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| date      = November 23, 2005
 
| date      = November 23, 2005
 
| title    = Old Drawing
 
| title    = Old Drawing
| before    = <big><big><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/#:~:text=Wednesday%27s%20Drawing%20%2D%20Old%20Notebook Original title</span>]: '''Wednesday's Drawing - Old Notebook'''</big></big>
 
 
| image    = unspeakable_pun.jpg
 
| image    = unspeakable_pun.jpg
| titletext = I don't want to talk about it<br><br><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/#:~:text=Wednesday%27s%20Drawing%20%2D%20Old%20Notebook Original caption</span>]: I'm on vacation! At home. Fresh drawings when I return!
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| titletext = I don't want to talk about it
 
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==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
This was the thirty-sixth comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[33: Self-reference]], and the next one was [[35: Sheep]].
 
  
This comic plays off the pun between [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stumped stumped], meaning confused or at a loss, and a {{w|Tree stump|tree stump}}, which is the remnants of a tree that has been cut down. Anyone snooping into his journal would be punished by such a terrible pun. In the title text, [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] says the pun is so terrible he doesn't even want to talk about it.
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This comic plays off the pun between [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stumped stumped], meaning confused or at a loss, and {{w|Tree stump|a stump}}, which is the remnants of a tree that has been cut down.
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Anyone snooping into his journal would be punished by such a terrible pun. The pun is so terrible that even [[Randall]] does not want to talk about it, as he mentioned in the title text.
  
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
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:Tree stump: Well, you stumped me...
 
:Tree stump: Well, you stumped me...
  
{{comic discussion}}
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==Trivia==
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*This was the 36th comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]].
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**The previous was [[33: Self-reference]].
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**The next was [[35: Sheep]].
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*Original title: "Wednesday's Drawing - Old Notebook".
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*Original [[Randall]] quote: "I'm on vacation! At home. Fresh drawings when I return!"
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*This comic was posted on [[xkcd]] when the web site opened on Sunday the 1st of January 2006.
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**It was posted along [[:Category:First day on xkcd|with all 41 comics]] posted before that on LiveJournal as well as a few others.
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**The latter explaining why the numbers of these 41 LiveJournal comics ranges from 1-44.
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*One of the original drawings drawn on [[:Category:Checkered paper|checkered paper]].
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{{Comic discussion}}
  
[[Category:Posted on LiveJournal| 36]]
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[[Category:Comics posted on livejournal| 36]]
[[Category:First day on xkcd.com]]
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[[Category:First day on xkcd]]
 
[[Category:Checkered paper]]
 
[[Category:Checkered paper]]
 
[[Category:Language]]
 
[[Category:Language]]
 
[[Category:Puns]]
 
[[Category:Puns]]
[[Category:Comics with lowercase text]]
 

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