207: What xkcd Means

explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
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:{Panel title: It means saving a few seconds at a long red light via elaborate and questionably legal maneuvers.}
 
:{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]
 
:[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>>
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:<<Ring>>
 
:{Panel title: It means having someone call your cell phone to figure out where it is.}
 
:{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.]
 
:[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.]

Revision as of 19:14, 7 March 2013

What xkcd Means
It means shuffling quickly past nuns on the street with ketchup in your palms, pretending you're hiding stigmata.
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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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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Discussion

I do the last panel ALL THE FRIGGIN' TIME. Alpha (talk) 20:07, 8 March 2013 (UTC)


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