3217: Home Remedies
| Home Remedies |
 Title text: As always, you are permitted to call one person for guidance, but that person must be a grandparent. |
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Many household problems have a range of commonly-circulated solutions using easily available items and ingredients, such as using salt to lift a stain out of a carpet. Sometimes, when one of these problems presents itself, several competing remedies may be offered by those present. This comic imagines this as a competitive sport, in which the final test is to combine several of these problems into one grand challenge to be solved. Specifically, the contestants in this case are presented with:
- removing unpleasant odours (in this case, that of a skunk)
- curing a hangover
- removing chewing gum stuck in hair
The title text's requirement that any assistance must come from a grandparent may reference the fact that such treatments are sometimes referred to as 'old wives' tales', or possibly just that they are often handed down as family lore.
The title text expands on this, pointing out how some of these remedies are old family tricks, spread by grandparents to keep on the trick. In the case of the championship, it means that if you ask for help it has to be from a grandparent, so to keep up the tradition.
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Wow that came out late. I guess it is still technically Monday in California? Or at least was when it came up on explain xkcd half an hour ago? --Kynde (talk) 08:03, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
Very late comic Broseph (talk) 08:13, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
- Even later explanation. 82.13.184.33 09:30, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
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