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And when you think about it, the phrase ''I wouldn't be your boyfriend if you were the last gay man on earth'' is actually completely redundant.
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Discussion (13) ¬

  1. Phil
    Phil
    August 5, 2009, 12:46 am | # | Reply

    Oh man that’s brutal. Good one Luke. I like the shading as well

  2. Malc
    Malc
    August 5, 2009, 3:16 am | # | Reply

    Awesome, you got linked from http://abstrusegoose.com/171 🙂

  3. Gentlelady
    Gentlelady
    August 5, 2009, 8:45 am | # | Reply

    I suggest making robots for friends. That way if one of them makes you angry, all you have to do is just short circuit them.

  4. Hilllie
    Hilllie
    August 5, 2009, 9:31 am | # | Reply

    It’s not redundant. The speaker could be straight, and then the sentence makes perfect sense.

  5. Sergoetgrim
    Sergoetgrim
    August 5, 2009, 4:40 pm | # | Reply

    It is redundant.

    The speaker is male, it refers to itself as being a boyfriend ergo its male.

    The prospective gay man is also male, it’s clearly refered to as a man.

    If the gay man were the last man on earth, then the speaker would not exist. And, since the speaker does not exist, he cannot (conventionally) be the boyfriend of the prospective gay man.

  6. Toby
    Luke
    August 5, 2009, 4:51 pm | # | Reply

    I guess if the speaker were straight, he wouldn’t need to say that sentance anyway

  7. Sergoetgrim
    Sergoetgrim
    August 5, 2009, 5:23 pm | # | Reply

    Disregard my last post, I can’t read. D:

  8. Sergoetgrim
    Sergoetgrim
    August 5, 2009, 5:28 pm | # | Reply

    Though… if the speaker were straight then if he were to become the gay man’s boyfriend he could be said to be gay. And ergo… would cease to exist or defy the statement making it redundant?

    So he could either be straight and not be the gay man’s boyfriend.

    Or become the gay man’s boyfriend, potentially be classified as gay (which is clutching at straws as misunderstanding fundamental aspects of homosexuality), and ergo make the statement redundant…

    But yeah, the hover-over text is badly worded. :/

  9. Zoë Robinson
    Zoë Robinson
    August 5, 2009, 6:23 pm | # | Reply

    The speaker could be a bisexual man who is not interested in the gay man being spoken to. This would allow the statement to work.

    • Daniel
      Daniel
      April 13, 2010, 1:36 pm | # | Reply

      No, it wouldn’t: there might be other bisexual men on earth, so the rejection wouldn’t be so emphatic. However, the statement does work if the speaker is a gay man.

  10. Jesus
    Jesus
    August 6, 2009, 10:34 am | # | Reply

    I imagine he went all over the world trying to find a female. How else would he know no women/men survived?

  11. Nef
    Nef
    August 7, 2009, 9:38 pm | # | Reply

    The text in the comic and the hover text don’t have any direct correlation. Wjhat Luke says is that the hover text would be totally redundant. The one in the strip makes perfect sense for anyone who has ever been told “Not if you were the last man on earth…” The poor guy IS the l;ast man on earth, but there are no women for him to say “Who’s your MAN now, B!@(4?”

  12. Teho
    Teho
    February 25, 2010, 8:42 pm | # | Reply

    So, would it be possible to repopulate the earth with only 1 man? (if you ignore the spermbanks and random girls stockpiling sperm)

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