...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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...de in most conspiracy theory arguments is the one claiming that anyone who's in power has any plan at all.
Cueball's opponent seems to ignore all reliable sources, like {{w|Snopes}} and {{w|Wi
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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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...ns, you even need to pay in order to get the password. Even after that, it's quite likely that the .rar file just contains trash files, instead of the d
...his also redeems Google's practice of all those data records in the public's eye.
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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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*"The generation's finest minds meeting on comment threads, […] and holding the great dialog
...be an amalgamation between Blogosphere, Medieval Faire, and Blag, Randall's way of referencing [[Blag|his blog]]. The same topic is mentioned in the ti
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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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...w, I'm sick of easy targets. Anyone can make fun of emo kids. You know who's had it too easy? Computational Linguists. "Ooh, look at me! My field is so
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...ich was used in written English to take the place of the modern lowercase "s" in the beginning and middle of words. It was phased out around the beginni
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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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..."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
The title text gives the specific example of [[Randall]]'s local radio station dividing music by decades, and points out they simply s
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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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[[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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...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.
...cry by Libertarians. One could find this as another reason to dislike Rand's literature, as Libertarians have been notoriously disruptive and annoying t
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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
...s {{w|mnemonic}}s by mathematicians and physicists, though most of Randall's approximations are too convoluted to be useful as mnemonics. Perhaps the b
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| titletext = The safe is empty except for an unsolved 5x5 Rubik's cube.
...t continues the theme, with an unsolved {{w|Professor's_Cube|5x5x5}} Rubik's cube to further challenge and distract the thief.
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This comic's use of Skynet is a reference to the main antagonist in the ''{{w|Terminator
The title text is a reference to one of the Terminator's first lines upon arrival in the 20th century: since time travel is establis
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It both answers [[Cueball]]'s question and exemplifies with an ingenious {{w|self-reference}}, while bein
:Ti, Te, S, A.
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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
..., which implies that Cueball's brain would only be 16-bit. In addition, it's clear that the number is designated as a signed number, meaning that it can
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...choice, apparently expressing that if given the chance to write the world's code again, they would use Lisp instead.
...h "men," "again," and "paren," while the corresponding four lines in Frost's poem do rhyme. (That said, "Lisp" does have a near-rhyme in "myth" and "wit
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...Bible about the {{w|Seven bowls}}, which are a set of seven plagues of God's wrath poured over the wicked towards the Apocalypse, the {{w|Seven_bowls#Se
...rected {{w|zombie}} if he is Erdős. When confirmed that he is indeed Erdős, Cueball asks him to sign the math paper.
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...ctually going into improving our self-driving car project, so hurry up--it's almost at the minefield.
...t also has a side benefit that the human input can be used to train Google's image recognition software. The challenge usually features a square grid of
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...ing an object to satisfy itself as a prerequisite. This stops the compiler's infinite loop, but may not produce the desired functionality in the program
...code "CPSC" is the letter code Christopher Newport University, [[Randall]]'s alma mater, uses for Computer Science.
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...results in behaviour as awkward as first feared. Also, for some people it's common to want to map out a pre-planned course of action that should produc
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...it may just be that the developer is completely misunderstanding the user's actual needs. This would be consistent with creating an app that alerts the
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...in the symbol, but it possibly could be thrown. (The later version of Xena's chakram had a bar in the middle.)
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...rious about his promise, and that he hopes they are not afraid, because he's coming to find them.
It's not clear exactly in what manner his loved one was taken from him, only tha
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...with a degree in physics. Before starting xkcd, I worked on robots at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia. As of June 2007 I live in Massachusett
[[File:What If? 2 signature.png|300px|right|thumb|Randall's signature with [[Cueball]] from ''[[What If? 2]]'']]
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:''For Cueball's girlfriend, see [[Megan]].''</noinclude>
...nroe|Randall]] hadn't standardized his character design early in the comic's run. Several of the [[:Category:Cancer|comics about cancer]] also have Cueb
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...s hidden beneath the water, but that 90% only uses 10% of its brain, so it's really only 9%.
...s real a iceberg floats with the vast majority of its body below the water's surface (often simplified as 90%, which does quite closely reflect the gene
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...f each nanobot, the total volume they can contain is only 40% of the Earth's mass, and they can no longer continue their consumption of the planet.
...ts approximately 3.4×10<sup>38</sup> addresses, while the {{w|Earth|Earth's mass}} is around 5.972×10<sup>24</sup> kg. Assuming "a few cubic microns"
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...lling men, it exposes an inconsistency in the player's own logic, one that's very uncomfortable to confront.
...chocolate from his best friend Wolfram Wasser; Wolfram Wasser wonders who's stealing his supply of chocolates and has sworn to kill them).
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...ier chairs in a house where three bears lived. In the same way, in the Mom's version of the fairy tale, she would find successively better approximation
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...that time, and the ridiculous notion that the son would now be about Megan's current age. This is of course impossible, as it would imply that Cueball e
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...me I have too much time on my hands, but really the problem is that there's too much time, PERIOD.
...he main formula involves a square root, when the actual inverse of Randall's main function would involve a cube root. In addition, this function does no
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...ticle. The intention is that users can debate the stance(s) or implication(s) made by the article. On most sites, comments are displayed in chronologica
.... The hired students could easily be assigned to also upvote each other’s posts. Even without collusion, the same problem persists to some extent: af
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Cueball crashes Megan's speech on formal language theory, nonsensically shouts "Grammar!" without a
...ee grammar is incredibly nuanced and nigh impossible to rephrase in layman's terms. Luckily, the joke only interprets the phrase "context-free grammar"
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...sensical utterance. An example of a {{w|malapropism}} is {{w|Yogi Berra}}'s statement: "Texas has a lot of electrical votes," rather than "electoral vo
The title text refers to Wikipedia's requirements of citations for a page on there to exist. It also refers to t
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...an be solved. The more complex the task, the more room for diversity. That's all well and good for a one-off problem, but if a design is meant to be ite
...that there were also ''competing USB types''; thanks to the European Union's {{w|common external power supply}} specification, micro-USB then won the da
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...stence of scientific evidence will make people more likely to believe what's said, while most people won't even think to actually look up the study in q
...y trying it, and discovered that it's merely painful, not lethal. Here, it's combined with elements of other common scary urban legends (phones ringing
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...hexes. But Darth Vader was recently converted from Episcopalianism and he's still figuring it all out.
# When a woman described as having a "glow" about them, it's usually just a vague sentiment of attractiveness, specifically during pregn
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...so I ALways brush my TEETH before I START on the JACK / sure, my DRINKing's out of HAND, but I'm conTROLLing my PLAQUE.
A "bottle of Jack" refers to the {{w|Jack Daniel's}} brand of whiskey.
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...cks to you" is a school-ground retort used by children to suggest that one's insults are being ignored by the intended recipient of the insult and count
...t, it implies forcible conjoining, an existential threat to the the target's individuality.
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...ellar remnant and expanding cloud of ejecta. Around the time of this comic's release new constraints on the expansion of the universe from the observati
...Stargazing | 1644]], the wish that it goes supernova (in [[Randall|Randall's]] lifetime) is clearly expressed.
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What's important to note for this comic is that this distribution only has data po
:[Cueball's face is gone, and he is not holding any arms up.]
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...~:text=Monday%27s%20drawing%3A%20Snapple Original title</span>]: '''Monday's drawing: Snapple'''</big></big>
..."Snapple". When the guy bites into it, his teeth are blocked by the apple's metallic surface because Cueball has infused the apple with tin. {{w|Tin}}
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This is another one of [[Randall|Randall's]] [[:Category:Tips|Tips]], this time a solar energy tip.
...sity of sunlight striking them. In order to maximize energy production, it's generally recommended that panels be mounted at an angle that will receive
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...e formula by its bounds and a missing factor. An example of George Clinton's work most appropriate to this comic is the song "Mathematics" from the 1996
:L(F(t) = F(s) = ∫<sup>∞</sup><sub>0</sub>f(t)e<sup>-st</sup>dt
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...day%27s%20drawing,-Another%20one%20which Original title</span>]: '''Monday's drawing'''</big></big>
...n the purely mathematical sense. It is also very monotonous, like a planet's set orbit, but Kepler doesn't mind this.
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..."{{w|Clocks (song)|Clocks}}", fans of his music would know the answer: he's part of The Cure.
...not tried to draw a real face in years, as he mainly draws [[stick figure]]s. In that way this comic also sticks out.
