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  • ...ommon target of mockery for its tendency to claim that 'no one understands me,' when in fact such feelings are common amongst teenagers, which is probabl The title text is a reference to some of the people who contributed to language theory:
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  • However, he is up against [[Jill]] who tells him he is wrong. She explains that her parents took samples of their :[The noob turns out to be Jill, with two hair buns, who kneels on her chair, typing at a laptop on a table in this frame-less panel
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  • ...it's actually *me* on Klout first, and not one of my friends trying to get me punched. The great thing about this douchebag deadman switch is that I will ...ormation provided by Klout was not held in high esteem. The type of person who took most interest in their score was typically not well-liked.
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  • ...30, Randall calculates that there are around 10,000 people in the US alone who learn any given common fact for the first time each day. ...n is part of a special and select group - she is one of the "Lucky 10,000" who, that day, will learn and experience that thing for the first time.
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  • ...Verse 2|Verse 2]] or [[#Verse 3|Verse 3]]). Each verse ends with "Just put me down as 'Undecided' - Every Major's Terrible", which gives the song its nam *Randall's: Just put me down as undecided- every major's terrible
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  • ...king on as Megan takes her hands to her mouth and yells after Miss Lenhart who is walking away while looking back at her over her shoulder.] ...ng about algebra the moment I graduated, and in 20 years no one has needed me to solve ''anything'' for x.
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  • This is common case of anxiety for people who are usually not very skilled in navigating social situations like parties. ...I be leaning on something? Where should my hands go? I hope he doesn't ask me what his name is. I've said "yeah" too much; what are some other agreeing w
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  • | titletext = Wait, that second one is a woman? ...wait, if that bothers me, then why doesn't... man, this game is no fun anymore. ...tion" of the FPS game), and in the title text it is clear that [[Cueball]] who played this modified version no longer enjoys the game.
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  • ...you'd have no trouble finding willing participants among college students (who are often broke). ..., along with the text "This dynamic is so easily manipulated and it freaks me out."
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  • ...ts of the world. In the US, some consider it to be inconsiderate to others who would prefer not to see such a display. Of course, women breastfeeding in p ...If? (book)|What If?]]'', in the first comic, it shows the 92nd little pig, who built his house out of depleted Uranium, The wolf responded, "Dude". Howeve
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  • # People who can always make him smile # People who constantly show him new things to love about the world.
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  • ...990 novel by {{w|Michael Crichton}}. The film centers around a billionaire who bought an island and opened a zoo or theme park for dinosaurs that he has c :Randall: Miss Lenhart couldn't be here today, so she asked me to substitute.
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  • ...l discouragement from using it willy-nilly, it is fairly common for people who use or administer UNIX systems to attempt a straight up <code>% make instal ...denies the request. Cueball then (ab)uses the sudo command on the friend, who then has no choice but to go and make the sandwich, and now does so without
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  • ...l quotes exchanged, with no context, in lieu of conversation. It depressed me badly.<br><br><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/2007092 ...unchlines and jokes. This is akin to a common ironic concept of a teenager who wants to rebel against conformity by doing all the things their friends are
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  • ...uirrels|animals]], a majority of the people featured are [[stick figure]]s who have become a cast of recurring [[characters]]. The xkcd art style has unde ...with those things. I want to get a string that will just point uniquely to me that's not my name, because that's kind of boring. And so, I [decided] to g
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  • ...g a rubber ball off the wall isn't going to dent it, and the roof can hold me just fine. You LIED! ...y so much as touch an expensive item, which can be frustrating to children who feel that they don't have the freedom to explore.
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  • ...notably "maybe if this T-shirt is witty enough, someone will finally love me" sums up what Randall thinks snarky shirts really say. There are shirts wit :As a matter of fact the world <big>does</big> revolve around me
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  • ...te|An old friend of mine, Randall Munroe of [http://xkcd.com/ XKCD], asked me to make a fun "simple writer" for his new book, Thing Explainer. The simple {{Quote|Thank you to James Zetlen, who helped make the word checker work on other people’s computers and not jus
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  • ...ed in the game {{w|Guitar Hero}} is equally hazardous when driving. Anyone who's become accustomed to rocking out on a fake guitar to a particular song co :Cueball: It looked smaller then me. It was just instinct.
