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Talk:407: Cheap GPS

2013-06-18T00:13:07Z

178.107.249.215: Created page with "In an inversion of Title-text, I did actually make a Perl script for Geohashing which (for a given target) gave a bearing and distance to target from the interogated GPS USB d..."

In an inversion of Title-text, I did actually make a Perl script for Geohashing which (for a given target) gave a bearing and distance to target from the interogated GPS USB dongle's idea of my current location... But the bearing was absolute, with no way of determining which relative direction I (or at least the laptop/dongle) was facing. (I had decided that direction of travel could not be reliably worked out from the last pair or trio of locations, given that when it mattered most I was probably tramping quickly back and forth over moorland looking for some specific feature of vegetation or drainage matching up with the aerial photos). Examination of moss on stones or trees (or satellite TV dishes on houses, for the urban environment) was occasionally needed to narrow down orientation. Or approximating the old analogue watch-hands trick with the sun, in my head (having only the digital time). [[Special:Contributions/178.107.249.215|178.107.249.215]] 00:13, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Talk:416: Zealous Autoconfig

2013-06-17T23:43:28Z

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I have my network autoconfig set up to run a rainbow table attack if there's a password on the network. Wifi everywhere is great. [[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]][[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>(talk)</tt>]] 15:05, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

But how would the school know about the Lenhart children if Mrs. Roberts deleted the students table? {{unsigned ip|184.11.73.88}}}
:I say it'd be a liveware attack. A voice-call from the application, with in-built speech-synthisis and speech-recognition capabilities, requesting information from the school secretary him/herself. Probably a Black Hat construction. Or Hartigan (/whoever) from the Leverage series... ;) [[Special:Contributions/178.107.249.215|178.107.249.215]] 23:43, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Talk:1225: Ice Sheets

2013-06-17T19:16:46Z

178.107.249.215: /* The end of the explanation */

The original paper [https://notendur.hi.is//~oi/AG-326%202006%20readings/Canadian%20Arctic/Dyke_QSR2002.pdf] Sebastian --[[Special:Contributions/178.26.118.249|178.26.118.249]] 07:38, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

It is commonly stated that EVERY sequel is worse that the original film (exceptions are few and often disputed). And very few producents are able to stop filming sequels sooner that they produce sequel worse that all previous. If you see a series with every film better that the previous, then producent is already preparing next one ... or died. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 09:20, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
*However, going to the bottom of the Wikipedia page for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Age_(film_series)#Critical_reaction Ice Age] shows that Rotten Tomatoes strongly agrees that the sequels were not better [[User:Odysseus654|Odysseus654]] ([[User talk:Odysseus654|talk]]) 16:34, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

For those of us who do not live in one of these four cities, does anyone have a more comprehensive set of data for the rest of the continent? Or specifically NYC? ;)

Striations on the rocks in Central Park are evidence that a glacier did reach as far south as New York City and in the referenced article on page 21, Figure 4 shows a map of the extent of the glacier just reaching NYC and Long Island and is labeled as somewhere between 0 and 600 meters thick. This page on the City of New York Parks and Recreation site [http://www.nycgovparks.org/about/history/geology] says the glacier in NYC was about 1000 feet thick which is about 300 meters. I should add that the Freedom Tower being built on the WTC site will be 1776 feet high (counting the broadcast antenna) and the Empire State building is 1454 feet high, so some of the current buildings would have poked out of the ice.

Was just curious, is this a jab at "Global Warming" and the fact that Glaciers have always been melting and getting thinner?--[[Special:Contributions/65.215.93.238|65.215.93.238]] 13:36, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
:I don't think so, just because someone finds it amazing how deep the ice during the last glaciation was, doesn't imply anything about their opinion on the causes of changes in climate over the few centuries. By the way, the glaciers have {{w|Timeline_of_glaciation|melted and refrozen lots of times}}, they haven't always been melting.[[User:NHSavage|NHSavage]] ([[User talk:NHSavage|talk]]) 18:44, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

==Global Warming==
The actual climate discussion is still not solved. But we do know very well that the ocean sea level was 130 Meters lower than today at that time. At the end of that period the sea level was growing fast, but then it did raise slower later, and that raise didn't stop until today. Randall is only showing ICE levels, not more.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 22:17, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

I've read and re-read both comic and explanation (and, moreover, the above comments) and I just can't agree with the current third and final paragraph of the explanation ("But the joke ... (see Sea level rise)."). It is, to my mind, merely ''interesting'' that at a time of ice-age there was far more depth of ice pressing down upon sites than there currently are famous heights of buildings above the present day, and ice-less, horizons at these particular locales, as depicted. The sole joke, to my mind, is in the title-text, with the direct swapping of the common Ice Age film series's prefix for the souce paper's title. (Which is jolly funny!) And is in line with some of Randall's other largely "informative" strips, jokes sneaking in only as captions and labels.

