#2879: Like This One
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[Megan and Cueball are facing Ponytail, who holds her hand out palm up.]
Megan: So what do you do?
Ponytail: I'm a researcher studying gas molecules like this one.
[Below the panel there is an explanation of the comics idea.]
Fields of research where you can add "...like this one" after you say what you study:
[Bulleted list of various separate fields of study.]
Gas molecules
Gravitational fields
Planetary magnetospheres
Sound waves
Habitable worlds
Languages
Social interactions
Skin microbes
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:A lot of sentences undergo startling shifts in mood if you add 'like this one' to the end, but high on the list is 'I'm a neurologist studying dreams.'