Talk:1: Barrel - Part 1 - Revision history

42.book.addict at 04:23, 12 February 2026

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42.book.addict at 04:23, 12 February 2026

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Elizium23: matched it

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matched it

Elizium23: wl

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172.69.79.191 at 21:06, 22 February 2025

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FaviFake at 20:20, 22 February 2025

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172.68.205.123 at 19:19, 22 February 2025

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FaviFake: ::Fyi, I liked your explanation so much i added it to Barrel Boy! --FaviFake (talk) 18:16, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

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::Fyi, I liked your explanation so much i added it to Barrel Boy! --FaviFake (talk) 18:16, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

FaviFake at 18:16, 22 February 2025

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172.71.241.100 at 09:31, 22 February 2025

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-Doesn't his big interactive piece (#1110) refer to this one? {{unsigned|‎58.37.35.32}}
+Doesn't his big interactive piece (#1110) refer to this one? {{unsigned ip|‎58.37.35.32|08:31, 2 December 2012 (UTC)}}
 :It does. There's a note somewhere in that explanation page referring back to this page. [[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]][[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 09:28, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

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 Doesn't his big interactive piece (#1110) refer to this one? {{unsigned|‎58.37.35.32}}
 :It does. There's a note somewhere in that explanation page referring back to this page. [[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]][[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 09:28, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
-This comic under my interpretation is that like the kid in the barrel his mind was wandering at the time of his drawing of the comic and it reprsents his wandering mind as he may be bored and it is in the middle of nowhere but at the same time it is somewhere. but its waiting to get someplace (an island?)
+This comic under my interpretation is that like the kid in the barrel his mind was wandering at the time of his drawing of the comic and it reprsents his wandering mind as he may be bored and it is in the middle of nowhere but at the same time it is somewhere. but its waiting to get someplace (an island?) --[[User:TheWeatherMan|TheWeatherMan]] ([[User talk:TheWeatherMan|talk]]) 13:57, 23 January 2013 (UTC)TheWeatherMan
 :when ever I feel isolated from society, I like to contemplate the ladders I could build for them to see things from my perspective. We will never manage to teach kids how to exist in chaos, we need to outsource our thinking, share ideas, to see new options for each of the impossible answers. Sic-if is here to stay, because it's the only hint we will get of the perfection they want us to achieve. Anything less then the total perfection is unsustainable. - [[Special:Contributions/98.211.199.84|98.211.199.84]] 14:22, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
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 ::::Yeah it was great regardless! Anyways, I don't think I've ever asked you this: i was wondering, why don't you just register an account? You could do so many more things! --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 20:20, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
 :::::I do what I can, when I can, and have done for long enough. (Srsly, I sometimes see a decade-old IP-signed Talk comment and think "that was me!", because of a particular turn of phrase in it.) And, knowing me, if I ''had'' started off with an account, I'd have forgotten the password at some point in the last 10+ years (relying on a saved password on a machine that then went kaput a couple of years down the line), so would have had to restart the continuity like I've had to do with other places. Additional (less useful) reasons might be a) that I try never to re-use usernames across systems, and never did manage to think of a particularly apt one I'd like to use here, and b) if I was to have been a proven username of good- and long-standing, I'd have been roped into being an admin at some point (been there, done that) and, with special respect to Kynde in particular, I don't really have the desire to go that far again. But enough about me. (Especially as you don't and can't even know if I'm the same 'me', or being entirely truthful with all my "yeah, I was a BBS Sysop in the late '80s, and the combination of ruling with a firm and fair hand and the occasional practical joke got that sort of thing out of my system" posing. Pretty much truthful ''and'' pretty much posing, perhaps!) Thanks for asking, you're not the first and I'm pretty happy with the answer(s) I tend to give. And now we return you to our regularly scheduled programme... [[Special:Contributions/172.69.79.191|172.69.79.191]] 21:06, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

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-Anyone here in [[3188|2038]]? [[User:Elizium23|Elizium23]] ([[User talk:Elizium23|talk]]) 02:06, 12 February 2005 (UTC)
+Anyone else here in [[3188|2038]]? [[User:Elizium23|Elizium23]] ([[User talk:Elizium23|talk]]) 02:06, 12 February 2005 (UTC)
 Doesn't his big interactive piece (#1110) refer to this one? {{unsigned|‎58.37.35.32}}

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 Doesn't his big interactive piece (#1110) refer to this one? {{unsigned|‎58.37.35.32}}
 :It does. There's a note somewhere in that explanation page referring back to this page. [[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]][[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 09:28, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

