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		<title>AAAAAA</title>
		<link>http://www.explainxkcd.com/2012/01/09/aaaaaa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Television]]></category>
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Image text: 'ARE YOU TURNED ON YET?' 'I DON'T THINK SO--ARE YOU?' 'MAYBE A LITTLE!' 'OK, FIVE MORE MINUTES.'
Ok, in this comic, Megan and Cueball find out that "this guy's mansion" has a rotating bed (in the last frame, which is a flashback).  So, they decide to build one and it appears to be going [...]]]></description>
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<p>Image text: 'ARE YOU TURNED ON YET?' 'I DON'T THINK SO--ARE YOU?' 'MAYBE A LITTLE!' 'OK, FIVE MORE MINUTES.'</p>
<p>Ok, in this comic, Megan and Cueball find out that "this guy's mansion" has a rotating bed (in the last frame, which is a flashback).  So, they decide to build one and it appears to be going far too fast as both are holding on for dear life on each side of the bed.</p>
<p>The rotating bed is supposed to be a sexy device, but it appears from the comic that Cueball and Megan have made it rotate a little to fast to be appealing.  However, the image text maybe makes us think otherwise.
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		<title>Privacy</title>
		<link>http://www.explainxkcd.com/2011/11/28/privacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>
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Image text: Eventual headline: 'University Researchers Create Life in Lab! Darkness, Faulty Condoms Blamed.'
Sorry this post was late, but I was still travelling back from Thanksgiving.  Thanks for your patience!
This comic is about a couple, let us call them "Cueball and Megan" attempting to find some privacy to "hook up", which is slang for engage [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://xkcd.com/983/"><img class="alignnone" title="Privacy" src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/privacy.png" alt="" width="388" height="403" /></a></p>
<p>Image text: Eventual headline: 'University Researchers Create Life in Lab! Darkness, Faulty Condoms Blamed.'</p>
<p>Sorry this post was late, but I was still travelling back from Thanksgiving.  Thanks for your patience!</p>
<p>This comic is about a couple, let us call them "Cueball and Megan" attempting to find some privacy to "hook up", which is slang for engage in sexual activity.  Some people argue that "hook up" means to have sex, but I would argue it means any sort of sexual activity, although "to have sex" is still a subset of "hook up".  In the image text, it seems to indicate that sex was indeed assumed in the phrase "hook up".</p>
<p>In the second frame, the female roommate of Megan is currently in a raid, which is a phrase used in World of Warcraft and other Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games or MMORPGs.  A Raid is a large gathering of players that work together to defeat a difficult enemy.</p>
<p>The Rare book collection in the library (frame 3) is usually deserted, so it would be perfect for sexual activity, but instead a tour is going through the area instead.  It is unclear if the tour is visiting Nelson Mandela in the rare book section or Nelson Mandela is visiting the school and is getting a tour through the rare book section.  Is that a stick figure Nelson Mandela with the white hair?</p>
<p>Next they try an accelerator tunnel that is in use, a beaver lodge (pun on the word "beaver", which is slang for the vagina is I assume intended by Randall).  I'm not sure why the current understanding of physics rules out privacy in hyperspace.  Any of our awesomely helpful commentors know?</p>
<p>In the image text, it indicates that the two found privacy for sex in the lab, but inadvertently got Megan pregnant.  The image text is a pun on news titles about scientists who have created synthetic life in the lab.
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		<title>Oversight</title>
		<link>http://www.explainxkcd.com/2011/08/19/oversight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[internet]]></category>
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Image text: I felt so clever when I found a way to game the Fitocracy system by incorporating a set of easy but high-scoring activities into my regular schedule. Took me a bit to realize I'd been tricked into setting up a daily exercise routine.
Stick figures having sex!  Against a wall! Over a couch!  In [...]]]></description>
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<p>Image text: I felt so clever when I found a way to game the Fitocracy system by incorporating a set of easy but high-scoring activities into my regular schedule. Took me a bit to realize I'd been tricked into setting up a daily exercise routine.</p>
<p>Stick figures having sex!  Against a wall! Over a couch!  In some sort of high flying sex swing!  Fitocracy is a web site that turns workouts into a social game by awarding points, badges, levels and all sorts of other gamification.  However, according to this cartoon, Fitocracy does not consider sex to be an activity acceptable for its site, despite the high flying nature of Cueball and Megan's sexual workout.
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		<title>Craigslist Apartments</title>
		<link>http://www.explainxkcd.com/2011/04/15/craigslist-apartments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Color]]></category>
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Image text: $1600 / 1386153BR 3BATH, MODERN SLIDING DOORS, GUEST ROOMS, GARBAGE DISPOSAL. FREE MANDATORY PARKING (ENFORCED). CONVENIENT TO ALDERAAN.
Lots of details here, so I may not get everything, please let me know in the comments if there is a reference I missed.
