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Talk:1749: Mushrooms

2016-10-21T13:59:04Z

108.162.216.61: /* Meaning of the title text? */

== Meaning of the title text? ==

The way I'm reading this comic, there are several possible meanings to the title text. One definition of "ghost" is "a faint trace of something" - it's possible that mushrooms are a faint trace of whatever other species bridged the gap between plants and animals.

Alternately, it could just be Randall's way of saying not to trust any sentence beginning with the phrase "Evolutionarily speaking" (see comics [[1240]], [[1475]]). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.61|108.162.216.61]] 13:55, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

1749: Mushrooms

2016-10-21T13:57:14Z

108.162.216.61: /* Transcript */

{{comic
| number = 1749
| date = October 21, 2016
| title = Mushrooms
| image = mushrooms.png
| titletext = Evolutionarily speaking, mushrooms are technically a type of ghost.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|First draft—need transcript, links, and more detailed explanation.}}

Cueball is looking at a mushroom, and Megan tells him that genetically, mushrooms are closer to animals than to plants - both animals and fungi are part of the {{w|Opisthokont}} group, while plants are in {{w|Archaeplastida}} with the algae. Megan then walks away, and Cueball, after a while, stops looking at the mushroom and walks away too. When Cueball has his back turned, the mushroom growls, and Cueball turns his head back to look at the mushroom. The joke here is that while mushrooms may be genetically closer to animals than plants, they do not actually growl like some animals, so Cueball is startled to hear one growl.

The title text takes this further, by stating that mushrooms are technically a type of ghost.

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript}}
[Cueball is squatting in front of a mushroom.]
:Cueball: Mushrooms are ''so weird.''
:Megan: You know, evolutionarily, they're closer to being animals than to plants.
[Megan starts walking away.]
:Cueball: ...Really?
:Megan: Yup!
[Cueball is still squatting.]
[Cueball stands up and starts walking away.]
:Mushroom: Grrrr
[Cueball snaps his head around to look at the mushroom again.]
{{comic discussion}}

Talk:1749: Mushrooms

2016-10-21T13:55:53Z

108.162.216.61: /* Meaning of the title text? */ new section

== Meaning of the title text? ==

The way I'm reading this comic, there are several possible meanings to the title text. One definition of "ghost" is "a faint trace of something" - it's possible that mushrooms are a faint trace of whatever other species bridged the gap between plants and animals.

Alternately, it could just be Randall's way of saying not to trust any sentence beginning with the phrase "Evolutionarily speaking" (see comics 1240, 1475). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.61|108.162.216.61]] 13:55, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

1748: Future Archaeology

2016-10-19T13:07:32Z

108.162.216.61: /* Explanation */

{{comic
| number = 1748
| date = October 19, 2016
| title = Future Archaeology
| image = future_archaeology.png
| titletext = "The only link we've found between the two documents is that a fragment of the Noah one mentions Aaron's brother Moses parting an ocean. Is that right?" "... yes. Yes, exactly."
}}

==Explanation==

This comic is a continuation of the previous comic, [[1747: Spider Paleontology]], about a time-traveler from the future who has come to see spiders. See [[1747: Spider Paleontology]] for a more complete explanation. The idea is that history is filtered in similar fashion to fossils. What is contemporaneously important, like a spider's web, [http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/newly-discovered-fossils-hint-all-dinosaurs-had-feathers/ dinosaur feathers], or the United States presidential election may not survive. Bandwidth limits may pass seemingly less important but much simpler features like chitin exoskeleton, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp5FaNe-zTM tooth bone], and flood meme.

The joke is that in the future the Biblical story of {{w|Genesis flood narrative|Noah's Flood}} is considered as valuable a historical document when researching humans as "{{w|That's How I Beat Shaq}}" ([http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/aaroncarter/thatshowibeatshaq.html lyrics], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfhhWA9GF0M video]), a pop song by {{w|Aaron Carter}} released in 2000.
The survival of both may have been aided by the chance one-degree-off relation to the name {{w|Aaron}}.

The title text expands on the joke by saying that the future archaeologists connected the two historical documents, with the biblical Moses being replaced by Moses Carter. The Moses Carter referred to here is probably the 19th century English strongman, famous in the village of Histon.