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  • ...bed under an open window in the corner of a room. He is looking at Megan, who is spinning fast, indicated with two large circles indicating where her arm :Megan: Giving me a little more time here
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  • {{comicsrow|417|2008-04-30|The Man Who Fell Sideways}} {{comicsrow|274|2007-06-08|With Apologies to The Who}}
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  • {{w|Michael Phelps}} is an American {{w|Olympics|Olympic}} swimmer, who could easily be considered the best swimmer worldwide: he is the most decor :Phelps: Ha hah! Can't catch me!
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  • ...You want me to pick up waffle cones? Oh, right, for the wine. One sec, let me just derive your son's credit card number and I'll be on my way. [[Cueball|Cueball's]] friend (who also looks like Cueball) explains the {{w|principle of explosion}}, a class
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  • ...hould NOT honk solely because I stopped for a pedestrian and you're behind me. ...e title text further elaborates on this, saying in essence: "Don't honk at me just because you're impatient that I stopped for a pedestrian."
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  • ...g it was the weekend. Anyway, the first version of this strip was drawn by me and then written by Doug. I redrew/wrote it and now you are reading it! Coo ...e-guy: Well, you might as well call into question all of human experience. Who really knows what world someone else sees?
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  • ...t me to the authorities, but because I had the device they couldn't charge me. ...d that he mentions it is his device in the caption, it must be [[Randall]] who managed to create this device. The physicists are also likely more angry th
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  • ...|Michael Jordan}}, a very popular and accomplished {{w|basketball}} player who played for the {{w|Chicago Bulls}} and the {{w|Washington Wizards}}. His na :Cueball: Pickup artists are dehumanizing creeps who see relationships as adversarial and women as sex toys.
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  • ...would be hard to direct fans to the band's website. As an example, someone who hears "www.thedottumblrdotcom.com" might instead write it out as "www.the.t :For me, "...Dot tumblr dot com" has been gradually replacing "...would be a good n
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  • ...that right now, because it's depressing how much better at this he is than me. ...get serious. The girl in the comic wants someone who can see every part of who she is and still love her.
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  • {{w|Hypochondriac}}s are people who worry obsessively about their health, often looking up symptoms on the Inte :Cueball (thinking): Seriously!? '''''This''''' is what gets me? I wasted so many hours on WebMD worrying about the rash on my arm!
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  • ...r also caught fire in [[1693: Oxidation]], but this time she knew for sure who did it, so no direct relation to this comic, except the poor luck Megan has .... She has an audience consisting of Cueball standing in front of Black Hat who is sitting and leaning back in a chair and Danish standing behind him.]
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  • ...in character vampires do not need to be slain, but she then turns on those who tries to do so in real life on the message board. ...ight board, now infesting their own site. The third picture is of a person who has tried to dress up like a {{w|goth}} vampire, even commenting on the dar
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  • ...who is mentioned in the comic as the only blogger to actually do this, and who also appeared in comic [[345: 1337: Part 5]] in this guise. ...y joins in" theme behind the commercials. The teacher is [[Miss Lenhart]], who was first properly introduced in comic [[263: Certainty]], but may have mad
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  • ...|Where's Wally?|Where's Waldo books}}. To not give anything away for those who wish to search for him themselves there will be no spoiler here. But if som The title text is a reference to the phrase "Show me the money!" which originates from the film ''{{w|Jerry Maguire}}''.
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  • | titletext = Hi! Someone call for me? I'm a superhero who specializes in the study of God's creation of Man in the Book of Genesi-- H ...w|Entomology}} is the study of insects. Instead of calling Entomology-Man, who could probably help with fighting off the mantises, they have accidentally
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  • ...to any movie where a record scratch plays and the protagonist says "that's me". ...ext) is the name of {{w|Renesmee Cullen#Renesmee Cullen|Renesmee Cullen}}, who is the baby born in the book and movie {{w|Breaking Dawn}} to parents Edwar
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  • ...st cemetery, where the headstones just had names and star ratings. Freaked me out. When I got home I tried to leave the cemetery a bad review on Yelp, bu ...ible explanation for the title text is that the headstones are from people who gave the cemetery star ratings and were then murdered, having their given r
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  • ...about the stability and user interface features of the app, left by users who actually never experienced its core functionality (simply because they neve :Reviewer 4 (White car): ★☆☆☆☆ App did not warn me about tornado.
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  • ...ite in it on the train, and wait for a shy-looking girl to sit across from me. ...ing in his journal, is sitting to the right across from Megan to the left, who sits with her arm on her handbag standing on the seat next to her. The wind
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  • ...ible problem in an aptitude test, as it is disadvantageous to have someone who is easily nerd sniped working for you. :Black Hat: This has led me to invent a new sport: Nerd Sniping.
