https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=108.162.231.121&feedformat=atomexplain xkcd - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T23:03:02ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1380:_Manual_for_Civilization&diff=694171380: Manual for Civilization2014-06-12T19:46:53Z<p>108.162.231.121: /* Explanation */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1380<br />
| date = June 11, 2014<br />
| title = Manual for Civilization<br />
| image = manual_for_civilization.png<br />
| titletext = We will have an entire wing of the library devoted to copies of book #26, because ohmygod it's the one where Jake and Cassie finally KISS!!!<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{w|Brian Eno}} is a musician and a co-founder of the {{w|Long Now Foundation}}. He is explaining to an audience that one of the missions of the Long Now is a [http://blog.longnow.org/02010/04/06/manual-for-civilization/ Manual for Civilization] - a collection of reference materials that can help rebuild society in case it collapses. But in Randall's version, the experts have made a list composed of many books from the {{w|Animorphs}} series. <br />
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Animorphs is a series of books written by {{w|K.A. Applegate}}. It follows a group of five children (later, an alien joins as the sixth member), that try to stop the parasitic aliens, the Yeerks, by transforming into animals. A Yeerk that enters a human has complete control over their host, and can read their memories. Because the Yeerks can imitate their host almost perfectly, humanity is slowly being taken over without knowing it, and for this reason the children cannot contact the authorities and are on their own in the battle against the Yeerks. <br />
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When asked if all the books on the experts list are from the Animorph series, Eno misses the point of the question by saying ''No!'', only to mention the {{W|List_of_Animorphs_books#Companion_books|Megamorphs}} books and {{W|The Andalite Chronicles}}, both of which are side stories to the Animorph universe. <br />
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There are other books like these which aren't mentioned here — but it is clear from the last two panels that it is a quite long list — and it seems to be written in two columns, so maybe all {{w|List_of_Animorphs_books#Animorphs_main_series|54 Animorphs books}} and all {{W|List_of_Animorphs_books#Companion_books|ten side stories}} could be included on the list.<br />
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In suggesting that a series of children's novels make up the blueprint for rebuilding civilization, [[Randall]] is spoofing the idea of such libraries (since such books would be largely useless in terms of providing the detailed instructions that would be necessary). At the same time, he may also be sending up a recent [http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2014/06/against_ya_adults_should_be_embarrassed_to_read_children_s_books.single.html controversial article] from ''{{W|Slate (magazine)|Slate}}'', which suggested that adults should be ashamed of reading children's literature, by having a popular children's work be considered crucial to rebuilding civilization.<br />
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The title text makes it completely ludicrous by saying an entire wing of the library will be devoted to the {{w|The Attack (Animorphs)|book (#26)}} where {{w|Animorphs#Animorphs|Jake and Cassie}} finally KISS!!!<br />
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This comic may also be inspired by {{w|Isaac Asimov}}'s {{w|The_Foundation_Series|Foundation series}}, where Hari Seldon claimed that the Galactic Empire is going to collapse in three hundred years, there is no way to stop it but his group of scientists are writing Encyclopedia Galactica to help people rebuild civilization.<br />
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*The Long Now Foundation was mentioned recently in [[1340: Unique Date]].<br />
*Animorphs was referenced before in the title texts of [[1360: Old Files]] and [[1187:_Aspect_Ratio]].<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Brian Eno is talking to an unseen audience.]<br />
:Brian Eno: Hi. I'm music's Brian Eno, co-founder of the Long Now Foundation. <br />
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:[Panel 2 shows he is standing on a stage.]<br />
:Brian Eno: As part of our mission to promote long-term thinking, we've asked experts to help us assemble a collection of books from which civilization can be rebuilt if it ever collapses.<br />
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:[Panel 3 shows he is holding a manuscript with a long list of book titles.]<br />
:Brian Eno: Today we're sharing the results — the first ever ''Manual for Civilization''.<br />
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:[Panel 4 shows him reading from the manuscript.]<br />
:Brian Eno: *Ahem* <br />
::''Animorphs #1: The Invasion''<br />
::''Animorphs #2: The Visitor''<br />
::''Animorphs #3: The Encounter''<br />
:Unseen Audience member: ...are they ''all'' Animorphs Books?<br />
:Brian Eno: No! There's also ''Megamorphs'' and ''The Andalite Chronicles''.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Comics featuring real people]]<br />
[[Category:Animorphs]]</div>108.162.231.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1346:_Career&diff=633131346: Career2014-03-25T19:29:29Z<p>108.162.231.121: Double incomplete be double.</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1346<br />
| date = March 24, 2014<br />
| title = Career<br />
| image = career.png<br />
| titletext = They'd convince me to come out of retirement for one last job: biting into a giant lump of slightly soft wax a couple of times.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|There is a probability of some nontrivial connection between those three tasks,The 'explanation' does not properly explain the comic}}<br />
Cueball is presumably asked to answer the typical HR interview question: What is your dream job? Rather than going with the more common answers that are designed to increase the chances of landing that particular job, Cueball talks about unrealistic jobs that are fun, whimsical, and so well compensated that a little over one hour on the clock would provide enough wealth for a luxurious retirement; of course, you can have such a job only in your dreams. Peeling lint off dryer traps is quite fun{{Citation needed}}, but it gets boring soon, so Cueball wants to do that only for 5 minutes, followed by pressing a lightsaber handle up to things (this does not exist yet, sadly) for an hour. Then Cueball would like to retire to a life of luxury, and the only way to bring him out of it is to offer him to do another fun task till he gets bored again.<br />
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The lightsaber part is most likely a reference to the beginning of Star Wars Episode I, where Jedi Qui-Gon Jinn does exactly this.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Cueball is talking to a woman sitting behind a desk]<br />
:Cueball: It would start with five minutes of peeling lint from dryer traps<br />
:Cueball: Followed by an hour of pressing a lightsaber handle against things and switching it on.<br />
:Cueball: Then I'd retire to a life of luxury.<br />
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When people ask me to describe my dream job, I'm never sure how realistic to be.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]</div>108.162.231.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:comic&diff=62122Template:comic2014-03-07T17:38:30Z<p>108.162.231.121: </p>
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| title = Monty Python -- Enough<br />
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| date = October 4, 2005<br />
| title = Monty Python -- Enough<br />
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| titletext = I went to a dinner where there was a full 10 minutes of Holy Grail quotes exchanged, with no context, in lieu of conversation. It depressed me badly.<br />
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<pre>{{comic<br />
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| date = October 4, 2005<br />
| title = Monty Python -- Enough<br />
| image = monty_python.jpg<br />
| titletext = I went to a dinner where there was a full 10 minutes of Holy Grail quotes exchanged, with no context, in lieu of conversation. It depressed me badly.<br />
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-->{{#ifeq: {{{number}}} | 1 |&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}}<!--<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[1|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">&#124;&lt;</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
### Create the prev button ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#ifeq: {{{number}}} | 1 | | <li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[{{#expr:{{{number}}} - 1}}|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">&lt; Prev</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li>}}<!--<br />
<br />
### Create a centre button with comic number, date (if exists) and link ###<br />
<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"<br />
class="plainlinks"><!--<br />
-->[http://www.xkcd.com/{{{number}}}/ <!--<br />
--><span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">Comic &#35;{{{number}}} {{#if:{{{date|}}}|({{{date}}})}}</span>]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
<br />
### Generate the "next" button, and have it point to the next comic, unless the current number matches LATESTCOMIC ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#ifexist:{{#expr:{{{number}}} + 1}}<!--<br />
-->|<li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[{{#expr:{{{number}}} + 1}}|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">Next &gt;</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
<br />
<br />
### Generate a button that points to the page specified by LATESTCOMIC: the latest comic. ###<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[{{LATESTCOMIC}}|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">&gt;&#124;</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
-->{{#ifexist:{{#expr:{{{number}}} + 1}}||&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}}<!--<br />
--></ul><!--<br />
--></td></tr><!--<br />
<br />
<br />
### Comic title ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#if:{{{title|}}}|<tr><td style="font-size: 20px; padding-bottom:10px"><!--<br />
-->'''{{{title}}}'''<!--<br />
--></td></tr>}}<!--<br />
<br />
### Text before comic ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#if:{{{before|}}}|<tr><td style="padding-bottom:10px"><!--<br />
-->{{{before}}}<!--<br />
--></td></tr>}}<!--<br />
<br />
### Comic image and title text ###<br />
<br />
--><tr><td><!--<br />
-->{{#if: {{{custom|}}} |<!--<br />
-->{{{custom|}}}|<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{image|}}}|[[File:{{{image|}}}|{{{imagesize|}}}|{{{titletext|}}}]]}}}}<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{imagesize|}}}|<br />[Click comic to enlarge]}}<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{titletext|}}}|<br /><span style="{{{captionstyle|}}}"><span style="color:grey">Title text:</span> {{{titletext}}}</span>}}<!--<br />
--></td></tr><!--<br />
--></table><!--<br />
<br />
### Add categories to comic based on date field ###<br />
<br />
-->{{DEFAULTSORT:&nbsp;{{padleft:{{{number}}}|4}}}}<!-- (default sorting key for all categories: use zero-padding to make sure #9 comes before #10, etc.)<br />
-->{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|{{ns:0}}|<!-- (no categorization except for the main namespace)<br />
-->{{#ifeq:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{int:mainpage}}||<!-- (no categorization when transcluded into the main page)<br />
-->[[Category:Comics]]<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{date|}}}|<!--<br />
-->[[Category:Comics from {{#time:Y|{{{date}}}}}]]<!-- (categorize by year)<br />
-->[[Category:Comics from {{#time:F|{{{date}}}}}]]<!-- (categorize by month)<br />
-->[[Category:{{#time:l|{{{date}}}}} comics]]<!-- (categorize by weekday)<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
-->|}}<!--<br />
<br />
### DOCUMENTATION ###<br />
<br />
--></includeonly><noinclude><br />
This is the basic infobox-style header template used to display [[xkcd]] comics on their own pages, including the comic number (with external link to xkcd), publication date, title, comic image, and title text.<br />
<br />
== Sample ==<br />
<br />
The following is a sample usage of this template:<br />
{{comic<br />
| number = 16<br />
| date = October 4, 2005<br />
| title = Monty Python -- Enough<br />
| image = monty_python.jpg<br />
| titletext = I went to a dinner where there was a full 10 minutes of Holy Grail quotes exchanged, with no context, in lieu of conversation. It depressed me badly.<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Usage ==<br />
<br />
<pre>{{comic<br />
| number = <br />
| date = <br />
| title = <br />
| before =<br />
| image = <br />
| custom = <br />
| imagesize = <br />
| titletext = <br />
}}</pre><br />
<br />
=== Notes ===<br />
<br />
* At least the number, title and image are required.<br />
* The date should be written in the form: January 1, 2006<br />
* The imagesize field is optional. <br />
** The comic's '''width''' will be limited to the set size. Format must be in pixels (eg: "350px")<br />
** The comic's '''height''' may be set by adding an 'x' to the start (eg: "x350px")<br />
** Warning: If the size is larger than the image, the image will be stretched. <br />
* '''before''' is a special field for inserting text before the comic. One use is for extremely large comics (e.g. [[Umwelt]]), to skip to the explanation.<br />
* If the '''custom''' field is not empty, the image field will be ignored and be replaced with any text that you put in the '''custom''' field.<br />
<br />
The above sample is produced by the following code:<br />
<br />
<pre>{{comic<br />
| number = 16<br />
| date = October 4, 2005<br />
| title = Monty Python -- Enough<br />
| image = monty_python.jpg<br />
| titletext = I went to a dinner where there was a full 10 minutes of Holy Grail quotes exchanged, with no context, in lieu of conversation. It depressed me badly.<br />
}}</pre><br />
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[[Category:Templates]]<br />
</noinclude></div>108.162.231.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:654:_Nachos&diff=61673Talk:654: Nachos2014-03-04T08:03:41Z<p>108.162.231.121: </p>
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<div>[http://xkcd.com/258/] WiFi and microwaves use the same frequency band?! a conspiracy! the machines are taking over! [[User:Xseo|Xseo]] ([[User talk:Xseo|talk]]) 09:38, 15 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
:If your microwave is interfering with your wifi then it's time to get a new microwave because your old one has a gaping hole. Microwave ovens form Faraday cages to contain EM radiation within them, and if the EM radiation is leaking that means the Faraday cage is violated somewhere. [[Special:Contributions/72.128.82.131|72.128.82.131]] 01:00, 13 June 2013 (UTC)<br />
::Thank you, this information really improved my understanding of the joke. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.223|108.162.219.223]] 01:12, 7 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
Actually, Sniper doesn't have a "Boom! Headshot." line ingame, it's from the meet the team vids. UT maybe? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.231.121|108.162.231.121]] 08:03, 4 March 2014 (UTC)</div>108.162.231.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=68:_Five_Thirty&diff=6156168: Five Thirty2014-03-03T08:17:28Z<p>108.162.231.121: /* Explanation */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 68<br />
| date = February 24, 2006<br />
| title = Five Thirty<br />
| image = five_thirty.jpg<br />
| titletext = The 8th panel is my favorite<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|None of the comics are actually explained}}<br />
At 5:30 AM, one sometimes comes up with things that seem like nonsense later.<br />
<br />
None of the twelve panels in this comic seem to have any correlation with one another, each one being its own "story," and none of them really make any sense. It is unknown whether Randall really wrote this comic while awake at 5:30 in the morning, or if he wrote it while completely alert, and as a way of saying what one's mind may experience when trying to process information at an hour when the person is not used to being awake.<br />
<br />
