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48: Found

2015-10-17T12:39:27Z

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{{comic
| number = 48
| date = January 12, 2006
| title = Found
| image = found.jpg
| titletext = No more, no less
}}

==Explanation==
[[Cueball]] and [[Megan]] are standing together holding hands in the middle of a simple maze. As indicated by the words in the comic, they have simply '''found''' each other.

As indicated in the title text, there is nothing else to say about how they met.

==Transcript==
:[Cueball and Megan are standing on a white hill (presumably snow) with a grey sky covered with thick streaks of white, and small pink dots. All letters are written in lower case.]
:we are just two people
:who found each other

==Trivia==
*This was the 45th comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]].
**The previous was [[47: Counter-Red Spiders]].
**The next was [[49: Want]].
*Original title: "Drawing: Found"
*Original [[Randall]] quote: "I'll get back to science humor and awful puns soon, don't worry."
*This comic was one of the last 11 comics posted on LiveJournal.
**These 11 comics were [[:Category:Posted on LiveJournal after xkcd|posted both on LiveJournal and xkcd]] after the [[xkcd]] site opened on the 1st of January 2006.
**This comic was posted on the same day on both sites.
**They were not all posted on the same day though.
*During the start-up of xkcd four of the last 11 comics were released on days that deviated from the normal Monday, Wednesday, Friday scheme.
**This one was thus '''released on a Thursday'''.
**It was the first of a series of three were the release day was shifted to one day later.
**This one was posted in the middle of the day, 10:41 am.

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Talk:45: Schrodinger

2015-10-17T12:02:15Z

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There were no comments until you scrolled down. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.246|108.162.219.246]] 20:21, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
:There were two comments before you scrolled down. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.56.130|173.245.56.130]] 12:02, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

44: Love

2015-10-17T11:59:25Z

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{{comic
| number = 44
| date = October 19, 2005
| title = Love
| image = love.jpg
| titletext = This one makes me wince every time I think about it
}}

==Explanation==
This comic expresses how the nature of love can be painful when closely examined, as in every relationship one party must love the other party the most.

Instead of continuing [[Cueball]]'s escalation by saying the expected response "I love ''you'' more!" [[Megan]] stops and agrees with him: he does love her more than she loves him. The final frame shows the couple standing in silence.

Often couples escalate the claims of how much they love each other. Typically, however, the couple never openly admit this not wanting to cause pain to their partner, but love by its very nature must be unbalanced as no two things can ever truly be equal. This is one of love's painful truths.

In the title text, [[Randall]] expresses how this comic is shockingly stark in its portrayal of the nature of love.

==Transcript==
:[Cueball and Megan stand facing one another.]

:Cueball: I love you!
:Megan: I love you!

:[Cueball and Megan stand facing one another.]
:Cueball: I love you more!
:Megan: Yeah.

:[Cueball and Megan stand facing one another - saying nothing.]

==Trivia==
*This was the 21st comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]].
**The previous was [[21: Kepler]].
**The next was [[40: Light]].
*Original title: "Wednesday's Drawing"
*There were no original [[Randall]] quote for this comic.
*This comic was posted on [[xkcd]] when the web site opened on Sunday the 1st of January 2006.
**It was posted along [[:Category:First day on xkcd|with all 41 comics]] posted before that on LiveJournal as well as a few others.
**The latter explaining why the numbers of these 41 LiveJournal comics ranges from 1-44.
*One of the original drawings drawn on [[:Category:Checkered paper|checkered paper]].
**Of those comics drawn on such paper this is the one with the highest number released on xkcd.
**But it was an early comic which got a different number after the transfer to xkcd.
**The last comic on such paper was, by release-date, [[39: Bowl]] although it is likely that [[36: Scientists]] was released in 2006, which would make it the last.

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Talk:29: Hitler

2015-10-17T00:03:21Z

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I was born in the sixties of the last century, just into a new Germany. I can joke about Hitler, but sentences should be correct. An awful history which still does happen nowadays.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 22:46, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Black Hat doesn't know what he's talking about. Hitler is actually a good artist. --[[User:ITErsoy|ITErsoy]] ([[User talk:ITErsoy|talk]]) 01:31, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

His art had no soul. They were in essence, forgeries of art that hasn't been done. The painting looks fine, but there's no depth. Take it from me, I'm an art student. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.122|141.101.99.122]] 11:06, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

I feel uneasy with saying most of them were jews. Most of those killed where men, and more likely, german men. Hitler lead an aliance with Mussolini (Italy), the Croats (who massacred the serbs in methods that disgusted even the german concentration camp leaders) and others. I think you should make it clear it was *Naszi* Germany. I think you should link to the wikipedia page on the holocaust, Nazis, and Hitler, because the explanation made here can be taken as oversimplified/childish. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.122|141.101.99.122]] 11:06, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

-Way after the fact here, but the Holocaust had nothing to do with Mussolini or the Serbs. Neither did the US and UK have anything to do with Stalin's brutality of his people. The comic specifically stated the Holocaust, which was committed against more Jews than all other ethnic group combined. To say the Holocaust was mostly focused on the killing of Jews is quite accurate historically and in no way is it childish. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.56.130|173.245.56.130]] 00:03, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

I just googled Hiter's paintings and he was actually a very good artist! [[User:Keavon|Keavon]] ([[User talk:Keavon|talk]]) 00:13, 10 November 2014 (UTC)