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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2351<br />
| date = August 26, 2020<br />
| title = Standard Model Changes<br />
| image = standard_model_changes.png<br />
| titletext = Bugs are spin 1/2 particles, unless it's particularly windy.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by VIN DIESEL. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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In this comic strip, Randall is proposing some changes to the {{w|Standard Model}} of particle physics. The currently accepted particle table has 17 slots: 12 fermions (first 3 columns of the table - six quarks [top two rows] and six leptons [bottom two rows]) and five bosons (last two columns of the table - four gauge bosons [left hand column] and one scalar boson [right hand column]). <br />
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[[File:1024px-Standard Model of Elementary Particles.svg.png|500px]]<br />
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This comic consists of a normal version of the particle table to which Randall has made substantial alternations and additions, which are drawn in red over the black and white table.<br />
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While the Standard Model's predictions are very well supported by experiments, the physics community has identified several flaws in it (e.g. it lacks any particles to convey gravity), and so lots of research is committed to searching for "{{w|Physics beyond the Standard Model}}". Some of Randall's changes are sort of intended to fill some of those gaps, but for the most part they are nonsensical (although not quite as much as the [[2301: Turtle Sandwich Standard Model|Turtle Sandwich Standard Model]]).<br />
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=== Quarks ===<br />
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Randall's proposed changes to the quarks are relatively restrained -- he proposes only that the "strange" and "charm" names should be moved to bosons, while the strange quark should be renamed the "right quark" and the charm quark should be renamed the "left quark", so that all quarks will have "ordinary" directional names. Also, "left quark" sounds like "{{w|Super_Bowl_XLIX_halftime_show#Left_Shark|left shark}}".<br />
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In reality, the original quark model proposed by Murray Gell-Mann included only three quarks, with the "strange" quark so named because the particles that contained them were ''strangely'' long-lived relative to their masses. The "charm" quark was so named when it was proposed because it brought a "charming" symmetry to the weak interaction, which we now understand is because it completes the second generation of quarks, along with the strange quark. When a third generation of quarks was proposed, they were called top and bottom by analogy to the up and down quarks (which are so named because of the spin they carry), though the names 'truth' and 'beauty' were briefly in competition, and colliders working with B quarks are sometimes even now called "{{w|B-factory|Beauty Factories}}".<br />
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Randall likely applied "left" to "strange" and "right" to "charm" simply due to the placement of the particles in the table: In the American English vernacular, the phrase "left and right" is more common than "right and left", in the same way that "top and bottom" is more common than "bottom and top", and "up and down" is more common than "down and up". So he placed "left" above "right" to match the ordering of the other quark generations.<br />
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=== Leptons ===<br />
While Randall leaves two leptons, the electron and the muon, untouched, he has opted to discard the tau lepton entirely. Each of these three leptons has an associated neutrino; Randall has decided to discard all but the electron neutrino, as he has decided that three are too many neutrino types. He has also replaced the standard symbol for the neutrino, the Greek letter ν (nu), with a capital N, in order to avoid confusion between ν and v, the two letters appearing similar, though this might further be confused with nucleon (particle physicists commonly use N to denote "proton or neutron", and excited states of nucleons are given the symbol N, followed by the mass in parenthesis<ref>https://pdglive.lbl.gov/ParticleGroup.action?init=0&node=BXXX005</ref>) or possibly even with the symbol for Nitrogen (the atomic nucleus with 7 protons and a similar number of neutrons, encountered more in radiology/chemistry as an N, <sub>7</sub>N, <sup>14</sup>N, N<sup>+</sup>, N<sub>2</sub> and other variations).<br />
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In place of one of the neutrinos, Randall has introduced a new elementary particle that supposedly explains the existence of dark matter. The nature of dark matter is one of the most famous mysteries in physics: galaxies seem to have much higher gravity than their detectable matter would account for, yet this mysterious form of matter does not seem to interact with other matter in any detectable way. Neutrinos are known for rarely interacting with other matter, due to their lack of charge, which could justify Randall's decision, but even the little interaction that neutrinos have with the weak force rules them out as candidates for dark matter. Hypothetical {{w|sterile neutrino}}s could be the source of dark matter, and also for the small but nonzero masses of the familiar neutrinos, but no such particles have yet been identified. Together with the arrow, the only one in the comic that points at the particle's ''box'' rather than the symbol, the triumphant exclamation "We found it!" probably means that the new "dark matter" entry in the table ''is'' the dark matter particle.<br />
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=== Bosons ===<br />
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Randall proposes several new names for existing particles. First, that the {{w|W and Z bosons}} should be renamed to the charm and strange bosons, respectively (taking the names from the quarks), and second, that the {{w|Higgs boson}} should be named the {{w|Vin Diesel}} boson, as he considers {{w|Peter Higgs}}'s name to be too boring to be given to a particle. The Higgs boson is known in the popular press (to the chagrin of many physicists, including Higgs) as "{{w|The God Particle (book)|The God Particle}}", which is certainly a flashy name, but which itself was changed by the editors of the book of the same name from its authors' originally-intended title: The ''Goddamn'' Particle.<br />
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Randall inserts the graviton, a purely theoretical particle, noting that its inclusion is "probably fine". While the graviton has never been observed, it is occasionally included in diagrams of the standard model to show its hypothetical place, which likely convinced Randall to do the same. Here it is shown below the Higgs boson, implying to be a scalar boson, though it is theoretically a 2nd-order tensor boson (with a spin of 2) and is usually given its own column.<br />
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Randall also proposes that a false decoy "Magic" particle should be added to the Standard Model, to trip up promoters of {{w|quantum mysticism}}. Presumably, anyone who invokes this particle to support their claims will expose themselves as a fraud, much as cartographers will print {{w|trap street}}s on their maps to catch plagiarism.<br />
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The title text references {{w|Spin (physics)|quantum spin number}}, a property of particles in physics that bears similarities to actual spinning. Although the "cool bugs" particle is put in the {{w|scalar boson}} group with spin 0, Randall states that it instead has spin 1/2, like a fermion. In fact, all known fermions have spin 1/2. It is thus not clear whether the "cool bugs" particle obeys the {{w|Pauli exclusion principle}} or not. The joke comes from Randall treating quantum spin as actual spin and introduces wind blowing the "cool bugs" particle around as if they were made of actual bugs, which they are not{{Citation needed}}.<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Particle !! Symbol !! Actual particle !! Actual symbol !! Explanation<br />
|-<br />
| Up quark || u || {{w|Up quark}} || u || No change.<br />
|-<br />
| Left quark || l || {{w|Charm quark}} || c || Randall is continuing the pattern of naming quarks after directions. This wouldn't work well with [[474: Turn-On]] unfortunately. The charm quark was named due to bringing a "charming symmetry" to the weak interaction, completing the second generation of quarks.<br />
|-<br />
| Top quark || t || {{w|Top quark}} || t || No change.<br />
|-<br />
| Gluon || g || {{w|Gluon}} || g || No change.<br />
|-<br />
| Vin Diesel boson || V || {{w|Higgs boson}} || H || {{w|Peter Higgs}} is a British theoretical physicist who predicted the existence of scalar bosons, particles with spin 0. Randall suggests that the Higgs boson needs a flashier name and proposes to rechristen it the "Vin Diesel boson", named after American actor {{w|Vin Diesel|Mark Sinclair}}, who has nothing to do with physics.{{Citation needed}}<br />
|-<br />
| Down quark || d || {{w|Down quark}} || d || No change.<br />
|-<br />
| Right quark || r || {{w|Strange quark}} || s || Randall is suggesting this name to match the charm (now left) quark. Particles containing this quark were considered "strangely long-lived". <br />
|-<br />
| Bottom quark || b || {{w|Bottom quark}} || b || No change.<br />
|-<br />
| Photon || γ || {{w|Photon}} || γ || No change.<br />
|-<br />
| {{w|Graviton}} || G || {{w|Graviton}} (Hypothetical) || G || The graviton is a hypothetical particle which mediates the force of {{w|gravity}}. Randall is taking a very breezy point of view, stating that it would probably be fine to include it, even though its existence has not been confirmed yet. It is not recommended to act this way, though many do.{{Citation needed}}<br />
|-<br />
| Electron || e || {{w|Electron}} || e || No change.<br />
|-<br />
| Muon || µ || {{w|Muon}} || µ || No change.<br />
|-<br />
| (none) || (none) || {{w|Tau (particle)|Tau lepton}} || τ || The tau lepton is a lepton with average lifetime much shorter than the electron or the muon. Randall apparently considers this particle redundant and states "No one needs tau leptons".<br />
|-<br />
| Strange boson || s || {{w|Z boson}} || Z || The Z boson is one of two particles (three, counting the W boson's different charges) that mediate the {{w|weak force}}, named for having '''z'''ero charge. Randall suggests the strange quark's name would be better suited for this particle.<br />
|-<br />
| Magic || M || (none) || (none) || Randall apparently considers magic to exist and be a particle, both of which are blatantly false.{{Citation needed}} He suggests this particle as a decoy to trip up {{w|quantum mysticism}} promoters, possibly because [[1528: Vodka|he has been possessed]] by [[Black Hat]] and is [[356: Nerd Sniping|trying to run them over with a truck]].<br />
|-<br />
| Electron neutrino || N<sub>e</sub> || {{w|Electron neutrino}} || ν<sub>e</sub> || Randall is annoyed by the similarity of the Greek lowercase nu (ν) and the lowercase V (v). Interestingly Randall leaves the "electron" part of its name in even though he has eliminated the other neutrinos.<br />
|-<br />
| (none) || (none) || {{w|Muon neutrino}} || ν<sub>µ</sub> || Randall thinks one neutrino is enough, and to be honest, who can argue with him?<br />
|-<br />
| {{w|Dark matter}} || D || {{w|Tau neutrino}} || ν<sub>τ</sub> || Dark matter is thought to make up most of the universe's matter. Randall claims to have found it; replacing the tau neutrino with it. This could easily be the most abundant particle in the universe.{{Citation needed}}<br />
|-<br />
| Charm boson || c || {{w|W boson}} || W || The other mediator of the '''w'''eak force. Randall is suggesting that it would suit the charm name more than the charm quark.<br />
|-<br />
| Cool bugs || 🐞 || (none) || (none) || Randall has decreed that extremely small bugs are fundamental particles. Bugs in reality are several orders of magnitude larger than any of the other known particles.{{Citation needed}} They would not make a good elementary particle{{Citation needed}} for a number of extremely obvious reasons{{Citation needed}} and would make physics pretty frightening to some people.{{Citation needed}} With the exception of mosquitoes as they can be considered elementary particles. {{Citation needed}} Randall uses the insect emoji as the symbol of the cool bugs particle.<br />
|}<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
[A chart of the Standard Model of particle physics with red marks all over the chart.]<br /><br />
Changes I would make to the Standard Model<br />
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[In reading order:]<br/><br />
u up, connected to the down quark below.<br /><br />
c charm, connected to the strange quark below, in faded gray with a red l left written over it. Above is a red note with an arrow pointing to the charm quark. The note reads,<br /><br />
Consistent quark names (use "strange" and "charm" for bosons)<br /><br />
t top, connected to the bottom quark below.<br /><br />
g gluon<br /><br />
H Higgs, in faded gray with a red V Vin Diesel writted over it. To the right is a red note with an arrow pointing to the Higgs boson, which reads,<br /><br />
With all respect to Peter H, the Higgs boson needs a flashier name<br /><br />
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d down, connected to the up quark above.<br /><br />
s strange, connected to the charm quark above, in faded gray with a red r right written over it.<br /><br />
b bottom, connected to the top quark above.<br /><br />
γ photon<br /><br />
G graviton, in red with a red border. To the right is a red note with an arrow pointing to the graviton, which reads,<br /><br />
Let's just include it, it's probably fine<br /><br />
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e electron, connected to the electron neutrino below.<br /><br />
µ muon, connected in faded gray to the muon neutrino below, with red rounded corners cutting it off.<br /><br />
τ tau, connected to the tau neutrino below, in faded gray with a red scribble over it. On the tau lepton is a red note which reads,<br /><br />
No one needs tau leptons<br /><br />
Z Z boson, with the Z symbol and the Z in the name in faded gray. The symbol has a red s written over it and the Z in the name is scribbled out in red. The word strange is written in red between the symbol and the name.<br /><br />
M magic, in red with a red border. To the right is a red note with an arrow pointing to the magic particle, which reads,<br /><br />
Decoy particle for people making nonsense claims about "quantum" philosophy stuff<br /><br />
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v e electron neutrino, with the e as a subscript of the v, connected to the electron above. The v is in faded gray and a red N with a circle around it is written on it. Below is a red note with an arrow pointing to the electron neutrino, which reads,<br /><br />
Fix neutrino symbol so I stop mixing up ν and v<br /><br />
v μ muon neutrino, with the µ as a subscript of the v, connected to the muon above, in faded gray with a red scribble over it. On the muon neutrino is a red note which reads,<br /><br />
Too many neutrinos<br /><br />
v τ tau neutrino, with the τ as a subscript of the v, connected to the tau lepton above, in faded gray. Written over it is a D dark matter in red with a red border. Below the tau neutrino is a red note with an arrow pointing to it, which reads,<br /><br />
We found it!<br /><br />
W W boson, with the W symbol and the W in the name in faded gray. The symbol has a red c written over it and the W in the name is scribbled out in red. The word charm is written in red between the symbol and the name.<br /><br />
🐞 cool bugs, in red with a red border. To the right is a red note with an arrow pointing to cool bugs, which reads,<br /><br />
Very small bugs are fundamental particles now<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Physics]]<br />
[[Category:Comics with color]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring real people]]</div>162.158.63.244https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2336:_Campfire_Habitable_Zone&diff=1949892336: Campfire Habitable Zone2020-07-23T13:12:13Z<p>162.158.63.244: /* Explanation */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2336<br />
| date = July 22, 2020<br />
| title = Campfire Habitable Zone<br />
| image = campfire_habitable_zone.png<br />
| titletext = Oh no, my marshmallow became tidally locked!<br />
}}<br />
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{{incomplete|Created by a FIRE-PROOF ORBITING SMORE-MAKING ROBOT. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
This comic plays on the concept of the astronomic "habitable zone" applied at the scale of people sitting around a campfire.<br />
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The {{w|Circumstellar habitable zone|habitable zone}} for a star (also known as the "Goldilocks Zone") is the range of distances in which a planet might support liquid water, and hence life in the only form that we currently know of. Too close, and the amount of stellar radiation would be too great, causing water to boil. Too far, and the water would freeze. For liquid water to actually exist, the planet itself must also have the right mass (in order to maintain a life-compatible atmosphere) and meet other requirements. For our sun, the habitable zone is estimated to range from about 0.38 to 10 astronomical units, where 1.0 is the distance from the sun to the Earth.<br />
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{{w|Marshmallow#Toasted_marshmallows|Marshmallow toasting}} is a popular camping activity in which people place a marshmallow (a soft, sugary blob made of gelatin and covered in corn starch) on a stick near a fire. As it cooks, the middle becomes gooey while the outside becomes crispy and perhaps slightly charred, making it tastier.{{Citation needed}}<br />
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In the context of the campfire, a similar "habitable zone" is posited to exist: close enough to the fire that the person can comfortably toast marshmallows, presumably on a stick of reasonable length - the ones shown seem to be about 1.5 times an arm's normal reach; yet far enough that the person is not uncomfortably hot, or even burnt by the flames.<br />
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In the comic, Ponytail is sitting in the left habitable zone (marked in green), and appears to be enjoyably toasting a marshmallow. Cueball is sitting half outside the right habitable zone, too close to the fire, and appears to be getting singed on his arm, which is too close to the fire. Megan is well outside the habitable zone on the right cool side. She is waving a marshmallow on a stick, perhaps shivering cold herself, but presumably it will not toast, as it is too far from the fire, even further from the fire than Cueball.<br />
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The title text introduces the concept of {{w|tidal locking}}. This is when one astronomical body synchronizes its rotation with its orbit around another, such that one side always faces the other body. The joke here is that if a marshmallow became tidally locked to the fire, then one side would become more and more cooked, perhaps burnt, while the other side never became toasted at all. This happens in real life, as in the case of Earth's moon, which always presents the same face to the Earth; and also in the case of a marshmallow that has begun melting more than you realized and dripped down too far, so that it no longer responds when you rotate the roasting stick, and you'd better cut your losses and pull it out now before it drops into the fire pit.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
:[The scene consists of 3 people sitting near a campfire with two green areas to the left and right of the fire. Ponytail is sitting to the left of the fire, with her body fully in the green habitable zone and is holding a stick with a marshmallow pointed at the fire. Cueball is sitting to the right of the fire, half sitting in the white area where the fire is and half in the green habitable zone. He is visibly sweating. Megan is crouching to the right of Cueball, outside the habitable zone with a marshmallow on a stick pointing into the green zone. Below the scene two arrows point to the two green areas marked with a label.]<br />
:Label: Habitable zone<br />
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:[Caption below panel:]<br />
:Astronomers define the Campfire Habitable Zone as the region where you're far enough not to be burned but close enough to roast marshmallows.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]<br />
[[Category:Comics with color]]<br />
[[Category:Astronomy]]<br />
[[Category:Food]]</div>162.158.63.244https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2312:_mbmbam&diff=1925822312: mbmbam2020-05-28T04:57:15Z<p>162.158.63.244: fixed typos</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2312<br />
| date = May 27, 2020<br />
| title = mbmbam<br />
| image = mbmbam.png<br />
| titletext = Hello and welcome to Millibar Millibarn Attometer, an advice show for the Planck era.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by 10^-47 BROTHERS. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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In part, this comic is an homage to the referenced podcast, ''{{w|My Brother, My Brother, and Me}}'', which often features rapid garden-path conversations and puns and double entendres that are at once groan-worthy and delightfully witty.<br />
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The millibar is a metric unit of pressure, equal to a thousandth of a {{w|Bar (unit)|bar}}, or 100 Pa. The millibarn is a metric unit of area, equal to a thousandth of a {{w|Barn (unit)|barn}}, or 10^-31 m^2. Both units would theoretically have the symbol '''mb''' (though '''mbar''' for the pressure unit is more common). <br />
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Hence, '''mbmb''' (the pressure unit multiplied by the area unit) would be a unit of force. Applying a bit of dimensional analysis, pressure x area = (force/area) x area = force.<br />
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'''am''' would be the symbol of an {{w|Atto-|atto}}meter, or 10^-18 metres. Multiply that to create the unit '''mbmbam''', which would be a unit of energy. Specifically, it would be a unit of work: the energy expended to move an object. More dimensional analysis: force x distance = (work/distance) x distance = work. The actual value of 1 mbmbam is correctly calculated in the comic: 100 Pa x 10^-31 m^2 x 10^-18 m = 10^-47 J.<br />
