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<div>Did Randall miss the slash before the second blink? Or is there a More Profound Meaning. Possibly higher chance of typos when publication is late (deadline struggle?). [[User:Jkrstrt|Jkrstrt]] ([[User talk:Jkrstrt|talk]]) 14:07, 19 June 2015 (UTC)<br />
*Wow, you're right! [[User:Nk22|The Twenty-second. The Not So Only. The Nathan/Nk22]] ([[User talk:Nk22|talk]]) 14:08, 19 June 2015 (UTC)<br />
**Perhaps that is the error which causes the HTML tags to be visible text? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.218.83|108.162.218.83]] 15:30, 19 June 2015 (UTC)<br />
***Unlikely. The opening tag turns on the effect for all the text that follows until a closing tag is found. No closing tag, and the effect doesn't stop. - Equinox [[Special:Contributions/108.162.238.172|108.162.238.172]] 16:32, 19 June 2015 (UTC)<br />
****Randall actually fixed it today! Somebody who knows how to properly edit this wiki should update the picture and description. EDIT: I already fixed the description, now it's only the picture.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.105.217|141.101.105.217]] 10:09, 20 June 2015 (UTC)<br />
I think (-1) [cursed] may be a reference to the card game Dominion? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.183|108.162.219.183]] 17:51, 19 June 2015 (UTC)<br />
*Actually this is more likely a reference to a cursed item in an RPG (DnD, WoW, etc.), where a cursed item often gives a negative stat bonus instead of a positive one. A magic item might be indicated as Magic Hammer (+2). [[User:Veleek|Veleek]] ([[User talk:Veleek|talk]]) 18:12, 19 June 2015 (UTC)<br />
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It is from a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike rogue like] game. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.56.143|162.158.56.143]] 18:41, 19 June 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Why is there a bit about HTML sanitization? It's in an image file.. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.22|108.162.221.22]] 18:56, 19 June 2015 (UTC)<br />
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The effect of the marquee tag is to create an area of scrolling text. So with the blink tag the html would produce a box of text that will scroll from right to left and have a blinking background akin to annoying internet banner ads. So it's not about html sanitation, the html is visible so you can see the word count, it is up to the reader to interpret it as an annoying internet ad. (Source: mozilla documentation). [[User:Aide7|Aide7]] ([[User talk:Aide7|talk]]) 19:06, 19 June 2015 (UTC)<br />
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I hate that I only just learned about the 6-word story on TV Tropes a few days before this comic was posted. I wonder if Randall and I have similar browsing habits. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.177|108.162.210.177]] 21:06, 19 June 2015 (UTC)<br />
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== Explanations of each "story" ==<br />
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* '''For sale: This Gullible Baby's Shoes''' - I don't quite get this one. Maybe it's just not very funny. Anyone?<br />
* '''Baby Shoes For Sale By Owner''' - Funny if one imagines an internet-capable baby posting its own shoes for sale.<br />
* '''<strike>Actually, There's no evidence Hemingway wrote</strike>''' - A fragment of a preemptive rebuttal to the comic's premise (or at least its title), for some reason.<br />
* '''Free Shoes, Provided You Overpower Baby''' - Funny if one imagines a sufficiently powerful baby, or a sufficiently weak shoe seeker. <br />
* '''For Sale: Weird Baby's Toe Shoes''' - "Toe shoes" like the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibram_FiveFingers FiveFingers] are weird, even too weird for a weird baby perhaps. Previous distaste for toe shoes is evident in [[1065:_Shoes|xkcd 1065]].<br />
* '''For Sale: Baby Shoes (Prime eligible)''' - This is a pretty good ad; Hemmingway is selling the shoes through Amazon and is willing to deliver them quickly and without additional shipping costs.<br />
* '''<strike>Though popularly attributed to Hemingway, the</strike>''' - Another fragment of a rebuttal, written in an encyclopedic style. <br />
* '''This Weird Trick Covers Baby Feet!''' - An ad in clickbait style, nobody's going to click on that though.<br />
* '''For Sale: Baby Shoes, Just Hatched''' - Funny if one imagines shoes as living creatures that lay eggs, from which baby shoes hatch.<br />
* '''Sale: Seven-League Boots (Expedited Shipping)''' - These are magic boots that allow one to walk seven leagues (about 3 miles) with each step. Presumably they'll be delivered by someone wearing the boots.<br />
* '''Complete this survey for free shoes!''' - Another clickbait type ad.<br />
