...comic, each state of the United States of America has been filled-in with an object of similar shape. Several years later Randall made a new map of the
...three pairs of states that are related. Georgia and Missouri each contain an image of the other, drawing attention to their similar shapes, North and So
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...rational, which inevitably result in a system just as complicated. This is an example of the paradox in complexity theory that if you attempt to simplify
...tands for ''Earth Standard Time'' (hence the title), but it is in itself a joke on the American {{w|Eastern Time Zone|Eastern Standard Time}}. In the rest
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...his song the term {{w|Major (academic)|Major}} refers to the US version of an academic major. The point of the song is that it makes no sense to pick any
...that in each line there are eight iambs, where an iamb is two syllables in an unstressed-stressed pattern. Therefore, each line contains 16 syllables.
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...stored in Portable Graphic Format (PNG) instead of JPEG? Is this an inside joke? <small> -- 12:29, 3 August 2012 (UTC)</small>
Guest: An alternate way to look at this uses the same three cultural acknowledgements
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...ped in a driver's license factory." The most literal interpretation of the joke would be that some being who helped to create the universe in a "universe f
...umber|this property}}, but the absence of this property would in itself be an extraordinary coincidence. However, the probability of finding any given st
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Is it possible for someone to write an equation that factors in latitude (and, if relevant, longitude) that we cou
:The total angular momentum cannot be altered from inside the closed system, but it can be distributed differently among the differen
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...ations using the previous and next buttons is interrupted whenever there's an explanation missing.
...onishing how quickly an [[589: Designated Drivers|embedded]] red link gets an explanation page created simply to get rid of the red link.
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...adds pages to [[:Category:Pages to delete|a category]] so admins can keep an eye on a single place. --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]])
...find a home elsewhere. In the meantime, perhaps roll back the spam, post an announcement on the problem user page, and mark protected. Thoughts? -- [[
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...tual server. I've done some PHP work, but I've never touched anything deep inside a wiki (I like Ruby and Rails much more). This is my first time gaining adm
::Another really wordy post from, [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 22:01, 29 Novem
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<i> Welcome to your mother's basement! Problems requiring assistance from an [[explain xkcd:Administrators|admin]]. User problems, changes to protected
...le-quote 'wrongly' in some places below, to accomodate other factors. Like an exclamation point as a feature of the holding sentence that makes no sense
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...es. "Alt text" is incorrect; Alt text refers to the text that is shown as an alternative when images are not displayed. Title text is what xkcd uses an
...n! Go [[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]]! [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 06:53, 21 Novem
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I suggest a todo list to be added here so newcomers will have an idea of concrete things they can do to help. I'll start by moving some item
:::* Keeping an eye on [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Admin requests]] for stuff other edi
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Just an idea, because that text looks weird, or at least please add a transparent b
...s kind of a nod to wikipedia. The ballon is there because that seems to be an often reappearing theme in xkcd. Now I really need to make a note of this,
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An {{w|Umwelt}}, as the title text explains, is the idea that one's entire way
...nce to The Ring (https://imgur.com/wlGmm), as though to suggest that using an alternative browser is dismal and horrific.
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For the joke in this comic, an extension accidentally replaces the word "{{w|Computer keyboard|keyboard}}"
...of topics next to icons of those starting the topic. The top post is just inside the frame, the icon cut of at the very top.]
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..., blue and pure black at top left. Curious, could be intentional or simply an artifact of how Randall made the image. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.217
This joke appears to be aimed at the implausibility of the Horizon Mission’s concep
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...to these old black-and-white tapes of Bob Ross slumped against the wall of an empty room, painting the least happy trees you've ever seen. Either PBS nee
...lled The Chief would congratulate or encourage the players. Rockapella was an {{w|a cappella}} band featured on the show that gave clues, punctuated the
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...the lines around the gift suggesting that there is something moving around inside (likely alive and agitated) for the child to open and be mauled/harmed by.
...first reason; but on the other hand I didn't want to remove links without an section at the explain section. The links are not from the original transcr
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...ntually halts, and prints out the error. The comic claims that if you read an unmatched parenthesis, you will look for it for the rest of the day too.
It also refers to an awkward feeling when you see something out of place in a piece of literary
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