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...nnected nodes or vertices. The "Wexler" in the title text refers to Wexler's algorithm, which is used to deal with the inverse problem of {{w|electrical
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...s like Cueball, but are here differentiated by who has the hobby.) Cueball's responses are each one line of iambic pentameter, just visually broken into
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...g even if they haven't hit most of the notes. So, when faced with Randall's impossible guitar solo, most players will immediately use Star Power to sur
...Hero'' sequel ''Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s.'' The song ''Because it's Midnite'' is considered very easy except for a 13-second guitar solo contai
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| titletext = It's true, I think about this all the time.
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| titletext = You're probably thinking, 'has it been a decade?' It's been over thirteen years, buddy.
...ywire, and several of the creatures, among which are the {{w|velociraptor}}s subject of this comic, try to devour every human in the theme park.
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...pe most famously popularized by the yellow ones of cyclist Lance Armstrong's {{w|Livestrong}} charity, which later became a popular fad for all sorts of
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...will begin to chase you; contact with the monster ends the game. Since it's much faster than you normally, you'll get caught. The monster also appears
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The comic largely references {{w|Euler's identity}}. This identity states that e<sup>iπ</sup> + 1 = 0. Therefore, e
The title text refers to how Euler's identity is called upon in complex form (separating real and imaginary numb
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...A Simple Plan), which was released in 2004 as a first single from the band's second album "{{w|Still Not Getting Any...}}" The lyrics of the song mainly
Simple Plan's lyrics seem particularly inappropriate and ridiculous, given that the membe
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| titletext = He's kind of an asshole, when you think about it.
...ing to suggest. Megan starts to explain, but apparently decides that there's no point even trying to get through to him.
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...being "normal." Also, while Randall again uses the unit circle in the fact's associated diagram, any circle could theoretically be used to show the conv
...gth. Hence, this fact is labeled "cursed" by Randall, leading to the comic's title. (However, since the radian is also an angular measure, the second fa
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...should try it, Cueball abruptly switches his position to thinking that it's a terrible idea. The joke is that once Megan agrees with him, he employs hi
:Megan: It's a neat idea, but I think treating personal issues like a debate will only e
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:[Hairy sees Megan hammer slide and it's love at first sight.]
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...he film, led to the line being voted the #1 movie line of all time in 1995's American Film Institute ranking.
...n profanity, but the actor, Gable, inserted it, due to having {{w|Tourette's Syndrome}}, which is a neurological condition that is stereotypically chara
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...ase don't be jealous! Man, why are all my relationships ruined by early 90's rappers?
...itle text suggests that other '90s rappers have similarly affected Randall's past relationships.
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The two-game programmers in the first frame apply Neo's story to the {{w|Artificial intelligence|AI}} bots they create to serve as
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...eepily on a sheet of paper on my desk. I shouldn't have listened to the 70's hit marathon on the way home from work the night before.
...sleepy replaced "lover" by "hover" while writing the last line of the song's chorus. Thus changing this line from ''to leave your lover'' into ''to lear
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...l company, several of the creatures, among which are the {{w|Velociraptor}}s subject of this comic, run loose and try to devour every human in the theme
...he forum board, until it was shut down. The link is now defunct, but there's an [https://web.archive.org/web/20150326152959/http://fora.xkcd.com/viewtop
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...uage. These pointers are used to access a certain location in the computer's memory in order to fulfill a task; however, this would not be helpful in im
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...could bring care and joy into the target's heart. Of course, [[Black Hat]]'s carebearstare is far more lethal.
...s persuasions, he activates his "carebearstare," thus overthrowing Cueball's request to be friends on myspace.
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:[Words crumpled inside the panel, there's barely enough space for the hairy guy to the right and below the text. The
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...{rw|fallacy|logical fallacies}} to help advance [[Randall Munroe|Randall]]'s point (see also [[973: MTV Generation]], [[1215: Insight]], [[1255: Columbu
...a white hat appears, but it is a rounded safari hat very unlike White Hat's usual boater. He also has a very different mindset so there is no reason to
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...day and are accompanied by a [[Title text|title text]], serving as Randall's commentary.
...Squirrels|animals]], a majority of the people featured are [[stick figure]]s who have become a cast of recurring [[characters]]. The xkcd art style has
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...factory Elaine Roberts|daughter]]'s name is "Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory." The most literal interpretation of the joke would be that
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...a number of other women with the same name, as well as its intended target's roommate, before finding the ''correct'' Sarah Connor.) Additionally, the t
...a huge orange and yellow explosion. The two are disintegrated and Cueball's shotgun goes flying.]
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| titletext = It's depressing how many of these are real shirts<br><br><span class="plainlinks
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...s this spirit and enters the ball pit. It is difficult to decipher Randall's true intent behind this somewhat cryptic comic, but it seems from the heart
The trend with adults participating in children's activities is continued in [[219: Blanket Fort]], and with adults who feel
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...te to tell his readers about it]. It's very simple, of course, and also it's light green.|James Zetlen, [https://web.archive.org/web/20181107021639/http
...ume.html James Zetlen]''' is one of [[:Category:Friends of Randall|Randall's friends]]. He was credited as the inspiration for [[18: Snapple]] and [[107
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...Monday%27s%20drawing) Original title</span>]: '''Just Alerting You (Monday's drawing)'''</big></big>
...lerting%20You%20(Monday%27s%20drawing) Original caption</span>]: I bet she's cool. I mean, she has a dinosaur!<br>I'm gonna update this MWF for a while
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...o with your car when the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMH49ieL4es game's theme song] starts playing.
...e song comes on in the third panel, [[Cueball]] begins acting out the game's premise, and drives his car into a mailbox - which "looked smaller" than hi
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...as it orbits the Sun. However, the comic refers specifically to the Earth's angular momentum generated by its rotation on its axis, which creates the d
...s also calculated above the comic, giving a final value of 10<sup>-35</sup>s per turn, or 1/10000 of a quectosecond. This comic is referenced at the end
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...ed the professor's house in order to question him on indices. Donald Knuth's words were not an intellectual response to the question, but rather an alar
...rime) to be the better option in finding his answer. Even for Donald Knuth's books, this is very exaggerated and illogical behavior.{{Citation needed}}
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| titletext = 'But what's the buzz about the film?' 'We're hoping it's distracting.'
...in about 800 million years the {{w|Sun}} will become so hot that the Earth's {{w|Future_of_the_Earth#Loss_of_oceans|oceans boil away}}. According to the
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...ery time you email a file to yourself so you can pull it up on your friend's laptop, Tim Berners-Lee sheds a single tear.
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In this comic, aviation pioneer {{w|Amelia Earhart|Amelia Earhart's}} plane comes back to land after it went missing in 1937. It was presumed t
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...t = 'Baby Got Back' turned 20 this year. My favorite nostalgia show is VH1's 'I Love The Inexorable March of Time Toward the Grave That Awaits Us All.'
...in his comics, too (specifically [[108: M.C. Hammer Slide]] and [[210: 90's Flowchart]]).
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...cut off the free Wikipedia browsing, I plan to show up drunk on Jeff Bezos's lawn and refuse to leave.
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...ack Hat]] that her computer virus that she is writing reads a YouTube user's comments back to them before it is submitted. Upon hearing their own ridicu
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...eryone" should have heard of it by now (e.g. "Spoiler alert, Vader is Luke's father").
{{w|Severus Snape}} is a character from J.K. Rowling's ''{{w|Harry Potter}}'' series of books.
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...hank God", it is suddenly implied that the relationship was so horrible he's thankful he'll never have to experience it again.
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...ing portrayed as [[Black Hat]]'s roommate. He is one of the few of Randall's characters to be given a name. In [[276: Fixed Width]], his screen name app
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...work, falling asleep during the day, or just about anything demanding one's attention.
...ssey|Odyssey}} orbiter were low-resolution thumbnails taken from the rover's rear-facing camera, thus the file name CURIOSITY-REAR-CAM_[256px_x_256px].
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...pt, hence the lack of absolute causation. It could also be a joke on Megan's behalf. Cueball may know whether his new knowledge is caused by the course,
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...him $2,000 unless he sells the old amplifier. However, he decides that it's a good deal anyway, and it looks like the smart engineer has made a sale.
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...ext=Monday%27s%20Drawing%20%2D%20Elefino Original title</span>]: '''Monday's Drawing - Elefino'''</big></big>
...oat in the final scene. The filmmakers relied on audiences to read Keaton's lips, as his answer was not intertitled.
