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18: Snapple

2012-08-03T17:27:52Z

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{{ComicHeader|18|January 1, 2006}}

[[File:Snapple.jpg|Sn = tin]]

== Image Text ==
Sn = tin

== Description ==
This is pretty self-explainatory, if you studied chemistry in high-school. It is a phun on the trademarked brand [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapple Snapple], which is a collection of juice and fruit drinks. [[Cueball]] gets an offer to try out a Snapple in the form of an apple and tries to bites it, but is not able to. Then, he learns that the offering is actually an apple infused with Tin. The periodical table notation for Tin (so says the image text also) is Sn. Combined with apple, you get Snapple.

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18

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Talk:18: Snapple

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[[User:Rikthoff|Rikthoff]] ([[User talk:Rikthoff|talk]]) [[User:Rikthoff|Rikthoff]] ([[User talk:Rikthoff|talk]]) Does anybody know what the correct date of issue of this comic is? Also, Does anybody know who James is?

Talk:18

2012-08-03T17:27:52Z

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User:Xuanji

2012-08-03T17:21:48Z

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Xuanji

19: George Clinton

2012-08-03T17:15:02Z

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{{ComicHeader|19|January 1, 2006}}

[[File:George_clinton.jpg|I still wish it were true.]]

== Image Text ==
I still wish it were true.

== Description ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clinton George Clinton] is an American musician most famous for his funk music and wild hair style, which we see depicted in the comic. Apparently, [[Randall]] is (was) such a great fan of the man, he once started a rumor that he also has a University-degree in Mathematics. But he wanted it so bad to be true, Randall started to believe the rumor itself.

The mathematic equations on the board are Laplace Transforms for functions, by the way.

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19

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Talk:19: George Clinton

2012-08-03T17:15:02Z

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[[User:Rikthoff|Rikthoff]] ([[User talk:Rikthoff|talk]]) Does anybody know what the correct date of issue of this comic is? Also, does anybody know why Randall loves George Clinton?

Talk:19

2012-08-03T17:15:02Z

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1063: Kill Hitler

2012-08-03T17:13:41Z

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{{ComicHeader|1063|June 1, 2012}}

[[File:Kill_hitler.png]]

== Image Text ==
Revised directive: It is forbidden for you to interfere with human history until you've at least taken a class on it.

== Description ==
In this comic, which I believe Randall created just to put in "BRB, Killing Hitler", [[Black Hat]] creates a one use time machine. [[Cueball]] selects the most common suggestion for Time Machine usage "Killing Hitler". [[Black Hat]] finally relents and goes to kill Hitler, however, he goes to the year 1945, when Hitler is already in his bunker. Hitler has already committed his atrocities and the war was already turning against him. Later in 1945, he reportedly died by suicide in that very same bunker. The joke in here being that he didn't save any lives or prevent the Holocaust or a global war by killing him in 1945 because he went back in time too late. He needed to go earlier, before his rise to power.

[[Category:Comics|1063]]

140: Delicious

2012-08-03T17:10:50Z

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{{ComicHeader|140|April 19, 2006}}

[[File:Delicious.png]]

== Image Text ==
I'm currently in the I Have Cheese phase of this cycle.

== Description ==
The simplest explanation for the comic is the recipe for nachos. You take some tortilla chips, spread them out on a plate, sprinkle them with grated cheese, and put the plate in the oven until the cheese is melted. As usual with a full bag of snacks, you always end up with that tiny bit left at the bottom of the bag. In this case, it is either leftover grated cheese (left) or tortilla chips (right). So you end up buying another package of the other ingredient to make nachos again.

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140

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Talk:140: Delicious

2012-08-03T17:10:50Z

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[[User:Rikthoff|Rikthoff]] ([[User talk:Rikthoff|talk]]) The issue date is definitely off. Can anyone fix?

Talk:140

2012-08-03T17:10:50Z

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138: Pointers

2012-08-03T17:08:46Z

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{{ComicHeader|138|April 19, 2006}}

[[File:Pointers.png]]

== Image Text ==
Every computer, at the unreachable memory address 0x-1, stores a secret. I found it, and it is that all humans ar-- SEGMENTATION FAULT.

== Description ==
This comic is about a play on the dual meaning of the word “pointer”. [[Cueball]] is playing a computer game in the comic, but he seems to be stuck. So he askes [[Black Hat]] for a few tips (“pointers”) to get unstuck again. Black Hat wants to be annoying, so he spits out a couple of (seemingly random) 32-bit hexadecimal addresses, which are “pointers” in a programming language. These pointers are used to access a certain location in the computer's memory in order to fulfill a task. Cueball then hates Black Hat for not answering his question.

The "segmentation fault" the image text is referencing also arises from this kind of memory access. If you define a pointer to an invalid address, then try to access the memory location associated with it, you could end up with this exception. The hexadecimal address 0x-1 is one of those invalid access pointers, because memory locations generally start at numeric location 0.

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138

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Talk:138: Pointers

2012-08-03T17:08:46Z

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[[User:Rikthoff|Rikthoff]] ([[User talk:Rikthoff|talk]]) The issue date is definitely off. Can anyone fix this?

Talk:138

2012-08-03T17:08:46Z

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138: Pointers

2012-08-03T17:08:07Z

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138: Pointers

2012-08-03T17:06:45Z

Xuanji: Change title to pointers

{{ComicHeader|Pointers|April 19, 2006}}

[[File:Pointers.png]]

== Image Text ==
Every computer, at the unreachable memory address 0x-1, stores a secret. I found it, and it is that all humans ar-- SEGMENTATION FAULT.

== Description ==
This comic is about a play on the dual meaning of the word “pointer”. [[Cueball]] is playing a computer game in the comic, but he seems to be stuck. So he askes [[Black Hat]] for a few tips (“pointers”) to get unstuck again. Black Hat wants to be annoying, so he spits out a couple of (seemingly random) 32-bit hexadecimal addresses, which are “pointers” in a programming language. These pointers are used to access a certain location in the computer's memory in order to fulfill a task. Cueball then hates Black Hat for not answering his question.

The "segmentation fault" the image text is referencing also arises from this kind of memory access. If you define a pointer to an invalid address, then try to access the memory location associated with it, you could end up with this exception. The hexadecimal address 0x-1 is one of those invalid access pointers, because memory locations generally start at numeric location 0.

[[Category:Comics|0138]]