==Transcript==
[A four-panel comic featuring Cueball, Megan, and a time-traveler from the distant future, possibly from somewhere other than Earth. The time-traveler is depicted as a solid, floating black dot surrounded by six outwardly-curved segments, surrounded by small dots. In the second panel, the depiction is slightly larger, implying greater focus by Megan and Cueball.]

[Megan, Cueball and the Time-traveller converse as they casually walk, and float along.]

Megan: Since you're from the future, do you know who wins the election?

Time-traveller: Haven't the faintest idea.

Time-traveller: Hardly any text has been recovered from your era,
so we know little about your history and culture.

Time-traveller: [Quietly] We're mostly here for the spiders anyway.

[The Time-traveller stops. Megan and Cueball focus on the Time-traveller.]

Time-traveller: There are only two written accounts we've reconstructed.

Time-traveller: We don't know whether they describe real events or myths.

[The Time-traveller drifts backward, Megan and Cueball, stop and look back toward the Time-traveller.]

Time-traveller: One is a story about a man who built a boat to survive a great flood.

Megan: Oh yeah. Noah.

Cueball: We do like our flood narratives.

[The Time-traveller drifts slowly further backward. Megan and Cueball, continue standing as they listen intently.]

Time-traveller: The other is an account of how a man named Aaron Carter defeated a god named Shaq.

Megan: That one may have been mangled a bit by the eons.
{{comic discussion}}

1601: Isolation

2015-11-10T14:54:29Z

108.162.216.61: /* Explanation */

{{comic
| number = 1601
| date = November 9, 2015
| title = Isolation
| image = isolation.png
| titletext = 2060: The gregarious superintelligent AI, happily talking its way out of a box, is fast becoming a relic of the past. Today's quantum hyper-beings are too busy with their internal multiverse sims to even notice that they're in boxes at all!
}}

==Explanation==
The comic shows how people have always complained on the negative effects of technology on conversation - that people get '''isolated''' while using this new technology (whether it were books, TV or smart phones), hence the title.

In the first panel, a [[Cueball]]-like guy complains that books are having this effect, in the second panel another Cueball complains about newspapers, then a third Cueball complains about magazines, a fourth Cueball complains about television, a fifth Cueball compains about portable music players, and in the last panel a sixth Cueball complains about smart-phones.

The comic is a statement on how little technology actually changes us, and how often we incorrectly think it does (similar to [[1227: The Pace of Modern Life]]).

The joke is that it will always be like this, and after so long people should realize that this will never change. So to the people who, like the Cueballs, continue to complain about this there is just one thing to say: "Let it go, dude!"

Alternatively, the joke could merely be that people have been ignoring a seemingly immortal Cueball for almost 200 years and he just could not take a hint...

The title text refers {{w|artificial intelligence}} (AI) specifically to the [http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox/ AI-box experiment], formulated by {{w|Eliezer Yudkowsky}}, which argues that creating a super-intelligent artificial intelligence can be dangerous, because even if it is put on a secure computer ("box") with no access to the Internet, it can convince its operators to "release it from the box" just by talking to them. This idea was already mentioned in [[1450: AI-Box Experiment]], although already here the AI did not wish to get out of the box!

According to the title text, then the first AI that did talk its way out of its box, turned out to be a {{w|Friendly artificial intelligence|friendly AI}} that was fond of others company and in general very sociable (''[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gregarious gregarious]''). This happened some times between 2015 and 2060, because already by 2060 this AI had become a relic of the past, as the new generation of ''quantum hyper-beings'' (part quantum AI and maybe part human?) are spending all of their time playing in their own {{w|multiverse}} simulators to even notice that, in the real world, they are locked up in a box.

==Transcript==
:[Above each panel a year is written in a small box that breaks the top of the panels frame. Cueball is talking in all six frames. In the first frame he is standing between a standing guy with pageboy hairstyle and a sitting Ponytail. She is sitting in an armchair. Both are reading books. Cueball points towards them with his arms out.]
:1840
:Cueball: The modern bookworm is too busy ''reading'' about the world to ''look'' at it.

:[Cueball is pointing to the left with both arms out towards Hairy who is sitting at a dining table with his breakfast eating something while reading his newspaper. On the table are a cup and a plate.]
:1880
:Cueball: No one '''''talks''''' anymore - we take our daily newspapers in silence.

:[Cueball is pointing to the right with one arm at Megan who walks away from him while reading a magazine.]
:1910
:Cueball: The magazine is destroying conversation. We even read as we walk!