It is indeed also interesting to note, as a side-issue, that glaciation (and thus deglaciation) relates somewhat to sea level (but note also {{w|Post-glacial rebound}} as a significant effect in some areas, both reinforcing ''and'' opposing sea-level changes, depending on locale). However, there's not even any mention of relative sea-level in the images. This ''could'' perhaps have been implemented as an arrow tacked onto the side of each depth-extended cross-section, pointing base to point (or vice-versa) between the axial position of the historic Mean Sea Level (if known) and that relating to the current state of affairs, in perfect scale against the column of sky-line and ice. But right now there's no reference at all to support this thought, and thus hardly asks for any such 'explanation' or reference. (There's similarly no invocation of the "climate discussion", unsolved or otherwise, outside of our combined commentary on the comic.)

Mayhap are people being confused by the (admitedly) water-like appearance of the depiction of ice-layer? Possibly thinking that these diagrams are of ''submerged'' cities (''a la'' representations in various /The Day After Tomorrow/, /A.I. Artificial Intelligence/ or /2012/-ish films), not ones figuratively transplanted back back into the ancient ice-mass... Or are people inadvertently trolling their personal pro/anti-Climate Change views here (esp. w.r.t. Human impact)? Perhaps subconciously reading more (potentially pro- ''or'' anti-!) into the comic than (so far as I can see) was ever intended. If you'll forgive my hopefully 'neutralist' stance on the issue (i.e. divorced of my semi-moderate stance on the issue, which is in whatever direction it is that I lean... but which I have deliberately tried to have kept unstated).

Add to this that Randall shows only Leftpondian locations (and upper-Leftpondian ones, at that, due to the specialised scope of the source paper) this also makes me wonder why Europe and Asia are mentioned in that para, (unless it's meant to say "Ice Ages didn't just happen to North American, but also to similar latitudes in a circumpolar fashion", in which case could we also add anything we know about the southern hemisphere as well?). But that's a minor niggle I have in a paragraph that (obviously, from the length I've been taking pains to discuss all this within) I just can't get a handle on in the first place. But perhaps I'm missing something so, rather than editing and excising the main article, here I ramble on about it. Perhaps to pursuade some prior contributor to re-explain their particular contributions. (We now return you to your regularly scheduled programme...) [[Special:Contributions/178.107.249.215|178.107.249.215]] 22:32, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

== The end of the explanation ==

It seems to suggest that the comic shows European and Asian glaciers, which is ... clearly false. What's that bit about?
:Well ''maybe'' that's {{w|Boston, Lincolnshire}} or {{w|Montreal, Catalonia}}. Or even the respective ones in the Philippines/Jordan. But I still doubt it. ;) Anyway, as per the TL;DR; mess of my prior comment 'contribution' I still don't like that ending. But that could just be me misreading. [[Special:Contributions/178.107.249.215|178.107.249.215]] 11:49, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

:Apart from the end of the explanation being written ambiguously, as to lead to your confusion, I think it is unnecessary to even include it as there is no mention of sea levels in the comic at all. --[[User:Dangerkeith3000|Dangerkeith3000]] ([[User talk:Dangerkeith3000|talk]]) 15:49, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
::I did an update to this section. My former edit was in fact ambiguous; the comic shows only four major cities from North America. But I think that sea level issue is a direct result and should be mentioned here.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 17:10, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
:::FWIW, I like that version much better. (And addresses my point, and hopeully DK3k's, about no mention of sea levels in the comic by now ''relating'' the indicated ice with global sea levels as an off-comic exemplar.) A final remaining bit of 'picky' is that it still puts the subordinate title-text joke as primary with the meaning of the comic image as a 'by the way', but that's minor semantics in comparison. Good show. [[Special:Contributions/178.107.249.215|178.107.249.215]] 19:16, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Talk:1226: Balloon Internet