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The final panel is an extended series of puns--that yeast rises, for one (implicitly of a spontaneously generated energy, a reference to black body radiation); a second soon follows about spacetime having unleavened dimensions in {{w|string theory}}. This seems to be a punning reference to spacetime having eleven (actually, ten--M theory says eleven) dimensions in string theory, while continuing to play on the theme of yeast--in this case, the universe is presumably flat because some of its dimensions lack the Planck yeast that would make them rise.<br />
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The example of lifting a yeast cell used in the comic is one of many interpretations of the work. Another interpretation of 1 mbmbam would be the work necessary to pull two socially distancing (6 ft) COVID-19 virions apart by the thickness of a single strand of hair, against the gravity they exert on each other.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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:[Cueball, Megan, and White Hat are standing next to each other, talking. Megan has her hands raised to the side, in a shrugging gesture.]<br />
:Megan: Odd how in physics "'''mb'''" is both millibars (pressure) and millibar'''n'''s (area).<br />
:Megan: '''mbmb''' could mean millibar-millibarn, which is a unit of force, strangely.<br />
:White Hat: Units are weird.<br />
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:[Same scene - Megan is now checking her phone. White Hat is raising his right index finger.]<br />
:Cueball: So what's '''mbmbam''', the My-Brother-My-Brother-And-Me unit?<br />
:Megan: Millibar-millibarn-attometer, I guess? That'd be a unit of energy. 10<sup>-47</sup> Joules.<br />
:White Hat: "One podcast"<br />
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:[Same scene in a frameless panel. Megan holds her phone to her side. White Hat has his arms raised to the side, excited.]<br />
:Cueball: 10<sup>-47</sup> sounds small.<br />
:Megan: Yeah, it's roughly the energy you'd need to lift one yeast cell by one Planck length in Earth's gravity. <br />
:White Hat: Planck yeast!<br />
<br />
:[Same scene in a regular panel. Megan has put away her phone, and has her right index finger raised. White Hat has his hands balled into fists, frustrated.]<br />
:Cueball: Doesn't Planck yeast rise on its own?<br />
:Megan: Yeah, that's what makes quantum foam. But data suggests our universe is flat.<br />
:Megan: String theory says it's because spacetime has unleavened dimensions.<br />
:White Hat: ''... I hate you.''<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Physics]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]<br />
[[Category: Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category: Comics featuring White Hat]]</div>162.158.63.244https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2312:_mbmbam&diff=1925812312: mbmbam2020-05-28T04:55:43Z<p>162.158.63.244: edited typos</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2312<br />
| date = May 27, 2020<br />
| title = mbmbam<br />
| image = mbmbam.png<br />
| titletext = Hello and welcome to Millibar Millibarn Attometer, an advice show for the Planck era.<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by 10^-47 BROTHERS. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
<br />
In part, this comic is an homage to the referenced podcast, ''{{w|My Brother, My Brother, and Me}}'', which often features rapid garden-path conversations and puns and double entendres that are at once groan-worthy and delightfully witty.<br />
<br />
The millibar is a metric unit of pressure, equal to a thousandth of a {{w|Bar (unit)|bar}}, or 100 Pa. The millibarn is a metric unit of area, equal to a thousandth of a {{w|Barn (unit)|barn}}, or 10^-31 m^2. Both units would theoretically have the symbol '''mb''' (though '''mbar''' for the pressure unit is more common). <br />
<br />
Hence, '''mbmb''' (the pressure unit multiplied by the area unit) would be a unit of force. Applying a bit of dimensional analysis, pressure x area = (force/area) x area = force.<br />
<br />
'''am''' would be the symbol of an {{w|Atto-|atto}}meter, or 10^-18 metres. Multiply that to create the unit '''mbmbam''', which would be a unit of energy. Specifically, it would be a unit of work: the energy expended to move an object. More dimensional analysis: force x distance = (work/distance) x distance = work. The actual value of 1 mbmbam is correctly calculated in the comic: 100 Pa x 10^-31 m^2 x 10^-18 m = 10^-47 J.<br />
<br />
The final panel is an extended series of puns--that yeast rises, for one (implicitly of a spontaneously generated energy, a reference to black body radiation); a second soon follows about spacetime having unleavened dimensions in {{w|string theory}}. This seems to be a punning reference to spacetime having eleven (actually, ten--M theory says eleven) dimensions in string theory, while continuing to play on the theme of yeast--in this case, the universe is presumably flat because some of its dimensions lack the Planck yeast that would make them rise.<br />
<br />
The example of lifting a yeast cell used in comic is one of many interpretations of the work. Another interpretation of 1 mbmbam would be the work necessary to pull two socially distancing (6 ft) COVID-19 virions apart by the thickness of one strand of hair, against the gravity they exert on each other.<br />
<br />
==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
<br />
:[Cueball, Megan, and White Hat are standing next to each other, talking. Megan has her hands raised to the side, in a shrugging gesture.]<br />
:Megan: Odd how in physics "'''mb'''" is both millibars (pressure) and millibar'''n'''s (area).<br />
:Megan: '''mbmb''' could mean millibar-millibarn, which is a unit of force, strangely.<br />
:White Hat: Units are weird.<br />
<br />
:[Same scene - Megan is now checking her phone. White Hat is raising his right index finger.]<br />
:Cueball: So what's '''mbmbam''', the My-Brother-My-Brother-And-Me unit?<br />
:Megan: Millibar-millibarn-attometer, I guess? That'd be a unit of energy. 10<sup>-47</sup> Joules.<br />
:White Hat: "One podcast"<br />
<br />
:[Same scene in a frameless panel. Megan holds her phone to her side. White Hat has his arms raised to the side, excited.]<br />
:Cueball: 10<sup>-47</sup> sounds small.<br />
:Megan: Yeah, it's roughly the energy you'd need to lift one yeast cell by one Planck length in Earth's gravity. <br />
:White Hat: Planck yeast!<br />
<br />
:[Same scene in a regular panel. Megan has put away her phone, and has her right index finger raised. White Hat has his hands balled into fists, frustrated.]<br />
:Cueball: Doesn't Planck yeast rise on its own?<br />
:Megan: Yeah, that's what makes quantum foam. But data suggests our universe is flat.<br />
:Megan: String theory says it's because spacetime has unleavened dimensions.<br />
:White Hat: ''... I hate you.''<br />
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2312<br />
| date = May 27, 2020<br />
| title = mbmbam<br />
| image = mbmbam.png<br />
| titletext = Hello and welcome to Millibar Millibarn Attometer, an advice show for the Planck era.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by 10^-47 BROTHERS. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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In part, this comic is an homage to the referenced podcast, ''{{w|My Brother, My Brother, and Me}}'', which often features rapid garden-path conversations and puns and double entendres that are at once groan-worthy and delightfully witty.<br />
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The millibar is a metric unit of pressure, equal to a thousandth of a {{w|Bar (unit)|bar}}, or 100 Pa. The millibarn is a metric unit of area, equal to a thousandth of a {{w|Barn (unit)|barn}}, or 10^-31 m^2. Both units would theoretically have the symbol '''mb''' (though '''mbar''' for the pressure unit is more common). <br />
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Hence, '''mbmb''' (the pressure unit multiplied by the area unit) would be a unit of force. Applying a bit of dimensional analysis, pressure x area = (force/area) x area = force.<br />
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'''am''' would be the symbol of an {{w|Atto-|atto}}meter, or 10^-18 metres. Multiply that to create the unit '''mbmbam''', which would be a unit of energy. Specifically, it would be a unit of work: the energy expended to move an object. More dimensional analysis: force x distance = (work/distance) x distance = work. The actual value of 1 mbmbam is correctly calculated in the comic: 100 Pa x 10^-31 m^2 x 10^-18 m = 10^-47 J.<br />
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The final panel is an extended series of puns--that yeast rises, for one (implicitly of a spontaneously generated energy, a reference to black body radiation); a second soon follows about spacetime having unleavened dimensions in {{w|string theory}}. This seems to be a punning reference to spacetime having eleven (actually, ten--M theory says eleven) dimensions in string theory, while continuing to play on the theme of yeast--in this case, the universe is presumably flat because some of its dimensions lack the Planck yeast that would make them rise.<br />
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The example of lifting a yeast cell used in comic is one of many interpretations of the work. Another interpretation of 1 mbmbam would be the work necessary to pull two socially distancing (6 ft) COVID-19 virons apart by the thickness of one strand of hair, against the gravity they exert on each other.<br />
==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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:[Cueball, Megan, and White Hat are standing next to each other, talking. Megan has her hands raised to the side, in a shrugging gesture.]<br />
:Megan: Odd how in physics "'''mb'''" is both millibars (pressure) and millibar'''n'''s (area).<br />
:Megan: '''mbmb''' could mean millibar-millibarn, which is a unit of force, strangely.<br />
:White Hat: Units are weird.<br />
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:[Same scene - Megan is now checking her phone. White Hat is raising his right index finger.]<br />
:Cueball: So what's '''mbmbam''', the My-Brother-My-Brother-And-Me unit?<br />
:Megan: Millibar-millibarn-attometer, I guess? That'd be a unit of energy. 10<sup>-47</sup> Joules.<br />
:White Hat: "One podcast"<br />
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:[Same scene in a frameless panel. Megan holds her phone to her side. White Hat has his arms raised to the side, excited.]<br />
:Cueball: 10<sup>-47</sup> sounds small.<br />
:Megan: Yeah, it's roughly the energy you'd need to lift one yeast cell by one Planck length in Earth's gravity. <br />
:White Hat: Planck yeast!<br />
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:[Same scene in a regular panel. Megan has put away her phone, and has her right index finger raised. White Hat has his hands balled into fists, frustrated.]<br />
:Cueball: Doesn't Planck yeast rise on its own?<br />
:Megan: Yeah, that's what makes quantum foam. But data suggests our universe is flat.<br />
:Megan: String theory says it's because spacetime has unleavened dimensions.<br />
:White Hat: ''... I hate you.''<br />
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[[Category: Comics featuring White Hat]]</div>162.158.63.244https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2220:_Imagine_Going_Back_in_Time&diff=1817572220: Imagine Going Back in Time2019-10-25T22:34:46Z<p>162.158.63.244: /* Explanation */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2220<br />
| date = October 25, 2019<br />
| title = Imagine Going Back in Time<br />
| image = imagine_going_back_in_time.png<br />
| titletext = I wonder what the trendy adults in 2019 who are too cool for Pokemon will be into. Probably Digimon!<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Very rough first draft. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
This comic starts with Cueball stating a complaint related to the game Pokemon Go ("a frog Pokemon in the gym next to mine") and U.S. President Donald Trump ("a player named 'Reelect Trump 2020"). Megan wonders how one would have reacted to such a statement 20 years ago. Cueball then tests the scenario in practice by using a time machine to talk to himself from 20 years ago. His 1999 personality reacts by asking questions about the popularity of Pokemon and the demographics of its players.<br />
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Pokemon is a media franchise that debuted in 1996 in Japan, as both a video game and a trading card game. It was originally designed for and marketed to younger children (the tie-in cartoon series constantly emphasizes its main characters are ten years old), with a design, aesthetic and gameplay that were optimized for a younger audience. As the franchise continued to thrive and evolve, it's gone through multiple generations, including ''Pokemon Go'', an augmented reality game for smartphones. These latest versions, in particular, have become popular with adults, some of whom grew up playing the earlier generations. <br />
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In 1999 in North America, only the first generation of Pokemon video games had been released, consisting of Pokemon Blue and Pokemon Red for the Nintendo Gameboy. The second generation of Pokemon video games, would not even be announced in Japan until {{w|Pokémon Gold and Silver#Release|November 1999}}, and advertising for the North American release would begin in December of 1999 with only the launch of the {{w|List of Pokémon: Adventures on the Orange Islands episodes|second season of the tie-in cartoon series}}; however, whether there would be a sequel game to tie in with this new season was only a matter of fan speculation in North America at that time. Since then, and up to 2019, there have been a total of eight generations of video games on consoles. A person living in 1999, who has only seen the first generation, with no official confirmation that a second generation was even being considered, and unable to predict the nostalgia market that would appear later, would quite plausibly wonder about its popularity 20 years later.<br />
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Donald J. Trump is the current president of the United States. He was elected in 2016, in a stunning upset. Even during his campaign, the idea of his election was considered absurd in many circles, as he had never held any kind of public office, and had no background that would lend itself to expertise in government or public policy. Prior to his election, he was primarily known as a New York real estate mogul and host of the 2003 reality television show ''The Apprentice''. While he'd been teasing the idea of a presidential run since the 1980s, and indeed {{w|Donald Trump 2000 presidential campaign|was currently seeking the Reform Party candidacy in 1999}}, most people saw the idea as unserious, and the concept of him actually being President of the United States would have been hugely unexpected to most Americans in an earlier era.<br />
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[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pepe-the-frog Pepe the Frog] is an internet meme that has become associated with Donald Trump after his use of it during his presidential campaign. The use of a frog pokémon, therefore, is a callback to this internet phenomenon.<br />
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This comic's joke is similar to one used in the 1985 science-fiction film ''{{w|Back to the Future}}'', in which Doc Brown (of 1955) is shocked to learn that {{w|Ronald Reagan}} would be the President of the United States in thirty years' time, when in 1955 Reagan was a TV actor.<br />
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Presumably, Megan thought that the concept of Donald Trump being President was the most shocking part of Cueball's sentence, but younger Cueball seems much more focused on the idea that a) ''Pokemon'' still exists as a media franchise and b) his adult self is still playing it 20 years in the future. Cueball defensively insists that he's focusing on the wrong thing.<br />
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Digimon, as mentioned in the title text, is another media franchise which is similar to Pokemon in some ways, though it is often perceived as more "cool" and "adult" oriented. Its popularity in North America rose around 1999 with the airing of its anime series, but never became as popular as Pokemon [https://www.geekinsider.com/digimon-vs-pokemon-retrospective-monster-marketing/].<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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[Megan and Cueball standing, facing each other.]<br />
:Cueball: Ugh. A player named "Reelect Trump 2020" put a frog Pokemon in the gym next to mine.<br />
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[Megan puts her hand to her face. Cueball is holding a handheld device with an antenna.]<br />
:Megan: Imagine going back in time and saying that to yourself 20 years ago.<br />
:Cueball: Oh, I have a time machine! I'll try that.<br />
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[sound effect between panels]<br />
:BZZZZT<br />
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[panel caption: 1999]<br />
[Two Cueballs standing, facing each other. The one on the right, from 2019, is holding the handheld device.]<br />
:Cueball from 2019: ... next to mine.<br />
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[Cueball from 1999 is shown, with Cueball from 2019 speaking off panel.]<br />
:Cueball from 1999: I see. Pokemon is still popular in 2019?<br />
:Cueball from 2019: Yeah.<br />
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[Both Cueballs again, with Cueball from 2019 holding his arm in a threatening gesture toward Cueball from 1999.]<br />
:Cueball from 1999: And it's cool for people your age to play it?<br />
:Cueball from 2019: OK, I did not come here to be mocked.<br />
:Cueball from 1999: This is a sobering cautionary tale.<br />
:Cueball from 2019: '''Listen, self...'''<br />
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{{comic discussion}}</div>162.158.63.244https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2131:_Emojidome&diff=1720042131: Emojidome2019-04-02T09:13:59Z<p>162.158.63.244: </p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2131<br />
| date = April 1, 2019<br />
| title = Emojidome<br />
| image = emojidome.png<br />
| titletext = 🤼🤼🤼🤼🤼🤼🤼🤼<br />
}}<br />
*To experience the interactivity, visit the {{xkcd|2131|original comic}}.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by 😇. Needs more elaboration on font influencing emoji..}}<br />
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This is the ninth [[:Category:April fools' comics|April fools' comic]] released by [[Randall]]. The previous fools comic was [[1975: Right Click]] from Sunday April 1, 2018. <br />
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The title is a reference to the movie ''{{w|Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome}},'' which had the tagline: "Two men enter. One man leaves." The "Thunderdome" in the film is a gladiatorial arena where conflicts are resolved by a duel to the death.<br />
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In the interactive comic, which began at noon ET (16:00 UTC) on April 1, 2019, users are shown two emoji, and vote for their favorite. In the first round, the voting period for each bout lasted 37.5 seconds. The voting period for each bout doubled for the second, third, and fourth rounds. The voting period for each bout for the fifth round through the end was 26 minutes. The entire bracket is expected to take 24 hours 6 minutes.<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Round !! Start (ET) !! Start (UTC) !! Bouts !! Bout length !! Round length<br />
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| 1 || 12:00 || 16:00 || 256 || 37.5 s || 2 h 40 m<br />
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| 2 || 14:40 || 18:40 || 128 || 1 m 15 s || 2 h 40 m<br />
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| 3 || 17:20 || 21:20 || 64 || 2 m 30 s || 2 h 40 m<br />
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| 4 || 20:00 || 0:00 || 32 || 5 m || 2 h 40 m<br />
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| 5 || 22:40 || 2:40 || 16 || 26 m || 6 h 56 m<br />
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| 6* || 5:36 || 9:36 || 8 || 26 m || 3 h 28 m<br />
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| 7* || 9:04 || 13:04 || 4 || 26 m || 1 h 44 m<br />
|-<br />
| 8* || 10:48 || 14:48 || 2 || 26 m || 52 m<br />
|-<br />
| 9* || 11:40 || 15:40 || 1 || 26 m || 26 m<br />
|}<br />
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<nowiki>*</nowiki> projected<br />
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The competing candidates are periodically overlaid with heart emojis that float up from the vote button oscillating in a triangle wave pattern before disappearing above the candidate, and may represent real-time votes for each emoji. Below, the results of past bouts are shown with the "loser" displayed in greyscale. Supposedly, the emoji will be eliminated one-by-one until there are a final two emoji facing off, with the one most voted-for being crowned the best emoji. This is likely a parody of March Madness.<br />
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Opening developer tools on this page will reveal that no network traffic is taking place after the initial page load, and an asynchronous data load. It would appear that the floating hearts are not presenting information in real-time, about when other users are voting. Also, it would appear that clicking 'vote' does not present any data from your local client to a remote server. We can infer from this that the competition itself is an April Fools joke, and that it may not, in fact, be happening as presented.<br />
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This would mean that the commentary and the winners could have been scripted before the competition began.<br />
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The commentary appears to suggest that there's some real-time feedback from the results of the competition, for instance "It seems like our friends over Australia is joining the fun" appeared in the commentary. So does "We are getting a lot of questions on this today. This is live commentary, folks." https://i.imgur.com/8kPwjou.png, directly declaring that the commentary is live. <br />
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Note that the schedule might show different emoji pictures than the main voting screen, presumably because of fonts. The image is pre-rendered.<br />
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The competing candidates are chosen in order of unicode value at first, resulting in similar emojis being compared. Examples include:<br />
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😜 squaring off against 😛 - two emoji playfully sticking their tongues out<br />
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🤩 squaring off against 😍 - two smiling emojis with symbols for eyes<br />