:[Cueball is standing to the left. In the background Ponytail and Hairy is sitting on a rug in front of a TV standing on top of a small TV table. The TV is of the broad kind with cathode ray tubes and it has two antennas on top.]
:1960
:Cueball: Television has put an end to family discussion.

:[Cueball is standing up in a bus holding on to a railing. To his left stands Ponytail and to his right sits Hair Bun Girl. Both of them are listening to their Walkman’s which they are holding in their hand while listening to them through headphones.]
:1980
:Cueball: Thanks to the Sony Walkman, anti-social isolation is now the norm.

:[Cueball is standing to the left. Megan and another Cueball-like guy are standing to the right facing each other but looking down at their smartphones. Both are listening to them through their headphones.]
:2015
:Cueball: We've become too absorbed in our phones to notice the-
:Megan: '''''Dude. ''''' It's been '''''two centuries. '''''
:Megan: '''''Take a hint. '''''

{{comic discussion}}

[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Hair Bun Girl]]
[[Category:Multiple Cueballs]]

1601: Isolation

2015-11-10T14:53:45Z

108.162.216.61: /* Explanation */

{{comic
| number = 1601
| date = November 9, 2015
| title = Isolation
| image = isolation.png
| titletext = 2060: The gregarious superintelligent AI, happily talking its way out of a box, is fast becoming a relic of the past. Today's quantum hyper-beings are too busy with their internal multiverse sims to even notice that they're in boxes at all!
}}

==Explanation==
The comic shows how people have always complained on the negative effects of technology on conversation - that people get '''isolated''' while using this new technology (whether it were books, TV or smart phones), hence the title.

In the first panel, a [[Cueball]]-like guy complains that books are having this effect, in the second panel another Cueball complains about newspapers, then a third Cueball complains about magazines, a fourth Cueball complains about television, a fifth Cueball compains about portable music players, and in the last panel a sixth Cueball complains about smart-phones.

The comic is a statement on how little technology actually changes us, and how often we incorrectly think it does (similar to [[1227: The Pace of Modern Life]]).

The joke is that it will always be like this, and after so long people should realize that this will never change. So to the people who, like the Cueballs, continue to complain about this there is just one thing to say: "Let it go, dude!"

Alternatively, the joke could be that people have been ignoring a seemingly immortal Cueball for almost 200 years and he just could not take a hint...

The title text refers {{w|artificial intelligence}} (AI) specifically to the [http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox/ AI-box experiment], formulated by {{w|Eliezer Yudkowsky}}, which argues that creating a super-intelligent artificial intelligence can be dangerous, because even if it is put on a secure computer ("box") with no access to the Internet, it can convince its operators to "release it from the box" just by talking to them. This idea was already mentioned in [[1450: AI-Box Experiment]], although already here the AI did not wish to get out of the box!

According to the title text, then the first AI that did talk its way out of its box, turned out to be a {{w|Friendly artificial intelligence|friendly AI}} that was fond of others company and in general very sociable (''[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gregarious gregarious]''). This happened some times between 2015 and 2060, because already by 2060 this AI had become a relic of the past, as the new generation of ''quantum hyper-beings'' (part quantum AI and maybe part human?) are spending all of their time playing in their own {{w|multiverse}} simulators to even notice that, in the real world, they are locked up in a box.

==Transcript==
:[Above each panel a year is written in a small box that breaks the top of the panels frame. Cueball is talking in all six frames. In the first frame he is standing between a standing guy with pageboy hairstyle and a sitting Ponytail. She is sitting in an armchair. Both are reading books. Cueball points towards them with his arms out.]
:1840
:Cueball: The modern bookworm is too busy ''reading'' about the world to ''look'' at it.

:[Cueball is pointing to the left with both arms out towards Hairy who is sitting at a dining table with his breakfast eating something while reading his newspaper. On the table are a cup and a plate.]
:1880
:Cueball: No one '''''talks''''' anymore - we take our daily newspapers in silence.

:[Cueball is pointing to the right with one arm at Megan who walks away from him while reading a magazine.]
:1910
:Cueball: The magazine is destroying conversation. We even read as we walk!

:[Cueball is standing to the left. In the background Ponytail and Hairy is sitting on a rug in front of a TV standing on top of a small TV table. The TV is of the broad kind with cathode ray tubes and it has two antennas on top.]
:1960
:Cueball: Television has put an end to family discussion.

