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  • | titletext = When you talk about the job experience you'll give me, why do you pronounce 'job' with a long 'o'? ...ob (biblical figure)|Job}} (pronounced with a long O to rhyme with globe), who was put through many horrendous ordeals to test his faith in God. This sugg
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  • | titletext = It's taken me 20 years to get over skyline tetris. ...w|Tetris effect}}, which takes its name from the game {{w|Tetris}}. People who play Tetris for extended periods tend to imagine real-life objects (like sk
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  • | titletext = I'm SO glad I escaped. They almost had me caught in their weird ...thing. ..."MOOOOOON!" (this might be a reference to an old joke: Q: Knock Knock. A: Who's there? Q: Interrupting Cow. A: Interrupting Co— Q: MOOOOOOO!).
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  • :On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me. ...ative; for example, ''13 Worst Plane Crashes of the Decade'' or ''8 Otters Who Are So Cute We Can't Even Handle It''. This method of writing headlines, re
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  • ...mathematician}}, and fellow of the {{w|Royal Society}}, {{w|Horace Lamb}}, who famously {{w|Horace Lamb#Later years, 1920–1934|stated in 1932}}: ...ur understanding of turbulence has improved little. {{w|Richard Feynman}}, who was himself largely responsible for explaining QED, famously described turb
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  • ...where together; I'm trying to leave this conversation and you're following me. ...re rude and/or treat them badly. This has given rise to a cliche about men who assume themselves to be nice guys, insisting that women reject them for bei
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  • ...;"|33,638,400||This, together with "The turn signal of the car in front of me blinks", forms a reference to [[165: Turn Signals]]. |The turn signal of the car in front of me blinks||style="text-align:right;"|0.9||style="text-align:right;"|67||style=
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  • The title 'Lorenz' is referring to {{w|Edward Norton Lorenz}} who, among other subjects, was famous for {{w|Chaos theory}} and the {{w|Butter ***Google Maps did not warn me of this @
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  • ======They make me so hungry.====== =====Yes. You didn't see me reply burned into the lawn?=====
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  • | titletext = Are you still there, server? It's me, Margaret. ...] too. ''Meg'' can be a nickname for ''Margaret'' as well as ''[[Megan]]'' who Margaret resembles.
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  • | titletext = Who's calling me?? WHY IS THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD CALLING ME!?
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  • ...''Why a four-year-old child could understand this report! Run out and find me a four-year-old child, I can't make head or tail of it.''"[http://muse.tau. *[http://www.freerangekids.com freerangekids.com] blog for and by parents who would rather have their kids asking math grad students questions than const
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  • ...eyes. Every night at midnight, a ferry stops at the island. Any islanders who have figured out the color of their own eyes then leave the island, and the '''"I can see someone who has blue eyes."'''
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  • ...balls, but also human remains. She may be referring to a real grandfather who has been cremated, or is simply improvising a joke at Cueball's expense. ...all the next time have increased. Megan (or rather [[Randall]] if it is he who speaks in the title text) would prefer to put the ashes back into the urn.
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  • :::when the UK “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” aired :::when the US “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” aired
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  • | titletext = To everyone who responds to everything by saying they've 'lost their faith in humanity': Th ...is stupid. He jokes that he will let humanity (everyone other than the guy who makes the comment) know that he has lost faith in them - and very sarcastic
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  • ...be the worst film ever made, but has also earned a sizable number of fans who uphold it as a prime example of a film that is "{{w|so bad, it's good}}". I ...in a way not typical of American English.</p><p>The phrase "You're tearing me apart!" originally appeared in ''{{w|Rebel Without a Cause}}'', though it a
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  • | titletext = 'Finding a 105-year-old who's lived in each location and asking them which hurricane they think was the ...his map: "If you think there was a worse one, find a 105 year old resident who agrees!" 105 was likely chosen because most people can only remember back t
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  • .... Perhaps xkcd's "parts" refers to KSP's large community of mod developers who contribute 'parts' to the game, although it was likely intended as nothing :Cueball: Someone once told me the great kings of the past look down on us...
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  • :[Randall's ''What If?'' book is standing next to Cueball who is taking something out of a box. On the side of the box it says:] :Cueball: Someone once told me the great kings of the past look down on us...
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