207: What xkcd Means
explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
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| − | | date = | + | | date = January 8, 2007 |
| − | | title = | + | | title = What xkcd Means |
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| − | | titletext = | + | | titletext = It means shuffling quickly past nuns on the street with ketchup in your palms, pretending you're hiding stigmata. |
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
| − | + | The first panel shows a driver making a {{w|right turn at red|right turn at a red light}}, a {{w|U-turn}} on the connecting road and then a left turn, returning him to his original direction. Right turns at red lights and U-turns could be illegal at some intersections. | |
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| + | The second panel shows a person in an inset calling his friend's phone to help him find it, only for it to ring from inside a dog's stomach. | ||
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
| − | + | :{Title: What does XKCD mean?} | |
| − | + | :[One car of two sitting at a red light makes a right turn, then shifts over to the left and makes a left turn to go back the way it came. It then makes another right and continues on the road past the traffic light. This is shown with a red arrow.] | |
| − | + | :{Panel title: It means saving a few seconds at a long red light via elaborate and questionably legal maneuvers.} | |
| − | + | :[Someone on a cell phone is shown in a circle in the panel. A second person in the panel itself is looking at a dog, from which the ringing sound of his phone is coming] | |
| + | <<Ring>> | ||
| + | :{Panel title: It means having someone call your cell phone to figure out where it is.} | ||
| + | :[The mathematical function "A(g64, g64)=" with the 64s subscripted, appears in the panel. Next to the equal sign stands a mathematician, clutching his head.] | ||
| + | :{Panel title: It means calling the Ackermann function with Graham's number as the arguments just to horrify mathematicians.} | ||
| + | :Mathematician: Aughhh | ||
| + | :[An approximately 8 by 8 square of floor tiles is shown; the first, fourth and seventh across in the first, fourth and seventh rows are black and the rest are white. A guy and girl are shown next to it, walking on what is presumed to be the same pattern of floor tiles.] | ||
| + | :{Panel title: It means instinctively constructing rules for which floor tiles it's okay to step on and then walking funny ever after.} | ||
| + | :{Line indicating the uppermost right black tile: Black tiles okay} | ||
| + | :{Line indicating tile directly below it: White tiles directly between black tiles okay} | ||
| + | :{Line indicating a white tile in the last column over: Not okay} | ||
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| What xkcd Means |
 Title text: It means shuffling quickly past nuns on the street with ketchup in your palms, pretending you're hiding stigmata. |
Explanation
The first panel shows a driver making a right turn at a red light, a U-turn on the connecting road and then a left turn, returning him to his original direction. Right turns at red lights and U-turns could be illegal at some intersections.
The second panel shows a person in an inset calling his friend's phone to help him find it, only for it to ring from inside a dog's stomach.
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This explanation may be incomplete or incorrect. If you see a way to improve it, edit it! Thanks. |
Transcript
- {Title: What does XKCD mean?}
- [One car of two sitting at a red light makes a right turn, then shifts over to the left and makes a left turn to go back the way it came. It then makes another right and continues on the road past the traffic light. This is shown with a red arrow.]
- {Panel title: It means saving a few seconds at a long red light via elaborate and questionably legal maneuvers.}
- [Someone on a cell phone is shown in a circle in the panel. A second person in the panel itself is looking at a dog, from which the ringing sound of his phone is coming]
<<Ring>>
- {Panel title: It means having someone call your cell phone to figure out where it is.}
- [The mathematical function "A(g64, g64)=" with the 64s subscripted, appears in the panel. Next to the equal sign stands a mathematician, clutching his head.]
- {Panel title: It means calling the Ackermann function with Graham's number as the arguments just to horrify mathematicians.}
- Mathematician: Aughhh
- [An approximately 8 by 8 square of floor tiles is shown; the first, fourth and seventh across in the first, fourth and seventh rows are black and the rest are white. A guy and girl are shown next to it, walking on what is presumed to be the same pattern of floor tiles.]
- {Panel title: It means instinctively constructing rules for which floor tiles it's okay to step on and then walking funny ever after.}
- {Line indicating the uppermost right black tile: Black tiles okay}
- {Line indicating tile directly below it: White tiles directly between black tiles okay}
- {Line indicating a white tile in the last column over: Not okay}
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