#1610: Fire Ants

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

[Cueball is talking to Hairbun, an advisor, who is sitting behind a desk.]

Cueball: I'm having second thoughts about grad school and could use some advice.

[Same setting as before. The animated advisor talks while gesticulating with her hands.]

Advisor: Consider the fire ant.

Advisor: When there's a flood, fire ants survive by joining together into giant floating rafts.

[Cueball is just standing there in the next beat-panel.]

[Back to the first setting but in a larger frame.]

Cueball: Wait, what lesson am I supposed to take from that?

Advisor: Ants are so cool!

Cueball: ...You're not big on metaphors, are you.

Advisor: I am big on ants.

(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

Here in the entomology department, we have a simple two-step formula for answering any question: (1) ants are cool, and (2) we forgot the question because we were thinking about ants.

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