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😂 squaring off with 🤣 - two emojis that are crying in laughter/joy.<br />
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The title text consists of the wrestlers emoji (🤼) eight times over. If it appears to be nonsense, then your browser may not be parsing the title text correctly.<br />
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It appears the eggplant emoji (🍆) and the peach emoji (🍑) have been left out of the bracket.<br />
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A robot face announcer-emoji (🤖) and a link to the full bracket was added at 38 minutes in. <br />
https://www.xkcd.com/2131/emojidome_bracket.png shows 512 emojis in a single-elimination tournament.<br />
https://www.xkcd.com/2131/emojidome_bracket_256.png was added later and shows the 256 emojis that competed on the second round.<br />
https://www.xkcd.com/2131/emojidome_bracket_round_3.png was added for the third round. https://www.xkcd.com/2131/emojidome_bracket_round_4.png was added for the fourth round.<br />
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It is not clear how the winner is decided when both emoji tie for first. This has happened once in 🧁 vs. 🎂 with 3658 points each, where 🎂 was declared winner.<br />
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Real live data with results (clicks) can be seen as JSON-websocket at https://emojidome.xkcd.com/2131/socket<br />
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A live (user-created) vote tally can be found at https://emojidome.playcode.io/ . Thanks Andy! (live updates)<br />
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http://srv-01.valo.media/ has a tally with slightly more details. (live updates)<br />
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https://phiresky.github.io/emojidome/ (reddit-user-created) live bracket display (live updates)<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript|This transcript is for the image that embeds and automated programs usually see. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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:[A tournament bracket tree is shown with eight participants each on the left and right side, for a total of sixteen, all of which are the 😰 emoji (a face with eyebrows, one teardrop and a blue forehead). From both sides towards the middle the brackets reduce to eight, then four, two, and one line where the latter join to a rectangle in the middle.]<br />
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:Visit xkcd.com to participate<br />
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:<small>If you ''are'' on xkcd.com, then you're seeing this</small><br />
:<small>because of something something JavaScript.</small><br />
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:<small>Listen, websites are hard 😰</small><br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Competitors and score !! Commentary<br />
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| 😀 (0) vs 😁 (0) || You do not want to miss the fan favorite 😀. Coming up next!<br />
|-<br />
| 😆 (207) vs 😅 (251) || Next up, 😅 and 😆.<br/>I'm really looking forward to everything we're going to see today.<br />
|-<br />
| 😂 (772) vs 🤣 (824) || Oh, this one should be good.<br />
|-<br />
| 🙂 (939) vs 🙃 (1494) || You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🙂. Coming up next!<br/>You think this is something, folks, well... we're just getting started.<br />
|-<br />
| 😊 (857) vs 😉 (1774) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 😉 vs. 😊.<br />
|-<br />
| 🥰 (1392) vs 😇 (1417) || Welcome back, it's time for 😇 and 🥰 to go head to head.<br />
|-<br />
| 🤩 (1447) vs 😍 (2159) || We will be right back with 😍 vs. 🤩!<br />
|-<br />
| 😗 (1045) vs 😘 (2595) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 😗 vs. 😘.<br/>This is a day that 😗 has been anticipating for a long time.<br />
|-<br />
| 😚 (1619) vs 😙 (1770) || Have at it, 😙 and 😚!<br/>If you are just joining us, fear not! You haven't missed much.<br />
|-<br />
| 😋 (1549) vs 😛 (2644) || It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 😋 or 😛?<br/>😋 stole that win.<br />
|-<br />
| 🤪 (2085) vs 😜 (2302) || Next up, 😜 and 🤪.<br/>😜 didn't do their homework.<br />
|-<br />
| 🤑 (1372) vs 😝 (2568) || Don't change that channel, folks. We have 😝 and 🤑 warming up.<br />
|-<br />
| 🤗 (1598) vs 🤭 (2316) || Next up, 🤗 and 🤭.<br/>Sometimes miracles happen.<br />
|-<br />
| 🤫 (734) vs 🤔 (4374) || Oh, this one should be good.<br />
|-<br />
| 🤐 (1119) vs 🤨 (2928) || We will be right back with 🤐 vs. 🤨!<br/>Not sure which way this one goes.<br />
|-<br />
| 😐 (1506) vs 😑 (1665) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 😐 vs. 😑.<br/>One for the history books.<br />
|-<br />
| 😶 (2437) vs 😏 (2659) || It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 😏 or 😶?<br/>This one was over before it started.<br />
|-<br />
| 😒 (1562) vs 🙄 (2692) || If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, 😒 or 🙄.<br />
|-<br />
| 🤥 (1137) vs 😬 (3345) || Oh this one should be good.<br/>No surprises here. 🤥 skates to an easy win.<br/>I hope everyone has printed their brackets and are ready, because time waits for very few people!<br/>No surprises here. 😬 skates to an easy win.<br />
|-<br />
| 😌 (1980) vs 😔 (2238) || Next! Who would win in a match between 😌 and 😔? We are about to find out.<br/>😔 comes out on top.<br />
|-<br />
| 🤤 (1957) vs 😴 (2770) || Oh, this one should be good.<br/>A dominant performance by 😴.<br />
|-<br />
| 😷 (1760) vs 🤒 (2629) || Welcome back, it's time for 😷 and 🤒 to go head to head.<br/>In the end, there was nothing 😷 could do to stop the power of 🤒.<br />
|-<br />
| 🤢 (2270) vs 🤕 (2648) || Next up, 🤕 and 🤢.<br/>🤕 stole that win.<br />
|-<br />
| 🤧 (2325) vs 🤮 (3260) || Will it be 🤧 or 🤮? Find out next after this message from our sponsors.<br/>🤮 opened strong and 🤧 never caught up.<br />
|-<br />
| 🥵 (1884) vs 🥶 (3983) || You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🥵. Coming up next!<br/>I have never seen 🥶 crush an opponent that mercilessly before.<br />
|-<br />
| 😵 (2920) vs 🥴 (3762) || Oh this one should be good.<br/>That was 😵's to give away and they did.<br />
|-<br />
| 🤯 (3055) vs 🤠 (3110) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🤠 vs. 🤯.<br/>However this ends up, someone got blown away.<br />
|-<br />
| 🥳 (2201) vs 😎 (4316) || On deck, we have 😎 and 🥳.<br/>I guess it was that kind of a party.<br />
|-<br />
| 😟 (2184) vs 😕 (3663) || Uh oh. 😟 has had words with 😕 before. The next match will be good.<br/>😕 one, 😟 zero.<br />
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| ☹ (1638) vs 😮 (5498) || Next up, ☹ and 😮.<br/>I hope everyone has printed their brackets and are ready, because time waits for very few people!<br />
|-<br />
| 😲 (2383) vs 😯 (3904) || Don't change that channel, folks. We have 😯 and 😲 warming up.<br/>And 😲 falls to 😯. A suprising turn of events.<br />
|-<br />
| 😧 (3063) vs 😳 (3754) || We will be right back with 😧 vs. 😳!<br/>This one was over before it started.<br />
|-<br />
| 😨 (2082) vs 😰 (4050) || Oh, this one should be good.<br/>Well, this doesn't look good.<br />
|-<br />
| 😢 (2095) vs 😭 (5108) || Have at it, 😢 and 😭!<br/>This one's a real tear-jerker.<br />
|-<br />
| 😖 (2039) vs 😱 (4758) || If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, 😖 or 😱.<br/>😱 stole that win.<br />
|-<br />
| 😞 (2879) vs 😣 (3528) || Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 😞 vs. 😣!<br/>This one's painful.<br />
|-<br />
| 😩 (2785) vs 😓 (3231) || On deck, we have 😓 and 😩.<br/>It's early yet, folks. The coffee hasn't kicked in.<br />
|-<br />
| 😫 (1827) vs 😤 (4871) || Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 😤 vs. 😫!<br/>I didn't remember 😫 qualifying. I think they snuck in.<br />
|-<br />
| 😠 (1866) vs 😡 (5192) || Will it be 😠 or 😡? Find out next after this message from our sponsors.<br/>It is astounding how much competition we have in store for today.<br />
|-<br />
| 🤬 (3072) vs 😈 (4225) || Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 😈 vs. 🤬!<br/>Speak of the devil...<br />
|-<br />
| 👿 (2341) vs 💀 (4739) || We will be right back with 👿 vs. 💀!<br/>It has been a long road for 💀 to get to competing on the world stage.<br />
|-<br />
| 🤡 (2514) vs 💩 (4829) || Have at it, 💩 and 🤡!<br/>I think we all know how this is going to go.<br />
|-<br />
| 👻 (3680) vs 👽 (3983) || Have at it, 👻 and 👽!<br />
|-<br />
| 🏰 (2715) vs 👾 (4412) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🏰 vs. 👾.<br/>👾 opened strong and 🏰 never caught up.<br />
|-<br />
| 😸 (3334) vs 😺 (3542) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 😸 vs. 😺.<br/>This one is serious, folks.<br />
|-<br />
| 😹 (2778) vs 😻 (3702) || Welcome back, it's time for 😹 and 😻 to go head to head.<br/>The hearts are my favorite part. It all comes down to love. And that really says something.<br />
|-<br />
| 😽 (1815) vs 😼 (3991) || I'm looking forward to this.<br/>Sometimes miracles happen.<br />
|-<br />
| 😿 (1189) vs 🙀 (4682) || On deck, we have 😿 and 🙀.<br />
|-<br />
| 💋 (2122) vs 😾 (3837) || Oh, this one should be good.<br />
|-<br />
| 💌 (1659) vs 💖 (3386) || Next! Who would win in a match between 💌 and 💖? We are about to find out.<br/>💌 is an fan favorite to go far today.<br />
|-<br />
| 💔 (1920) vs ❤ (3904) || Uh oh. 💔 has had words with ❤ before. The next match will be good.<br />
|-<br />
| 🖤 (2940) vs 💯 (3866) || It is a battle as old as time itself. 💯 and 🖤! Facing off against each other again!<br/>A dominant performance by 💯.<br />
|-<br />
| 💥 (3055) vs 💦 (3843) || Welcome back, it's time for 💥 and 💦 to go head to head.<br/>Like fire and water.<br />
|-<br />
| 🕳 (2476) vs 💣 (4063) || Don't change that channel, folks. We have 💣 and 🕳 warming up.<br/>This one was a mess.<br />
|-<br />
| 🤞 (2246) vs 🤘 (4845) || You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🤘. Coming up next!<br/>It feels like these early matches are over almost before they begin.<br />
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| 👎 (2231) vs 👍 (5077) || Will it be 👍 or 👎? Find out next after this message from our sponsors.<br/>Nice to see the support for positivity.<br />
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| 🙏 (3114) vs 👊 (4861) || Have at it, 👊 and 🙏!<br/>I don't think 🙏 expected to see 👊 opposite them today.<br />
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| 💅 (2366) vs 🦵 (4060) || It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 💅 or 🦵?<br/>If 🦵 wins this match, it will be interesting to see how far they can go.<br />
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| 🦷 (1409) vs 🧠 (5821) || Oh this one should be good.<br />
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| 🦴 (2198) vs 👀 (4052) || Uh oh. 🦴 has had words with 👀 before. The next match will be good.<br />
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| 👄 (1712) vs 👅 (4648) || Don't change that channel, folks. We have 👄 and 👅 warming up.<br />
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| 👶 (1414) vs 🤦 (5666) || Uh oh. 🤦 has had words with 👶 before. The next match will be good.<br />
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| 🤷 (2385) vs 👩🔬 (6374) || Have at it, 👩🔬 and 🤷!<br />
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| 🦸 (2302) vs 👩🚀 (5502) || It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 👩🚀 or 🦸?<br />
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| 🧚 (1909) vs 🧙 (6294) || Uh oh. 🧚 has had words with 🧙 before. The next match will be good.<br/>There are some titanic match-ups that could happen today.<br/>Yes, this is live commentary.<br/>We have only just started, folks. Stay tuned for more amazing contests!<br />
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| 🧜 (3835) vs 🧛 (3840) || You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🧛. Coming up next!<br/>Not sure which way this one goes.<br />
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| 💆 (2815) vs 🧟 (3747) || Next up, 💆 and 🧟.<br/>That's just a typical Monday for you.<br />
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| 💇 (3029) vs 🚶 (3055) || We will be right back with 💇 vs. 🚶!<br/>It's going to be a busy day, folks. Remember to pace yourself.<br />
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| 🏃 (2239) vs 💃 (5833) || On deck, we have 🏃 and 💃.<br/>Make some noise! Show 🏃 and 💃 some love!<br/>That was 🏃's to give away and they did.<br />
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| 🕺 (1990) vs 🕴 (5035) || We will be right back with 🕴 vs. 🕺!<br/>I spoke with 🕴 before we started today. They were hoping to dodge 🕺. Too bad for them.<br />
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| 🏇 (2563) vs 🤺 (5157) || Have at it, 🏇 and 🤺!<br/>Never bring a sword to a horse fight.<br />
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| 🏂 (3762) vs ⛷ (4510) || Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's ⛷ vs. 🏂!<br/>We have a lot of excited fans in the audience.<br />
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| 🏌 (2557) vs 🏄 (6285) || It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🏄 or 🏌?<br/>Ok! Let's see those hearts!<br/>I have never seen 🏄 crush an opponent that mercilessly before.<br />
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| ⛹ (2793) vs 🏊 (5994) || Have at it, ⛹ and 🏊!<br />
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| 🏋 (2300) vs 🚴 (8063) || Will it be 🏋 or 🚴? Find out next after this message from our sponsors.<br/>Right now the crowd is chanting 🏋! 🏋! An early sign of a favorite?<br />
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| 🤾 (4698) vs 🚵 (5650) || We will be right back with 🚵 vs. 🤾!<br/>It's neck and neck!<br />
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| 👤 (2195) vs 🛀 (5529) || Don't change that channel, folks. We have 👤 and 🛀 warming up.<br />
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| 🦍 (3336) vs 🐒 (4644) || Oh, this one should be good.<br />
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| 🐕 (3458) vs 🐶 (4004) || You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🐕. Coming up next!<br/>Mostly a matter of perspective.<br />
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| 🐺 (2774) vs 🦊 (6024) || Oh, this one should be good.<br/>Again, small variations make all the difference.<br />
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| 🦝 (4017) vs 🐱 (4931) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🐱 vs. 🦝.<br/>🦝 is an fan favorite to go far today.<br/>🐱 stole that win.<br />
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| 🦁 (3957) vs 🐈 (5046) || Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🐈 and 🦁 warming up.<br/>Again, we are getting a lot of questions on this today. This is live commentary, folks.<br/>We have a lot of excited fans in the audience.<br />
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| 🐆 (2186) vs 🐅 (6280) || It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🐅 or 🐆?<br/>Stripes or Spots, Stripes or Spots<br />
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| 🐴 (3722) vs 🐎 (4120) || Next! Who would win in a match between 🐎 and 🐴? We are about to find out.<br/>I've got your horse right here.<br />
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| 🦓 (3486) vs 🦄 (6830) || Next! Who would win in a match between 🦄 and 🦓? We are about to find out.<br/>I think we all know how this is going to go.<br/>It was neck and neck until the very end, but some necks are longer than others.<br />
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| 🐮 (3658) vs 🦌 (5111) || Uh oh. 🦌 has had words with 🐮 before. The next match will be good.<br/>This is a close one!<br />
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| 🐖 (3568) vs 🐷 (5175) || You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🐖. Coming up next!<br/>Who will bring home the bacon?<br />
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| 🐗 (2576) vs 🐏 (6073) || It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🐏 or 🐗?<br />
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| 🐪 (3329) vs 🐐 (5304) || It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🐐 or 🐪?<br />
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| 🦙 (4397) vs 🦒 (5164) || Uh oh. 🦙 has had words with 🦒 before. The next match will be good.<br/>It's neck and neck!<br/>I hope 🦙 comes back next year. It would be a sham to see it all end like this.<br />
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| 🦏 (3804) vs 🐘 (4809) || It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🐘 or 🦏?<br/>We'll never forget this.<br />
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| 🐁 (4039) vs 🦛 (4085) || It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🐁 or 🦛?<br />
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| 🐀 (2994) vs 🐹 (4580) || Will it be 🐀 or 🐹? Find out next after this message from our sponsors.<br/>Today is also about settling scores, there is no doubt about that for some of our contestants.<br />
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| 🐰 (1865) vs 🐿 (5175) || If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, 🐰 or 🐿.<br/>Its about reflexes.<br />
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| 🦇 (3648) vs 🦔 (4507) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🦇 vs. 🦔.<br/>This one is a toss-up in my book, folks.<br />
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| 🐻 (2686) vs 🐨 (5059) || Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 🐨 vs. 🐻!<br/>Ok! You know what to do! Let's see those hearts!<br />
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| 🐼 (2896) vs 🦘 (5185) || Next! Who would win in a match between 🐼 and 🦘? We are about to find out.<br/>It's exciting to look around and see so many joining us from all over the world.<br/>One for the history books.<br />
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| 🦃 (2553) vs 🦡 (5483) || It is a battle as old as time itself. 🦃 and 🦡! Facing off against each other again!<br/>That was a stinker of a battle, if you ask me.<br />
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| 🐓 (2883) vs 🐣 (5153) || Welcome back, it's time for 🐓 and 🐣 to go head to head.<br />
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| 🕊 (2432) vs 🐧 (5951) || We will be right back with 🐧 vs. 🕊!<br />
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| 🦅 (3871) vs 🦆 (4800) || Uh oh. 🦆 has had words with 🦅 before. The next match will be good.<br />
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| 🦢 (1613) vs 🦉 (7025) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🦉 vs. 🦢.<br/>🦉 didn't do their homework.<br/>I hope everyone has printed their brackets and are ready, because time waits for very few people!<br/>Yes, this is live commentary.<br/>🦉 one, 🦢 zero.<br />
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| 🦚 (4333) vs 🦜 (4803) || Oh, this one should be good.<br/>I know some very invested audience members for this one.<br />
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| 🐊 (3986) vs 🐢 (6403) || I'm looking forward to this.<br />
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| 🦎 (4415) vs 🐍 (5378) || Have at it, 🐍 and 🦎!<br/>In the end, there was nothing 🐍 could do to stop the power of 🦎.<br/>Did you just see that!?<br/>Plenty of matches left to see. Don't go anywhere.<br />
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| 🦕 (4855) vs 🐉 (5359) || Have at it, 🐉 and 🦕!<br/>One for the history books.<br />
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| 🦖 (5411) vs 🐳 (5445) || I'm looking forward to this.<br/>Again, another difficult match-up for our audience.<br />
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| 🐟 (1639) vs 🐬 (8071) || Will it be 🐟 or 🐬? Find out next after this message from our sponsors.<br/>I know which one I would choose, but I don't have time to vote!<br />
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| 🐡 (2307) vs 🦈 (6544) || Have at it, 🐡 and 🦈!<br/>🦈 opened strong and 🐡 never caught up.<br />
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| 🐚 (1590) vs 🐙 (8224) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🐙 vs. 🐚.<br/>This one was over before it started.<br />
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| 🐌 (4816) vs 🦋 (4835) || We will be right back with 🐌 vs. 🦋!<br/>The hearts are flying on this one!<br />
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| 🐜 (3194) vs 🐛 (5132) || I'm looking forward to this.<br/>🐜 didn't do their homework.<br />
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| 🐞 (3561) vs 🐝 (5804) || On deck, we have 🐝 and 🐞.<br/>This one is a true test of the audience today.<br/>Will luck be a ladybug tonight?<br/>Amazing!<br />
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| 🦗 (4195) vs 🕷 (4806) || Uh oh. 🦗 has had words with 🕷 before. The next match will be good.<br/>And 🦗 falls to 🕷. A suprising turn of events.<br />
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| 🦂 (3853) vs 🦠 (4971) || Next! Who would win in a match between 🦂 and 🦠? We are about to find out.<br/>Nope. Nope nope nope nope.<br />
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| 🌷 (3767) vs 🌻 (4374) || We will be right back with 🌷 vs. 🌻!<br/>Now that's more like it.<br />
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| 🌳 (1973) vs 🌲 (6563) || If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, 🌲 or 🌳.<br/>Who would have thought, eh?<br />
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| 🌴 (3876) vs 🌵 (5468) || Oh, this one should be good.<br/>In the end, there was nothing 🌴 could do to stop the power of 🌵.<br />
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| 🍈 (2617) vs 🍇 (5319) || It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🍇 or 🍈?<br/>Folks, I am just as stunned at the outcome as you.<br />
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| 🍋 (4186) vs 🍉 (4720) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🍉 vs. 🍋.<br/>I just don't know why they can't find common ground.<br/>🍉 one, 🍋 zero.<br />
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| 🍌 (4704) vs 🍍 (5525) || Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🍌 and 🍍 warming up.<br/>Ok! Let's see those hearts!<br/>I guess it was that kind of a party.<br />
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| 🥭 (3830) vs 🍎 (5111) || I'm looking forward to this.<br />
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| 🍏 (2703) vs 🍓 (6403) || It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🍏 or 🍓?<br/>We might be close to some matches the audience is expecting or hoping to see today.<br/>Berry nice!<br />
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| 🍅 (3002) vs 🥝 (5348) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🍅 vs. 🥝.<br />
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| 🥥 (3840) vs 🥑 (5759) || On deck, we have 🥑 and 🥥.<br/>Somehow, someone will blame millenials for this.<br />
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| 🥕 (4577) vs 🥔 (4620) || Next! Who would win in a match between 🥔 and 🥕? We are about to find out.<br/>Ahhh the age old question, 🥕 or 🥔.<br />
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| 🌽 (4074) vs 🌶 (5087) || Have at it, 🌶 and 🌽!<br />
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| 🥬 (2694) vs 🥒 (5472) || You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🥒. Coming up next!<br/>Not sure which way this one goes.<br />
