...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
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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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...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 — 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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:[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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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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| titletext = I'm SO glad I escaped. They almost had me caught in their weird ...thing.
..."MOOOOOON!" (this might be a reference to an old joke: Q: Knock Knock. A: Who's there? Q: Interrupting Cow. A: Interrupting Co— Q: MOOOOOOO!).
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:On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me.
...ative; for example, ''13 Worst Plane Crashes of the Decade'' or ''8 Otters Who Are So Cute We Can't Even Handle It''. This method of writing headlines, re
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...mathematician}}, and fellow of the {{w|Royal Society}}, {{w|Horace Lamb}}, who famously {{w|Horace Lamb#Later years, 1920–1934|stated in 1932}}:
...ur understanding of turbulence has improved little. {{w|Richard Feynman}}, who was himself largely responsible for explaining QED, famously described turb
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...where together; I'm trying to leave this conversation and you're following me.
...re rude and/or treat them badly. This has given rise to a cliche about men who assume themselves to be nice guys, insisting that women reject them for bei
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...;"|33,638,400||This, together with "The turn signal of the car in front of me blinks", forms a reference to [[165: Turn Signals]].
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The title 'Lorenz' is referring to {{w|Edward Norton Lorenz}} who, among other subjects, was famous for {{w|Chaos theory}} and the {{w|Butter
***Google Maps did not warn me of this @
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======They make me so hungry.======
=====Yes. You didn't see me reply burned into the lawn?=====
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| titletext = Are you still there, server? It's me, Margaret.
...] too. ''Meg'' can be a nickname for ''Margaret'' as well as ''[[Megan]]'' who Margaret resembles.
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| titletext = Who's calling me?? WHY IS THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD CALLING ME!?
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...''Why a four-year-old child could understand this report! Run out and find me a four-year-old child, I can't make head or tail of it.''"[http://muse.tau.
*[http://www.freerangekids.com freerangekids.com] blog for and by parents who would rather have their kids asking math grad students questions than const
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...eyes. Every night at midnight, a ferry stops at the island. Any islanders who have figured out the color of their own eyes then leave the island, and the
'''"I can see someone who has blue eyes."'''
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...balls, but also human remains. She may be referring to a real grandfather who has been cremated, or is simply improvising a joke at Cueball's expense.
...all the next time have increased. Megan (or rather [[Randall]] if it is he who speaks in the title text) would prefer to put the ashes back into the urn.
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:::when the UK “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” aired
:::when the US “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” aired
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| titletext = To everyone who responds to everything by saying they've 'lost their faith in humanity': Th
...is stupid. He jokes that he will let humanity (everyone other than the guy who makes the comment) know that he has lost faith in them - and very sarcastic
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...be the worst film ever made, but has also earned a sizable number of fans
who uphold it as a prime example of a film that is "{{w|so bad, it's good}}". I
...in a way not typical of American English.</p><p>The phrase "You're tearing
me apart!" originally appeared in ''{{w|Rebel Without a Cause}}'', though it a
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| titletext = 'Finding a 105-year-old who's lived in each location and asking them which hurricane they think was the
...his map: "If you think there was a worse one, find a 105 year old resident who agrees!" 105 was likely chosen because most people can only remember back t
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.... Perhaps xkcd's "parts" refers to KSP's large community of mod developers who contribute 'parts' to the game, although it was likely intended as nothing
:Cueball: Someone once told me the great kings of the past look down on us...
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:[Randall's ''What If?'' book is standing next to Cueball who is taking something out of a box. On the side of the box it says:]
:Cueball: Someone once told me the great kings of the past look down on us...
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...ow the person you were in the past can be viewed as a distinct entity from who you are now, as well as the predictability of future events relating to you
:Cueball: Stop judging me!
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...ard is shown, is a reference to the character Sherlock Holmes, a detective who is often attributed the famous line "Elementary, my dear Watson" (despite h
|"You wanna fuck with me? Okay. You wanna play rough? Okay. Say hello to my little friend!"
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:Rosetta: Quick, take a picture of me!
:Rosetta: Oh, they wanted me to mention-
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...to bring about a superintelligent AI that will eternally torment everyone who failed to make fun of the Roko's Basilisk people.
...t someday exist but didn't work to create it, thereby blackmailing anybody who thinks of this idea into bringing it about. This idea horrified some poster
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| titletext = Hey guys! What's eating you? Ha ha ha it's me! Oh, what fun we have.
...iew-with-ryan-north-creator-of-dinosaur-comics-15523444/ clip art]. Anyone who has read so much as a handful of ''Dinosaur Comics'' will know that its ''T
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| titletext = My parents sent me to several years of intensive Kix test prep.
...ental research and clinical trials. This phrase suggests that the children who tested the cereal did not obtain the required consent, which would generall
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...ball by talking about 'sportsball' and acting excited to find someone else who's interested, then acting confused when they try to clarify.
...pe characteristic of some ''xkcd'' comics: here, Randall references people who scornfully refer to popular sports such as football, basketball, and/or bas
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...ar and was a member of the [http://warisboring.com/articles/the-scientists-who-pee-plutonium/ UPPU club (translated as “You pee Pu!”)]. Alternatively
:[Megan turns to Beret Guy who takes the sample and looks at it.]
