enigmatic puzzle - Consecutive Vowels

_{Part of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #35: Restricted Title 1}

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Potentially NSFW: Consecutive Vowels

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  Being a native speaker (6)

  
  
  


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  _____ goin' nowhere! (3 4)

  
  


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  Democratic Debbie (7)

  
  


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  Major airplane manufacturer (6)

  
  



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  Like the people in the linked comic (assuming bald means male and long hair means female) (8)

  
  


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  Like Hal or Cortana (2)

  
  


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  Go extinct (3 3)

  
  


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  A sign of economic prospering (3 6)

  
  


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  Victory (7)

  
  


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  He ran with Palin (6)

  
  


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  Comedy series by Szekely (5)

  
  
  


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  Closest Hawaiian island to Hawaii (4)

  
  


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  ______ in flames (2 2)

  
  


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  Not weaknesses (9)

  
  



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  He wrote rhymes just like these, he wrote rhymes with much ease! (2 5)

  
  


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  Possibly a kid's first existential question? (2 1 3)

  
  


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  A promise of return (3)

  
  


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  Boyfriend (4)

  
  


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  In ____ (instead of) (4 2)

  
  


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  Cute, like old people (6)

  
  

Your answer is an alternate punchline -- or maybe hovertext? -- for the linked comic.

Answer

Each of the answers

has a string of consecutive vowels somewhere in it, and only that one string of consecutive vowels. (There may be just one vowel!) In addition, those strings are always made up of different vowels.

Taking these

substrings, we can make a 5-bit binary number for each word. Take AEIOU, and write a 1 if the vowel is in that string and 0 if it is not. For instance, the first answer, FLUENT, has an E and a U, so the corresponding number is 01001.

Read off the binary numbers using A=1, B=2, ... Z=26 to get the phrase I WANT TO BE TOUCHING YOU - which describes both the vowels and the characters!