People who live in rented properties often face the annoying problem of being unable t
...tatement expresses the fact that he was actually better off having someone who could dictate what could and could not be done with his residence, as then
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...all Greece -- "Athens rules all Greece; I control Athens; my wife controls me; and my infant son controls her." Thus, nowadays the world is controlled by
...that, but the systems administrator is usually responsible for controlling who has access to the information - making them the most powerful person in the
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:Ponytail: My teacher always told me that if I applied myself, I could become the next Marie Curie.
:Zombie Marie Curie (off-panel): You know, I wish they'd get over me.
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Obviously, this would be very annoying, causing the [[Cueball]] in the comic (who works in one such facility) to call him an asshole.
:I worry a lot about what the people at the recycling center think of me.
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...ise that "freedom", hence the title. This is enough to convince his friend who promptly exercises his option to punch Cueball in the face, perfectly in ke
:[The text is written above a half height frame with a zoom in on Cueball who shakes his fist.]
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| titletext = The chemistry experiment had me figuratively -- and then shortly thereafter literally -- glued to my seat.
...riend are walking left together. The friend turns his head towards Cueball who speaks, but is interrupted by voice from behind them off-panel right.]
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...qualifying statement, that he loves Megan the most of the subset of girls who also love Cueball back.
...eople their first choice, just their first choice among potential partners who prefer them to all the alternatives. The algorithms also favor either the m
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...r mom and skinned her. This is a reference to serial killer {{w|Ed Gein}}, who (among other things) made suits out of the skin of some of his victims. To
:Cueball: was before he left, he went and named me "Trig."
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...s. This fits with the theme of the comic, with Cueball being a "superhero" who fights crime using computer skills.
...er I learn a new skill I concoct elaborate fantasy scenarios where it lets me save the day.
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...different light. Instead of Alice and Bob being perfectly innocent people who just want to communicate in private, Bob is actually having an affair with
...signature. One downside is that anybody who has the public key can verify who a message is from, so it removes plausible deniability; Bob's partner clear
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...to further mysterious goals. The punchline only makes sense to the viewer, who lives in a reality where "the pen fifteen club" is a middle school prank an
...are not proved to be real. In this context it might mean that the only one who can conspire would be you, hiding the truth from yourself.
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| titletext = I recently had someone ask me to go get a computer and turn it on so I could restart it. He refused to mo
...}} geek and asks to talk to her. Hairy transfers him over to the engineer, who immediately recognizes the problem and fixes it. Then she tells him of a se
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...entification from, hacking the operating system itself. Thus, many people who are {{w|Linux}} {{w|Hacker (hobbyist)|enthusiasts}} began by not really kno
...Here, the joke starts to build in that Cueball's cousin, a computer novice who just wanted something to work out of the box, is now having to learn how to
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{{w|Emily Dickinson}} is a famous American poet, who wrote a poem called "[http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/
:He kindly stopped for me
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...ges, without profit to the content generators. This infuriated many users, who closed their accounts or stopped uploading images.
...mic [[Cueball]] tells his Cueball-like friend about his problem with Chad, who just sent him a note telling him that he no longer wants to store all this
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...Black Hat]] would rather avoid. Alternately, only people who speak Lojban, who compose an admittedly tiny proportion of the general population, could bene
...It translates roughly as: "That was a joke. Really. Wanna be friends with me?" Since Lojban aims to be completely unambiguous, idiomatic structures like
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{{w|Zeno of Elea}} was an ancient Greek philosopher who devised several apparent paradoxes of motion called {{w|Zeno's paradoxes}}.
...n A and B. Then I must walk half the remaining distance, which would bring me to three-quarters of the original distance; then I must again walk half the
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| titletext = The only blood these contracts are signed in is from me cutting my hand trying to open the goddamn CD case.
A {{w|Faustian deal}} is done by someone who sells his soul to the devil for something desired in this life, a textbook
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...stly everyone can be assumed to have heard of, and [[Cueball]] has no clue who they are, because Metallica is not featured in Guitar Hero (at the time of
*{{w|Boston (band)|Boston}} is an American rock band from Boston, who had their most success in the 1970s and 1980s. Their song "{{w|More Than a
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This results in a sort of "tug of war" between the user who is trying to remove the disc and the CD drive trying to retract, and it is
:I feel uncomfortable when my computer physically struggles with me. Sure, I can overpower it <u>now</u>, but it feels like a few short steps f
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...me bald as he gets older. In this scenario, Cueball is just missing Megan, who was with him in the past but no longer is, maybe even because she has died
:Cueball: Come explore the future with me!