* '''Shoes, by Ernest Hemingway [citation needed]''' - Another reference, wikipedia-style, to the dubious authorship of the original short story.<br />
* '''This is my greatest short story.''' - Self-referential meta-fiction, somewhat reminiscent of Randall's proposed autobiography of Douglas Hofstadter in [[917:_Hofstadter|xkcd 917]].<br />
* '''For sale: Baby shoes (-1) [cursed]''' - The shoes are described in the manner of armor in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike Rougelike games]. These particular shoes will reduce the wearer's protection by one point and cannot be removed.<br />
* '''&lt;blink&gt;&lt;marquee&gt;Baby Shoes!&lt;/marquee&gt;&lt;blink&gt;''' - An ad in old-school annoying HTML style.<br />
* '''For Sale: Baby-sized Saddle, Bobcat''' - Hemmingway is choosing to falsely advertise mere baby shoes as a rather more exciting means of locomotion. Is this wise?<br />
* '''Hemingway Busted for Craigslist Shoe Scam''' - I guess not, he got caught for lying in his ad.<br />
* (hover text) '''Instead of bobcat, package contained chair''' - A reference to [[A-Minus-Minus|xkcd 325]], this indicates that either Hemmingway is now running a new scam (or just "making the world a weirder place"? or a less weird place?) by advertising bobcats and mailing chairs.<br />
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The current version of the comic has a [http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/hemingway.png correctly nested set of tags]. __rvx [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.96|108.162.221.96]] 09:05, 20 June 2015 (UTC)</div>141.101.105.217https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1540:_Hemingway&diff=960101540: Hemingway2015-06-20T10:14:25Z<p>141.101.105.217: /* Explanation */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1540<br />
| date = June 19, 2015<br />
| title = Hemingway<br />
| image = hemingway.png<br />
| titletext = Instead of bobcat, package contained chair.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{Incomplete|Finished with Edit Conflict assimilation, but prior author(s) invited to rejig}}<br />
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This comic is a reference to the six-word short story ''{{w|For sale: baby shoes, never worn}}'', which has been commonly attributed to famous author {{w|Ernest Hemingway}}; however, [[Randall|Randall Munroe]] explicitly states that this might not be the case at all. The comic plays on the fact that the original story takes the form of a short advertisement that might have been seen in a newspaper, and for these examples uses various modern 'standards' that did not exist in Hemingway's time. In keeping with the original, each example remains six words long. The title text obeys this rule, too.<br />
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In short: It is urban legend that Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words ("For sale: baby shoes, never worn.") and allegedly called it his best work.<br />
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The various drafts offered in the comic are:<br />
*"For Sale: This gullible baby's shoes": This suggests the seller somehow tricked the baby out of its shoes. This pokes fun at the tragedy that the original story suggests. With the original (For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn), readers could infer that the baby who would have worn the shoes must have died. Randall tries to make the reader infer other, more absurd things instead.<br />
*"Baby shoes for sale by owner": This suggests that a very intelligent baby is somehow selling its own shoes, or that someone is selling an old pair of shoes they had as a baby.<br />
*"Free shoes, provided you overpower baby": This suggests the person posting the ad doesn't in fact own the shoes, but rather is asking people to forcibly steal shoes from a baby wearing them.<br />
*"For Sale: Weird baby's toe shoes: This might be a reference to [[1065: Shoes]], where shoes with toes were considered "creepy".<br />
*"For Sale: Baby shoes / Prime eligible": This is a reference to Amazon, which offers Prime as a paid service to expedite shipping of items ordered on its website.<br />
*"This weird trick covers baby feet!": This is modeled after common 'click bait' wording designed to get users to visit web pages, typically using words such as "This weird trick" or "secrets they don't want you to know" to artificially increase its apparent appeal.<br />
*"For Sale: Baby shoes, just hatched": This plays on the meaning of the phrase "baby shoes", reframing it to mean a newly-born shoe (similar to "baby bird"), rather than its typical meaning of shoes designed for babies.<br />
