College Knowledge
'Your chitin armor is no match for our iron-tipped stingers! Better go hide in your jars!' --common playground taunt
'Your chitin armor is no match for our iron-tipped stingers! Better go hide in your jars!' --common playground taunt
This comic and 1202: Girls and Boys are plays on the common playground rhyme which children will often recite when divided by gender is that "girls go to college to get more knowledge; boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider," also commonly heard as "Boys go to Mars, to get more candy bars; girls go to Jupiter, to get more stupider." The words "boys" and "girls" may be interchanged, depending on the gender of the person chanting (or how intelligent they are, for that matter). The schoolyard taunt embodies the competitiveness and separation commonly seen between young boys and girls, and ideas about the superiority of one's gender.
Starting out with this cadence, three characters (or child versions) jump rope and explore parts of the solar system and beyond by taking it in turns to provide the rhythm's tempo. First Jill (who is turning the left end of the rope), then a Cueball (at the right), followed by a Ponytail (doing the jumping), before returning to Jill. As they concentrate on various stellar bodies that are harder and harder to rhyme, their chants become increasingly hesitant and obscure, ruining the rhythm, and resulting in ever more contrived "rhymes", to the point where they eventually seem compelled to abandon the whole game.
The title text refers back to some of the rhymes the characters mention, making sure to stay consistent with whichever gender acquires which object. Speaking from the perspective of the college-bound gender, who had acquired ferrous iron from Eris (or perhaps become more composed of it, by bodily transformation), the girls playfully threaten the boys with iron-tipped stingers, for which the boys' acquired armor of chitin (a material commonly found on the exoskeletons of various insects, including in any stings these might normally have) from Triton is purportedly no match. The girls then also refer to the jars which the boys had acquired from Mars, telling the boys that they'd better hide in them if they wanted any sort of protection from the iron-tipped stingers. To top it all off, the title text finally claims that this is supposedly a "common playground taunt" among children, which implies the unlikely outcome that the bizarre and unwieldy rhymes which the characters in the comic created have somehow persisted and passed into common usage enough to be generally recognizable.
In 1202: Girls and Boys, boys and girls both go to college and to Jupiter, both to get more knowledge.