The title text could actually refer to two different panels. If a person chooses to read the comic left-to-right, top-to-bottom, the eighth panel could be the one with where Cueball asks "Does being a mermaid for five minutes make you gay?" However, if a person chooses to read the comic top-to-bottom, left-to-right, the eighth panel will instead be the one with Cueball hanging upside down shouting "Bachelor party!"<br />
<br />
==Transcript==<br />
:Comics from 5:30 AM<br />
:[A succession of unrelated and completely random panels.]<br />
<br />
:Cueball: It's 80's night at the club. Wanna go?<br />
<br />
:Friend: There is no Tuesday.<br />
:Cueball: Jack the Ripper or Jack Black?<br />
<br />
:[Cueball in this panel is holding a glinting sword.]<br />
:Friend: You crashed my helicopter!<br />
:Cueball: Verily!<br />
<br />
:[A small figure is talking with a larger figure.]<br />
:Figure 1: Basically, neither of us have shins.<br />
:Figure 2: Over and out.<br />
<br />
:[Two men are shown: one with three arms, and another with just two. All arms have round appendages at their ends.]<br />
:Men: shitshitshitshitshitshitdaylightsavingsshitshitshitshitsh<br />
<br />
:[Two figures with pumpkins (carved with faces) for heads.]<br />
:Figure 1: You're out of ointment and out of time!<br />
<br />
:[A diagram of a right-angled triangle, with a theta at the smallest angle.]<br />
:FUCK THE COSINE<br />
<br />
:Friend: Does being a mermaid for five minutes make you gay?<br />
:Cueball: I hope so!<br />
<br />
:[The friend is holding a gun to Cueball's head.]<br />
:Friend: Barbershops are for pussies.<br />
<br />
:Friend: My hair is bleeding.<br />
:Cueball: √3<br />
<br />
:[Cueball seems to be walking on the ceiling.]<br />
:Cueball: Bachelor party!<br />
<br />
:[Warning sign with picture of an ant.]<br />
:WARNING: STRETCHY DEATH<br />
<br />
{{comic discussion}} <br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Math]]</div>108.162.231.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:comic&diff=61559Template:comic2014-03-03T08:01:39Z<p>108.162.231.121: </p>
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<div><includeonly><!--<br />
--><metadesc>Explain xkcd is a wiki dedicated to explaining the webcomic xkcd. Go figure.</metadesc><!--<br />
--><table class="{{{bodyclass|}}}" cellspacing="5"<br />
style="background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #AAAAAA; color: black; font-size: 88%; line-height: 1.5em;<br />
margin: 0.5em 0 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; width:98%; {{{bodystyle|}}}"><!--<br />
<br />
### Navigation bar (previous, next...) ###<br />
<br />
--><tr><td><!--<br />
<br />
### Generate the |< button ###<br />
--><ul style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 10px;" class="no-link-underline"><!--<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[1|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">&#124;&lt;</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
### Create the prev button ###<br />
<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[{{#ifeq:{{{number}}}|1|1|{{#expr:{{{number}}} - 1}}}}|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">&lt; Prev</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
<br />
### Create a centre button with comic number, date (if exists) and link ###<br />
<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"<br />
class="plainlinks"><!--<br />
-->[http://www.xkcd.com/{{{number}}}/ <!--<br />
--><span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">Comic &#35;{{{number}}} {{#if:{{{date|}}}|({{{date}}})}}</span>]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
<br />
### Generate the "?" button, for random.<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[Special:Random/Comics|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">?</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
<br />
### Generate the "next" button, and have it point to the next comic, unless the current number matches LATESTCOMIC ###<br />
<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[{{#ifeq:{{{number}}}|{{LATESTCOMIC}}|{{{number}}}|{{#expr:{{{number}}} + 1}}}}|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">Next &gt;</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
<br />
### Generate a button that points to the page specified by LATESTCOMIC: the latest comic. ###<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[{{LATESTCOMIC}}|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">&gt;&#124;</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
--></ul><!--<br />
--></td></tr><!--<br />
<br />
<br />
### Comic title ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#if:{{{title|}}}|<tr><td style="font-size: 20px; padding-bottom:10px"><!--<br />
-->'''{{{title}}}'''<!--<br />
--></td></tr>}}<!--<br />
<br />
### Text before comic ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#if:{{{before|}}}|<tr><td style="padding-bottom:10px"><!--<br />
-->{{{before}}}<!--<br />
--></td></tr>}}<!--<br />
<br />
### Comic image and title text ###<br />
<br />
--><tr><td><!--<br />
-->{{#if: {{{custom|}}} |<!--<br />
-->{{{custom|}}}|<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{image|}}}|[[File:{{{image|}}}|{{{imagesize|}}}|{{{titletext|}}}]]}}}}<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{imagesize|}}}|<br />[Click comic to enlarge]}}<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{titletext|}}}|<br /><span style="{{{captionstyle|}}}"><span style="color:grey">Title text:</span> {{{titletext}}}</span>}}<!--<br />
--></td></tr><!--<br />
--></table><!--<br />
<br />
### Add categories to comic based on date field ###<br />
<br />
-->{{DEFAULTSORT:&nbsp;{{padleft:{{{number}}}|4}}}}<!-- (default sorting key for all categories: use zero-padding to make sure #9 comes before #10, etc.)<br />
-->{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|{{ns:0}}|<!-- (no categorization except for the main namespace)<br />
-->{{#ifeq:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{int:mainpage}}||<!-- (no categorization when transcluded into the main page)<br />
-->[[Category:Comics]]<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{date|}}}|<!--<br />
-->[[Category:Comics from {{#time:Y|{{{date}}}}}]]<!-- (categorize by year)<br />
-->[[Category:Comics from {{#time:F|{{{date}}}}}]]<!-- (categorize by month)<br />
-->[[Category:{{#time:l|{{{date}}}}} comics]]<!-- (categorize by weekday)<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
-->|}}<!--<br />
<br />
### DOCUMENTATION ###<br />
<br />
--></includeonly><noinclude><br />
This is the basic infobox-style header template used to display [[xkcd]] comics on their own pages, including the comic number (with external link to xkcd), publication date, title, comic image, and title text.<br />
<br />
== Sample ==<br />
<br />
The following is a sample usage of this template:<br />
{{comic<br />
| number = 16<br />
| date = October 4, 2005<br />
| title = Monty Python -- Enough<br />
| image = monty_python.jpg<br />
| titletext = I went to a dinner where there was a full 10 minutes of Holy Grail quotes exchanged, with no context, in lieu of conversation. It depressed me badly.<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Usage ==<br />
<br />
<pre>{{comic<br />
| number = <br />
| date = <br />
| title = <br />
| before =<br />
| image = <br />
| custom = <br />
| imagesize = <br />
| titletext = <br />
}}</pre><br />
<br />
=== Notes ===<br />
<br />
* At least the number, title and image are required.<br />
* The date should be written in the form: January 1, 2006<br />
* The imagesize field is optional. <br />
** The comic's '''width''' will be limited to the set size. Format must be in pixels (eg: "350px")<br />
** The comic's '''height''' may be set by adding an 'x' to the start (eg: "x350px")<br />
** Warning: If the size is larger than the image, the image will be stretched. <br />
* '''before''' is a special field for inserting text before the comic. One use is for extremely large comics (e.g. [[Umwelt]]), to skip to the explanation.<br />
* If the '''custom''' field is not empty, the image field will be ignored and be replaced with any text that you put in the '''custom''' field.<br />
<br />
The above sample is produced by the following code:<br />
<br />
<pre>{{comic<br />
| number = 16<br />
| date = October 4, 2005<br />
| title = Monty Python -- Enough<br />
| image = monty_python.jpg<br />
| titletext = I went to a dinner where there was a full 10 minutes of Holy Grail quotes exchanged, with no context, in lieu of conversation. It depressed me badly.<br />
}}</pre><br />
<br />
[[Category:Templates]]<br />
</noinclude></div>108.162.231.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:comic&diff=61558Template:comic2014-03-03T07:59:46Z<p>108.162.231.121: </p>
<hr />
<div><includeonly><!--<br />
--><metadesc>Explain xkcd is a wiki dedicated to explaining the webcomic xkcd. Go figure.</metadesc><!--<br />
--><table class="{{{bodyclass|}}}" cellspacing="5"<br />
style="background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #AAAAAA; color: black; font-size: 88%; line-height: 1.5em;<br />
margin: 0.5em 0 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; width:98%; {{{bodystyle|}}}"><!--<br />
<br />
### Navigation bar (previous, next...) ###<br />
<br />
--><tr><td><!--<br />
<br />
### Generate the |< button ###<br />
--><ul style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 10px;" class="no-link-underline"><!--<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[1|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">&#124;&lt;</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
### Create the prev button ###<br />
<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[{{#ifeq:{{{number}}}|1|1|{{#expr:{{{number}}} - 1}}}}|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">&lt; Prev</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
<br />
### Create a centre button with comic number, date (if exists) and link ###<br />
<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"<br />
class="plainlinks"><!--<br />
-->[http://www.xkcd.com/{{{number}}}/ <!--<br />
--><span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">Comic &#35;{{{number}}} {{#if:{{{date|}}}|({{{date}}})}}</span>]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
<br />
### Generate the "?" button, for random.<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[Special:Random/Comics|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">?</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><br />
<br />
### Generate the "next" button, and have it point to the next comic, unless the current number matches LATESTCOMIC ###<br />
<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[{{#ifeq:{{{number}}}|{{LATESTCOMIC}}|{{{number}}}|{{#expr:{{{number}}} + 1}}}}|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">Next &gt;</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
<br />
### Generate a button that points to the page specified by LATESTCOMIC: the latest comic. ###<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[{{LATESTCOMIC}}|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">&gt;&#124;</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
--></ul><!--<br />
--></td></tr><!--<br />
<br />
<br />
### Comic title ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#if:{{{title|}}}|<tr><td style="font-size: 20px; padding-bottom:10px"><!--<br />
-->'''{{{title}}}'''<!--<br />
--></td></tr>}}<!--<br />
<br />
### Text before comic ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#if:{{{before|}}}|<tr><td style="padding-bottom:10px"><!--<br />
-->{{{before}}}<!--<br />
--></td></tr>}}<!--<br />
<br />
### Comic image and title text ###<br />
<br />
--><tr><td><!--<br />
-->{{#if: {{{custom|}}} |<!--<br />
-->{{{custom|}}}|<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{image|}}}|[[File:{{{image|}}}|{{{imagesize|}}}|{{{titletext|}}}]]}}}}<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{imagesize|}}}|<br />[Click comic to enlarge]}}<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{titletext|}}}|<br /><span style="{{{captionstyle|}}}"><span style="color:grey">Title text:</span> {{{titletext}}}</span>}}<!--<br />
--></td></tr><!--<br />
--></table><!--<br />
<br />
### Add categories to comic based on date field ###<br />
<br />
-->{{DEFAULTSORT:&nbsp;{{padleft:{{{number}}}|4}}}}<!-- (default sorting key for all categories: use zero-padding to make sure #9 comes before #10, etc.)<br />
-->{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|{{ns:0}}|<!-- (no categorization except for the main namespace)<br />
-->{{#ifeq:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{int:mainpage}}||<!-- (no categorization when transcluded into the main page)<br />
-->[[Category:Comics]]<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{date|}}}|<!--<br />
-->[[Category:Comics from {{#time:Y|{{{date}}}}}]]<!-- (categorize by year)<br />
-->[[Category:Comics from {{#time:F|{{{date}}}}}]]<!-- (categorize by month)<br />
-->[[Category:{{#time:l|{{{date}}}}} comics]]<!-- (categorize by weekday)<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
-->|}}<!--<br />
<br />
### DOCUMENTATION ###<br />
<br />
--></includeonly><noinclude><br />
This is the basic infobox-style header template used to display [[xkcd]] comics on their own pages, including the comic number (with external link to xkcd), publication date, title, comic image, and title text.<br />
<br />
== Sample ==<br />
<br />
The following is a sample usage of this template:<br />
{{comic<br />
| number = 16<br />
| date = October 4, 2005<br />
| title = Monty Python -- Enough<br />
| image = monty_python.jpg<br />
| titletext = I went to a dinner where there was a full 10 minutes of Holy Grail quotes exchanged, with no context, in lieu of conversation. It depressed me badly.<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Usage ==<br />
<br />
<pre>{{comic<br />
| number = <br />
| date = <br />
| title = <br />
| before =<br />
| image = <br />
| custom = <br />
| imagesize = <br />
| titletext = <br />
}}</pre><br />
<br />
=== Notes ===<br />
<br />
* At least the number, title and image are required.<br />
* The date should be written in the form: January 1, 2006<br />
* The imagesize field is optional. <br />
** The comic's '''width''' will be limited to the set size. Format must be in pixels (eg: "350px")<br />
** The comic's '''height''' may be set by adding an 'x' to the start (eg: "x350px")<br />
** Warning: If the size is larger than the image, the image will be stretched. <br />
* '''before''' is a special field for inserting text before the comic. One use is for extremely large comics (e.g. [[Umwelt]]), to skip to the explanation.<br />
* If the '''custom''' field is not empty, the image field will be ignored and be replaced with any text that you put in the '''custom''' field.<br />
<br />
The above sample is produced by the following code:<br />
<br />
<pre>{{comic<br />
| number = 16<br />
| date = October 4, 2005<br />
| title = Monty Python -- Enough<br />
| image = monty_python.jpg<br />
| titletext = I went to a dinner where there was a full 10 minutes of Holy Grail quotes exchanged, with no context, in lieu of conversation. It depressed me badly.<br />
}}</pre><br />
<br />
[[Category:Templates]]<br />
</noinclude></div>108.162.231.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=explain_xkcd:Sandbox&diff=61550explain xkcd:Sandbox2014-03-03T06:51:25Z<p>108.162.231.121: </p>
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[[stupidddddddddd]]<br />
[[stupid]] <br />
[[xkcd]]<br />
[[explain xkcd]] <br />
{{#expr:1220+({{CURRENTWEEK}}-23)*3+{{#switch:{{CURRENTDOW}}|1|2=0|3|4=1|5|6|0=2}}}}<br />
15:39, 17 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
{{Comicbox sandbox<br />
| number = 0000.1<br />
| date = 0000.1<br />
| title = 0000.1<br />
| image = 0000.1<br />
| titletext = 0000.1<br />
}}<br />
<br />
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{{#expr:{{CURRENTYEAR}}-2000}}<br />
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https://www.google.com/images/srpr/logo11w.png<br />
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[[{{PAGENAME}} | Next> ]]</div>108.162.231.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=explain_xkcd:Sandbox&diff=61549explain xkcd:Sandbox2014-03-03T06:48:23Z<p>108.162.231.121: </p>
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Make changes, try things out, or just have fun with the wiki here! Just leave everything above the line alone, please.<br />
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[[stupidddddddddd]]<br />
[[stupid]] <br />
[[xkcd]]<br />
[[explain xkcd]] <br />
{{#expr:1220+({{CURRENTWEEK}}-23)*3+{{#switch:{{CURRENTDOW}}|1|2=0|3|4=1|5|6|0=2}}}}<br />
15:39, 17 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
{{Comicbox sandbox<br />
| number = 0000.1<br />
| date = 0000.1<br />
| title = 0000.1<br />
| image = 0000.1<br />
| titletext = 0000.1<br />
}}<br />
<br />
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{{#expr:{{CURRENTYEAR}}-2000}}<br />