*"Sale: Seven-league boots (expedited shipping): {{w|Seven-league boots}} are mythical boots that allow their user to move seven leagues (about 25 miles) per step. The "expedited shipping" part suggests that the boots will be shipped to the customer on the feet of a walking person, thus allowing the boots to be shipped much faster than if by airplane (except, of course, if the boots had to be shipped overseas).<br />
*"Complete this survey for free shoes": This is another reference to common internet marketing campaigns, where users are incentivized to take surveys in exchange for small compensation such as free samples or coupons.<br />
*"''Shoes'', by Ernest Hemingway [Citation needed]": This is a reference to Wikipedia. "Citation needed" is used to mark claims that require additional evidence to justify as true. In this case, Randal is using this to question whether the short story was really written by Hemingway.<br />
*"This is my greatest short story": This is a completely different style that could also have been used to write a short story in six words. Rather than telling a story about shoes, this is more "meta" by referencing itself and being a self-fulfilling (or self-defeating) prophecy.<br />
*"For Sale: Baby shoes (-1) [Cursed]": This is written like a description of a virtual item typically found in Roguelike games or MMOs. "-1" and "Cursed" are attributes of the item, which usually produce negative consequences that reduce its wearer's stats or abilities.<br />
*"<Blink><Marquee>Baby shoes!</Marquee></Blink>": This is reminiscent of the style of HTML widely used in the 1990s. Both the <Blink> and <Marquee> tags make the text content ("Baby shoes!") appear more prominent and attention-grabbing. The normally invisble-and-rendered tag elements can be seen and are part of the six words count. This could have been due to 'sanitising' of uploaded text where HTML tags (other than any that are specifically allowed, like it appears Strikethrough formatting might be) are deliberately deactivated by the server. An interesting note: When this comic was first posted to xkcd.com, the '/' in the </Blink> tag was missing. This was fixed between the 19th and 20th of June, 2015, showing that this was, indeed, unintentional.<br />
*"For Sale: Baby-sized saddle, bobcat": This is a reference to [[A-Minus-Minus|325: A-Minus-Minus]] in which [[Cueball]] says: 'Instead of office chair, package contained bobcat'.<br />
*"Hemingway busted for Craigslist shoe scam": This is written like a news headline where Hemingway supposedly wrote about shoes in order to perpetrate a scam. {{w|Craigslist}} is a website where users can advertise and seek goods and services.<br />
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The title text continues the reference to [[A-Minus-Minus|325: A-Minus-Minus]], but inverts the situation. Rather than unexpectedly receiving a bobcat by package, this time the package contains a regular item instead of the expected bobcat.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Caption above comic]<br />
:Hemingway's Rough Drafts<br />
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:[A list of rough draft stories]<br />
:For sale: This Gullible Baby's Shoes<br />
:Baby Shoes For Sale By Owner<br />
:<strike>Actually, There's no evidence Hemingway wrote</strike><br />
:Free Shoes, Provided You Overpower Baby<br />
:For Sale: Weird Baby's Toe Shoes<br />
:For Sale: Baby Shoes <span style='color: #FF9900; font-style: italic;'>✓</span> <span style='color: #4DA3C5; font-style: italic;'>Prime</span> eligible<br />
:<strike>Though popularly attributed to Hemingway, the</strike><br />
:This Weird Trick Covers Baby Feet!<br />
:For Sale: Baby Shoes, Just Hatched<br />
:Sale: Seven-League Boots (Expedited Shipping)<br />
:Complete this survey for free shoes!<br />
:''Shoes'', by Ernest Hemingway <sup>[<span style='color: #0645ad; font-style: italic;'>citation needed</span>]</sup><br />
:This is my greatest short story.<br />
:For sale: Baby shoes (-1) [cursed]<br />
:<span style='color: #727272;'>&lt;blink&gt;&lt;marquee&gt;</span>Baby Shoes!<span style='color: #727272;'>&lt;/marquee&gt;&lt;blink&gt;</span><br />
:For Sale: Baby-sized Saddle, Bobcat<br />
:Hemingway Busted for Craigslist Shoe Scam<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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<div>Did Randall miss the slash before the second blink? Or is there a More Profound Meaning. Possibly higher chance of typos when publication is late (deadline struggle?). [[User:Jkrstrt|Jkrstrt]] ([[User talk:Jkrstrt|talk]]) 14:07, 19 June 2015 (UTC)<br />
*Wow, you're right! [[User:Nk22|The Twenty-second. The Not So Only. The Nathan/Nk22]] ([[User talk:Nk22|talk]]) 14:08, 19 June 2015 (UTC)<br />
