| title = Valentine's Day
...ions. Is our relationship such that it should be acknowledged on Valentine's Day? If so, how? If by a card, what kind of card would be best? If by somet
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| title = That's What SHE Said
...egory:My Hobby|My Hobby series]]. "{{w|Said the actress to the bishop|That's what ''she'' said!}}" is a phrase used in the US in response to an unintend
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| title =Westley's a Dick
...however, several "dick moves" Westley must have made in order for the film's narrative to make sense.
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| title =Playing Devil's Advocate to Win
...ure that it's caused by an increase in greenhouse gases caused by humanity's industrialization and activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and de
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| title = Children's Fantasy
Children's fantasy stories such as {{w|The Chronicles of Narnia}} and {{w|The Phantom
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| title = Bell's Theorem
...ce that can be transmitted from some remote location not within the system's reach. Furthermore, that influence must necessarily travel ''instantaneousl
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| title = Russell's Teapot
{{w|Russell's teapot|Russell's Teapot}} is a philosophical argument that reflects on the difficulty of try
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| title = Newton's Trajectories
...er two fall towards the Earth. This is a slight modification of {{w|Newton's cannonball}}, a thought experiment demonstrating the planetary effects of g
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| title = Rolle's Theorem
| titletext = I mean, if it's that easy to get a theorem named for you ... "a straight line that passes t
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...most likely words you would use in a sentence containing the previous word(s).
...a new message by just using space to automatically create a text. Cueball's best guess it begins with the word SwiftKey has found to be the typical sta
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| titletext = Everyone's caught by surprise when a theory of quantum gravity is developed by a sound
..."Albert Einstein: Life is a mystery"] gives some background about Einstein's choice to work at the Swiss patent office. The fact that he was turned down
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:''For Megan's boyfriend, see [[Cueball]].''</noinclude>
...ir and a much meaner attitude, was distinguished from her as [[Black Hat]]'s girlfriend [[Danish]]. A similar long-haired version of Megan also appeared
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...y and borderline-cute character, usually appearing as the basis of a strip's joke. He enjoys philosophizing, often taking the role of the {{w|existentia
...d [[442: xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel]], in particular with {{w|scone}}s (see [[452: Mission]] as well as the title text of [[677: Asshole]] and [[1
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:[Cueball's sword is now propped up against the right edge of the panel. The box opens,
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...s [[Randall]] is approaching his front door at night. His "Fear That There's Something Behind Me" rises, so then his "Forward Speed" rises to get to his
...getting the key in the lock, thus not being able to pay attention to what's coming up behind him.
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...bly better) ideas about how to use his time machine, he relents to Cueball's pleas and goes off to kill Hitler, comically using the casual phrase "BRB"
...ore. Indeed, it is possible that Black Hat is, and always has been, Hitler's cause of death, and that Hitler did not really commit suicide; he and his w
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...n Standard Time}}. In the rest of the explanation, EST refers to the comic's Earth Standard Time.
...nation in this video: ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82p-DYgGFjI Earth's motion around the Sun, not as simple as I thought]''). {{w|Calendar reform|
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...rendy buzzwords, his audience is impressed and fails to notice the company's essential pointlessness.
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...rite the TV movie about the aging prince's eventual election to Pat Toomey's Senate seat, currently titled either 'FRESHman Senator' or 'Mr. Smith Goes
...and repeated theme song. Consequently, the song coming out of [[Cueball]]'s TV right now is a take on that song. ''The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'' is abo
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...rnet is displayed. So, he has been '''looking''' at the internet. The girl's genome (which is basically the closest you can come to the data a computer
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| titletext = Though please do confirm that it's actually *me* on Klout first, and not one of my friends trying to get me pu
...p up, the machine does not exacerbate an already unsafe situation. Randall's "douchebag deadman switch" is a variation that would trigger if he ever bec
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...of the 80s, 90s, and today." I figured they'd change again in 2010, but it's 2017 and they're still saying "80s, 90s, and today." I hope radio survives
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...'Smilodon fatalis' narrowly edged out 'Tyrannosaurus rex' to win this year's Most Badass Latin Names competition, after edging out 'Dracorex hogwartsia'
...ting system versions. In their normal use, as species {{w|vernacular name}}s, they are not capitalized and are written as "snow leopard" and "mountain l
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...levels - or, at least, it may have been that way at the time of this comic's publication. Kickstarter does actually allow campaign hosts to designate a
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...oids suppress emotional pain as well as physical pain, keeping White Hat’s stress levels low.
...to confuse that with "the bacon". Apparently Cueball was reading White Hat's word balloon rather than hearing him speak aloud.
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...n]]) notes from off screen that the drop corresponds to the moment Cueball's obsession with graphs began. He claims that the two events are coincidental
...urier transform is a technique for discovering the periodic characteristic(s) of a function. A spike at one month on the Fourier transform of the love g
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...opening with Mentos. This comic also appears in a modified form in Randall's book ''[[How To]]'', in the introduction of the book. Supervolcanos would b
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#REDIRECT [[1052: Every Major's Terrible]]
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| title = Every Major's Terrible
[[Randall]] has written a song called ''Every Major's Terrible'' and this comic illustrates the song. In this song the term {{w|M
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