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  • ...mmon example might be someone who weaves in and out of traffic, or someone who parks across two parking spaces, Black Hat is "more creative." This also su :Cueball: Your sociopathic abuse of random strangers staggers me.
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  • ...he title text, {{w|Roger Ebert}} was a famous American {{w|movie critic}}, who could be quite caustic when reviewing a movie he disliked. "Directionless" :Goatee Guy: Even though it technically ''wasn't'' cheating, she dumped me anyway! So I tell Bret, and he's like "She sounds just like ''my'' crazy ex
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  • ''{{w|Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me}}'' is an hour-long weekly radio news panel game show produced by {{w|Chica {{w|Carl Kasell}}, who also served as the news anchor on {{w|Morning Edition}}, was the show's off
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  • | titletext = Sci-fi has energy weapons because otherwise the people like me who watch it get distracted counting shots. ...is an action thriller about a police officer named "Dirty" Harry Callahan, who's notorious for being aggressive with criminals and quick to resort to leth
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  • ...t her. She thought that he would agonise the loss of her - the only person who understands him - but he subdues her ego when claiming that he likes his ha ...erhaps may be significant that this comic includes the line "So, you found me after all", given that the previous comic number [[404: Not Found]] was ski
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  • | titletext = First person to bring me Wayne Coyne in a hamster ball gets a free t-shirt! He gets one too. ...g the hamster ball while it is in use, thus also kidnapping the rock star, who would be structurally powerless to fight back while trapped within a spheri
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  • ...alcolm Reynolds}} is aided by {{w|Zoë Washburne}}, his second in command, who gets behind the bar thug he is speaking to. In the comic, Nathan Fillion is :Cueball: Who
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  • ...oncept of {{w|Nativism (politics)|nativism}}, which is the view that those who are native to a place should have more rights than immigrants. A frequently ...earn English? She points out that even the English speakers are immigrants who did not learn the native language. Alternatively, she is saying that the te
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  • ...ame as in the comic — presumably to the annoyance of his older relatives who will be reminded of the fast passage of time. He does not stop here, but te :Rob: Try me.
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  • In this comic [[Cueball]] is an alleged evil villain who rules over a "Doom Island." In addition to commanding minions and detaining *{{w|Despicable Me}}, where the comical villain has a shark in his lair that unrealistically a
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  • ...tic and polemical that he has garnered active dislike from traditionalists who believe that software {{w|source code}} should be retained as a trade secre ...). It also turns out that they specifically choose targets for their raids who have reason to be paranoid of larger companies that might send someone afte
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  • ...ppens, the media likes to have at least two things: interviews with people who are the news, and on-the-scene reporters. In this case, [[Blondie]] as a [[ ...ewed. This could be a reference to former President {{w|Harry S. Truman}}, who operated a failed haberdashery in the early 1920s.
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  • ...about the pace of technology's improvement, that it goes ''too slowly''. (Who isn't disappointed? From old sci-fi movies' predictions, we should by this ...ike in the book ''{{w|2001: A Space Odyssey (novel)|2001}}''). Also people who are terminally ill or beyond current technology to save sometimes go throug
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  • {{w|Merlin}} is a wizard who features prominently in various retelling of the legend of King Arthur. ''{ :Cueball: They make me think of T. H. White's Merlin.
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  • ...ng the {{tvtropes|GirlInTheTower|trope of the helpless maid in the tower}} who needs saving, by helping to save seafarers by operating a lighthouse that h ...killed}} career &mdash; one might expect such a career to indicate someone who has no specific career plan, yet Megan seems to know her exact purpose, unl
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  • ...r registries}}. Cueball, though, thinks that there are certain governments who would have no problem with personal integrity infringement. :White Hat: But after all the problems with sex offender registries, who would agree to run it?
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  • ...s I was tutoring became too good at writing, and their essays were forcing me to confront painful existential questions, so I started trying to turn them ..."full potential" and they need to work harder. The comic comforts the kids who were subject to this — by telling the students if they did reach their fu
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  • ...under the completed prototype, then tell her, 'I don't expect you to date me just because I'm a rocket scientist, but you've gotta admit--this is pretty ...aun}}, who was one of the developers of the {{w|Saturn V}} launch vehicle, who came over to America (from {{w|Germany}}) as part of {{w|Operation Papercli
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  • ...solution for the problem of map projection. The comic implies that people who like that projection aren't very interested with map issues, and typically ...e skewing of the poles. {{w|Buckminster Fuller}} was an eccentric futurist who believed, for example, that world maps should allow no conception of "up" o
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  • ...col|ARP}} discovery packets that are sent out to the network to see who is who. All servers send out ARP packets to see what other machines are on the net :Server: Hi! I'm a server! Who are you?
