30: Donner - Revision history

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FaviFake at 16:06, 26 March 2025

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141.101.98.251: /* Transcript */ Capitalise name. Go so far as to add as (commented) category.

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‎Transcript: Capitalise name. Go so far as to add as (commented) category.

I HAVE NO NAME: the man looks sorta like hairy in my opinion

2024-08-20T04:27:00Z

the man looks sorta like hairy in my opinion

FaviFake at 07:53, 31 August 2023

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FaviFake at 10:43, 28 July 2023

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Qoiuoiuoiu: Grammer edits

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

2022-05-26T19:59:55Z

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

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 | date      = November 7, 2005
 | title     = Donner
-| before    = <big><big><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=Monday%27s%20Drawing%20%2D%20Donner Original title</span>]: '''Monday's Drawing - Donner'''</big></big>
+| ognumber  = 29
 | image     = donner.jpg
 | titletext = Some people haven't heard of the Donner Party. They were pioneers who got stranded and likely resorted to cannibalism.
 }}
-This was the twenty-ninth comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[27: Meat Cereals]], and the next one was [[34: Flowers]].
+This was the twenty-ninth comic [[LiveJournal|originally posted to LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[27: Meat Cereals]], and the next one was [[34: Flowers]].
 ==Explanation==

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 }}
 This was the twenty-ninth comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[27: Meat Cereals]], and the next one was [[34: Flowers]].
 The {{w|Donner party}} was a group of pioneers who set out west along a new route that was supposed to be easier to travel, but ultimately proved slow and treacherous. They became trapped in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and many died. It is believed that many of the pioneers, low on food, resorted to cannibalism, eating the bodies of party members who had already died. In this comic, three Donner party members arrive at Joe's restaurant, where they have ordered a table for four, as given by the fact that the {{w|Maître d'hôtel|maître d'}} knows they are the Donner party and calls for a party of four. The three decline the table since they are already full. This suggests that they just have eaten the fourth member (unknown to us) of their party after they placed the order for a table at the restaurant, but before they strolled over to it anyway. Of course, since they are not in a survival situation in this comic, cannibalism would be completely unnecessary. However, it may be possible that they are suffering from {{w|Wendigo|Wendigo Psychosis}}. Alternatively, the Donner Dinner Party may have resorted to cannibalism because it took so long to be seated at the restaurant.

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 ==Transcript==
-:[Three people stand outside a restaurant; Megan, a man with some hair (who looks like hairy) and another shorter person, probably a woman. There is a sign above the door which says "Joe's" (presumably the name of the restaurant) and a menu next to it. Outside the door, there is a maître d' with a cap behind a lectern. There is a sign on the lectern which says "Eat in".]
+:[Three people stand outside a restaurant; Megan, a man with some hair (who looks like Hairy) and another shorter person, probably a woman. There is a sign above the door which says "Joe's" (presumably the name of the restaurant) and a menu next to it. Outside the door, there is a maître d' with a cap behind a lectern. There is a sign on the lectern which says "Eat in".]
 :maître d': Donner, party of four?
 :Man: Actually, never mind.
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 [[Category:Checkered paper]]
 [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
 [[Category:Food]]
 [[Category:Characters with hats]]
 [[Category:Comics with lowercase text]]

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 ==Transcript==
-:[Three people stand outside a restaurant; Megan, a man with some hair and another shorter person, probably a woman. There is a sign above the door which says "Joe's" (presumably the name of the restaurant) and a menu next to it. Outside the door, there is a maître d' with a cap behind a lectern. There is a sign on the lectern which says "Eat in".]
+:[Three people stand outside a restaurant; Megan, a man with some hair (who looks like hairy) and another shorter person, probably a woman. There is a sign above the door which says "Joe's" (presumably the name of the restaurant) and a menu next to it. Outside the door, there is a maître d' with a cap behind a lectern. There is a sign on the lectern which says "Eat in".]
 :maître d': Donner, party of four?
 :Man: Actually, never mind.

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 [[Category:Posted on LiveJournal| 29]]
-[[Category:First day on xkcd]]
+[[Category:First day on xkcd.com]]
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 == Trivia ==
-*This was the 29th comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]].
+* This was the twenty-ninth comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[27: Meat Cereals]], and the next one was [[34: Flowers]].
-**The previous was [[27: Meat Cereals]].
+* Original title: "Monday's Drawing - Donner"
-**The next was [[34: Flowers]].
+* This comic was posted on [[xkcd]] when the web site opened on Sunday the 1st of January 2006.
-*Original title: "Monday's Drawing - Donner"
+** It was posted along [[:Category:First day on xkcd|with all 41 comics]] posted before that on LiveJournal as well as a few others.
-*There were no original [[Randall]] quote for this comic.
+** The latter explaining why the numbers of these 41 LiveJournal comics ranges from 1-44.
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