: Extrapolating
[There is a graph. Time runs along the horizontal axis; Number of Husbands on the vertical graph. Yesterday and today are labeled in time, 0 and 1 in number of husbands. Points are plotted with 0 at yesterday, 1 at today. A straight line is fitted through them.] [Cueball is holding a pointer to the graph, and looking at Megan wearing a dress and veil.] Cueball: As you can see, by late next month you'll have over four dozen husbands. Cueball: Better get a bulk rate on wedding cake.

This comic is a joke on the incorrect application of linear extrapolation . By connecting two points without any context, we can come up with incredibly funny results. Here, connecting the number of spouses yesterday (zero) and today (one) can result in a linear extrapolation to hundreds of spouses a year. Cueball presents the accumulation of husbands as though it were a phenomenon beyond the bride's ability to control. Using similar points for pregnancy (yesterday: no babies, today: one), we can get 200+ children inside a single person by the 7th month of pregnancy.
This is another comic in the infrequent My Hobby series.
This particular hobby has later been explored in 1007: Sustainable , 1204: Detail and 1281: Minifigs .
My Hobby: Extrapolating
[There is a graph. Time runs along the horizontal axis; Number of Husbands on the vertical graph. Yesterday and today are labeled in time, 0 and 1 in number of husbands. Points are plotted with 0 at yesterday, 1 at today. A straight line is fitted through them.] [Cueball is holding a pointer to the graph, and looking at Megan wearing a dress and veil.] Cueball: As you can see, by late next month you'll have over four dozen husbands. Cueball: Better get a bulk rate on wedding cake.
