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<p>141.101.98.184: /* Explanation */</p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 2963<br /> | date = July 24, 2024<br /> | title = House Inputs and Outputs<br /> | image = house_inputs_and_outputs_2x.png<br /> | imagesize = 740x684px<br /> | noexpand = true<br /> | titletext = People think power over ethernet is so great, and yet when I try to do water over ethernet everyone yells at me.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by a possible reference to [[1037: Umwelt]] in panel 16 - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> This is another comic in a series depicting {{w|confusion matrix|confusion matrices}}, similar to [[2420: Appliances]], [[2813: What To Do]] and [[1890: What to Bring]]. It is arranged as a table of five columns of conduits to and from a house, by five rows of resources and people, each of which typically enter, exit or both enter ''and'' exit the house via a least one of the identified conduits. The table cells have a green background for compatible methods of transit and a red tint is used for the more problematic pairings. Each panel can be read as &quot;[row label] [entering and/or exiting] the house via the [column label]&quot;, for example, &quot;Fresh water entering the house via the well&quot;.<br /> <br /> {| class=&quot;wikitable&quot; style=&quot;background-color: lightpink;&quot;<br /> |+ House Inputs and Outputs<br /> ! !! Well !! Garage !! Power lines !! Front door !! Septic tank<br /> |-<br /> ! Fresh water (Input)<br /> |style=&quot;background-color: palegreen;&quot;| The purpose of a well is usually to pump fresh water into the home, primarily for drinking or washing. It may be unnecessary in many places if a reliable {{w|water supply network}} is available. || Long gone are the days of {{w|Labours_of_Hercules#Fifth:_Augean_stables|having to clean up after your primary mode of transportation}}, for most people. || Power lines conduct electricity, not water. The two functions are inherently dangerous if carelessly combined. Water can be used to cool high-energy lines, such as fast battery charger cables, and cables supplying electric arc furnaces, but this is an insulation/cooling function without intent to supply electified water to any consumption point. The example in the comic also clearly leaks, which is going to be a problem from both the power supply and water supply points of view.|| Many people prefer to control the amount of bwater they get, and the water may damage things inside the house. || Most people don't want anything they drink to contain (or go through pipes that have contained) sewage.<br /> |-<br /> ! Cars (Input/Output)<br /> | Most cars manufactured in recent years can't fit inside a well.<br /> |style=&quot;background-color: palegreen;&quot;| Garages are in fact built for the storage of cars and other similarly-sized vehicles. Placing a car in one will both help protect it from the elements and make it easier to access from inside your own home. || As of yet, cars cannot be transferred through power lines and require roads to travel on. However, this could significantly reduce travel costs. || Most cars can’t fit through doors, apart from the garage door. || Comedian {{w|Garrison Keillor}}'s 2008 ''More News from Lake Wobegon'' includes a story where an old septic tank is discovered to actually be a buried car.[https://theseriouscomedysite.com/comedy-cd-or-download/garrison-keillor-more-news-from-lake-wobegon/]<br /> |-<br /> ! Electricity (Input)<br /> | Wells are not a source of electric power, and attempting to obtain electricity from a well would likely contaminate its water supply. || In the United States, lightning is responsible for causing around 24,600 structure fires annually, resulting in $8 to $10 billion in losses. <br /> |style=&quot;background-color: palegreen;&quot;| Power lines are designed to facilitate the connection of individual homes to the broader local power network. [[Randall]] omits the fact that electricity can also be an output; e.g. houses with solar panels regularly export electricity too. || {{w|Benjamin Franklin}} invented the {{w|lightning rod}} to prevent lightning strike damage to structures. || As Knit Cap observes, septic tanks are not a source of electric power.<br /> |-<br /> ! People (Input/Output)<br /> |style=&quot;background-color: lightpink&quot;| This depicts a view from inside a well, a very dangerous place for most people.{{Citation needed}} As a [[:Category:Comics with inverted brightness|dark scene]], it is drawn &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: lightpink;&quot;&gt;red-on-black&lt;/span&gt;. The motif resembles poster art for the 2002 horror movie remake ''{{w|The Ring (2002 film)|The Ring}}'', which involves a girl left to die in a well who becomes a vengeful ghost (see also [[396: The Ring]]).<br /> |style=&quot;background-color: palegreen;&quot;| A person can enter and exit their home through a garage door, provided the garage has an internal door to the rest of the home. Not the best way to welcome guests though. || Overhead power lines to homes are generally not strong enough to climb, and attempting to do so incurs a very serious risk of electrocution. <br /> |style=&quot;background-color: palegreen;&quot;| The front door of a home is designed for entry and exit of humans and similarly sized items. || In general, people find crawling through waste unwanted. Also, the septic tank is not connected to the street.<br /> |-<br /> ! Sewage (Output)<br /> | Sewage in drinking water can cause disease. It is/was the main cause for most {{w|cholera}} epidemics.<br /> |colspan=3| Sewage spills are smelly, disgusting, hard to clean and can destroy carpets, floors, drywall and property value.<br /> |style=&quot;background-color: palegreen;&quot;| A {{w|septic tank}} is an underground chamber through which wastewater flows for basic {{w|sewage treatment}}.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> The title text references {{w|Power over Ethernet|power over ethernet (PoE)}}, first implemented in the early 2000s, which passes electric power along with data on twisted-pair Ethernet cabling. This is a welcome development, as it removes the need for many lower-power network-connected devices to have independent power supplies, usually simplifying their installation and relocation. While networked water delivery (&quot;running water&quot;) is also a welcome development, doing so over ethernet cables would be disastrous, risking the destruction of linked electronic devices (nearly all of which are water-intolerant) while not providing enough water for 'normal' use. Randall would get off easy if he were merely to be yelled at.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> :[A 5x5 grid of squares. The columns are labeled: Well, Garage, Power lines, Front door, Septic tank. Each row's label has an arrow and a house next to it. The rows are: Fresh water (horizontal arrow towards house), Cars (two-directional horizontal arrow and house), Electricity (horizontal arrow into house), People (two-directional horizontal arrow and house), Sewage (vertical arrow out of bottom of house).]<br /> <br /> :Well, Fresh water: [green]<br /> ::Voice from house: Mmm! Refreshing!<br /> <br /> :Garage, Fresh water: [red]<br /> ::''Fwoosh''<br /> <br /> :Power lines, Fresh water: [red]<br /> <br /> :Front door, Fresh water: [red]<br /> ::Voice from house: Stop it!<br /> ::''Fwoosh!''<br /> <br /> :Septic tank, Fresh water: [red]<br /> ::Voice from house: Eww.<br /> <br /> :Well, Cars: [red]<br /> <br /> :Garage, Cars: [green]<br /> <br /> :Power lines, Cars: [red]<br /> <br /> :Front door, Cars: [red]<br /> ::Voice from car: Do you think I scratched the paint?<br /> <br /> :Septic tank, Cars: [red]<br /> <br /> :Well, Electricity: [red]<br /> ::Cueball's laptop: ⚠Low battery<br /> <br /> :Garage, Electricity: [red]<br /> ::''BOOM''<br /> <br /> :Power lines, Electricity: [green]<br /> <br /> :Front door, Electricity: [red]<br /> ::''BOOM''<br /> <br /> :Septic tank, Electricity: [red]<br /> ::Knit Cap: Why won't my console turn on?<br /> <br /> :Well, People: [red (and black)]<br /> <br /> :Garage, People: [green]<br /> ::Cueball: Bye!<br /> <br /> :Power lines, People: [red]<br /> ::Cueball: Bye!<br /> <br /> :Front door, People: [green]<br /> ::Cueball: Bye!<br /> <br /> :Septic tank, People: [red]<br /> ::Cueball: Bye!<br /> <br /> :Well, Sewage: [red]<br /> ::Voice from house: ''Why do I keep getting sick???<br /> <br /> :Garage, Sewage: [red]<br /> ::Cueball: Oh no.<br /> <br /> :Power lines, Sewage: [red]<br /> ::Cueball: Eww.<br /> <br /> :Front door, Sewage: [red]<br /> ::Cueball: Oh ''no''.<br /> <br /> :Septic tank, Sewage: [green]<br /> ::''Flush''<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Comics with color]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Knit Cap]]<br /> [[Category:Confusion matrices]]<br /> [[Category:Multiple Cueballs]]<br /> [[Category:Charts]]</div>

141.101.98.184 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2960:_Organ_Meanings&diff=346663 2024-07-18T13:53:45Z

<p>141.101.98.184: </p> <hr /> <div>&lt;!--Please sign your posts with ~~~~ and don't delete this text. New comments should be added at the bottom.--&gt;<br /> how is thymus formed [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.102|172.70.85.102]] 07:00, 18 July 2024 (UTC)<br /> : It grows from seed.[[Special:Contributions/172.69.194.97|172.69.194.97]] 12:23, 18 July 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> You think Randall might have made this one as a ploy to have explain xkcd educate him on the organs and metaphors mentioned? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.146.33|162.158.146.33]] 07:59, 18 July 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> Why is 'Liver' so high up on the metaphor scale? The only one I can think of is 'lily-livered', which doesn't appear to make much sense at all. On the other hand, I'd have 'Spleen' nearer the top, and 'Tongue' fairly high up as well. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.185|172.70.162.185]] 08:06, 18 July 2024 (UTC)<br /> :Agreed; personally I’d have liver and tongue switch places, and I’d guess the one who added silver-tongued and biting one’s tongue would probably agree also. But that might be because I understand the biological function of a liver better than the average person does. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.210.5|172.70.210.5]] 08:21, 18 July 2024 (UTC)<br /> :: Are those really metaphors, though? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.40.152|162.158.40.152]] 09:24, 18 July 2024 (UTC)<br /> ::: They aren't, or at least not metaphors to the tongue. Just done an edit, before having read this, to remove the visibility of &quot;silver tongue&quot; (a tongue that is metaphorically as silver... or maybe even quicksilver) and a &quot;bitten tongue&quot; (the tongue as if restrained by biting). Though there are other forms, the metaphor to biological function must be of the general &quot;it is the tongue of the &lt;something else&gt;&quot; type, maybe such as a tongue of lava or the tongue of an oil-can (one being an extending appendage, the other additionally being a contact depositor of liquid - though not always consistent in application).<br /> ::: Something can more easily be understood as the metaphorical heart/nerves/spine/etc of something, and we also have a good understanding of what the originals do. A sewage treatment plant can be considered the kidneys of a town (arguably more understood than a liver of one, for example, so I'd have personally switched the two), but it gets more complex with some of them. In the case of the appendix, we pretty much ''only'' know (in lay-use) that it's a spare fleshy bit that might or might not have any use, so the metaphorical 'equivalent biological function' of a &quot;town's 'appendix'&quot; is probably more understood than a body's ''actual'' appendix, for most people, the opposite of the situation with metaphorical/actual tongues. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.91.64|172.70.91.64]] 10:06, 18 July 2024 (UTC)<br /> :::: Your understanding of metaphors is... unique. A &quot;silver tongue&quot; certainly is a tongue-based metaphor; we're referring to someone's manner of speech as their &quot;tongue&quot;.{{unsigned|Collapsinghrung}}<br /> : The one I think of is &quot;What am I chopped Liver&quot;. Though according to google that is usually a Jewish metaphor (which I am) {{unsigned ip|162.158.158.103}}<br /> <br /> I'm not convinced that 'Metaphor meaning' is going to work as a column in the table - several of these have multiple metaphors associated, often with varied and little-related meanings.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.160.249|172.70.160.249]] 12:20, 18 July 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> I just added the line about anatomical metaphors varying from culture to culture. Would people like to include any examples of culturally variable metaphors? I think it was Jonathan Safran Foer's &quot;Everything Is Illuminated&quot; where an Eastern European character kept shouting out &quot;spleen&quot;. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.46.172|172.70.46.172]] 12:58, 18 July 2024 (UTC)</div>

141.101.98.184 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2957:_A_Crossword_Puzzle&diff=346332 2024-07-12T22:15:03Z