**Perhaps that is the error which causes the HTML tags to be visible text? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.218.83|108.162.218.83]] 15:30, 19 June 2015 (UTC)<br />
***Unlikely. The opening tag turns on the effect for all the text that follows until a closing tag is found. No closing tag, and the effect doesn't stop. - Equinox [[Special:Contributions/108.162.238.172|108.162.238.172]] 16:32, 19 June 2015 (UTC)<br />
****Randall actually fixed it today! Somebody who knows how to properly edit this wiki should update the picture and description.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.105.217|141.101.105.217]] 10:09, 20 June 2015 (UTC)<br />
I think (-1) [cursed] may be a reference to the card game Dominion? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.183|108.162.219.183]] 17:51, 19 June 2015 (UTC)<br />
*Actually this is more likely a reference to a cursed item in an RPG (DnD, WoW, etc.), where a cursed item often gives a negative stat bonus instead of a positive one. A magic item might be indicated as Magic Hammer (+2). [[User:Veleek|Veleek]] ([[User talk:Veleek|talk]]) 18:12, 19 June 2015 (UTC)<br />
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It is from a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike rogue like] game. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.56.143|162.158.56.143]] 18:41, 19 June 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Why is there a bit about HTML sanitization? It's in an image file.. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.22|108.162.221.22]] 18:56, 19 June 2015 (UTC)<br />
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The effect of the marquee tag is to create an area of scrolling text. So with the blink tag the html would produce a box of text that will scroll from right to left and have a blinking background akin to annoying internet banner ads. So it's not about html sanitation, the html is visible so you can see the word count, it is up to the reader to interpret it as an annoying internet ad. (Source: mozilla documentation). [[User:Aide7|Aide7]] ([[User talk:Aide7|talk]]) 19:06, 19 June 2015 (UTC)<br />
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I hate that I only just learned about the 6-word story on TV Tropes a few days before this comic was posted. I wonder if Randall and I have similar browsing habits. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.177|108.162.210.177]] 21:06, 19 June 2015 (UTC)<br />
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== Explanations of each "story" ==<br />
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* '''For sale: This Gullible Baby's Shoes''' - I don't quite get this one. Maybe it's just not very funny. Anyone?<br />
* '''Baby Shoes For Sale By Owner''' - Funny if one imagines an internet-capable baby posting its own shoes for sale.<br />
* '''<strike>Actually, There's no evidence Hemingway wrote</strike>''' - A fragment of a preemptive rebuttal to the comic's premise (or at least its title), for some reason.<br />
* '''Free Shoes, Provided You Overpower Baby''' - Funny if one imagines a sufficiently powerful baby, or a sufficiently weak shoe seeker. <br />
* '''For Sale: Weird Baby's Toe Shoes''' - "Toe shoes" like the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibram_FiveFingers FiveFingers] are weird, even too weird for a weird baby perhaps. Previous distaste for toe shoes is evident in [[1065:_Shoes|xkcd 1065]].<br />
* '''For Sale: Baby Shoes (Prime eligible)''' - This is a pretty good ad; Hemmingway is selling the shoes through Amazon and is willing to deliver them quickly and without additional shipping costs.<br />
* '''<strike>Though popularly attributed to Hemingway, the</strike>''' - Another fragment of a rebuttal, written in an encyclopedic style. <br />
* '''This Weird Trick Covers Baby Feet!''' - An ad in clickbait style, nobody's going to click on that though.<br />
* '''For Sale: Baby Shoes, Just Hatched''' - Funny if one imagines shoes as living creatures that lay eggs, from which baby shoes hatch.<br />
* '''Sale: Seven-League Boots (Expedited Shipping)''' - These are magic boots that allow one to walk seven leagues (about 3 miles) with each step. Presumably they'll be delivered by someone wearing the boots.<br />
* '''Complete this survey for free shoes!''' - Another clickbait type ad.<br />
* '''Shoes, by Ernest Hemingway [citation needed]''' - Another reference, wikipedia-style, to the dubious authorship of the original short story.<br />
* '''This is my greatest short story.''' - Self-referential meta-fiction, somewhat reminiscent of Randall's proposed autobiography of Douglas Hofstadter in [[917:_Hofstadter|xkcd 917]].<br />
* '''For sale: Baby shoes (-1) [cursed]''' - The shoes are described in the manner of armor in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike Rougelike games]. These particular shoes will reduce the wearer's protection by one point and cannot be removed.<br />
* '''&lt;blink&gt;&lt;marquee&gt;Baby Shoes!&lt;/marquee&gt;&lt;blink&gt;''' - An ad in old-school annoying HTML style.<br />