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...text=Friday%27s%20Drawing%20%2D%20Hitler Original title</span>]: '''Friday's Drawing - Hitler'''</big></big>
...text=Friday%27s%20Drawing%20%2D%20Hitler Original caption</span>]: Yes, it's entirely possible that those two are [http://meninhats.com/d/20040225.html
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The waiter's problem is NP-complete, since a given order's price can be found and checked quickly, but finding an order to match a pri
...lesman problem}}, mentioned by Cueball at the end, referring to the waiter's claim that he has 6 more tables to get to. (see also [[399: Travelling Sale
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In the next scene Morpheus (ignoring Trinity's remark, or in a separate rerun of the interaction) has reached the part of
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...me -- hence the description, "a man dressed like a bat." Thus, when Batman's connection to bats is made explicit, he loses a lot of his mystique.
:Joker: It"s simple — we kill a man dressed like a bat.
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...tp://www.xkcd.com/ April 8th, 2006]. It used to appear between [[Randall]]'s list of "Comics I Enjoy" and the [[Footnote|footnote]], before it was remov
...e removal of the warning and the footnote was likely a result of the comic's sudden surge in popularity, to ensure that new fans were not deterred by th
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<noinclude>:''"2", this comic's number, redirects here. For the comic named "2", see [[2614: 2]].''</noincl
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[[Cueball]] and [[Megan]] find that the Olympic medalist is in Megan's pool. He refuses to leave, and is too fast to be caught. Cueball brings in
...in favor of the humor. Michael Phelps' top speed is also only around 2.3 m/s, which can easily be outrun by anyone on land.
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...ddle of the night revelation that Humankind is discovering "{{w|exoplanet}}s" or planets that exist outside of our solar system. The indication is that
..., and crew it could all be built safely in space, well away from the Earth's fragile biosphere, where little harm could be done. Some commercial spacefl
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...day%27s%20Drawing%20%2D%20Meat%20Cereals Original title</span>]: '''Friday's Drawing - Meat Cereals'''</big></big>
The title text apparently reflects Randall's opinion of his own creation.
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...text=Monday%27s%20Drawing%20%2D%20Donner Original title</span>]: '''Monday's Drawing - Donner'''</big></big>
...had already died. In this comic, three Donner party members arrive at Joe's restaurant, where they have ordered a table for four, as given by the fact
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...idered "closed source" due to [http://kingjbible.com/revelation/22.htm God's prohibition on altering its contents].
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...ho play Mal, River, and Kaylee respectively, also show up later in Randall's series [[:Category:The Race|The Race]].
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...is defined for Re('s')>1 as <math>\zeta(s)=\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{n^s}</math>. For the rest of its domain (all complex numbers except 1), it is d
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| titletext = If you're interested in the subject, Lawrence Lessig's 'Free Culture' is pretty good
...use their purchased media. For example, if they buy a new computer, there's no guarantee that their DRM-covered media will be usable on the new compute
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...from flinching as the pendulum approaches. This experiment (with Black Hat's twisted take) is referenced in [[1670: Laws of Physics]] and [[2539: Flinch
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...he site that explains many of the obscure references in [[Randall Munroe]]'s amazing [[xkcd]] webcomic!
...complex comics, where commenters pieced together all parts of [[Randall]]'s [[:Category:Large drawings|epic]] [[:Category:Dynamic comics|comics]] which
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..., Minard's Napoleonic war: the most exciting new frontier is charting what's already here.
...rd|Charles Minard}} did a visualization of the losses incurred by Napoleon's army in its attempt to conquer Russia.
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...by a number of armies, such as Napoleon's French at Aspern and Wellington's British in the Iberian Peninsula.
The title text expands on that, stating not to fire until you see the person's "soul" in their eyes.
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...know its song would be so beautiful. He didn't close the door in time. He's sorry.
...ll part of this large comic there is another of [[Randall Munroe|Randall]]'s [[:Category:Fun fact|fun facts]] below Burj Khalifa in the left part. This
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This comic is about how it's considered implausible to "fly" by positioning an umbrella over a water jet
...ing a 10cm x 10cm square - that translates to 140 liters/second - or 140kg/s of water. That produces an upward force of almost 2,000 newtons! If we pre
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An {{w|Umwelt}}, as the title text explains, is the idea that one's entire way of thinking is dependent on their surroundings. Thus, this {{w|A
...s] comic isn't available everywhere and it can come up i[n] some situation[s] only for recognized browsers."
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...in the interviewee's seat, and Black Hat is now sitting in the interviewer's seat, effectively switching their roles.
...ing has been filled", and the second meaning "the opening to the briefcase's chasm has been filled". In the latter sense, opening may also be used as a
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...ery time they get halfway to Christmas. This is a joke because of {{w|Zeno's paradox}}, which said "Before a moving object can travel a certain distance
...o the previous and we get: 11:58:35.625 PM. This has been rounded to 35.63 s in the comic. Similarly the time stamp for the next four windows, whose top
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...ge of psycho-sexual development is the Oral Stage, which relates to a baby's relationship with its mother. The realization that 'mommy' cannot be found
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...m-,Monday%27s%20Drawing,-The%20saga%20of Original title</span>]: '''Monday's Drawing'''</big></big>
...1919 illustration}} by {{w|Harry Clarke}}, made for {{w|Edgar Allan Poe}}'s 1841 short story "{{w|A Descent into the Maelström}}." In the short story,
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...pm-,Monday%27s%20Drawing,-(11%20Comments Original title</span>]: '''Monday's Drawing'''</big></big>
...thering me. I'll try not to do that much. But as I'm not destroying anyone's childhood, I don't feel like I'm really pulling a George Lucas.<br>I mean,
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...The ferret could also be interpreted as a symbol of hope and following one's dreams, since in its original appearance, its powers of flight were just a
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:[Two guys, both Cueball-like, are standing at a cliff's edge.]
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...ney through direct sales and is actually better for them than the RIAA. It's a vicious war. An early casualty in the copyright wars was {{w|Napster}}; a
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...dall Munroe|Randall]] hadn't standardized his character designs yet, so it's hard to say if the comic features [[Megan]] and [[Cueball]] or [[Hairy]].
...reports that one of his best friends recently got engaged. The friends he's referring to are [[Scott]] and Sarah.
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:Human subcultures are nested fractally. There's no bottom.
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...he form of a diagram. In particular, the chart exposes the computer expert's secret ingredient: trial and error.
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...tizen takes work. Meanwhile, you have no money, half an art degree, and it's the start of winter. You'll freeze to death in the streets.
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...n, and then was hurled sideways through the picture window. Even worse, it's one of those lamps where the switch is on the cord.
...terus}}. If Cueball did not feel the same way, he should ignore one person's comment. On the other hand, reading such a statement will maybe make you th
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...t computers}}, installing it on a RealDoll, whilst possible due to Android's {{w|open source}} nature, would be a very niche activity, and the low numbe
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| titletext = It's hard to fit in the backseat of my flying car with my android Realdoll when
...ce to the joke {{w|Flying_car_(aircraft)#Where.27s_my_flying_car.3F|"where's my flying car?"}} This was explored further in [[1623: 2016 Conversation Gu
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.... He holds it like that and generally adores it. I have to concede that it's pretty cute, if smelly.
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...me [[xkcd]] was created, [[Randall]] was working on robotics at {{w|NASA}}'s Langley Center. This comic was drawn during that period, while attending a
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...affle 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.
...s possible to derive any statement at all within that system (whether it’s actually true or not). In particular, if you start by assuming a self-contr
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...uter — which it is, is not known to the examiner. If the machine/program's responses convince the examiner that they are talking to a human, the machi
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...he title text of [[2277: Business Greetings]], also about one of Beret Guy's businesses. None of these things are common behavior.{{Citation needed}}
...where, and most people trade cards and continue to not make money. So that's the joke – Beret Guy does the networking {{w|schtick}}, badly, and yet is
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...text=Friday%27s%20Drawing%20%2D%20Pillar Original title</span>]: '''Friday's Drawing - Pillar'''</big></big>
...yesterday afternoon. Well, I haven't slept, so I say it's still Friday. It's been a weird couple days and I was just thinking it was the weekend. Anyway
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...g this opinion to scientists (rather than it being, presumably, his friend's or his own opinion). The same joke is at play in the image text where a lea
...scientists is irrelevant to the legitimacy of their opinions about Randall's shoe problems, presenting their teasing as an expert opinion is humorously
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...uclei, the absence of an electron leaves a net positive charge at the hole's location.
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...case portrayed in this comic the claim appears to be that the other person's religion grew by 85%. [[Black Hat]] attempts humorously to show the flaw in
...-door {{w|Proselytism|proselytizers}} to a very persuasive religion of one's own.
