| 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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...ase. The situation depicted in this comic is described as a "hypochondriac's nightmare" because [[Cueball]], expecting that the rash on his arm was some
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| title = So Bad It's Worse
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| title = Stacey's Dad
...music video] on YouTube). As the background singers repeatedly say, "Stacy's mom has got it goin' on." Although [[Randall]] has used the wrong spelling
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...cense factory Elaine Roberts|Comics featuring Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory Elaine Roberts]].''
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| title = That's What SHE Said
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| title = Children's Fantasy
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| title = Collector's Edition
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...re general help on [[mw:Help:Editing pages|how to edit wiki pages]]. There's also a handy {{w|Help:Cheatsheet|wikicode cheatsheet}}.
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:''For Black Hat's girlfriend, see [[Danish]].''</noinclude>
...ed bowtie and a black top hat with a white strip above the brim. Black Hat's hat clearly evolved from the top hat design later in xkcd.
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...eagle). This comic could also be a reference to {{w|Giuseppe Arcimboldo}}'s portraits, which were comprised of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flow
...Site}}, home of Area 51 ''et al''.), and is also a reference to California's {{w|1986 California Proposition 65|Proposition 65}} warning label, "WARNING
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...ology}} and the words they use are ripe with puns and {{w|double entendre}}s which also have sexual meanings. In the end, they just decide to get it on.
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...] of this image can be found by clicking the image at xkcd.com - the comic's page can also be accessed by clicking on the comic number above.
Firstly, there's detail. The eye always sees objects closer to the center with more detail,
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...given tweet to be received as an SMS message with enough room for the user's Twitter handle (15 characters max). Randall is poking fun at both the stere
...and Contrast]], [[1049: Bookshelf]] and [[1277: Ayn Random]]. The teenager's tweet is almost identical to the stereotypical Paul-ite comment made fun of
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...ge — it trips over one of the simplest commands, indicating that Cueball's system is messed up. ''Really'' messed up.
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This comic is based on a common {{w|superstition}} that when someone's {{w|eyelash}} falls out, that person can make a wish on it. This comic appe
...and there are some very large finite numbers out there, such as {{w|Graham's number}}).
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...f syntactic ambiguity comes from Wikipedia: 'Charlotte's Web is a children's novel by American author E. B. White, about a pig named Wilbur who is saved
...ween the ''{{w|Lord of the Rings}}'' trilogy and the novel ''{{w|Charlotte's Web}}''.
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...ther questions. You're hired!' 'Oh, sorry! I'm no longer interested. There's a bunch of future I gotta go check out!'
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...k's moves, as algebraic notation uses ellipses only to indicate that White's move has been omitted.
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...nd, in the end, they sleep together. This breaks the time loop, and Murray's character can finally wake up on February 3. However, whether they had sex
...elief. Cantor's philosophical conception of infinity would allow the comic's scenario to eventually reach the transfinite date of February 3.
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...Project M. But c'mon, if the Earth were a basketball, in 40 years no human's been more than half an inch from the surface.
...Mare Explorer|TiME}} is a proposed mission to explore the oceans of Saturn's moon Titan.
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...] of this image can be found by clicking the image at xkcd.com - the comic's page can also be accessed by clicking on the comic number above.
...stronomers have found thousands more. In the comic, our {{w|Solar System}}'s eight planets are depicted in the small rectangle above the central text. F
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...easonable change Cueball might make is to replace <nowiki><c> with <k> or <s> and keep <c> only followed by <h></nowiki>, or perhaps even making <nowiki
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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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:''For Megan's boyfriend, see [[Cueball]].''</noinclude>
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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
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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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...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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| titletext = Though please do confirm that it's actually *me* on Klout first, and not one of my friends trying to get me pu
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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'
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...oids suppress emotional pain as well as physical pain, keeping White Hat’s stress levels low.
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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
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...get excited because 'wingsuit combat' is underlined, only to find that it's just separate links to the 'wingsuit' and 'combat' articles.
...to be confused with <u>Andalasia</u>[link clicked], the kingdom in Disney's <u>''Enchanted''</u>[link clicked]), which is also the hometown of <u>''Mac
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...ely non-essential, perhaps even more so than algebra. See "A Mathematician's Lament" by Paul Lockhart: https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/Lockh
...ly lists of parameters ending with "solve for x." For example, to turn one's apartment into a ball pit like in [[150: Grownups]], one must calculate or
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...is a {{w|dystopian novel}} by {{w|Ayn Rand}}. [[Randall]] is suggesting it's a bad book.
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...eturn to normalcy. [Note: Click to read context for the cancer comics. She's doing well.]
...l a terrifying and isolating experience. Treatment is ongoing, and there’s no well-defined end point; things are going to continue to be scary and dif
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| titletext = Two tips: 1) 8675309 is not just prime, it's a twin prime, and 2) if you ever find yourself raising log(anything)^e or t
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| titletext = The safe is empty except for an unsolved 5x5 Rubik's cube.
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...lie actually delivered the Medicare line almost verbatim in the 1971 movie's Fizzy Lifting Drink scene, but it was ultimately cut from the final release
...h Charlie Bucket, the main character of the 1964 {{w|Roald Dahl}} children's novel, ''{{w|Charlie and the Chocolate Factory}},'' adapted to film in 1971
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...ver at the least possible number given the storage space, similar to a car's odometer. Imagine an odometer with six digits reaching 999999. Upon driving
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