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1330: Kola Borehole

2014-02-14T06:40:13Z

Durka42: /* Transcript */ capitalize hell

{{comic
| number = 1330
| date = February 14, 2014
| title = Kola Borehole
| image = kola_borehole.png
| titletext = Tonight's top story: Lucifer, the Prince of Darkness, died in his home this morning at the age of [unintelligible rune]. Due to the large number of sharks inhabiting his former kingdom, no body could be recovered.
}}

==Explanation==
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==Transcript==
:[Megan and Hat Guy are sitting in front of their laptops.]
:Megan: Ever hear of the Kola Borehole?
:Hat Guy: No -- what's that?
:Megan: A Soviet project to drill deep into the Earth's crust.

:Megan: There's a hoax report claiming that their drill broke through into a superhot cavern, and when they lowered a microphone into the hole, they heard tormented screaming.
:Megan: People say that's why the miners sealed the well and abandoned the project.

:Hat Guy: Why would anyone '''believe''' that story?
:Megan: I guess some people think Hell is literally an underground place.

:Hat Guy: No -- I mean, why would the miners seal the opening? Why not just dig a canal connecting it to the ocean?
:Hat Guy: Unless they '''like''' Hell.

:Megan: ...If there's ever a war between Earth and Hell, I hope I'm on '''your''' side.
:Hat Guy: You seem nice; you probably won't be.

{{comic discussion}}

1330: Kola Borehole

2014-02-14T06:13:48Z

Durka42: /* Transcript */ oops title text doesn't go in the transcript

{{comic
| number = 1330
| date = February 14, 2014
| title = Kola Borehole
| image = kola_borehole.png
| titletext = Tonight's top story: Lucifer, the Prince of Darkness, died in his home this morning at the age of [unintelligible rune]. Due to the large number of sharks inhabiting his former kingdom, no body could be recovered.
}}

==Explanation==
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==Transcript==
:[Megan and Hat Guy are sitting in front of their laptops.]
:Megan: Ever hear of the Kola Borehole?
:Hat Guy: No -- what's that?
:Megan: A Soviet project to drill deep into the Earth's crust.

:Megan: There's a hoax report claiming that their drill broke through into a superhot cavern, and when they lowered a microphone into the hole, they heard tormented screaming.
:Megan: People say that's why the miners sealed the well and abandoned the project.

:Hat Guy: Why would anyone '''believe''' that story?
:Megan: I guess some people think Hell is literally an underground place.

:Hat Guy: No -- I mean, why would the miners seal the opening? Why not just dig a canal connecting it to the ocean?
:Hat Guy: Unless they '''like''' hell.

:Megan: ...If there's ever a war between Earth and Hell, I hope I'm on '''your''' side.
:Hat Guy: You seem nice; you probably won't be.

{{comic discussion}}

1330: Kola Borehole

2014-02-14T06:12:10Z

Durka42: transcribed comic

{{comic
| number = 1330
| date = February 14, 2014
| title = Kola Borehole
| image = kola_borehole.png
| titletext = Tonight's top story: Lucifer, the Prince of Darkness, died in his home this morning at the age of [unintelligible rune]. Due to the large number of sharks inhabiting his former kingdom, no body could be recovered.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Created by a BOT - Please change this comment when editing this page.}}

==Transcript==
:[Megan and Hat Guy are sitting in front of their laptops.]
:Megan: Ever hear of the Kola Borehole?
:Hat Guy: No -- what's that?
:Megan: A Soviet project to drill deep into the Earth's crust.

:Megan: There's a hoax report claiming that their drill broke through into a superhot cavern, and when they lowered a microphone into the hole, they heard tormented screaming.
:Megan: People say that's why the miners sealed the well and abandoned the project.

:Hat Guy: Why would anyone '''believe''' that story?
:Megan: I guess some people think Hell is literally an underground place.

:Hat Guy: No -- I mean, why would the miners seal the opening? Why not just dig a canal connecting it to the ocean?
:Hat Guy: Unless they '''like''' hell.

:Megan: ...If there's ever a war between Earth and Hell, I hope I'm on '''your''' side.
:Hat Guy: You seem nice; you probably won't be.

:Tonight's top story: Lucifer, the Prince of Darkness, died in his home this morning at the age of [unintelligible rune]. Due to the large number of sharks inhabiting his former kingdom, no body could be recovered.

{{comic discussion}}

Talk:838: Incident

2013-11-17T08:11:38Z

Durka42:

And so the entire list of naughty and nice children fits into a single A1 poster by Santa's computer. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|purple|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 09:59, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

:Presumably it's a delta encoding; he writes down changes to the lists and then later writes them into his records and gets a new poster. [[Special:Contributions/130.160.145.224|130.160.145.224]] 16:19, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

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Seeing as the username is <code>robm</code>, should this be attributed to [[Rob]] and not Cueball? [[User:Markhurd|Mark Hurd]] ([[User talk:Markhurd|talk]]) 16:27, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

:Yup, changed that. [[User:Xyz|Xyz]] ([[User talk:Xyz|talk]]) 14:32, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

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Real Linux does say "this incident will be reported," but does *NOT* report it to Santa Claus. [[User:Xyz|Xyz]] ([[User talk:Xyz|talk]]) 14:49, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

:Actually the title text kind of explains this! The incident is reported to root, by email (by default, anyway). So if Santa is somehow "copied" there, he will see the message. [[User:Durka42|Durka42]] ([[User talk:Durka42|talk]]) 08:11, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

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So all we need now is an Ubuntu distro that reports failed sudo attempts to Santa Claus. Santabuntu anyone?

[[User:Zyxuvius|Zyxuvius]] ([[User talk:Zyxuvius|talk]]) 05:37, 16 October 2013 (UTC)