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	:::If I'd have known, I might have used slightly less fluffery (plus added the internal links you did, but I was just about to go out for the day, and was too rushed to make it shorter, snappier and better overall, or take time to hold back the purple prose), but surprising and gratifying to have just seen it appear there. "Hang on... those are ''my'' words, but I'm sure I..." ;) [[Special:Contributions/172.68.205.123\|172.68.205.123]] 19:19, 22 February 2025 (UTC) <-- at one time, at least, having been 172.71.241.100		:::If I'd have known, I might have used slightly less fluffery (plus added the internal links you did, but I was just about to go out for the day, and was too rushed to make it shorter, snappier and better overall, or take time to hold back the purple prose), but surprising and gratifying to have just seen it appear there. "Hang on... those are ''my'' words, but I'm sure I..." ;) [[Special:Contributions/172.68.205.123\|172.68.205.123]] 19:19, 22 February 2025 (UTC) <-- at one time, at least, having been 172.71.241.100
	::::Yeah it was great regardless! Anyways, I don't think I've ever asked you this: i was wondering, why don't you just register an account? You could do so many more things! --[[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 20:20, 22 February 2025 (UTC)		::::Yeah it was great regardless! Anyways, I don't think I've ever asked you this: i was wondering, why don't you just register an account? You could do so many more things! --[[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 20:20, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
		+	:::::I do what I can, when I can, and have done for long enough. (Srsly, I sometimes see a decade-old IP-signed Talk comment and think "that was me!", because of a particular turn of phrase in it.) And, knowing me, if I ''had'' started off with an account, I'd have forgotten the password at some point in the last 10+ years (relying on a saved password on a machine that then went kaput a couple of years down the line), so would have had to restart the continuity like I've had to do with other places. Additional (less useful) reasons might be a) that I try never to re-use usernames across systems, and never did manage to think of a particularly apt one I'd like to use here, and b) if I was to have been a proven username of good- and long-standing, I'd have been roped into being an admin at some point (been there, done that) and, with special respect to Kynde in particular, I don't really have the desire to go that far again. But enough about me. (Especially as you don't and can't even know if I'm the same 'me', or being entirely truthful with all my "yeah, I was a BBS Sysop in the late '80s, and the combination of ruling with a firm and fair hand and the occasional practical joke got that sort of thing out of my system" posing. Pretty much truthful ''and'' pretty much posing, perhaps!) Thanks for asking, you're not the first and I'm pretty happy with the answer(s) I tend to give. And now we return you to our regularly scheduled programme... [[Special:Contributions/172.69.79.191\|172.69.79.191]] 21:06, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

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	::Fyi, I liked your explanation so much i added it to [[Barrel Boy]]! --[[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 18:16, 22 February 2025 (UTC)		::Fyi, I liked your explanation so much i added it to [[Barrel Boy]]! --[[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 18:16, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
	:::If I'd have known, I might have used slightly less fluffery (plus added the internal links you did, but I was just about to go out for the day, and was too rushed to make it shorter, snappier and better overall, or take time to hold back the purple prose), but surprising and gratifying to have just seen it appear there. "Hang on... those are ''my'' words, but I'm sure I..." ;) [[Special:Contributions/172.68.205.123\|172.68.205.123]] 19:19, 22 February 2025 (UTC) <-- at one time, at least, having been 172.71.241.100		:::If I'd have known, I might have used slightly less fluffery (plus added the internal links you did, but I was just about to go out for the day, and was too rushed to make it shorter, snappier and better overall, or take time to hold back the purple prose), but surprising and gratifying to have just seen it appear there. "Hang on... those are ''my'' words, but I'm sure I..." ;) [[Special:Contributions/172.68.205.123\|172.68.205.123]] 19:19, 22 February 2025 (UTC) <-- at one time, at least, having been 172.71.241.100
		+	::::Yeah it was great regardless! Anyways, I don't think I've ever asked you this: i was wondering, why don't you just register an account? You could do so many more things! --[[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 20:20, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