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| 🥦 (2707) vs 🍄 (5850) || Will it be 🍄 or 🥦? Find out next after this message from our sponsors.<br/>Folks, we are nearly halfway through the first bracket!<br/>Again, we are getting a lot of questions on this today. This is live commentary, folks.<br/>Into the second half of the first round.<br/>That was 🥦's to give away and they did.<br />
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| 🌰 (2698) vs 🥜 (6225) || It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🌰 or 🥜?<br/>I am not even sure what I am looking at here.<br />
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| 🍞 (2934) vs 🥐 (6465) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🍞 vs. 🥐.<br/>Well, I know who I would vote for.<br />
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| 🥖 (4800) vs 🥨 (5136) || We will be right back with 🥖 vs. 🥨!<br />
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| 🥯 (2470) vs 🥞 (5926) || Uh oh. 🥯 has had words with 🥞 before. The next match will be good.<br/>Now I am just hungry.<br />
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| 🥩 (3959) vs 🧀 (6225) || Oh this one should be good.<br/>Truly a battle for the ages.<br />
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| 🍟 (3719) vs 🍔 (5352) || Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🍔 and 🍟 warming up.<br />
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| 🌭 (1340) vs 🍕 (7881) || If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, 🌭 or 🍕.<br />
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| 🥪 (2869) vs 🌮 (6417) || It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🌮 or 🥪?<br/>I'll be honest, even I voted in that last one.<br/>There are some titanic match-ups that could happen today.<br/>One for the history books.<br />
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| 🥚 (3868) vs 🌯 (5359) || It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🌯 or 🥚?<br/>🥚 is an fan favorite to go far today.<br/>One for the history books.<br />
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| 🥗 (3101) vs 🍳 (5293) || Have at it, 🍳 and 🥗!<br/>There can be very food-centric history books.<br/>If 🍳 wins this match, it will be interesting to see how far they can go.<br />
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| 🧂 (2067) vs 🍿 (2640) || Oh, this one should be good.<br/>This one was over before it started.<br />
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| 🥫 (1948) vs 🍱 (4931) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🍱 vs. 🥫.<br/>It is early still. Possibly too early to predict an over-all winner. But I am hearing 🏇 mentioned a fair bit.<br/>And 🥫 falls to 🍱. A suprising turn of events.<br />
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| 🍤 (2334) vs 🍣 (5552) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🍣 vs. 🍤.<br/>Plenty of matches left to see. Don't go anywhere.<br />
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| 🥡 (3101) vs 🥟 (4128) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🥟 vs. 🥡.<br/>🥟 one, 🥡 zero.<br />
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| 🦀 (3762) vs 🦞 (4739) || Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 🦀 vs. 🦞!<br />
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| 🦐 (2421) vs 🦑 (6162) || Will it be 🦐 or 🦑? Find out next after this message from our sponsors.<br />
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| 🍦 (3804) vs 🍨 (4698) || If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, 🍦 or 🍨.<br />
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| 🍪 (3722) vs 🍩 (5167) || We will be right back with 🍩 vs. 🍪!<br />
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| 🎂 (3658) vs 🧁 (3658) || Next up, 🎂 and 🧁.<br />
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| 🍬 (1244) vs 🍫 (6674) || We will be right back with 🍫 vs. 🍬!<br />
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| 🍭 (2568) vs 🍯 (5445) || It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🍭 or 🍯?<br/>Thank you for tuning in. I promise you are in for a treat today.<br />
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| 🍼 (1824) vs 🥛 (5239) || Will it be 🍼 or 🥛? Find out next after this message from our sponsors.<br />
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| 🍾 (3227) vs ☕ (4813) || If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, ☕ or 🍾.<br/>Time to get another feel for our audience today.<br />
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| 🍷 (3021) vs 🍹 (3561) || It is a battle as old as time itself. 🍷 and 🍹! Facing off against each other again!<br/>Well now I am just getting thirsty.<br />
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| 🥤 (3897) vs 🍺 (5763) || Will it be 🍺 or 🥤? Find out next after this message from our sponsors.<br/>Still thirsty!<br />
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| 🍴 (3917) vs 🥢 (4348) || We will be right back with 🍴 vs. 🥢!<br/>I know which one I would choose, but I don't have time to vote!<br />
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| 🥄 (1742) vs 🔪 (5627) || Have at it, 🔪 and 🥄!<br />
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| 🏺 (2604) vs 🧭 (4784) || Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🏺 and 🧭 warming up.<br/>You just know that 🏺 is thinking about 🏎 right now.<br />
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| ⛰ (1843) vs 🌋 (6793) || You do not want to miss the fan favorite ⛰. Coming up next!<br/>This one was over before it started.<br />
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| 🏖 (3159) vs 🏕 (5611) || Welcome back, it's time for 🏕 and 🏖 to go head to head.<br/>Time to pick your poison!<br />
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| 🏟 (2537) vs 🏝 (6180) || I'm looking forward to this.<br />
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| 🧱 (3680) vs 🏗 (4093) || Oh this one should be good.<br/>What an amazing display of prowess from 🏗.<br />
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| 🏢 (2178) vs 🏠 (5829) || Oh, this one should be good.<br/>🏠 has every reason to be concerned about this match-up.<br />
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| 🏨 (1367) vs 🏥 (5326) || Next! Who would win in a match between 🏥 and 🏨? We are about to find out.<br/>is $6,000,000 of one and Six million of the other, am I right?<br />
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| 🏪 (3114) vs 🗽 (4875) || It is a battle as old as time itself. 🏪 and 🗽! Facing off against each other again!<br />
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| ⛺ (3483) vs ⛲ (4296) || Don't change that channel, folks. We have ⛲ and ⛺ warming up.<br/>If you look away for a moment, you may miss your chance to send ⛺ into the later rounds.<br />
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| 🌁 (3488) vs 🌃 (4354) || I'm looking forward to this.<br />
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| 🏙 (2396) vs 🌅 (6055) || Next up, 🌅 and 🏙.<br/>🏙 is fully committed to this match.<br />
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| 🎠 (3307) vs 🎡 (4648) || It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🎠 or 🎡?<br/>Oh no. 🎠 fans are not going to like this match-up.<br />
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| 💈 (2137) vs 🎢 (5854) || Next up, 🎢 and 💈.<br/>This one will be filled with twists and turns!<br />
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| 🚂 (3915) vs 🚄 (4826) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🚂 vs. 🚄.<br/>The future waits on no one. Let's see those hearts!<br />
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| 🚇 (3395) vs 🚝 (4881) || Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 🚇 vs. 🚝!<br/>On the other hand, time and space are a matter of perspective, right?<br/>I guess it was that kind of a party.<br />
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| 🚌 (2412) vs 🚑 (5363) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🚌 vs. 🚑.<br/>Uh oh, that can't be good for 🚌.<br />
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| 🚓 (2703) vs 🚒 (6746) || Oh, this one should be good.<br/>Uh oh, that can't be good for 🚓.<br/>This is a classic struggle.<br />
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| 🚕 (3400) vs 🚗 (3794) || Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🚕 and 🚗 warming up.<br/>Well that's certainly something.<br />
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| 🚘 (2922) vs 🚜 (5363) || Next up, 🚘 and 🚜.<br/>This one is a real nail biter!<br/>If 🚘 falls today, we might start hearing serious conversations about retirement.<br />
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| 🏎 (3103) vs 🛵 (4839) || Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🏎 and 🛵 warming up.<br/>Well this is just fan service. And I am ok with it.<br />
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| 🛴 (2103) vs 🚲 (6970) || Next! Who would win in a match between 🚲 and 🛴? We are about to find out.<br/>Frankly, I don't think anyone saw this coming.<br />
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| 🛢 (3474) vs 🛹 (4780) || Next! Who would win in a match between 🛢 and 🛹? We are about to find out.<br/>And 🛢 falls to 🛹. A suprising turn of events.<br />
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| 🚨 (2389) vs ⚓ (4816) || Welcome back, it's time for ⚓ and 🚨 to go head to head.<br/>Just to stress this again. Live commentary, folks. Completely unscripted and coming in hot.<br/>This one is a true test of the audience today.<br />
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| 🚢 (2877) vs ⛵ (4941) || Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's ⛵ vs. 🚢!<br/>SAIL!<br />
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| 💺 (1776) vs 🛩 (5947) || You do not want to miss the fan favorite 💺. Coming up next!<br />
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| 🚡 (3729) vs 🚁 (4148) || If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, 🚁 or 🚡.<br/>Sometimes miracles happen.<br/>Plenty of matches left to see. Don't go anywhere.<br />
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| 🛰 (3655) vs 🚀 (4861) || Welcome back, it's time for 🚀 and 🛰 to go head to head.<br/>🛰 and 🚀 have been friends for a long time. I am not sure where that relationship is going to be after today.<br />
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| ⏳ (3021) vs 🛸 (5203) || It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, ⏳ or 🛸?<br/>This one is serious, folks.<br />
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| ⏰ (3619) vs ⌚ (4462) || You do not want to miss the fan favorite ⌚. Coming up next!<br/>If you believe in ⏰, now is the time to clap or whatever, because it is not looking good.<br/>If you believe in ⏰, now is the time to clap or whatever, because it is not looking good.<br />
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| 🌕 (3690) vs 🌒 (4145) || You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🌒. Coming up next!<br/>What a shocking result!<br />
|-<br />
| 🌡 (2829) vs 🌙 (4432) || It is a battle as old as time itself. 🌙 and 🌡! Facing off against each other again!<br />
|-<br />
| 🌝 (3559) vs 🌞 (3871) || You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🌝. Coming up next!<br />
|-<br />
| ⭐ (2063) vs 🌌 (5731) || Uh oh. 🌌 has had words with ⭐ before. The next match will be good.<br />
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| 🌦 (1983) vs ⛈ (5487) || Don't change that channel, folks. We have ⛈ and 🌦 warming up.<br/>And 🌦 falls to ⛈. A suprising turn of events.<br />
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| 🌨 (3646) vs 🌪 (4139) || It is a battle as old as time itself. 🌨 and 🌪! Facing off against each other again!<br/>Folks, I am just as stunned at the outcome as you.<br />
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| 🌀 (3034) vs 🌈 (7070) || Next! Who would win in a match between 🌀 and 🌈? We are about to find out.<br />
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| ☂ (2117) vs ⚡ (5125) || You do not want to miss the fan favorite ☂. Coming up next!<br />
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| ⛄ (2602) vs ☄ (4988) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's ☄ vs. ⛄.<br/>Another curious match-up with significant implications on how the rest of the day will go.<br />
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| 🌊 (3356) vs 🔥 (5286) || Oh, this one should be good.<br/>I am not sure if 🌊 was prepared for today.<br />
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| 🎆 (3284) vs 🎃 (4418) || If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, 🎃 or 🎆.<br/>This is a mystery.<br />
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| 🎇 (2770) vs 🧨 (4066) || Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 🎇 vs. 🧨!<br/>Get ready for an explosive result!<br />
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| 🎈 (2619) vs 🎉 (4673) || I'm looking forward to this.<br/>I guess it was that kind of a party.<br />
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| 🎊 (2250) vs 🎁 (4203) || Welcome back, it's time for 🎁 and 🎊 to go head to head.<br/>This one was a mess.<br />
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| 🎟 (2054) vs 🏆 (4558) || Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🎟 and 🏆 warming up.<br/>Truly a dizzying win.<br />
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| ⚽ (3116) vs 🏅 (4383) || Have at it, ⚽ and 🏅!<br/>A dominant performance by 🏅.<br />
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| 🥎 (2335) vs ⚾ (5479) || Uh oh. 🥎 has had words with ⚾ before. The next match will be good.<br/>Uhhhh. I can't tell the difference here, can you?<br />
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| 🏐 (3742) vs 🏀 (4148) || Oh this one should be good.<br/>The ball is round, everything else is negotiable.<br />
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| 🏈 (2932) vs 🎾 (6003) || Next up, 🎾 and 🏈.<br/>The ball is round ...er .... well .... uh.<br />
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| 🎳 (4071) vs 🥏 (4561) || We will be right back with 🎳 vs. 🥏!<br/>I had BOWLING BALL in my March Madness bracket. I did not do well.<br/>Ok. Now this is just ridiculous.<br />
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| 🏑 (2742) vs 🏏 (3810) || We will be right back with 🏏 vs. 🏑!<br />
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| 🥍 (2291) vs 🏒 (5926) || Oh this one should be good.<br/>Floor stick vs. sky stick—who will win?<br />
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| 🥊 (2203) vs 🏓 (5858) || Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 🏓 vs. 🥊!<br />
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| ⛸ (2465) vs 🛷 (4552) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's ⛸ vs. 🛷.<br/>Foot sled vs. regular sled!<br />
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| 🎯 (1539) vs 🥌 (1873) || Next! Who would win in a match between 🎯 and 🥌? We are about to find out.<br />
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| 🔮 (2657) vs 🎮 (6798) || Oh, this one should be good.<br />
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| 🎭 (2137) vs 🎲 (4868) || If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, 🎭 or 🎲.<br />
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| 🧶 (2994) vs 🎨 (4172) || Uh oh. 🧶 has had words with 🎨 before. The next match will be good.<br/>A lot of cats clicking on screens right now.<br />
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| 🥽 (3986) vs 👓 (4206) || Have at it, 👓 and 🥽!<br/>Glasses vs. Science Glasses!<br />
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| 👛 (1029) vs 🧦 (5468) || Have at it, 👛 and 🧦!<br />
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| 👟 (2756) vs 🎒 (3516) || Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🎒 and 👟 warming up.<br/>Time for school! Which one will you bring?<br />
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| 👠 (1627) vs 👑 (5203) || Oh this one should be good.<br />
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| 💄 (1719) vs 🎩 (5611) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🎩 vs. 💄.<br/>The fanciest matchup!<br />
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| 💍 (1284) vs 💎 (5973) || Will it be 💍 or 💎? Find out next after this message from our sponsors.<br/>If you like the one on the right, put a ring on it!<br />
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| 🎤 (1728) vs 🎵 (5239) || On deck, we have 🎤 and 🎵.<br/>:notes::notes::notes:<br/>Music!<br />
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| 📻 (2021) vs 🎷 (4934) || Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🎷 and 📻 warming up.<br/>The radio and the saxophone are having a music fight. Who can be louder?<br />
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| 🎺 (3427) vs 🎸 (4388) || Uh oh. 🎺 has had words with 🎸 before. The next match will be good.<br/>Truly, this is a day that will live in the memories of everyone here.<br />
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| 🥁 (2857) vs 🎻 (4450) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🎻 vs. 🥁.<br/>You can hit either one with drumsticks, technically.<br />
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| 📱 (3837) vs 📞 (3980) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 📞 vs. 📱.<br/>📞 is fully committed to this match.<br />
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| 📠 (2877) vs 📟 (3262) || Uh oh. 📠 has had words with 📟 before. The next match will be good.<br/>This one is a toss-up in my book, folks.<br/>Only 15% of the people voting recognize either of these antique devices.<br />
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| 🔋 (2676) vs 💻 (4418) || Oh this one should be good.<br/>I spoke with 💻 before the match today, and they had this to say: 💻.<br/>Sparks fly!<br />
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| 🖨 (1909) vs ⌨ (5293) || Oh, this one should be good.<br/>A keyboard is just a reverse printer.<br />
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| 🖱 (2661) vs 💾 (6308) || I'm looking forward to this.<br/>Yes, this is live commentary.<br/>This one is a mystery to me, folks.<br />
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| 📀 (2585) vs 🧮 (5282) || Will it be 📀 or 🧮? Find out next after this message from our sponsors.<br />
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| 📺 (2752) vs 📷 (4543) || Next up, 📷 and 📺.<br/>📷 certainly has its work cut out for it going up agaist 📺.<br/>The camera comes with a tiny TV on the back, which hardly seems fair.<br />
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| 📼 (3648) vs 🔎 (3663) || It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 📼 or 🔎?<br/>🔎 has every reason to be concerned about this match-up.<br/>These two can combine for a very unsatisfying movie-watching experience.<br />
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| 🕯 (3910) vs 💡 (4178) || Welcome back, it's time for 💡 and 🕯 to go head to head.<br/>I'm so happy to see 💡 here, after 🧠 didn't make it.<br/>Some would argue this one was settled in the 1800s.<br />
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| 🔦 (1663) vs 📚 (5960) || It is a battle as old as time itself. 📚 and 🔦! Facing off against each other again!<br/>The flashlight illuminates the pages, but it only makes the books stronger!<br />
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| 📰 (2524) vs 📜 (5491) || You do not want to miss the fan favorite 📜. Coming up next!<br/>I thought we had seen everything, but look at 📜 go! Amazing!<br/>A faceoff between two types of ancient scrolls.<br />
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| 💳 (2655) vs 💰 (5595) || It is a battle as old as time itself. 💰 and 💳! Facing off against each other again!<br />
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| 📬 (3218) vs 📦 (3350) || Don't change that channel, folks. We have 📦 and 📬 warming up.<br/>Will the package fit in the mailbox? Vote now!<br />
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| 🗳 (2403) vs 🖋 (4691) || Welcome back, it's time for 🖋 and 🗳 to go head to head.<br/>The winner of this bout will go on to face The Sword.<br/>The winner of this bout will go on to face The Sword. Who’s mightier?<br />
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| 🖌 (3530) vs 🖍 (3897) || It is a battle as old as time itself. 🖌 and 🖍! Facing off against each other again!<br/>If 🖍 falls today, we might start hearing serious conversations about retirement.<br/>Paintbrush (hard mode) vs. Paintbrush (easy mode)<br />
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| 💼 (2264) vs 📅 (3884) || Oh, this one should be good.<br/>You have to wonder if 💼 even wanted to be here today.<br />
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| 🗒 (2430) vs 📊 (4726) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 📊 vs. 🗒.<br/>*checks notes* Yikes.<br />
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| 📌 (2799) vs 📎 (4796) || Uh oh. 📎 has had words with 📌 before. The next match will be good.<br/>I am excited about this match. This might be my favorite early match so far.<br />
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| 🗑 (2409) vs ✂ (3762) || We will be right back with ✂ vs. 🗑!<br/>This is a day that ✂ has been anticipating for a long time.<br />
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| 🔒 (2827) vs 🗝 (5214) || Oh this one should be good.<br/>Finally, an answer to the classic question.<br />
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| 🔨 (3350) vs 🗡 (5042) || Oh, this one should be good.<br/>Between the two of these, you can cover almost any home improvement situation.<br />
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| 🔫 (3734) vs ⚔ (5352) || I'm looking forward to this.<br/>Pew pew pew!<br/>[sword noises]<br />
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| 🛡 (2629) vs 🏹 (4931) || Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 🏹 vs. 🛡!<br/>Where is the Master Sword when you need it?<br/>In this match, we see Legolas take on Captain America.<br />
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| 🗜 (3393) vs 🔧 (3481) || Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🔧 and 🗜 warming up.<br/>[drops pretense of impartiality] VOTE C clamp!<br />
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| 🧰 (1868) vs ⚖ (4961) || Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's ⚖ vs. 🧰!<br/>I know some of you out there had a challenging commute. Hopefully today's matches will improve your day.<br/>If there’s any justice in the world, the one on the left will win.<br />
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| 🧪 (4134) vs 🧲 (4519) || It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🧪 or 🧲?<br/>Do you want super-powers? Because this is how you get super-powers!<br />
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| 🔬 (2587) vs 🧬 (5487) || Oh, this one should be good.<br/>Do you want super-science? Because this is how you get super-science!<br />
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| 📡 (3609) vs 🔭 (4607) || You do not want to miss the fan favorite 📡. Coming up next!<br/>This one is a real nail biter!<br />
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| 🚿 (3933) vs 🚽 (4031) || Next up, 🚽 and 🚿.<br/>Combine these to save time in the morning!<br />
