https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=173.245.48.96&feedformat=atomexplain xkcd - User contributions [en]2024-03-19T08:20:37ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1001:_AAAAAA&diff=933071001: AAAAAA2015-05-15T07:04:45Z<p>173.245.48.96: There is a pun.</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1001<br />
| date = January 9, 2012<br />
| title = AAAAAA<br />
| image = aaaaaa.png<br />
| titletext = 'ARE YOU TURNED ON YET?' 'I DON'T THINK SO--ARE YOU?' 'MAYBE A LITTLE!' 'OK, FIVE MORE MINUTES.'<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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[[Megan]] and [[Cueball]] get the idea to build a rotating bed from a TV show like {{w|MTV Cribs|Cribs}}, which documents the decadent homes of the wealthy.<br />
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Rotating beds are typically used for sexual activity and variety, but Cueball and Megan have made theirs rotate far too fast, like a {{w|Roundabout (play)|roundabout}}, to be useful for this purpose.<br />
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The last panel is a flashback to earlier that day, where they found such a bed online.<br />
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The title text implies that the high speed of rotation is not accidental as we may have assumed from the comic, but intentional, due to Megan and Cueball's erroneous belief that the rotation itself is supposed to turn them on, not the sexual activity they would engage in on the moving bed. A turning bed is also a pun with "turned-on."<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Cueball clinging onto bed sheets while being dragged away by centrifugal force.]<br />
:Cueball: AAAAAAAAAA<br />
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:[Megan similarly clinging on.]<br />
:Megan: AAAAAAAAAA<br />
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:[Overhead shot of both spinning around a plain white circle in a room with other accoutrements.]<br />
:Both: AAAAAAAA<br />
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:Heading: Earlier that day...<br />
:Cueball: Haha, check it out - This guy's mansion has an actual rotating bed.<br />
:Megan: You know, I bet it wouldn't be too hard to build one of those...<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]<br />
[[Category:Sex]]</div>173.245.48.96https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1400:_D.B._Cooper&diff=724191400: D.B. Cooper2014-07-28T09:08:33Z<p>173.245.48.96: Wiseau APPEARED with large amount of cash</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1400<br />
| date = July 28, 2014<br />
| title = D.B. Cooper<br />
| image = d_b_cooper.png<br />
| titletext = 'Why on Earth would someone commit air piracy just to finance a terrible movie decades later?' 'People are very strange these days.'<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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This comic suggests that hijacker with the epithet {{w|D. B. Cooper}} (who forced the aviation industry to make several changes in security measures) and actor/director {{w|Tommy Wiseau}} are the same person, because of several reasons, presented by Cueball in a table detailing the similarities. One of the similarities are that the fate of one and the past of the other are unknown. Another is that Cooper disappeared mysteriously with a large amount of cash while Tommy Wiseau appeared mysteriously with lots of cash, suggesting that Wiseau appeared with those hijacked money. Cooper's case remains the only unsolved air piracy in American aviation history and is still a {{w|D. B._Cooper in popular culture|popular culture phenomenon}}. However, these are only a few aspects of their lives, and certainly does not prove, or at the least persaude, that they are the same person<br />
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Cueball mentions that Cooper's true identity and what happened to the money are unknown and suggests that his theory explains both stories. Only $5,880 of the $200,000 in ransom was ever found.<br />
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The title chalks up such a weird motive for hijacking to the impression that "people are very strange these days," which is a quote from Wiseau's movie ''{{w|The Room (film)|The Room}}''.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
===Panel 1===<br />
D.B. Cooper<br />
("Dan Cooper")<br />
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Hijacked a plane in the 1970s.<br />
On landing, demanded money and<br />
parachutes. Jumped from plane<br />
mid-flight and was never found.<br />
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* Vanished mysteriously with<br />
large amount of money<br />
* Real age/name unknown<br />
* Ambiguous, possibly<br />
affected speaking style<br />
("negotiable American currency")<br />
* Fate unknown<br />
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===Panel 2===<br />
Tommy Wiseau<br />
("Johnny")<br />
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Wrote, directed, and starred in<br />
''The Room'', a film widely hailed as<br />
"The ''Citizen Kane'' of bad movies."<br />
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* Appeared mysteriously<br />
with large amount of money<br />
* Colleague says he's much<br />
older than he claims.<br />
* Ambiguous, possibly<br />
affected speaking style<br />
("You are tearing me apart, Lisa!")<br />
*Background unknown<br />
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===Panel 3===<br />
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:[Images captioned Cooper (FBI sketch) and Wiseau (Flickr photo by Al Pavangkanan)]<br />
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:Offscreen: This is the dumbest theory I've ever heard.<br />
:Cueball: But it explains ''everything!!''<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring real people]]<br />
[[Category:Comics with color]]</div>173.245.48.96https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:888:_Heaven&diff=72370Talk:888: Heaven2014-07-27T06:16:10Z<p>173.245.48.96: </p>
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<div>I also think that the comic number '888' is a reference to the chinese belief that eight is a lucky number, and '888' even more [[Special:Contributions/61.22.6.176|61.22.6.176]] 01:56, 3 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
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:In Chinese 8 (in some dialects) sounds like "being rich". [[Special:Contributions/173.245.48.96|173.245.48.96]] 06:16, 27 July 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Also I think the next piece after that is a longer than usual L block which basically fills the whole line {{unsigned ip|108.162.250.7}}<br />
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The player is also about to smash the previous high score. {{unsigned ip|108.162.222.35}}</div>173.245.48.96https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:385:_How_it_Works&diff=72369Talk:385: How it Works2014-07-27T06:06:13Z<p>173.245.48.96: </p>
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<div>I will admit, after I finished Calc 1, I came across this yet again via the random button, and kind of rolled my eyes. Then I read the title text, and this became one of my favorite comics. --[[Special:Contributions/140.198.42.64|140.198.42.64]] 00:19, 20 March 2013 (UTC)<br />
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This type of generalization also has a special name called "Stereotype threat". Research shows that women/girls who are good at math (identify as good at math) will do worse on hard math questions when they think (consciously or unconsciously) that her own personal failings will reflect on the negative stereotype. (Real example: a group of professors asked SAT testing body to ask for demographic questions (gender/race) after the test instead of before.) [[Special:Contributions/108.162.254.107|108.162.254.107]] 04:15, 18 June 2014 (UTC)<br />
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I don't really think that pi + C is different from just C. Pi is a constant anyway!</div>173.245.48.96https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:205:_Candy_Button_Paper&diff=72368Talk:205: Candy Button Paper2014-07-27T05:45:00Z<p>173.245.48.96: my opinion</p>
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<div>It is possible to run a Turing machine on a candy belt:<br />
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Marvin Minsky (1967), Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines, Prentice-Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. In particular see p. 262ff (italics in original):<br />
"We can now demonstrate the remarkable fact, first shown by Wang [1957], that for any Turing machine T there is an equivalent Turing machine TN that ''never changes a once-written symbol''! In fact, we will construct a two-symbol machine TN that can only change blank squares on its tape to 1's but can not change a 1 back to a blank." Minsky then offers a proof of this. -- Kopa Leo [[Special:Contributions/69.163.36.90|69.163.36.90]] 16:01, 6 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
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:In my opinion, intuitively, when writing is demanded, a turing machine just have to copy those symbols to a new location, minding the symbol that needs to be written. It can have a start-of-data mark so this would be transparent to other operations [[Special:Contributions/173.245.48.96|173.245.48.96]] 05:45, 27 July 2014 (UTC)</div>173.245.48.96