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...ebody who can appreciate its elegance, in this case that being an academic who can see the programmer's true brilliance and get him much-earned plaudits f
...ving y=1/√x as fast as possible through a program – no-one knows quite who came up with this very useful bit of code (Now believed to be devised by Gr
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:My dad was always the one who taught me about science, but looking back, I'm starting to realize how much my nerdin
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| titletext =You know, pep rallies weirded me out in high school, and they've only gotten creepier in retrospect.
Any American who went to high school remembers the convocations they had during {{w|High sch
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The strip had a strong emotional impact on the fans of the rover, who created a number of alternative versions and endings for it.
:''Spirit'' (thinking): Maybe if I do a good enough job, they'll let me come home.
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...role, due to the terror of his name. Of course, there may be a few people who needed to be killed, over the years, but the implication in the book (and m
:Buttercup: Why did you let me think you were dead?
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...s own bubble to be inside is a smart move. He is contrasted to White Hat, who is wearing a {{w|Surgical mask|facemask}} for protection.
...a control over the situation. However, as White Hat notes, the same people who laughed at Cueball before are still laughing at him, for the same reasons a
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| titletext =There are so many well-meaning conservatives around here who just assume global warming is only presented as a moral issue for political
...n't ''matter'' if he wins the debate or not — science doesn't care about who got the last word. If humanity reaches the tipping point and one day can't
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...ven against Cueball's better judgement, as so often happens between people who're physically attracted to one another. And he apparently left the webcam o
:Cueball: It's been so hard to stop. But she's falling for me, and I can't keep getting her hopes up like this.
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:''Just like me, they long to be''
:[Cueball is singing to Megan, who has wiggly lines and unkempt hair. Musical notes appear around Cueball's wo
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| titletext =Scary thought #138: Raptors coming down the waterslide behind me.
...it worked frequently enough to enter gamer culture, and even today, people who had the NES as children remember having to do that. Some posit the act of c
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...his ring finger. The books tell the story of a small group of adventurers who rediscover the lost Ring and attempt to destroy it, as Sauron's army gather
...galad}} is a high Elven-king, and {{w|Galadriel}} is an Elf of royal blood who serves as a matriarch of sorts to the remnants of the Elven race. {{w|Geogr
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...atized by this, and he doesn't have anything to say aside from "Please let me go."
...om ''The Colbert Report'' and put him in the attic. As opposed to Stewart, who basically played "himself" on the show and was surrounded by zany reporters
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...aimed that it was [https://youtu.be/LWPENk8rH7w "like a second language to me"].
:[The Burning Bush of Exodus fame speaks to Moses, who is shielding himself with his arm, as if a great gust of wind is overtaking
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Only to be interrupted by the ''girl's'' internal monologue, who introduces herself to Cueball's internal monologue and asks if he'd like to
:Cueball's thought bubble: E-Excuse me?
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| titletext =Let me look away and type 'guy who's just jealous that I beat all his MarioKart times' and turn back, and... y
In the title text, she types "guy who's just jealous that I beat all his ''{{w|Mario Kart}}'' times" (this could
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| titletext =My biology grad student friends tell me that different types of alcohol don't actually have different effects. I tr
...To defuse this misunderstanding, I've invited both men to have a beer with me at the White House.
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...r of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. When I was stressed out, Zach gave me a talk that was really encouraging and somehow involved nanobots.
...ved his victories by using dragons. Genghis Khan was a Mongolian conqueror who conquered almost all of Asia and much of Europe founding the {{w|Mongol Emp
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...p administrations, Snopes has come under fire from right-wing commentators who have claimed that the site has a liberal or left-leaning bias; as in the th
:Cueball: Another urban legend? You should check out Snopes before sending me this stuff.