:[Cueball is standing up in a bus holding on to a railing. To his left stands Ponytail and to his right sits Hair Bun Girl. Both of them are listening to their Walkman’s which they are holding in their hand while listening to them through headphones.]
:1980
:Cueball: Thanks to the Sony Walkman, anti-social isolation is now the norm.

:[Cueball is standing to the left. Megan and another Cueball-like guy are standing to the right facing each other but looking down at their smartphones. Both are listening to them through their headphones.]
:2015
:Cueball: We've become too absorbed in our phones to notice the-
:Megan: '''''Dude. ''''' It's been '''''two centuries. '''''
:Megan: '''''Take a hint. '''''

{{comic discussion}}

[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Hair Bun Girl]]
[[Category:Multiple Cueballs]]

1501: Mysteries

2015-03-20T14:37:47Z

108.162.216.61: /* Corrected switched explanations of Bigfoot and Loch Ness Monster. Also corrected typo of word availabe to available. */

{{comic
| number = 1501
| date = March 20, 2015
| title = Mysteries
| image = mysteries.png
| titletext = At the bottom left: The mystery of why, when I know I needed to be asleep an hour ago, I decide it's a good time to read through every Wikipedia article in the categories 'Out-of-place artifacts', 'Earth mysteries', 'Anomalous weather', and 'List of people who disappeared mysteriously'.
}}

==Explanation==

The X axis in this graph is weirdness. We assume that the far left is 0% (not that weird) and the far right is 100% (weird as hell).

The Y axis is explainability. We assume that the bottom is 100% (pretty clear) and the top is 0% (no explanation).

{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Entry
!Weirdness
!Explainable
!Further Details
|-
|Who Carly Simon is singing about in ''You're So Vain''
|9%
|4%
|The lyrics of the song include "You're so vain, I bet you think this song is about you". This implies that the vain subject of the song is wrong in thinking that the song is about them, however they are the subject of the song. This sets up a paradox in which the song is and isn't about the vain person. {{w|You%27re_So_Vain#Subject_of_the_song|Wikipedia article describing possible interpretations of the songs subject}}
|-
|Lindbergh Baby
|17%
|25%
|{{w|Lindbergh_kidnapping|Lindbergh baby kidnapping}}
|-
|UVB-76
|40%
|23%
|{{w|UVB-76}} radio station
|-
|Toynbee Tiles
|25%
|34%
|{{w|Toynbee tiles}} are colorful ceramic tiles with cryptic messages that have been found embedded in asphalt in the streets of various midwestern-to-eastern cities.
|-
|Jimmy Hoffa
|10%
|42%
|{{w|Jimmy Hoffa}} was an American labor union leader who disappeared in 1975. He is widely believed to have been murdered.
|-
|The WOW Signal
|55%
|20%
|The {{w|Wow! signal}} was a strong and clean radio transmission near 1420 MHz received by the Big Ear Radio Observatory at Ohio State University in 1977 that appears to have originated from interstellar space [http://www.universetoday.com/93754/35-years-later-the-wow-signal-still-tantalizes/]. This is the strongest evidence to date of extraterrestrial radio signals.
|-
|Mary Celeste
|70%
|43%
|{{w|Mary_Celeste|The ''Mary Celeste''}} was a sailing ship found adrift, mysteriously abandoned yet otherwise undisturbed, in 1872. No explanation for these events has ever been determined. Its name has become a watchword for mysteriously abandoned ships.
|-
|DB Cooper
|76%
|20%
|{{w|D. B. Cooper}} was an airplane hijacker who jumped from a plane and was never found. Previously referenced in [[1400: D.B. Cooper]].
|-
|Salish Sea Feet
|96%
|31%
|{{w|Salish Sea human foot discoveries}}
|-
|Lead Masks Case
|99%
|12%
|Two Brazilian electricians were found dead on a hill top. No injuries. {{w|Lead Masks Case|Both were wearing lead masks.}}
|-
|MH370
|100%
|0%
|{{w|Malaysia Airlines Flight 370}}; disappeared on 8 March 2014
|-
|Voynich Manuscript
|35%
|68%
|The {{w|Voynich manuscript}} is an illustrated codex hand-written in an unknown writing system. See also [[593: Voynich Manuscript]].
|-
|Why I keep putting ice cream back in the fridge instead of the freezer
|0%
|96%
|Randall apparently frequently puts his ice cream container into the refrigerator rather than into the freezer.
|-
|JFK
|38%
|86%
|The {{w|Assassination of John F. Kennedy|assassination of President John F. Kennedy}} has inspired many conspiracy theories, beginning almost immediately after the event. The subsequent murder of assassin Lee Harvey Oswald added fuel to the fire by encouraging speculation that he was silenced to cover up the true story.
|-
|Oak Island Money Pit
|32%
|98%
|An indentation in the ground on {{w|Oak Island}} led to over 200 years of treasure hunting, with the excavations repeatedly hampered by flooding pit collapses. A few flagstones, and periodic layers of logs are all that have been found. Rumours are abound as to what it conceals: Marie Antoinnette's jewels, pirate treasure and Shakespeare's manuscripts have all been suggested. It is called The Money Pit, because of all the money that has been wasted in trying to solve the mystery.
|-
|Zodiac Letters
|62%
|62%
|A set of letters written by the so-called {{w|Zodiac Killer}}, a serial killer who was active at Califorina in the 1960s and 1970s. The letters are available at [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer_letters Wikisource].
|-
|Amelia Earhart
|56%
|74%
|Amelia Earhart tried to circle the earth at the equator in an aeroplane in 1937, but she, her navigator and the plane disappeared over the Pacific without any trace.
|-
|Lost Colony
|74%
|83%
|The {{w|Roanoke Colony}} was the first English attempt to establish a permanent settlement in the New World. The colony of over a hundred settlers disappeared some time in the late 1580s, with no signs of violence and no clear clues as to what happened other than the word "Croatoan" carved into a fencepost.
|-
|Bigfoot
|60%
|98%
|{{w|Bigfoot}} is a supposed animal or hominid that reputedly inhabits the Pacific Northwest region of North America.
|-
|Loch Ness Monster
|64%
|100%
|The {{w|Loch Ness Monster}} is a supposed animal that reputedly inhabits Loch Ness lake in Scotland.
|-
|Kentucky Meat Shower
|85%
|93%
|Chunks of meat fell from the sky in Kentucky in 1876; this was possibly projectile vomit from a vulture [http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/2014/12/01/the-great-kentucky-meat-shower-mystery-unwound-by-projectile-vulture-vomit/].
|-
|Dyatlov Pass Incident
|93%
|96%
|On February 2, 1959, nine skiers in the northern Ural Mountains apparently fled their tents without taking time to put on winter clothing. They were found dead, some with physical injuries: {{w|Dyatlov Pass Incident}}
|}

