...ichigan has been split into two separate parts. (Here it is the mitten and the eagle). This comic could also be a reference to {{w|Giuseppe Arcimboldo}}'s
...her, drawing attention to their similar shapes, North and South Dakota are the top and bottom halves of a {{w|guitar amplifier}} {{w|speaker cabinet}}, an
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This joke is a play on the phrase {{w|context-free grammar}}, which is a technical term used in {{w|fo
...d audience mention "missing context", thus having them unwittingly explain the joke.
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{{comicsrow|1491|2015-02-25|Stories of the Past and Future}}
{{comicsrow|1456|2014-12-05|On the Moon}}
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...crossover point lies relative to the likelihood of devastating effects on the planet.
...astronomers to observe and one that can be used to glean information about the universe.
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...be a {{w|letter bomb}} that explodes when opened. The result is pieces of the number scattered about: a red-colored ''7'', a green-colored ''5'', and a b
.... All other factors of 70 can be formed by choosing zero, two, or three of the prime factors and multiplying them together.
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{{comicsrow|979|2011-11-18|Wisdom of the Ancients}}
{{comicsrow|974|2011-11-07|The General Problem}}
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| titletext = They tried to report me to the authorities, but because I had the device they couldn't charge me.
...of a hole in the QED vacuum is a real particle, known as the positron. See the {{w|Dirac sea}}.
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*Clicking on the image takes you to [http://wiki.xkcd.com/irc/Leopard this link] (now defunc
...b pages as you view them. Some make pages easier to read, some remove ads (the third extension is [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock/gighm
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...never been as self-conscious about my handwriting as when I was inking in the caption for this comic.
...and an "n" together looking like an "m". (This latter case has resulted in the slang term "{{w|Kerning#Automatic_and_manual_kerning|keming}}" for this typ
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{{w|Wayne Coyne}}, the lead singer of the band {{w|The Flaming Lips}}, is indeed known to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd16G--U
...push the hamster ball into the waiting truck where a fifth friend acts as the driver when they escape with their heist. This has not been attempted, nor
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| title = The Race: Part 5
...to get Fox to un-cancel it, and one on Livejournal to get him to take off the coat.
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...he is wearing a helmet. In fact, a goofy helmet like that is liable to get the trolls on him faster than if he didn't have it. This may be a {{w|Densha Ot
...mer President {{w|Harry S. Truman}}, who operated a failed haberdashery in the early 1920s.
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| titletext = The worst part is when sidewalk cracks are out-of-sync with your natural stride
...s]]). But as his friend asks him why he is walking funny, he realizes that the algorithm he is using for walking on floor tiles would be so tedious and ti
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| titletext = We actually stand around the antivirus displays with the Mac users just waiting for someone to ask.
...and configure their own preferred operating systems and software. As such, the subtext is that somebody buying a complete pre-packaged home computer syste
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...it harder to read and to show off in a creative way using in-group jargon. The comic is narrated by [[Cueball]] as seen in part 2, but that Cueball is not
...day) and not over the usual schedule of three comics a week. These are all the comics in [[:Category:1337|1337 series]]:
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...ext = This digital music thing will probably reach its endgame sometime in the next decade or so. These are very exciting times.
...he is part of this comic series, and thus also this comic, as he narrates the epilogue.
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| title = The Corliss Resolution
...aken the position that the dangers of his activity are irrelevant, because the ability to effectively fly is so incredible and compelling that nothing can
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| titletext = I've developed a more logical set of rules but the people on the chess community have a bunch of stupid emotional biases and won't reply to
...move, and the opponent has no legal move available to avoid such capture, the opponent is said to be in "checkmate", and by definition immediately loses.
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| titletext = According to my mom, my first word was (looking up at the sky) 'Wow!'
...follow up to [[1032: Networking]]. The obvious joke is that, instead of “cloud” (Internet-based) storage, [[Beret Guy]]'s business is literally storage
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...sed on a sense of wonder at the world for both [[Cueball]]/[[Randall]] and the reader.
...ye is undetectable, and so they may look more like flat 2-D images - hence the impression Cueball has of stars being painted onto a dome rather than being
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