#1821: Incinerator

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

[Cueball and Ponytail stand next to an incinerator, with a combustion chamber and flue that rises up to the top of the frame.]

Ponytail: Great, the new incinerator is installed. Now we just need to dispose of the old one.

[Ponytail walks out of the frame.]

[Cueball lowers his head, beat panel]

[Cueball raises his hand and begins to ask a question.]

Cueball: Hey, could—

Ponytail (off-panel): No.

Cueball: Aww, maaan.


(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

Title text:My trash can broke recently and I had to get rid of it. When I picked it up, I suffered a brief but harrowing existential crisis.


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