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[# asdf]</div>108.162.231.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=explain_xkcd:Sandbox&diff=61548explain xkcd:Sandbox2014-03-03T06:47:00Z<p>108.162.231.121: </p>
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<div>__NOINDEX__<br />
Make changes, try things out, or just have fun with the wiki here! Just leave everything above the line alone, please.<br />
------<br />
[[stupidddddddddd]]<br />
[[stupid]] <br />
[[xkcd]]<br />
[[explain xkcd]] <br />
{{#expr:1220+({{CURRENTWEEK}}-23)*3+{{#switch:{{CURRENTDOW}}|1|2=0|3|4=1|5|6|0=2}}}}<br />
15:39, 17 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
{{Comicbox sandbox<br />
| number = 0000.1<br />
| date = 0000.1<br />
| title = 0000.1<br />
| image = 0000.1<br />
| titletext = 0000.1<br />
}}<br />
<br />
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{{#expr:{{CURRENTYEAR}}-2000}}<br />
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https://www.google.com/images/srpr/logo11w.png<br />
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[[Test.]]</div>108.162.231.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=explain_xkcd:Sandbox&diff=61547explain xkcd:Sandbox2014-03-03T06:45:56Z<p>108.162.231.121: </p>
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Make changes, try things out, or just have fun with the wiki here! Just leave everything above the line alone, please.<br />
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[[stupidddddddddd]]<br />
[[stupid]] <br />
[[xkcd]]<br />
[[explain xkcd]] <br />
{{#expr:1220+({{CURRENTWEEK}}-23)*3+{{#switch:{{CURRENTDOW}}|1|2=0|3|4=1|5|6|0=2}}}}<br />
15:39, 17 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
{{Comicbox sandbox<br />
| number = 0000.1<br />
| date = 0000.1<br />
| title = 0000.1<br />
| image = 0000.1<br />
| titletext = 0000.1<br />
}}<br />
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{{#expr:{{CURRENTYEAR}}-2000}}<br />
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https://www.google.com/images/srpr/logo11w.png<br />
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[[:#|Test.]]</div>108.162.231.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=explain_xkcd:Sandbox&diff=61546explain xkcd:Sandbox2014-03-03T06:43:08Z<p>108.162.231.121: </p>
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[[stupidddddddddd]]<br />
[[stupid]] <br />
[[xkcd]]<br />
[[explain xkcd]] <br />
{{#expr:1220+({{CURRENTWEEK}}-23)*3+{{#switch:{{CURRENTDOW}}|1|2=0|3|4=1|5|6|0=2}}}}<br />
15:39, 17 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
{{Comicbox sandbox<br />
| number = 0000.1<br />
| date = 0000.1<br />
| title = 0000.1<br />
| image = 0000.1<br />
| titletext = 0000.1<br />
}}<br />
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{{#expr:{{CURRENTYEAR}}-2000}}<br />
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[[#]]</div>108.162.231.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:comic&diff=61499Template:comic2014-03-02T16:50:51Z<p>108.162.231.121: </p>
<hr />
<div><includeonly><!--<br />
--><metadesc>Explain xkcd is a wiki dedicated to explaining the webcomic xkcd. Go figure.</metadesc><!--<br />
--><table class="{{{bodyclass|}}}" cellspacing="5"<br />
style="background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #AAAAAA; color: black; font-size: 88%; line-height: 1.5em;<br />
margin: 0.5em 0 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; width:98%; {{{bodystyle|}}}"><!--<br />
<br />
### Navigation bar (previous, next...) ###<br />
<br />
--><tr><td><!--<br />
--><ul style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 10px;" class="no-link-underline"><!--<br />
<br />
### Create the prev button ###<br />
<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[{{#expr:{{{number}}} - 1}}|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">&lt; Prev</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
<br />
### Create a centre button with comic number, date (if exists) and link ###<br />
<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"<br />
class="plainlinks"><!--<br />
-->[http://www.xkcd.com/{{{number}}}/ <!--<br />
--><span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">Comic &#35;{{{number}}} {{#if:{{{date|}}}|({{{date}}})}}</span>]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
<br />
### If there is an article for the comic following this one, create a "next" ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#ifexist:{{#expr:{{{number}}} + 1}}<!--<br />
-->|<li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[{{#expr:{{{number}}} + 1}}|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">Next &gt;</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
<br />
-->|<li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[{{template:LATESTCOMIC}}|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">&#124;&gt;</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
<br />
-->|<li style="display: inline; font-size: 16px; margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 12px;"><!--<br />
-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
--></ul><!--<br />
--></td></tr><!--<br />
<br />
### Comic title ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#if:{{{title|}}}|<tr><td style="font-size: 20px; padding-bottom:10px"><!--<br />
-->'''{{{title}}}'''<!--<br />
--></td></tr>}}<!--<br />
<br />
### Text before comic ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#if:{{{before|}}}|<tr><td style="padding-bottom:10px"><!--<br />
-->{{{before}}}<!--<br />
--></td></tr>}}<!--<br />
<br />
### Comic image and title text ###<br />
<br />
--><tr><td><!--<br />
-->{{#if: {{{custom|}}} |<!--<br />
-->{{{custom|}}}|<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{image|}}}|[[File:{{{image|}}}|{{{imagesize|}}}|{{{titletext|}}}]]}}}}<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{imagesize|}}}|<br />[Click comic to enlarge]}}<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{titletext|}}}|<br /><span style="{{{captionstyle|}}}"><span style="color:grey">Title text:</span> {{{titletext}}}</span>}}<!--<br />
--></td></tr><!--<br />
--></table><!--<br />
<br />
### Add categories to comic based on date field ###<br />
<br />
-->{{DEFAULTSORT:&nbsp;{{padleft:{{{number}}}|4}}}}<!-- (default sorting key for all categories: use zero-padding to make sure #9 comes before #10, etc.)<br />
-->{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|{{ns:0}}|<!-- (no categorization except for the main namespace)<br />
-->{{#ifeq:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{int:mainpage}}||<!-- (no categorization when transcluded into the main page)<br />
-->[[Category:Comics]]<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{date|}}}|<!--<br />
-->[[Category:Comics from {{#time:Y|{{{date}}}}}]]<!-- (categorize by year)<br />
-->[[Category:Comics from {{#time:F|{{{date}}}}}]]<!-- (categorize by month)<br />
-->[[Category:{{#time:l|{{{date}}}}} comics]]<!-- (categorize by weekday)<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
-->|}}<!--<br />
<br />
### DOCUMENTATION ###<br />
<br />
--></includeonly><noinclude><br />
This is the basic infobox-style header template used to display [[xkcd]] comics on their own pages, including the comic number (with external link to xkcd), publication date, title, comic image, and title text.<br />
<br />
== Sample ==<br />
<br />
The following is a sample usage of this template:<br />
{{comic<br />
| number = 16<br />
| date = October 4, 2005<br />
| title = Monty Python -- Enough<br />
| image = monty_python.jpg<br />
| titletext = I went to a dinner where there was a full 10 minutes of Holy Grail quotes exchanged, with no context, in lieu of conversation. It depressed me badly.<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Usage ==<br />
<br />
<pre>{{comic<br />
| number = <br />
| date = <br />
| title = <br />
| before =<br />
| image = <br />
| custom = <br />
| imagesize = <br />
| titletext = <br />
}}</pre><br />
<br />
=== Notes ===<br />
<br />
* At least the number, title and image are required.<br />
* The date should be written in the form: January 1, 2006<br />
* The imagesize field is optional. <br />
** The comic's '''width''' will be limited to the set size. Format must be in pixels (eg: "350px")<br />
** The comic's '''height''' may be set by adding an 'x' to the start (eg: "x350px")<br />
** Warning: If the size is larger than the image, the image will be stretched. <br />
* '''before''' is a special field for inserting text before the comic. One use is for extremely large comics (e.g. [[Umwelt]]), to skip to the explanation.<br />
* If the '''custom''' field is not empty, the image field will be ignored and be replaced with any text that you put in the '''custom''' field.<br />
<br />
The above sample is produced by the following code:<br />
<br />
<pre>{{comic<br />
| number = 16<br />
| date = October 4, 2005<br />
| title = Monty Python -- Enough<br />
| image = monty_python.jpg<br />
| titletext = I went to a dinner where there was a full 10 minutes of Holy Grail quotes exchanged, with no context, in lieu of conversation. It depressed me badly.<br />
}}</pre><br />
<br />
[[Category:Templates]]<br />
</noinclude></div>108.162.231.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:comic&diff=61498Template:comic2014-03-02T16:47:33Z<p>108.162.231.121: </p>
<hr />
<div><includeonly><!--<br />
--><metadesc>Explain xkcd is a wiki dedicated to explaining the webcomic xkcd. Go figure.</metadesc><!--<br />
--><table class="{{{bodyclass|}}}" cellspacing="5"<br />
style="background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #AAAAAA; color: black; font-size: 88%; line-height: 1.5em;<br />
margin: 0.5em 0 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; width:98%; {{{bodystyle|}}}"><!--<br />
<br />
### Navigation bar (previous, next...) ###<br />
<br />
--><tr><td><!--<br />
--><ul style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 10px;" class="no-link-underline"><!--<br />
<br />
### Create the prev button ###<br />
<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[{{#expr:{{{number}}} - 1}}|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">&lt; Prev</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
<br />
### Create a centre button with comic number, date (if exists) and link ###<br />
<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"<br />
class="plainlinks"><!--<br />
-->[http://www.xkcd.com/{{{number}}}/ <!--<br />
--><span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">Comic &#35;{{{number}}} {{#if:{{{date|}}}|({{{date}}})}}</span>]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
<br />
### If there is an article for the comic following this one, create a "next" ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#ifexist:{{#expr:{{{number}}} + 1}}<!--<br />
-->|<li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[{{#expr:{{{number}}} + 1}}|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">Next &gt;</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
<br />
-->|<li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[{{template:LATESTCOMIC}}|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">Next &gt;</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
<br />
-->|<li style="display: inline; font-size: 16px; margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 12px;"><!--<br />
-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
--></ul><!--<br />
--></td></tr><!--<br />
<br />
### Comic title ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#if:{{{title|}}}|<tr><td style="font-size: 20px; padding-bottom:10px"><!--<br />
-->'''{{{title}}}'''<!--<br />
--></td></tr>}}<!--<br />
<br />
### Text before comic ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#if:{{{before|}}}|<tr><td style="padding-bottom:10px"><!--<br />
-->{{{before}}}<!--<br />
--></td></tr>}}<!--<br />
<br />
### Comic image and title text ###<br />
<br />
--><tr><td><!--<br />
-->{{#if: {{{custom|}}} |<!--<br />
-->{{{custom|}}}|<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{image|}}}|[[File:{{{image|}}}|{{{imagesize|}}}|{{{titletext|}}}]]}}}}<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{imagesize|}}}|<br />[Click comic to enlarge]}}<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{titletext|}}}|<br /><span style="{{{captionstyle|}}}"><span style="color:grey">Title text:</span> {{{titletext}}}</span>}}<!--<br />
--></td></tr><!--<br />
--></table><!--<br />
<br />
### Add categories to comic based on date field ###<br />
<br />
-->{{DEFAULTSORT:&nbsp;{{padleft:{{{number}}}|4}}}}<!-- (default sorting key for all categories: use zero-padding to make sure #9 comes before #10, etc.)<br />
-->{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|{{ns:0}}|<!-- (no categorization except for the main namespace)<br />
-->{{#ifeq:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{int:mainpage}}||<!-- (no categorization when transcluded into the main page)<br />
-->[[Category:Comics]]<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{date|}}}|<!--<br />
-->[[Category:Comics from {{#time:Y|{{{date}}}}}]]<!-- (categorize by year)<br />
-->[[Category:Comics from {{#time:F|{{{date}}}}}]]<!-- (categorize by month)<br />
-->[[Category:{{#time:l|{{{date}}}}} comics]]<!-- (categorize by weekday)<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
-->|}}<!--<br />
<br />
### DOCUMENTATION ###<br />
<br />
--></includeonly><noinclude><br />
This is the basic infobox-style header template used to display [[xkcd]] comics on their own pages, including the comic number (with external link to xkcd), publication date, title, comic image, and title text.<br />
<br />
== Sample ==<br />
<br />
The following is a sample usage of this template:<br />
{{comic<br />
| number = 16<br />
| date = October 4, 2005<br />
| title = Monty Python -- Enough<br />
| image = monty_python.jpg<br />
| titletext = I went to a dinner where there was a full 10 minutes of Holy Grail quotes exchanged, with no context, in lieu of conversation. It depressed me badly.<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Usage ==<br />
<br />
<pre>{{comic<br />
| number = <br />
| date = <br />
| title = <br />
| before =<br />
| image = <br />
| custom = <br />
| imagesize = <br />
| titletext = <br />
}}</pre><br />
<br />
=== Notes ===<br />
<br />
* At least the number, title and image are required.<br />
* The date should be written in the form: January 1, 2006<br />
* The imagesize field is optional. <br />
** The comic's '''width''' will be limited to the set size. Format must be in pixels (eg: "350px")<br />
** The comic's '''height''' may be set by adding an 'x' to the start (eg: "x350px")<br />
** Warning: If the size is larger than the image, the image will be stretched. <br />
* '''before''' is a special field for inserting text before the comic. One use is for extremely large comics (e.g. [[Umwelt]]), to skip to the explanation.<br />
* If the '''custom''' field is not empty, the image field will be ignored and be replaced with any text that you put in the '''custom''' field.<br />
<br />
The above sample is produced by the following code:<br />
<br />
<pre>{{comic<br />
| number = 16<br />
| date = October 4, 2005<br />
| title = Monty Python -- Enough<br />
| image = monty_python.jpg<br />
| titletext = I went to a dinner where there was a full 10 minutes of Holy Grail quotes exchanged, with no context, in lieu of conversation. It depressed me badly.<br />
}}</pre><br />
<br />
[[Category:Templates]]<br />
</noinclude></div>108.162.231.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:comic&diff=61497Template:comic2014-03-02T16:40:12Z<p>108.162.231.121: Undo revision 61496 by 108.162.231.121 (talk)</p>
<hr />
<div><includeonly><!--<br />
--><metadesc>Explain xkcd is a wiki dedicated to explaining the webcomic xkcd. Go figure.</metadesc><!--<br />
--><table class="{{{bodyclass|}}}" cellspacing="5"<br />
style="background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #AAAAAA; color: black; font-size: 88%; line-height: 1.5em;<br />
margin: 0.5em 0 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; width:98%; {{{bodystyle|}}}"><!--<br />
<br />
### Navigation bar (previous, next...) ###<br />
<br />
--><tr><td><!--<br />
--><ul style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 10px;" class="no-link-underline"><!--<br />
<br />
### Create the prev button ###<br />
<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[{{#expr:{{{number}}} - 1}}|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">&lt; Prev</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
<br />
### Create a centre button with comic number, date (if exists) and link ###<br />
<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"<br />
class="plainlinks"><!--<br />
-->[http://www.xkcd.com/{{{number}}}/ <!--<br />
--><span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">Comic &#35;{{{number}}} {{#if:{{{date|}}}|({{{date}}})}}</span>]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
<br />
