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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
+ | {{incomplete|Created by a YACHT. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
This is another comic in the "[[:Category:My Hobby|My Hobby]]" series. | This is another comic in the "[[:Category:My Hobby|My Hobby]]" series. | ||
− | Many people's hobbies involve {{w|collecting}} many items of the same | + | Many people's hobbies involve {{w|collecting}} many items of the same category—post stamps, collectible cards, painted dolls, wine, and so on. Just about anything can be collected, but for some reason, some things are collected much more often than others. Wikipedia has a page listing the most popular categories of such {{w|collectable}} items. |
− | In Randall's usual style of going meta with everything, he decided to start a meta-collection—a collection of examples of different things that people can collect. He uses Wikipedia's {{w|list of | + | In Randall's usual style of going meta with everything, he decided to start a meta-collection—a collection of examples of different things that people can collect. He uses the Wikipedia's {{w|list of collectables}} for reference. In the comic, [[Cueball]] is showing to his friend his collection of various items that have nothing in common except that they're all popular collectibles. |
− | In | + | In title text, Randall complains about a troll who keeps adding {{w|yacht}}s to the list of collectables—mostly because it would force him to buy a yacht if he ever wanted to complete his collection of collectables. Yachts are traditionally considered immensely expensive. Note that Randall does not specify how he is trying to get the page locked, and the comic itself might be a rather meta way of doing so: xkcd fans have a history of making lots of edits to Wikipedia articles Randall mentions, resulting in them being protected or locked. The article has in fact been edited and reverted several times by these fans over the course of a single day. |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
+ | {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
− | :[The comic depicts Cueball reading from a list to White Hat, standing next to a case filled with collectables including an urn, a model ship, a compact disc, a vinyl record, a doll | + | :[The comic depicts Cueball reading from a list to White Hat, standing next to a case filled with collectables including an urn, a model ship, a compact disc, a vinyl record, a doll, a martini glass, and a teapot.] |
:Today we're looking for a lunchbox, a snow globe, a Maytag dryer, a Harley Davidson, and a stamp. | :Today we're looking for a lunchbox, a snow globe, a Maytag dryer, a Harley Davidson, and a stamp. | ||
:[Caption below the frame:] | :[Caption below the frame:] | ||
:My hobby: Collecting one item from every category listed on Wikipedia's "List of collectables." | :My hobby: Collecting one item from every category listed on Wikipedia's "List of collectables." | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} |