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...nd [[Beret Guy]] painted a really detailed key on the side of [[Ponytail]]'s car in his version of "keying" a car. She broke up with him the day before,
...ck. This explains why Beret Guy might also paint a key on Carrie Underwood's car specifically, but it just confuses the situation since it brings into d
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...y%27s%20Drawing%20%2D%20Apple%20Jacks Original title</span>]: '''Wednesday's Drawing - Apple Jacks'''</big></big>
...r and that "we eat what we like". However, instead of laughing off his dad's comment and correcting him, as in the campaign, this son responds by simply
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...#:~:text=Monday%27s%20Drawing%3A%20Geico Original title</span>]: '''Monday's Drawing: Geico'''</big></big>
...rly socially unacceptable actions in [[81: Attention, shopper]], and Geico's ad would be mentioned again in [[870: Advertising]].
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[[Randall]] attempts to draw a {{w|five-pointed star}}; the <s>easiest</s> traditional way to do this free-hand is by drawing a {{w|pentagram}}, the
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...list of personal pronouns|Wikipedia}} has a nice chart for all of English's personal pronouns, current and archaic.
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...and, if only because of how hard it would be to direct people to your band's website.
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...dnesday%27s%20Drawing%20%2D%20Fourier Original title</span>]: '''Wednesday's Drawing - Fourier'''</big></big>
...particular comic, likely Jon from ''{{w|Garfield}}''. The name of Garfield's vet in the comic is Liz, and a recurring joke in that strip is Jon calling
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...a reference to {{w|Anne Frank}}, a Jewish girl who hid from the {{w|Nazi}}s with her family in a secret annex hidden behind a bookshelf in an apartment
...explained the mission to the contestants, and gave some clues to the thief's last whereabouts. When the mission was over The Chief would appear and cong
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...released in on a Saturday. See more on [[32: Pillar#Explanation|that comic's explanation]].
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:[Cueball is standing behind Megan, who's sitting and watching TV.]
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...Guy]] has developed (or spontaneously implemented) a [[:Category:Beret_Guy's Business|"business plan"]] whereby he lures seagulls to an area of a beach
...of people sweating over their pitch with such seriousness, when Beret Guy's pitch is literally a childish exclamation. Wheeee!
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...text=Friday%27s%20Drawing%20%2D%20Hyphen Original title</span>]: '''Friday's Drawing - Hyphen'''</big></big>
...said anatomical piece. (Or, conceivably, something to do with {{w|donkey}}s.)
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...a diffuse nebula situated south of the three stars that compose {{w|Orion's Belt}} in the {{w|Orion constellation}}. In terms of the comic, it is the m
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...to make a matching declaration. However, instead of continuing [[Cueball]]'s escalation by saying the expected response "I love you ''more''!", [[Megan]
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...n and the effects of reading a comic one panel at a time. {{w|Schrödinger's cat}} is a thought experiment that illuminates the notion that a particle o
...use over action takes place. This is another reference to the Schrödinger's cat concept, where the user can't determine if the title text exists until
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...urt Halsey], if you hadn't noticed. Don't click that right now, because it's depressing how much better at this he is than me.
...uch better at this he is" than Randall. The link is now defunct, but there's an [http://archive.today/2013.04.11-052747/http://www.kurthalsey.com/ archi
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...that she has been tested, presumably for {{w|Sexually transmitted disease}}s. However she does not reveal the results of the tests, which is the primary
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...efined mathematical entity, his normal approach is useless. Simply put: he's saying he has found no way of describing love using only the tools of mathe
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...crassly revealing that he also really wants to have sex with his paramour's sister.
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...995 SNES RPG "''Seiken Densetsu''", don't even <u>bother</u> reading today's strip.
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...most as written in the graph, can be found {{w|Black-body radiation#Planck's law of black-body radiation|here}}. The only changes are that on Wikipedia,
...a points fit perfectly, with error bars too small to draw on the graph. It's one of the most triumphant scientific results in history.|[https://web.arch
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...e Academy-Award-winning actor {{w|Jeremy Irons}} to deliver all of Randall's dialogue in life (while Randall, perhaps, lip syncs it). He is apparently b
...enjoys Irons's deep, rumbling British-accented voice, or whether it's Scar's dialogue in the film that Randall truly would like to be speaking.
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...itated, and questions what is wrong with Ponytail. Ponytail responds "What's wrong with ART?", which could suggest she believes the interrogation is art
..."Dadaist Cop" seems to be a successful Bad Cop too, judging by the suspect's fear of her irrational, unpredictable, and potential crazy behavior (not to
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In [[2040: Sibling-in-Law]], she was used to describe Cueball's sister in a quasi-family tree; however, other Ponytail characters were used
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.... Both of them seem to have a similar mindset towards the holiday: that it's arbitrary, imposes a set of demands and expectations, and is used by corpor
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...mination}} who will destroy the human race, and judging from [[Megan|Megan's]] reaction and the off-panel voices, Cueball seems to be the only one previ
:[Close-up on the sheep-man's eye.]
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...the notation of Freshman (9)/Sophomore (10)/Junior (11)/Senior (12), there's a notable resurgence.
...net users talking about how old they are without having a boyfriend. There's a spike at 18. The comic was written in 2010; as of 2014 the spike does not
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...ng}}, which is the practice of being linked to {{w|Rick Astley|Rick Astley's}} "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ| Never Gonna Give You Up]"
...still sitting at the computer. The bottom of the image is covered in Megan's last line]
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...iterally "bottomless", you would start to decelerate as you pass the earth's center of mass. The air pressure and heat in a "bottomless" pit would also
:[Beret Guy's wings start getting longer.]
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...binary system. And [[Megan]] doesn't even know the number "4" because she's only working on the binary system, this character does not exist for her.
:Megan: What's a 4?
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...yer}} known as {{w|Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy}}, seeing that Stephenie's main character vampires do not need to be slain, but she then turns on thos
...is already laughing out loud at you before you read his text. He also LOL's in his comment about the angsty teens that reads the books, and whom he loo
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:A reference to Randall's own hobby of [http://xkcd.com/kite/ kite photography], as well as comic [[2
:This panel has Cueball's crotch replaced with the (similar-looking) icon used for a {{w|transistor}}
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...lide sideways. The wheels in the drawing look more like {{w|Mecanum wheel}}s, which have rollers mounted at an angle to the edge. Both omniwheels and Me
...maintaining that something. It's used in accounting to determine something's true cost-to-value evaluation. In the case of a cat, TCO would primarily co
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This is not the first time he's made such a bakery mistake; see [[434: xkcd Goes to the Airport]].
...eret Guy's obsession with bakeries and the fact that he doesn't realise he's not in a bakery could make this statement justified from his perspective.)
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:Friend (off screen): It's, uh, well hidden.
:Cueball: I think there's no actual porn here.
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...money chart together. It was the first time in a long time that my life’s been stable enough that I’ve been able to really disappear into a project
...s of many things, big and small (with the values contemporary to the comic's release in 2011; most are now more expensive due to inflation). Each scale
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...! Someone call for me? I'm a superhero who specializes in the study of God's creation of Man in the Book of Genesi-- HOLY SHIT A GIANT BUG!
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...the American dialects. It would also not be a good idea to call your child's name in a crowded place. This name could also be the inverse of "Ice Ice",
...any people would readily attempt to correct you when you called your child's name. Possibly reads as a feminine version of ''chipotle''.
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...over saving their own lives, or they have been distracted by Etymology-Man's lecture and were caught by surprise by the fast tidal wave.
:It can refer to the daily tide cycle, but that's obviously not what people mean when they say "a tidal wave hit".
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...on Eve having sexual relations with {{w|Cain and Abel|Abel}}, who is Adam's son, which turns the joke from a homosexual one into an incest one.
...of one). Unlike those who use the contemporary version of the phrase. What's more, he doesn't personally dislike Steve in general and possibly considers
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...ecause the reported bug is that speech recognition failed on a young child's voice, the programmers attempt to reproduce (biologically) in order to have
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...lobally-editable post at the top saying 'DEAR PEOPLE FROM THE FUTURE: Here's what we've figured out so far ...'
...to the problem. Sometimes the solution can be found on a software program's website, but the most helpful solutions frequently come from discussions on
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...CNR]] which contains further explanation. It is a note from the developer's {{w|Bug tracking system|bug report}}, which said they could not reproduce t
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For two text lines to have the same length, it's easier if they are in a monospaced font. For example, the following sentenc
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...shed. This alteration allowed for comic 404 to be posted on the April Fool's Day without abruptly disrupting the normal comic release schedule.