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  • ...ust a fantasy, but since your Dad walked out your Mom could use a guy like me," and this is the line the comic is referencing, with Stacy's Dad (drawn th ...you think that since I walked out she could use a guy like you. But trust me. That woman has got a lot going on, and you want none of it.
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  • ...broken RSA. And I know I can trust him, because I asked if he was lying to me and he said no. ...s had not happened yet. The comic is implying that it was Elaine, in fact, who planted those ideas in Jobs' mind (while perching on his bedpost, a nearly-
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  • ...say irrationally, that "there are too many stars", and "it's been freaking me out". This may be a reference to Isaac Asimov's "Nightfall" which explores :[Back to Cueball on the podium who now looks down on the audience from where a question emanates at the top of
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  • ...ciation of America}} (RIAA), use the {{w|Digital Millenium Copyright Act}} who had found out about the Roberts hacking. ...it is [[Cory Doctorow]], a blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the weblog {{w|Boing Boing}}. He is an activist in f
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  • As such, the comic is satirizing people who respond to requests for advice for unclear, complicated tools with referenc ...I just tried to toast some bread, and the toaster grew an arm and stabbed me in the face!
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  • ...ring character in the webcomic {{w|Questionable Content}} by Jeph Jacques, who also manages her twitter handle. ...The user's Twitter handle is a reference to {{w|Pauly Shore}}, a comedian who was briefly popular in the 1990s before quickly becoming out of favor and d
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  • | titletext = But then the Ghost of Subjunctive Past showed up and told me to stay strong on 'if it were'. ...ns}}'s ''{{w|A Christmas Carol}}'', where Scrooge is replaced with someone who insists on calling people out on their incorrect usage of the word "literal
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  • ...ravitation}}). This setup is also very typical of the Jason Fox character, who, ostensibly ten, is supposed to be too young to like girls. The female cha ...al halls it is customary, when calling an issue to vote to have the people who want the issue at hand to be passed to say out loud that they agree. The cu
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  • ...out of her being a girl, he directs unwanted sexual attention at any woman who joins. :Black Hat: Hi. I'm here about the girl who visited your IRC channel last night looking for Java help.
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  • ...echo-location. It is a reference to {{w|Marco Polo}} the Venetian merchant who was the first European to make it to Central Asia and China. The character climbing the rigging is apparently {{w|Elizabeth Warren}}, who said at the {{w|2012 Democratic National Convention}}, "People feel like th
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  • ...rmation theory and security and is in an infuriating argument with someone who does not (possibly involving mixed case), I sincerely apologize. ==People who don't understand information theory and security==
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  • | titletext = Man, this trick has saved me so many times. :[Black Hat has moved away from the bloody rags towards Danish who has taken her hands down. They look straight at each other. The bloody mop
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  • | titletext = What do you want me to do? LEAVE? Then they'll keep being wrong! ...omic is simply called [[1731: Wrong]], but here it is not the other people who are wrong! A callback to this comic was made in [[2051: Bad Opinions]].
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  • ...'no turns' sign all on one pole. I honestly have no idea what it's telling me to do. ...Light 2 is stuck on red-and-yellow, constantly teasing the lane 2 drivers who expect it may switch to green any moment now. Probably for the best that it
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  • :Cueball: I once asked a genie for someone who could play it for me, but I think he misheard.
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  • ...ote|Thanks to James Zetlen, who arranged the lovely piece in the comic for me.}}
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  • :Cueball: This light always takes forever. I'd like to smack the idiot who designed this intersection. :Cueball: Who the hell are you?
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  • ...ot shown, and is now sitting with her hands in her lap in front of Cueball who holds one hand up as he replies.] :Megan: Is it just me, or have we created a Burning Man attendee?
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  • ...{{w|There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly}} in which a little old lady who swallowed a fly where each time she puts some other animal in her body to g ...Ok, so I have blood cells growing out of control, so you're going to give me different blood cells that ''also'' grow out of control?