2013-06-17T12:35:08Z

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Does the action take place in a desert ? Compare scenery with http://wikilivres.ca/wiki/File:Petit_Prince_etoile.jpg . Is Cueball reading [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_little_prince The Little Prince] ? See comics [http://xkcd.com/618/ #618], [http://xkcd.com/2/ #2] and what-if article [http://what-if.xkcd.com/26/ leap seconds] if you doubt that The Little Prince occupies a good share of Randall's mind. [[User:MGitsfullofsheep|MGitsfullofsheep]] ([[User talk:MGitsfullofsheep|talk]]) 08:34, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
: The original articles about the project have also seen some comments from people who see this sort of thing as an intrusion into the last areas which are supposed to be a refuge from global connectability - much like cell phones have been decried by those accustomed to be able to elude attempts to be contacted when not around a fixed telephone. I think this may have similar overtones - a general idea that some areas are _supposed_ to be secluded like that. Only a guess though... --[[Special:Contributions/193.231.162.31|193.231.162.31]] 09:18, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
:: There's a comparison to be made between being in signal range for mobile phones but deliberately not carrying one (or turning the one you have off for the duration) and being now within reach of the Internet but again with deliberate non-connection to this. (On one hand I accidentally (''genuinely'' accidentally) forgot my mobile yesterday, when I went out, and missed four calls. Or one call re-attempted three times. I'm also in a '4G' area for mobile internet, but I quite deliberately have a phone that doesn't have any browsing capability at all, so I'm swimming in 4G access but 'happily' unaffected even when I don't forget (or 'forget') my phone.) Arguably there's far more benefits for having the ''potential'' of connectivity (so long as you make it universally possible and not Rich Boys' Toys-enabled only, which is already the case) than deliberately making areas of the planet 'dark' to such things just to reinforce some select people's 'spiritual abstinence' from such 'fripperies'. Implementation is the key to this blanket equality (or "raising to the common good"), of course. [[Special:Contributions/178.107.249.215|178.107.249.215]] 12:35, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

There is a visual ambiguity as if the balloon is big and far (big enough to carry a person), or small and close.
First, transmission balloons are not meant to carry a person, only a small box containing electronic equipment.
The balloon is not shouting (no exclamation mark), rather speaking at normal level.
If the balloon was big and far, speaking normally, Cueball would not have startled and cried out "Augh!". So the balloon must be small and close, e.g. distance between observer and balloon is same as distance between observer and Cueball. [[User:MGitsfullofsheep|MGitsfullofsheep]] ([[User talk:MGitsfullofsheep|talk]]) 10:07, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

The mouseover text describes a plan to sell wireless access by putting Verizon wireless hotspots on balloons, then cancelling their subscriptions. This would be twice a ripoff. First, in places within signal range of a Verizon tower there is no need for something like Project Loon; the whole point is to deliver Internet access to places that do not have it now. Second, cancelling their subscriptions will mean after the intitial trial period the service won't work anymore.
[[Special:Contributions/38.66.68.209|38.66.68.209]] 11:04, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
:I believe that the 'scheme' is to immediately replace cancelled Verizon hotspots with new (temporary) Verizon hotspots, being refunded (or never charged) continually in order to rip off Verizon (for as long as they don't get suspicious, in their Contracts department, at least) and provide no-cost broadcasting. The geographic limitation applies, of course, unless (by clever manipulation of location-based demand for the service, not even hinted at by the text concerned) you encourage Verizon's catchment areas to spread outwards and over previously unserviced areas with the extra infrastructure they might install. Brinksmanship at its finest, though, if you get ''that'' working... [[Special:Contributions/178.107.249.215|178.107.249.215]] 12:35, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Talk:1225: Ice Sheets

2013-06-17T11:49:36Z

178.107.249.215: /* The end of the explanation */

Talk:1225: Ice Sheets

2013-06-16T22:32:51Z

178.107.249.215:

422: A Better Idea

2013-06-15T21:27:18Z

178.107.249.215: /* Explanation */ ...but not quite, apparently.

{{comic
| number = 422
| date = May 12, 2008
| title = A Better Idea
| image = a_better_idea.png
| titletext = It's *almost* enough to make me want to redo high school.
}}

==Explanation==
In the United States prom (short for promenade) is a semi-formal (black tie) dance or gathering of high-school students. They normally are awkward experiences for nerdy people.