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| 🧷 (2740) vs 🛁 (4131) || You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🛁. Coming up next!<br/>Well that just doesn't seem fair.<br />
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| 🧹 (2655) vs 🧻 (5118) || Will it be 🧹 or 🧻? Find out next after this message from our sponsors.<br />
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| 🧯 (4009) vs ⚰ (4651) || You do not want to miss the fan favorite ⚰. Coming up next!<br/>You should have one of these handy in your house, although I guess which one is up to you.<br />
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| 🆗 (5326) vs 🆒 (5506) || Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🆒 and 🆗 warming up.<br/>Here it is, the final match before the second round!<br/>At least this one is going to be over quickly.<br/>Here it is, the final match before the second round!<br />
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| 😁 (5968) vs 😅 (9223) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 😁 vs. 😅.<br/>What a shocking result!<br/>Welcome to round 2!<br/>Welcome to round 2! These rounds will be a little slower.<br/>Welcome to round 2!<br />
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| 🤣 (5892) vs 🙃 (12578) || It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🙃 or 🤣?<br/>Round two is serious business, folks.<br/>Rolling-on-the-floor-laughing is a top seed, but the upside-down smiley has a certain intriguing ambiguity. Possible upset?<br />
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| 😇 (4117) vs 😉 (10595) || Uh oh. 😉 has had words with 😇 before. The next match will be good.<br/>Is it winking *at* the halo? Or is it winking at me?<br/>I didn't remember 😉 qualifying.<br />
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| 😘 (6659) vs 😍 (8816) || On deck, we have 😍 and 😘.<br/>I expect to see a lot of hearts on the page for this one.<br />
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| 😙 (2284) vs 😛 (11620) || It is a battle as old as time itself. 😙 and 😛! Facing off against each other again!<br/>This one is a toss-up in my book, folks.<br/>Don’t you hate it when one of you sticks out your tongue right as the other goes for the kiss?<br/>Close one!<br />
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| 😝 (6304) vs 😜 (7167) || You do not want to miss the fan favorite 😜. Coming up next!<br />
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| 🤭 (1796) vs 🤔 (15162) || Will it be 🤔 or 🤭? Find out next after this message from our sponsors.<br/>You know what the correct answer is here.<br />
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| 😑 (5943) vs 🤨 (9223) || You do not want to miss the fan favorite 😑. Coming up next!<br/>😑 certainly has its work cut out for it going up agaist 🤨.<br />
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| 🙄 (5122) vs 😏 (8486) || Welcome back, it's time for 😏 and 🙄 to go head to head.<br/>Why is the one on the right looking at me like that?<br />
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| 😔 (4101) vs 😬 (8574) || It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 😔 or 😬?<br/>I don’t think either competitor wants to win this round.<br/>See? That's how you should feel. Starting at a humble live commentator doing live commentary.<br />
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| 🤒 (2281) vs 😴 (8582) || Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 😴 vs. 🤒!<br/>Mondays, am I right?<br/>Two big moods enter, one leaves.<br />
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| 🤕 (5579) vs 🤮 (8136) || On deck, we have 🤕 and 🤮.<br/>I don't feel so good...<br/>Really leaving it all on the floor with this one.<br />
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| 🥴 (5548) vs 🥶 (7121) || On deck, we have 🥴 and 🥶.<br/>Ice to see you.<br/>I think they might be trying to ice the kicker!<br />
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| 🤠 (5576) vs 😎 (8912) || Have at it, 😎 and 🤠!<br/>Howdy, I’m the sheriff of cool!<br />
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| 😕 (4748) vs 😮 (7861) || I'm looking forward to this.<br/>An unexpected pairing! This should be good.<br/>I mean ... you can *see* the bracket so it isn't completely unexpected.<br />
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| 😳 (5552) vs 😯 (6583) || It is a battle as old as time itself. 😯 and 😳! Facing off against each other again!<br/>Wasn't 😯 in the last match?<br />
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| 😰 (2756) vs 😭 (9508) || Oh, this one should be good.<br/>😰 is going to have to dig deep if they want to continue.<br />
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| 😣 (2674) vs 😱 (10403) || Oh, this one should be good.<br/>It doesn't get more real than this, folks.<br />
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| 😓 (4790) vs 😤 (7053) || Welcome back, it's time for 😓 and 😤 to go head to head.<br/>Nice. Nice nice nice nice.<br />
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| 😡 (4209) vs 😈 (9437) || It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 😈 or 😡?<br/>This one is a toss-up in my book, folks.<br />
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| 💩 (7681) vs 💀 (12905) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 💀 vs. 💩.<br/>This one is going to cause some arguments.<br />
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| 👽 (4888) vs 👾 (9937) || I'm looking forward to this.<br/>Space invaders: Analog vs. Digital<br />
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| 😻 (5800) vs 😺 (6451) || Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 😺 vs. 😻!<br/>I love cats. I love every kind of cat.<br />
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| 😼 (4767) vs 🙀 (7648) || Oh this one should be good.<br/>Every. Kind. Of. Cat.<br/>Did someone say "V-E-T?"<br />
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| 😾 (5464) vs 💖 (7037) || Next up, 💖 and 😾.<br/>😾 looks pretty upset.<br />
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| ❤ (7490) vs 💯 (7881) || You do not want to miss the fan favorite ❤. Coming up next!<br/>Two crowd-pleasers here, folks!<br/>The score is Love-100<br />
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| 💣 (6379) vs 💦 (7343) || Next up, 💣 and 💦.<br/>From where I am standing 💦 has a commanding grip on this bracket.<br/>Well that's certainly something.<br/>I know which one I would choose, but I don't have time to vote!<br />
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| 🤘 (6417) vs 👍 (7610) || On deck, we have 👍 and 🤘.<br/>This is going well, right? This is working for you?<br />
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| 🦵 (3323) vs 👊 (8368) || Next up, 👊 and 🦵.<br/>Kickpuncher or punchkicker?<br />
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| 👀 (6253) vs 🧠 (6412) || If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, 👀 or 🧠.<br/>Whoever wins this one gets punched by the fist emoji in the next round. Choose wisely.<br/>Whoever wins this one gets punched by the fist emoji in the next round. Choose wisely.<br />
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| 👅 (4726) vs 🤦 (7496) || It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 👅 or 🤦?<br/>Look, we are a little disappointed, too.<br />
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| 👩🚀 (5246) vs 👩🔬 (7971) || Oh, this one should be good.<br/>So, what do you want to be when you grow up?<br/>Neither of these professions go well with concussions.<br />
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| 🧛 (2269) vs 🧙 (13138) || We will be right back with 🧙 vs. 🧛!<br/>Science?<br />
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| 🧟 (6020) vs 🚶 (6112) || Oh this one should be good.<br/>Oh no. 🚶 fans are not going to like this match-up.<br/>Walk for your lives!<br />
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| 🕴 (5070) vs 💃 (7283) || You do not want to miss the fan favorite 💃. Coming up next!<br/>The Matrix is TWENTY YEARS OLD<br/>The Matrix is *TWENTY* *YEARS* *OLD*<br />
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| ⛷ (4388) vs 🤺 (7484) || On deck, we have ⛷ and 🤺.<br/>A slippery slope. En guard!<br/>The IOC has rejected this combination sport.<br />
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| 🏊 (4139) vs 🏄 (5491) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🏄 vs. 🏊.<br/>This one, too.<br />
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| 🚴 (4082) vs 🚵 (7642) || Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 🚴 vs. 🚵!<br/>Why is 🚵 stuck in a box?<br />
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| 🛀 (4042) vs 🐒 (6948) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🐒 vs. 🛀.<br/>Uh-oh.<br />
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| 🐶 (5214) vs 🦊 (12396) || We will be right back with 🐶 vs. 🦊!<br/>Again, we are getting a lot of questions on this today. This is live commentary, folks.<br/>12/10 Both good doggos.<br />
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| 🐱 (5182) vs 🐈 (7578) || We will be right back with 🐈 vs. 🐱!<br/>EVERY. CAT.<br />
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| 🐎 (4944) vs 🐅 (9398) || Have at it, 🐅 and 🐎!<br/>If it were up to me, the last bracket would have eight cats and then just stop there with eight winners.<br />
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| 🦌 (5619) vs 🦄 (10318) || Have at it, 🦄 and 🦌!<br/>The IOC had some words about this pairing as well<br />
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| 🐷 (5341) vs 🐏 (8541) || Welcome back, it's time for 🐏 and 🐷 to go head to head.<br/>Or side to head, or whatever. VOTE!<br/>That was 🐷's to give away and they did.<br />
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| 🐐 (6038) vs 🦒 (8345) || I'm looking forward to this.<br/>Yet more Very good dogs<br />
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| 🦛 (3614) vs 🐘 (11342) || Oh, this one should be good.<br/>Another curious match-up with significant implications on how the rest of the day will go.<br />
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| 🐹 (3660) vs 🐿 (10713) || It is a battle as old as time itself. 🐹 and 🐿! Facing off against each other again!<br/>We are incredibly excited to see so many fans here.<br/>Finally, the long-awaited showdown between Alvin and the Chipmunks and the Hamster Dance.<br />
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| 🐨 (5171) vs 🦔 (10929) || On deck, we have 🐨 and 🦔.<br/>It doesn't get more real than this, folks.<br/>Tree pocket cat vs. spiky cat<br />
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| 🦘 (6954) vs 🦡 (7727) || Will it be 🦘 or 🦡? Find out next after this message from our sponsors.<br/>If you believe in 🦘, now is the time to clap or whatever, because it is not looking good.<br />
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| 🐣 (5846) vs 🐧 (12239) || We will be right back with 🐣 vs. 🐧!<br/>Don't count 🐣 out yet. They may have a contingent of fans just tuning in to battle.<br/>I thought we had seen everything, but look at 🐧 go! Amazing!<br/>A generational battle.<br />
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| 🦆 (6558) vs 🦉 (9674) || Will it be 🦆 or 🦉? Find out next after this message from our sponsors.<br/>You just know that 🦆 is thinking about 🏥 right now.<br/>Duck... duck... duck... duck... owl!<br />
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| 🦜 (3957) vs 🐢 (11594) || Uh oh. 🦜 has had words with 🐢 before. The next match will be good.<br/>Sometimes miracles happen.<br />
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| 🐍 (5264) vs 🐉 (6954) || Have at it, 🐉 and 🐍!<br/>How spiky do you like your sneks?<br/>Snake is currently losing to Fanfiction Snake.<br/>Snake is losing to Snake Fanfiction<br />
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| 🐬 (7916) vs 🐳 (9398) || On deck, we have 🐬 and 🐳.<br/>It's the battle of the blowholes!<br />
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| 🦈 (3695) vs 🐙 (8799) || Next up, 🐙 and 🦈.<br/>This one is potentially a battle between two mimic octopuses.<br />
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| 🐛 (5330) vs 🦋 (9176) || On deck, we have 🐛 and 🦋.<br/>Time waits for no one.<br/>Another generational struggle.<br />
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| 🕷 (5714) vs 🐝 (12151) || We will be right back with 🐝 vs. 🕷!<br/>🕷 and 🐝 have been friends for a long time. I am not sure where that relationship is going to be after today.<br />
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| 🌻 (6639) vs 🦠 (10448) || Oh, this one should be good.<br/>You *knwo* what to do, folks.<br/>Oh no. 🦠 fans are not going to like this match-up.<br/>Fresh off its victory over the aliens in War of the Worlds…<br />
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| 🌲 (8099) vs 🌵 (8194) || Will it be 🌲 or 🌵? Find out next after this message from our sponsors.<br/>DISAPPOINTED!<br/>both are surprisingly spiky!<br/>This is the closest battle in the bracket so far.<br />
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| 🍇 (6548) vs 🍉 (8681) || Oh this one should be good.<br/>sweet!<br />
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| 🍎 (5411) vs 🍍 (10586) || Have at it, 🍍 and 🍎!<br/>Regular apple versus Pine’s Apple<br/>Fancy apple holds a clear lead over Regular Apple.<br />
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| 🥝 (7540) vs 🍓 (8877) || It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🍓 or 🥝?<br/>Seeds: Inside or Out?<br/>Outside: Seeds or Hair?<br />
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| 🥔 (7800) vs 🥑 (9580) || Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🥑 and 🥔 warming up.<br/>Fun fact: Several different analyses confirm baby boomers like avocados more than millennials!<br />
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| 🥒 (6360) vs 🌶 (8714) || You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🌶. Coming up next!<br/>I know some very invested audience members for this one.<br />
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| 🥜 (5311) vs 🍄 (8929) || You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🍄. Coming up next!<br/>It's peanut butter mushroom time!<br />
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| 🥨 (7003) vs 🥐 (9204) || Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🥐 and 🥨 warming up.<br/>Buttery curved bread: extra-buttery or extra-curved?<br />
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| 🥞 (7881) vs 🧀 (9457) || Will it be 🥞 or 🧀? Find out next after this message from our sponsors.<br/>I wonder what cheesy pancakes are like.<br />
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| 🍔 (5917) vs 🍕 (11407) || It is a battle as old as time itself. 🍔 and 🍕! Facing off against each other again!<br/>Friday Night Food Fight!<br />
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| 🌮 (7714) vs 🌯 (8885) || Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 🌮 vs. 🌯!<br/>………<br/>. . . . . .<br />
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| 🍿 (7104) vs 🍳 (8128) || You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🍳. Coming up next!<br/>The saltiest and butteriest matchup yet<br />
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| 🍱 (4259) vs 🍣 (7578) || Oh, this one should be good.<br/>Hungry again. Wasn't it just lunch time?<br/>This part of the bracket has been *wild*<br/>Sushi takes the lead!<br />
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| 🥟 (5804) vs 🦞 (7681) || Oh this one should be good.<br/>A delicious dumpling vs some kind of large spider<br />
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| 🍨 (7349) vs 🦑 (7834) || If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, 🍨 or 🦑.<br/>I think there’s another squid hiding in the ice cream bowl.<br />
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| 🎂 (4175) vs 🍩 (8454) || If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, 🍩 or 🎂.<br />
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| 🍯 (4787) vs 🍫 (7565) || Next! Who would win in a match between 🍫 and 🍯? We are about to find out.<br/>The beans vs. the bees!<br />
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| 🥛 (5344) vs ☕ (7674) || Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's ☕ vs. 🥛!<br/>Would you like some coffee with your milk?<br />
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| 🍹 (4901) vs 🍺 (7490) || Uh oh. 🍺 has had words with 🍹 before. The next match will be good.<br/>how drunk do you want to get?<br/>One small glass of beer with an umbrella, please.<br />
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| 🥢 (5468) vs 🔪 (7787) || Oh, this one should be good.<br/>The two most popular ways to eat food<br />
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| 🧭 (4079) vs 🌋 (8706) || I'm looking forward to this.<br/>That compass is not leading you in a good direction.<br />
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| 🏝 (5445) vs 🏕 (8722) || Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 🏕 vs. 🏝!<br />
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| 🏠 (5722) vs 🏗 (5804) || It is a battle as old as time itself. 🏗 and 🏠! Facing off against each other again!<br/>It's building vs. building!<br />
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| 🗽 (5981) vs 🏥 (7053) || We will be right back with 🏥 vs. 🗽!<br />
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| ⛲ (5498) vs 🌃 (6519) || You do not want to miss the fan favorite ⛲. Coming up next!<br />
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| 🎡 (3212) vs 🌅 (8000) || It is a battle as old as time itself. 🌅 and 🎡! Facing off against each other again!<br />
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| 🎢 (4701) vs 🚄 (7014) || We will be right back with 🎢 vs. 🚄!<br/>Do you like your fast trains flat, or up-and-down?<br />
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| 🚑 (4901) vs 🚝 (7087) || On deck, we have 🚑 and 🚝.<br />
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| 🚗 (2707) vs 🚒 (8391) || Will it be 🚒 or 🚗? Find out next after this message from our sponsors.<br />
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| 🛵 (5344) vs 🚜 (6475) || It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🚜 or 🛵?<br/>Both of these are popular rideshare vehicles.<br />
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| 🛹 (3509) vs 🚲 (9447) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🚲 vs. 🛹.<br/>next wave of rideshare vehicles.<br />
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| ⛵ (6431) vs ⚓ (6608) || Welcome back, it's time for ⚓ and ⛵ to go head to head.<br/>Should I stay or should I go?<br />
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| 🛩 (5694) vs 🚁 (6529) || Will it be 🚁 or 🛩? Find out next after this message from our sponsors.<br/>Here in the future, flying cars are common!<br />
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| 🚀 (7266) vs 🛸 (14945) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🚀 vs. 🛸.<br/>IFO vs UFO<br />
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| ⌚ (6623) vs 🌒 (7404) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's ⌚ vs. 🌒.<br/>Waxing crescent already? I must be running slow.<br />
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| 🌙 (8921) vs 🌞 (15703) || Welcome back, it's time for 🌙 and 🌞 to go head to head.<br/>Two contenders as different as night and day.<br/>In five billion years, this battle will play out in real life with the same result.<br />
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| ⛈ (9358) vs 🌌 (17038) || I'm looking forward to this.<br/>Astronomers are hammering the button on the right as hard as they can.<br />
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| 🌪 (9848) vs 🌈 (11326) || You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🌈. Coming up next!<br/>The Wizard Of Oz (1938)<br/>The Wizard Of Oz (1939)<br />
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| ⚡ (7597) vs ☄ (8014) || Oh, this one should be good.<br/>The two leading theories for what killed the dinosaurs: A comet strike, or Zeus.<br/>Boom!<br />
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| 🎃 (4112) vs 🔥 (10407) || If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, 🎃 or 🔥.<br />
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| 🎉 (5422) vs 🧨 (18509) || Oh this one should be good.<br/>How emphatic do you like your celebrations?<br />
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| 🏆 (5564) vs 🎁 (6499) || Have at it, 🎁 and 🏆!<br />
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| ⚾ (5404) vs 🏅 (7337) || Oh, this one should be good.<br/>Sports fact: If you hit a medal-winner with a ball, you take their title.<br />
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| 🎾 (6117) vs 🏀 (6171) || We will be right back with 🎾 vs. 🏀!<br/>Sports fact: If you hit a medal-winner with a ball, you take the medal (but they take first base.)<br/>Sports showdowns: Bouncy edition<br/>Would you rather play basketball with a tennis ball, or tennis with a basketball?<br />
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| 🏏 (7343) vs 🥏 (7546) || You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🏏. Coming up next!<br />
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| 🏒 (8078) vs 🏓 (8739) || Uh oh. 🏓 has had words with 🏒 before. The next match will be good.<br />
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| 🛷 (7104) vs 🥌 (7733) || Have at it, 🛷 and 🥌!<br />
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| 🎲 (11931) vs 🎮 (14739) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🎮 vs. 🎲.<br/>Digital or analog?<br/>Devices or, uh, dices?<br />
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| 👓 (4988) vs 🎨 (5374) || We will be right back with 🎨 vs. 👓!<br/>two ways to add color to your world<br />
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| 🧦 (4819) vs 🎒 (4961) || We will be right back with 🎒 vs. 🧦!<br/>You can put your feet in either of these! No one can stop you.<br />
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| 👑 (19274) vs 🎩 (23265) || Will it be 🎩 or 👑? Find out next after this message from our sponsors.<br/>Hats for fancy people!<br />
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| 💎 (9378) vs 🎵 (17951) || We will be right back with 🎵 vs. 💎!<br/>C-notes<br />
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| 🎷 (6954) vs 🎸 (10692) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🎷 vs. 🎸.<br/>I've never heard the dueling banjos played like this!<br />
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| 📞 (8172) vs 🎻 (11568) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🎻 vs. 📞.<br/>Can I put you on hold? I can't hang onto both of these with my chin<br />
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| 💻 (7355) vs 📟 (9348) || It is a battle as old as time itself. 💻 and 📟! Facing off against each other again!<br/>Over time, computers have gotten steadily smaller.<br />
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| ⌨ (3372) vs 💾 (8550) || I'm looking forward to this.<br/>fun fact: it would take the average person 20 years to type an entire floppy disk<br />
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| 📷 (10623) vs 🧮 (12401) || Oh, this one should be good.<br />
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| 🔎 (7902) vs 💡 (12706) || On deck, we have 💡 and 🔎.<br/>it's mostly clicks either way. <br/>Both equally bad for bugs. <br />