<p>141.101.98.184: /* Explanation */ Seemed silly to point out that A4 can be cut in half and exhibit this property without explaining that A3-&gt;A2-&gt;A1-&gt;A0 are doublings (or in turn were sources for halvings) with exactly the same shape relationships.</p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 2957<br /> | date = July 10, 2024<br /> | title = A Crossword Puzzle<br /> | image = a_crossword_puzzle_2x.png<br /> | imagesize = 740x937px<br /> | noexpand = true<br /> | titletext = Hint: If you ever encounter this puzzle in a crossword app, just [term for someone with a competitive and high-achieving personality].<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by a CROSSWORD MAKER FREE FALLING - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> &lt;!-- Created by a BOT --&gt;<br /> {{notice|&lt;big&gt;'''SPOILER ALERT!'''&lt;/big&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you read on without trying to look at the crossword clues first, the joke is spoiled and your chance of finding out the joke yourself is gone instantly!|image=warning!!.png}}<br /> <br /> This is a crossword puzzle. On a surface level, the answers seem extremely difficult, with questions covering a wide variety of trivia, linguistics, mathematics in various forms, alongside wordplay typical of crossword puzzles. But the joke is that every single letter of every single answer is &quot;A&quot;.<br /> <br /> The name of this comic, “A Crossword Puzzle”, is a double entendre; the “A” can be interpreted both as the indefinite article “a”, and as an identifier saying that this crossword puzzle is specifically an “A” puzzle, due to the answer being all “a”s.<br /> <br /> The title text is a play on a &quot;type A&quot; personality. The term for someone with a competitive and high-achieving personality is &quot;Type A&quot;. In the context of the title text, this answer is a hint that the entire puzzle can be completed in a crossword-solving app by typing the letter A repeatedly.<br /> <br /> ===Explanation of clues===<br /> {| class=&quot;wikitable&quot; style=&quot;margin:auto&quot;<br /> |-<br /> ! Location !! Clue !! Explanation !! Squares<br /> |-<br /> | 1-Across || Famous Pvt. Wilhelm quote || Reference to the {{w|Wilhelm scream}}. || 10<br /> |-<br /> | 11-Across || {{w|IPv6}} address record || An IPv4 record is an &quot;A&quot; record; an IPv6 record is four times the length and is designated an &quot;AAAA&quot; record. || 4<br /> |-<br /> | 15-Across || “CIPHERTEXT” decrypted with Vigenère key “CIPHERTEXT” || A &quot;{{w|Vigenère Cipher}}&quot; translates the original text by the distance from A from the key, letter by letter. For instance, if the plaintext is &quot;XK&quot; and the key is &quot;CD&quot;, the C shifts X 2 forward to become Z, and the D shifts K 3 forward to become N, yielding a ciphertext of &quot;ZN&quot;. Since the ciphertext and the key are the same in this case, decryption just shifts all the letters back to A, akin to subtracting a number from itself and getting 0. || 10<br /> |-<br /> | 16-Across || 8mm diameter battery || An {{w|AAAA battery}} is a 1.5 V battery that measures 8.3 mm in diameter, 2.2 mm smaller than the more common AAA battery. || 4<br /> |-<br /> | 17-Across || “Warthog” attack aircraft || The {{w|A-10 Warthog}} is an attack aircraft. Here, A-10 has been turned into AAAAAAAAAA (ten As). || 10<br /> |-<br /> | 18-Across || '''E'''ve'''r'''y t'''h'''ir'''d''' le'''t'''te'''r''' in the word for “inability to visualize” || {{w|Aphantasia}} is the inability to experience mental images. Following the example of the pattern in the clue, taking the first letter and every third one after (rather than just every third letter) we determine that '''A'''ph'''a'''nt'''a'''si'''a''' gives us the word &quot;aaaa&quot;. This clue is particularly mean because of how it instructs you to visualize the letters highlighted within the word in order to get the answer. || 4<br /> |-<br /> | 19-Across || An {{w|acrostic}} hidden on the first page of the dictionary || The first page of the dictionary (if you ignore the copyright page and the index) is the list of words starting with A. An acrostic of this page, taking the first letter of each line and arranging them in order, would just be a sequence of As. || 15<br /> |-<br /> | 21-Across || Default paper size in Europe || {{w|A4 paper}} (here written as AAAA) is the default size in Europe. At 210×297 mm, it is approximately 0.24″ narrower and 0.71″ longer than the 8.5″×11″ paper used in the United States, and due to having an aspect ratio of 1:sqrt(2), can be cut or folded in half to create two half-sized sheets (A5) with exactly the same aspect ratio. A4 is, itself, also a halving of A3 and of identical ratio, as is the case with all A-sizes higher and lower in the sequence.|| 4<br /> |-<br /> | 22-Across || First four unary strings || A unary number system represents numbers using just one symbol. For example, 7 in unary would be 1111111. The first four strings in unary, if you used A as the first (and only) symbol, would be A, AA, AAA, AAAA. || 10<br /> |-<br /> | 23-Across || Lysine codon || {{w|Lysine}} is an amino acid, with codons AAA and AAG. || 3<br /> |-<br /> | 24-Across || 40 CFR Part 63 subpart concerning asphalt pollution || [https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-40/chapter-I/subchapter-C/part-63?toc=1 &quot;40 CFR Part 63&quot;] refers to federal air pollutant regulations in the Code of Federal Regulations. The subpart for &quot;asphalt processing and asphalt roofing manufacturing&quot; is AAAAAAA. || 7<br /> |-<br /> | 25-Across || Top bond credit rating || The highest {{w|credit rating}} for bonds is AAA. || 3<br /> |-<br /> | 26-Across || Audi coupe || First of three Audi references. {{w|List_of_Audi_vehicles|Audi's car models}} range from A1 (subcompact hatchback) to A8 (full-size luxury sedan); the A5, the one referenced here, is a compact executive {{w|coupe}}. || 5<br /> |-<br /> | 27-Across || A pair of small remote batteries, when inserted || Two {{w|AAA_battery|AAA}} batteries, which are often used to power remote controls for domestic devices. These have been combined to give AAAAAA — &quot;Inserted&quot; is often a cryptic hint that one word should surround another, although such a cryptic clue would normally also contain a more direct clue (albeit ambiguously) to the full answer. || 6<br /> |-<br /> | 29-Across || Unofficial Howard Dean slogan || A reference to Howard Dean, an American Democrat who ran for the party's nomination in 2004. He famously [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6i-gYRAwM0 yelled at a rally] in a way that was thought to be bizarre and which, it is thought, doomed his campaign. || 7<br /> |-<br /> | 32-Across || A 4.0 report card || A 4.0 GPA, at least {{w|Academic_grading_in_the_United_States|in the USA}}, is all As. This clue assumes seven classes. || 7<br /> |-<br /> | 33-Across || The “Harlem Globetrotters of baseball” (vowels only) || The {{w|Savannah Bananas}}, the vowels for whom are aaaaaa. || 6<br /> |-<br /> | 34-Across || 2018 Kiefer song || “[https://genius.com/Kiefer-aaaaa-lyrics AAAAA]”. || 5<br /> |-<br /> | 35-Across || Top Minor League tier || The top {{w|Minor League Baseball}} tier is AAA. || 3<br /> |-<br /> | 36-Across || Reply elicited by a dentist || Dentists ask patients to &quot;say aaaaaaa&quot;, i.e., &quot;open up&quot;. This could also be an expression of pain, particularly the only kind you can make with dental tools in your mouth. (As the band {{w|Autechre}} put it, [https://youtu.be/UppsLKz1iD4 &quot;Now, I don't want you to panic... just lean back and relax.&quot;]) || 7<br /> |-<br /> | 38-Across || Anaa’s airport || {{w|Anaa}} is an atoll in the {{w|Tuamotu archipelago}} of {{w|French Polynesia}}. AAA is the {{w|IATA}} code for its airport. || 3<br /> |-<br /> | 41-Across || Macaulay Culkin’s review of aftershave || In the movie ''{{w|Home Alone}}'', Kevin (played by {{w|Macaulay Culkin}}) puts on his father's aftershave lotion. The six-year-old boy is not used to the lotion's antiseptic and screams as the stinging sensation kicks in. || 10<br /> |-<br /> | 43-Across || Marketing agency trade grp. || The {{w|American Association of Advertising Agencies}}, also called the 4As (here AAAA). An abbreviated word in a clue, here &quot;grp.&quot;, is a common way to signal that the answer also should also be written as its abbreviation. || 4<br /> |-<br /> | 44-Across || Soaring climax of Linda Eder’s ''Man of La Mancha'' || Refers to [https://youtu.be/BWP7l0OTXJI?t=130 the 18-second-long wordless passage in Eder's opus], or possibly the final high note in the song “The Impossible Dream”. || 15<br /> |-<br /> | 46-Across || Military flight community org. || The {{w|Army Aviation Association of America}}, or AAAA. || 4<br /> |-<br /> | 47-Across || Iconic line from ''Tarzan'' || Tarzan has a famous {{w|Tarzan yell|war cry}} he shouts, usually when swinging from a vine. || 10<br /> |-<br /> | 48-Across || '''E'''v'''e'''r'''y''' o'''t'''h'''e'''r letter of Jimmy Wales’s birth state || The birth state of {{w|Jimmy Wales}}, the co-founder of Wikipedia, is Alabama. Taking every other letter of '''A'''l'''a'''b'''a'''m'''a''' gives &quot;Aaaa&quot;. || 4<br /> |-<br /> | 49-Across || Warthog’s postscript after “They call me ''mister'' pig!” || Pumba in ''{{w|The Lion King}}'' yells &quot;aaaaaaaaaa&quot; while charging at the hyenas who insulted him. || 10<br /> |-<br /> | 50-Across || Message to Elsa in ''Frozen 2'' || The call which Elsa hears in ''{{w|Frozen 2}}'' is a sequence of four notes which resemble the requiem music {{w|Dies Irae#Music|Dies irae}}. The sequence is sung entirely with an open rounded vowel sound, or a soft &quot;a&quot; sound. || 4<br /> |-<br /> | 51-Across || Lola, when betting it all on Black 20 in ''Run Lola Run'' || In ''{{w|Run Lola Run}}'', Lola ({{w|Franka Potente}}) [https://youtu.be/OTSz1w-cuZM?si=2vc51WCWvn20Hjoo&amp;t=116 screams loud enough to affect the outcome] of a roulette wheel where she has just bet all her money on Black 20. The scream could be transcribed as &quot;AAAAAAAAAA&quot; || 10<br /> |-<br /> | 1-Down || Game featuring “a reckless disregard for gravity” || ''{{w|AaAaAA!!! – A Reckless Disregard for Gravity}}'' - notably the title is commonly extended in promotional material beyond 6 As. || 6<br /> |-<br /> | 2-Down || 101010101010101010101010&lt;sub&gt;2→16&lt;/sub&gt; || 10101010 10101010 10101010 in binary is equivalent to &quot;AAAAAA&quot; in hexadecimal. || 6<br /> |-<br /> | 3-Down || Google phone released July ’22 || The {{w|Pixel 6a}} was released in July 22. Stylized in this puzzle as &quot;AAAAAA&quot; ('A'×6) || 6<br /> |-<br /> | 4-Down || It’s five times better than that ''other'' steak sauce || Five times better than {{w|A1 steak sauce}} would be A5, stylized in this puzzle as AAAAA. || 5<br /> |-<br /> | 5-Down || ToHex(43690) || The decimal number 43690 converted to hexadecimal is AAAA. || 4<br /> |-<br /> | 6-Down || Freddie Mercury lyric from ''Under Pressure'' || A drawn-out 'Aaaaahhhh' rising in pitch. || 15<br /> |-<br /> | 7-Down || Full-size Audi luxury sedan || Second of three Audi references. As mentioned previously, the A8 referenced here is their full-size luxury sedan. || 8<br /> |-<br /> | 8-Down || Fast path through a multiple choice marketing survey || The &quot;fast path&quot; is just to select the first option over and over again. Usually the options are labeled A, B, C, and D (or more) - choosing the first option for every question would be answering entirely with As. || 7<br /> |-<br /> | 9-Down || 12356631 in base 26 || Randall is expressing base 26 using the letters of the alphabet with 1=A, in which case 12356631&lt;sub&gt;10&lt;/sub&gt; = AAAAAA&lt;sub&gt;26&lt;/sub&gt;. (It's unclear how one would express the digit 0&lt;sub&gt;26&lt;/sub&gt; this way.) || 6<br /> |-<br /> | 10-Down || Viral Jimmy Barnes chorus || A reference to the music video for Kirin J Callinan's song “{{w|Big Enough}}”, which features rocker {{w|Jimmy Barnes}} in a cowboy hat screaming &quot;Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!&quot; while in the sky over mountain scenes. || 15<br /> |-<br /> | 11-Down || Ruby Rhod catchphrase || Ruby Rhod is a radio host in the film ''{{w|The Fifth Element}}''; he has a scene with a memorable scream. || 5<br /> |-<br /> | 12-Down || badbeef + 9efcebbb || In hexadecimal, badbeef and 9efcebbb add together to equal AAAAAAAA (195,935,983, 2,667,375,547, and 2,863,311,530 in decimal respectively). || 8<br /> |-<br /> | 13-Down || In Wet Leg’s ''Ur Mum'', what the singer has been practicing || In the song &quot;{{w|Ur Mum}}&quot; by {{w|Wet Leg}}, the bridge starts with &quot;Okay, I've been practicing my longest and loudest scream&quot;, which is apparently eight As long. || 8<br /> |-<br /> | 14-Down || Refrain from Nora Reed bot || The &quot;Endless Scream&quot; bot on social media, made by Nora Reed, posts &quot;AAAAAAAAAAA&quot; (with or without an h) at varying lengths. || 8<br /> |-<br /> | 20-Down || Mario button presses to ascend Minas Tirith’s walls || In ''Mario'' games you typically use the A button to jump. In games where you don't press a button to move (e.g., games with a joystick), then the button presses required to ascend a vertical structure would probably all be A. This clue might have been inspired by the {{w|A-button challenge}} / [https://ukikipedia.net/wiki/A_Button_Challenge A Button Challenge], which tallies the number of A presses needed to beat ''Super Mario 64''. Additionally, {{w|Minas Tirith}} is a fictional city in ''{{w|The Lord of the Rings}}'' with seven concentric rings, each with a wall around it and higher than the last ring. Presumably, it takes seven jumps to get to the highest area of the city, so the answer is &quot;AAAAAAA&quot;. || 7<br /> |-<br /> | 24-Down || Vermont historic route north from Bennington || {{w|Vermont Route 7A}}, or AAAAAAA. || 7 <br /> |-<br /> | 26-Down || High-budget video game || A high-budget video game is usually referred to as a Triple-A game, or AAA. || 3<br /> |-<br /> | 28-Down || Unorthodox Tic-tac-toe win || {{w|Tic-tac-toe}} is usually won by getting either three Xs or three Os in a row, making XXX and OOO normal Tic-tac-toe wins. One could achieve a win of AAA by making the unorthodox choice of playing with the letter A instead of X or O. Alternatively, Randall is envisaging the grid as defined by rows 1, 2, 3, and columns A, B, C, so an AAA win would be simply playing in the first column each time - a strategy which should be obvious and easy to stop, even for young children who have not yet worked out that ''any'' route to winning can be blocked. || 3<br /> |-<br /> | 29-Down || String whose SHA-256 hash ends “…689510285e212385” || &lt;code&gt;printf AAAAAAAA &lt;nowiki&gt;|&lt;/nowiki&gt; sha256sum&lt;/code&gt; outputs &lt;code&gt;c34ab6abb7b2bb595bc25c3b388c872fd1d575819a8f55cc689510285e212385&lt;/code&gt;.