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| titletext = If you need some help with the math, let me know, but that should be enough to get you started! Huh? No, I don't need t
...nt studying the problem. This attitude leads to great annoyance from those who have probably spent years and years working on the problem, hence the Cueba
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...lk of the bailout was spent on bonuses - in particular to the very traders who caused the problem that cause the need for TARP in the first place - making
:billion is the difference between me having a
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| titletext = Day six: 'The hell? Who mails a bobcat?'
...paranoid passerby, the purchased items make Cueball look like a terrorist who plans to kidnap and {{w|Rubber-hose cryptanalysis|torture}} federal employe
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...ment, I'd rather stay a normal user. Again, thank you to everyone who sent me bitcoins before I took this down! I'll try to use them for something fun an
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...coln lay back on the bed, nude save for his trademark stovepipe hat. 'Tell me,' he purred seductively, as he and Obama formed a more perfect union. 'When
...s home to {{w|Sarah Palin}}, a politician known for making such gaffes and who was {{w|John McCain}}'s {{w|running mate}} in the {{w|United States preside
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| titletext = I hear many of you finally have smooth Flash support, but me and my Intel card are still waiting on a kernel patch somewhere in the pipe
...top computer and Linux users, and the general dismissive attitude of those who point this out. Cueball has created a patch that allows support for process
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...of this comic, there is a friend here who had a loved one (named 'Maggie') who died. Maggie is likely a spouse or girlfriend, but could also be a mother o
:Cueball: Okay, let me put this in your terms.
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{{w|Edward Tufte}} is a statistician who worked on data visualization and wrote books on the subject, including "The
...s. Good example - help me to [https://writeanypapers.com/ write papers for me]
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...is isn't unusual, since the {{w|Genie in popular culture|idea of a genie}} who does this is a very {{tvtropes|GenieInABottle|common trope}} in the fantasy
:Genie: You have awakened me from the lamp. You may have three wishes. What does your heart desire?
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| titletext = The same people who spend their weekends at the Blogger Reenactment Festivals will whine about
* "Me Hearties" is popular 'pirate speak', which purports to come from the {{w|Go
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...e plateau. They run into three people, all of whom look like [[Knit Cap]], who speak a language that they are unable to understand. Despite the language b
...ing light are high above them. They approach a long-haired woman at a desk who greets them. After Cueball asks, it appears she can "somewhat" understand h
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{{w|Obi-Wan Kenobi}} is a character from the movie series ''{{w|Star Wars}}'' who played the mentor figure to the protagonist, {{w|Luke Skywalker}}. One of h
:Cueball (thinking): Why is chess so hard? Maybe the answers lie within me. Maybe I just need to let go, relax, and let my instincts and subconscious
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| titletext = Guest comic by David Troupes of Buttercup Festival, who is living in that lovely tree outside your window.
:Cueball: Hold on—that guy used to dump my notebooks in high school. Give me a moment. Try to keep the moon steady.
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...image you're hovering over. It presented a competition for students to see who could come closest to breaking a {{w|Skein (hash function)|Skein hash}} but
...the two days until comic 1194 appeared, a competition was underway to see who could come closest to breaking a {{w|Skein (hash function)|Skein hash}}. T
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...in the unpredictability of life. In this way, the comic criticizes people who become depressed with the lack of control they have over their future: Bere
...ght thing to do. In this way, the comic could be seen as criticizing those who do not take advantage of life's opportunities.
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...tructed their volunteers to refuse admission to him and "any stick figures who may attempt to register, particularly if they are [[:Category:Characters wi
::::::::OK - posted to the PyCon blog, by the power vested in me as publicity chair. With Michael Foord's excellent sentence added.
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| title = Stephen and Me
| image = stephen and me.png
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...have sat down at the movie theater. Part of the problem is that two people who are apparently in a relationship do not sit together. He therefore tries to
...tle text shows that another part of the problem is that Cueball's friends, who could have helped him calculate a solution, are each sitting three seats aw
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...meone who has waved to you, or purposefully failing to acknowledge someone who is trying to get your attention.
...uld more likely be embarrassment over making friends with mechanical doors who he believes have feeling that can be hurt in the first place.{{Citation nee
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...ave to have either been involved in someone's death, or have known someone who died in a way that he blames himself for (or could be convinced to blame hi
:[Black Hat is driving, and Danish, who seems to be his equal, is in the passenger's seat. They are closely followe
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...ation. The term "Wikifriends" is coined in the comic as a label for people who adjust their views in order to incorporate into a group. That is to say tha
:Cueball: Me too.