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| 📜 (4020) vs 📚 (32459) || Oh, this one should be good.<br/>Turning pages: hot new technology, or too much complication?<br />
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| 💰 (5378) vs 📦 (17957) || Oh, this one should be good.<br/>Let's be real. Neither contain actual money. <br />
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| 🖋 (6166) vs 🖍 (42115) || It is a battle as old as time itself. 🖋 and 🖍! Facing off against each other again!<br/>Neither is coming off your walls if a kid gets ahold of them. <br />
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| 📅 (3309) vs 📊 (5217) || Have at it, 📅 and 📊!<br/>It’s cool how, if you design an emoji font, you get to tell everyone your birthday.<br />
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| ✂ (4504) vs 📎 (5846) || It is a battle as old as time itself. ✂ and 📎! Facing off against each other again!<br/>Look, we all have too much paper in our lives, but we all deal with it differently<br/>Clippy, I swear…<br />
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| 🗡 (5537) vs 🗝 (6193) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🗝 vs. 🗡.<br/>There are two ways to open doors: The easy way and the fun way.<br />
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| ⚔ (5514) vs 🏹 (7201) || Welcome back, it's time for ⚔ and 🏹 to go head to head.<br/>Close-up stabby, or stabby from a ways off?<br />
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| 🔧 (4351) vs ⚖ (6153) || Will it be ⚖ or 🔧? Find out next after this message from our sponsors.<br/>⚖ comes out on top.<br />
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| 🧲 (4654) vs 🧬 (9019) || Oh this one should be good.<br />
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| 🚽 (4388) vs 🔭 (8647) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🔭 vs. 🚽.<br/>I got these mixed up last week and I still haven't heard the end of it.<br />
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| 🛁 (4540) vs 🧻 (11347) || Welcome back, it's time for 🛁 and 🧻 to go head to head.<br/>Needed both of these after the telescope incident.<br />
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| 🆒 (6024) vs ⚰ (7909) || On deck, we have ⚰ and 🆒.<br/>And that wraps up the round!<br />
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| 😅 (6285) vs 🙃 (31589) || Uh oh. 🙃 has had words with 😅 before. The next match will be good.<br />
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| 😍 (8430) vs 😉 (10837) || Next! Who would win in a match between 😉 and 😍? We are about to find out.<br/>Some of us are more suave than others...<br />
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| 😛 (9010) vs 😜 (10428) || Uh oh. 😜 has had words with 😛 before. The next match will be good.<br/>Battle of the tongues<br />
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| 🤨 (6519) vs 🤔 (18849) || Next up, 🤔 and 🤨.<br/>Some behind the scenes for you, folks. I know for a fact that 🤔 wanted first billing for this match and 🤨 refused to budge.<br />
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| 😬 (8983) vs 😏 (11449) || It is a battle as old as time itself. 😏 and 😬! Facing off against each other again!<br />
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| 🤮 (7773) vs 😴 (10588) || Have at it, 😴 and 🤮!<br/>🤮 opened strong and 😴 never caught up.<br/>I hope everyone has printed their brackets and are ready, because time waits for very few people!<br/>I guess it was that kind of a party.<br />
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| 🥶 (9176) vs 😎 (11469) || Oh, this one should be good.<br/>🥶 has a chance here, but it is slipping away.<br/>What's cooler than being cool?<br/>What’s cooler than being cool?<br/>You need to be cooler than that!<br />
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| 😯 (7648) vs 😮 (7944) || Oh, this one should be good.<br/>Anyone want to go bowling?<br/>Sometimes I spend so long deciding on which of these to use that the conversation moves on.<br />
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| 😭 (7559) vs 😱 (8894) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 😭 vs. 😱.<br/>In these kinds of contests, everyone comes away a little hurt.<br />
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| 😤 (5475) vs 😈 (9739) || Uh oh. 😤 has had words with 😈 before. The next match will be good.<br/>I don't think 😤 expected to see 😈 opposite them today.<br/>Devils over Cotton by a country mile. Let's see those hearts!<br/>This one was over before it started.<br />
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| 💀 (6669) vs 👾 (11173) || It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 👾 or 💀?<br/>It doesn't get more real than this, folks.<br />
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| 😺 (7993) vs 🙀 (8903) || On deck, we have 😺 and 🙀.<br/>I spoke with 🙀 before we started today. They were hoping to dodge 😺. Too bad for them.<br/>The next few are contests are going to break friendships.<br/>This one is a real nail biter!<br />
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| 💯 (9859) vs 💖 (10041) || Next! Who would win in a match between 💖 and 💯? We are about to find out.<br/>I've always considered 💖 to be one of the greats.<br/>Starting to think 100 might go all the way.<br/>Starting to think 💯 might go all the way.<br />
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| 👍 (9892) vs 💦 (9960) || It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 👍 or 💦?<br/>What an unexpected result!!<br/>Now what is going to happen here:<br/>We are seeing some real back and forth matches this round.<br/>Again, cannot stress this enough. This commentary is 100% (sorry) live.<br />
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| 👊 (6867) vs 🧠 (12115) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 👊 vs. 🧠.<br/>Sometimes miracles happen.<br/>The match-up you have been waiting for!<br />
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| 🤦 (7172) vs 👩🔬 (15141) || Oh this one should be good.<br/>Looks like someone forgot their PPE today!<br />
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| 🚶 (2581) vs 🧙 (17413) || Welcome back, it's time for 🚶 and 🧙 to go head to head.<br/>Another fan favorite. Can 🚶 catch up to 🧙?<br/>Well folks, it is not looking good for 🚶.<br/>In the end, there was nothing 🚶 could do to stop the power of 🧙.<br />
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| 💃 (10409) vs 🤺 (10987) || We will be right back with 💃 vs. 🤺!<br/>Pointy Dancy vs. Pointy Stancy<br/>This one should be familiar to anyone who has tried fencing in heels.<br />
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| 🏄 (7355) vs 🚵 (10300) || Oh this one should be good.<br/>🏄 has a chance here, but it is slipping away.<br/>Bicycle --&gt; Unicycle --&gt; None-cycle with left waves<br/>🏄 has a chance here, but it is slipping away.<br />
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| 🐒 (4784) vs 🦊 (15635) || It is a battle as old as time itself. 🐒 and 🦊! Facing off against each other again!<br/>Another challenging contest of cute!<br/>What *does* the fox say? "NOT TODAY, MONKEY."<br />
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| 🐅 (7014) vs 🐈 (11420) || Oh this one should be good.<br/>I have taken this yoga class!<br/>It looks like it is Cat vs. Extremely Cat.<br />
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| 🐏 (12498) vs 🦄 (12505) || On deck, we have 🐏 and 🦄.<br/>🐏 is an fan favorite to go far today.<br/>This one is a real nail biter!<br/>This one is a real horn-biter!<br />
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| 🦒 (6162) vs 🐘 (11723) || Have at it, 🐘 and 🦒!<br/>Two great examples of character creator parameters set to different extremes.<br />
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| 🐿 (9539) vs 🦔 (12565) || Have at it, 🐿 and 🦔!<br/>I have no idea how you are going to handle this one, folks.<br/>🦔 is out to an early lead, but don't count 🐿 out just yet.<br/>the crowd is going nuts!<br/>One for the history books.<br />
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| 🦡 (7361) vs 🐧 (14230) || It is a battle as old as time itself. 🐧 and 🦡! Facing off against each other again!<br/>Arriving at the party ... same party two hours later.<br />
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| 🐢 (10674) vs 🦉 (10893) || Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 🐢 vs. 🦉!<br/>Yeah, we know. This one is going to sting.<br/>It's neck and ... very interesting neck!<br/>Owl standing in for Hare in this round. We're all as surprised as you are.<br />
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| 🐳 (9881) vs 🐉 (12000) || Welcome back, it's time for 🐉 and 🐳 to go head to head.<br/>Dry Snek vs. Wet Snek.<br/>A showdown between two mythical creatures!<br/>The dragon keeps beating real animals, even though dragons are just our animal fanfic.<br/>Save the whales!<br />
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| 🦋 (6011) vs 🐙 (13431) || On deck, we have 🐙 and 🦋.<br/>save the butterwhales!<br/>Here we have a contest between two mimic octopuses<br/>The octopus has over twice as many clicks, folks. This one isn’t looking close.<br/>The octopus has over twice as many clicks, folks. This one isn’t close.<br />
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| 🦠 (16657) vs 🐝 (19577) || I'm looking forward to this.<br/>nooooon, :butterfly:<br/>nooooon, butterfly (edited)<br/>Honeybees vs. colony collapse disorder<br/>I’m looking at the totals, and this one is extremely close.<br/>🦠 fans need to click more and faster!<br/>I mean, 🐝 fans need to keep clicking!<br/>Fun fact: You can click more than once, although if you click too much it ignores you.<br/>No! Save the bees!<br/>Bees!<br />
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| 🍉 (12946) vs 🌵 (13830) || Have at it, 🌵 and 🍉!<br/>As a dessert for saving the bees, try one of these fine desert fruits.<br/>Ever wonder what the inside of a cactus looks like? We’ve cut one open for you here.<br />
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| 🍓 (12167) vs 🍍 (12522) || Uh oh. 🍓 has had words with 🍍 before. The next match will be good.<br/>What fruit is best to eat in the night? Could it be Pine’s Apple?<br/>The weird-textured fruit showdown features two strong competitors.<br />
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| 🌶 (13812) vs 🥑 (13975) || Uh oh. 🥑 has had words with 🌶 before. The next match will be good.<br/>We have reached the halfway point of round 3!<br/>As Twitter user @jitka said, “I like avocados because they taste pretty good and also they come with a cool wood ball you get to keep”<br />
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| 🍄 (11290) vs 🥐 (11348) || Next up, 🍄 and 🥐.<br/>Don’t eat either of these if you find them on the ground in the woods.<br />
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| 🧀 (8558) vs 🍕 (13520) || Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🍕 and 🧀 warming up.<br/>cheese: baked or not?<br/>pizza is just impure cheese<br />
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| 🍳 (8407) vs 🌯 (9848) || Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🌯 and 🍳 warming up.<br/>one burrito, sunny-side up<br/>Now I want a burrito.<br />
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| 🦞 (9488) vs 🍣 (11362) || It is a battle as old as time itself. 🍣 and 🦞! Facing off against each other again!<br/>I thought we had seen everything, but look at 🍣 go! Amazing!<br />
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| 🍩 (12192) vs 🦑 (12893) || On deck, we have 🍩 and 🦑.<br/>Do not mix these flavors.<br />
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| ☕ (7248) vs 🍫 (13919) || If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, ☕ or 🍫.<br/>what a cruel choice<br/>in which form would you like your beans?<br/>mocha hold the chocolate vs. mocha hold the coffee<br />
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| 🍺 (11448) vs 🔪 (12597) || Will it be 🍺 or 🔪? Find out next after this message from our sponsors.<br/>What an amazingly bad combination!<br/>Its ... a close shave.<br />
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| 🏕 (6055) vs 🌋 (13928) || They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🌋 vs. 🏕.<br/>What an amazingly bad combination! .... Again!<br/>the eruption of mt. Saint helens (artist's conception)<br/>ruuuuunn!<br />
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| 🏥 (7225) vs 🏗 (8415) || You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🏗. Coming up next!<br/>the crane can build hospitals, so voting for the crane is like wishing for infinite wishes <br />
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| 🌅 (7042) vs 🌃 (10460) || Oh this one should be good.<br/>all good things must come to an end<br />
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| 🚄 (8128) vs 🚝 (8903) || I'm looking forward to this.<br />
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| 🚜 (6598) vs 🚒 (8085) || Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 🚒 vs. 🚜!<br/>We can put out your fire, or we can move it over there.<br />
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| ⚓ (6987) vs 🚲 (9001) || If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, ⚓ or 🚲.<br />
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| 🚁 (3409) vs 🛸 (12591) || Oh, this one should be good.<br/>Independence Day (1996)<br />
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| 🌞 (6290) vs 🌒 (11026) || Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 🌒 vs. 🌞!<br />
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| 🌈 (12417) vs 🌌 (13194) || Uh oh. 🌌 has had words with 🌈 before. The next match will be good.<br />
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| ☄ (7687) vs 🔥 (8315) || Have at it, ☄ and 🔥!<br/>Armageddon (1998)<br />
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| 🎁 (5311) vs 🧨 (9417) || I'm looking forward to this.<br/>Do you like surprises?<br />
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| 🏀 (3729) vs 🏅 (9083) || If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, 🏀 or 🏅.<br/>This match has me questioning 🏀's commitment.<br />
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| 🥏 (7916) vs 🏓 (9290) || I'm looking forward to this.<br/>Don't blink.<br />
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| 🎮 (11060) vs 🥌 (14205) || Welcome back, it's time for 🎮 and 🥌 to go head to head.<br/>Curling Simulator 2019<br/>If you love 🥌, you will have to show it now!<br/>Its a close match!<br/>🎮 sweeping up<br/>🥌 sweeping up<br/>I think 🥌 has it.<br />
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| 🎒 (5682) vs 🎨 (8574) || Oh this one should be good.<br/>Is the backpack Blue or Red??<br/>Blue or Red isn't going to matter if 🎨 keeps their lead!<br/>This one was over before it started.<br />
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| 🎩 (9120) vs 🎵 (10259) || It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🎩 or 🎵?<br/>Top Hat (1935)<br />
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| 🎸 (7349) vs 🎻 (10889) || Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🎸 and 🎻 warming up.<br/>the day the music died<br />
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| 📟 (3276) vs 💾 (14470) || Don't change that channel, folks. We have 💾 and 📟 warming up.<br/>🖍, are you watching this match?<br/>At this rate, 📟 will lose worse than 🎒 earlier!<br />
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| 💡 (7834) vs 🧮 (10579) || It is a battle as old as time itself. 💡 and 🧮! Facing off against each other again!<br/>What an illuminating contest.<br/>In case you were wondering, the obsolete tech bracket is coming to a close soon.<br/>🧮 comes out on top.<br />
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| 📦 (3650) vs 📚 (13464) || Uh oh. 📦 has had words with 📚 before. The next match will be good.<br/>Remember trees?<br />
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| 📊 (7144) vs 🖍 (8035) || It is a battle as old as time itself. 📊 and 🖍! Facing off against each other again!<br/>Which crayon is the shortest<br/>Which crayon is the shortest?<br />
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| 📎 (8114) vs 🗝 (9019) || Have at it, 📎 and 🗝!<br/>Have you considered just casting 'Knock'?<br />
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| 🔭 (9037) vs 🧬 (11772) || It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🔭 or 🧬?<br/>Pretty sure that is not how any of this works.<br />
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| ⚰ (12470) vs 🧻 (13083) || Don't change that channel, folks. We have ⚰ and 🧻 warming up.<br/>This is the final match of round 3!<br/>You have died of Dysentery.<br />
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| 😉 (13589) vs 🙃 (22912) || Will it be 😉 or 🙃? Find out next after this message from our sponsors.<br/>Finally! A rivalry spoke only in whispers now takes center stage.<br/>I see our friends in Australia have joined in the fun.<br/>😉 has some time to recover, but they are going to need help.<br/>Down to our last minute in the match!<br/>😉 never had a chance.<br />
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| 😜 (6578) vs 🤔 (25692) || Next! Who would win in a match between 😜 and 🤔? We are about to find out.<br/>This match-up reminds me of something clever I heard earlier ...<br/>Oh! I remember what it was!<br/>Someone said<br />
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| 😴 (11518) vs 😏 (12506) || If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, 😏 or 😴.<br/>Success is no stranger to 😏. Let's see if they can keep it going.<br/>Don't sleep on this match-up!<br />
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| 😮 (18361) vs 😎 (18415) || Next up, 😎 and 😮.<br/>I don't know about you, but this is the match I have been waiting all day to see.<br/>Sunglasses pulling ahead.<br/>The betting markets had 😮 as favourite today, but it sure looks like 😎 is going to make it!<br/>It's all up to 😎 now. Can they hold 😮 back long enough to claim victory?<br/>The betting markets had 😮 as favourite today, but it sure looks like 😎 is going to make it!<br/>The gap is closing! Is there enough time for 😮 to take the lead?<br/>This one is coming down to the wire!<br/>Surprised Pikachu pulls ahead!<br />
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| 😱 (4868) vs 😈 (5411) || It is a battle as old as time itself. 😈 and 😱! Facing off against each other again!<br />
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| 👾 (18385) vs 🙀 (18571) || 👾 and 🙀 have been friends for a long time. I am not sure where that relationship is going to be after today.<br/>This could get interesting if 🙀 brings out their lasers!<br/>This could get interesting if 👾 brings out their lasers!<br/>Can we go back to the laser kittens for a minute?<br/>laser kittens! mew mew mew!<br/>Uh oh. The cat cheering section seems to be slacking.<br/>Can the cats make a comeback and save us all?<br/>It's gonna be tight!<br />
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| 💦 (13865) vs 💖 (15698) || Someone has to win this match and someone has to lose, but you have to acknowledge the pure sportsmanship of these competitors.<br/>Click the link at the bottom of the comic to view the current bracket! (Just updated.)<br/>That last one came down to the wire, and this one's looking like it might too.<br/>The three other Planeteers are watching this match tensely.<br/>Sparkle Heart has been a surprisingly strong contender, knocking out the 100 emoji early!<br/>Click the link at the bottom of the comic to view the current bracket!<br/>Sparkle heart appears to be running away with another one.<br />
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| 🧠 (9398) vs 👩🔬 (19865) || This is a match that no one wanted to deal with until the end.<br/>what exactly is 👩🔬 going to do with that beaker?<br/>Neuroscience vs. Neuro!<br/>There seems to be a commotion in the audience as to whether that was a flask or a beaker.<br/>I *was* a beaker, but someone changed it in post!<br/>Looks like 👩🔬 is really taking 🧠 to *flask*.<br />
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| 🤺 (8947) vs 🧙 (25337) || 🤺 has been a fan favorite all day. Suprising literally no one.<br/>However, 🧙 has literally been disintegrating their competition all afternoon.<br/>What are we thinking here? 'Heat Metal'?<br/>Parry hotter vs Harry Potter?<br />
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| 🚵 (7397) vs 🦊 (27045) || This is a match that no one wanted to deal with until the end.<br/>several people are typing.<br/>🦊 is putting 🚵 in the rear-view mirror and stepping on the gas.<br/>I have never seen 🦊 crush an opponent that mercilessly before.<br />
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| 🦄 (20912) vs 🐈 (25965) || Oh this one should be good.<br/>I am not sure if there is anything else that 🐈 needs to prove.<br />
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| 🐘 (23083) vs 🦔 (23975) || I spoke with 🐘 before the match today, and they had this to say: 🐘.<br/>This is one grudge that won't be resolved soon: 🐘 never forgets.<br/>Hedgehog has been a strong contender but elephant is running surprisingly close.<br/>This is going to come down to the final seconds.<br/>An amazing match from 🦔.<br />
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| 🐧 (19957) vs 🦉 (22737) || There are a lot of 🐧 fans in the audience today hoping to see their champ make it through.<br/>Another close match in the making!<br/>1 minute for 🦉 to overtake 🐧!<br/>I think the bird has it.<br />
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| 🐉 (25129) vs 🐙 (25238) || You wouldn't know it to look at them right now, but 🐉 and 🐙 have been friends for years.<br/>I think 🐉 may have finally met their match.<br/>🐙 is trying to get back in the lead. But 🐉 is not having any of it.<br/>The totals are back and forth!<br/>An unbelievably close match is down to the final minute!<br/>It’s neck and neck, despite one being all neck and the other having none.<br/>The final seconds are here. Who will take the final lead?<br />
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| 🌵 (17985) vs 🐝 (18691) || 🌵 has really suprised me today.<br/>another close match. Are all of the contests going to be like this now?<br />
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| 🥑 (18099) vs 🍍 (19728) || 🍍 continues to show why they are just the dominant force to be reckoned with today.<br/>Avocado Toast or Pineapple Pizza<br/>Avocado Toast or Pineapple Pizza?<br />
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| 🥐 (11100) vs 🍕 (19207) || Oh this one should be good.<br/>Pineapple pizza isn't real pizza<br/>There are two correct answers here. Choose wisely.<br/>Pizzas are like croissant tacos<br/>Looks like 🥐 is getting roasted.<br/>🥐 burn so easily. Who knew?<br />
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| 🌯 (16204) vs 🍣 (17599) || 🌯 came to play. It is so obvious.<br/>why do we have to choose?<br/>I have definitely eaten food that was described as both of these.<br />
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| 🍫 (17503) vs 🦑 (18313) || Oh this one should be good.<br/>No No Nothing about this is good.<br/>🍫 is pretty sweet, but I'm a sucker for 🦑<br />