<br /> Note that this 'clue' would be normally be ''particularly'' difficult, in isolation, as the nature of a {{w|hash function}} means that it is possible for multiple inputs to produce a given output, and that finding any of these (and definitely identifying ''all'' of them, to ensure you have the correct original) would require a {{w|brute-force attack}}; i.e. a test of all possible initial states to discover which of them might be viable candidates. Even more problematic is that we are only given a partial hash string, meaning we are possibly talking of a multiple of full hashes, each of them with a possible multiplicity of original plaintexts behind them. However, given the context of this puzzle, it's reasonable to guess that a sequence of 8 As might be the answer, and indeed its hash does match the clue given.<br /> &lt;br/&gt;The number of possible hashes in the clue is 16&lt;sup&gt;64&lt;/sup&gt;/16&lt;sup&gt;16&lt;/sup&gt;, i.e. 16&lt;sup&gt;48&lt;/sup&gt;, or approximately 6x10&lt;sup&gt;54&lt;/sup&gt;, although there really is no reason (aside from the fundamental impracticality) to try to solve this problem from each and every 'hash end'. Instead you would 'only' check every combination of 8 letters (presuming no digits, punctuation or whitespace would be inserted, that no “foreign”/accented characters are present and that uppercase is universally presumed, is 26&lt;sup&gt;8&lt;/sup&gt;; i.e. ~208 {{w|billion|short-scale billion}} possibilities) and discover which (one?) of these sufficiently matches the hash fragment given. Testing a hundred of these every second, it would take a little over 66 ''years'' to complete the task of checking every single possibility (rather than stopping at the first confirmed answer, which might well be the initial one in this particular case).<br /> &lt;br/&gt;In the context of a crossword such as this, however, you can significantly reduce this search by having established (or at least sufficiently narrowed down) the answers to the various across-clues which intersect with ever character of it (this form of crossword grid being of the {{w|Crossword#American-style crosswords|dense type}}, with no singly-clued spaces as with the more open lattice-types), reducing the necessary checks drastically. This could mean, having solved at least some of the perpendicular answers, that you have enough information to 'guess' at some likely answer, and then merely need to ''confirm'' that whatever guess(es) you make will resolve themselves into the clue-answer provided. (Much as you might with a more normally difficult clue, where you merely have to satisfy yourself that the surprise answer is at least justified as resulting from the original hint.)<br /> | 8<br /> |-<br /> | 30-Down || Arnold’s remark to the Predator || A reference to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsFYPVxHKdc this scene] from ''{{w|Predator (film)|Predator}}''. || 8<br /> |-<br /> | 31-Down || The vowels in the fire salamander’s binomial name || The vowels in {{w|Salamandra salamandra}} are aaaaaaaa. || 8<br /> |-<br /> | 32-Down || Janet Leigh ''Psycho'' line || The iconic scene in ''{{w|Psycho (1960 film)|Psycho}}'' is the shower scene, in which {{w|Janet Leigh}} gives a long piercing scream as she is murdered. This can be written as 8 As if one wishes. || 8<br /> |-<br /> | 34-Down || Seven 440Hz pulses || A sound with a frequency of 440 Hz is a middle &quot;A&quot; note. Seven such pulses would be AAAAAAA. || 7<br /> |-<br /> | 37-Down || Audi luxury sports sedan || Third of three Audi references. The A6, the one referenced here, is their executive car. Actually, the A7, their executive liftback sedan, would fit the prompt of &quot;luxury sports sedan&quot; better, but 37-Down only has room for six As. || 6<br /> |-<br /> | 38-Down || A half-dozen eggs with reasonably firm yolks || Eggs can be [https://www.saudereggs.com/blog/egg-grading-system/ &quot;graded on a variety of aspects&quot;], with grades B, A, or AA. Eggs with a reasonably firm yolk are graded A, so having half a dozen of them gives you AAAAAA eggs. || 6<br /> |-<br /> | 39-Down || 2-2-2-2-2-2 on a multitap phone keypad || A &quot;{{w|multi-tap|multitap keyboard}}&quot; is a text entry system for mobile phones. Most numbers are associated with three letters, and tapping the same number multiple times in rapid succession selects the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd number. 2 is &quot;A&quot;, 22 is &quot;B&quot;, 222 is &quot;C&quot;, 3 is &quot;D&quot;, etc. 2-2-2-2-2-2 translates to &quot;AAAAAA&quot;. || 6<br /> |-<br /> | 40-Down || .- .- .- .- .- .- || .- is {{w|Morse Code}} for A. It reads out as AAAAAA. || 6<br /> |-<br /> | 42-Down || Rating for China’s best tourist attractions || China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism provides ratings for many tourist attractions in China on a scale from A to AAAAA, with AAAAA being the best. Examples of well-known tourist attractions with the AAAAA rating include the {{w|Forbidden City}}, sections of the {{w|Great Wall of China}}, and the {{w|Terracotta Army}}. || 5<br /> |-<br /> | 43-Down || Standard drumstick size || 5A is a common, middle-range size for drumsticks (the sticks used to play drums, not the drumsticks that get eaten). Here, it's written as AAAAA. || 5<br /> |-<br /> | 45-Down || “The rain/in Spain/falls main-/ly on the plain” rhyme scheme || An AAAA {{w|rhyme scheme}} means each of the four lines ends with the same sound. || 4<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> :[A square 15x15 crossword puzzle is shown. Only 21 of the 225 squares are black. The black squares are in a pattern that are 180 degree rotationally symmetrical. Three black squares down from the 11th column and similarly three black squares up from the 5th column. Three black squares out from the right in row 7 and then two more black squares diagonally up from the end. Similarly three black squares out from the left in row 9 with two more black squares diagonally down from the end. A single black square is three above the first black square on the diagonal going down to the right and similarly there is a black square three under the first of the diagonal squares going down to the left. (Row 6 column 12 and Row 10 column 4). Finally there are three black squares on a diagonal crossing over the central point by going up from the left through the central point (Row 8 column 8). There are numbers at the top of every column (except the one that is a black square) and similarly at the left edge of all rows (except the one that is a black square). There are also numbers at the bottom of every black segment (except the one that reaches the bottom) and all rows after black segments except the one that reaches the right edge. In total all numbers from 1 to 51 are written. They are written in reading order from 1 to 51.] <br /> :1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51<br /> <br /> :[Below the square there are two columns of clues for each number that belongs to across (rows) and to the right there is one column of clues for each number that belongs to down (columns). Both segments have an underlined and bold title above the clues. ]<br /> :&lt;big&gt;&lt;u&gt;'''Across'''&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/big&gt;<br /> :1. Famous Pvt. Wilhelm quote<br /> :11. IPv6 address record<br /> :15. &quot;CIPHERTEXT&quot; decrypted with Vigenère key &quot;CIPHERTEXT&quot;<br /> :16. 8mm diameter battery<br /> :17. &quot;Warthog&quot; attack aircraft<br /> :18. '''E'''&lt;span style=&quot;color:gray&quot;&gt;ve&lt;/span&gt;'''r'''&lt;span style=&quot;color:gray&quot;&gt;y t&lt;/span&gt;'''h'''&lt;span style=&quot;color:gray&quot;&gt;ir&lt;/span&gt;'''d'''&lt;span style=&quot;color:gray&quot;&gt; le&lt;/span&gt;'''t'''&lt;span style=&quot;color:gray&quot;&gt;te&lt;/span&gt;'''r''' in the word for &quot;inability to visualize&quot;<br /> :19. An acrostic hidden on the first page of the dictionary<br /> :21. Default paper size in Europe<br /> :22. First four unary strings<br /> :23. Lysine codon<br /> :24. 40 CFR Part 63 subpart concerning asphalt pollution<br /> :25. Top bond credit rating<br /> :26. Audi coupe<br /> :27. A pair of small remote batteries, when inserted<br /> :29. Unofficial Howard Dean slogan<br /> :32. A 4.0 report card<br /> :33. The &quot;Harlem Globetrotters of baseball&quot; (vowels only)<br /> :34. 2018 Kiefer song<br /> :35. Top Minor League tier<br /> :36. Reply elicited by a dentist<br /> :38. ANAA's airport<br /> :41. Macaulay Culkin's review of aftershave<br /> :43. Marketing agency trade grp.<br /> :44. Soaring climax of Linda Eder's ''Man of La Mancha''<br /> :46. Military flight community org.<br /> :47. Iconic line from ''Tarzan''<br /> :48. '''E'''&lt;span style=&quot;color:gray&quot;&gt;'''v'''&lt;/span&gt;'''e'''&lt;span style=&quot;color:gray&quot;&gt;'''r'''&lt;/span&gt;'''y'''&lt;span style=&quot;color:gray&quot;&gt;''' o'''&lt;/span&gt;'''t'''&lt;span style=&quot;color:gray&quot;&gt;'''h'''&lt;/span&gt;'''e'''&lt;span style=&quot;color:gray&quot;&gt;'''r'''&lt;/span&gt; letter of Jimmy Wales's birth state<br /> :49. Warthog's postscript after &quot;They call me ''mister'' pig!&quot;<br /> :50. Message to Elsa in ''Frozen 2''<br /> :51. Lola, when betting it all on Black 20 in ''Run Lola Run''<br /> <br /> :&lt;big&gt;&lt;u&gt;'''Down'''&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/big&gt;<br /> :1. Game featuring &quot;a reckless disregard for gravity&quot;<br /> :2. 101010101010101010101010&lt;sub&gt;2→16&lt;/sub&gt;<br /> :3. Google phone released July '22<br /> :4. It's five times better than that ''other'' steak sauce<br /> :5. ToHex(43690)<br /> :6. Freddie Mercury lyric from ''Under Pressure''<br /> :7. Full-size Audi luxury sedan<br /> :8. Fast path through a multiple choice marketing survey<br /> :9. 12356631 in base 26<br /> :10. Viral Jimmy Barnes chorus<br /> :11. Ruby Rhod catchphrase<br /> :12. badbeef + 9efcebbb<br /> :13. In Wet Leg's ''Ur Mum'', what the singer has been practicing<br /> :14. Refrain from Nora Reed bot<br /> :20. Mario button presses to ascend Minas Tirith's walls<br /> :24. Vermont historic route north from Bennington<br /> :26. High-budget video game<br /> :28. Unorthodox Tic-Tac-Toe win<br /> :29. String whose SHA-256 hash ends &quot;...689510285e212385&quot;<br /> :30. Arnold's remark to the Predator<br /> :31. The vowels in the fire salamander's binomial name<br /> :32. Janet Leigh ''Psycho'' line<br /> :34. Seven 440Hz pulses<br /> :37. Audi luxury sports sedan<br /> :38. A half-dozen eggs with reasonably firm yolks<br /> :39. 2-2-2-2-2-2 on a multitap phone keypad<br /> :40. .- .- .- .- .- .-<br /> :42. Rating for China's best tourist attractions<br /> :43. Standard drumstick size<br /> :45. &quot;The rain/in Spain/falls main-/ly on the plain&quot; rhyme scheme<br /> <br /> ==Trivia==<br /> *This comic got a [[Header_text#A_Crossword_Puzzle|comic-specific header text]] after the first day it was up.<br /> **This was because one of the comics Randall lists as one of those he enjoys, [https://www.buttersafe.com/ Buttersafe], had already posted a similar comic back in 2011: [https://www.buttersafe.com/2011/02/17/crosswords/ Crosswords]. <br /> **Randall had forgotten this, but now pays tribute to this, stating that he must have been accidentally inspired by that comic.<br /> *[[User:Elfakyn|Elfakyn]] posted a link to a picture of the solved crossword puzzle in the [[Talk:2957:_A_Crossword_Puzzle#Solved_puzzle_picture|comments]] and allowed it to be included here:<br /> [[File:2957_A-Crossword_Puzzle-Solved.png|500px|center]] <br /> *All the black squares are in a symmetrical pattern, which is generally the case for crossword puzzles in the US and UK. See description of the pattern in the [[#Transcript|transcript]].<br /> *Crosswords have been mentioned previously in [[2896: Crossword Constructors]].<br /> *Out of 60 clues in the puzzle, 10 are references to screaming or yelling, making the puzzle approximately 17% screams.<br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Language]]<br /> [[Category:Math]]<br /> [[Category:Songs]]<br /> [[Category:Video games]]&lt;!-- Super Mario reference --&gt;</div>