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	:As a serious answer(/a serious answer), Barrel Boy is recognised as his own character, distinct from even the earliest Cueball (and Cueball-adjacent) stick figure, by both a great gulf of style and by personality. Though the (pre-publication) artistic development of style from cartoonish-realism to barebones-stickfigurey might well have included a 'missing link' or two of Barrel Boy 'growing up' into the author-avatar/'Rob', the debut to the world (in either its pre-website order, or numbered as per xkcd.com) intermingles the two stages of (possible) evolution in a way that at least makes it clear that Randall considers them parallel art styles, not sequential. As above, there are theories that this character is who 'grows up' to be Beret Guy, while one could perhaps also directly link with the 'Jack' kid-stickfigure (named as per Jack and Jill) that pops up years later, infrequently as contrast to the contemporary Cueballs/other adults. (There's also a 'young Hairy' that pops up every now and then, from before that point, but (IMO) slightly less associable as a direct descendent.) Of course, there must be something of the artist in ''all'' Randall's drawings, by conscious of unconscious projection, so there might be a discernable 'family trait' to all of them, whether Black Hat and Beret Guy or even Stallman and Gygax... [[Special:Contributions/172.71.241.100\|172.71.241.100]] 09:31, 22 February 2025 (UTC)		:As a serious answer(/a serious answer), Barrel Boy is recognised as his own character, distinct from even the earliest Cueball (and Cueball-adjacent) stick figure, by both a great gulf of style and by personality. Though the (pre-publication) artistic development of style from cartoonish-realism to barebones-stickfigurey might well have included a 'missing link' or two of Barrel Boy 'growing up' into the author-avatar/'Rob', the debut to the world (in either its pre-website order, or numbered as per xkcd.com) intermingles the two stages of (possible) evolution in a way that at least makes it clear that Randall considers them parallel art styles, not sequential. As above, there are theories that this character is who 'grows up' to be Beret Guy, while one could perhaps also directly link with the 'Jack' kid-stickfigure (named as per Jack and Jill) that pops up years later, infrequently as contrast to the contemporary Cueballs/other adults. (There's also a 'young Hairy' that pops up every now and then, from before that point, but (IMO) slightly less associable as a direct descendent.) Of course, there must be something of the artist in ''all'' Randall's drawings, by conscious of unconscious projection, so there might be a discernable 'family trait' to all of them, whether Black Hat and Beret Guy or even Stallman and Gygax... [[Special:Contributions/172.71.241.100\|172.71.241.100]] 09:31, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
	::Fyi, I liked your explanation so much i added it to [[Barrel Boy]]! --[[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 18:16, 22 February 2025 (UTC)		::Fyi, I liked your explanation so much i added it to [[Barrel Boy]]! --[[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 18:16, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
		+	:::If I'd have known, I might have used slightly less fluffery (plus added the internal links you did, but I was just about to go out for the day, and was too rushed to make it shorter, snappier and better overall, or take time to hold back the purple prose), but surprising and gratifying to have just seen it appear there. "Hang on... those are ''my'' words, but I'm sure I..." ;) [[Special:Contributions/172.68.205.123\|172.68.205.123]] 19:19, 22 February 2025 (UTC) <-- at one time, at least, having been 172.71.241.100

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 is the guy like early cueball? [[Special:Contributions/172.71.150.156|172.71.150.156]] 03:15, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
 :As a serious answer(/a serious answer), Barrel Boy is recognised as his own character, distinct from even the earliest Cueball (and Cueball-adjacent) stick figure, by both a great gulf of style and by personality. Though the (pre-publication) artistic development of style from cartoonish-realism to barebones-stickfigurey might well have included a 'missing link' or two of Barrel Boy 'growing up' into the author-avatar/'Rob', the debut to the world (in either its pre-website order, or numbered as per xkcd.com) intermingles the two stages of (possible) evolution in a way that at least makes it clear that Randall considers them parallel art styles, not sequential. As above, there are theories that this character is who 'grows up' to be Beret Guy, while one could perhaps also directly link with the 'Jack' kid-stickfigure (named as per Jack and Jill) that pops up years later, infrequently as contrast to the contemporary Cueballs/other adults. (There's also a 'young Hairy' that pops up every now and then, from before that point, but (IMO) slightly less associable as a direct descendent.) Of course, there must be something of the artist in ''all'' Randall's drawings, by conscious of unconscious projection, so there might be a discernable 'family trait' to all of them, whether Black Hat and Beret Guy or even Stallman and Gygax... [[Special:Contributions/172.71.241.100|172.71.241.100]] 09:31, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
-::I liked your explanation so much i added it to [[Barrel Boy]], fyi! --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 18:16, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
+::Fyi, I liked your explanation so much i added it to [[Barrel Boy]]! --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 18:16, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