A LAN party is a temporary gathering of people with computers or game consoles, between which they establish a local area network (LAN), primarily for the purpose of playing multiplayer video games. They are normally very informal.

Cueball is likely taking the girl to Prom, but stops when he sees there's a LAN party in formal attire, meaning they wouldn't be out of place. The comic title is likely what Cueball is going to say to the girl, since the LAN party is probably much more appealing for him than a formal ball.

The title text confirms that the author would have loved for such a thing to be possible, so much that he ''very nearly'' would redo high school just to participate.

==Transcript==
[Cueball wearing a bow tie stands holding hands with Megan wearing a dress. On the left, there is a sign pointing left, which reads "PROM"; on the right, there is a sign pointing right, which reads "LAN PARTY IN FORMAL ATTIRE".]

{{comic discussion}}
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[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]

Talk:425: Fortune Cookies

2013-06-15T21:19:39Z

178.107.249.215: Created page with "Title-text + "...at the cinema", "...under the boardwalk", "...on the kitchen table", "...in prison"? It's not necessary to append "...in bed" to make sense. And (if that's ..."

Title-text + "...at the cinema", "...under the boardwalk", "...on the kitchen table", "...in prison"? It's not necessary to append "...in bed" to make sense. And (if that's what was meant, and sorry for not understanding) "...''except'' in bed" also works as nicely as the in-bed version (but sort of hints that ''all'' of the aforementioned may be valid, in leiu). I see the joke there being the lack of vagueness in the title-text's 'cookie' text (save for the matter of the locale, if left unadorned). [[Special:Contributions/178.107.249.215|178.107.249.215]] 21:19, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Talk:443: Know Your Vines

2013-06-14T14:01:15Z

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But the vines were still needed for bondage! [[User:Guru-45|Guru-45]] ([[User talk:Guru-45|talk]]) 02:18, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
:IRIA the unavailable alternative being tent guy-ropes retasked towards... fun purposes... Not that vines were in any way needed for canvas support/tensioning. Of course, for the duration of such entertainment, the tent may be at most partially supported so probably only a fair weather activity. [[Special:Contributions/178.107.249.215|178.107.249.215]] 14:01, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Talk:450: The Sea

2013-06-14T13:40:50Z

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Umm...before changing the page shouldn't there be some discussion here? There was a bunch of other stuff that got deleted. [[Special:Contributions/69.122.106.29|69.122.106.29]] 03:22, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

== Justification of "male enhancement" theory ==

DGBert wrote that there's no justification for the idea of the first pump being a penis-enlarging pump. What other theory do you have about (a) a pump, that (b) makes someone larger and (c) improves their self-image?
:If you have any hints not only coming from your own brain you are welcome. This wiki is "Explain" and not "Speculate". --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 17:59, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

(Do we have Word Of God about this or many other 'Explanations'? An awful lot of this Wiki is speculation, without it.) Personally, while the first pump could be either kind of pump, the title text asking for ''another'' in order to drain the sea means that the first (regardless of which way one's mind snaps, on reading) was not intended to be a sea-drainng pump. Randall also often does something akin to "one-lead-element Markov Chanining", and "how small I am" leading to a penis pump fits his sense of absurdist humour. Even if it isn't initially that, it's still akin to being a {{w|Garden path sentence}} (only more of a disfluent paragraph version) when parsing. All IMO. YMMV. HTH. HAND. [[Special:Contributions/178.107.249.215|178.107.249.215]] 13:40, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Talk:454: Rewiring

2013-06-14T13:12:58Z

178.107.249.215: Created page with "As well as physically 'threading' the mail system, an email (or other messaging) client that keeps track of what messages reply to which others (often as a linear progression ..."

As well as physically 'threading' the mail system, an email (or other messaging) client that keeps track of what messages reply to which others (often as a linear progression or cascade, or a tree-view where multiplie participants can be expected to branch the conversation) is said to show 'threaded' messages. Or was. (These days it's probably got some other name, and everyone seems to just want to top-post anyway. Thank you, Eternal September!!!) [[Special:Contributions/178.107.249.215|178.107.249.215]] 13:12, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Talk:457: Frustration

2013-06-13T22:20:34Z

178.107.249.215: Created page with "...or "I can do '''it''' in under a minute" is taken as a euphamism for speedy performance ''after'' the bra puzzle is solved (or ignored). Which doesn't always impress a par..."

