1255: Columbus - Revision history

Not without text: /* Trivia */ added date of update

2025-11-29T18:37:13Z

‎Trivia: added date of update

82.132.245.70: /* Trivia */ minor error, didn't seem to cause any significant fallout (being so near the end, and probably closed off by something beyond it).

2025-11-27T14:58:39Z

‎Trivia: minor error, didn't seem to cause any significant fallout (being so near the end, and probably closed off by something beyond it).

82.132.245.70: /* Trivia */

2025-11-27T12:21:35Z

‎Trivia

82.132.245.70: /* Transcript */ On my current connection, archive.org is blacklisted (to prevent it being used to avoid other blacklistings?), so someone else would have to see if perhaps that reveals the transition point.

2025-11-27T12:07:10Z

‎Transcript: On my current connection, archive.org is blacklisted (to prevent it being used to avoid other blacklistings?), so someone else would have to see if perhaps that reveals the transition point.

Not without text: /* Transcript */ according to the actual comic, White Hat says it, not Megan

2025-11-27T04:22:31Z

‎Transcript: according to the actual comic, White Hat says it, not Megan

FaviFake: Missed one

2023-07-08T09:00:15Z

Missed one

FaviFake: Fixed name and grammar

2023-07-08T08:59:54Z

Fixed name and grammar

Theusaf: Reverted edits by Donald Trump (talk) to last revision by CRLF

2022-05-26T19:58:46Z

Reverted edits by Donald Trump (talk) to last revision by CRLF

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Donald Trump: Reverted edit by anti-crap user

2022-05-26T19:04:10Z

Reverted edit by anti-crap user

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CRLF: Reverted vandalism with User:CRLF/OneClickUndo.js

2022-05-26T17:57:57Z

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 ==Trivia==
-The original version of the comic<!-- until when, do we know? --> was posted without the speech-line from White Hat in the second panel. This made it look like Megan had voiced ''all'' the 'information' given in that segment, rather than White Hat's initially more orthodox (though also incorrect) version being interupted and his statement being hijacked.
+The original version of the comic was posted without the speech-line from White Hat in the second panel. This made it look like Megan had voiced ''all'' the 'information' given in that segment, rather than White Hat's initially more orthodox (though also incorrect) version being interrupted and his statement being hijacked. It was updated in July 2014, sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20140704005510/https://xkcd.com/1255/ July 4] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20140731202849/https://xkcd.com/1255/ July 31].
 {{comic discussion}}

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 [[Category:Comics featuring real people]] <!-- Columbus -->
 [[Category:LOTR]]
-[[Category:Comics edited after their publication]] <!-- The inclusion of the missing speech-line from White Hat]]
+[[Category:Comics edited after their publication]] <!-- The inclusion of the missing speech-line from White Hat -->

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 ==Trivia==
-The original version of the comic<!-- until when, do we know? --> was posted without the speech-line from White Hat in the second panel. This made it look like Megan had voiced ''all'' the 'information' viven in that segment, rather than White Hat's initially more orthodox version being interupted and his statement being hijacked.
+The original version of the comic<!-- until when, do we know? --> was posted without the speech-line from White Hat in the second panel. This made it look like Megan had voiced ''all'' the 'information' given in that segment, rather than White Hat's initially more orthodox (though also incorrect) version being interupted and his statement being hijacked.
 {{comic discussion}}

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 :White Hat: Stop making stuff up.
 :Megan: You first.
 {{comic discussion}}
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 [[Category:Comics featuring real people]] <!-- Columbus -->
 [[Category:LOTR]]

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 :[Megan walks in holding a hand palm up. White Hat partly lifts his arm closest to her. The children between them turn their heads towards her. The boy leans back on one hand.]
-:Megan: So he took his ships and sailed west—
+:White Hat: So he took his ships and sailed west—
 :Megan: —in a line tangent to the surface. The sea fell away, and he landed in ''Valinor.''

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 :Megan: —in a line tangent to the surface. The sea fell away, and he landed in ''Valinor.''
-:[White Hat has taken his arm down, Megan holds her arms out to each side. The children still look at her, now also Science Girl leans back on one arm.]
+:[White Hat has taken his arm down, Megan holds her arms out to each side. The children still look at her, now also Jill leans back on one arm.]
 :Megan: A Silmaril on his brow, he wanders the heavens as the morning star, still believing he reached India.
 :White Hat: Stop making stuff up.

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 ==Transcript==
-:[White Hat talks to two children sitting in front of him on the floor to the right. A boy with hair like Hairy with his arms round his knees and behind him Science Girl with two hair buns, sitting cross leged on her knees. Megan interrupts him from off-panel right.]
+:[White Hat talks to two children sitting in front of him on the floor to the right. A boy with hair like Hairy with his arms round his knees and behind him Jill with two hair buns, sitting cross-legged on her knees. Megan interrupts him from off-panel right.]
 :White Hat: Everyone said the world was flat, but Columbus knew it was round.
 :Megan (off-panel): *Sigh* no, no, no.
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 :Megan: —in a line tangent to the surface. The sea fell away, and he landed in ''Valinor.''
-:[White Hat has taken his arm down, Megan holds her arms out to each side. The children still looks at her, now also Science Girl leans back on one arm.]
+:[White Hat has taken his arm down, Megan holds her arms out to each side. The children still look at her, now also Science Girl leans back on one arm.]
 :Megan: A Silmaril on his brow, he wanders the heavens as the morning star, still believing he reached India.
 :White Hat: Stop making stuff up.
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 [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
 [[Category:Comics featuring White Hat]]
-[[Category:Comics featuring Science Girl]]
+[[Category:Comics featuring Jill]]
 [[Category:Comics featuring real people]] <!-- Columbus -->
 [[Category:LOTR]]