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	is the guy like early cueball? [[Special:Contributions/172.71.150.156\|172.71.150.156]] 03:15, 22 February 2025 (UTC)		is the guy like early cueball? [[Special:Contributions/172.71.150.156\|172.71.150.156]] 03:15, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
	:As a serious answer(/a serious answer), Barrel Boy is recognised as his own character, distinct from even the earliest Cueball (and Cueball-adjacent) stick figure, by both a great gulf of style and by personality. Though the (pre-publication) artistic development of style from cartoonish-realism to barebones-stickfigurey might well have included a 'missing link' or two of Barrel Boy 'growing up' into the author-avatar/'Rob', the debut to the world (in either its pre-website order, or numbered as per xkcd.com) intermingles the two stages of (possible) evolution in a way that at least makes it clear that Randall considers them parallel art styles, not sequential. As above, there are theories that this character is who 'grows up' to be Beret Guy, while one could perhaps also directly link with the 'Jack' kid-stickfigure (named as per Jack and Jill) that pops up years later, infrequently as contrast to the contemporary Cueballs/other adults. (There's also a 'young Hairy' that pops up every now and then, from before that point, but (IMO) slightly less associable as a direct descendent.) Of course, there must be something of the artist in ''all'' Randall's drawings, by conscious of unconscious projection, so there might be a discernable 'family trait' to all of them, whether Black Hat and Beret Guy or even Stallman and Gygax... [[Special:Contributions/172.71.241.100\|172.71.241.100]] 09:31, 22 February 2025 (UTC)		:As a serious answer(/a serious answer), Barrel Boy is recognised as his own character, distinct from even the earliest Cueball (and Cueball-adjacent) stick figure, by both a great gulf of style and by personality. Though the (pre-publication) artistic development of style from cartoonish-realism to barebones-stickfigurey might well have included a 'missing link' or two of Barrel Boy 'growing up' into the author-avatar/'Rob', the debut to the world (in either its pre-website order, or numbered as per xkcd.com) intermingles the two stages of (possible) evolution in a way that at least makes it clear that Randall considers them parallel art styles, not sequential. As above, there are theories that this character is who 'grows up' to be Beret Guy, while one could perhaps also directly link with the 'Jack' kid-stickfigure (named as per Jack and Jill) that pops up years later, infrequently as contrast to the contemporary Cueballs/other adults. (There's also a 'young Hairy' that pops up every now and then, from before that point, but (IMO) slightly less associable as a direct descendent.) Of course, there must be something of the artist in ''all'' Randall's drawings, by conscious of unconscious projection, so there might be a discernable 'family trait' to all of them, whether Black Hat and Beret Guy or even Stallman and Gygax... [[Special:Contributions/172.71.241.100\|172.71.241.100]] 09:31, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
		+	::I liked your explanation so much i added it to [[Barrel Boy]], fyi! --[[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 18:16, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

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 :I resisted, and slept on it, but... found, a while a go; replied... well... obviously right now. Not that it means much. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.91.158|172.70.91.158]] 10:10, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
-is the guy like early cueball?        [[Special:Contributions/172.71.150.156|172.71.150.156]] 03:15, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
+is this guy like early cueball? [[Special:Contributions/172.71.150.157|172.71.150.157]] 03:11, 22 February 2025 (UTC)<br/>
+is the guy like early cueball? [[Special:Contributions/172.71.150.156|172.71.150.156]] 03:15, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
-is this guy like early cueball?
+:As a serious answer(/a serious answer), Barrel Boy is recognised as his own character, distinct from even the earliest Cueball (and Cueball-adjacent) stick figure, by both a great gulf of style and by personality. Though the (pre-publication) artistic development of style from cartoonish-realism to barebones-stickfigurey might well have included a 'missing link' or two of Barrel Boy 'growing up' into the author-avatar/'Rob', the debut to the world (in either its pre-website order, or numbered as per xkcd.com) intermingles the two stages of (possible) evolution in a way that at least makes it clear that Randall considers them parallel art styles, not sequential. As above, there are theories that this character is who 'grows up' to be Beret Guy, while one could perhaps also directly link with the 'Jack' kid-stickfigure (named as per Jack and Jill) that pops up years later, infrequently as contrast to the contemporary Cueballs/other adults. (There's also a 'young Hairy' that pops up every now and then, from before that point, but (IMO) slightly less associable as a direct descendent.) Of course, there must be something of the artist in ''all'' Randall's drawings, by conscious of unconscious projection, so there might be a discernable 'family trait' to all of them, whether Black Hat and Beret Guy or even Stallman and Gygax... [[Special:Contributions/172.71.241.100|172.71.241.100]] 09:31, 22 February 2025 (UTC)