Talk:2772: Commemorative Plaque

Any bets on how many copies of this plaque people send him? Jordan Brown (talk) 00:25, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

I do not understand the plaque... If the test is correct, shouldn't there be an order button for not that expensive commemorative plaques on xkcd.com/2772? Questions over questions...Tier666 (talk) 07:31, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

Because it's vague, not worth an Explain expansion, but I'm wondering how much of the intervening week was delivery time of the original plaque (assuming the "lesson learnt" moment was the instant the original plaque was ordered, as it was too late on receipt to then make the claim of the achievement appear upon it). And it sounds like the plaquer had the bits handy (standard "202 different bits, screwdriver heads, sockets and related hardware"-type everyman-handyman accessory kit that you might get 'because why not?'/’it was marked as a deal!' on one visit to the hardware depot) but just had never (properly?) used the whole masonry set in anger, until now. And I don't discount the possibility that the second plaque was ordered to place over some initial ill-drilled holes from the first attempt at mounting (either done without regard to where further holes would need to align to the mortar bonds and courses, or an attempted to take advantage of that but badly), making the announcement of the second 'triumphant' occasion instrumental in legitimately masking the evidence of the learning process that led up to it. 172.70.86.154 08:48, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

I wonder if that's an oblique reference to the commemorative plaque Dieter Meier had had installed at the Kassel railway station in 1972 that announced him standing there 22 years later? 172.68.51.141 11:22, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

In Denmark we celebrate the liberation from the Germans at the end of WW2 on May 5th 1945. And later also my birthday ;-) --Kynde (talk) 12:08, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

A bit of time paradox here. . . . . If he didn't figure out how to use a masonry drill until 12 May, then the top plaque couldn't have been installed before then. And the lower plaque would have been ordered, delivered and installed sometime after 12 May. Can we expect a third plaque commemmorating the mounting of the first and second? If so, when? 172.68.210.5 01:12, 7 May 2023 (UTC) Beechmere

No idea about the second, but I would assume that on 12 May, he ALSO installed the top plaque. -- Hkmaly (talk) 03:46, 7 May 2023 (UTC)