141.101.98.184 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2946:_1.2_Kilofives&diff=344474 2024-06-17T09:36:41Z

<p>141.101.98.184: </p> <hr /> <div>== Challenge: Come up with a way like this to say the comic number #2946. ==<br /> <br /> Challenge: Come up with a way like this to say the comic number #2946. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 03:00, 15 June 2024 (UTC)<br /> :How about 4.91 hectosixes? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.33.190|172.69.33.190]] 04:19, 15 June 2024 (UTC)<br /> :A kibitwo, four decascore, four score and eighteen. Two octooctotwentythrees and two. A gross-score, three score and 6. [[User:Jordan Brown|Jordan Brown]] ([[User talk:Jordan Brown|talk]]) 05:00, 15 June 2024 (UTC)<br /> :A semidozen tetrahectaenneacontahena. [[User:Xkcd machine guy|Xkcd machine guy]] ([[User talk:Xkcd machine guy|talk]]) 08:25, 15 June 2024 (UTC)<br /> :A decapentagross minus a semiennea. [[User:Xkcd machine guy|Xkcd machine guy]] ([[User talk:Xkcd machine guy|talk]]) 10:10, 15 June 2024 (UTC)<br /> :A gross score and half a dozen elevenses[[User:Tier666|Tier666]] ([[User talk:Tier666|talk]]) 12:57, 16 June 2024 (UTC)<br /> Interestingly, four score and seven is exactly how you say 87 in French (quatre-vingt sept) and Basque (laurogeita zazpi). Both count on base 20. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.138|172.70.90.138]] 05:16, 15 June 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> <br /> == Comic discussion == <br /> <br /> Fun fact: libqalculate and the &quot;Qalculate&quot;/&quot;qalc&quot; programs can just deal with the title text:<br /> qalc &quot;50milli score&quot;<br /> 50 × (10^−3) × score = 1<br /> But it fails on the main part, the best that works is:<br /> qalc &quot;1.2kilo 5&quot;<br /> 1.2 × 10³ × 5 = 6000<br /> &quot;five&quot; gets interpreted as Euler's number × imaginary unit × unknown &quot;f&quot; × unknown &quot;v&quot;. On my old laptop, I must have some other configuration or maybe an old version, because there it gets interpreted as 0×i×e=0, so you can enter &quot;five plus five&quot; and get 0. Maybe another challenge would be to get arbitrary misleading results out from equations like this. [[User:Fabian42|Fabian42]] ([[User talk:Fabian42|talk]]) 05:59, 15 June 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> <br /> Perhaps East Hills NY, but their &quot;Welcome&quot; boards don't mention population, https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@40.7805262,-73.632634,3a,15y,25.75h,92.88t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sf5guvv2tETuyn0f_lSFh7A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&amp;coh=205409&amp;entry=ttu so this might just be a random name that R. came up with[[User:Zeimusu|Zeimusu]] ([[User talk:Zeimusu|talk]]) 07:40, 15 June 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> <br /> In the comic *fives* does not stand for the number five alone, but for five people. So using it with a prefix is more valid. Sebastian --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.110.4|172.68.110.4]] 10:15, 15 June 2024 (UTC)<br /> : Five kilopeople would be valid. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.91.63|172.70.91.63]] 10:34, 15 June 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> <br /> I think it would have made more sense to say &quot;half a kilodozen&quot;. --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.69.45|141.101.69.45]] 11:54, 15 June 2024 (UTC)<br /> :It's just slightly off a gross of ultimate answers. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.186|172.70.162.186]] 16:30, 15 June 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> <br /> I wonder why Randall chose to make Cueball the character saying that and not Black Hat/classhole. [[User:Turquoise Hat|Turquoise Hat]] ([[User talk:Turquoise Hat|talk]]) 15:35, 15 June 2024 (UTC)<br /> :Live long enough to become the villain. [[User:ProphetZarquon|ProphetZarquon]] ([[User talk:ProphetZarquon|talk]]) 17:14, 15 June 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> I realized that kilofives can be abbreviated as **k5**, as in &quot;the population is 1.2 k5&quot;. Or if you're a roman, as **D**. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.22.92|172.71.22.92]] 16:30, 15 June 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> <br /> Wouldn't CIↃ have been rendered as &lt;nowiki&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;/nowiki&gt;? [[User:ProphetZarquon|ProphetZarquon]] ([[User talk:ProphetZarquon|talk]]) 17:22, 15 June 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> : I like it. I'm gonna start using this technique more. [[User:Psychoticpotato|P?sych??otic?pot??at???o ]] ([[User talk:Psychoticpotato|talk]]) 20:04, 15 June 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> The weird thing is, this wasn't a weird way to say a number, it was just an old way to say it. See Psalm 90:10 in the King James Bible more examples. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.17|172.70.162.17]] 20:51, 15 June 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> Y2K isn't really a nonce, it's rather common to shorten e.g. &quot;123 thousand&quot; to 123K or 123k. From my 00's online gaming days, I even remember kk, kkk and so on having been used to refer to millions, billions and progressively higher powers of 1000 respectively, but that might've been more niche. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.242.38|172.70.242.38]] 22:09, 15 June 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> I'd also like to see the source for the claim &quot;they're not ordinarily added to number words to modify their magnitude&quot;. For example, in Czech it is very common to say &quot;mega&quot; instead of &quot;million(s)&quot; (similar way as &quot;thousand&quot; is substituted with &quot;K&quot; in &quot;Y2K&quot;) when talking about money and I've seen this usage also in English. --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.213.148|172.68.213.148]] 22:26, 15 June 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> Y2K should be Y2k - the SI prefix for 1,000 is k to distinguish it from the unit abbreviation K, for Kelvin. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.210.22|172.68.210.22]] 23:18, 15 June 2024 (UTC)<br /> :That would be a very cold year.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.184|141.101.98.184]] 09:36, 17 June 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> I'd have said East Hills is home to a hundred shocks. (Or one hectoshock?) 😉 [[User:PaulEberhardt|PaulEberhardt]] ([[User talk:PaulEberhardt|talk]]) 14:35, 16 June 2024 (UTC)</div>

141.101.98.184 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=964:_Dorm_Poster&diff=340761 2024-04-28T09:14:44Z

<p>141.101.98.184: /* Explanation */</p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 964<br /> | date = October 14, 2011<br /> | title = Dorm Poster<br /> | image = dorm poster.png<br /> | titletext = I was going to record an album with that cover under the name &quot;PINK FTFY&quot;, so it'd come after them on the store CD rack. But at this point music stores are just rooms where CDs are set out to age before they're thrown away, so probably nobody would see it.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> In this comic, Cueball, as a student, moves into a dorm. There is a poster on the wall with the album artwork, by {{w|Hipgnosis}}, for {{w|Pink Floyd|Pink Floyd's}} album {{w|The Dark Side of the Moon}}. It shows a beam of light passing through a {{w|dispersive prism}} and separating into a rainbow. This is a fairly common poster to have on a wall, particularly for someone in their late teens to early twenties, and is generally seen as a cliché. After thinking a bit, the new student makes a poster that uses a lens to reverse the rainbow into another prism, likely to mess with his new roommate. This idea actually isn't very innovative, because the original backside of the album contained the reverse rainbow and prism (but not the lens). The setup with two prisms was used by Isaac Newton to prove that white light is composed of different colors of light.<br /> <br /> In the title text, Randall makes the joke that by recording a record under the name &quot;PINK FTFY&quot; (fixed that for you), the name of his band would come immediately after Pink Floyd alphabetically, so the album would be to the right of Pink Floyd's album for Dark Side of the Moon, allowing for the same image seen in the back of the dorm room to be on the shelves of the record store. Since the cover of his album would be catching the light from Pink Floyd's album and forming white light once again, Randall would be &quot;fixing&quot; the cover of Dark Side of the Moon. However [[Randall]] makes the crack that no one would see the joke, because of the fact that most music is bought and downloaded online, which has significantly decreased the traffic to record stores in recent years - catastrophically so at the time of this comic's publication, before the popularity of vinyl rebounded in the late 2010s.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> :[Cueball finds his dorm room. He is standing with a paper in his hand in front of a door labeled &quot;117&quot;.]<br /> :Paper: 117<br /> <br /> :[View into the dorm room. The left half is already occupied, and a roommate has filled his side with the normal accoutrements of dorm life. There is a Pink Floyd &quot;Dark Side of the Moon&quot; poster hanging on the far wall, offset and only on the roommate's side.]<br /> <br /> :[Cueball has a bit of a ponder.]<br /> <br /> :[Cueball leaves for a bit.]<br /> <br /> :[Cueball returns with an item.]<br /> <br /> :[View into the dorm room. Cueball is moving in, and has placed a second Pink Floyd &quot;Dark Side of the Moon&quot; poster modified with a lens in the rainbow's path. The poster is placed upside down on Cueball's side of the far wall to catch the rainbow, feed it back into the prism, and turn it back into a narrow stream of white light.]<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br /> [[Category:Comics with color]]<br /> [[Category:Physics]]</div>

141.101.98.184 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2925:_Earth_Formation_Site&diff=340753 2024-04-27T17:35:31Z

<p>141.101.98.184: Where was Magna Carta signed? Somewhere in outer space now.</p> <hr /> <div>&lt;!--Please sign your posts with ~~~~ and don't delete this text. New comments should be added at the bottom.--&gt;<br /> The title text is only true for geocentric latitude and longitude, not geodetic (which is what is commonly used). [[Special:Contributions/172.69.58.125|172.69.58.125]] 18:32, 26 April 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> I'm impressed that whatever distant body that sign is placed upon, has actually developed plant life. Especially since it would need to be parked in place relative to the rest of the observable cosmos, &amp; thus seems unlikely to have a suitably close star making regular appearance overhead... <br /> [[User:ProphetZarquon|ProphetZarquon]] ([[User talk:ProphetZarquon|talk]]) 19:11, 26 April 2024 (UTC)<br /> ::Magrathea? [[User:L-Space Traveler|L-Space Traveler]] ([[User talk:L-Space Traveler|talk]]) 14:46, 27 April 2024 (UTC)<br /> : Hi Proph! I just wanted to say that I enjoy reading your comments here and in the SMBC comment page, if you are in fact ProphetZarquon in both places. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.175.28|172.70.175.28]] 21:46, 26 April 2024 (UTC)<br /> ::If there's another Prophet Zarquon out there - wait, nope, looks like that's me, too...<br /> ::[[User:ProphetZarquon|ProphetZarquon]] ([[User talk:ProphetZarquon|talk]]) 03:25, 27 April 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> :The spatial location of a famous person's birth is technically not where the Solar System now is, also. If you're going to be picky about that. If you do allow the Earth's worldline to be accounted for, then it's broadly true that Earth formed (looks out of window at home) here. I think the principle concern there is whether Earth formed in the collision of planets named Ear and Theia, or whether Earth was Earth before Theia came along, which either way seems to be why there is such a large Moon beside it - made of material from both of the previous planets. And it probably counts as a change of course from the previous situation, although the apparent likelihood that Theia formed in Earth's orbit in originally a Trojan relationship may bear on that - if one planet just caught up with the other in orbit, like tailgating in traffic. Robert.Carnegie@gmail.com [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.184|141.101.98.184]] 17:35, 27 April 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> The ridiculously specific date may be a reference to how real historical markers frequently get dates incorrect [[Special:Contributions/172.70.127.135|172.70.127.135]] 23:29, 26 April 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> The other side of the sign says, &quot;At this exact point in space, 13.7878693 billion years ago, the Big Bang took place.&quot; That's true of every point in space, according to the current model. The Big Bang implies that all of space was a single point, and space itself expanded outward from that point. [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 03:07, 27 April 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> <br /> The explanation needs to be rewritten. It is missing the point and far to detailed for just saying: The marker could be standing at any point of earth's surface, as reinforced by the title text. The whole discussion about galaxies and solar systems moving is just a matter of the reference system and does not contribute to the understanding of the comic.--[[Special:Contributions/172.70.243.32|172.70.243.32]] 07:28, 27 April 2024 (UTC)<br /> * I disagree. The section is saying that it could not have reasonably happened on Earth itself due to the fact the Earth and the Solar System itself move around through space. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'&quot;&gt;[[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]]&lt;sup&gt;([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk i guess]]&amp;#124;[[Special:Contributions/SomeoneIGuess|le edit list]])&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 13:25, 27 April 2024 (UTC)<br /> ::Randall was once a physicist. He's aware of the fact that there is no absolute system of measurements, and that locations on Earth are always relative to Earth coordinates, not some sort of galactic map. [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 14:10, 27 April 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> Can the Earth's core even have a latitude and a longitude? Aren't those all referring to the surface? --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.90.198|162.158.90.198]] 11:47, 27 April 2024 (UTC)<br /> :You're right. That is the joke, in fact. [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 14:10, 27 April 2024 (UTC)</div>