First and foremost, just like all Craigslist apartment postings, all of these posts [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://xkcd.com/886/"><img class="alignnone" title="Craigslist Apartments" src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/craigslist_apartments.png" alt="" width="361" height="503" /></a></p>
<p>Image text: $1600 / 1386153BR 3BATH, MODERN SLIDING DOORS, GUEST ROOMS, GARBAGE DISPOSAL. FREE MANDATORY PARKING (ENFORCED). CONVENIENT TO ALDERAAN.</p>
<p>Lots of details here, so I may not get everything, please let me know in the comments if there is a reference I missed.</p>
<p>First and foremost, just like all Craigslist apartment postings, all of these posts are in all caps and some of the posts are re-posted several times, which is very annoying, but must work otherwise the agents would not do it.  Additionally, lots of posts use lots of tildas tildes, exclamation points or astericks as above to set their posts apart from others.</p>
<p>The square house door one must be a garage, I guess. <strong>EDIT</strong> - or just a regular square house.  The house is square not the door.  Don't know how I read it wrong.  Thanks Commenters.</p>
<p>Hammock style dwelling sounds like working as a oarsman on a Viking ship.</p>
<p>The place with the Klein stairs is possibly a reference to Klein geometry.</p>
<p>The trimmed carpet is obviously a sex posting, because Craigslist has taken down the obvious prostitution posts after getting a lot of heat about them.  So, this is a posting to get around those sort of rules.  "Trimmed Carpet" - I think you can figure that one out.  If you can't, I'll tell you when you are older.</p>
<p>The Minotaur house is a reference to the Labyrinth and Minotaur on Crete from ancient Greek mythology.  <strong>EDIT</strong> - Commenters have pointed me to the House of Leaves book as this reference instead of ancient Greek Mythology.  Thanks all!</p>
<p>The house with the 5 minute drive to historic Pripryat is a reference to the ghost town of Pripryat, which is near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine.  Not a nice place to live to say the least.  <strong>EDIT</strong> - Commenters point out that this could be the nuclear facility itself... I think that makes sense.</p>
<p>The last one  on the list does not seem to be a direct scary movie reference, but a horor movie reference in general.</p>
<p>And last, but of course not least, the image text is a reference to Star Wars.  <strong>EDIT</strong> - I didn't complete my thought here, it is a reference to the Death Star in Star Wars.  Alderaan is the home planet of Princess Leia, which is obliterated by the Death Star.</p>
<p>Are there any I missed?  (Thanks for all your help in the comments.  Head to the comments for further information and discussion about all the entries)
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		<title>Rogers St.</title>
		<link>http://www.explainxkcd.com/2011/04/11/rogers-st/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Word Play]]></category>
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Image text: 'We can also use middle names in place of first pet's names, but yours is something incomprehensible about dropping tables.'
This comic is a reference to the game of creating your porn star name by putting your pet's name as your first name and the street you grew up on as your last name. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://xkcd.com/884/"><img class="alignnone" title="Rogers St" src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/rogers_st.png" alt="" width="233" height="456" /></a></p>
<p>Image text: 'We can also use middle names in place of first pet's names, but yours is something incomprehensible about dropping tables.'</p>
<p>This comic is a reference to the game of creating your porn star name by putting your pet's name as your first name and the street you grew up on as your last name. For example: Max (Dog's name) Pine (Street name).  In this comic, Randall would have named his cat "Mister" and had moved to "Rogers" Street and so his daughter's porn name would be "Mister Rogers", which is pretty high on the very unsexy name scale (if there was one) especially for a female actor.</p>
<p>In this way, Randall has prevented his daughter from getting into porn.</p>
<p>In the image text, he references the other way of creating a porn star name with your middle name and as your first name and the street still as your last name.  Additionally, the image text references <a href="http://xkcd.com/327/">comic 327 in which "Exploits of a Mom"</a> puts SQL table instructions into their name so that it will mess with SQL tables at school.  In 327, the kids name contains '); DROP TABLE Students;-- and we are lead to believe the person in the comic above contains a similar command.</p>
<p><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=rogers+street,+cambridge,+ma&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Rogers+St,+Cambridge,+Massachusetts&amp;gl=us&amp;ll=42.366234,-71.080406&amp;spn=0.010733,0.01929&amp;z=16">Here's a link to the location</a> of Rogers Street, which is near Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA.
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		<title>Flying Cars</title>
		<link>http://www.explainxkcd.com/2011/02/23/flying-cars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cars]]></category>
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Image text: It's hard to fit in the backseat of my flying car with my android Realdoll when we're both wearing jetpacks.
