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528: Windows 7

2013-04-10T19:06:39Z

Gucki: /* Explanation */ The Name was Adol*f*

{{comic
| number = 528
| date = January 9, 2009
| title = Windows 7
| image = windows_7.png
| titletext = Disclaimer: I have not actually tried the beta yet. I hear it's quite pleasant and hardly Hitler-y at all.
}}

==Explanation==
In this comic, [[Megan]] is observing [[Cueball]] use a laptop on which he has installed the Windows 7 beta. However, the alleged Windows 7 beta is showing nothing but a picture of Adolf Hitler and Cueball is unable to do anything. Cueball then presses Control-Alt-Delete (the well-known Windows Secure Attention Sequence which opens Task Manager or displays a list of options which includes 'Shut Down' and 'Restart') as suggested by Megan, but only manages to make the picture's eyes flash.

The fourth panel shows Megan commenting that this Windows 7 beta is better than Windows Vista, to which Cueball agrees. The joke is that Megan deems a mostly non-functional OS better than Windows Vista, which had problems that were mocked in Apple Mac OS TV commercials.

The title text is a disclaimer stating that [[Randall]] has not tried the beta at the time this comic was written, but has heard positive opinions about it.

==Transcript==
:[Megan is standing behind Cueball sitting at a desk using his laptop]
:Megan: What are you doing?
:Cueball: Trying the Windows 7 beta.
:Megan: Why is it showing a picture of Hitler?
:[The laptop's screen is shown with Adolph Hitler's face on it]
:Cueball: I don't know. I can't get it to do anything else.
:Megan: There's no UI?
:Cueball: No, just Hitler.
:[Return to the original scene, except Megan is now scratching her head in confusion]
:Megan: Did you try Ctrl-Alt-Delete?
:Cueball: It just makes Hitler's eyes flash.
:Megan: Huh.
:[Scene remains basically the same, except Megan is no longer scratching her head and Cueball is no longer typing on the laptop]
:Megan: Well, it's better than Vista.
:Cueball: True.

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[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
[[Category:Hitler]]

467: X Girls Y Cups

2013-04-10T18:37:05Z

Gucki: /* Explanation */

{{comic
| number = 467
| date = 2008-08-25
| title = X Girls Y Cups
| image = x_girls_y_cups.png
| titletext = X Girls Y Cups
}}

==Explanation==
"Hungry Bitches", unofficially nicknamed for its trailer as "2 Girls 1 Cup", is a 2007 scat-fetish pornographic film produced by MFX Media. The one-minute preview is a viral video that became a well-known Internet meme. If you know this, it is not very surprising that for x=2 y=1 there are 1929000 results, which are 257 times as many search engine results than for the runner-up: "1 Girl 1 Cup"
([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2_Girls_1_Cup&oldid=549361424 Wikipedia])

==Transcript==
:[There is a table with eight columns and eight rows. Cups to the horizontal girls to the vertical.]
:{{Title: Google results for <x> cups <y> girls}}
:(Note: the values will be displayed left to right and top to bottom.)
:0 girls: 3, 375, 9, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
:1 girl: 7, 7503, 2007, 10, 5, 3, 6, 2
:2 girls: 9, 1929000, 247, 7, 14, 13, 2, 1
:3 girls: 7, 6335, 394, 34, 3, 2, 6, 0
:4 girls: 3, 3513, 34, 0, 63, 0, 0, 0
:5 girls: 1, 9, 5, 3, 0, 0, 3, 0
:6 girls: 3, 1461, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0
:7 girls: 2, 19, 4, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0
:{Alt-text: Also no results: 1girl10000cups, 2girls(5+3i)cups, 65536girls35563cups, or 3frenchhens2turtledoves1cup.}

{{comic discussion}}

[[Category:Sex]] [[Category:Internet]]

467: X Girls Y Cups

2013-04-10T18:36:32Z

Gucki: Created

{{comic
| number = 467
| date = 2008-08-25
| title = X Girls Y Cups
| image = x_girls_y_cups.png
| titletext = X Girls Y Cups
}}

==Explanation==
"Hungry Bitches", unofficially nicknamed for its trailer as 2 Girls 1 Cup, is a 2007 scat-fetish pornographic film produced by MFX Media. The one-minute preview is a viral video that became a well-known Internet meme. If you know this, it is not very surprising that for x=2 y=1 there are 1929000 results, which are 257 times as many search engine results than for the runner-up: "1 Girl 1 Cup"
([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2_Girls_1_Cup&oldid=549361424 Wikipedia])

==Transcript==
:[There is a table with eight columns and eight rows. Cups to the horizontal girls to the vertical.]
:{{Title: Google results for <x> cups <y> girls}}
:(Note: the values will be displayed left to right and top to bottom.)
:0 girls: 3, 375, 9, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
:1 girl: 7, 7503, 2007, 10, 5, 3, 6, 2
:2 girls: 9, 1929000, 247, 7, 14, 13, 2, 1
:3 girls: 7, 6335, 394, 34, 3, 2, 6, 0
:4 girls: 3, 3513, 34, 0, 63, 0, 0, 0
:5 girls: 1, 9, 5, 3, 0, 0, 3, 0
:6 girls: 3, 1461, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0
:7 girls: 2, 19, 4, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0
:{Alt-text: Also no results: 1girl10000cups, 2girls(5+3i)cups, 65536girls35563cups, or 3frenchhens2turtledoves1cup.}

{{comic discussion}}

[[Category:Sex]] [[Category:Internet]]