141.101.98.184 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2498:_Forest_Walk&diff=216115 2021-08-05T13:32:05Z

<p>141.101.98.184: </p> <hr /> <div>&lt;!--Please sign your posts with ~~~~ and don't delete this text. New comments should be added at the bottom.--&gt;<br /> Have just added a transcript. Hope I did good! :) -Lance ([[Special:Contributions/172.70.126.211|172.70.126.211]] 02:40, 5 August 2021 (UTC))<br /> <br /> Wonder what Beret Guy would do if Cooper said, &quot;I don't have it any more,&quot; since some of the money was discovered, badly deteriorated and partially buried, along the banks of the Columbia River back in 1980, as verified by serial numbers on the found currency.  Given the absence of any other evidence, it was assumed that the hijacker had gotten separated from the money either during or right after the jump, the found currency had been deposited as flotsam at its discovery point through the actions of the river itself, and the rest of the money was still somewhere in the Pacific Northwest awaiting similar discovery, [[User:RAGBRAIvet|RAGBRAIvet]] ([[User talk:RAGBRAIvet|talk]]) 04:23, 5 August 2021 (UTC)<br /> <br /> If it can be considered that the comic is a reference to random walk (in a forest), can it also be considered a reference to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_forest random forests] ? [[Special:Contributions/141.101.68.73|141.101.68.73]] 07:14, 5 August 2021 (UTC)<br /> :I don't get why the comic is supposed to be a reference to random walks or to random forests. Nothing points to that. Real forests exists, and people walk in them. The only peculiarity of this particular forest is that D.B. Cooper hangs in one of its trees. --[[Special:Contributions/188.114.103.244|188.114.103.244]] 08:20, 5 August 2021 (UTC)<br /> <br /> I feel like there should be a D.B. Cooper category at this point. --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.104.52|141.101.104.52]] 07:51, 5 August 2021 (UTC)<br /> <br /> Hey there, I think the alt text is also a reference to https://xkcd.com/2390/ ? Kind regards :) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.89.61|162.158.89.61]] 08:13, 5 August 2021 (UTC)<br /> <br /> Typo: &quot;he might have simply inherited it form his mom&quot;. --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.39|162.158.255.39]] 12:40, 5 August 2021 (UTC)<br /> : Done, now. I'd seen it, but apparently missed it, in preparing for my first big corrective edit of the day (little tyops, a lot less awful than ones ''I'' have previously left for others to correct). Or maybe I thought I should leave it suspended from the tree until some other issue had been resolved. :P [[Special:Contributions/162.158.158.105|162.158.158.105]] 12:53, 5 August 2021 (UTC)<br /> <br /> Not to question the artistic representation, but rather than Forest (tree canopy and dense undergrowth), I'd say that was more Woodland Savanna (individual tree growth smattered around grass/shrubland at most). Or maybe we just can't properly see the woods for the trees... (Or the action is set at the edge of a clearing, of course!) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.184|141.101.98.184]] 13:32, 5 August 2021 (UTC)</div>

141.101.98.184 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2498:_Forest_Walk&diff=216109 2021-08-05T12:39:54Z

<p>141.101.98.184: /* Explanation */ And tweaked my further tweaks back into the tweaks from someone else that I edit-conflicted with (twice!). Hope it's ok...</p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 2498<br /> | date = August 4, 2021<br /> | title = Forest Walk<br /> | image = forest_walk.png<br /> | titletext = The only other person to walk by was a linguist back in the 80s, but she just spent a while dissecting the phrase 'help me down' before getting distracted by a squirrel and wandering off.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by D. B. COOPER. The explanation doesn't exist. We need to add the explanation for the main comic and the title text. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> Megan is walking in a forest with Beret Guy who owns a big part of it. Megan is surprised that he owns such a big property, however, Beret Guy is known for his inexplicable businesses such as in [[1493: Meeting]] and from [[1032: Networking]]; we know he probably has enough resources to be able to buy it. Alternatively, he might have simply inherited it form his mom [[502: Dark Flow]].<br /> <br /> They meet a rather disheveled-looking bearded man hanging from a parachute caught in a tree. The man shakes a stick at them and demands to be helped down to the ground. Beret Guy simply addresses him as &quot;Mister Cooper&quot; and asks if he promises to return the money he took. The man angrily refuses, and Beret Guy casually says he'll see him again tomorrow, suggesting that this conversation has become a daily routine.<br /> <br /> Megan asks if the man was D. B. Cooper. Beret Guy confirms that he is. He then comments on an owl nest as another bit of &quot;neat stuff&quot; found on his land, suggesting that he finds Cooper's presence to be moderately interesting but not really remarkable.<br /> <br /> {{w|D. B. Cooper}} is the identity given to a man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in 1971. He collected a $200,000 ransom (equivalent to $1,250,000 in 2020) and famously donned a parachute and jumped from the plane over the state of Washington. Even after lengthy FBI investigations, it is still unknown who he was, or what ever became of him. The only things known about him are a police composite drawing and the name &quot;Dan Cooper&quot;, under which he had purchased his airline ticket. The name D. B. Cooper came about as a result of a miscommunication with the media. The comic is insinuating that, after leaping from the plane, he got entangled in a tree and has somehow been there ever since.<br /> <br /> D. B. Cooper was already referenced by Randall in [[1400: D.B. Cooper]], [[1501: Mysteries]] and [[2452: Aviation Firsts]].<br /> <br /> Uncanny situations are nothing new to Beret Guy as he himself possesses many [[Category:Strange_powers_of_Beret_Guy|strange powers]]. Because of this he seems to be unable to differentiate between something normal but interesting, such as owl nest in a forest, and something as outright impossible{{Citation needed}} as a famous criminal hanging from a tree, otherwise unnoticed for decades and somehow still thriving - though clearly aged.<br /> <br /> The issues of food, water and other necessities are unaddressed, but this individual has at least obtained what seemingly could be a walking-stick, to accompany his age-acquired frailty. In some ways this is unexceptional, as the one resource (other than rain, possibly) that he has easiest access to are tree branches, but then the question is whether it can be considered a walking stick if he has not actually walked (or stood, or anything but dangled) for however long he has possessed it.<br /> <br /> The title text may reference to the linguist from [[2390: Linguists]] who is more interested in the linguistic nuances that people use than in actually responding to their call for assistance. It is not known how many others have walked through Beret Guy's land, in the interim, or whether it is their own nature or the general auea from Beret Guy, but the linguist clearly did not much more than ponder the phrase &quot;help me down&quot;. Megan also seems in no particular hurry to intervene.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> :[Megan and Beret Guy are walking through a landscape with spread out trees and grass and puddles on the ground.]<br /> :Megan: Wow, this is all yours?<br /> :Beret Guy: Yeah! All the way back to the river!<br /> :Beret Guy: I walk here every day.<br /> <br /> :[Megan still walks towards Beret Guy who has now stopped and is looking up while speaking to a man hanging in a tree in front of them. The man has long wild hair and a large beard. He hangs from his parachute which has been folded around a large branch sticking out from beneath the top of the tree. He is holding a long stick of some sort, seemingly attempting to threaten Beret Guy, as the stick and his legs are vibrating as indicated with small lines.]<br /> :Beret Guy: Morning, mister Cooper!<br /> :Cooper: You help me down '''''this instant!'''''<br /> <br /> :[Pan down to show only Beret Buy and nothing else. Cooper replies from off-panel from the top corner.]<br /> :Beret Guy: Do you promise to give back all the money you took?<br /> :Cooper [off-panel]: '''''Never!'''''<br /> :Beret Guy: Okay! See you tomorrow!<br /> <br /> :[Megan and Beret Guy continue walking through the landscape with three small trees behind them, as well as grass, rocks and a small puddle. Megan looks back over her shoulder towards where Cooper is hanging.]<br /> :Megan: Was that D.B. Cooper?<br /> :Beret Guy: Yeah, and up ahead there's an owl nest!<br /> :Beret Guy: There's so much neat stuff here.<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Beret Guy]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring D. B. Cooper]]<br /> [[Category:Animals]] &lt;!-- Owls nest --&gt;<br /> [[Category:Squirrels]] &lt;!-- Title text --&gt;<br /> [[Category:Language]] &lt;!-- Title text --&gt;</div>

141.101.98.184 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:467:_X_Girls_Y_Cups&diff=171726 2019-03-28T13:05:03Z

<p>141.101.98.184: /pedantry</p> <hr /> <div>This page is in the category Sex. I don't see anything about that topic here. Can someone explain? [[User:Matchups|Matchups]] ([[User talk:Matchups|talk]]) 14:49, 24 June 2013 (UTC)<br /> :As mentioned here and in the Wikipedia article, 2 Girls 1 Cup is a trailer for a {{w|scat fetish|scat-fetish}} film, and it is at least intended to cause sexual arousal &quot;if you like that sort of thing&quot;. Of course, not many people do. [[User:Markhurd|Mark Hurd]] ([[User talk:Markhurd|talk]]) 16:40, 24 June 2013 (UTC)<br /> <br /> There are now 38 million google hits for 5 girls 6 cups. Someone should update the graphic. {{unsigned ip|199.27.128.141}}<br /> <br /> IIRC unsigned short is *at least* 16 bits [[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.120|108.162.215.120]] 04:46, 18 August 2014 (UTC)<br /> <br /> I know it's utterly trivial, but I have to say it, so here goes: This is an English language wiki. No matter what your accent, it's thousands commas and decimal points, not the other way around. Thank you. Anonymous 20:59, 9 December 2014 (UTC)<br /> :PS: how did the white-on-black system used by many, if not most, if not all, non-English speakers come about? It just doesn't make intuitive sense to me. {{unsigned ip|173.245.49.121}}<br /> :Well, here goes my response: Pretty much only the U.S. and U.K. uses commas. It’s an America/UK thing, not an English thing. Technically, it’s an imperial thing, and 0,5 would be metric, but semantics. [[User:Netherin5|Netherin5]] ([[User talk:Netherin5|talk]]) 14:00, 11 March 2019 (UTC)<br /> <br /> Did anyone else see the title and hope &quot;Y cups&quot; would turn out to be a bra size? [[User:Promethean|Promethean]] ([[User talk:Promethean|talk]]) 14:16, 11 August 2017 (UTC)<br /> <br /> x is left-right and y up-down. just saying. --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.184|141.101.98.184]] 13:05, 28 March 2019 (UTC)</div>

141.101.98.184 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1025:_Tumblr&diff=171640 2019-03-26T18:31:15Z

<p>141.101.98.184: </p> <hr /> <div>Welp, Tumblr banned porn. Now how is a raccoon sex dungeon supposed to operate on Tumblr?[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.184|141.101.98.184]] 18:31, 26 March 2019 (UTC)<br /> <br /> To me this is a lesson that without romance in our lives, our love may as well degrade to sex in a dungeon. Perhaps it's a sign that there is not enough bands singing about romance these days, just tits, ass and more tits and ass. - e-inspired [[Special:Contributions/98.211.199.84|98.211.199.84]] 15:32, 27 February 2013 (UTC)<br /> <br /> :...dot Tumbler dot com. [[Special:Contributions/66.29.191.32|66.29.191.32]] 08:52, 9 April 2013 (UTC)<br /> <br /> <br /> I have no idea why, but for some reason, the comic image is blocked by AdBlock as an ad. (Fix please? :( )[[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.29|173.245.52.29]] 22:25, 29 January 2014 (UTC)<br /> :I believe it's trying to be clever and match the image as a slightly modified 240x400 vertical rectangle ad. We can't change anything about the image on our end without compromising accuracy, but whitelisting us in Adblock should solve the problem. Alternately, there might be settings in Adblock to make it less paranoid about what classifies as an ad that you could tweak. '''[[User:Davidy22|&lt;u&gt;{{Color|#707|David}}&lt;font color=#070 size=3&gt;y&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;font color=#508 size=4&gt;²²&lt;/font&gt;]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|&lt;tt&gt;[talk]&lt;/tt&gt;]] 22:38, 29 January 2014 (UTC)<br /> ::I found what was wrong, for anyone else who has this problem. The filter called &quot;Fanboy's annoyances&quot; was classifying this comic as an advertisement, so if anyone else has this problem, just turn off that filter in the Adblock settings. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.29|173.245.52.29]] 20:57, 11 February 2014 (UTC)<br /> <br /> Ha ha It bit off his penis has got to rank with he fell in the water for funny.[[User:Weatherlawyer| I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait]] ([[User talk:Weatherlawyer|talk]]) 23:20, 21 January 2015 (UTC)<br /> :The hell? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.119|108.162.246.119]] 02:36, 9 August 2016 (UTC)</div>