* '''For Sale: Baby-sized Saddle, Bobcat''' - Hemmingway is choosing to falsely advertise mere baby shoes as a rather more exciting means of locomotion. Is this wise?<br />
* '''Hemingway Busted for Craigslist Shoe Scam''' - I guess not, he got caught for lying in his ad.<br />
* (hover text) '''Instead of bobcat, package contained chair''' - A reference to [[A-Minus-Minus|xkcd 325]], this indicates that either Hemmingway is now running a new scam (or just "making the world a weirder place"? or a less weird place?) by advertising bobcats and mailing chairs.<br />
[[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.160|108.162.219.160]] 21:14, 19 June 2015 (UTC)<br />
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The current version of the comic has a [http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/hemingway.png correctly nested set of tags]. __rvx [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.96|108.162.221.96]] 09:05, 20 June 2015 (UTC)</div>141.101.105.217https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=438:_Internet_Argument&diff=94892438: Internet Argument2015-06-05T13:06:47Z<p>141.101.105.217: added Category:Internet</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 438<br />
| date = June 18, 2008<br />
| title = Internet Argument<br />
| image = internet argument.png<br />
| titletext = It's easier to be an asshole to words than to people.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
Since the first time the internet made possible to have written real-time conversations with people in remote locations, it was found that most people tend to use harsh language in these conversations much more often than they would with regular spoken face-to-face conversations.<br />
This effect is similar to what happens when people drive a car: they're much more likely to get exasperated or angry at other drivers than they would when not driving.<br />
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Also, some people collectivelly known as {{w|Troll (Internet)|Troll}}s find it funny to disrupt other people's conversations in internet forums, posing as innocent speakers. Examples of this can be entering a conversation between cancer patients suggesting the use of some "miracle" cure, or just asking simple, obvious questions and then pretending to not understand the answers. Most probably, trolls wouldn't have this behavior if they were speaking to a group of people in real life. A similar concept is wikiterror, where someone intentionally includes false information in Wikipedia to see how long it lasts before someone notices.<br />
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In the first two panels, [[Cueball]] is having some harsh words and probably insults with an other troll. [[Megan]] takes one of Cueball and flies him to the other one, so they see each other face to face. In this situation, they both remain silent as none of them find anything to say to the other.<br />
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When Megan returns Cueball to his original computer, both keep their conversation, but without the insults.<br />
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The title text just summarizes the whole idea into a single sentence.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Cueball is typing profanities into his computer.]<br />
:[Friend is typing profanities into his computer.]<br />
:[Megan floats in behind Cueball.]<br />
:[Megan lifts Cueball.]<br />
:[They are flying over mountains.]<br />
:[Megan and Cueball are floating in front of the friend and his computer.]<br />
:[She sets Cueball down in front of the friend and his computer.]<br />
:[Megan lifts Cueball again.]<br />
:[They are flying.]<br />
:[Megan sets Cueball down in his chair at his computer.]<br />
:[Cueball is typing at his computer.]<br />
:[Friend is typing at his computer.]<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Internet]]</div>141.101.105.217https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1475:_Technically&diff=83612Talk:1475: Technically2015-01-28T06:53:03Z<p>141.101.105.217: </p>
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<div>Technically, it's poor form and rude to ignore someone based on *Clicks Random page* [[User:Xseo|Xseo]] ([[User talk:Xseo|talk]]) 13:45, 19 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