In this comic, Cueball is complaining to Megan over the phone about the lack of flying cars even though it is the year 2011.  But, Megan counters that phone technology has taken off.  No [...]]]></description>
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<p>Image text: It's hard to fit in the backseat of my flying car with my android Realdoll when we're both wearing jetpacks.</p>
<p>In this comic, Cueball is complaining to Megan over the phone about the lack of flying cars even though it is the year 2011.  But, Megan counters that phone technology has taken off.  No pun intended.  I've always found it interesting that the consumer electronics field has changed dramatically over the past 10 years and cars still are roughly the same.</p>
<p>In the image text, the comic references Realdoll, which is known as "the world's finest lovedoll".  You can probably figure it out from there.
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		<title>Milk</title>
		<link>http://www.explainxkcd.com/2011/02/09/milk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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Image text: It's not hard when you have the same thought like 40 or 50 percent of the time.
This xkcd is a little odd, but self-explanatory.

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<p>Image text: It's not hard when you have the same thought like 40 or 50 percent of the time.</p>
<p>This xkcd is a little odd, but self-explanatory.
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		<title>Consecutive Vowels</title>
		<link>http://www.explainxkcd.com/2011/01/28/consecutive-vowels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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Image text: But the windows! What if there's a voyeur watchi-- wait, now I'm turned on too.
I think this one is pretty self explanatory, the chart explains it pretty clearly.  The more consecutive vowels, the more sexual arousal it creates.  It is not clear whether it affects both men and women.  But it seems to [...]]]></description>
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<p>Image text: But the windows! What if there's a voyeur watchi-- wait, now I'm turned on too.</p>
<p>I think this one is pretty self explanatory, the chart explains it pretty clearly.  The more consecutive vowels, the more sexual arousal it creates.  It is not clear whether it affects both men and women.  But it seems to not affect the person who says the word at the very least.
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		<title>Genetic Analysis</title>
		<link>http://www.explainxkcd.com/2010/12/06/genetic-analysis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 13:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genetics]]></category>
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Image text: There's still a chance you were conceived via IVF. But we've checked your mom's college yearbook photos, and whether or not she and your father had sex, it's clear that ... listen, I know this is hard for you.
This one is pretty straight forward, especially with the proliferation of genetic analysis websites around [...]]]></description>
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<p>Image text: There's still a chance you were conceived via IVF. But we've checked your mom's college yearbook photos, and whether or not she and your father had sex, it's clear that ... listen, I know this is hard for you.</p>
<p>This one is pretty straight forward, especially with the proliferation of genetic analysis websites around these days which all you have to do is send in a vial of your spit to get tested.  Plus, no one likes to hear about the possibility of their parents having sex, yuck!</p>
<p>In the image text, IVF is In vitro fertilization, in which sex is not required because eggs are fertilized by sperm manually outside the body and then inserted.
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		<title>Anxiety</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Airports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Hat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commercials]]></category>
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Image text: Don't need any thanks.  I have a backscattering fetish.
This comic is of a security line in an airport, which I got all too familiar with during my recent trip.  However, this is not the airport security line you are traditionally familiar with because everyone is waiting for one of the new Backscatter x-ray [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://xkcd.com/779/"><img class="alignnone" title="Anxiety" src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/anxiety.png" alt="" width="518" height="133" /></a></p>
<p>Image text: Don't need any thanks.  I have a backscattering fetish.</p>
<p>This comic is of a security line in an airport, which I got all too familiar with during my recent trip.  However, this is not the airport security line you are traditionally familiar with because everyone is waiting for one of the new Backscatter x-ray machines (which is what it says in tiny print on the scanner in the comic).  These machines do more than merely beep when enough of a metal object pass through them.  They take "pictures" of the person inside them to see if they have any prohibited material on their person.</p>
<p>That is all well and good, however the x-ray machines ignore clothes and produce an outline of the person's nude body for the security personnel to analyze.  Because this outline bares a lot for the picture, some men would find it beneficial to take some Viagra to increase the bulk of the area around their crotchal regions.  I'm quite sure "crotchal" is not a word, but I like to use it anyway.  If you are not sure what I mean, you either haven't seen a single commercial for Viagra, Cialis or any variant drugs.  If you still do not understand, come back when you are older.</p>
<p>The image text is what the last person in line says to the Black Hat character when he sees the Viagra for sale sign.  He does not need the Viagra to achieve tumescence to impress the security personnel and increase his own self confidence because he is aroused by the backscattering itself.</p>
<p>Backscattering is the the reflection of waves, particles or signals back to where they came from.</p>
<p>The security person in this comic is thinking "Oh God".  There is several possible reasons for this. 1 - He could be seeing the image in the screen of the Viagra-enhanced outline of the man in the scanner.  2 - He could have noticed the Black Hat selling Viagra, check the long line of men and then back at the image and think about how long his 8 hour shift seems now.</p>
<p>However, for comedic effect, the comic is different than in reality because in actual airports, the person analyzing the image is in a completely separate room and cannot see the actual people going through the line.  The people attending to the line only look at an LCD screen and wait for the technicians in the other room to declare the person clean.</p>
<p>All in all, it is a very disarming situation as they make you hold your hands over or behind your head for the scan.
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