### If there is an article for the comic following this one, create a "next" ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#ifexist:{{#expr:{{{number}}} + 1}}<!--<br />
-->|<li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[{{#expr:{{{number}}} + 1}}|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">Next &gt;</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
-->|<li style="display: inline; font-size: 16px; margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 12px;"><!--<br />
-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
--></ul><!--<br />
--></td></tr><!--<br />
<br />
### Comic title ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#if:{{{title|}}}|<tr><td style="font-size: 20px; padding-bottom:10px"><!--<br />
-->'''{{{title}}}'''<!--<br />
--></td></tr>}}<!--<br />
<br />
### Text before comic ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#if:{{{before|}}}|<tr><td style="padding-bottom:10px"><!--<br />
-->{{{before}}}<!--<br />
--></td></tr>}}<!--<br />
<br />
### Comic image and title text ###<br />
<br />
--><tr><td><!--<br />
-->{{#if: {{{custom|}}} |<!--<br />
-->{{{custom|}}}|<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{image|}}}|[[File:{{{image|}}}|{{{imagesize|}}}|{{{titletext|}}}]]}}}}<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{imagesize|}}}|<br />[Click comic to enlarge]}}<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{titletext|}}}|<br /><span style="{{{captionstyle|}}}"><span style="color:grey">Title text:</span> {{{titletext}}}</span>}}<!--<br />
--></td></tr><!--<br />
--></table><!--<br />
<br />
### Add categories to comic based on date field ###<br />
<br />
-->{{DEFAULTSORT:&nbsp;{{padleft:{{{number}}}|4}}}}<!-- (default sorting key for all categories: use zero-padding to make sure #9 comes before #10, etc.)<br />
-->{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|{{ns:0}}|<!-- (no categorization except for the main namespace)<br />
-->{{#ifeq:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{int:mainpage}}||<!-- (no categorization when transcluded into the main page)<br />
-->[[Category:Comics]]<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{date|}}}|<!--<br />
-->[[Category:Comics from {{#time:Y|{{{date}}}}}]]<!-- (categorize by year)<br />
-->[[Category:Comics from {{#time:F|{{{date}}}}}]]<!-- (categorize by month)<br />
-->[[Category:{{#time:l|{{{date}}}}} comics]]<!-- (categorize by weekday)<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
-->|}}<!--<br />
<br />
### DOCUMENTATION ###<br />
<br />
--></includeonly><noinclude><br />
This is the basic infobox-style header template used to display [[xkcd]] comics on their own pages, including the comic number (with external link to xkcd), publication date, title, comic image, and title text.<br />
<br />
== Sample ==<br />
<br />
The following is a sample usage of this template:<br />
{{comic<br />
| number = 16<br />
| date = October 4, 2005<br />
| title = Monty Python -- Enough<br />
| image = monty_python.jpg<br />
| titletext = I went to a dinner where there was a full 10 minutes of Holy Grail quotes exchanged, with no context, in lieu of conversation. It depressed me badly.<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Usage ==<br />
<br />
<pre>{{comic<br />
| number = <br />
| date = <br />
| title = <br />
| before =<br />
| image = <br />
| custom = <br />
| imagesize = <br />
| titletext = <br />
}}</pre><br />
<br />
=== Notes ===<br />
<br />
* At least the number, title and image are required.<br />
* The date should be written in the form: January 1, 2006<br />
* The imagesize field is optional. <br />
** The comic's '''width''' will be limited to the set size. Format must be in pixels (eg: "350px")<br />
** The comic's '''height''' may be set by adding an 'x' to the start (eg: "x350px")<br />
** Warning: If the size is larger than the image, the image will be stretched. <br />
* '''before''' is a special field for inserting text before the comic. One use is for extremely large comics (e.g. [[Umwelt]]), to skip to the explanation.<br />
* If the '''custom''' field is not empty, the image field will be ignored and be replaced with any text that you put in the '''custom''' field.<br />
<br />
The above sample is produced by the following code:<br />
<br />
<pre>{{comic<br />
| number = 16<br />
| date = October 4, 2005<br />
| title = Monty Python -- Enough<br />
| image = monty_python.jpg<br />
| titletext = I went to a dinner where there was a full 10 minutes of Holy Grail quotes exchanged, with no context, in lieu of conversation. It depressed me badly.<br />
}}</pre><br />
<br />
[[Category:Templates]]<br />
</noinclude></div>108.162.231.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:comic&diff=61496Template:comic2014-03-02T16:39:32Z<p>108.162.231.121: Undo revision 61495 by 108.162.231.121 (talk)</p>
<hr />
<div><includeonly><!--<br />
--><metadesc>Explain xkcd is a wiki dedicated to explaining the webcomic xkcd. Go figure.</metadesc><!--<br />
--><table class="{{{bodyclass|}}}" cellspacing="5"<br />
style="background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #AAAAAA; color: black; font-size: 88%; line-height: 1.5em;<br />
margin: 0.5em 0 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; width:98%; {{{bodystyle|}}}"><!--<br />
<br />
### Navigation bar (previous, next...) ###<br />
<br />
--><tr><td><!--<br />
--><ul style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 10px;" class="no-link-underline"><!--<br />
<br />
<br />
### Create the <| button<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">&lt;&#124;</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><br />
<br />
### Create the prev button ###<br />
<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[{{#expr:{{{number}}} - 1}}|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">&lt; Prev</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
<br />
### Create a centre button with comic number, date (if exists) and link ###<br />
<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"<br />
class="plainlinks"><!--<br />
-->[http://www.xkcd.com/{{{number}}}/ <!--<br />
--><span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">Comic &#35;{{{number}}} {{#if:{{{date|}}}|({{{date}}})}}</span>]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
<br />
### If there is an article for the comic following this one, create a "next" ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#ifexist:{{#expr:{{{number}}} + 1}}<!--<br />
-->|<li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[{{#expr:{{{number}}} + 1}}|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">Next &gt;</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><br />
### Go to latest comic<br />
|<li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[{{template:LATESTCOMIC}}|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">&#124;&gt;</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><--<br />
-->|<li style="display: inline; font-size: 16px; margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 12px;"><!--<br />
-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
--></ul><!--<br />
--></td></tr><!--<br />
<br />
### Comic title ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#if:{{{title|}}}|<tr><td style="font-size: 20px; padding-bottom:10px"><!--<br />
-->'''{{{title}}}'''<!--<br />
--></td></tr>}}<!--<br />
<br />
### Text before comic ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#if:{{{before|}}}|<tr><td style="padding-bottom:10px"><!--<br />
-->{{{before}}}<!--<br />
--></td></tr>}}<!--<br />
<br />
### Comic image and title text ###<br />
<br />
--><tr><td><!--<br />
-->{{#if: {{{custom|}}} |<!--<br />
-->{{{custom|}}}|<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{image|}}}|[[File:{{{image|}}}|{{{imagesize|}}}|{{{titletext|}}}]]}}}}<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{imagesize|}}}|<br />[Click comic to enlarge]}}<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{titletext|}}}|<br /><span style="{{{captionstyle|}}}"><span style="color:grey">Title text:</span> {{{titletext}}}</span>}}<!--<br />
--></td></tr><!--<br />
--></table><!--<br />
<br />
### Add categories to comic based on date field ###<br />
<br />
-->{{DEFAULTSORT:&nbsp;{{padleft:{{{number}}}|4}}}}<!-- (default sorting key for all categories: use zero-padding to make sure #9 comes before #10, etc.)<br />
-->{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|{{ns:0}}|<!-- (no categorization except for the main namespace)<br />
-->{{#ifeq:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{int:mainpage}}||<!-- (no categorization when transcluded into the main page)<br />
-->[[Category:Comics]]<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{date|}}}|<!--<br />
-->[[Category:Comics from {{#time:Y|{{{date}}}}}]]<!-- (categorize by year)<br />
-->[[Category:Comics from {{#time:F|{{{date}}}}}]]<!-- (categorize by month)<br />
-->[[Category:{{#time:l|{{{date}}}}} comics]]<!-- (categorize by weekday)<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
-->|}}<!--<br />
<br />
### DOCUMENTATION ###<br />
<br />
--></includeonly><noinclude><br />
This is the basic infobox-style header template used to display [[xkcd]] comics on their own pages, including the comic number (with external link to xkcd), publication date, title, comic image, and title text.<br />
<br />
== Sample ==<br />
<br />
The following is a sample usage of this template:<br />
{{comic<br />
| number = 16<br />
| date = October 4, 2005<br />
| title = Monty Python -- Enough<br />
| image = monty_python.jpg<br />
| titletext = I went to a dinner where there was a full 10 minutes of Holy Grail quotes exchanged, with no context, in lieu of conversation. It depressed me badly.<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Usage ==<br />
<br />
<pre>{{comic<br />
| number = <br />
| date = <br />
| title = <br />
| before =<br />
| image = <br />
| custom = <br />
| imagesize = <br />
| titletext = <br />
}}</pre><br />
<br />
=== Notes ===<br />
<br />
* At least the number, title and image are required.<br />
* The date should be written in the form: January 1, 2006<br />
* The imagesize field is optional. <br />
** The comic's '''width''' will be limited to the set size. Format must be in pixels (eg: "350px")<br />
** The comic's '''height''' may be set by adding an 'x' to the start (eg: "x350px")<br />
** Warning: If the size is larger than the image, the image will be stretched. <br />
* '''before''' is a special field for inserting text before the comic. One use is for extremely large comics (e.g. [[Umwelt]]), to skip to the explanation.<br />
* If the '''custom''' field is not empty, the image field will be ignored and be replaced with any text that you put in the '''custom''' field.<br />
<br />
The above sample is produced by the following code:<br />
<br />
<pre>{{comic<br />
| number = 16<br />
| date = October 4, 2005<br />
| title = Monty Python -- Enough<br />
| image = monty_python.jpg<br />
| titletext = I went to a dinner where there was a full 10 minutes of Holy Grail quotes exchanged, with no context, in lieu of conversation. It depressed me badly.<br />
}}</pre><br />
<br />
[[Category:Templates]]<br />
</noinclude></div>108.162.231.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:comic&diff=61495Template:comic2014-03-02T16:39:05Z<p>108.162.231.121: Undo revision 61494 by 108.162.231.121 (talk)</p>
<hr />
<div><includeonly><!--<br />
--><metadesc>Explain xkcd is a wiki dedicated to explaining the webcomic xkcd. Go figure.</metadesc><!--<br />
--><table class="{{{bodyclass|}}}" cellspacing="5"<br />
style="background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #AAAAAA; color: black; font-size: 88%; line-height: 1.5em;<br />
margin: 0.5em 0 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; width:98%; {{{bodystyle|}}}"><!--<br />
<br />
### Navigation bar (previous, next...) ###<br />
<br />
--><tr><td><!--<br />
--><ul style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 10px;" class="no-link-underline"><!--<br />
<br />
### Create the prev button ###<br />
<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[{{#expr:{{{number}}} - 1}}|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">&lt; Prev</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
<br />
### Create a centre button with comic number, date (if exists) and link ###<br />
<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"<br />
class="plainlinks"><!--<br />
-->[http://www.xkcd.com/{{{number}}}/ <!--<br />
--><span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">Comic &#35;{{{number}}} {{#if:{{{date|}}}|({{{date}}})}}</span>]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
<br />
### If there is an article for the comic following this one, create a "next" ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#ifexist:{{#expr:{{{number}}} + 1}}<!--<br />
-->|<li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[{{#expr:{{{number}}} + 1}}|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">Next &gt;</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
-->|<li style="display: inline; font-size: 16px; margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 12px;"><!--<br />
-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
--></ul><!--<br />
--></td></tr><!--<br />
<br />
### Comic title ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#if:{{{title|}}}|<tr><td style="font-size: 20px; padding-bottom:10px"><!--<br />
-->'''{{{title}}}'''<!--<br />
--></td></tr>}}<!--<br />
<br />
### Text before comic ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#if:{{{before|}}}|<tr><td style="padding-bottom:10px"><!--<br />
-->{{{before}}}<!--<br />
--></td></tr>}}<!--<br />
<br />
### Comic image and title text ###<br />
<br />
--><tr><td><!--<br />
-->{{#if: {{{custom|}}} |<!--<br />
-->{{{custom|}}}|<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{image|}}}|[[File:{{{image|}}}|{{{imagesize|}}}|{{{titletext|}}}]]}}}}<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{imagesize|}}}|<br />[Click comic to enlarge]}}<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{titletext|}}}|<br /><span style="{{{captionstyle|}}}"><span style="color:grey">Title text:</span> {{{titletext}}}</span>}}<!--<br />
--></td></tr><!--<br />
--></table><!--<br />
<br />
### Add categories to comic based on date field ###<br />
<br />
-->{{DEFAULTSORT:&nbsp;{{padleft:{{{number}}}|4}}}}<!-- (default sorting key for all categories: use zero-padding to make sure #9 comes before #10, etc.)<br />
-->{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|{{ns:0}}|<!-- (no categorization except for the main namespace)<br />
-->{{#ifeq:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{int:mainpage}}||<!-- (no categorization when transcluded into the main page)<br />
-->[[Category:Comics]]<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{date|}}}|<!--<br />
-->[[Category:Comics from {{#time:Y|{{{date}}}}}]]<!-- (categorize by year)<br />
-->[[Category:Comics from {{#time:F|{{{date}}}}}]]<!-- (categorize by month)<br />
-->[[Category:{{#time:l|{{{date}}}}} comics]]<!-- (categorize by weekday)<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
-->|}}<!--<br />
<br />
### DOCUMENTATION ###<br />
<br />
--></includeonly><noinclude><br />
This is the basic infobox-style header template used to display [[xkcd]] comics on their own pages, including the comic number (with external link to xkcd), publication date, title, comic image, and title text.<br />
<br />
== Sample ==<br />
<br />
The following is a sample usage of this template:<br />
{{comic<br />
| number = 16<br />
| date = October 4, 2005<br />
| title = Monty Python -- Enough<br />
| image = monty_python.jpg<br />
| titletext = I went to a dinner where there was a full 10 minutes of Holy Grail quotes exchanged, with no context, in lieu of conversation. It depressed me badly.<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Usage ==<br />
<br />
<pre>{{comic<br />
| number = <br />
| date = <br />
| title = <br />
| before =<br />
| image = <br />
| custom = <br />
| imagesize = <br />
| titletext = <br />
}}</pre><br />
<br />
=== Notes ===<br />
<br />
* At least the number, title and image are required.<br />
* The date should be written in the form: January 1, 2006<br />
* The imagesize field is optional. <br />
** The comic's '''width''' will be limited to the set size. Format must be in pixels (eg: "350px")<br />
** The comic's '''height''' may be set by adding an 'x' to the start (eg: "x350px")<br />
** Warning: If the size is larger than the image, the image will be stretched. <br />
* '''before''' is a special field for inserting text before the comic. One use is for extremely large comics (e.g. [[Umwelt]]), to skip to the explanation.<br />
* If the '''custom''' field is not empty, the image field will be ignored and be replaced with any text that you put in the '''custom''' field.<br />
<br />
The above sample is produced by the following code:<br />
<br />
<pre>{{comic<br />
| number = 16<br />
| date = October 4, 2005<br />
| title = Monty Python -- Enough<br />