141.101.98.184 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2025:_Peer_Review&diff=160606 2018-07-30T08:43:16Z

<p>141.101.98.184: /* Explanation */ Adding link to controversy</p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 2025<br /> | date = July 27, 2018<br /> | title = Peer Review<br /> | image = peer_review.png<br /> | titletext = Your manuscript &quot;Don't Pay $25 to Access Any of the Articles in this Journal: A Review of Preprint Repositories and Author Willingness to Email PDF Copies for Free&quot; has also been rejected, but nice try.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by a PEER REVIEWER. Needs volunteer commentary on title text. Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> How academic publishing works: When a researcher wants to publish their findings, they send it to an academic journal. The editor of the journal is another researcher (usually a college professor), ''who gets paid nothing or a minimal honorarium'' for editing the journal. The editor chooses a few (usually three) peer reviewers who are other researchers familiar enough with the study's subfield to judge the study's quality fairly and accurately, and sends it out to them for review. These peer reviewers ''do not get paid'' for the work of reviewing the manuscript and offering a detailed critique of every part of the study, from lit review to methodology to conclusions drawn from the results. If the peer reviewers and editor agree that the study was well-conducted and the paper well-written (or just needs minor revisions), it is accepted and published in the journal. The researcher ''is not paid'' for getting their paper published in the journal.<br /> <br /> In short, nobody in the process is paid for their work except the journal publisher, who charges other researchers, libraries and individuals for access to the fruit of these people's free labor. This is commonly referred to as a &quot;[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paywall Paywall]&quot;.<br /> <br /> This system relies upon researchers to be employed by either companies or universities in positions which require them to publish in order to remain employed or achieve promotions or pay raises. In universities, only postdocs and tenure-track or tenured professors are paid in a way that figures in their research time as well as their teaching time, which means that anyone not in one of those positions (lecturers, educators, adjunct instructors) is not paid for any research they might be doing and publishing, nor are those who are conducting research but cannot get a tenure-track job due to universities replacing tenure lines with non-tenure-track positions.<br /> <br /> Charging for access to these works has raised [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cost_of_Knowledge controversy] in recent years, due to concerns that this may lead to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_silo Information silos].<br /> <br /> Ponytail seems to be presenting papers concluding that this flow of currency is not equitable. Unfortunately (?), the journal she has submitted these findings to has opted not to review or publish them, either because they do not find her research suitable for their publication, or because they have a financial interest which conflicts with the findings, since sending her paper to review would give it directly to her target audience.<br /> <br /> The title text refers to a recent Twitter [https://twitter.com/hwitteman/status/1015049411276300289 post] that went viral. Researcher Dr. Holly Witteman informs the public that you could just ask many researchers for a PDF copy of their academic paper and that they would be delighted to do so free of charge. (This hearkens back to the days of snailmail, when researchers would distribute printed copies, &quot;reprints&quot;, of their work for, at most, the price of a self-addressed stamped envelope.) She has additionally written [http://holly.witteman.ca/index.php/2017/12/11/getting-access-to-paywalled-papers/ an article] on the situation and how to get papers for free.<br /> Pre-Print Repositories are online databases for researchers to publish drafts of their research for quick distribution to willing reviewers, sidestepping the lengthy and often arduous reviewing process as conducted by many research journals. These databases are free to access by researchers and the general public, and often papers will remain on these sites long after their journal publication, making them a convenient way to get to papers locked behind a paywall. There are also sites which collect and re-publish papers for free, such as [http://sci-hub.is/ Sci-Hub], which attempts to provide all published papers free of charge globally. Links to Sci-Hub can go dead after being widely published; this one was live as of July 27, 2018. In the title text, the publisher refuses to publish a paper that describes ways to get around the paywall restrictions that make up their bottom line.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail is sitting and looking at a laptop.]<br /> <br /> :RE: Economics Journal Submission<br /> <br /> :We have received your manuscript &quot;The Bizarre Economics of Academic Publishing: Why Volunteer Peer Reviewers Should Rise Up and Demand Payment from For-Profit Journals.&quot;<br /> <br /> :We have elected not to send it out for review.<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]</div>

141.101.98.184 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2022:_Sports_Champions&diff=160328 2018-07-20T19:43:54Z

<p>141.101.98.184: /* Explanation */ simpler</p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 2022<br /> | date = July 20, 2018<br /> | title = Sports Champions<br /> | image = sports_champions.png<br /> | titletext = For a long time, people thought maybe Usain Bolt was the one for running, until the 2090s and the incredible dominance of Derek Legs.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by a HARRY &quot;INCOMPLETE&quot; EXPLANATION - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> In an example of {{w|nominative determinism}}, the comic lists people whose surname relates to their participation in various sports. It is presented as though it was created in the far future, reflecting on champions over the decades through to the 2080s. The first three are real sportspeople, the remainder are imaginary players of the future.<br /> <br /> The caricatures are participating in their sport, except for Jebediah who is standing at a {{w|lectern}}.<br /> <br /> {| class=&quot;wikitable&quot;<br /> !style=&quot;width:20%&quot;|Name<br /> !style=&quot;width:10%&quot;|Decade<br /> !style=&quot;width:15%&quot;|Sport<br /> !style=&quot;width:55%&quot;|Explanation<br /> |-<br /> |Margaret Court<br /> |1960s<br /> |Tennis<br /> |{{w|Margaret Court}} is a Australian tennis player, former world number 1, who won many competitions in the 1960s and 70s. A {{w|tennis court}} is the playing arena used in that sport.<br /> |-<br /> |Gary Player<br /> |1970s<br /> |Golf<br /> |{{w|Gary Player}} is a South African golfer who won nine major championships in the 1960s and 70s. Game competitors are often known as &quot;players&quot;, for example, the golf tournament {{w|The Players Championship}}.<br /> |-<br /> |Lonzo Ball<br /> |2020s<br /> |Basketball<br /> |{{w|Lonzo Ball}} is an American professional basketball player, currently with the Los Angeles Lakers. The 2020s decade listed is a projection of when he would likely become his most dominant in the sport, as he began playing professionally in 2017. Of course, basketball is a {{w|ball game}}.<br /> |-<br /> |Jake Halfpipe<br /> |2030s<br /> |Skateboarding<br /> |A {{w|half-pipe}} is a structure used in extreme sports such as skateboarding and snowboarding.<br /> |-<br /> |Sarah Goggles<br /> |2030s<br /> |Swimming<br /> |{{w|Goggles}} are protective eyewear used in many sports, such as swimming or skiing.<br /> |-<br /> |Kevin Slurve<br /> |2050s<br /> |Baseball<br /> |A {{w|slurve}} is a baseball throwing technique, a portmanteau of '''sl'''ider and c'''urve'''.<br /> |-<br /> |Julia Chairlift<br /> |2050s<br /> |Skiing<br /> |A {{w|chairlift}} is an aerial machine often used to transport winter sports participants up mountains.<br /> |-<br /> |Dwight Shuttlecock<br /> |2060s<br /> |Badminton<br /> |A {{w|shuttlecock}} is a projectile used in the sport of badminton.<br /> |-<br /> |Brandon Sponsorship<br /> |2060s<br /> |Unclear<br /> |Sporting professionals are often {{w|Sponsor (commercial)|sponsored}} by corporations. Brandon is holding a pair of shoes, which are probably a branded sponsorship item.<br /> |-<br /> |Kate Dopingscandal<br /> |2070s<br /> |Cycling<br /> |There have been many {{w|Doping in sport|doping}} scandals in the world of sport. Since Kate is standing next to a bicycle, {{w|Lance Armstrong}} is a great example here. Recently one of the larger scandal was that {{w|Doping in Russia|many Russian competitors}} did {{w|Russia_at_the_2014_Winter_Olympics#Doping_scandal_after_Olympics|use drugs}} during the {{w|2014 Winter Olympics|2014 Winter Olympics}} in {{w|Sochi}}, Russia.<br /> |-<br /> |Jebediah Disasterous Postgame-PressConference<br /> |2080s<br /> |Unspecified<br /> |At the end of sporting events - ie post-game - there is often a {{w|News conference|press conference}} where the competitors discuss the result. Sometimes, these live interviews are a disaster. Randall has chosen to spell his name as &quot;Disasterous&quot;, rather than the more conventional &quot;Disastrous&quot;.<br /> |-<br /> |(in title text)<br /> Usain Bolt and Derek Legs<br /> |2090s<br /> |Sprinting<br /> |From the title text, {{w|Usain Bolt}} is the (now retired) world record holder for the 100 meter dash and 4×100 meter relay events in {{w|Track &amp; Field}}. Thus Randall considers him a solid contender for this list since he can ''bolt'' down the track. However the fictional Derek Legs ends up replacing Bolt on the list, either because they are an even faster sprinter, or because “legs” more clearly and unambiguously relates to running than “bolt” does.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> :[Two rows of people wielding sports equipment are shown, six in the upper row, five in the lower, only the last has no equipment but is standing behind a lectern with a microphone attached to it. Below each person, their name is given and the decade in which they were champions of their sport is given below their name, in brackets. Here is a list of the 11 people:]<br /> <br /> :[Woman with dark hair holding a tennis racket]<br /> :Margaret Court<br /> :(1960s)<br /> <br /> :[Cueball with a golf club]<br /> :Gary Player<br /> :(1970s)<br /> <br /> :[Cueball with a basketball]<br /> :Lonzo Ball<br /> :(2020s)<br /> <br /> :[Hairy on a skateboard]<br /> :Jake Halfpipe<br /> :(2030s)<br /> <br /> :[Woman with dark hair wearing a swim cap and goggles]<br /> :Sarah Goggles<br /> :(2030s)<br /> <br /> :[A man with a baseball cap throwing a baseball to the right]<br /> :Kevin Slurve<br /> :(2050s)<br /> <br /> :[A woman with long black hair in a knit cap and wearing ski googles is standing on skis holding ski poles]<br /> :Julia Chairlift<br /> :(2050s)<br /> <br /> :[Hairy holding a badminton racket bouncing a shuttlecock on it]<br /> :Dwight Shuttlecock<br /> :(2060s)<br /> <br /> :[Hairy holding a pair of shoes in his hand]<br /> :Brandon Sponsorship<br /> :(2060s)<br /> <br /> :[Hairbun standing next to a bicycle.]<br /> :Kate Dopingscandal<br /> :(2070s)<br /> <br /> :[Hairy standing behind a lectern with a microphone on it.]<br /> :Jebediah Disasterous Postgame PressConference<br /> :(2080s)<br /> <br /> :[Caption below the panel:]<br /> :Fun fact: Every sport eventually produces a champion competitor named after a common element of the game.<br /> <br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Hairbun]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring real people]]<br /> [[Category:Sport]]<br /> [[Category:Baseball]]<br /> [[Category:Basketball]]</div>

141.101.98.184 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2022:_Sports_Champions&diff=160327 2018-07-20T19:42:57Z

