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==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
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[[Megan]] and [[Cueball]] are {{w|stargazing}}. In the first two panels, Cueball references a scene in the movie ''{{w|The Lion King}}'', where the protagonist, {{w|Simba}}, remembers how his father, {{w|List_of_The_Lion_King_characters#Mufasa|Mufasa}}, explained the night sky by saying, "The great kings of the past are up there." The quote in last panel is derived from a scene near the climax of the movie, where the spirit of Mufasa appears to Simba in the clouds and speaks to him. [[Cory Doctorow]] is a famous blogger who features in several of [[Randall]]'s [[:Category:Comics featuring Cory Doctorow|comics]]. A {{w|tag cloud}} is a list of keywords on the sidebar of a blog's layout that helps a reader find posts by hyperlinking to posts associated with that keyword or category. Tags are shown in a proportionally larger typeface if that tag describes more posts than other tags.
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{{incomplete|Both interpretations could be merged.}}
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It's night and [[Megan]] and [[Cueball]] lie down on the earth while looking into the sky. Cueball tells a story. Cueball says all dead bloggers are in the sky and watching them, and above of them all there is the master blogger Cory Doctorow. The story is interrupted when Cueball goes on to say that the {{w|Tag cloud}} opens and {{w|Cory Doctorow}} speaks. Megan interrupts, telling Cueball that he needs to "get out more or less, I cant decide". This means he should be away from the computer more so he doesn't connect everything to Cory Doctorow, but she is afraid that if he gets out more he would creep people out.
  
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Megan interrupts Cueball by saying that she can't decide if Cueball needs to "get out more or less." If she were to say, "get out more," she would be implying that he needs to spend time away from the computer, so he stops seeing links between the real world and Cory Doctorow. If she says, "get out less," she implies that he might scare normal people if he were to do what he does in front of them, or perhaps become more "normal" if he were to stop going outside and not do what he is doing now.
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Cueball is referencing the movie {{w|The Lion King}}. The first two panels reference a scene where Simba remember how his father, Mufasa, explained the night sky by saying, 'the great kings of the past are up there'. The last panel is from a scene near the climax of the movie where a the spirit of Mufasa appears to Simba in the clouds and speaks to him.  
  
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In the title text, Randall mentions that he feels that the word {{w|blog}}, a {{w|portmanteau}} and an {{w|elision}} of "web log," sounds silly, and has not become any less silly over the years, despite entering common usage.
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===Title Text===
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In the title text, Randall mentions that the word {{w|blog}} — a {{w|portmanteau}} of 'web log' — is a silly word, despite becoming common in usage. Randall's own blog is just called "[http://blag.xkcd.com/ The blag of the webcomic]".
  
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
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:[Cueball and Megan are lying on the ground stargazing.]
 
 
:Cueball: Just look at those stars.
 
:Cueball: Just look at those stars.
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:Cueball: My father once told me that the great bloggers of the past are up there, watching over us.
 
:Cueball: My father once told me that the great bloggers of the past are up there, watching over us.
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:[Cueball sits up, and then stands up, stretching his arms in the air as if to encompass the whole night sky.]
 
 
:Cueball: High above the blogosphere, a gap opens in the tag clouds. Cory Doctorow's voice booms forth...
 
:Cueball: High above the blogosphere, a gap opens in the tag clouds. Cory Doctorow's voice booms forth...
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:Megan: You need to get out either ''more'' or ''less''. I can't decide.
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:Megan: You need to get out either more or less. I can't decide.
  
 
{{comic discussion}}
 
{{comic discussion}}
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[[Category:Comics with inverted brightness]]
 
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cory Doctorow]]
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[[Category:Comics featuring real people]]
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[[Category:The Lion King]]
 

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