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:''For Danish's boyfriend, see [[Black Hat]].''</noinclude>
...trickery. At the end of that series, it seems that she got under Black Hat's skin which resulting in them going on a date.
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...nish pushes down on a shovel to make a hole for what is presumably Cueball's body.]
*This comic inspired the use of "Danish" to refer to [[Black Hat]]'s girlfriend on this wiki.
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...h all the things I'd say to her if I were nice like you. I burn it when it's full.
...journal, so [[Cueball]] is understandably surprised when he sees Black Hat's journal. Black Hat lives up to his reputation though, as it turns out that
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...gh school level as teachers become subject specific at that point. Teacher's lounges and substitutes are also features of the North American secondary s
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...k. Since Cueball knows where Suckville can be found in the census data, it's likely that he has received this insult in the past (maybe even from Megan)
:Cueball: That's an old figure.
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..., in which he posts character art, or concept art often based in the comic's world or characters, generally of draft or unfinished quality. By his own a
[[Randall]]'s mention of letting up on Megatokyo refers to [[142: Parody Week: Megatokyo]
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...ng pun. His parents, [[Hairbun]] and a father-Cueball, are so unamused, he's not welcome back next year.
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...o now he can go on to the interstellar scale with the game ''{{w|Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri|Alpha Centauri}}''.
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...a target area - but one near-universal rule is disqualification if the egg's {{w|Eggshell|shell}} is broken.
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...tury from now, which is obviously impossible (hence the quip that the word's usage is itself "unsustainable").
...increasing use of nonrenewable resources and need to ensure that the Earth's resources do not become totally exhausted, through sustainable development.
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...All you need for a good movie are tornados and scientists. Actually, that's all you need for anything.
:Ponytail: What's the reading?
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...g like the 1938 Long Island Express, but aimed a bit more to the west. It's just a matter of time.
...{{Citation needed}} and the hurricane's shape and position exemplify Freud's ideas.
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...nterpretation is that wars always end badly for all parties involved so it's better to play nicer games like chess.
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...ynecol 2013;121:411–5. PMID 23344307</ref> The 2013 movie {{w|The Priest's Children}} describes a similar campaign.
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Cueball agrees that no one would believe the movie, but claims that it's due to "the poorly written dialogue and unlikeable main character", turning
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To understand the comic, you have to understand what the games are, so let's go (but first, the years in parenthesis in the comic are the year that the
...ating the list of ideal maneuvers. The same could be said for the computer's human opponent, just at a slower pace.
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...may have assumed from the comic, but intentional, due to Megan and Cueball's erroneous belief that the rotation itself is supposed to turn them on, not
:Cueball: Haha, check it out–This guy's mansion has an actual rotating bed.
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:Cueball: Whoa, ever seen Wikipedia's list of people who were attacked and killed by cougars?
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...tion|Mayans}}, an ancient civilization in the {{w|Central America|America}}s, created a calendar that ends (or, more accurately: restarts) on December 2
...classes (not an unusual course load) — you would still get a 3.0 with A's in those other classes. With a more common workload of eight courses per ye
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...who also served as the news anchor on {{w|Morning Edition}}, was the show's official judge and scorekeeper until May 2014 (after this comic was publish
...er. This paper leads to the second paper on the third row, in which Sagal's wife divorces him over his affair with Singh.
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This comic is a reference to the {{w|breast cancer}} surgery that [[Randall]]'s fiancee/wife underwent, and is one of many [[:Category:Cancer|comics about
.../travel_archive_200/217_mardi-gras-dos-and-donts.html exposure of a person's breasts.]
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This is another one of [[Randall|Randall's]] [[:Category:Tips|Tips]], this time a Holiday Tip.
...he slots the coins are then fed into a mechanism with a counterweight that's balanced to test the weight to ensure that it has captured the appropriate
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...al scene, the suspect surrenders himself rather than risk being killed. It's then revealed that Harry ''had'' emptied his gun, meaning that the other ma
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...e accumulation of husbands as though it were a phenomenon beyond the bride's ability to control. Using similar points for pregnancy (yesterday: no babie
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:Danish (wearing Black Hat's Hat): Skate faster!
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...ed, but it is clearly something important to him. More evidence of the hat's adumbrative meaning can be seen in [[455: Hats]].
:Black Hat: S<big>i</big>GH
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(In [[412: Startled]] he's shown more easily startled than usual, possibly due to Danish setting him o
...control to set off the mines she installed in the driveway where Black Hat's car is parked.
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:Cueball: Where's my fucking jacket?
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...ll]], which in direct relation to this comic showed that [[Cueball|Cueball's]] biggest and only wish is such a ball.
...l's friend tells him about Wayne's hamster ball surfing, Cueball says "Let's go," suggesting that they should go and kidnap that hamster ball and Wayne.
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...se they just noticed he's been naked under that coat the whole time. There's a petition on Facebook to get Fox to un-cancel it, and one on Livejournal t
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...uld have more rights than immigrants. A frequently expressed view in the U.S. (and in other countries) is that immigrants should learn English, which is
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...is unimpressed, so Rob challenges him to come up with a scarier story. Rob's nephew merely states that he was born after {{w|9/11}}, and yet he is alrea
...no hidden meaning here, but this comic sure is scary for many adults. What's being implied here is that time seems to be moving really quickly and we're
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...weight of the product). Another of Loblaws' generic brands, {{w|President's Choice}} (PC) currently has a plain white background with black bold text f
It might also be a reference to Portal’s bean cans.
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...ushing Bond inward, Bond is pushing the centrifuge outward. The centrifuge's material is strong enough not to break under this force, however.
;James Bond's point of view
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"Doom Island" is most likely meant to be a generic name for the villain's lair (a trope dating back to at least the first James Bond film, {{w|Dr. No
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:Man: I'm not Amy. None of this was real. You're back in senior year. It's the big game.
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| titletext = We could go to the theater across town and see if it's opened THERE yet, but we don't want to lose our place in line.
Darth Maul, the source of Cueball's friend's costume, is a Sith apprentice in the film. [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/
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|Stress in a classroom, even stress that's bad enough to manifest itself in physical symptoms, is all too common. Stre
...vent, putting it on the "normal" side of the scale. While not abnormal, it's clearly very bad.
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This is another comic with one of [[Randall|Randall's]] [[:Category:Fun fact|fun facts]].
...scussion, but suffice to say that it is the state of the industry in the U.S. Perhaps grocery chains are concerned that if they did not provide free pla
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...y: Part 3]]. Back at Congress, they seem to have forgotten about Black Hat's "gleeful mayhem" and are jumping off the balcony into the ball pit below. [
:[Tron Paul's lightcycle swerves wildly.]
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...re {{w|source code}} should be retained as a trade secret by its developer(s). Stallman has expressed that he did not even wish to be in a comic using t
...to have a fun time teasing Stallman, and they seemed to know that Stallman's paranoia about {{w|Microsoft}} makes him sleep with no fewer than two {{w|k
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| titletext = It's time to draw the line.
...ional joke, however, as Ron Paul's turret is designed the same way as Cory's and the head-mounted 'gun' here is an eyestalk on a Dalek, whose actual wea
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...n the lot, then built a new car in the spot from the displaced pieces. It's a confusing maneuver known as the auto-troll shuffle.
...chain. He hasn't yet, but in [[562: Parking]], Black Hat will cut someone's car in half to make it fit in a single space. Not quite as dramatic as comp
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...that gets the most publicity, because it has started many of the {{w|meme}}s [http://knowyourmeme.com/] on the Internet, as well as the birthplace of {{
...n or can be sewed. 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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...Secretary of the Internet" would likely be a new position on the President's {{w|Cabinet of the United States|Cabinet}}, which currently consists of the
:Cueball: It's the tubes sir. They're clogged. We put too much stuff on them.
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:[Black Hat's car pulls up next to a red car, that's parked over a line at an angle that block two spaces.]
:[Black Hat is now holding a blow torch and a rotary saw, He's also wearing goggles and fuel tanks on his back. The blow torch is lit.]
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...ust have told Billy that all he has to know about politics is that America's two-party system is broken. Because we all know the problem with [http://ch
:Billy: That's because the two-party, uh... estab... uh.
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...se of collective goals and undertakings. Sheeple coordinates with Ayn Rand's novel, ''Anthem'', set in the distant future in which the word "I" has been
...nterests does not mean lack of individualism: this can be seen in Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged", which features a society of like-minded people cent
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| titletext = 'Welcome to the future! Nothing's changed.' was the slogan of my astonishingly short-lived tech startup.