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| 🔪 (7144) vs 🌋 (18049) || 🌋 has been a fan favorite all day. Suprising literally no one.<br/>before the knives come out of the mountain they're technically called "magma"<br/>before knives come out of a mountain they're technically called 'magma'<br />
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| 🏗 (7355) vs 🌃 (12660) || Oh this one should be good.<br/>Has anyone ever seen one of these without the other? Hmm.<br/>163<br />
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| 🚒 (4736) vs 🚝 (9570) || 🚒 is dedicating this match to someone very special in their lives.<br />
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| 🚲 (11477) vs 🛸 (14994) || 🚲 has really suprised me today.<br/>E.T. (1982)<br />
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| 🌒 (7313) vs 🌌 (15975) || I am very excited to see 🌌 still in this competition.<br/>This battle is out of this world!<br />
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| 🧨 (8239) vs 🔥 (13588) || This is a match with a special meaning for 🔥.<br/>Uh oh, this is one of those battles where nobody wins.<br/>🔥 bolting ahead with an alarming lead against 🧨<br/>Take cover folks, this looks like it's going to be a hot one.<br/>aaaaaand boom goes the dynamite!<br />
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| 🏅 (9309) vs 🏓 (11409) || I am very excited to see 🏅 still in this competition.<br/>Ohhhhhhhh. That one is going to leave a mark.<br />
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| 🎨 (11242) vs 🥌 (20329) || Look at where you came from 🎨. Look at where you started! You would think that this would be enough.<br/>C'mon baby put the rock in the house<br />
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| 🎵 (10452) vs 🎻 (11806) || 🎵 came to play. It is so obvious.<br/>It is a battle as old as time itself. 🎵 and 🎻! Facing off against each other again!<br/>No, that's not the iTunes logo<br/>🎻's tuning might be working against them right now.<br />
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| 🧮 (13339) vs 💾 (16887) || 💾 is dedicating this match to someone very special in their lives.<br/>Welcome back to the Obsolete Technology Dome!<br/>MicroSD Card is watching closely at this battle of two square data storage options<br />
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| 🖍 (6157) vs 📚 (16083) || This is going to be a challenge for 📚.<br/>📚 really left a mark on 🖍 in their last match.<br/>🖍 really left a mark on 📚 in their last match.<br />
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| 🗝 (11789) vs 🏹 (14112) || 🏹 is looking fierce, but 🗝 is having none of it.<br />
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| 🧻 (8107) vs 🧬 (24415) || 🧬 came to play. It is so obvious.<br/>🧻 and 🧬 are neck and neck here in the final bout of round 3!<br/>when either is missing, you're in trouble<br/>And 🧻 falls to 🧬. A suprising turn of events.<br />
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| 🙃 (77562) vs 🤔 (85714) || all remaining rounds will be 26 minutes<br/>all remaining bouts will be 26 minutes<br/>Sometimes I think they've gone too far with plastic surgery<br/>This one's a fitting start to the round of 32, don't you think?<br/>Spiderman (2002)<br/>these vote totals are getting *close*! 🤔<br/>up is down, down is up! 🤔<br/>up is down, down is up! 🙃<br/>🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔<br/>Getting knocked out in the round of 32 🙃<br />
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| 😎 (35129) vs 😏 (35485) || 😎 and 😏 have been friends for a long time. I am not sure where that relationship is going to be after today.<br/>wink wink vs nudge nudge<br/>The Blues Brothers (1980)<br/>Can't read my p-p-p-poker face"<br/>Can't read my p-p-p-poker face<br/>David Caruso, is that you<br/>explicit vs. implicit<br />
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| 🙀 (34060) vs 😈 (46401) || Are we about to see a huge upset?<br/>The devil went down to kittytown<br/>We're not sure which of these is a more accurate representation of a cat<br/>Both of them like to make your life hell.<br/>Which side are the Hellcats cheering for?<br/>9 circles of hell. 9 lives. COINCIDENCE?<br/>Better the devil you know than the one you pet.<br />
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| 💖 (15594) vs 👩🔬 (43035) || This is a match that no one wanted to deal with until the end.<br/>Love Potion No. 9 (1963)<br/>The shine seems to be wearing off for sparkle heart.<br/>The shine seems to be wearing off for sparkle heart. What's in that flask?<br />
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| 🦊 (48941) vs 🧙 (49275) || 🦊 has really suprised me today.<br/>:leaves:: Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn targeting Devilthorn Fox<br/>G: Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn targeting Devilthorn Fox<br />
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<div>I just realized that there's a line break after ever sentence in this article.<br />
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One line per sentence is reminiscent of a diagrammed/formal logic argument in philosophy. It would be a much more effective convention to help people parse and interpret content and validity of e.g. political claims. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.63.198|173.245.63.198]] 17:21, 2 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Line break after every sentence. <br><br />
Because I can. <br><br />
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ONE AFTER A PERIOD. '''[[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>]] 04:38, 1 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
:MY VOTE TOO!!! --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 18:36, 1 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
:MY VOTE, TWO!!! (not really) [[User:Orazor|Orazor]] ([[User talk:Orazor|talk]]) 09:20, 1 October 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Writing plaintext, I always do two s after a sentence ending period.<br />
This is probably because I did in fact start typing on a real typewriter.<br />
In an environment where automatic formatting will take place, like a web page or wiki text, I use the newline.<br />
I have had people in this wiki collapse my multiple line forms to one of the others.<br />
(I was disappointed.)<br />
--[[User:Divad27182|Divad27182]] ([[User talk:Divad27182|talk]]) 04:48, 1 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I prefer double spacing, but I used single spacing in writing the explanation, just to make people happy. Perhaps I should have used new lines. [[User:Concomitant|Concomitant]] ([[User talk:Concomitant|talk]]) 05:10, 1 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
: I'm a double-spacer too. Am I wrong? I can't break myself of the habit, I even do it in s! --[[User:Jeff|<b><font color="orange">Jeff</font></b>]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 16:43, 1 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
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The 'third way' is a little underappreciated here: it divides the text into self contained logical units, and makes text processing tools (grep, diff etc.) much more usable.<br />
Proper text rendering engines (TeX, HTML, etc.) already make this assumption and group sentences accordingly.<br />
If only I realized this earlier, it would have made my thesis revisions much more easier.<br />
In fact, up to this moment, I thought I was that lone guy in the comic.<br />
EDIT: this comment in xkcd forums makes my point clear: http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=106217#p3489055<br />
--[[Special:Contributions/141.101.96.11|141.101.96.11]] 05:42, 1 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
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:As a programmer, I find nothing weird in adapting your style to language. Writing two s in HTML or TeX is useless, as they won't render as two s anyway. (While using for this purpose nonbreakable s, which would render, is a crime.) -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 10:48, 1 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
::It would also render incorrectly if the period was close to the end of a line. If the markup is [last word of sentence][period][nbsp][][next sentence], the last word of the first sentence could end up on the next line unnecessarily. But if it's [last word of sentence][period][][nbsp][next sentence], the next line of text would start with a , which is much worse.--[[User:Rael|Rael]] ([[User talk:Rael|talk]]) 15:16, 1 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
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::I end my sentences with a line break, a % and another linebreak. Only after commata etc i use a single line break. Oh, and don't forget to protect the after points used in abbreviations, not as full stops, by a backslash. Most TeX increase the length of the after a full stop a bit. Bit question: Why don't double people, when using Word not just use a longer instead of a double . Noone would have the idea to indent a paragraph or substitute a tab with a series of s.[[Special:Contributions/108.162.242.117|108.162.242.117]] 03:11, 2 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
:::Because the does not contain a longer key.--[[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.188|173.245.52.188]] 18:13, 4 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I always just find and replace double with single . If formatting suffers, someone did a bad job.[[Special:Contributions/108.162.231.228|108.162.231.228]] 06:33, 1 November 2013 (UTC) Synthetica<br />
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I always just find and replace single with double . If formatting suffers, someone did a bad job.--[[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.188|173.245.52.188]] 18:13, 4 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
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So, why did double spacing after a period ever exist? It doesn't seem necessary. [[User:PheagleAdler|PheagleAdler]] ([[User talk:PheagleAdler|talk]]) 07:31, 1 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
:Here's the standard explanation: on typewriters, each character takes up the same amount of . So a lower-case "i" takes up the same amount of as a capital "M". This is called a monospace font. When typing, if you just put a single after the end of period ending a sentence, the reader doesn't necessarily get the sense that a new sentence has started. This is particularly true if you were typing in all caps, as might be common on some types of forms or documents. Two s, however, does the job nicely. In theory, with modern proportional-width fonts, this is unnecessary. [[User:Rylon|Rylon]] ([[User talk:Rylon|talk]]) 23:36, 1 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
::Here's the researched explanation: http://www.heracliteanriver.com/?p=324 So technically, an em- after a period, an en- after a comma. Or you know, whatever you want. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.161|108.162.250.161]] 06:22, 17 July 2015 (UTC)<br />
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even though i learned typing on a typewriter, to this day i had never heard of the double thing. maybe it's a US only thing, like the stupid french with s BEFORE punctuation marks. [[User:Peter|Peter]] ([[User talk:Peter|talk]]) 07:54, 1 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
:I've always taken the double- thing as a US thing. Some editors like emacs default to it, which is really annoying. That said, as a frenchman, the " before punctuation" is normal to me and it is part of the ''codified'' typography -- and I think this is actually an important distinction to make. Is this double- vs single- something codified somehow? As a last word, I need to be nitpicky: the exact French typography rule is "a before punctuation made of two parts (namely colon, semi-colon, exclamation/question mark) and no before punctuation made of a single part (dots, commas.)" It's a very deterministic rule that is easy to apply (whether one agrees to it or not.) [[User:Ralfoide|Ralfoide]] ([[User talk:Ralfoide|talk]]) 16:40, 1 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
::This is a common question from the French and some other nationals. The answer is that English does not work that way. There is no official codified version. The most you have is small pockets of codification within an organization, such as The University of Boulder, or UPI or the US Army. If you're working in or with such an organization you should use their standard. If you try to extend any such standard to the rest of the world you are a nasty egomanical control freak who should be chopped into pieces and fed to the fishes.--[[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.188|173.245.52.188]] 18:25, 4 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
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As a german typographer I have to say I’m ''shocked''! ''Two'' s per period? A ''before'' punctuation?! My scientific opinion: you all are completely crazy ;-) (Just kidding, but seriously, two s? In Germany, the first possibility to do that safely is your last will …) [[User:Quoti|Quoti]] ([[User talk:Quoti|talk]]) 10:34, 1 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
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The doubled s appear in my browser's tooltips. (Maybe someone should add some non breaking s to the quotation of the tooltip text?) --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.236|141.101.98.236]] 10:45, 1 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
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As a(n automatic) two-spacer person (just you watch, I'll use 'em here, despite it obviously not being rendered), it's just what I learnt, back in the '70s, here in the UK. I've no idea ''why'' I learnt it. However, it may stem from the same root as the 'rule' in handwriting (not biros, but nibbed pens dipped in ink... wow, I feel old, but it ''was'' at primary school) that we use a gap as big as our our (very little) little-fingers to separate sentences. I imagine differentiating full-stops (US: periods) from commas in the messy medium of ink might be a valuable visual indicator as to what a given smudge might ''actually'' be. So, anyway, double-spacing. On the other hand I should report that, "I've dropped the habit it of appropriate punctuation prior to quotes," I say, "despite being the way I learnt it." And instead I will drop "<- Commas from that sort of position," you see, "even through I'll keep the ones that are semantic pauses." You see how my standards are slipping? Anyway, good comic. We now return you to your regularly-scheduled programme. <!-- (Oh look at me and my predecessor's IPs. We're ''not'' the same person, but I imagine they're using the same ISP as me.) --> [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.214|141.101.98.214]] 14:44, 1 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
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:I'm in the same boat this this bloke. I don't get the typewriter tie in. I seem to recall being taught to use a finger gage correct gap of whitespace to leave between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next. This was in an American small town southern school in the early 1980s. I assume it was for readability. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.236.25|108.162.236.25]] 16:16, 1 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
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The "third way" is used for articles on the [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news BBC News] website :-) --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.233|141.101.99.233]] 14:52, 1 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
:Actually, they put each sentence into a paragraph of its own, which is yet different. (In HTML: <code>&lt;p>... .&lt;/p></code> vs. <code>... .&lt;br /></code>) --[[User:Das-g|Das-g]] ([[User talk:Das-g|talk]]) 16:07, 1 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
:That's what I came here to say, that the Third Way is common-place on the web today, it is the tabloid style. This headline article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24775846 off the BBC right now only has full-stops (periods in en-US) before paragraph breaks, apart from quotations (ie what the BBC did not write). [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.229|141.101.98.229]] 16:11, 1 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
:The BBC is not the only web site to do that - and it is '''so''' annoying. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.222.244|108.162.222.244]] 10:15, 2 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
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There's a FOURTH way! I receive a "Weekly Update from Tim Scott" HTML formatted about once a week (unsurprisingly) which, in lieu of s between words, uses a carriage return and a linefeed. This alleviates the question of how many s between sentences completely! It also renders as oneverylongword in my client. Ie: <blockquote>Thankyouforsubscribingtomye-newsletter.</blockquote> [[Special:Contributions/108.162.236.25|108.162.236.25]] 16:16, 1 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
: And a fifth: In France, they use one whitespace before and after double punctions (:;?!) but only one whitespace after single punctuation (.,). --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.79.25|141.101.79.25]] 20:15, 1 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I think the finger was to help kids create clear separation while developing their proficiency at penmanship.<br />
I think the 2x is a fall out from the fixed width formatting of typewriters to help assist the reader (or proof reader) with the start and end of a sentence.<br />
Double spacing has almost become OCD for me. I can't help it. Of course I also leave paragraph marks on while I type as well. I wonder if the French would require a before a double quote, "The author ponders. "<br />
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I think we could improve old school cryptography if we just used carriage returns and ignored the 'new' line.<br />
I might be able to accept and adopt the single rule if I can make my s default to twice the point size of every other character in the style.<br />
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:FOROL DSCHO OLCRY PTOGR APHYT AKEYO URCUE FROME NIGMA DECOD ESAND ARRAN GEEVE RYTHI NGING ROUPS OFFIV EWITH OUT''AN Y''PUNC TUAT IONAN DINAL LCAPS <!-- For 'old-school cryptography', take your cue from Enigma decodes and arrange everything in groups of five, without /any/ punctuation and in ALL-CAPS ;) --> [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.214|141.101.98.214]] 01:38, 2 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I have my word processor set to a a gap equal to one and a half s after a sentence ends[[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.198|173.245.52.198]] 19:05, 1 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
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New paragraph (TWO line brakes) after every sentence :-) --[[User:Sten|Sten]] ([[User talk:Sten|talk]]) 20:36, 1 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I love how the explanation uses the third method. Nice touch. [[User:JRDeBo|JRDeBo]] ([[User talk:JRDeBo|talk]]) 23:29, 1 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Does anyone think there's any significance to the sword and the spear? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.208.144|108.162.208.144]] 23:46, 2 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
:Yes, because this is a SERIOUS ISSUE. [[User:Alpha|Alpha]] ([[User talk:Alpha|talk]]) 06:35, 4 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
:A sword has a longer blade, while a spear keeps people further away. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.210|108.162.219.210]] 12:45, 4 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
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According to the [[http://fireemblemwiki.org/Weapon_triangle Fire Emblem weapon triangle]], the 1-spacers win against the 2-spacers. Then again, I put one after each sentence. [[User:Greyson|Greyson]] ([[User talk:Greyson|talk]]) 18:25, 4 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Picture of a cat after every full stop !!! {{unsigned ip|173.245.51.221}}<br />
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With all the whitespace compression and variable width fonts in modern technology switching back to 2- is as viable as switching over to localized Programmer Dvorak. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.231.18|108.162.231.18]] 13:44, 6 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Hey, does anyone know if there's any way to make the wiki keep two s in a row, so the title text shows up properly? [[User:SuperSupermario24|<span style="color: #c21aff;">Just some random derp</span>]] 15:46, 7 July 2015 (UTC)<br />
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I was mildly confused about the weird phrasing of "This comic refers to the dance-off occurring ..." I already forgot my browser plugin that I've installed an hour ago. I think its great that it happened on a xkcd-related site. --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.92.22|141.101.92.22]] 12:41, 13 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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I'm not from the US so I never actually heard about a rule with two s. From my point of view the rule is stupid, really dumb. Just let go of it! There is no reason for it. My brain starts to spasm when I hear about a rule of two s after a period. Ungh!! {{unsigned ip|162.158.86.113}}<br />
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The 2 s used in (early) PCs and TypeWriters (and TTYs) could be caused by the too little difference between a «.» and a «,» with little fonts on CRTs (''320*200px with 8*8px single letter with <16" monitors with a signal trought an RF cable, for a C64''), dot-printers (''like 60*75 dpi (h*v), 9*9 per character, for an Epson MX-80'') and typewritten sheets (''maybe with dirty sort/type'')?<br />
[The examples in parentheses are for a mid-level-case, because there are worst monitors and standards than those, see previous comments]<br />
''Nickh''²+, [[Special:Contributions/188.114.103.166|188.114.103.166]] 00:11, 10 November 2016 (UTC) .<br />
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Well, looks like the one-spacers will win due to the weapon triangle. After all, lances best swords. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.174.64|172.68.174.64]] 16:54, 17 January 2019 (UTC)</div>162.158.63.244https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2121:_Light_Pollution&diff=171181Talk:2121: Light Pollution2019-03-14T23:59:39Z<p>162.158.63.244: The sky does not look like that in the suburbs!</p>
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Small error in this comic. It's not possible to tile a sphere with just hexagons. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/749264/covering-earth-with-hexagonal-map-tiles<br />