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| titletext = The invisible hand of the market never texts me back.
...chips to later resell them. This is much to the consternation of Cueball, who is (depending on how you interpret the simple art-style) holding his hands
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...can see from where you stand. Below the heading, the two groups of people who will get the most use out of this sheet are listed. The first is "GeoGuessr
...le text references {{w|Anton Chigurh}} (portrayed by {{w|Javier Bardem}}), who is the main antagonist of the film ''{{w|No Country For Old Men}}.'' In thi
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...s}} are a British pop girl group formed in 1994. It consists of five girls who each have a "spice girl" nickname. The five girls with their respective nic
...e dialogue may be one of two Spice Girls, described alternately as the one who is merciful and the one started the war (which likely resulted in the said
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|this will make me a millionaire (patent pending)
|The rook is getting closer. Help me.
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...to Anchorage, Black Hat will have created a serious problem for its owner who will have to report the car as stolen.
:[Black Hat walks past Cueball who turns to look after him.]
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| titletext = To me, trying to understand song lyrics feels like when I see text in a dream but
...} song {{w|Israelites (song) |Israelites}} so for instance the line ''Poor me Israelites'' becomes ''Oh-oh my ears are alight''. See more details in the
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...lay in every process in my body, really, they deserve this award more than me. Just gotta figure out how to give it to them. Maybe I can cut it into piec
...tance speech which traditionally begins with the recipient thanking people who have helped them achieve the honor. Sometimes when a number of people are m
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...hiteboard or produce a generation of offspring or something? It might take me a bit, but I can do it.
...for the job — because the interviewer is likely to presume that a person who gives silly and unhelpful answers is not right for most positions.
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Since the public key is initially designated to be shared, anyone who has that key can send the user an encrypted message that only the user can
...'ve been posting my public key for 15 years now, but no one has ever asked me for it or used it for anything as far as I can tell.
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...en working in groups. It can be used as a light reprimand to a team member who isn't cooperating, with the reminder that when working as a team one cannot
...ctim of {{w|cherry picking}}, especially when considering that "there's no me in team" would, strictly speaking, be a bit more grammatical. On a related
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:Jesus carried me
:Who was that guy?
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...ould be deliberately that she tries to annoy the woman she is talking too, who is standing behind her. It is Hairbun (or Princess Leia with her typical ha
:[Past them we find Ponytail with an arrow on her bow and Cueball who has just shoot an arrow from his bow. They are aiming at the Star Destroyer
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Beyond the maze on either side (just far enough that players who remain within the maze will not see) are [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/i
...sphere_worry_and_car_room_at_bottom_of_hull.png commented on] by [[Megan]] who looks out from an opening in the bottom of the Destroyer's hull.
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...y human who would prevent it from fulfilling those orders, even the person who originally gave them. Given the superior abilities of robots, the most effe
:Car factory robot: I'll make cars for you, but try to unplug me and I’ll vaporize you.
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...ne, and the line for her kite goes up in the air between her and Beret Guy who has now almost reached her. He is just holding on to the end of the line, w
:Beret Guy: Hey, Me too!
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...s pride in her sluttiness and would be dismayed at being bested by a child who is presumably not as experienced in behaving sluttily.
# "Evolution has not prepared humans/me/us/men/women to..." is a common excuse by some people to justify their beha
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...that the comment was unoriginal, useless, or otherwise unimportant. People who read it might assume that there is a hidden joke or meaning somewhere insid
:Hairy guy: This video looks fake to me.
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...erence to how the consumer versions of Microsoft Windows (3.x, 95, 98, and ME) ran on the "older version" software Microsoft DOS until Windows NT. Paired
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...iously made the comic [[526: Converting to Metric]]. There are also people who wish the US to change to the metric system, although some of them still wis
...hrenheit: ''Valuing unit standardization over being helpful possibly makes me a bad friend.''
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...especially for anyone who likes the ''good stuff'' in space like the host, who cannot wait for the star to explode. Clearly she hopes it will be in her li
:Host: Welcome to stargazing, with your host, me.
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...rting my edits" suggests the murders are being committed by ''one person'' who is influencing how they are shown on Wikipedia - perhaps trying to prevent
...eferred to be high-quality, accurate, and pretty. It seems that the people who are editing the article are getting desperate to find a non-bleak picture o
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...e Rapture, but only for technology: computers lifted up into heaven, those who aren't "true believers" being left behind, and a great tribulation to follo
:[A wider view of the table where the phone continues to talks to Cueball who in the end turns right and walks away as he replies.]
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...very detailed old code. This group is on the left. To the right are people who have gotten so used to the tools and conventions of the '80s that they spen
In the center is Cueball, presumably representing Randall, who has learned enough to change how the code operates but not enough for his c
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| Surprising || Unexpected || Surprising (but not to me) || The speaker/writer claims that everyone else is surprised by something,
| {{w|Doctor Who}} || Longrunning popular sci-fi TV series often combining history and alien
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