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For those who haven't read it, this is a [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1387 typi
...menon in which people of a {{w|heterosexual}} or {{w|homosexual}} identity who, while showing some curiosity for a relationship or sexual activity with a
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...be familiar with the behavior shown in the comic, since most every person who likes solving problems has experienced a moment of realization similar to C
:[Ponytail approaches Cueball, who is sitting on porch steps, laptop in lap and backpack open.]
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...goes in to get a closer look at the tornado - and "{{w|big game hunter}}", who often kill for trophies. Tornado chasers are typically, but not always, {{w
:Passenger: Help me mount it on the hood.
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...private personal data it contains and can access (usually online). Anyone who wished to do real mischief on an active computer could do {{w|Identity thef
...hile I'm logged in, they can read my email, take my money, and impersonate me to my friends, but at least they can't install drivers without my permissio
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..., since he drifts off to think about the fictional character {{w|Batman}} (who appears in comic books, often considered children's material), in the middl
:Cueball: For god's sake, you're entrusting me with a ''building''. I still make LEGO buildings sometimes.
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| titletext = The 2007 Bridge To Terebithia trailer put me off too much to see that particular movie, but I am cautiously optimistic a
...ading and off-putting to fans of the novel, as in the title text. Viewers who were unfamiliar with the novel and saw the movie with expectations based on
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...things to happen, commonly in a romantic context. Cueball dreams of a girl who gives him a time and a place, and the last panel implies that he went to th
:Cueball: She grabbed me and spoke a stream of numbers into my ear. Then it all went away.
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...irst time ever, the phrase 'I'd like to thank everyone at 4chan for making me successful and happy' is uttered.
The title text pokes fun at users of [http://www.4chan.org 4chan] who are notoriously known for their habit of hoarding image macros, a practice
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:Megan (out of the Etch-a-Sketch): I'm the one who draws when you turn the knobs.
:Megan (out of the Etch-a-Sketch): I'm glad you found me, then!
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:[Cueball is standing next to his brother, who is holding a Google Maps printout.]
:Cueball: Let me see those directions.
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...ne-hit wonder}} {{w|Mashup (music)|mash-up|}}." A {{w|lesbian}} is a woman who is only sexually interested in other women. {{w|Voyeurism}} is the act of w
| I '''want you to love''' me (2nd part of 1st line).
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...m ''feel'' as though their relationship is significant, not simply someone who is an outlier in terms of time spent together. However, we know how Cueball
:Megan: But you spend twice as much time with me as with anyone else. I'm a clear outlier.
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...ng pool full of Crisco. You guys all have that dream, right? It's not just me. Right?
...room, where all students are grayed out except one of the Cueball students who is drawn in the normal black line.]
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...eyes I feel a hand on my shoulder, and I see Tycho smile at someone behind me. Gabe is standing there, grinning that mischievous grin, and twirling his b
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...spect, it's weird that as a kid I thought completely random outbursts made me seem interesting, given that from an information theory point of view, lexi
...alogous, or even desirable; it is more likely a character trait of someone who is immature or has difficulty in following or adding to a normal human conv
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| titletext = Wait, this is space -- how are you talking to me? And, as an afterthought, what's up with the hole in reality?
...panel and tells Megan that she has been found. When Megan asks the speaker who it is, reality becomes even more distorted, and suddenly she finds that she
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...to your leader! – No, Steve. || {{w|Beta Cassiopeiae|Caph}} || {{w|Take me to your leader (phrase)}} || 1957 || 55 ly || 2012
| You talkin' to ''me?'' || {{w|Arcturus}} || ''{{w|Taxi Driver}}'' || 1976 || 36.7 ± 0.3 ly ||
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...a fall down several flights of concrete steps. Relatedly, he's upset with me - I hope he doesn't take revenge by messing with my site's contenDISREGARD
:Mephistopheles: You're the Fujitsu exec who killed the Q-series.
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| titletext = Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.