<p>141.101.98.184: /* Explanation */ I really do not think this sentence adds to understanding; discuss on talk?</p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 2022<br /> | date = July 20, 2018<br /> | title = Sports Champions<br /> | image = sports_champions.png<br /> | titletext = For a long time, people thought maybe Usain Bolt was the one for running, until the 2090s and the incredible dominance of Derek Legs.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by a HARRY &quot;INCOMPLETE&quot; EXPLANATION - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> In an example of {{w|nominative determinism}}, the comic lists people whose surname relates to their participation in various sports. It is presented as though it was created in the far future, reflecting on champions over the decades through to the 2080s. The first three are real sportspeople, the remainder are imaginary players of the future.<br /> <br /> The caricatures feature people participating in their sport, except for Jebediah who is standing at a {{w|lectern}}.<br /> <br /> {| class=&quot;wikitable&quot;<br /> !style=&quot;width:20%&quot;|Name<br /> !style=&quot;width:10%&quot;|Decade<br /> !style=&quot;width:15%&quot;|Sport<br /> !style=&quot;width:55%&quot;|Explanation<br /> |-<br /> |Margaret Court<br /> |1960s<br /> |Tennis<br /> |{{w|Margaret Court}} is a Australian tennis player, former world number 1, who won many competitions in the 1960s and 70s. A {{w|tennis court}} is the playing arena used in that sport.<br /> |-<br /> |Gary Player<br /> |1970s<br /> |Golf<br /> |{{w|Gary Player}} is a South African golfer who won nine major championships in the 1960s and 70s. Game competitors are often known as &quot;players&quot;, for example, the golf tournament {{w|The Players Championship}}.<br /> |-<br /> |Lonzo Ball<br /> |2020s<br /> |Basketball<br /> |{{w|Lonzo Ball}} is an American professional basketball player, currently with the Los Angeles Lakers. The 2020s decade listed is a projection of when he would likely become his most dominant in the sport, as he began playing professionally in 2017. Of course, basketball is a {{w|ball game}}.<br /> |-<br /> |Jake Halfpipe<br /> |2030s<br /> |Skateboarding<br /> |A {{w|half-pipe}} is a structure used in extreme sports such as skateboarding and snowboarding.<br /> |-<br /> |Sarah Goggles<br /> |2030s<br /> |Swimming<br /> |{{w|Goggles}} are protective eyewear used in many sports, such as swimming or skiing.<br /> |-<br /> |Kevin Slurve<br /> |2050s<br /> |Baseball<br /> |A {{w|slurve}} is a baseball throwing technique, a portmanteau of '''sl'''ider and c'''urve'''.<br /> |-<br /> |Julia Chairlift<br /> |2050s<br /> |Skiing<br /> |A {{w|chairlift}} is an aerial machine often used to transport winter sports participants up mountains.<br /> |-<br /> |Dwight Shuttlecock<br /> |2060s<br /> |Badminton<br /> |A {{w|shuttlecock}} is a projectile used in the sport of badminton.<br /> |-<br /> |Brandon Sponsorship<br /> |2060s<br /> |Unclear<br /> |Sporting professionals are often {{w|Sponsor (commercial)|sponsored}} by corporations. Brandon is holding a pair of shoes, which are probably a branded sponsorship item.<br /> |-<br /> |Kate Dopingscandal<br /> |2070s<br /> |Cycling<br /> |There have been many {{w|Doping in sport|doping}} scandals in the world of sport. Since Kate is standing next to a bicycle, {{w|Lance Armstrong}} is a great example here. Recently one of the larger scandal was that {{w|Doping in Russia|many Russian competitors}} did {{w|Russia_at_the_2014_Winter_Olympics#Doping_scandal_after_Olympics|use drugs}} during the {{w|2014 Winter Olympics|2014 Winter Olympics}} in {{w|Sochi}}, Russia.<br /> |-<br /> |Jebediah Disasterous Postgame-PressConference<br /> |2080s<br /> |Unspecified<br /> |At the end of sporting events - ie post-game - there is often a {{w|News conference|press conference}} where the competitors discuss the result. Sometimes, these live interviews are a disaster. Randall has chosen to spell his name as &quot;Disasterous&quot;, rather than the more conventional &quot;Disastrous&quot;.<br /> |-<br /> |(in title text)<br /> Usain Bolt and Derek Legs<br /> |2090s<br /> |Sprinting<br /> |From the title text, {{w|Usain Bolt}} is the (now retired) world record holder for the 100 meter dash and 4×100 meter relay events in {{w|Track &amp; Field}}. Thus Randall considers him a solid contender for this list since he can ''bolt'' down the track. However the fictional Derek Legs ends up replacing Bolt on the list, either because they are an even faster sprinter, or because “legs” more clearly and unambiguously relates to running than “bolt” does.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> :[Two rows of people wielding sports equipment are shown, six in the upper row, five in the lower, only the last has no equipment but is standing behind a lectern with a microphone attached to it. Below each person, their name is given and the decade in which they were champions of their sport is given below their name, in brackets. Here is a list of the 11 people:]<br /> <br /> :[Woman with dark hair holding a tennis racket]<br /> :Margaret Court<br /> :(1960s)<br /> <br /> :[Cueball with a golf club]<br /> :Gary Player<br /> :(1970s)<br /> <br /> :[Cueball with a basketball]<br /> :Lonzo Ball<br /> :(2020s)<br /> <br /> :[Hairy on a skateboard]<br /> :Jake Halfpipe<br /> :(2030s)<br /> <br /> :[Woman with dark hair wearing a swim cap and goggles]<br /> :Sarah Goggles<br /> :(2030s)<br /> <br /> :[A man with a baseball cap throwing a baseball to the right]<br /> :Kevin Slurve<br /> :(2050s)<br /> <br /> :[A woman with long black hair in a knit cap and wearing ski googles is standing on skis holding ski poles]<br /> :Julia Chairlift<br /> :(2050s)<br /> <br /> :[Hairy holding a badminton racket bouncing a shuttlecock on it]<br /> :Dwight Shuttlecock<br /> :(2060s)<br /> <br /> :[Hairy holding a pair of shoes in his hand]<br /> :Brandon Sponsorship<br /> :(2060s)<br /> <br /> :[Hairbun standing next to a bicycle.]<br /> :Kate Dopingscandal<br /> :(2070s)<br /> <br /> :[Hairy standing behind a lectern with a microphone on it.]<br /> :Jebediah Disasterous Postgame PressConference<br /> :(2080s)<br /> <br /> :[Caption below the panel:]<br /> :Fun fact: Every sport eventually produces a champion competitor named after a common element of the game.<br /> <br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Hairbun]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring real people]]<br /> [[Category:Sport]]<br /> [[Category:Baseball]]<br /> [[Category:Basketball]]</div>

141.101.98.184 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2022:_Sports_Champions&diff=160326 2018-07-20T19:41:40Z

<p>141.101.98.184: /* Explanation */ &quot;champions&quot; for sports players; they're all high ranking, and it avoids repetition a bit</p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 2022<br /> | date = July 20, 2018<br /> | title = Sports Champions<br /> | image = sports_champions.png<br /> | titletext = For a long time, people thought maybe Usain Bolt was the one for running, until the 2090s and the incredible dominance of Derek Legs.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by a HARRY &quot;INCOMPLETE&quot; EXPLANATION - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> In an example of {{w|nominative determinism}}, the comic lists people whose surname relates to their participation in various sports. As the comic is of &quot;sports champions&quot;, it is presumed that these people are at the top of their sport. It is presented as though it was created in the far future, reflecting on champions over the decades through to the 2080s. The first three are real sportspeople, the remainder are imaginary players of the future.<br /> <br /> The caricatures feature people participating in their sport, except for Jebediah who is standing at a {{w|lectern}}.<br /> <br /> {| class=&quot;wikitable&quot;<br /> !style=&quot;width:20%&quot;|Name<br /> !style=&quot;width:10%&quot;|Decade<br /> !style=&quot;width:15%&quot;|Sport<br /> !style=&quot;width:55%&quot;|Explanation<br /> |-<br /> |Margaret Court<br /> |1960s<br /> |Tennis<br /> |{{w|Margaret Court}} is a Australian tennis player, former world number 1, who won many competitions in the 1960s and 70s. A {{w|tennis court}} is the playing arena used in that sport.<br /> |-<br /> |Gary Player<br /> |1970s<br /> |Golf<br /> |{{w|Gary Player}} is a South African golfer who won nine major championships in the 1960s and 70s. Game competitors are often known as &quot;players&quot;, for example, the golf tournament {{w|The Players Championship}}.<br /> |-<br /> |Lonzo Ball<br /> |2020s<br /> |Basketball<br /> |{{w|Lonzo Ball}} is an American professional basketball player, currently with the Los Angeles Lakers. The 2020s decade listed is a projection of when he would likely become his most dominant in the sport, as he began playing professionally in 2017. Of course, basketball is a {{w|ball game}}.<br /> |-<br /> |Jake Halfpipe<br /> |2030s<br /> |Skateboarding<br /> |A {{w|half-pipe}} is a structure used in extreme sports such as skateboarding and snowboarding.<br /> |-<br /> |Sarah Goggles<br /> |2030s<br /> |Swimming<br /> |{{w|Goggles}} are protective eyewear used in many sports, such as swimming or skiing.<br /> |-<br /> |Kevin Slurve<br /> |2050s<br /> |Baseball<br /> |A {{w|slurve}} is a baseball throwing technique, a portmanteau of '''sl'''ider and c'''urve'''.<br /> |-<br /> |Julia Chairlift<br /> |2050s<br /> |Skiing<br /> |A {{w|chairlift}} is an aerial machine often used to transport winter sports participants up mountains.<br /> |-<br /> |Dwight Shuttlecock<br /> |2060s<br /> |Badminton<br /> |A {{w|shuttlecock}} is a projectile used in the sport of badminton.<br /> |-<br /> |Brandon Sponsorship<br /> |2060s<br /> |Unclear<br /> |Sporting professionals are often {{w|Sponsor (commercial)|sponsored}} by corporations. Brandon is holding a pair of shoes, which are probably a branded sponsorship item.<br /> |-<br /> |Kate Dopingscandal<br /> |2070s<br /> |Cycling<br /> |There have been many {{w|Doping in sport|doping}} scandals in the world of sport. Since Kate is standing next to a bicycle, {{w|Lance Armstrong}} is a great example here. Recently one of the larger scandal was that {{w|Doping in Russia|many Russian competitors}} did {{w|Russia_at_the_2014_Winter_Olympics#Doping_scandal_after_Olympics|use drugs}} during the {{w|2014 Winter Olympics|2014 Winter Olympics}} in {{w|Sochi}}, Russia.<br /> |-<br /> |Jebediah Disasterous Postgame-PressConference<br /> |2080s<br /> |Unspecified<br /> |At the end of sporting events - ie post-game - there is often a {{w|News conference|press conference}} where the competitors discuss the result. Sometimes, these live interviews are a disaster. Randall has chosen to spell his name as &quot;Disasterous&quot;, rather than the more conventional &quot;Disastrous&quot;.<br /> |-<br /> |(in title text)<br /> Usain Bolt and Derek Legs<br /> |2090s<br /> |Sprinting<br /> |From the title text, {{w|Usain Bolt}} is the (now retired) world record holder for the 100 meter dash and 4×100 meter relay events in {{w|Track &amp; Field}}. Thus Randall considers him a solid contender for this list since he can ''bolt'' down the track. However the fictional Derek Legs ends up replacing Bolt on the list, either because they are an even faster sprinter, or because “legs” more clearly and unambiguously relates to running than “bolt” does.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> :[Two rows of people wielding sports equipment are shown, six in the upper row, five in the lower, only the last has no equipment but is standing behind a lectern with a microphone attached to it. Below each person, their name is given and the decade in which they were champions of their sport is given below their name, in brackets. Here is a list of the 11 people:]<br /> <br /> :[Woman with dark hair holding a tennis racket]<br /> :Margaret Court<br /> :(1960s)<br /> <br /> :[Cueball with a golf club]<br /> :Gary Player<br /> :(1970s)<br /> <br /> :[Cueball with a basketball]<br /> :Lonzo Ball<br /> :(2020s)<br /> <br /> :[Hairy on a skateboard]<br /> :Jake Halfpipe<br /> :(2030s)<br /> <br /> :[Woman with dark hair wearing a swim cap and goggles]<br /> :Sarah Goggles<br /> :(2030s)<br /> <br /> :[A man with a baseball cap throwing a baseball to the right]<br /> :Kevin Slurve<br /> :(2050s)<br /> <br /> :[A woman with long black hair in a knit cap and wearing ski googles is standing on skis holding ski poles]<br /> :Julia Chairlift<br /> :(2050s)<br /> <br /> :[Hairy holding a badminton racket bouncing a shuttlecock on it]<br /> :Dwight Shuttlecock<br /> :(2060s)<br /> <br /> :[Hairy holding a pair of shoes in his hand]<br /> :Brandon Sponsorship<br /> :(2060s)<br /> <br /> :[Hairbun standing next to a bicycle.]<br /> :Kate Dopingscandal<br /> :(2070s)<br /> <br /> :[Hairy standing behind a lectern with a microphone on it.]<br /> :Jebediah Disasterous Postgame PressConference<br /> :(2080s)<br /> <br /> :[Caption below the panel:]<br /> :Fun fact: Every sport eventually produces a champion competitor named after a common element of the game.<br /> <br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Hairbun]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring real people]]<br /> [[Category:Sport]]<br /> [[Category:Baseball]]<br /> [[Category:Basketball]]</div>

141.101.98.184 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2022:_Sports_Champions&diff=160260 2018-07-20T05:33:32Z

<p>141.101.98.184: /* Explanation */ ball, etc.</p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 2022<br /> | date = July 20, 2018<br /> | title = Sports Champions<br /> | image = sports_champions.png<br /> | titletext = For a long time, people thought maybe Usain Bolt was the one for running, until the 2090s and the incredible dominance of Derek Legs.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by a CHAMPION - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> In an example of {{w|Nominative determinism}}, the cartoon lists people whose surname relates to their participation in various sports.<br /> <br /> {| class=&quot;wikitable&quot;<br /> !style=&quot;width:20%&quot;|Name<br /> !style=&quot;width:10%&quot;|Year<br /> !style=&quot;width:70%&quot;|Explanation<br /> |-<br /> |{{w|Margaret Court}} is a retired Australian tennis player, former world number 1, who won many competitions in the 1960s and 70s. A {{w|tennis court}} is the playing arena used in that sport.<br /> |-<br /> |Gary Player<br /> |1970s<br /> |{{w|Gary Player}} is a South African golf player who won nine major championships in the 1960s and 70s. Game contestants are often known as &quot;players&quot;.<br /> |-<br /> |Lonzo Ball<br /> |2020s<br /> |{{w|Lonzo Ball}} is an American professional basketball player, currently with the Los Angeles Lakers. Of course, basketball is a {{w|Ball game}}.<br /> |-<br /> |Jake Halfpipe<br /> |2030s<br /> |Jake Halfpipe is a fictitious professional snowboarder. A half-pipe is a structure used in gravity extreme sports such as snowboarding.<br /> |-<br /> |Sarah Goggles<br /> |2030s<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |Julia Chairlift<br /> |2050s<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |Dwight Shuttlecock<br /> |2060s<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |Brandon Sponsorship<br /> |2060s<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |Kate Dopingscandal<br /> |2070s<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |Jebediah Disasterous Postgame PressConference<br /> |2080s<br /> |<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}</div>