...turns out that Megan is actually disappointed about the pace of technology's improvement, that it goes ''too slowly''. (Who isn't disappointed? From old
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...ittle Drummer Boy", "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", "Silver Bells", "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas", "Sleigh Ride", and "Frosty the Sno
:"1960s" has "Holly Jolly Christmas" and "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year"
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...fe with all his memories, and gradually lost them, comparing this to Megan's own sense of unreality at goodbyes.
...respect, Merlin's last days may not be so different from many real people's, except of course that Merlin was supposed to live in the late 5th and earl
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...for sex. It might be sketchy enough to walk up to someone and suggest "let's go down in the ravine and have sex", but it is made sketchier when the phra
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...h's, as each instance of logic can now be considered an error. After Megan's friend confirms the validity of her proof, Megan writes a letter to Dr. Knu
The title text is the reply from Dr. Knuth, in which he uses Megan's logic-disproving proof against her by claiming — with no logical explanat
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...had occurred. It's not entirely clear whether Cueball is preempting Megan's attempt to mock him, or whether he actually thinks the past called.
...political protests, can generate "yelling and screaming". Given the public's general inclination to focus on the negative the prediction of a "bad futur
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...fact that Blondie then accepts an invitation to spend her breaks at Megan's lighthouse suggests that she finds this a more attractive prospect than her
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[[Cueball]] has been betrayed by his girlfriend, and later found out that he's not the first one she betrayed. He thinks that the society should provide a
Cueball's friend, [[White Hat]], is concerned about the matter of personal integrity,
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:Out-of-frame: It's headed this way!
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...sed on penis size. He has been endorsed by Tracy Morgan, John Wilkes Booth's ghost, and the Time Cube guy.
...e and percentage ''points'' causes a little ambiguity that gets on Randall's nerves.
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...{w|Germany}}) as part of {{w|Operation Paperclip}} and helped develop NASA's space program. The unfortunate reality of Operation Paperclip, and one that
...results. This assumption is obviously a bridge too far (which is the comic's punchline), but he gets his desired reaction out of Cueball, who is hanging
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In the third frame, the two try to go to the library's rare book collection. Such a place would usually be deserted, making it usa
...front of a table piled with five other textbooks. Cueball looks over Megan's shoulder.]
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...badly is not the same as cleverness. Black Hat's point is that the riddle's "cleverness" depends on misleadingly implying that "three words" refers to
...communicate his point about proper communication, although given Black Hat's personality he likely doesn't care, and may even have intended the irony.
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...e of pencil, and most students wouldn't have any other kind. {{w|Scantron}}s are standardized {{w|Machine-readable data|machine-readable papers}} used b
...equences would include causing the grading machine to explode, <s>killing</s> seriously harming people nearby and leaving a bloody mess.
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...ck billions of years has managed to figure it out. On the other hand, that's the mother of all sampling biases.
...that this is the "mother" of all {{w|sampling bias}}es: Had anyone of one's ancestors completely failed at being parents, that person would never exist
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...appen, the trickster can then play the joke out as he wants, hence the "it's totally worth it" at the end.
:Megan: There's no such thing.
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| titletext = Fine, walk away. I'm gonna go cry into a pint of Ben&Jerry's Brownie Batter(tm) ice cream [link], then take out my frustration on a vari
...sends out emails or links (such as in the title text) to simulate a human's writing but contains advertising. The test that Rob and "Lisa" take is call
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| titletext = Disclaimer: I have not actually tried the beta yet. I hear it's quite pleasant and hardly Hitler-y at all.
...by Megan, but {{tvtropes|AdolfHitlarious|only manages to make the picture's eyes flash}}.
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Also, in [[Randall|Randall's]] book [[Thing Explainer|Thing Explainer,]] every number from one to ten ar
:Cueball:''<small> It's ok, nine.</small>''
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...an opportunity to make yet another Your Mom joke, implying that Beret Guy's mother is fat.
But apparently, Beret Guy's mother is dead, or at least missing, and he takes the joke seriously. He lo
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...of white tiles instead of two. This could possibly be an error on Randall's part, as the tiles in the background follow the pattern shown in the imagin
Cueball's rule appears to be that he can step on any black tiles, as well as any whit
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...ated to facilitating {{w|BitTorrent}} downloads of popular media. The site's servers were taken down, briefly, and the operators were {{w|the pirate bay
...smaller game companies providing digital downloads, for instance), but it's mainly associated with piracy.
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...a secure access point named "Lenhart Family," presumably [[Miss Lenhart]]'s home Wi-Fi access point, and attempts to connect to it.
In the third panel, the autoconfig then connects to Cueball's Bluetooth phone and uses it to call a local school in order to locate the L
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...ng relation for itself, I'll feed it into this wood chipper. 3: Hey, look, S is well-ordered.
...has a least element under the ordering. This is also known as {{w|Zermelo's theorem}} and is equivalent to the Axiom of Choice. The woodchipper is a re
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''{{w|The Magic School Bus}}'' is a series of educational children's books in the US that was adapted in the mid-nineties into an animated {{w|t
...The implied joke is that, with the advent on resources like Wikipedia, it's no longer necessary for Ms. Frizzle to take the students on half-hour long
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...ence to the American custom of making {{w|Jack-o'-lantern|Jack-O'-Lantern}}s to set out on porches and front steps for the holiday of {{w|Halloween}}, w
...es on accepting the axiom of choice, the interviewer is suggesting Cueball's unexpected result would not have happened without using the axiom.
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...ly Microraptor had *four* wings? The past keeps getting cooler! (And there's more of it every day!)
...e been a fascinating topic in popular science and have captivated children's interest since the first fossils were discovered in modern times, around th
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...teachers, and professional researchers, and not usually one of [[Randall]]'s. {{w|Wikipedia}} is a free and freely editable encyclopedia that aims to be
...e called him "Barrel boy" or "The boy in the barrel". Minor detail, but it's funny how sometimes something can appear on Wikipedia, get referenced in ot
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...son he has chosen this exact escalator for his plan. However, this comic’s depiction of the escalator has several inaccuracies, landing it in XKCD-lan
...lack Hat continues deflecting [[Cueball]]’s questions by stating that he's ''not a psychologist'', although he clearly is aware of his own motives and
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...library!' 'Nice try. They saw your plate with all the 1's and I's.' 'That's impossible! I've been with my car the whole ti-- ... wait. Ok, wow, that wa
...hen witnesses report a vehicle with a license plate of either/or I's and 1's, the police know exactly who the perpetrator is.
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It's hard to know when you are in a relationship in modern times. In olden days,
...ithout thinking too much about it, he suggests a compromise: using the "It's complicated" status instead. And he does so with a phrasing very reminiscen
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| titletext = What's that? You think I don't like the Peters map because I'm uncomfortable with
[[Randall]] suggests here the idea that someone's "favorite" map projection can reveal aspects of their personality, then goe
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...anthropomorphic adjacent machines forced to closely listen to this server's inanely simple and over-cheery chatter.
:Browser: Sure, but this is just your mobile site's main page. Where's the article I wanted?
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Given his likely negative feelings towards {{w|Valentine's Day}}, as seen in the most of his [[:Category:Valentines|Valentines comics]
:Megan: Ooh! Let's look at stuff!
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| titletext = It's fun to watch browsers fumblingly recapitulate the history of window managem
...poked fun at the PC's terrible function while paying attention to the Mac's unique features. Each ad started with the duo introducing themselves as "I'
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...and being redesigned to take advantage of new exploits and fool last-month's antivirus software, it is quite prudent for a Windows PC owner to always ke
...{{w|laptop}}s and most recently to {{w|Embedded software|embedded device}}s, where Linux use does indeed heavily exceed the competition, e.g. {{w|Andro
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...n. Of course, this allows the other two to rise, presumably out of Cueball's reach, as the pullout reveals a plethora of other balloons already rising t
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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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#REDIRECT [[61: Stacey's Dad]]
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The pun is that Newton is claiming that Leibniz's mathematical derivative is a derivative, or descendant, from his earlier de
...and was used frequently with {{w|Death of Michael Jackson|Michael Jackson's death}}. The sunglasses joke was also used in the title text of [[977: Map
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...individual {{w|VPN}} and {{w|Secure Shell|SSH}} connections as [[Cueball]]'s Cueball-like friend makes them - while wearing oven mitts and baking cookie
...st common question he received. Another unanswered question is how Cueball's friend knew she was typing with gloves on; however, the answer is probably
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...s "just like a-ringing a bell." Apparently, [[Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory Elaine Roberts|Elaine Roberts]] learned to program as quick
...jkstra's algorithm}} are {{w|Graph traversal|graph search}} {{w|algorithm}}s. And what study of algorithms would be complete without a healthy study abo
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:<math>g</math> is the gravitational acceleration (m/s<sup>2</sup>) and <math>h</math> is the height (m).
