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A single-panel comic shows a white-haired man sitting in a red armchair by a fireplace, reading aloud from a paper: "Wait wait a minute. Did I just disprove marriage? But then what do I make of the sex with that one drunken night in Punta Espinosa?" A caption beneath reads: "Darwin delayed the publication of his 'On the Origin of Species' for over twenty years" - implying the man is Charles Darwin and his evolutionary musings keep colliding awkwardly with his own past behavior. Votey (aftercomic): In the ocean, a swimming person asks a partner, "You're a mermaid, right?" The partner, who has a clearly fish-shaped lower body, answers, "Of course, baby." A tiny sailboat sits on the horizon. The visual joke is that the so-called mermaid is plainly an ordinary fish.