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It's also possible that Cueball is purposefully inviting another "technically" sentence by stating he's looking at a bug, since it's unlikely he's looking at a member of the order Hemiptera. 14:21, 19 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Well, it seems that White hat is responding to being asked if he is taking drugs, and technically, any food item that is consumed only for its taste or other effect on the body and mind, such as chocolate, could be argued to be a drug by a combination of both definitions given in the explanation. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.254.85|108.162.254.85]] 17:39, 19 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Along the same lines as the "bug" statement, does "a rock with a fossil in it" invite any sort of technical correction? I wouldn't know, personally, but there might be some people out there who would argue that since the fossil was a rock, or some other quibble about the phrase? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.238.192|108.162.238.192]] 20:19, 19 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
:At that point, I'd say we're drastically overthinking this. Rocks are not in and of themselves fossils, but they are the most common substance in which fossils are found. (And anyway, most of the discussion about refining that definition would probably include several sentences starting with "technically", which I'd immediately ignore. ;)) [[User:KieferSkunk|KieferSkunk]] ([[User talk:KieferSkunk|talk]]) 21:56, 19 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Even though the comic doesn't state this specifically, I wonder if this one goes under his "My Hobby" series. It certainly seems to be in the same spirit. [[User:KieferSkunk|KieferSkunk]] ([[User talk:KieferSkunk|talk]]) 21:57, 19 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
:If it's not labeled "My Hobby", it doesn't belong in that series. There are similarities, but they aren't exactly the same, and it's not labeled as part of the "My Hobby" series. [[User:NealCruco|NealCruco]] ([[User talk:NealCruco|talk]]) 03:30, 21 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
::I think it's rather an opposing behavior. In "My Hobby" it is usually Cueball driving others nuts, here he ignores someone else who is trying to drive him nuts. --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.105.217|141.101.105.217]] 06:53, 28 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Please explain what is meant by "third type" and "fourth type" in the current comic description [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.157|173.245.54.157]] 22:59, 19 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
:It referred to a chart (now deleted) giving the "types" of sentences beginning with "technically". I have replaced this with the definition originally in the chart.--[[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.169|108.162.216.169]] 23:24, 19 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
::Just my opinion, but I think that the table with four "types" originally made by [[User:Pudder|Pudder]] was pretty good and educating, maybe we should restore it.[[User:Nyq|Nyq]] ([[User talk:Nyq|talk]]) 17:05, 20 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
:::I agree. The deleting editor just said it was unnecessary, without any application as to why. I think it's perfectly okay to give people a quick overview of whatever the comic's topic is. The chart improves the article, so I've decided to be bold and restore it. If anyone has objections, bring them up here. [[User:NealCruco|NealCruco]] ([[User talk:NealCruco|talk]]) 17:28, 20 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
::::Fully support the restoration and the reasoning for it! [[User:Nyq|Nyq]] ([[User talk:Nyq|talk]]) 19:48, 20 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Maybe related to comic 1240? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.238.191|108.162.238.191]] 00:29, 20 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
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It seems highly likely that, as per previous comments, both the bug and fossil inclusions are not just purely distractions, but references to items that would commonly invoke pedantic 'technical corrections'. I suggest it is worth including in the explanation [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.211|108.162.249.211]] 02:32, 20 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
:I agree on the bug which has already been mentioned. Have included that. But I do not know ennough about fossils to see why the sentence from the title text could be corrected. You domhave fossils in rocks? --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 20:39, 20 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
::Technically, rocks aren't fossils, but rather they CONTAIN foss-- oh, you're not listening to me anymore. Nevermind. :) [[User:KieferSkunk|KieferSkunk]] ([[User talk:KieferSkunk|talk]]) 22:01, 20 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Technically, does it make a difference if there is a comma behind the word technically? (see examples) I never really understood English punctuation rules ... --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.105.217|141.101.105.217]] 06:53, 28 January 2015 (UTC)</div>141.101.105.217