[[User:AlanKilian|AlanKilian]] ([[User talk:AlanKilian|talk]]) 16:03, 8 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
:Six triangles form a hexagon - just an explanation for people with less mathematical or geometric knowledge. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 16:17, 8 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
::but a indefinite large group of triangles doesn't automatically transform to hexagons, since it could be overlapping hexagons, or hexagons with their interim spaces filled up by triangles?--[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 16:29, 8 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
:::Look at that hexagons (consisting of six triangles), each fitting to the next, and you will understand that this is only possible in a plane but not in a sphere. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 16:37, 8 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
::::Yes, but if the triangles are not actually equilateral then they could form a sphere. And if the sphere is big enough (I think solar-system-surrouding or bigger counts) then you probably wouldn't be able to see it with the naked eye. [[User:Shamino|Shamino]] ([[User talk:Shamino|talk]]) 17:08, 8 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
:::::But can it form a [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1365:_Inflation basketball?] [[User:Netherin5|Netherin5]] ([[User talk:Netherin5|talk]]) 17:24, 8 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
:Your eyes are making the hexagons up. Some triangles would be left over if you tried to make every group of 6 triangles a hexagon. Triangle arrays like this are commonly used in computer graphics, as they are the closest approximation to a sphere: https://mft-dev.dk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/icosahedron_frame_sub3.gif [[Special:Contributions/162.158.79.185|162.158.79.185]] 17:25, 8 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
::Not really. On a plane, there are only three {{W|tesselation|tesselations}} made only of identical regular polygons: {{W|triangular tiling}}, {{W|square tiling}} or {{W|hexagonal tiling}}. But since a regular hexagon can be divided into six equilateral triangles, the tiling in the picture can be seen as both triangular and hexagonal. The leaving out you write about may have come from another tesselation which uses hexagons and triangles, the {{W|trihexagonal tiling}}. On a sphere, there's a completely different discussion as there's no tesselations, only approximations of them. {{unsigned|Malgond}}<br />
:Rather than a tessellation of hexagons, I see a {{W|The Tholian Web|web of triangles}}. [[User:Mirror Spock|Mirror Spock]] ([[User talk:Mirror Spock|talk]]) 02:32, 13 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
There is no way to know that the triangles shown are equilateral (in fact, as drawn here they're quite ''un''even). All 3D renderings are in fact assembled from uneven-sided triangles, including renderings attempting to approximate rounded surfaces. And yes, you can buy a ball tiled only with triangles; they're not even-sided, but you can't tell with the naked eye. Also, there ''is'' one roughly spherical shape tiled only with equilateral triangles: It's the shape found on a 20-sided die. Skyboxes intended to minimize viewing angle distortions use triangles that are very nearly, but not quite equilateral. In fact, ''all shapes'' that use flat planes to tile a sphere can be broken down into triangles of one degree of asymmetry or another. Your argument is invalid. <br />
[[User:ProphetZarquon|ProphetZarquon]] ([[User talk:ProphetZarquon|talk]]) 22:51, 8 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
:Y'all need to stop arguing about the geometry and look at this picture of a (approximation of a) sphere made out of triangular pyramids: https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjvhZHLoPTgAhXmhVQKHRLnDSwQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.zacharyabel.com%2Ftag%2Fspheres%2F&psig=AOvVaw2-zrroG1RBFI-t2GHyHt-9&ust=1552193238617042 [[User:Tplaza64|Tplaza64]] ([[User talk:Tplaza64|talk]]) 04:50, 9 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
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::Also note that we see just small part of sky there, so it's fully possible the few deformed/missing triangles are outside of what we see. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 23:49, 8 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
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: An interactive sphere divided into hexagonals - where is the trick? [http://pub.ist.ac.at/~edels/hexasphere/ Hexagonal tiling of the two-dimensional sphere] Sebastian --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.110.64|172.68.110.64]] 16:11, 12 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
::The "trick" is that you are making the unwarranted assumption that every hexagon in the matrix is composed from six identical equilateral triangles. Which can't possible be the case for it to form a non-flat surface. A hexagon composed of six equilateral triangles will have each vertex at exactly 120 degrees. Three of them joined at a corner ''must'' add up to 360 degrees and therefore must lie flat and therefore can't curve into 3-space. The fact that the surface does curve means that the sum of the angles at those vertices adds up to something less than 360 degrees, which means at least some of the hexagons have vertices that are less than 120 degrees (and they are therefore not composed of equilateral triangles, but isosceles triangles instead, since the hexagons appear to be uniform). Once you realize that the angles on the hexagons' vertices are less than 120 degrees, the solution to the problem is figuring out exactly what angles are needed to form a sphere of a given size. This may be a hard problem to solve, but definitely not impossible. [[User:Shamino|Shamino]] ([[User talk:Shamino|talk]]) 16:37, 12 March 2019 (UTC) <br />
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Oh man where are the conspiracy nuts from a few weeks ago ;-) [[User:Cgrimes85|Cgrimes85]] ([[User talk:Cgrimes85|talk]]) 17:03, 8 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
:Hey, I think this works like Beetlejuice. Shush. Don’t jinx it. [[User:Netherin5|Netherin5]] ([[User talk:Netherin5|talk]]) 17:24, 8 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
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Ok, I know most of the discussion is focused on the lattice, but are the ships a reference to something? LOTR maybe? Also there’s nothing about the title text at all, and the (more probable than LOTR) Lovecraft reference, considering the mentions of insanity, cosmic horror, and color. (I believe the book was Cool Air?) [[User:Netherin5|Netherin5]] ([[User talk:Netherin5|talk]]) 17:24, 8 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
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I think it's notable that the world actually works this way. The sky is full of drones, satellites, {{w|Mesosphere#Exploration_and_uses|nearcraft}}, and we basically can't see them, but they can freely observe us, transmit things to us, and drop things on us. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.79.185|162.158.79.185]] 17:34, 8 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
:While there are drones, satellites and various tools astronauts dropped all around the sky, the reason we can't see them is simply size (they are too small), not light pollution. The features mentioned in strip are gigantic. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 23:49, 8 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
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I may be too nerdy, but my mind went to Spelljammer on this. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.62.160|172.69.62.160]] 18:44, 8 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
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:My thoughts exactly! it perfectly fits Spelljammer crystal spheres. I think it should be included in the explanation (and if not, then at least the source of the whole concept- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Spheres) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.92.34|162.158.92.34]] 00:13, 9 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
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I went to the sky at the end of [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139809/ Thirteenth Floor]. But the one image I can find suggests that was rectangular. [[User:Jordan Brown|Jordan Brown]] ([[User talk:Jordan Brown|talk]]) 21:47, 8 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
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Anybody understands relationship between singular lattice and plural spheres? Is there any lattice that holds the spheres in ancient astronomy?<br />
: Suddenly penny dropped: it is <i>crystal lattice</i>!!!!!11<br />
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By the way, the way the lattice really works is that it's a geodesic sphere - sometimes, five triangles meet in a vertex to ensure that the surface closes on itself to form a sphere. It's actually impossible to get a sphere with only 6 triangles in a vertex, aka a "hexagonal tiling": http://www.alaricstephen.com/main-featured/2016/8/15/eulers-gem-applied-to-geodesic-domes.<br />
[[Special:Contributions/173.245.48.63|173.245.48.63]] 21:28, 10 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
: Only if you restrict yourself to using equilateral triangles. If you're allowed to vary the lengths of the edges, then the sum of angles at the center of each "hexagon" will be less than 360 degrees, causing the "hexagon" to flex into a non-planar shape. If you're using these to construct cosmic structures, the difference needed would be minuscule and undetectable to the naked eye. [[User:Shamino|Shamino]] ([[User talk:Shamino|talk]]) 13:03, 12 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
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Note that you *would* see regular patterns in the cosmic Big Bang remnant radiation in some cosmological models (think of Arcade scrollers, just in 3D). Citation needed no longer: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature01944 [[Special:Contributions/198.41.242.46|198.41.242.46]] 10:29, 11 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
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Has anyone noticed that the Earth Temperature Timeline is in the list of the classic comics at the bottom? I looked on the wayback machine and it looks like it appeared on March 1, but i didnt see anybody mention it on the other talk pages since. Maybe I just missed it though. [[User:Choochoobob123|Choochoobob123]] ([[User talk:Choochoobob123|talk]]) 13:59, 11 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
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Anyone else feel the illustrations (aside from the first and last one) are misleading?<br />
I rarely see the Milky Way in the suburbs, or even in the country. When I've been to very remote places where you can easily see the Milky Way, it looks about like the second illustration. I have <i>never</i> seen the Milky Way as depicted in the third illustration, especially the red coloration. I've been to remote north-eastern PA circa 1986, the desert in Canyon Lands, Utah circa 1990, Jericoacoara in Brazil, circa 2006, and Sifnos island circa 2012. Even if you argue those places aren't the most remote, my point still stands that it was in <i>those</i> places that the sky looked like illustration number two, "Suburbs", and those are <i>not</i> suburbs! And in actual suburbs, the sky does not look like that! (Has anyone ever really seen the sky look like illustration number three from the Earth?) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.63.244|162.158.63.244]] 23:59, 14 March 2019 (UTC)larK</div>162.158.63.244https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2118:_Normal_Distribution&diff=170389Talk:2118: Normal Distribution2019-03-02T16:26:35Z<p>162.158.63.244: separate comments</p>
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Is there a statistician in the house? [[User:Hawthorn|Hawthorn]] ([[User talk:Hawthorn|talk]]) 15:32, 1 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
I think they all got annoyed at the graph and left. [[User:Margath|Margath]] ([[User talk:Margath|talk]]) 15:46, 1 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
Of course there is! [[Special:Contributions/162.158.214.22|162.158.214.22]] 15:44, 1 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
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As an example: When measuring the height of people in the same age bracket, then you'll expect the number of people at each height to look like this graph. There will be a lot of people around the average height, fewer a foot shorter/taller, some (but very few) exceptionally tall people, and some (but very few) exceptionally short people. The x-value represents the height, the y-value essentially represents the amount of population that share that height. When we measure the middle 50% of the population using vertical bars, then people at a certain height are either inside '''OR''' outside the middle. Randall uses horizontal bars here, which means some people at a certain height will be counted in the middle 50%, but other people with the same height won't be. In fact, some people with the exact average height of the whole population would fall outside the middle. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.241.214|108.162.241.214]] 16:01, 1 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
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Feel free to rip me apart for referring to it as the "number of people at each height", since y-axis is more complicated than a simple count. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.241.214|108.162.241.214]] 16:03, 1 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
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Just to say, Randall's horizontal slice isn't entirely meaningless. It's a calculation I've had to do, where I have a series of binned samples of a population (say I knew how many fell in -10..10, how many fell in -5..5, how many fell in -2..2) and wanted to combine them with an appropriate weighting to approximate a Gaussian. I was using it for filtering, but it's logically similar. [[User:Fluppeteer|Fluppeteer]] ([[User talk:Fluppeteer|talk]]) 16:19, 1 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
::Also, the slice sampler for MCMC is a trick for sampling from a distribution by "turning it on its side". But I don't think the 50% figure would be meaningful in that context. (Though the 52.7% number on this graph would be.) [[Special:Contributions/172.68.54.136|172.68.54.136]] 21:16, 1 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
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Pedant: etymologically, there *is* actually a connection between a normal (to a surface or line) and the normal distribution; the former comes from the Latin for a set square (giving you perpendicular), and it later came to mean "standard". The "tangential distribution" certainly fits the etymology of "odd/unusual" though. [[User:Fluppeteer|Fluppeteer]] ([[User talk:Fluppeteer|talk]]) 16:26, 1 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
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This reminds me of the difference between Riemann(-Stieltjes) and Lebesgue integration. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.54.160|172.68.54.160]] 20:16, 1 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
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As the axis are not labeled (see comic 833) we could consider this a multivariate distribution where one parameter is uniform and the other is normal. That was my first thought when I saw this. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.34.88|172.68.34.88]] 18:43, 1 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
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Is there any meaning to midpoint: 52.7%? Maybe that is the arbitrary center he formed the horizontal bounds around? Maybe it relates to data? Is this a reference to something? It's certainly reminiscent of how normal distributions produce statistically meaningful numbers that have weird decimals in them (like the % represented by being within so many standard deviations). [[Special:Contributions/162.158.78.178|162.158.78.178]] 19:45, 1 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
::Maybe it's because the meaning of "50% of the chart lies between these lines" specifically becomes roughly useless for discerning error if the lines are not centered around the origin. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.78.178|162.158.78.178]] 19:52, 1 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
::I might get it!!! The area between the lines is 52.7% of the total area: which means that 50% is technically included in what lies between them. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.78.220|162.158.78.220]] 23:07, 1 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
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The correct way to do this is to have the topmost vertical line equal to or above the top of the normal plot. Then the bottom-most line would represent the same values as vertical lines would. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.78.220|162.158.78.220]] 23:32, 1 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
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Say I want to build a diverse team or a representative council. And it is more important that the selection is representative of several subpopulations (who should not be voted down by the majority) than that it gives an equal fair chance to anybody. I would cut away the absolute outliers and reduce the weight of the most abundant group - this gives just the area between the two lines. Sebastian --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.110.70|172.68.110.70]] 23:40, 1 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
:That's actually... not a horrible idea. Problem is, it's not robust to transformations of the X axis, because of the Jacobian multiplier that comes with such transformations. Which in practice would look like people loudly insisting they have nothing in common with each other ("we wear baseball hats with the brim to the RIGHT while those other completely unrelated people wear them with the brim to the LEFT")[[Special:Contributions/162.158.63.244|162.158.63.244]] 16:26, 2 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
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Has somebody measured or calculated (by assuming normal distribution) the areas? It seems that the upper area is way smaller than the lower one, but both having the same 'height' in the middle. Is the 52.7% graphically correct? I tried half of the height at 0: .398942 and integrated, then I get 52,6% for the white area and 47,4% for the gray area. On the y-axis it seems that the three visible ticks are .1, .2, .3, then the gray area would be a bit broader than .2 and centered at .1. Sebastian --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.110.70|172.68.110.70]] 23:40, 1 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
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Got [[356:_Nerd_Sniping|Nerd Sniped]] by the number "52.7%", but failed on an analytic solution and settled for a quick and dirty numerical integration instead, which suggested that the exact number might be somewhere between .5268 and .5269, so I think I'm not far from the truth. As I see it, the shaded area is vertically centered around the vertical midpoint, with a relative vertical width chosen such that the shaded area is exactly 50% of the total area under the curve. Just as usual, only with vertical instead of horizontal binning, which of course is the twist that makes this graph puzzling, funny, and completely useless for meaningful interpretation. <br />
The label "52.7%" is not an addition to the Midpoint label but instead gives the width of the vertical bin, as a percentage of the vertical height of the curve. I read the tics on the vertical axis to indicate just quarters of the curve maximum, which is consistent with my understanding of "Midpoint". <br />
Oh, and you are certainly right in that the marginal distributions at the top and the bottom are asymmetric, as is the gaussian when viewed sideways. <br />
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: Feh. You merely have to integrate something like Sqrt[Log[x]] which I'm too lazy for and use Mathematica instead which gives...<covers eyes>...what was #2117 about again? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.94.2|162.158.94.2]] 11:57, 2 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
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How to annoy a Democratic Liberal Statician- Point out that every identity group that they're trying to make "normal" falls to the far left or the far right of the normal distribution curve.[[User:Seebert|Seebert]] ([[User talk:Seebert|talk]]) 14:50, 2 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
:As somebody who happens to be all 3 of those things, I can confirm that your comment annoyed me. But only for bringing politics into a discussion that isn't political, and for misusing "normal" in a way like Randall's alt-text. The actual "edgy" political content of your post I find wrong but not particularly annoying. YMMV. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.63.244|162.158.63.244]] 16:26, 2 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
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The explanation currently says, "Randall finds the area between two horizontal lines instead, which is mathematically completely meaningless." This doesn't seem right. Each of the two horizontal lines intersect the curve at points and those points have meaningful values on the x axis. I'm not sure if they represent anything interesting (or rather, what their significance might be), but the result is the horizontal lines are not meaningless. I'm a little reluctant to edit it because I'm not sure how meaning to ascribe (and I also haven't measured the or calculated what those points are), but the explanation as-written seems improper. Do I have it wrong? [[User:JohnHawkinson|JohnHawkinson]] ([[User talk:JohnHawkinson|talk]]) 15:02, 2 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
:Nothing is ever completely meaningless. I think the change to "completely meaningless" may have been added by an annoyed statistician. I wrote the previous phrasing of it rarely being used for anything meaningful, so it seems impolite for me to edit it back. It's notable that implying there is meaning to the horizontal lines could be misleading to those new to statistics. It's also notable that the area between them represents a calculable portion of the samplesets, and that the points of intersection are just as meaningful as with vertical lines, two uses mentioned in comments above. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.79.245|162.158.79.245]] 15:13, 2 March 2019 (UTC)</div>162.158.63.244