| image = monty_python.jpg<br />
| titletext = I went to a dinner where there was a full 10 minutes of Holy Grail quotes exchanged, with no context, in lieu of conversation. It depressed me badly.<br />
}}</pre><br />
<br />
[[Category:Templates]]<br />
</noinclude></div>108.162.231.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:comic&diff=61494Template:comic2014-03-02T16:37:41Z<p>108.162.231.121: Added the latest and first buttons</p>
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<div><includeonly><!--<br />
--><metadesc>Explain xkcd is a wiki dedicated to explaining the webcomic xkcd. Go figure.</metadesc><!--<br />
--><table class="{{{bodyclass|}}}" cellspacing="5"<br />
style="background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #AAAAAA; color: black; font-size: 88%; line-height: 1.5em;<br />
margin: 0.5em 0 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; width:98%; {{{bodystyle|}}}"><!--<br />
<br />
### Navigation bar (previous, next...) ###<br />
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--><tr><td><!--<br />
--><ul style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 10px;" class="no-link-underline"><!--<br />
<br />
<br />
### Create the <| button<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">&lt;&#124;</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><br />
<br />
### Create the prev button ###<br />
<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[{{#expr:{{{number}}} - 1}}|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">&lt; Prev</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
<br />
### Create a centre button with comic number, date (if exists) and link ###<br />
<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"<br />
class="plainlinks"><!--<br />
-->[http://www.xkcd.com/{{{number}}}/ <!--<br />
--><span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">Comic &#35;{{{number}}} {{#if:{{{date|}}}|({{{date}}})}}</span>]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
<br />
### If there is an article for the comic following this one, create a "next" ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#ifexist:{{#expr:{{{number}}} + 1}}<!--<br />
-->|<li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[{{#expr:{{{number}}} + 1}}|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">Next &gt;</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><br />
### Go to latest comic<br />
|<li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[{{template:LATESTCOMIC}}|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">&#124;&gt;</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><--<br />
-->|<li style="display: inline; font-size: 16px; margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 12px;"><!--<br />
-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
--></ul><!--<br />
--></td></tr><!--<br />
<br />
### Comic title ###<br />
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-->{{#if:{{{title|}}}|<tr><td style="font-size: 20px; padding-bottom:10px"><!--<br />
-->'''{{{title}}}'''<!--<br />
--></td></tr>}}<!--<br />
<br />
### Text before comic ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#if:{{{before|}}}|<tr><td style="padding-bottom:10px"><!--<br />
-->{{{before}}}<!--<br />
--></td></tr>}}<!--<br />
<br />
### Comic image and title text ###<br />
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--><tr><td><!--<br />
-->{{#if: {{{custom|}}} |<!--<br />
-->{{{custom|}}}|<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{image|}}}|[[File:{{{image|}}}|{{{imagesize|}}}|{{{titletext|}}}]]}}}}<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{imagesize|}}}|<br />[Click comic to enlarge]}}<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{titletext|}}}|<br /><span style="{{{captionstyle|}}}"><span style="color:grey">Title text:</span> {{{titletext}}}</span>}}<!--<br />
--></td></tr><!--<br />
--></table><!--<br />
<br />
### Add categories to comic based on date field ###<br />
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-->{{DEFAULTSORT:&nbsp;{{padleft:{{{number}}}|4}}}}<!-- (default sorting key for all categories: use zero-padding to make sure #9 comes before #10, etc.)<br />
-->{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|{{ns:0}}|<!-- (no categorization except for the main namespace)<br />
-->{{#ifeq:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{int:mainpage}}||<!-- (no categorization when transcluded into the main page)<br />
-->[[Category:Comics]]<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{date|}}}|<!--<br />
-->[[Category:Comics from {{#time:Y|{{{date}}}}}]]<!-- (categorize by year)<br />
-->[[Category:Comics from {{#time:F|{{{date}}}}}]]<!-- (categorize by month)<br />
-->[[Category:{{#time:l|{{{date}}}}} comics]]<!-- (categorize by weekday)<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
-->|}}<!--<br />
<br />
### DOCUMENTATION ###<br />
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--></includeonly><noinclude><br />
This is the basic infobox-style header template used to display [[xkcd]] comics on their own pages, including the comic number (with external link to xkcd), publication date, title, comic image, and title text.<br />
<br />
== Sample ==<br />
<br />
The following is a sample usage of this template:<br />
{{comic<br />
| number = 16<br />
| date = October 4, 2005<br />
| title = Monty Python -- Enough<br />
| image = monty_python.jpg<br />
| titletext = I went to a dinner where there was a full 10 minutes of Holy Grail quotes exchanged, with no context, in lieu of conversation. It depressed me badly.<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Usage ==<br />
<br />
<pre>{{comic<br />
| number = <br />
| date = <br />
| title = <br />
| before =<br />
| image = <br />
| custom = <br />
| imagesize = <br />
| titletext = <br />
}}</pre><br />
<br />
=== Notes ===<br />
<br />
* At least the number, title and image are required.<br />
* The date should be written in the form: January 1, 2006<br />
* The imagesize field is optional. <br />
** The comic's '''width''' will be limited to the set size. Format must be in pixels (eg: "350px")<br />
** The comic's '''height''' may be set by adding an 'x' to the start (eg: "x350px")<br />
** Warning: If the size is larger than the image, the image will be stretched. <br />
* '''before''' is a special field for inserting text before the comic. One use is for extremely large comics (e.g. [[Umwelt]]), to skip to the explanation.<br />
* If the '''custom''' field is not empty, the image field will be ignored and be replaced with any text that you put in the '''custom''' field.<br />
<br />
The above sample is produced by the following code:<br />
<br />
<pre>{{comic<br />
| number = 16<br />
| date = October 4, 2005<br />
| title = Monty Python -- Enough<br />
| image = monty_python.jpg<br />
| titletext = I went to a dinner where there was a full 10 minutes of Holy Grail quotes exchanged, with no context, in lieu of conversation. It depressed me badly.<br />
}}</pre><br />
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[[Category:Templates]]<br />
</noinclude></div>108.162.231.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=392:_Making_Rules&diff=61479392: Making Rules2014-03-02T09:52:15Z<p>108.162.231.121: Slightly changed it, to make it more clear that the man punches, and that cueball punches back</p>
<hr />
<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 392<br />
| date = March 5, 2008<br />
| title = Making Rules<br />
| image = making_rules.png<br />
| titletext = I never understood why someone would expect me to accept their rules right after they'd punched me. I'm sure it's all very symbolic or something.<br />
}}<br />
==Explanation==<br />
"Punch Buggy" is a game played by two people with a view of traffic (often, but not here, during a car ride). For each Volkswagen Beetle that passes nearby, the first player to see it is entitled to punch the other player, while calling "Punch Buggy" followed by the colour of the spotted Beetle. Traditionally the other player is permitted to return the punch, unless the first player also calls "no punch back".<br />
<br />
Many people will just assume that the game is always being played and punch you out of the blue, giving you no chance to opt out. Implicit in this game is the idea that you can make rules just by declaring them (e.g. "no punch back") even if those rules are ridiculously unfair. When [[Cueball]] realizes this, he decides to make the game stakes more desirable than just the right to punch someone, and (seemingly successfully) uses the same principle to secure the right to sleep with the other man's girlfriend.<br />
<br />
The title text describes how silly these games are.<br />
<br />
==Transcript==<br />
:[Two men are sitting. A yellow buggy passes by.]<br />
:Man: Punch buggy yellow. No punch back!<br />
:[Man punches Cueball, Cueball punches man back, with seemingly greater force, causeing the Man to fall of the bench they are sitting on.]<br />
:Cueball: ''Punch''<br />
:Man: I said no punch back!<br />
:Cueball: You can do that?<br />
:Cueball: Man, this changes <u>everything</u>.<br />
:Soon...<br />
:[A blue buggy passes by.]<br />
:Cueball: Sleep with your girlfriend buggy blue!<br />
:Man: Hey!<br />
:Cueball: No complaining back!<br />
:Man: Aww...<br />
<br />
{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Comics with color]]<br />
[[Category:Sex]]</div>108.162.231.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:comic&diff=61422Template:comic2014-02-28T21:26:18Z<p>108.162.231.121: Undo revision 61421 by 108.162.231.121 (talk) oh ffs, could someone look at this?</p>
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<div><includeonly><!--<br />
--><metadesc>Explain xkcd is a wiki dedicated to explaining the webcomic xkcd. Go figure.</metadesc><!--<br />
--><table class="{{{bodyclass|}}}" cellspacing="5"<br />
style="background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #AAAAAA; color: black; font-size: 88%; line-height: 1.5em;<br />
margin: 0.5em 0 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; width:98%; {{{bodystyle|}}}"><!--<br />
<br />
### Navigation bar (previous, next...) ###<br />
<br />
--><tr><td><!--<br />
--><ul style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 10px;" class="no-link-underline"><!--<br />
<br />
### Create the prev button ###<br />
<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[{{#expr:{{{number}}} - 1}}|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">&lt; Prev</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
<br />
### Create a centre button with comic number, date (if exists) and link ###<br />
<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"<br />
class="plainlinks"><!--<br />
-->[http://www.xkcd.com/{{{number}}}/ <!--<br />
--><span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">Comic &#35;{{{number}}} {{#if:{{{date|}}}|({{{date}}})}}</span>]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
<br />
### If there is an article for the comic following this one, create a "next" ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#ifexist:{{#expr:{{{number}}} + 1}}<!--<br />
-->|<li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[{{#expr:{{{number}}} + 1}}|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">Next &gt;</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
-->|<li style="display: inline; font-size: 16px; margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 12px;"><!--<br />
-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
--></ul><!--<br />
--></td></tr><!--<br />
<br />
### Comic title ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#if:{{{title|}}}|<tr><td style="font-size: 20px; padding-bottom:10px"><!--<br />
-->'''{{{title}}}'''<!--<br />
--></td></tr>}}<!--<br />
<br />
### Text before comic ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#if:{{{before|}}}|<tr><td style="padding-bottom:10px"><!--<br />
-->{{{before}}}<!--<br />
--></td></tr>}}<!--<br />
<br />
### Comic image and title text ###<br />
<br />
--><tr><td><!--<br />
-->{{#if: {{{custom|}}} |<!--<br />
-->{{{custom|}}}|<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{image|}}}|[[File:{{{image|}}}|{{{imagesize|}}}|{{{titletext|}}}]]}}}}<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{imagesize|}}}|<br />[Click comic to enlarge]}}<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{titletext|}}}|<br /><span style="{{{captionstyle|}}}"><span style="color:grey">Title text:</span> {{{titletext}}}</span>}}<!--<br />
--></td></tr><!--<br />
--></table><!--<br />
<br />
### Add categories to comic based on date field ###<br />
<br />
-->{{DEFAULTSORT:&nbsp;{{padleft:{{{number}}}|4}}}}<!-- (default sorting key for all categories: use zero-padding to make sure #9 comes before #10, etc.)<br />
-->{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|{{ns:0}}|<!-- (no categorization except for the main namespace)<br />
-->{{#ifeq:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{int:mainpage}}||<!-- (no categorization when transcluded into the main page)<br />
-->[[Category:Comics]]<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{date|}}}|<!--<br />
-->[[Category:Comics from {{#time:Y|{{{date}}}}}]]<!-- (categorize by year)<br />
-->[[Category:Comics from {{#time:F|{{{date}}}}}]]<!-- (categorize by month)<br />
-->[[Category:{{#time:l|{{{date}}}}} comics]]<!-- (categorize by weekday)<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
-->|}}<!--<br />
<br />
### DOCUMENTATION ###<br />
<br />
--></includeonly><noinclude><br />
This is the basic infobox-style header template used to display [[xkcd]] comics on their own pages, including the comic number (with external link to xkcd), publication date, title, comic image, and title text.<br />
<br />
== Sample ==<br />
<br />
The following is a sample usage of this template:<br />
{{comic<br />
| number = 16<br />
| date = October 4, 2005<br />
| title = Monty Python -- Enough<br />
| image = monty_python.jpg<br />
| titletext = I went to a dinner where there was a full 10 minutes of Holy Grail quotes exchanged, with no context, in lieu of conversation. It depressed me badly.<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Usage ==<br />
<br />
<pre>{{comic<br />
| number = <br />
| date = <br />
| title = <br />
| before =<br />
| image = <br />
| custom = <br />
| imagesize = <br />
| titletext = <br />
}}</pre><br />
<br />
=== Notes ===<br />
<br />
* At least the number, title and image are required.<br />
* The date should be written in the form: January 1, 2006<br />
* The imagesize field is optional. <br />
** The comic's '''width''' will be limited to the set size. Format must be in pixels (eg: "350px")<br />
** The comic's '''height''' may be set by adding an 'x' to the start (eg: "x350px")<br />
** Warning: If the size is larger than the image, the image will be stretched. <br />
* '''before''' is a special field for inserting text before the comic. One use is for extremely large comics (e.g. [[Umwelt]]), to skip to the explanation.<br />
* If the '''custom''' field is not empty, the image field will be ignored and be replaced with any text that you put in the '''custom''' field.<br />
<br />
The above sample is produced by the following code:<br />
<br />
<pre>{{comic<br />
| number = 16<br />
| date = October 4, 2005<br />
| title = Monty Python -- Enough<br />
| image = monty_python.jpg<br />
| titletext = I went to a dinner where there was a full 10 minutes of Holy Grail quotes exchanged, with no context, in lieu of conversation. It depressed me badly.<br />
}}</pre><br />
<br />
[[Category:Templates]]<br />
</noinclude></div>108.162.231.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:comic&diff=61421Template:comic2014-02-28T21:25:20Z<p>108.162.231.121: This should work... Not shure though.</p>
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<div><includeonly><!--<br />
--><metadesc>Explain xkcd is a wiki dedicated to explaining the webcomic xkcd. Go figure.</metadesc><!--<br />
--><table class="{{{bodyclass|}}}" cellspacing="5"<br />
style="background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #AAAAAA; color: black; font-size: 88%; line-height: 1.5em;<br />
margin: 0.5em 0 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; width:98%; {{{bodystyle|}}}"><!--<br />
<br />
### Navigation bar (previous, next...) ###<br />
<br />
--><tr><td><!--<br />
--><ul style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 10px;" class="no-link-underline"><!--<br />
<br />
### Create the prev button ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#ifexist:{{#expr:{{{number}}} + -1}}<li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[{{#expr:{{{number}}} - 1}}|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">&lt; Prev</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li>}}<!--<br />
<br />
### Create a centre button with comic number, date (if exists) and link ###<br />
<br />
--><li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"<br />