141.101.98.184 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2022:_Sports_Champions&diff=160255 2018-07-20T05:22:47Z

<p>141.101.98.184: /* Explanation */ margaret</p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 2022<br /> | date = July 20, 2018<br /> | title = Sports Champions<br /> | image = sports_champions.png<br /> | titletext = For a long time, people thought maybe Usain Bolt was the one for running, until the 2090s and the incredible dominance of Derek Legs.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by a CHAMPION - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> {| class=&quot;wikitable&quot;<br /> !style=&quot;width:20%&quot;|Name<br /> !style=&quot;width:10%&quot;|Year<br /> !style=&quot;width:70%&quot;|Explanation<br /> |-<br /> |Margaret Court<br /> |1960s<br /> |{{w|Margaret Court}} is a real Australian tennis player, former world number 1, who won many competitions in the 1960s and 70s. A {{w|tennis court}} is the playing arena used in that sport.<br /> |-<br /> |Gary Player<br /> |1970s<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |Lonzo Ball<br /> |2020s<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |Jake Halfpipe<br /> |2030s<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |Sarah Goggles<br /> |2030s<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |Julia Chairlift<br /> |2050s<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |Dwight Shuttlecock<br /> |2060s<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |Brandon Sponsorship<br /> |2060s<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |Kate Dopingscandal<br /> |2070s<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |Jebediah Disasterous Postgame PressConference<br /> |2080s<br /> |<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}</div>

141.101.98.184 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1769:_Never_Seen_Star_Wars&diff=132242 2016-12-07T16:01:03Z

<p>141.101.98.184: </p> <hr /> <div>&lt;!--Please sign your posts with ~~~~--&gt;<br /> My first time providing an explanation and transcript! For once I'm early enough, understand the joke, AND had time! LOL! Be kind... :)<br /> <br /> (Hey, if I had an account would I still have to do those damned Captchas?) - NiceGuy1 [[Special:Contributions/162.158.126.227|162.158.126.227]] 06:54, 7 December 2016 (UTC)<br /> :I assume your account would have to be autoconfirmed. That means its having over a certain &quot;age&quot; and over a certain edit count. I think the age is a couple of days and the edit threshold is fifteen, though this wiki may have those values configured differently. &lt;span style=&quot;background:#0064de;font-size:12px;padding:4px 12px;border-radius:8px;&quot;&gt;[[User talk:AgentMuffin|&lt;span style=&quot;color:#f0faff;&quot;&gt;~AgentMuffin&lt;/span&gt;]]&lt;/span&gt;<br /> <br /> You mean it is not a reference to the BBC Radio 4 show. As an experience I will give XKCD 9/10.<br /> : It is the go-to example of a film that 'everyone' has seen. Added a not to this effect, although I feel it could be better phrased. Surprised TVTropes doesn't have a page on this. [[User:Luckykaa|Luckykaa]] ([[User talk:Luckykaa|talk]]) 12:34, 7 December 2016 (UTC)<br /> <br /> --<br /> <br /> I added a few speculations about the number of people who actually have seen the movies (or one of them). If someone find a decent reference feel free to edit that. I also noticed one word play, not sure if it should be explained or not, but probably. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.80.89|141.101.80.89]] 09:44, 7 December 2016 (UTC)<br /> <br /> Is there any canonical evidence Vader didn't eat Jedi though? In the prequel films, he only kills Jedi off-screen. In A New Hope, when he kills Obi-Wan, Obi-Wan disappears. Maybe he just went hungry that day. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.143|141.101.98.143]] 11:38, 7 December 2016 (UTC)<br /> :Isn't there at least one scene in the prequel trilogy of Anakin eating something? Along with that, Vader has to have his helmet on outside his meditation chamber (evidenced by Luke saying Vader will die if Luke takes his helmet off in RotJ). It would be logical that Vader gets his nutrition intravenously or in a smoothie/drink form that he can ingest through his helmet, and Jedi are notoriously hard to turn into a smoothie. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.238.40|108.162.238.40]]<br /> <br /> --<br /> I think that the explanation should point out that the author differently form cueball is actually a huge fan of the saga with a vast knowlage of the SW lore including obscure expanded universe publications [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.184|141.101.98.184]] 16:01, 7 December 2016 (UTC)</div>

141.101.98.184 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:24:_Godel,_Escher,_Kurt_Halsey&diff=74358 2014-08-27T09:23:42Z

<p>141.101.98.184: </p> <hr /> <div>I have been told during editing comic [[287]] that the trivia should be below the transcript. But can see here that this is not always the case. As I have stated in the talk on that comic it would make so much more sense to have the interesting trivia above the (in most cases) uninteresting transcript. I only look into the last if I cannot easily read the text. But the trivia info is always interesting to me. And often the transcript is long enough that I would not notice a trivia entry below. I may now know better, but new users may overlook interesting bits of info. If there is a &quot;rule&quot; I would suggest it was changed to the format that this comic had when I wrote this entry. Trivia before transcript. (Written here only because it is todays [[explain xkcd:Incomplete Explanation of the Day |Incomplete Explanation of the Day]]). [[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 14:07, 14 March 2014 (UTC)<br /> :The trivia section doesn't belong to any explanation. Like other wikis do, it's at the bottom of the page. If there is important content belonging to the explain section it has to be moved. Trivia means triviality and contains only some sidesteps to some similar issues or even more. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 21:54, 14 March 2014 (UTC)<br /> ::Agree but the trivia header makes that clear. The transcript is not a normal part of wikis so could have been at the bottom. That is just my opinion. I will not move any trivia sections! And I can see you have corrected the error here so the trivia is now at the bottom. [[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 10:59, 16 March 2014 (UTC)<br /> :::This layout isn't an invention by me. But I think that it's correct to show some remarks, but if it doesn't explain the comic it belongs to a special section at the bottom. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 20:07, 16 March 2014 (UTC)<br /> This comic is on the &quot;incomplete explanation of the day&quot; like twice a week these days. Is everyone just like me and literally helpless? Because we didn't have this problem when the two Online Communities were undergoing rewrites [[Special:Contributions/199.27.130.204|199.27.130.204]] 18:51, 3 May 2014 (UTC)<br /> :I think it's sill to require a 'complete' explanation of a somewhat abstract comic. Any 'explanation' is only someone's interpretation. ~~Bob 14:34, 13 May 2014<br /> ::There are so many elements of this to be explained. I hope there is some hope of recovering some lost details of the NSA lecture. What a masterpiece of using the medium for abstract expression. So, I'm so thankful for a loose interpretation for 'incomplete explanation of the day' that brought the strip back to my attention. [[User:Eternal golden booger|Eternal golden booger]] ([[User talk:Eternal golden booger|talk]]) 17:30, 24 August 2014 (UTC)<br /> <br /> I had a sudden and strong urge to s/Godel/Gödel/g when I loaded this page. Maybe I'll leave editing it to someone less tired than I am. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]&lt;span title=&quot;I'm an admin. I can help.&quot;&gt;_a&lt;/span&gt; ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 05:31, 14 August 2014 (UTC)<br /> <br /> I think the zooming in section is a reference to Powers of Ten ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_of_Ten_%28film%29 ) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.184|141.101.98.184]] 09:23, 27 August 2014 (UTC)</div>

141.101.98.184 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1412:_Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles&diff=74239 2014-08-25T12:08:21Z

<p>141.101.98.184: </p> <hr /> <div>Looks like they renamed the Wikipedia article mentioned as &quot;Maple Syrup Urine '''Syndrome'''&quot; to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple_syrup_urine_disease Maple Syrup Urine '''Disease'''].[[User:Keavon|Keavon]] ([[User talk:Keavon|talk]]) 05:03, 25 August 2014 (UTC)<br /> <br /> This rythmic sounding has to do with metrical &lt;strike&gt;foots&lt;/strike&gt; feet, I think. Maybe someone more into it than I can explain...<br /> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_%28prosody%29 [[Special:Contributions/108.162.229.164|108.162.229.164]] 05:21, 25 August 2014 (UTC)<br /> <br /> : It's just a 4-foot trochaic (&quot;trochaic octameter&quot;?) meter. ^- ^- ^- ^-. Also, I'm curious now, is &quot;foots&quot; the proper plural when discussing meter, or is that just a typo/misunderstandinh? [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.150|199.27.128.150]] 06:37, 25 August 2014 (UTC)<br /> <br /> :: Oh, right, the plural must be &quot;feet&quot;. I just had a brain fart. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.229.164|108.162.229.164]] 10:23, 25 August 2014 (UTC)<br /> <br /> : This one is definitely related: http://xkcd.com/856/ --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.104.68|141.101.104.68]] 08:08, 25 August 2014 (UTC)<br /> <br /> Unless &quot;Gloucester&quot; is two syllables, Randall made a mistake/wanted to see if we're awake.--[[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.224|108.162.246.224]] 06:33, 25 August 2014 (UTC)<br /> <br /> : Actually it is. Silly British accents. It's pronounced roughly &quot;Gloss-ter&quot;. [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.150|199.27.128.150]] 06:37, 25 August 2014 (UTC)<br /> <br /> ::In that case, I retract my previous statement and apologize.--[[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.224|108.162.246.224]] 07:20, 25 August 2014 (UTC)<br /> <br /> With regards to the roll-over text, mention could be made of the long-running BBC radio show &quot;I'm sorry I haven't a clue&quot; ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Sorry_I_Haven%27t_A_Clue ). It is comedy panel game, and one of the regular rounds is 'One Song to the Tune of Another'. It may be coincidence, but one panellist of the show is Barry Cryer ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Cryer ) who happened to have recorded Purple People Eater... [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.184|141.101.98.184]] 08:26, 25 August 2014 (UTC)<br /> <br /> Why isn't Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the list? [[Special:Contributions/103.22.201.120|103.22.201.120]] 11:41, 25 August 2014 (UTC)<br /> <br /> There's a typo in &quot;Quantuum vacuum plasma thruster&quot;. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.184|141.101.98.184]] 12:08, 25 August 2014 (UTC)</div>

141.101.98.184 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1412:_Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles&diff=74223 2014-08-25T08:26:49Z

<p>141.101.98.184: </p> <hr /> <div>Looks like they renamed the Wikipedia article mentioned as &quot;Maple Syrup Urine '''Syndrome'''&quot; to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple_syrup_urine_disease Maple Syrup Urine '''Disease'''].[[User:Keavon|Keavon]] ([[User talk:Keavon|talk]]) 05:03, 25 August 2014 (UTC)<br /> <br /> This rythmic sounding has to do with metrical foots, I think. Maybe someone more into it than I can explain...<br /> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_%28prosody%29 [[Special:Contributions/108.162.229.164|108.162.229.164]] 05:21, 25 August 2014 (UTC)<br /> <br /> : It's just a 4-foot trochaic (&quot;trochaic octameter&quot;?) meter. ^- ^- ^- ^-. Also, I'm curious now, is &quot;foots&quot; the proper plural when discussing meter, or is that just a typo/misunderstandinh? [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.150|199.27.128.150]] 06:37, 25 August 2014 (UTC)<br /> <br /> : This one is definitely related: http://xkcd.com/856/ --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.104.68|141.101.104.68]] 08:08, 25 August 2014 (UTC)<br /> <br /> Unless &quot;Gloucester&quot; is two syllables, Randall made a mistake/wanted to see if we're awake.--[[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.224|108.162.246.224]] 06:33, 25 August 2014 (UTC)<br /> <br /> : Actually it is. Silly British accents. It's pronounced roughly &quot;Glo-ster&quot;. [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.150|199.27.128.150]] 06:37, 25 August 2014 (UTC)<br /> <br /> ::In that case, I retract my previous statement and apologize.--[[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.224|108.162.246.224]] 07:20, 25 August 2014 (UTC)<br /> <br /> With regards to the roll-over text, mention could be made of the long-running BBC radio show &quot;I'm sorry I haven't a clue&quot; ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Sorry_I_Haven%27t_A_Clue ). It is comedy panel game, and one of the regular rounds is 'One Song to the Tune of Another'. It may be coincidence, but one panellist of the show is Barry Cryer ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Cryer ) who happened to have recorded Purple People Eater... [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.184|141.101.98.184]] 08:26, 25 August 2014 (UTC)</div>

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