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...g a couple of friends whether "a couple" should always mean "two". As with the question of how many spaces should go after a period, it can turn acrimonio ...by analogy with the specific use of the word "couple" to refer to exactly one pair of people who are in a romantic relationship.

...system actually live in very different worlds. Everything about you shapes the world you inhabit--from your ideology to your glasses prescription to your *To view your personal version of the comic, visit the {{xkcd|1037|original comic}}.

...user (who wants to share) has an IQ of 147 and a 9-inch penis. Better than the reverse, I guess This comic use the popular search engine Google to show how many hits (or web pages) are retur

...average error in the NHC forecasted position of a hurricane three days in the future has shrunk to a third of what it was in 1990—a staggering accompli ...ason analysis) as Hurricane Epsilon and Zeta continued to exist far beyond the normal end-of-season date (November 30).

| titletext = Sometimes, I sit on top of parking decks and watch the sun rise. I feel like I should have a guitar or something. This comic is about the desire for an intimate connection with another, and the compromises we make to not be alone.

...re frequent heat waves, droughts, and species extinctions are just some of the many likely effects of global warming. ...ind it interesting to watch exactly what happens. And if it turns out that the scientists are wrong, he won't feel embarrassed that he's been making a big

| titletext ='I bet he'll keep quiet for a couple weeks and then-- wait, did you nail a piece of scrap wood to m ...ns knowledge, facts and beliefs, especially of supernatural phenomena like the existence of {{w|poltergeists}} which Black Hat is trying to imitate with h

...t got the subtext there. Also, the apparently eager Beyoncé would've made one badass Nazgûl. ...t to destroy it, as Sauron's army gathers its forces to attempt to reclaim the Ring for their master.

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| titletext = The end. * The comic image is a link to [http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190 geekwagon.

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...hing, it gets so quiet you hear that high-pitched empty-room hum. And then the whispers begin. ...n to [[Cueball]], but he writes back that he doubts she can do it for even one hour.

...by a recipient, or most likely to reach the recipient quickly and generate the most useful response. ...features voice and video chat along with text. The recipient mentions that the email "''woke [them] up''", implying that they have e-mail configured to ma

...this is not what will happen to Catalina, comets that get close enough to the sun may break up entirely. ...and perhaps a 'tail' of ionized gas and dust particles pointing away from the sun.

[[Cueball]] recounts the last message sent in {{w|morse code}} by the French maritime radio station {{W|Le Conquet radio}} upon retiring its 500& ...wonders if he can find the password again. He might be considering posting the final Morse Code message as his own last and final message on his LiveJourn

| titletext = It's turtles all the way down. *To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|1416|original comic}}.

Here in this gallery can be added any pictures not yet shown from the interactive comic: [[1416: Pixels]]. **On the [[Talk:1416: Pixels|talk page for Pixels]] it has been noted that all 79 im

*Below each image is mentioned by the title used by [[Randall]] and they are listed alphabetically *The headlines are links to the actual picture as can be found here on explain xkcd

...--the Perseverance rover--is too busy with rock samples to teach more than the occasional weekend class. ...(often related to how urban that area is), and is measured by metrics like the 100-point walk score, with higher numbers representing easier and safer wal

...a list of all discovered permalinks, which reuse different combinations of the same pictures and captions. ...f the user name and user picture remain constant, as these have changed in the past.

| titletext = Due to a minor glitch, 'discharge patient' does not cause the algorithm to exit, but instead leads back to 'hunt down and capture patient ...al alteration of a patient to match a height and weight chart or squeezing the patient to make sure fluids come out of them. Like [[416: Zealous Autoconfi

...and terseness found in many man pages, making fun of the typical style of the genre. It follows the prescribed format for a man page, with the following sections:

...emaining figure. I'm not sure I will be able to continue with this work at the moment... So please feel free to improve. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User ta ...is page, but I think we've hit a big ''milestone'' in being able to remove the 'incomplete' tag! [[User:BlackHat|BlackHat]] ([[User talk:BlackHat|talk]])

...I'm not a lawyer, but I believe zones like this are technically considered the high seas, so if you cut a pizza into a spiral there you could be charged w ...t move with it. That means that they are on a part of the Missouri side of the river that in fact belongs to Nebraska.

| titletext = Lots of people called their ships unsinkable before the Titanic. Voicing your hubris doesn't make failure more likely, just more me ...makes him look incredibly {{w|prescient}}, whereas if there isn't one, no one really cares or remembers.

...if it was safe to be running tours during the pandemic. They said, "During the what?" This comic is another in a [[:Category:COVID-19|series of comics]] related to the {{w|COVID-19 pandemic}}.

*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|2445|original comic}}. ...dition]], which was delayed two days and released on Friday April 3, 2020. The next became [[2601: Instructions]] released on Friday April 1, 2022 (a regu

...ree that a comprehensive numerical scoring system will let us better judge the party's winner. ...i.e. fun for the host Randall, with "no" in the left quadrant and "yes" in the right quadrant.

The terms "small" and "big" are used to refer to size; the terms "loud" and "quiet" are used to refer to (audial) volume. While these terms are relative, they ...er and quieter. More antique treadle-powered sewing machines might include the treadle-table, as an integral part of its size, but could be even quieter i

Here the long tables needed for the explanation of the interactive comic [[2765: Escape Speed]] could be moved. This is a different attempt to list and explain all the planets and other objects that have gravity and can be landed upon and expl

*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|2765|original comic}}. ...was [[2601: Instructions]], which was released on Friday, April 1st, 2022. The next became [[2916: Machine]] released on Friday April 5th, 2024 (a regular

...e transcript has been reordered in the order in which the comics appear in the picture and appropriate names have been given. ===The Void===

{{TOC}}Below, you will find the full transcript of the comic [[2765: Escape Speed]]. ...l powerups and items) by clicking the "Home" button in the bottom right of the playing field.]