...or "I can do '''it''' in under a minute" is taken as a euphamism for speedy performance ''after'' the bra puzzle is solved (or ignored). Which doesn't always impress a partner. I've heard. [[Special:Contributions/178.107.249.215|178.107.249.215]] 22:20, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Talk:458: Regrets

2013-06-13T22:09:24Z

178.107.249.215: Created page with "Don't know how the original measure was made, but for curiosity's sake I just now checked the current raw Google search results for full-quoted "I should have kissed her" and ..."

Don't know how the original measure was made, but for curiosity's sake I just now checked the current raw Google search results for full-quoted "I should have kissed her" and its variants. That's "should" vs. "shouldn't" vs. "should not" (more imperative?), "have" vs. "...'ve" vs. "of" (to catch the ungrammatical) and of course "him" vs. "her" vs. "them" (plural/ungendered?) vs. "it" (..?).

Here are the figures reported (larger ones having been rounded to "About..." so many thousands). Some results (especially the main "should have kissed her" version) obviously were inclusive of the comic itself and direct references like this Wiki, and blogs from XKCD lovers and XKCD-haters alike who decided to make their own commentary.

{| class="wikitable"
! ..kissed !! Her !! Him !! Them !! It
|-
|Should have || align="right" | 1,120,000 || align="right" | 446,000 || align="right" | 310,000 || align="right" | 859,000
|-
|Shouldn't have || align="right" | 4,100,000 || align="right" | 1,110,000 || align="right" | 6 || align="right" | 1
|-
|Should not have || align="right" | 2,730,000 || align="right" | 542,000 || align="right" | 7 || ="shouldn't have"
|-
|colspan=3|
|-
! ..kissed !! Her !! Him !! Them !! It
|-
|Should've || align="right" | 799,900 || align="right" | 274,000 || align="right" | 94,000 || align="right" | 6
|-
|Shouldn't've || colspan="4" rowspan="2" | (Forced to "shouldn't have"... fair enough.)
|-
|Should not've
|-
|colspan=3|
|-
! ..kissed !! Her !! Him !! Them !! It
|-
|Should of || align="right" | 24,900 || align="right" | 18,500 || align="right" | 1,050 || align="right" | 411
|-
|Shouldn't of || align="right" | 6,840 || align="right" | 6,180 || align="right" | - || align="right" | -
|-
|Should not of || align="right" | 6,840 || align="right" | 6,180 || align="right" | - || align="right" | 1
|}

(Not everything is as intended. The lone "I should not of kissed it" result sends one to "...and i should not of kissed. it is the least i could do...", for example.)

Was going to try alternatives to "kissed", but might have gotten unwieldy. (And imagine the furore at Prism HQ for repeated searches using "killed"!)

I'll just leave this here for analysis and combining related figures however you so feel like. Not sure if the "of" camps are nicely small figures, in comparison, or still too uncomfortably large for my liking... [[Special:Contributions/178.107.249.215|178.107.249.215]] 22:09, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

460: Paleontology

2013-06-13T20:30:11Z

178.107.249.215: /* Explanation */ Corrected tyop.

{{comic
| number = 460
| date = August 8, 2008
| title = Paleontology
| image = paleontology.png
| titletext = Dinosaurs totally jumped the ichthyosaur when they got rid of Brontosaurus.
}}

==Explanation==
This comic is essentially a set up for a pun: 'underground' can mean 'under the ground' ('buried in the dirt') or 'non-mainstream.' In this case, [[Ponytail]] is whining that she had been doing paleontology before {{w|Jurassic Park}} kicked Paleontology into the mainstream with living reproductions of dinosaurs, thus apparently undermining the hard work paleontologists had done. In other words, this comic is also poking fun at 'hipsters.'

The title text refers to both the phenomenon called '{{w|jumping the shark}}' and the controversy having the Brontosaurus's name changed to '{{w|Apatosaurus}},' despite the 'Brontosaurus' already having made a name for himself in the mainstream. [[636: Brontosaurus]] also references the Brontosaurus name change. An apatosaurus also appears in [[15: Just Alerting You]], and [[650: Nowhere]].