class="plainlinks"><!--<br />
-->[http://www.xkcd.com/{{{number}}}/ <!--<br />
--><span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">Comic &#35;{{{number}}} {{#if:{{{date|}}}|({{{date}}})}}</span>]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
<br />
### If there is an article for the comic following this one, create a "next" ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#ifexist:{{#expr:{{{number}}} + 1}}<!--<br />
-->|<li style="background-color: #6E7B91;<br />
border: 1.5px solid #333333; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 gray;<br />
display: inline; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 600;<br />
margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 0;"><!--<br />
-->[[{{#expr:{{{number}}} + 1}}|<span style="color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 12px;">Next &gt;</span>]]<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
-->|<li style="display: inline; font-size: 16px; margin: 0 4px; padding: 1.5px 12px;"><!--<br />
-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<!--<br />
--></li><!--<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
--></ul><!--<br />
--></td></tr><!--<br />
<br />
### Comic title ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#if:{{{title|}}}|<tr><td style="font-size: 20px; padding-bottom:10px"><!--<br />
-->'''{{{title}}}'''<!--<br />
--></td></tr>}}<!--<br />
<br />
### Text before comic ###<br />
<br />
-->{{#if:{{{before|}}}|<tr><td style="padding-bottom:10px"><!--<br />
-->{{{before}}}<!--<br />
--></td></tr>}}<!--<br />
<br />
### Comic image and title text ###<br />
<br />
--><tr><td><!--<br />
-->{{#if: {{{custom|}}} |<!--<br />
-->{{{custom|}}}|<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{image|}}}|[[File:{{{image|}}}|{{{imagesize|}}}|{{{titletext|}}}]]}}}}<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{imagesize|}}}|<br />[Click comic to enlarge]}}<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{titletext|}}}|<br /><span style="{{{captionstyle|}}}"><span style="color:grey">Title text:</span> {{{titletext}}}</span>}}<!--<br />
--></td></tr><!--<br />
--></table><!--<br />
<br />
### Add categories to comic based on date field ###<br />
<br />
-->{{DEFAULTSORT:&nbsp;{{padleft:{{{number}}}|4}}}}<!-- (default sorting key for all categories: use zero-padding to make sure #9 comes before #10, etc.)<br />
-->{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|{{ns:0}}|<!-- (no categorization except for the main namespace)<br />
-->{{#ifeq:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{int:mainpage}}||<!-- (no categorization when transcluded into the main page)<br />
-->[[Category:Comics]]<!--<br />
-->{{#if:{{{date|}}}|<!--<br />
-->[[Category:Comics from {{#time:Y|{{{date}}}}}]]<!-- (categorize by year)<br />
-->[[Category:Comics from {{#time:F|{{{date}}}}}]]<!-- (categorize by month)<br />
-->[[Category:{{#time:l|{{{date}}}}} comics]]<!-- (categorize by weekday)<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
-->}}<!--<br />
-->|}}<!--<br />
<br />
### DOCUMENTATION ###<br />
<br />
--></includeonly><noinclude><br />
This is the basic infobox-style header template used to display [[xkcd]] comics on their own pages, including the comic number (with external link to xkcd), publication date, title, comic image, and title text.<br />
<br />
== Sample ==<br />
<br />
The following is a sample usage of this template:<br />
{{comic<br />
| number = 16<br />
| date = October 4, 2005<br />
| title = Monty Python -- Enough<br />
| image = monty_python.jpg<br />
| titletext = I went to a dinner where there was a full 10 minutes of Holy Grail quotes exchanged, with no context, in lieu of conversation. It depressed me badly.<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Usage ==<br />
<br />
<pre>{{comic<br />
| number = <br />
| date = <br />
| title = <br />
| before =<br />
| image = <br />
| custom = <br />
| imagesize = <br />
| titletext = <br />
}}</pre><br />
<br />
=== Notes ===<br />
<br />
* At least the number, title and image are required.<br />
* The date should be written in the form: January 1, 2006<br />
* The imagesize field is optional. <br />
** The comic's '''width''' will be limited to the set size. Format must be in pixels (eg: "350px")<br />
** The comic's '''height''' may be set by adding an 'x' to the start (eg: "x350px")<br />
** Warning: If the size is larger than the image, the image will be stretched. <br />
* '''before''' is a special field for inserting text before the comic. One use is for extremely large comics (e.g. [[Umwelt]]), to skip to the explanation.<br />
* If the '''custom''' field is not empty, the image field will be ignored and be replaced with any text that you put in the '''custom''' field.<br />
<br />
The above sample is produced by the following code:<br />
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<pre>{{comic<br />
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| date = October 4, 2005<br />
| title = Monty Python -- Enough<br />
| image = monty_python.jpg<br />
| titletext = I went to a dinner where there was a full 10 minutes of Holy Grail quotes exchanged, with no context, in lieu of conversation. It depressed me badly.<br />
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| number = 1335<br />
| before = This image isn't actually rotating this quickly, this is a summary. For the current state, see http://xkcd.com/1335/<br />
| date = February 26, 2014<br />
| title = Now<br />
| image = now-100ms small6-1.gif<br />
| titletext = This image stays roughly in sync with the day (assuming the Earth continues spinning). Shortcut: [http://xkcd.com/now xkcd.com/now]<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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The picture rotates every 15 minutes with the Earth, showing which regions are currently at which times of day, ignoring {{w|Summer Time}} (aka Daylight-Saving Time) and local variations in {{w|Time Zone}}s. (However, the cities and countries listed in the picture follow these local variations.)<br />
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Every 15 minutes (so far, and presumably forever), the image changes. The names used for the image files refer not to {{w|Universal Time}} as one might expect but rather to the time exactly 12 hours off of that. The picture change seems to happen half-way through a 15-minute time increment (so at 7½ minutes after the hour, then 22½ minutes, then 37½, 52½, and repeating), so that the picture is always correct for the nearest multiple of 15 minutes.<br />
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When first posted, the picture was exactly 12 hours off. (The name of the image file linked from the page matched Universal Time, rather than being 12 hours off as explained above.) Somewhere around 5:10 UTC (so about 10 minutes after the comic was posted?), this was fixed.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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[[Category:Comics with color]]</div>108.162.231.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1335:_Now&diff=610801335: Now2014-02-26T07:52:17Z<p>108.162.231.121: </p>
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| number = 1335<br />
| before = This image isn't actually rotating this quickly, this is a summary. For the current state, see http://xkcd.com/1335/<br />
| date = February 26, 2014<br />
| title = Now<br />
| image = now-100ms small6-1.gif<br />
| titletext = This image stays roughly in sync with the day (assuming the Earth continues spinning). Shortcut: xkcd.com/now<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|I've never created a page for a new comic before, so there are many things to fix. Like the transcript. And I can't get it to show the right image (which changes every 15 minutes!).}}<br />
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The picture rotates every 15 minutes with the Earth, showing which regions are currently at which times of day, ignoring {{w|Summer Time}} (aka Daylight-Saving Time) and local variations in {{w|Time Zone}}s. (However, the cities and countries listed in the picture follow these local variations.)<br />
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Every 15 minutes (so far, and presumably forever), the image changes. The names used for the image files refer not to {{w|Universal Time}} as one might expect but rather to the time exactly 12 hours off of that. The picture change seems to happen half-way through a 15-minute time increment (so at 7½ minutes after the hour, then 22½ minutes, then 37½, 52½, and repeating), so that the picture is always correct for the nearest multiple of 15 minutes.<br />
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When first posted, the picture was exactly 12 hours off. (The name of the image file linked from the page matched Universal Time, rather than being 12 hours off as explained above.) Somewhere around 5:10 UTC (so about 10 minutes after the comic was posted?), this was fixed.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript}}<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Comics with color]]</div>108.162.231.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1335:_Now&diff=61064Talk:1335: Now2014-02-26T07:27:41Z<p>108.162.231.121: Created page with "<pre>| custom = [http://c.xkcd.com/redirect/comic/now]</pre> This doesn't work. Maybe if we added *.xkcd.com/* to the (external) image whitelist or something? ~~~~"</p>
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This doesn't work. Maybe if we added *.xkcd.com/* to the (external) image whitelist or something? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.231.121|108.162.231.121]] 07:27, 26 February 2014 (UTC)</div>108.162.231.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:506:_Theft_of_the_Magi&diff=60599Talk:506: Theft of the Magi2014-02-19T23:28:37Z<p>108.162.231.121: </p>
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<div>Is it an "aaw" of dissapointment, or an "aaw" of affection? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.231.121|108.162.231.121]] 23:28, 19 February 2014 (UTC)</div>108.162.231.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:506:_Theft_of_the_Magi&diff=60598Talk:506: Theft of the Magi2014-02-19T23:28:16Z<p>108.162.231.121: Created page with "Is it an "aaw" of dissapointment, or an "aaw" of affection?"</p>
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<div>Is it an "aaw" of dissapointment, or an "aaw" of affection?</div>108.162.231.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1331:_Frequency&diff=60532Talk:1331: Frequency2014-02-19T12:24:49Z<p>108.162.231.121: </p>
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<div>I have began the transcript. Should a table be embedded with all the statements?[[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.11|108.162.250.11]] 07:33, 17 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
:That would be apt. Dammit Randall, why couldn't you have made the comic one image so it'd be easy to put up here? '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 07:36, 17 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
:::If I've calculated it correctly (from the core numbers of prime factors extracted from the set of millisecond cycles extracted below by the script), a ''single'' image that contained each and every cycle (exactly as they are individually, without fudging any of them to avoid awkward factors) before repeating from the start again would have a total duration of 8.74E+056ms. (That's around 2.77E+046 ''years''!) I haven't worked out how many frames that would require (at approx 300kp, each, before compression)although I would hazard a guess that most (if not all of them) would probably sustain at a duration of no more than a single figure of milliseconds.<br />
:::You might be able to make a more efficient and vastly smaller representation with the .swf format, but I've not used that for a while so might have forgotten some limitations that would apply in that event.<br />
:::(Realistically, recreating the array of individual images is the best solution you have. Another case where Randall goes outside the 'traditional' single, simple image format, and messes with everyone's automated XKCD-strip-grabbing scripts, no doubt. At least this time round. ;) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.41|141.101.99.41]] 02:02, 19 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
::I have created a table but someone else has already updated the transcript in a different style; here is my attempt<br />
<pre><table><br />
<tr><br />
<th>Heartbeat</th><br />
<th>One Birth</th><br />
<th>One Death</th><br />
<th>Someone Edits Wikipedia</th><br />
<th>Someone Buys a Vibrator</th><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>China Builds a Car</td><br />
<td>Japan Builds a Car</td><br />
<td>Germany Builds a Car</td><br />
<td>The US Builds a Car</td><br />
<td>Someone Else Builds a Car</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>A European Union President Has Their First Kiss</td><br />
<td>A US Fire Department Puts Out a Fire</td><br />
<td>Someone Hits a Hole-In-One</td><br />
<td>My Turn Signal Blinks</td><br />
<td>The Turn Signal of the Car in Front of Me Blinks</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Earthquake (Magnitude 1)</td><br />
<td>Earthquake (Magnitude 2)</td><br />
<td>Earthquake (Magnitude 3)</td><br />
<td>Earthquake (Magnitude 4)</td><br />
<td>Member of the UK Parliament Flushes a Toilet</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>An Airline Flight Takes Off</td><br />
<td>Someone Buys <em>To Kill A Mockingbird</em></td><br />
<td>Someone's Pet Cat Kills a Mockingbird</td><br />
<td>Someone in Pheonix Buys New Shoes</td><br />
<td>Someone in Pheonix Puts on a Condom</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Someone Locks Their Keys in Their Car</td><br />
<td>A Sagittarius Named Amelia Drinks a Soda</td><br />
<td>A Dog Bites Someone in the US</td><br />
<td>Someone Steals a Bicycle</td><br />
<td>A Bald Eagle Catches a Fish</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>50,000 Plastic Bottles are Produced</td><br />
<td>50,000 Plastic Bottles are Recycled</td><br />
<td>A Bright Meteor is Visible Somewhere</td><br />
<td>Old Faithful Erupts</td><br />
<td>A fishing Boat Catches a Shark</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Someone in the US is Diagnosed With Cancer</td><br />
<td>Someone in the US Dies from Cancer</td><br />
<td>Someone Adopts a Dog from a Shelter</td><br />
<td>Someone Adopts a Cat from a Shelter</td><br />
<td>Someone gets Married</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Someone Registers a Domain</td><br />
<td>Someone in the US Buys a House</td><br />
<td>Someone in the US gets a Tattoo</td><br />
<td>The Star <em>PSR J1748-2446AD Rotates 1,000 Times</em></td><br />
<td>Someone Lies About their Age to Sign up for Facebook</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Someone Breaks an iPhone Screen</td><br />
<td>A Little League Player Strikes Out</td><br />
<td>Someone has Sex in North Dakota</td><br />
<td>Justin Bieber Gains a Follower on Twitter</td><br />
<td>Someone in Denver Orders a Pizza</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
</pre> [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.11|108.162.250.11]] 10:06, 17 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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:::Thanks, I have replaced the transcript with this one as it is closer to the actual comic format. --[[Special:Contributions/173.245.53.152|173.245.53.152]] 10:24, 17 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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I would like to point out a few things: the title text refers to an experiment that shows a piece of tar, if I remember correctly, which looks like a solid material, dripping very very slowly. It takes a year or more for a drop to fall, and there should be a live stream of it somewhere, I think.<br />
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The second is the turning signal being out of sync with the other car. Randall made a comic about that one already. It's a recurring thing.[[User:Dulcis|Dulcis]] ([[User talk:Dulcis|talk]]) 07:57, 17 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
:A year? It took 12 years for the last drop to fall... {{unsigned ip|108.162.249.114}}<br />
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: About turning signals, see [[165|XKCD #165]]--[[User:Koundelitchnico|KoundelitchNico]] ([[User talk:Koundelitchnico|talk]]) 09:32, 17 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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:: Thanks, I thought of that one too. I have added this in the explanations column of the table I created, feel free to add more / edit if you feel the need to do so. --[[Special:Contributions/173.245.53.152|173.245.53.152]] 10:24, 17 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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I found a simple tool that calculates the duration of GIF files on github: https://raw.github.com/alimony/gifduration/master/gifduration.py<br />
