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| | | date = September 30, 2005 | | | date = September 30, 2005 |
| | | title = Canyon | | | title = Canyon |
| − | | before = <big><big><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A41%20pm-,Canyon,-I%27m%20not%20sure Original title</span>]: '''Canyon'''</big></big>
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| | | image = canyon_small.jpg | | | image = canyon_small.jpg |
| − | | titletext = They're standing at the lip of the canyon, which isn't clear at all.<br><br><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A41%20pm-,Canyon,-I%27m%20not%20sure Original caption</span>]: I'm not sure where they are, but they should be more excited! I would be. | + | | imagesize = |
| | + | | titletext = They're standing at the lip of the canyon, which isn't clear at all. |
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| | ==Explanation== | | ==Explanation== |
| − | This was the seventh comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[24: Godel, Escher, Kurt Halsey]], and the next one was [[8: Red spiders]]. It was among the [[:Category:First day on LiveJournal|first thirteen comics]] posted to LiveJournal within 12 minutes on September 30, 2005, on the first day of the xkcd LiveJournal account. | + | This is one of the early comics which explores a theme [[xkcd]] returns to often: the wonder around us, if we would just look. "Now" is the least boring time it could be, as they stand on an alien world over an amazing landscape. How could you want it to be any time but now? |
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| − | [[Cueball]] and his friend (who also looks like Cueball) are having a discussion. After the friend asks Cueball what the time is, Cueball simply states that it is "now." Then there is a beat panel showing the two standing at the lip of a great canyon drawn in detail and color. The friend claims that "now" is a boring answer, since it's a {{w|tautology}}, a functionally useless answer, and a bad joke all at the same time. Cueball, however, asserts that "now" is the least boring answer he could give. It's typical for humans to focus on mundane concerns, like a meeting they might be late for or a bus they have to catch, and take their familiar environment for granted, no matter how fabulous it might have been at first sight. | + | ==Trivia== |
| − | | + | * Original [[Randall]] quote: "I'm not sure where they are, but they should be more excited! I would be." |
| − | The title text explains that they stand on the lip of the canyon, which may not be clear if you do not look very carefully at the color drawing. There are two tiny stick figures at the edge of the canyon, near the center of the panel. On the other six panels, there is just a ragged line, which thus obviously is this lip of the canyon. | + | * This is the seventh comic posted to livejournal. The previous one was [[24: Godel, Escher, Kurt Halsey]], the next is [[8: Red Spiders]]. |
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| | ==Transcript== | | ==Transcript== |
| − | :[Two guys, both Cueball-like, are standing at a cliff's edge.] | + | :[Two men are standing at some kind of cliff edge] |
| − | :Friend: What time is it? | + | :Man 1: What time is it? |
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| − | :[Cueball looks at his watch in silence.]
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| − | :[Cueball looks up.] | + | :[Man 2 looks at watch in silence] |
| − | :Cueball: Now.
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| − | :[The full scene is shown: the two men (barely visible) are standing at the lip of a huge canyon in a rocky, barren landscape. A pock-marked moon and a ringed planet are visible in the burgundy-colored sky.] | + | :Man 2: Now. |
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| − | :[The two guys are again seen standing at what is now known to be the lip of the canyon.] | + | :[Full scene is revealed: the men are standing at the edge of a huge canyon in a rocky, barren landscape. A pock-marked moon and a ringed planet are visible in the burgundy-coloured sky] |
| − | :Friend: That's a pretty boring answer.
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| − | :[Same scene as before.] | + | :Man 1: That's a pretty boring answer. |
| − | :Cueball: Is not. | |
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| − | :[Same scene.] | + | :Man 2: Is not. |
| − | :Cueball: It's the least boring answer imaginable. | |
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| − | ==Trivia==
| + | :Man 2: It's the least boring answer imaginable. |
| − | This is the first comic that kept its original title after being transferred to [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com].
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| − | [[Category:Posted on LiveJournal| 07]] | + | [[Category:Comics posted on livejournal]] |
| − | [[Category:First day on LiveJournal| 07]] | + | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] |
| − | [[Category:First day on xkcd.com]]
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| | [[Category:Comics with color]] | | [[Category:Comics with color]] |
| − | [[Category:Checkered paper]]
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| − | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
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