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<p>75.186.140.173: /* Transcript */</p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 805<br /> | date = October 13, 2010<br /> | title = Paradise City<br /> | image = paradise city.png<br /> | titletext = Take me down to the paradise municipality / where the grass is mauve and the girls aren't fromthisreality.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> Cueball is singing the opening lines of Guns N' Roses' 1987 song &quot;Paradise City&quot;. Here, he changes the word &quot;city&quot; in every panel with a synonym, and then completes the lyric with a new rhyme, usually an awkward one because he has chosen difficult words to rhyme with. As the song continues, the &quot;paradise city&quot; goes through an increasingly dark progression into chaos and then dystopic totalitarianism.<br /> <br /> The &quot;Orwellian regions&quot; line is a reference to the George Orwell book ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'', in which a totalitarian government enforces loyalty in its citizen through brainwashing.<br /> <br /> {{incomplete}}<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> :[Cueball sits on a box playing a guitar and singing.]<br /> :Cueball: Take me down to the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty.<br /> :Cueball: Take me down to the paradise village where the grasses burn and those cute girls pillage.<br /> :Cueball: Take me down to the fire-charred counties where the law's restored by Canadian mounties.<br /> :Cueball: Take me down to Orwellian regions where they retrain girls using cortical lesions<br /> :Cueball: Take me down to the paradise borough where the grass is labeled 'cause the girls are thorough. Ohh, won't you please take me hooome...<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br /> [[Category:Music]]</div>

75.186.140.173 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=805:_Paradise_City&diff=35422 2013-04-28T18:00:31Z

<p>75.186.140.173: </p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 805<br /> | date = October 13, 2010<br /> | title = Paradise City<br /> | image = paradise city.png<br /> | titletext = Take me down to the paradise municipality / where the grass is mauve and the girls aren't fromthisreality.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> Cueball is singing the opening lines of Guns N' Roses' 1987 song &quot;Paradise City&quot;. Here, he changes the word &quot;city&quot; in every panel with a synonym, and then completes the lyric with a new rhyme, usually an awkward one because he has chosen difficult words to rhyme with. As the song continues, the &quot;paradise city&quot; goes through an increasingly dark progression into chaos and then dystopic totalitarianism.<br /> <br /> The &quot;Orwellian regions&quot; line is a reference to the George Orwell book ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'', in which a totalitarian government enforces loyalty in its citizen through brainwashing.<br /> <br /> {{incomplete}}<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> :[Cueball sits on a box playing a guitar and singing.]<br /> :Cueball: Take me down to the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty.<br /> :Cueball: Take me down to the paradise village where the grasses burn and the cute girls pillage.<br /> :Cueball: Take me down to the fire-charred counties where the law's restored by Canadian mounties.<br /> :Cueball: Take me down to Orwellian regions where they retrain girls using cortical lesions<br /> :Cueball: Take me down to the paradise borough where the grass is labeled 'cause the girls are thorough. Ohh, won't you please take me hooome...<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br /> [[Category:Music]]</div>

75.186.140.173 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:444:_Macgyver_Gets_Lazy&diff=34250 2013-04-18T23:39:57Z

<p>75.186.140.173: Created page with &quot;The wikipedia article mentioned in the comic no longer exists, but an old version of it is still viewable here: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_problems_sol...&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>The wikipedia article mentioned in the comic no longer exists, but an old version of it is still viewable here: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_problems_solved_by_MacGyver&amp;oldid=258219690 List of problems solved by MacGyver] [[Special:Contributions/75.186.140.173|75.186.140.173]] 23:39, 18 April 2013 (UTC)</div>

75.186.140.173 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:341:_1337:_Part_1&diff=33769 2013-04-16T04:30:59Z

<p>75.186.140.173: </p> <hr /> <div>The number 1337 should be read up side down, it means &quot;leet&quot; = elite. This is hacker code for the top guys. 11:43, 27 October 2012 (UTC)mb<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> Actually, it is not upside down at all. The thr33 represents an e, the 1 an l and the 7 a t. 7h3r3 ar3 a150 many other ways to write in leet speak that I won't cover. Google is a thing. --[[Special:Contributions/75.186.140.173|75.186.140.173]] 04:30, 16 April 2013 (UTC)</div>

75.186.140.173 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:341:_1337:_Part_1&diff=33768 2013-04-16T04:29:47Z

<p>75.186.140.173: </p> <hr /> <div>The number 1337 should be read up side down, it means &quot;leet&quot; = elite. This is hacker code for the top guys. 11:43, 27 October 2012 (UTC)mb<br /> <br /> Actually, it is not upside down at all. The thr33 represents an e, the 1 an l and the 7 a t. 7h3r3 ar3 a150 many other ways to write in leet speak that I won't cover. Google is a thing.</div>

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