15: Just Alerting You
| Just Alerting You |
 Title text: Just thought you should know |
Explanation
This comic shows Megan riding a dinosaur. It is arguably her first appearance in XKCD.
Transcript
- [Megan is standing on top of a dinosaur (Brontosaurus?) and holding reins to the dinosaur's head.]
- Megan: Before you talk to me, I should warn you: I am kind of strange
Trivia
- [Original Randall quote]"I bet she's cool. I mean, she has a dinosaur!"
- This is the fourteenth comic posted to livejournal. The previous was 11: Barrel - Part 2. The next was 16: Monty Python -- Enough.
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I think you mean an Apatosaurus. See xkcd 636 for the difference. 72.38.90.50 (talk) 15:36, 11 September 2012 (UTC) (please sign your comments with ~~~~) Jones
The comic is funny because she is telling you she is strange but it should have been very ovious that she is strange because while most people travel by car or walking she rides a dinosaur which is not very common. 72.38.90.50 (talk) 15:38,11 September 2012 (UTC) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- She could be telling the dinosaur that she's strange. OTOH, since she seems to be riding it, she probably isn't introducing herself to it. gijobarts (talk) 00:56, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
She must be Eve. 172.245.56.191 (talk) 22:26, 9 September 2014 (UTC) (please sign your comments with ~~~~) 22:26, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
As of 2015 it is now generally accepted that Brontosaurus was a valid genus in its own right, separate and distinct from Apatosaurus. Given that Brontosaurus has long been more popular than Apatosaurus, perhaps the explanation should be updated to stated that Megan(?) is riding a Brontosaurus. 108.162.249.183 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- Good point, and the official transcript suggests that it is a Brontosaurus, so replacing the comment about it being a former name.
Is the incomplete tag really necessary? "Short" and "incomplete" are two different things. There is not really much to this comic - a single figure riding a dinosaur with some simple caption that does to contain any technical stuff or obscure references that'd need explaining. I think it is neither needed nor desirable to make the explanation longer for sake of being longer. If someone feels like this page is legitimately incomplete, feel free to add the tag back, with a better text pointing out to specific areas that need to be explained, not just "too short". Jaalenja (talk) 10:46, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
Am I the only one who thought Star Wars Christmas Special? Boba Fett? Netherin5 (talk) 13:55, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
From the Trivia: "This may have made people think that this was Megan but as stated above Randall says this is a man in the transcript." Yeah, but he also says, "I bet she's cool. I mean, she has a dinosaur!" So…maybe it is Megan.--Calion (talk) 23:00, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
