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<p>27.32.72.175: /* Explanation */</p> <hr /> <div>{{ComicHeader|135|April 19, 2006}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Substitute.png]]<br /> <br /> == Image Text ==<br /> YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY?<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> If anything, this comic references the 1993 movie [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park Jurassic Park], like {{explain|87}}. The movie deals about a mad billionaire opening a animal zoo. No so bad, but the animals in question are not your ordinary lions or elephants, but dinosaurs and the like, brought back to life by said billionaire through his DNA-cloning company. Of course, everything goes haywire, and several of the meat-eating creatures, among which the velociraptors mentioned in the image, try to devour every human in the theme park. Said velociraptors thereby pose a certain intelligence for hunting out their pray.<br /> <br /> [[Randall]] is asked to substitute Mrs. Lenhart in math class. The test he devises contains three questions, which have the recurring theme of humans running from said velociraptors. As Randall himself says in the comic: “Knowledge more vital than you've ever learned.”<br /> <br /> Velociraptors, and in particular, the irrational fear of being attacked by them in the modern world, [[:Category:Comics featuring Velociraptors|appear several times]] in xkcd. <br /> <br /> Answers to the first two questions can be found in [http://fora.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&amp;t=120&amp;start=40 this topic] on the forum board, by the way.<br /> <br /> {{Comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Comics|0135]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Velociraptors]]</div>

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