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| title = Keeping Time | | title = Keeping Time | ||
| image = keeping_time.png | | image = keeping_time.png | ||
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| titletext = You can identify them ahead-of-time -- they lead with their left foot when the music starts. | | titletext = You can identify them ahead-of-time -- they lead with their left foot when the music starts. | ||
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | [http://imgs.xkcd.com/blag/xkcd_389.mp3 Listen to the music] | + | [http://imgs.xkcd.com/blag/xkcd_389.mp3 Listen to the music] |
− | A member of a marching band, after spending seasons marching in time to their music for their shows, | + | A member of a marching band, after spending seasons marching in time to their music for their shows, end up naturally walking with the rhythm of any music they hear around them, like at a shopping mall. Pausing the music for a split second would throw off the rhythm, causing them to, as mentioned, fall. The line of music in the comic is a piano reduction of beguiling of "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley, a reference to "Rickrolling", which is when a link to video is set up to appear as one thing but in reality, when clicked, plays "Never Gonna Give You Up". The alt text refers to the fact that almost all marching bands start marching with the left foot, so marching band members start to naturally starting with the left foot. |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | + | My Hobby: | |
:Pausing in-store music for a split second and watching the ex-marching band kids stumble. | :Pausing in-store music for a split second and watching the ex-marching band kids stumble. | ||
− | :[On a balcony overlooking a supermarket, | + | :[On a balcony overlooking a supermarket, a man presses a button on a pedestal. The in-store music, the first four bars of "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley, pauses briefly after the third bar, and one of the store's patrons falls on her face.] |
− | + | <<FWOMP>> | |
− | {{comic discussion}} | + | {{comic discussion}} |
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]] | ||
[[Category:My Hobby]] | [[Category:My Hobby]] | ||
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