==Transcript==
:[Cueball and Ponytail in a museum, near a reconstructed dinosaur fossil.]
:Ponytail: Man, paleontology sucks these days.
:Cueball: Why?
:Ponytail: Jurassic Park came out 15 years ago.
:Cueball: So?
:Ponytail: Today's grad students got into dinosaurs after seeing it as kids. They don't care about fossils. Brats.
:[A woman in a hat exploring a barren landscape.]
:Ponytail: Before they had living dinosaurs handed to them by Hollywood, I was out in Texas digging up Arcocanthosaur teeth.
:Cueball: So, you were into dinosaurs when they were still underground?
:Ponytail: Exactly!

{{comic discussion}}
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Talk:465: Quantum Teleportation

2013-06-11T22:38:21Z

178.107.249.215: Created page with "No mention in the explanation that having pooh-poohed the idea of quantum teleportation being anything like the archetypal fictional representation of matter-transporters, the..."

No mention in the explanation that having pooh-poohed the idea of quantum teleportation being anything like the archetypal fictional representation of matter-transporters, the guy then "goes to the Bahamas" via a box that has been flipped to "''regular'' teleportation"... [[Special:Contributions/178.107.249.215|178.107.249.215]] 22:38, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Talk:471: Aversion Fads

2013-06-11T22:22:31Z

178.107.249.215:

The inclusion of a Fox is notable, within the Furry community foxes are the most populous species [Citation: https://sites.google.com/site/anthropomorphicresearch/home ] and subjected to a degree of derision from other furs.

[[Special:Contributions/78.40.152.129|78.40.152.129]] 10:45, 12 January 2013 (UTC) Feefers (A Furry)

:Your mention of fox-morphism reminds me of {{w|Lady into Fox}}, from the 1920s... Probably not relevent, but perhaps interesting as a pre-Internet example that is not itself an ancient fable, legend or allegory. (No Rule 34ing, though, that I recall). [[Special:Contributions/178.107.249.215|178.107.249.215]] 22:22, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Talk:472: House of Pancakes

2013-06-11T22:09:19Z

178.107.249.215: Created page with "My take on this (probably wrong in so many ways, especially as I'm British and obviously don't get some of the pop references that are obviously there), is that we are seeing ..."

My take on this (probably wrong in so many ways, especially as I'm British and obviously don't get some of the pop references that are obviously there), is that we are seeing this as if converted to a web-page (from a physical example that was scanned, with stains and marks and possibly even graffiti reproduced faithfully) and and given a number of hidden  by successive editors and reviewers of the material, except they're made visible for our benefit. It may even actually be a "wikified". I've seen worse ''actual'' examples. (Although the "Yvette's Bridal Formal", the epitome of bad web pages, had vanished last time I actually went and looked for it.)

"House" being in blue makes me think that this word has been globally 'linkified'.

Does the scribble "International" indicate someone trying to make it relevent outside the US?

This was to have been published on Blogspot, at some point, but some reviewer nerfed that.

Some of the footnotes sound a bit Lovecraftian, others somewhat as if Hunter S. Thompson had written them.

Footnote 19 points out the error (in my opinion, as well as the unknown annotator) of missing out the hyphen in "kids-only". The hyphen makes it a single compound term, which in this context isn't as necessary to remove ambiguity as it could have been, but still ought to be there. The editor concerned thinks this is related to the lack of the Oxford Comma (the one before 'and' in something like "foo, bar, and baz"), although I'm British and personally dislike that form of grammar (prefering "foo, bar and baz", the commas being "chained conjunction" replacers, the last of the conjunctions not being replaced so needing no comma) and don't actually think it's a majority UK grammatical feature. Except where the lack of it produces ambiguity, in which case I'd re-write it so it no longer had such ambiguity.

"The Big Steak Omlette" has been censored of some of its ingredients. Too thoroughly to work out what ''has'' been censored, so the joke may rely on knowledge of what they might have been.

"Mohawk Girls" is a documentary film. I only know that it exists (not even sure that this is the reference intended, rather than both items referencing something else) and have no idea about the relevence.

"Enough with your (God Damn) pancakes" as voiced by the graffiti stick-figures sounds like a meme, but is too obscure for me.

The title-text is the voice of a person unable to handle the mess (figurative and actual) all over the menu and deciding to try another eating-establishment.

I never knew about House Of Leaves, before now. This probably explains why this comic befuddles me. Checking out the description of it I see the stylistic link being made, although can't rule out that I'd remained befuddled (or even become much more so) even if/when I've familiarised myself with the book itself. :-) [[Special:Contributions/178.107.249.215|178.107.249.215]] 22:09, 11 June 2013 (UTC)