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  • ...again. In the case of missed connections, one person describes themselves "Me" and describes the other person "You" in order that the second person would ...live, since the only reason the "you" should know about the "me" is if the me fired the harpoon (and missed). A person sitting in a well telling people s
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  • ...ession could, if fired with less precision, kill a horse (they did not let me test this). An {{w|oncologist}} is a doctor who specializes in the treatment of {{w|cancer}}. This comic is certainly relat
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  • ...ipods}}'' trilogy, a young adult series of books that is also about aliens who ride in walking tripods. Suddenly the windmills' pylons split into three le ...e original story, Don Quixote is a wandering knight of questionable sanity who fights a windmill, which he believes to be a giant. Hence, he is the approp
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  • ...w|Ring (film)|Ringu}}''. In it, there is a video tape that causes everyone who watches it to die after seven days. However, the viewer can prevent their d ...would likely kill many more people than those who rickrolled him (or those who've rickrolled anyone else).
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  • ...te "Welcome to the AAA Club!" in lipstick on the bathroom mirror, and left me a membership/roadside assistance card on the counter. :[Zoom in on Beret Guy who rubs his eyes groggily, small bubbles floating up from his head. A caption
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  • ...nbase who are convinced that the film is brilliant and transformative, and who have a reputation for wanting to discuss it at every opportunity. ...thusiasm for it, and appears to have no interest to discuss it with people who are still fans.
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  • After missing the delivery, [[Cueball]] (who is directly referencing ''{{w|The Lord of the Rings}}'') asks the Elves to :Cueball: Who are they to keep from me what is mine?
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  • ..."A withdrawn eight-year-old in a troubled family invents imaginary friends who bear the names of missing children" (Publisher's Weekly). The part of the s
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  • ...n be quite beautiful and mesmerizing to look at. In this case the speaker (who is located where the black dot is) enjoys watching interesting, unexpected The caption suggests that this happens when the people who run the radar notice you looking at the page enough they tease you by addin
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  • ...ses the hypocritical treatment they disproportionately receive from others who are likely just as strange, and therefore defends furries, given the opport :Megan: Forget those assholes. Come help me.
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  • Here, [[Cueball]] appears to be putting blame on someone who called him. This could be a result of... :...Cueball being "forced" to tell person who is wrong, due to him giving Cueball something that was in a font that was n
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  • ...eal Programmer has come to describe the archetypical 'hardcore' programmer who eschews the modern languages and tools of the day in favor of more direct a ...vely more obscure or outdated methods, culminating in the final programmer who claims that "real" programmers use butterflies.
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  • | titletext = Wishbone and the Illustrated Classics series have gotten me through every conversation I've ever had about Dickens, Treasure Island, Th ...{{w|Wishbone (TV series)|Wishbone}}'' was a children's TV show about a dog who draws parallels between literature and real life in his dreams, reenacting
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  • ...s and Bayesians were actual camps of people—all of whom are now emailing me. I thought they were loosely-applied labels—perhaps just labels appropria ...nce to the approach of a leading Bayesian scholar, {{w|Bruno de Finetti}}, who made extensive use of bets in his examples and thought experiments. See {{w
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  • ...ges based on which voting systems have what level of support. But it tells me a lot about the people I'm going to be voting with! ...se" candidate who is the second choice of a majority to defeat a candidate who is supported by a plurality but disliked by other groups.
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  • ...CoitusEnsues|immediately arouses Megan, who grabs Cueball and shouts "FUCK ME NOW."}} It turns out that the consecutive vowels themselves appear to cause :Megan: ''FUCK ME NOW.''
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  • ...ot sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; He who takes an oath as he who fears an oath. ...hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me, for '''all is vanity''' and grasping for the wind.
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  • :Megan: No, why are you talking to me. :Megan: Who do you think you are? If I were even slightly interested, I'd have shown it
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  • ...indicates she probably uses a whitelist to secure the server from griefers who might destroy structures created by others, not expecting that Cueball woul :Cueball: Hey! Know how you've been bugging me to play Minecraft for the past year? I'm game.
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  • ...hol brands don't make much difference (in 915 "Wine all tastes the same to me."; in 1534, "maybe we should just admit that all beer tastes kind of bad an :Cueball: Wine all tastes the same to me.
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  • Part of the humor in this comic comes from the fact that Death's boss, who would presumably be an extraordinarily powerful entity, appears to be a com :Death: You know how when someone dies, they can challenge me to a game for their soul?
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