But words will never hurt me.</blockquote>
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...'WHERE YOU BROKE MY HEART' as a listing for his own house, so that Megan, who is now on the Google Maps team, will see those submissions. The title text
:Megan: I'm sorry. The Google Maps team hired me.
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...ons on books like Ender's Game that they could never get along with anyone who disagreed.
...un at ''Xenocide'' by saying that there are only seven people in the world who would defend it, a laughably small number.
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...d of asking her out directly, promises to be her "best friend" and someone who is always "there for you," in the hopes that this will eventually lead to M
...hip), his plans are rather selfish and manipulative, making him a "friend" who is in fact detrimental.
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...letext = Quick, fashion a climbing harness out of a cat-6 cable and follow me down.
...people, is the opposite of interesting. This is contrasted with [[Megan]], who is rappelling down the outside of his office building, for no apparent reas
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...bly not actually racist—the Easterlings are portrayed as non-evil people who were deceived by Sauron, and the Orcs deliberately modified into evil. Howe
...others and sisters. [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] then points out that people who {{w|Religious debates over the Harry Potter series|protest against Harry Po
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[[Black Hat]] agrees and tells that he had an issue yesterday with a guy who had a serious case of the
...rs to have caused grief even to his own author and creator}}, [[Randall]], who only managed to check up on the ''Star Wars'' cast before getting too depre
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Megan is upset because she is apparently older than 26, and among people who marry, {{w|median|half}} do so below 26. The intuitive conclusion is that t
...than half your age plus 7 years. For example, a 50-year-old dating someone who is younger than 32 (50/2 + 7 = 32) would be considered creepy. As the graph
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...mba in the clouds and speaks to him. [[Cory Doctorow]] is a famous blogger who features in several of [[Randall]]'s [[:Category:Comics featuring Cory Doct
:Cueball: My father once told me that the great bloggers of the past are up there, watching over us.
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...ginal trilogy. So in this situation, it is the actor Ford and not Han Solo who speaks the lines.
| Another example of an out-of-tone ad-lib. The original line is "never tell me the odds," a nod to Solo's daredevil persona. In this ad-lib, however, he i
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...urn details a horror story of a family living in a sentient house. Truant, who is clearly intelligent and cultured, probes deeper into notating ''The Navi
...me, I flee ahead of I know not what. Whenver I turn, there's nobody behind me. And yet someone is clearly stealing the ketchup. WHY? (The footnote is cov
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| titletext = My friend Finn tried to mail one end of the cable to me and thread the mail system.
At the time, people who took their internet access seriously would have preferred that at least som
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...of the clone's text to the rest of the text. It is given from the context who speaks. There are always more stars in the panels to the left than those to
:Megan: Why tell me this?
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In the context shown, the expression "bear with me for a moment" usually implies that two seemingly unrelated topics are in fa
...ry implausible) possibility is that Randall is making the joke that people who attend computer graphics conferences are stereotypically not very athletic,
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| title = The Man Who Fell Sideways
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...s the user a range of controls such as which device is called depending on who is calling or what time of day it is, or to simply ignore the call altogeth
:Note: did you try to call me? use my google voice number next time.
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...a more personal reason to fight. The only explanation given is by Elrond, who says "As Sauron's power grows, her [Arwen's] strength wanes." This subplot
...eel that she is no longer immortal ("I can feel this body dying all around me"). According to Tolkien, though, after Aragorn dies in the year 120 (Fourth
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...ing memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?”</blockquote>
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| titletext = I'm the Philosopher until someone hands me a burrito.
...is that the joke is on the people who gather the data, rather than those who are subsequently able to make use of it (such as Facebook's users rather th
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...ish when she realizes the moon is right behind her, as if it were a person who could become offended by what she is saying. This is, of course, a {{tvtrop
:Megan: ...it's right behind me, isn't it?
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| titletext = When you talk about the job experience you'll give me, why do you pronounce 'job' with a long 'o'?
...ob (biblical figure)|Job}} (pronounced with a long O to rhyme with globe), who was put through many horrendous ordeals to test his faith in God. This sugg
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| titletext = It's taken me 20 years to get over skyline tetris.
...w|Tetris effect}}, which takes its name from the game {{w|Tetris}}. People who play Tetris for extended periods tend to imagine real-life objects (like sk
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