Editing 15: Just Alerting You

{{comic
| number    = 15
| date      = October 2, 2005
| title     = Just Alerting You
| before    = <big><big><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=Just%20Alerting%20You%20(Monday%27s%20drawing) Original title</span>]: '''Just Alerting You (Monday's drawing)'''</big></big>
| image     = just_alerting_you.jpg
| titletext = Just thought you should know<br><br><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=Just%20Alerting%20You%20(Monday%27s%20drawing) Original caption</span>]: I bet she's cool. I mean, she has a dinosaur!<br>I'm gonna update this MWF for a while and see how that works.
}}

==Explanation==
This was the fourteenth comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[11: Barrel - Part 2]], and the next one was [[16: Monty Python -- Enough]]. It was the first comic posted to LiveJournal after the [[:Category:First day on LiveJournal|first thirteen xkcd comics]] were released.

In this comic, a man is riding a {{w|Brontosaurus}} (or what would [[:Category:Apatosaurus|later be referred to]] as an {{w|Apatosaurus}}). The humor lies in the fact that the man feels the need to highlight their peculiarity, despite the obvious oddity of riding an extinct and dangerous creature. [[Megan]] would later ride an Apatosaurus in [[650: Nowhere]]. This dinosaur genus is also mentioned in [[460: Paleontology]] and [[636: Brontosaurus]]. This was the first comic with {{w|dinosaurs}}, but since then, there have been numerous [[:Category:Dinosaurs|comics about them]] on xkcd.

The title text further emphasizes this, while the original quote signifies that [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] would start posting a new comic every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Ironically enough, this comic was posted on a Sunday, a few minutes before Monday: see the [[#Trivia|trivia section]]. From now, he also began putting the date into most, but not all, comic titles on LiveJournal until he started to use [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] instead.

==Transcript==
:[A man is standing on the back of a green dinosaur and holding reins to the dinosaur's head.]
:Man: Before you talk to me, I should warn you: I am kind of strange

==Trivia==
This was the first comic to be [[:Category:Sunday comics|released on a Sunday]]. It was released only 17 minutes before midnight at 11:43 PM.

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