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== Description ==
This is pretty self-explainatory, if you studied chemistry in high-school. It is a phun on the trademarked brand [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapple Snapple], which is a collection of juice and fruit drinks. [[Cueball]] gets an offer to try out a Snapple in the form of an apple and tries to bites it, but is not able to. Then, he learns that the offering is actually an apple infused with Tin. The periodical table notation for Tin (so says the image text also) is Sn. Combined with apple, you get Snapple.  
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In reality, {{w|Snapple}} is a brand of tea and juice based beverages whose name is based on a carbonated apple juice they once produced ("snappy apple"). The joke in this comic is pretty self-explainatory; especially given that the image text continues the trend in early [[XKCD]] comics of explaining the joke.
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This comic features two [[Cueball]] characters (let's call them "lefty" and "righty"). Righty offers lefty a "snapple" which looks (in black and white) like a normal apple. Lefty replies “Food!” suggesting he either has an addiction to food, or he is very hungry. When lefty bites the snapple, it makes a metallic “clink” and righty tells him that the apple is infused with tin. Tin is a metallic chemical element whose abbreviation on the periodic table is "Sn" (as the Latin word for tin is "stannum"). Thus, the apple is a "Sn-apple"
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The third panel is a silent wide shot, perhaps suggesting the joke was met with silence as a lame joke. As a meta joke, the final panel might jokingly suggest that the silence is because those unfamiliar with the table of elements don’t get the joke.
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It is unclear who James (in the caption) is, but presumably he once made a joke to Randall about tin or Snapple or both.
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==Trivia==
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*This is another early XKCD comic in which [[Cueball]] characters are drawn in some panels with faces.
  
 
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Revision as of 18:20, 3 August 2012

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Sn = tin

Image Text

Sn = tin

Description

In reality, Snapple is a brand of tea and juice based beverages whose name is based on a carbonated apple juice they once produced ("snappy apple"). The joke in this comic is pretty self-explainatory; especially given that the image text continues the trend in early XKCD comics of explaining the joke.

This comic features two Cueball characters (let's call them "lefty" and "righty"). Righty offers lefty a "snapple" which looks (in black and white) like a normal apple. Lefty replies “Food!” suggesting he either has an addiction to food, or he is very hungry. When lefty bites the snapple, it makes a metallic “clink” and righty tells him that the apple is infused with tin. Tin is a metallic chemical element whose abbreviation on the periodic table is "Sn" (as the Latin word for tin is "stannum"). Thus, the apple is a "Sn-apple"

The third panel is a silent wide shot, perhaps suggesting the joke was met with silence as a lame joke. As a meta joke, the final panel might jokingly suggest that the silence is because those unfamiliar with the table of elements don’t get the joke.

It is unclear who James (in the caption) is, but presumably he once made a joke to Randall about tin or Snapple or both.

Trivia

  • This is another early XKCD comic in which Cueball characters are drawn in some panels with faces.