Slightly edited, this is the output: <br />
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amelia.gif: 7790 ms (7.79 seconds)<br />
bieber.gif: 4730 ms (4.73 seconds)<br />
bike.gif: 24930 ms (24.93 seconds)<br />
birth.gif: 240 ms (0.24 seconds)<br />
book_mockingbird.gif: 42050 ms (42.05 seconds)<br />
bottles.gif: 1270 ms (1.27 seconds)<br />
car_china.gif: 1890 ms (1.89 seconds)<br />
car_elsewhere.gif: 1030 ms (1.03 seconds)<br />
car_germany.gif: 5800 ms (5.80 seconds)<br />
car_japan.gif: 4010 ms (4.01 seconds)<br />
car_us.gif: 6950 ms (6.95 seconds)<br />
cat.gif: 21300 ms (21.30 seconds)<br />
cat_mockingbird.gif: 1820 ms (1.82 seconds)<br />
death.gif: 560 ms (0.56 seconds)<br />
denverpizza.gif: 1270 ms (1.27 seconds)<br />
dogbite.gif: 7010 ms (7.01 seconds)<br />
dog.gif: 15600 ms (15.60 seconds)<br />
domain.gif: 640 ms (0.64 seconds)<br />
eagle.gif: 2690 ms (2.69 seconds)<br />
earthquake1.gif: 2430 ms (2.43 seconds)<br />
earthquake2.gif: 24260 ms (24.26 seconds)<br />
earthquake3.gif: 242600 ms (242.60 seconds)<br />
earthquake4.gif: 2426000 ms (2426.00 seconds)<br />
facebook.gif: 4320 ms (4.32 seconds)<br />
fire_dept.gif: 23000 ms (23.00 seconds)<br />
flight.gif: 930 ms (0.93 seconds)<br />
heartbeat.gif: 860 ms (0.86 seconds)<br />
holeinone.gif: 180000 ms (180.00 seconds)<br />
house.gif: 6220 ms (6.22 seconds)<br />
iphone.gif: 930 ms (0.93 seconds)<br />
keys.gif: 2430 ms (2.43 seconds)<br />
kiss.gif: 5530 ms (5.53 seconds)<br />
littleleague.gif: 1230 ms (1.23 seconds)<br />
meteor.gif: 1150 ms (1.15 seconds)<br />
ndsex.gif: 1380 ms (1.38 seconds)<br />
oldfaithful.gif: 5640000 ms (5640.00 seconds)<br />
parliament_toilet.gif: 10060 ms (10.06 seconds)<br />
phoenix.gif: 2050 ms (2.05 seconds)<br />
phoenixshoes.gif: 1080 ms (1.08 seconds)<br />
pulsar.gif: 1400 ms (1.40 seconds)<br />
recycled.gif: 4640 ms (4.64 seconds)<br />
shark.gif: 830 ms (0.83 seconds)<br />
tattoo.gif: 2060 ms (2.06 seconds)<br />
turnsignal1.gif: 940 ms (0.94 seconds)<br />
turnsignal2.gif: 900 ms (0.90 seconds)<br />
us_cancer_death.gif: 54340 ms (54.34 seconds)<br />
us_cancer.gif: 18990 ms (18.99 seconds)<br />
vibrator.gif: 2990 ms (2.99 seconds)<br />
wedding.gif: 750 ms (0.75 seconds)<br />
wikipedia.gif: 670 ms (0.67 seconds)<br />
</pre><br />
This could be useful in creating some kind of table in the Explanation.<br />
[[Special:Contributions/108.162.231.109|108.162.231.109]] 09:25, 17 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks, I'm working on an explanation right now. --[[Special:Contributions/173.245.53.152|173.245.53.152]] 09:57, 17 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
::OK, I'll leave it at this - the conversions to events per minute don't make sense for all of the tiles and some of them can use more explanation but I'll leave that for someone else to pick up - need to go back to work :-) --[[Special:Contributions/173.245.53.152|173.245.53.152]] 10:12, 17 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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:::The edits on Wikipedia doesn't seem very accurate: 0.67s are 3.9M edits per month, while [http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesDatabaseEdits.htm] has only edit counts around 3M for the last available months for English Wikipedia. --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.254.160|108.162.254.160]] 11:17, 17 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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::Is that why the explaination is currently locked? I was going to add a few things to the comment column, but I'm aparently not allowed to at the moment. [[User:Smperron|Smperron]] ([[User talk:Smperron|talk]]) 16:11, 17 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Suggestion: grid like coordinates to refer to other flashing text? (think E4, B6, D5, ...) sirKitKat [[Special:Contributions/173.245.53.173|173.245.53.173]] 11:19, 17 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Someone from the UK parliment flushed the toilet while someone in Phoenix used a condom, while a bald eagle caught a fish... (I know, it's just the frequency, not the exact time it is shown to occur) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.131|141.101.98.131]] 11:28, 17 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Shouldn't the North Dakota one have been "two people"? [[User:Djbrasier|Djbrasier]] ([[User talk:Djbrasier|talk]]) 11:57, 17 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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He should have added a PNG saying "your screen's refresh rate"... --[[User:Kronf|Kronf]] ([[User talk:Kronf|talk]]) 12:06, 17 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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;Technically possible<br />
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Technically you can create an animated GIF that will repeat every 10 years. The standard says that maximum interval between frames is 65535*0.01 seconds, so to create a 10-year video you'll need 31557600*10/655.35=481538 frames. Since GIF registers only changes pixels for each frame, most of these frames will be empty (I'm not sure about the size, but around 20 bytes), so the whole file would be around 9.6 megabytes. Please include this in the explanation (possibly correcting numbers). --[[User:Zverik|Zverik]] ([[User talk:Zverik|talk]]) 13:18, 17 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
: @Zverik; Any reason you not just adding that to the explanation yourself? [[User:Spongebog|Spongebog]] ([[User talk:Spongebog|talk]]) 20:31, 17 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Update: Randall used some Adobe software to create highly redundant animated GIFs (with a color profile written to every frame). The thing is, frames are not equal, they gradually change brightness, so each frame is written anew and takes 3670 bytes (measured with oldfaithful.gif). So the estimate for 10-year animated GIF with that software would be 1.77 gigabytes (1.65 GiB). That would be too much indeed. --[[User:Zverik|Zverik]] ([[User talk:Zverik|talk]]) 13:51, 17 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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: Still, there are only 166 shades of gray between black and the default gray. So all it would take is an additional 166 bigger (in terms of number of bytes) frames. That he uses inferior software is no excuse. --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.254.181|108.162.254.181]] 14:58, 17 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Is it possible that the comment ''Amelia is the most common US name'' [http://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1331:_Frequency&diff=next&oldid=60214] is made in good faith? [[Special:Contributions/173.245.50.84|173.245.50.84]] 16:05, 17 February 2014 (UTC). It also said that Sagittarius is the most common star sign, which is false, so I deleted the comment. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.50.84|173.245.50.84]] 16:16, 17 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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: In fact it appears the most common star sign in the US is going to be Leo or Virgo: http://humrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/7/1512.long . Being part way through the cycle, Sagitarius is probably about 1/12 of the population. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.10|141.101.98.10]] 09:11, 18 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Anybody understand why there are so many references to Phoenix ? [[User:Spongebog|Spongebog]] ([[User talk:Spongebog|talk]]) 20:31, 17 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
:Because 2 references are not really "many". [[Special:Contributions/173.245.50.84|173.245.50.84]] 20:40, 17 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
:high birthrate perhaps? people down there seem to have large families (in my experience), at least that may be what he is saying about the condoms.[[User:Ercannon|Ercannon]] ([[User talk:Ercannon|talk]]) 22:24, 17 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
:I'll hazard a guess here by saying that multiple references to a common item using unrelated topics is a comedic element in itself! In addition, referring to the comment immediately below, unnecessary or impossible precision is also an element of comedy. [[User:ExternalMonolog|ExternalMonolog]] ([[User talk:ExternalMonolog|talk]]) 23:51, 17 February 2014 (UTC)ExternalMonolog<br />
;Excess precision<br />
To 108.162.245.114 who said that all members of the UK parliament flush a toilet 3,136,938 times per year, please read {{w|False precision}}. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.50.84|173.245.50.84]] 22:10, 17 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
This should work for the heading, but it's a complete mess and messes up the entire layout. Could someone have a look at this monstrosity:<br />
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<td>[[File:heartbeat.gif]]</td><br />
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<td>[[File:death.gif]]</td><br />
<td>[[File:wikipedia.gif]]</td><br />
<td>[[File:vibrator.gif]]</td><br />
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<td>[[ File:car china.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:car japan.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:car germany.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:car us.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:car elsewhere.gif ]]</td><br />
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<td>[[ File:kiss.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:fire dept.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:holeinone.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:turnsignal1.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:turnsignal2.gif ]]</td><br />
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<td>[[ File:earthquake1.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:earthquake2.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:earthquake3.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:earthquake4.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:parliament toilet.gif ]]</td><br />
</tr><tr><br />
<td>[[ File:flight.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:book mockingbird.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:cat mockingbird.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:phoenixshoes.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:phoenix.gif ]]</td><br />
</tr><tr><br />
<td>[[ File:keys.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:amelia.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:dogbite.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:bike.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:eagle.gif ]]</td><br />
</tr><tr><br />
<td>[[ File:bottles.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:recycled.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:meteor.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:oldfaithful.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:shark.gif ]]</td><br />
</tr><tr><br />
<td>[[ File:us cancer.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:us cancer death.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:dog.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:cat.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:wedding.gif ]]</td><br />
</tr><tr><br />
<td>[[ File:domain.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:house.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:tattoo.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:pulsar.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:facebook.gif ]]</td><br />
</tr><tr><br />
<td>[[ File:iphone.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:littleleague.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:ndsex.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:bieber.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:denverpizza.gif ]]</td><br />
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--><br /><span style="{{{captionstyle|}}}"><span style="color:grey">Title text:</span> This comic shows estimated average frequency. I wanted to include the pitch drop experiment, but it turns out the gif format has some issues with decade-long loops.</span></td></tr></table></center><br />
</pre> [[Special:Contributions/173.245.53.184|173.245.53.184]] 22:31, 18 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
:I'm currently adding the ability to put replace the image field with an optional custom field. Will keep you posted. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 22:40, 18 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
::See [[Template:comic]], in particular the last parameter and the last bullet point in the notes section. Added just for you. This'll be pretty useful for other comics that we've made in the past as well. Thanks for making me get off my butt and do something useful with my admin powers. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 23:13, 18 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
:::Cool. Next up: click and drag :D [[Special:Contributions/108.162.231.121|108.162.231.121]] 12:24, 19 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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::I don't understand this problem. The HTML-Code is just from the main page, it doesn't explain your problem. I did add all the GIF images yesterday, and for entering all that links in an easy way I changed this table layout to an easy WIKI-Table. In my opinion all the sortable tags should be removed, this is not increasing the depth at this explain. But this is still an open task here, yesterday I just did focus on all the missing GIFs here. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 22:53, 18 February 2014 (UTC)</div>108.162.231.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1331:_Frequency&diff=604681331: Frequency2014-02-18T22:19:23Z<p>108.162.231.121: This should work, even though it's ugly, ugly, ugly. Please revert when you feel it's not the right way to handle this ;)</p>
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<td>[[File:wikipedia.gif]]</td><br />
<td>[[File:vibrator.gif]]</td><br />
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<td>[[ File:car china.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:car japan.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:car germany.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:car us.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:car elsewhere.gif ]]</td><br />
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<td>[[ File:kiss.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:fire dept.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:holeinone.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:turnsignal1.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:turnsignal2.gif ]]</td><br />
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<td>[[ File:earthquake1.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:earthquake2.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:earthquake3.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:earthquake4.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:parliament toilet.gif ]]</td><br />
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<td>[[ File:flight.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:book mockingbird.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:cat mockingbird.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:phoenixshoes.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:phoenix.gif ]]</td><br />
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<td>[[ File:keys.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:amelia.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:dogbite.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:bike.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:eagle.gif ]]</td><br />
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<td>[[ File:bottles.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:recycled.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:meteor.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:oldfaithful.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:shark.gif ]]</td><br />
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<td>[[ File:us cancer.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:us cancer death.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:dog.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:cat.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:wedding.gif ]]</td><br />