The title text refers to Randall staying up late to read Wikipedia articles, which is apparently not very unusual for him and has an obvious explanation (following up on an idea that eventually led to today's cartoon).

==Transcript==

{{comic discussion}}

Talk:1463: Altitude

2014-12-23T06:03:27Z

108.162.216.61: comment

Ok, Is everyone on vacation today? or is this explanation that hard? [[User:Edo|Edo]] ([[User talk:Edo|talk]]) 19:27, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

: The comic was uploaded just minutes before you commented at 19:23. [[User:ThePurpleK|ThePurpleK]] ([[User talk:ThePurpleK|talk]]) 19:36, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

: "Ok, Is everyone on vacation today?" Randall was ... --[[User:RenniePet|RenniePet]] ([[User talk:RenniePet|talk]]) 20:01, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Transcript right now assumes two Astronomers. It looks to me like three. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.142|173.245.52.142]] 21:03, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
:I changed it to 3. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.201|108.162.221.201]] 22:36, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_guide_star laser guide star] is a device for focussing telescopes. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcjB2qN0TxM Cats go crazy chasing lasers]. I can only imagine what havoc a star cat might wreck chasing a laser guide star. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.40|108.162.216.40]] 21:07, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
: The source of the laser is only moving at 1000 miles an hour, but it's going in a huge circle. That's a lot of leverage for our particular lighthouse. {{unsigned|Seebert}}
: You mean "wreak"? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.214|108.162.250.214]] 05:12, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

I may be wrong, but I think all high-altitude observatories are built on mountaintops. So the drawings indicating the astronomers are driving up a hill, at least for the last stretch, is wrong - they'd be driving up a very steep mountain road with lots of zig-zags. --[[User:RenniePet|RenniePet]] ([[User talk:RenniePet|talk]]) 23:49, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