...''A = 2 m<sup>2</sup>'') and using the gravitational constant ''g = 9.81 m/s<sup>2</sup>'' the flow rate is 396 m<sup>3</sup> per second, or roughly 400
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...etrated any government networks, so helping [[Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory Elaine Roberts|Elaine]] physically break into the {{w|NSA}}
...associated with nocturnal bedroom-invasions like this). Furthermore, Steve's reactions indicate that he was abruptly woken up by Elaine after she broke
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:''For Mrs. Roberts' daughter, see [[Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory Elaine Roberts]].''
...nally skilled hacker, although her daughter [[Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory Elaine Roberts]] surpasses her in expertise. With her Wi-Fi
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...ert'); DROP TABLE Students;--'s sister, see [[Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory Elaine Roberts]].''
:''For Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--'s mother, see [[Mrs. Roberts]].''</noinclude>
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...cense factory Elaine Roberts|Comics featuring Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory Elaine Roberts]].''
:''For Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory Elaine Roberts' brother, see [[Robert'); DROP TABLE Student
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...pure sociologist, they all say something addressed to the less pure person(s) on their left. The first mute person above the Sociologists tick is Megan.
:Physicist: Which is just applied physics. It's nice to be on top.
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...he Red Sox can't make the playoffs (championship games), but in last night's game their win seriously damaged the chances of the Yankees (longstanding r
...ations). Also, golf is not shown as well implying Randall may not think it's an important sport. The chart suggests that football is the most popular of
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| titletext = There's always the hope that if you sit and watch for long enough, the beachball wi
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..., and "it's been freaking me out". This may be a reference to Isaac Asimov's "Nightfall" which explores in depth the psychological implications by which
...ew of all that hideous space. This may allude to Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy novel series, where a planet called Krikkit is complete
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For [[Randall]], however, profanities are caused mostly by {{w|blue shell}}s in the video game {{w|Mario Kart}}. The blue shells, when fired, target the
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In this part, [[Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory Elaine Roberts]] returns to the second-best hacker in the w
This implies that {{w|Jon Lech Johansen}}'s DeCSS was written by Elaine. Jon Lech Johansen, also known as DVD Jon, is f
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...rescue of [[Mrs. Roberts]] and her Daughter [[Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory Elaine Roberts]]. Stallman and Elaine quickly overpower the
...idered piracy? You'd make a wonderful Dread Pirate Roberts." Cory Doctorow's line in the comic therefore mimics that line from the movie.
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...first question the 911 dispatcher asks is if Cueball has read the toaster's {{w|man page}} (man pages are the 'manual' for unix systems, but only descr
The title text refers to the popular phrase "Life's too short," which asserts that because we only have a limited amount of tim
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...nding too much of one's time and energy without much reward. Hence Randall's quip in the title: "Fuck grapefruit."
...one/pit that may be annoying due to the disposal of the sticky remains, it's large enough to eat around, and Randall apparently sees it not to be that b
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...ypochondriasis|hypochondriac}}. The tweet exemplifies the general populace's over-concern with the "animal themed" pandemics. Similarly after the {{w|Av
...come a [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shut-down-everything meme]. The user's Twitter handle is a reference to {{w|Pauly Shore}}, a comedian who was brie
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...not be larger than a few days or some weeks. Assuming that ''How much she's still in my life'' is a constant [Megan], [https://www.wolframalpha.com/inp
...t'' would approach zero. Ideally, ''k<sub>1</sub>'' would be "How much she's in my life"/''Pain'' (we assume both these values are positive), while ''k<
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...nable validity. Cueball is using this template to challenge the politician's speech, as political speakers often throw out claims having dubious or no f
...e rules and rights set down by the {{w|Constitution of the United States|U.S. constitution}}. "Semi-protect" is a reference to the {{w|Wikipedia:Semi-pr
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...our hangups if we're going to learn to move on Catan's hexagonal grid. It's bad enough that we lost our crew of pawns when we passed within firing rang
This comic blends {{w|board game}}s such as {{w|chess}}, {{w|The Settlers of Catan}}, and {{w|Battleship (game)
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...e affected, and all so he could enjoy a lower price, once again proving he's a [[classhole]].
...do, he clearly rejects the notion of an implied social contract, and so he's simply going to act in his own self-interest, regardless of whether other p
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...refers to blindfold chess, which doesn't require any actual blindfold, it's just called that because the two players don't need a board and just commun
:Cueball: Because there's a picture I've always wanted... I'll need your coat to sneak this onto the
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:Not-Hairy: I feel like I'm wasting my life on the internet. Let's walk around the world.
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...ed to the person's job (e.g. "My other car is a fire truck"); sometimes it's an even more expensive form of transportation like a "{{w|yacht}}" or "{{w|
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| titletext = There's a red convertible outside my building with the license plate 'DADS MNY'.
...arrogance. The lights are probably on because the attack triggered the car's alarm system.
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| titletext = I find that when someone's taking time to do something right in the present, they're a perfectionist w
...their solution and have not even started implementing it, much to Cueball's chagrin. Nonetheless they are convinced that it is worth taking the time to
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...rring topic, such as in [[721: Flatland]]. The title text misspells Abbott's name - unlike most typos in XKCD, this has not been corrected by Randall.
...porn is referred to as mind expanding and superior to Edwin Abbott Abbott's work.
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...f the word "literally", and speaks to the irrelevance of correcting people's speech.
...ally" as emphasis or exaggeration to a figurative statement, when the word's original meaning was that something had happened exactly as described. A st
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...d in [[9: Serenity is coming out tomorrow]] and [[Randall Munroe|Randall]]'s [[:Category:The Race|The Race]] series of comics.
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...was the only other world power besides America to go to space (Joss Whedon's own explanation on the DVDs). However, there are {{tvtropes|HumansAreWhite|
...alternative layouts, such as {{w|Blickensderfer typewriter|Blickensderfer's DHIATENSOR layout}} in 1892, or the {{w|Dvorak Simplified Keyboard}} in 193
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The average person's lifespan is 80 years now. So, while immortality may become a reality within
Finally we find out that one of [[Megan]]'s admirers, Mike, whom she avoids, is hiding in the well. He has been waiting
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...ndergraduate university, for international readers) is often a young adult's first experience with independent living. As a result, it is a time to "fin
:Megan: Oh, hey, it's twelve of the dudes from control group B!
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...ed to fill one form of ID to buy a gun, but two to pay for it by check. It's interesting to see who has what incentives to care about what mistakes.
:Computer: Enter the target's coordinates.
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...claims that he applies the same challenge to {{w|highway location marker}}s. At highway speeds (60+ mph), they would show up at least once per minute.
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...ogle-ai-becomes-world-s-top-ranking-go-player-1.3097756 defeated the world's top human Go player]. This was referenced three months later in [[1875: Com
...tter at making such consoling statements. However, Megan disproves Cueball's statement by creating a script in the {{w| Python (programming language)|Py
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...bering them. When overlapping hurricanes formed at all points on the Earth's surface, and our scheme was foiled by Cantor diagonalization, we just decid
...{{w|Gulf of Mexico}} and {{w|Caribbean Sea}} as pictured), the {{w|NOAA}}'s {{w|National Hurricane Center}} (NHC/RSMC Miami) gives names to tropical cy
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...hat's worse - that there exists broken-hard-drive-sound techno, or that it's not half bad.
:[Cueball looking over Megan's shoulder while she is clicking her mouse with her other hand on her chin.]
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...l which may lack compatibility, features, support, and popularity, Cueball's stance is not entirely unjustified.
...mallest violin}}", a gesture used to convey sarcastic pity at someone else's misfortune. Interestingly, he does actually appear to possess the physical
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...aight lines.{{Citation needed}} In Flatland, circles are priests (Flatland's highest social level. Actually, the highest aren't circles; in fact they ar
...ing on ground level - asks Cueball above him how he's doing by asking what's up.
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The title text is a reference to {{w|Simon Stevin|Simon Stevin's}} proof of a problem of equilibrium consisting on balancing a weight on an
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...{{w|reality shows}}. In the channel's heyday in the 1980's and early 1990's, it was popular with teenagers and young adults. As is often the case with
:White Hat: See, that's the problem with the MTV generation— No attention span.