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<td>[[ File:domain.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:house.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:tattoo.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:pulsar.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:facebook.gif ]]</td><br />
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<td>[[ File:iphone.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:littleleague.gif ]]</td><br />
<td>[[ File:ndsex.gif ]]</td><br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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This comic shows a number of common events, arranged in a grid. Each of the events flashes with their average frequency.<br />
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For example, statistically a child is born somewhere on the world approximately every 0.24 seconds, or four times per second. Therefore the tile "One birth" blinks about 4 times per second.<br />
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The table below lists all the events and their duration / frequency. Some events make reference to other comics.<br />
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The title text refers to the {{w|Pitch drop experiment}} which measures the flow of a piece of pitch over many years. At room temperature, tar pitch flows at a very slow rate, taking several years to form a single drop. The title text jokes that Randall tried to include a tile that flashes about once every {{w|decade|ten years}}, but the tiles are all {{w|Animated GIF|animated GIFs}} and the file format does not support animations that long.<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
!Picture<br />
!Text<br />
!Period (seconds)<br />
!Frequency (per minute)<br />
!Frequency (per year,<br>N/I = not interesting)<br />
!Explanation and/or references to other comics.<br />
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|[[File:heartbeat.gif]]<br />
|Heartbeat||0.86||70||32,785,200||The typical resting {{w|heart rate}} in adults is 60–80 beats per minute (bpm).<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:birth.gif]]<br />
|One birth||0.24||250||131,490,000|| [[746: Birth]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:death.gif]]<br />
|One death||0.56||107||56,360,000||<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:wikipedia.gif]]<br />
|Someone&nbsp;edits&nbsp;Wikipedia||0.67||90||47,100,000||{{w|Wikipedia}} is an online, freely editable encyclopedia.<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:vibrator.gif]]<br />
|Someone buys a vibrator||2.99||20||10,550,000 || [[600: Android Boyfriend]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:car china.gif ]]<br />
|China builds a car||1.89||32||16,700,000||<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:car japan.gif ]]<br />
|Japan builds a car||4.01||15||7,870,000||<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:car germany.gif ]]<br />
|Germany builds a car||5.8||10||5,440,000||<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:car us.gif ]]<br />
|The US builds a car||6.95||8.6||4,540,000||<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:car elsewhere.gif ]]<br />
|Someone else builds a car||1.03||58||30,640,000||<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:kiss.gif ]]<br />
|A&nbsp;European&nbsp;Union&nbsp;resident has their first kiss||5.53||11||5,700,000||<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:fire dept.gif ]]<br />
|A US fire department puts out a fire||23||2.6||1,370,000||<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:holeinone.gif ]]<br />
|Someone hits a hole-in-one||180||20 times per hour||175,320||A {{w|hole in one}} is a feat in {{w|golf}} in which the player hits the ball directly from the tee into the cup with one shot.<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:turnsignal1.gif ]]<br />
|My turn signal blinks||0.94||64||N/I||This, together with "The turn signal of the car in front of me blinks", forms a reference to [[165: Turn Signals]].<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:turnsignal2.gif ]]<br />
|The turn signal of the car in front of me blinks||0.9||67||N/I||This, together with "My turn signal blinks", forms a reference to [[165: Turn Signals]].<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:earthquake1.gif ]]<br />
|Earthquake (magnitude 1)||2.43||25||13,000,000|| [[711: Seismograph]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:earthquake2.gif ]]<br />
|Earthquake (magnitude 2)||24.26||2.5||1,300,000|| Review [http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/#%7B%22feed%22%3A%221day_all%22%2C%22search%22%3Anull%2C%22sort%22%3A%22largest%22%2C%22basemap%22%3A%22grayscale%22%2C%22autoUpdate%22%3Atrue%2C%22restrictListToMap%22%3Atrue%2C%22timeZone%22%3A%22local%22%2C%22mapposition%22%3A%5B%5B-84.47406458459159%2C-25.6640625%5D%2C%5B84.4740645845916%2C425.390625%5D%5D%2C%22overlays%22%3A%7B%22plates%22%3Atrue%7D%2C%22viewModes%22%3A%7B%22map%22%3Atrue%2C%22list%22%3Atrue%2C%22settings%22%3Atrue%2C%22help%22%3Afalse%7D%7D USGS's Quake Map] for verification.<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:earthquake3.gif ]]<br />
|Earthquake (magnitude 3)||242.6||15 times per hour||130,000|| [[1037: Umwelt#Earthquake-Blizzard|1037: Umwelt]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:earthquake4.gif ]]<br />
|Earthquake (magnitude 4)||2426||1.5 times per hour||13,000|| [[723: Seismic Waves]]; below this magnitude earthquakes pass by largely unnoticed by Tweeters.[http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/topics/mag_vs_int.php]<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:parliament toilet.gif ]]<br />
|A member of the UK parliament flushes a toilet||10.06||6||3,140,000||Note that probably during the daytime in Britain such a toilet is flushed 8.5 times per minute, while at night it is flushed only 1 time per minute.<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:flight.gif ]]<br />
|An airline flight takes off||0.93||65||34,000,000||<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:book mockingbird.gif ]]<br />
|Someone buys ''To Kill a Mockingbird''||42.05||1.4||750,000||“{{w|To Kill a Mockingbird}}” is a famous novel by {{w|Harper Lee}}.<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:cat mockingbird.gif ]]<br />
|Someone's pet cat kills a mockingbird||1.82||33||17,340,000||Whereas the previous item references the well-known book “To Kill a Mockingbird”, this one talks about {{w|Mockingbird|mockingbirds}} being literally killed (in this case, by cats). There are 45 million mockingbirds in the world;[http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Mimus_polyglottos/] this means that according to Randall, cats kill 39% of mockingbirds in one year, i.e. in 2.5 years they are able to kill all mockingbirds (excluding the ones that are born in the meantime). <br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:phoenixshoes.gif ]]<br />
|Someone in Phoenix buys new shoes||1.08||56||29,200,000||Since {{w|Phoenix metropolitan area|metro Phoenix}} has 4,200,000 inhabitants, according to Randall people in Phoenix buy 7 pairs of shoes per capita per year. <br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:phoenix.gif ]]<br />
|Someone in Phoenix puts on a condom||2.05||29||15,390,000|| ''Buy two pair of shoes, get a free condom''? <br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:keys.gif ]]<br />
|Someone locks their keys in their car||2.43||25||13,000,000||<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:amelia.gif ]]<br />
|A Sagittarius named Amelia drinks a soda||7.79||7.7||4,000,000||Randall Munroe is a [http://blog.xkcd.com/2014/01/31/the-baby-name-wizard/ fan of The Baby Name Wizard] blog and its [http://www.babynamewizard.com Name Voyager] tool which shows that "[http://www.babynamewizard.com/baby-name/girl/amelia Amelia]" has recently exploded in popularity.<br /><br />
This particular frequency is taken from:<br />
* The number of persons called {{w|Amelia_(given_name)|Amelia}} ([http://howmanyofme.com/ est. 82,572 people in the U.S.])<br />
* The number of persons born between November 22<sup>nd</sup> and December 22<sup>nd</sup> under the astrological sign of {{w|Sagittarius (astrology)|Sagittarius}} (~1/12th of the population, i.e. approximately 6881 Amelias in the U.S.) <br />
* The frequency of soda (soft drinks) being drunk (216 liters per person per year in the U.S.[http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/foo_sof_dri_con-food-soft-drink-consumption]). <br />
According to our figures, 6881 Amelias drink 1,44 million liters of soft drinks per year in the United States alone, which means that Randall's figures only account for American Amelias (drinking 356&nbsp;cc or 12&nbsp;fl.&nbsp;oz. of soda in each drink).<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:dogbite.gif ]]<br />
|A dog bites someone in the US||7.01||8.6||4,500,000||<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:bike.gif ]]<br />
|Someone steals a bicycle||24.93||2.4||1,265,000||<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:eagle.gif ]]<br />
|A bald eagle catches a fish||2.69||22||11,700,000||<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:bottles.gif ]]<br />
|50,000 plastic bottles are produced||1.27||2.36 million bottles||1.24 trillion||<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:recycled.gif ]]<br />
|50,000 plastic bottles are recycled||4.64||646,552 bottles||340 billion||27% of the plastic bottles manufactured get [[885: Recycling|recycled]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:meteor.gif ]]<br />
|A bright meteor is visible somewhere||1.15||52||N/I||<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:oldfaithful.gif ]]<br />
|Old Faithful erupts||5640 (94 minutes)||15 times per day||5,595||{{w|Old Faithful}} is a geyser in {{w|Yellowstone National Park}} in the US, that tends to erupt every 65 or 91 minutes. XKCD's period of 1h&nbsp;34m falls between the [http://geysertimes.org/getGeyserInfo.php?geyserID=2 mean and median of recent Old Faithful eruptions] and corresponds to a [http://geysertimes.org/getSingleEruption.php?id=645135 February 16, 2014 eruption].<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:shark.gif ]]<br />
|A fishing boat catches a shark||0.83||72||38,000,000|| [[1326: Sharks]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:us cancer.gif ]]<br />
|Someone in the US is diagnosed with cancer||18.99||3.2||1,660,000|| [[881: Probability]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:us cancer death.gif ]]<br />
|Someone in the US dies from cancer||54.34||1.1||580,000|| [[881: Probability]] <br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:dog.gif ]]<br />
|Someone adopts a dog from a shelter||15.6||3.8||2,000,000||<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:cat.gif ]]<br />
|Someone adopts a cat from a shelter||21.3||2.8||1,5000,000||<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:wedding.gif ]]<br />
|Someone gets married||0.75||80||42,000,000||<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:domain.gif ]]<br />
|Someone registers a domain||0.64||94||49,300,000 ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:house.gif ]]<br />
|Someone in the US buys a house||6.22||9.6||5,000,000||<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:tattoo.gif ]]<br />
|Someone in the US gets a tattoo||2.06||29||15,300,000||<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:pulsar.gif ]]<br />
|The star PSR J1748-2446AD rotates 1,000 times||1.4||43,000 rotations||N/I||{{w|PSR J1748-2446ad}} is the fastest spinning {{w|pulsar}} known.<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:facebook.gif ]]<br />
|Someone lies about their age to sign up for Facebook||4.32||14||600,000 per month||To sign up for Facebook, [https://www.facebook.com/help/210644045634222 the user must claim to be at least 13 years old]. This is a reflection of the U.S. {{w|Children's Online Privacy Protection Act}}.<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:iphone.gif ]]<br />
|Someone breaks an iPhone screen||0.93||65||34,000,000||<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:littleleague.gif ]]<br />
|A Little League player strikes out||1.23||49||N/I||{{w|Little League Baseball|Little League}} is a system of local youth baseball and softball competitions. A {{w|strikeout}} is a situation in baseball and softball.<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:ndsex.gif ]]<br />
|Someone has sex in North Dakota||1.38||43||22,900,000||Since {{w|North Dakota}} has 723,000 inhabitants (ranked the 48th state), and if we estimate the sexually active population as 80% (and if ''someone'' means ''a couple)'' this means that people in North Dakota have sex 79.1 times a year. It is estimated that 3.93% of the world population has sex on a given day;[http://geography.about.com/od/culturalgeography/a/geographyofsex.htm] Randall's rate for North Dakota is 17.3% which is not low.<br />
|-<br />
|[[ File:bieber.gif ]]<br />
|Justin Bieber gains a follower on Twitter||4.73||13||556,000 per month|| [[802: Online Communities 2#Twitter Region|802: Online Communities 2]]; &nbsp;{{w|Justin Bieber}} is a Canadian pop music singer whose [https://twitter.com/justinbieber Twitter account] is extremely popular<br />
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|[[ File:denverpizza.gif ]]<br />
|Someone in Denver orders pizza||1.27||47||2,000,000|| <s>[[778: Scheduling]]</s><br />
|}<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Repetitive events are written in grey and arranged in a grid. Each statement pulses to black and then returns to grey at an interval characteristic of the named event.]<br />
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{| style="text-align:center;"<br />
|- style="vertical-align: top; background-color:#eeeeee;"<br />
|Heartbeat<br/>(0.86 sec)<br />
|One birth<br/>(0.24 sec)<br />
|One death<br/>(0.56 sec)<br />
|Someone edits Wikipedia<br/>(0.67 sec)<br />
|Someone buys a vibrator<br/>(2.99 sec)<br />
|- style="vertical-align: top;"<br />
|China builds a car<br/>(1.89 sec)<br />
|Japan builds a car<br/>(4.01 sec)<br />
|Germany builds a car<br/>(5.8 sec)<br />
|The US builds a car<br/>(6.95 sec)<br />
|Someone else builds a car<br/>(1.03 sec)<br />
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|A European Union resident has their first kiss<br/>(5.53 sec)<br />
|A US fire department puts out a fire<br/>(23 sec)<br />
|Someone hits a hole-in-one<br/>(180 sec)<br />
|My turn signal blinks<br/>(0.94 sec)<br />
|The turn signal of the car in front of me blinks<br/>(0.9 sec)<br />
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|Earthquake (magnitude 1)<br/>(2.43 sec)<br />
|Earthquake (magnitude 2)<br/>(24.26 sec)<br />
|Earthquake (magnitude 3)<br/>(242.6 sec)<br />
|Earthquake (magnitude 4)<br/>(2426 sec, 42 min)<br />
|Member of the UK Parliament flushes a toilet<br/>(10.06 sec)<br />
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|An airline flight takes off<br/>(0.93 sec)<br />
|Someone buys ''To Kill a Mockingbird''<br/>(42.05 sec)<br />
|Someone's pet cat kills a mockingbird<br/>(1.82 sec)<br />
|Someone in Phoenix buys new shoes<br/>(1.08 sec)<br />
|Someone in Phoenix puts on a condom<br/>(2.05 sec)<br />
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|Someone locks their keys in their car<br/>(2.43 sec)<br />
|A Sagittarius named Amelia drinks a soda<br/>(7.79 sec)<br />
|A dog bites someone in the US<br/>(7.01 sec)<br />
|Someone steals a bicycle<br/>(24.93 sec)<br />
|A bald eagle catches a fish<br/>(2.69 sec)<br />
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|50,000 plastic bottles are produced<br/>(1.27 sec)<br />
|50,000 plastic bottles are recycled<br/>(4.64 sec)<br />
|A bright meteor is visible somewhere<br/>(1.15 sec)<br />
|Old Faithful erupts<br/>(5640 sec, 94 min)<br />
|A fishing boat catches a shark<br/>(0.83 sec)<br />
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|Someone in the US is diagnosed with cancer<br/>(18.99 sec)<br />
|Someone in the US dies from cancer<br/>(54.34 sec)<br />
|Someone adopts a dog from a shelter<br/>(15.6 sec)<br />
|Someone adopts a cat from a shelter<br/>(21.3 sec)<br />
|Someone gets married<br/>(0.75 sec)<br />
|- style="vertical-align: top; background-color:#eeeeee;"<br />
|Someone registers a domain<br/>(0.64 sec)<br />
|Someone in the US buys a house<br/>(6.22 sec)<br />
|Someone in the US gets a tattoo<br/>(2.06 sec)<br />
|The star ''PSR J1748-2446ad'' rotates 1,000 times<br/>(1.4 sec)<br />
|Someone lies about their age to sign up for Facebook<br/>(4.32 sec)<br />
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|Someone breaks an iPhone screen<br/>(0.93 sec)<br />
|A little league player strikes out<br/>(1.23 sec)<br />
|Someone has sex in North Dakota<br/>(1.38 sec)<br />
|Justin Bieber gains a follower on Twitter<br/>(4.73 sec)<br />
|Someone in Denver orders a pizza<br/>(1.27 sec)<br />
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