True story: Stephan James O'Meara's eyeballs are close to where it'd become statistically unlikely for there to be humans with a more perfectly shaped eyeball. He probably sees that 3 of the sky's planets are bigger than a point without an instrument. So from natural ability, being born after '55, and a bit from practice, SJO had about the best night vision of anyone alive in 1985. The guy wanted to be the first human to see Halley's Comet come back. So he traveled from Boston to a 14,000 foot volcano in the middle of the Pacific and brought a telescope so wide that Yao Ming could barely hug it. And bottled oxygen. Even people who can grow enough blood cells and heart-lung athleticism to acclimate completely still have trouble seeing in the dark. Besides some of the best observing conditions on the planet, it was also only 7.5 degrees from the latitude where Halley's Comet passed overhead so there was very little extra air to look through. Also, you have to use peripheral vision. But not too far to the side. And not the ear side, that's the blind spot. And tap the telescope and look for motion. That's the technique. It must've been freezing (it was midwinter and convection of even a human under the opening affects the view) but here is a guy staring through a telescope Yao Ming could barely get his arms around with an oxygen mask to his face. [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.87|199.27.128.87]] 00:17, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Am I the only one who's bothered by this? It was funny right up until the "let's make out" comment at the end. Astronomy has a pretty serious [http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/fed-up-with-sexual-harassment-defining.html sexual harassment problem], and as a woman working in astronomy I'd rather that wasn't made light of. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.221|108.162.250.221]] 03:08, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
: I don't think Randall would consciously make light of such an issue. Sadly, it does make a kind of sense that it would be an astronomical problem, so to speak. [[User:Taibhse|Taibhse]] ([[User talk:Taibhse|talk]]) 04:17, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
: That's assuming one or more of the astronomers is female. They could all be male. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.61|108.162.216.61]] 06:03, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Oxygen concentration is constant regardless of altitude? So there is the same quantity of oxygen per cubic meter of atmosphere at sea level as at the edge of the atmosphere? And halfway to the moon? That doesn't sound right... [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.169|108.162.221.169]] 04:39, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Talk:1460: SMFW

2014-12-15T09:56:25Z

108.162.216.61: comment

Reading this is like listening to the video of that lady who imitates the sound patterns of different languages, but without actually saying any real words! --[[User:Elipongo|Elipongo]] ([[User talk:Elipongo|talk]]) 05:34, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

It would sound more natural if it were "''SMFW '''as''' an acronym almost makes sense''". Is the fact that "as" was omitted from that sentence supposed to give us a hint as to what "SMFW" might mean? [[User:Nicksh|Nicksh]] ([[User talk:Nicksh|talk]]) 07:16, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

I thought of So Much For Work as a possible meaning. {{unsigned ip|173.245.50.178}}

I think "SMFW" is a mixture of SMF and MFW: "So Much Fun When". It fits the sentence. The only thing is that Cueball doesn't look like he's having fun.

Smoke more fucking weed could be a replacement for something like "Bloody hell" or "Shit the bed".
[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.252|141.101.98.252]] 09:05, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

So why doesn't "xkcd" appear on the acronyms list? --[[User:Koveras|Koveras]] ([[User talk:Koveras|talk]]) 09:47, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
: Because xkcd isnt an acronym. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.61|108.162.216.61]] 09:56, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Talk:1372: Smartwatches

2014-05-23T16:35:11Z

108.162.216.61:

I like how much detail Randall put into the damage of the smartphone and smartwatches.<small>[[User:MrGameZone|0100011101100001011011010110010101011010011011110110111001100101]] ([[User talk:MrGameZone|talk page]])</small> 09:44, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

About the transcript, it seems that I added one at the same time someone else did. I like mine better, but I won't be offended if someone else changes it back to the first revision. Also, feel free to re-format.[[User:Jarod997|Jarod997]] ([[User talk:Jarod997|talk]]) 13:19, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

:I am reminded of this:
:http://thedoghousediaries.com/4974
:...even so, I still would like a Samsung SWatch Note III complete with a watch app (downloaded by the Play Store or F-Droid, of course)! [[User:Greyson|Greyson]] ([[User talk:Greyson|talk]]) 14:55, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

Maybe it's just me, but the explanation regarding the */# keys on Bell phone seems irrelevent. There's nothing inherent about those keys that make a comparison to cellular phones logical, at least not that I'm aware of.--[[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.61|108.162.216.61]] 16:35, 23 May 2014 (UTC)