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{{comic | number = 3846 | date = August 31, 2015 | title = a-bad-ad-hoc-theory | image = 1441327300-20150831.png | votey = 1441036415-20150831after.png | titletext = Parsimony is for wimps. }} ==Explanation== {{incomplete}} ==Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :/ noticed that squirrels bury far more acorns :Than they can ever dig up. :The common hypothesis is that burying many acorns is less energetically expensive than burying :I have a :Better theory :Them in specific places and remembering :Acorns evolved to look like the heads of dead :Squirrels. :When the acorn falls, the squirrel is so affronted, it buries the "head' immediately :But, no sooner has he buried the gruesome thing than another falls nearby. :As more fall, the squirrel struggles in vain :To bury them as fast as possible. :By the time spring is over many acorns have been buried and the squirrel has been driven beyond the pale of sanity. :The result is twofold :The tree is able to reproduce since its seeds have been sown everywhere :The squirrel, who is now "nuts" finds sustenance during winter by digging up the skulls of the dead, and eating their brains :I will now put a whole bunch of fourteenth order differential equations on the projector, which will make you afraid to look stupid by :Any questions? :Asking questions :I will now transmit my results to all pop science websites. ::sigh? :Smbc-comics.com ==Votey Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :The "nuts" joke made it all worth it. {{comic discussion}}
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