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...y feel his tongue for the entire month of November. Since it was Black Hat's idea, Black Hat probably suffers the same consequences.
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...en you know you're not, because you want their money, isn't just lying--it's like an example you'd make up if you had to illustrate for a child why lyin
:[Cueball and a friend stand in front of Cueball's bookcase. His friend flips through a number of them.]
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...lfriend's head during sex is concentrated after reflection to his neighbor's head in her bed. This makes his loud sex far louder to her than hers was to
:And she's so smug about it.
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*Cueball's sentence: You are '''not''' the light of my life.
*Cueball's sentence: Making you happy is'''n't''' my greatest dream.
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...Captain Hammer, a superhero played by Nathan Fillion in ''{{w|Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog}}'', another series created by {{w|Joss Whedon}}. "Hammerpa
:Cueball: "Why race him?" He's ''Captain Reynolds!''
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...her members of his crew were Kaylee (played by [[Jewel Staite]]), the ship's mechanic, Inara Serra (played by {{w|Morena Baccarin}}) was a Companion (or
...quency of Cueball's skateboard, so it took control of his board, where Mal's stood still. (Buy a few RC models ({{w|Radio-controlled model}}) to play wi
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...r their ride. In general, Python is easier than C and abstracts a lot of C's hairier features ("boring parts," as Randall calls them). Moving from C to
...amazing. Years of gliding downhill and pushing uphill, and now suddenly it's gliding both ways.
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It's not very artistic, but the "chicks" are cheering, and the comic states that
...t because there are many more "chicks" to impress is left up to the reader's imagination.
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...e might be laid out) and not habitually involving curves (as with a draper's cloth tape).
...ntal extension (without, or prior to, hitting the ground), with competitor's chosen extension techniques with their standard (competition-grade) tapes p
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...comic. Nathan Fillion appeared naked at the beginning and end of the show's eleventh episode, "Trash", after having been stripped of all his weapons, e
:Nathan: He's right behind me. Kaylee, I'm gonna try a Crazy Ivan.
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...one insisting that it's 'fake' or 'photoshopped', regardless of whether it's true in actuality. {{w|Adobe Photoshop}} is a popular {{w|Graphics software
...gh. The iris of an eye contains all kinds of odd colored spots - and there's not a JPEG algorithm in sight.
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...f_FoxTrot_characters#Jason_Fox|Jason Fox}}, a geeky 10-year-old from Amend's strip. Jason asks to draw comics for Randall. When Randall refuses, he uses
...Paige usually keeps hers, so this comic strip may also be a joke at Paige's expense.
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...he still keeps some of his destructive tendencies and knocks down Cueball's door. He enlists the help of a [[Ponytail]] character named Joanna to [http
...that eventually evolved into the {{w|instant messenger}}s, {{w|chat room}}s, and {{w|XMPP|XMPP (formerly Jabber)}} servers around today. With the adven
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...lajökull}}, the ash clouds of which caused the shutdown of most of Europe's {{w|IFR}} airspace. The first joke there is that grounding a child often me
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...] on xkcd). In the book these two kids write their opinions on their world's version of the internet to gain extreme political influence. Below is a syn
...w|John Locke|Locke}} (Peter's pseudonym), and {{w|Demosthenes}} (Valentine's). Eventually they gain enough respect to be invited to participate in moder
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:[Full width panel where the scene opens up. You see Cueball is about a tree's-height from the ground. To the right there is a tall tree with no leaves on
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...ere all the training revolves (literally and figuratively) around. ''Ender's Game'' has also been discussed in later comics like [[635: Locke and Demos
...orientation is useless. He instructs his squad to orient so that the enemy's gate is down, a line of lateral thinking that gives his team three big adva
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...use she chose the pilot seat, she is now actually sitting in the captain’s seat, flying the plane while whooping. A worried-looking pilot sits behind
...ical Seating Chart]] requests that non-pilots do not select the pilot seat(s).
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| titletext = It's not hard when you have the same thought like 40 or 50 percent of the time.
...s particular topic, although, if you interpret it as a response to Cueball's thoughts in the last panel it could remain ambiguous.
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| titletext = 40% of OpenBSD installs lead to shark attacks. It's their only standing security issue.
The title text is a reference to OpenBSD's premium on security. For a time, their slogan was "Five years without a rem
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...ssociating themselves with a morally reprehensible man, or just because he's a [[classhole]] like that.
...st of Stephen}}", also known as the "Feast of St. Stephen" or "St. Stephen's Day", which is a holiday celebrated on 26 or 27 December by the {{w|Latin C
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| titletext = And no avian society ever develops space travel because it's impossible to focus on calculus when you could be outside flying.
...as jumped from a lot of different buildings and monuments in the world. He's publicly taken the position that the dangers of his activity are irrelevant
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...e 5}} in the comic is a reference to {{w|Jean Piaget|Piaget}}'s {{w|Piaget's theory of cognitive development|Stages of Development}} in which stage 5 is
...ing in sustained interest in objects and their properties and the handy "?"s around the picture behind the newscaster in this comic.
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| titletext = 'We can also use middle names in place of first pet's names, but yours is something incomprehensible about dropping tables.'
...'s porn name would be "{{w|Fred Rogers|Mister Rogers}}" (from the children's show ''{{w|Mister Rogers' Neighborhood}}'', and previously the topic of [[7
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...|GPS device}} to find an individual's house, and therefore needs the house's address. The person on the phone is giving him directions, something that i
The title text is a continuation of the comic's joke. By the end of the comic, Cueball has got the information he needs, an
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...are a lot of longing looks across the bridge of Galactica first, but that's beside the point!
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| titletext = There's also a Katamari level where everything is just slightly bigger than you, an
...rse L piece lean crookedly towards each other at the bottom of the pit; an S piece is falling and the next piece is an L piece.]
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This comic is also a metatextual joke about xkcd itself. Because of the comic's simplistic art style and characterization, Black Hat has only two defining
...mentioned there, such a short title text could be due to the fact that it's a somewhat surreal comic, and any further commentary might have detrimental
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...moving the partner's toiletries from the bathroom, or deleting the partner's phone number from a cell phone. This is used to symbolize that the characte
The title text refers to Cueball's thankfulness that he never gave Megan the password to the administrator ('r
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...spend their time looking to save a few cents on their purchases. (Randall's math checks out: $7.25/hour times nine minutes would equate to just over $1
Benjamin Franklin's adage "A penny saved is a penny earned" is usually taken to mean that a per
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...nfirmed by using [https://rumkin.com/tools/password/passchk.php rumkin.com's password strength checker]. Even if the individual characters are all limit
.../~reinhold/dicewarefaq.html#calculatingentropy entropy offered by Diceware's 7776 word list is 13 bits per word]. If the attacker doesn't know the algor
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...yer's king (one of the pieces). When one player can capture their opponent's king on their next move, and the opponent has no legal move available to av
...] criticism of the knight shows an obvious lack of knowledge of the knight's potential.
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:Danish: There's no time!
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...eter out of thousands that is causing issues is enough to destroy a person's satisfaction with their life.
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| titletext = I can't speak to the paper's scientific merits, but it's really cool how on page 10 you can see that their reference GPS beacon is s
...time, and even compare them to the {{w|Thought Police}} from George Orwell's ''{{w|Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984}},'' another popular archetype of oppressiv
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...he job of arguing on the Internet is a humorous mismatch that puts Cueball's disproportionate investment into perspective. In [[955: Neutrinos]] another
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| 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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...ree stump to sit on, and the tree gladly gives him that. Notably, the tree's moments of greatest distress come when it fears that it can give the boy no
...iconic silhouette of a tree that is used in the loading screens of Amazon's Kindles, a link between the abandoned tree in the comic and an abandoned Ki
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...elationship. That later dropped to current levels, probably due to Cueball's lack of love towards her.
...same reasoning would apply if the values are based on the smiley (Cueball's happiness) line.
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A {{w|Valentine's Day}} card from [[Randall]] to the xkcd readers. It is written inside a par
:Happy valentine's day.
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:[A Valentine's Day heart bordered with wavy red lace-like pattern with text:]
'''''<span style="font-size: larger">Happy Valentine's Day</span>'''''
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...rocess is used to simplify logic circuits. The lament of the {{w|Valentine's Day|Valentine}} is that feelings don't yield themselves to the same kind of
...t yet complicated. The last picture and text alongside it show [[Cueball]]'s desire that there should be a way to simplify complications in love, just l
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#REDIRECT [[223: Valentine's Day]]
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#REDIRECT [[223: Valentine's Day]]
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A certain similarity could be drawn between this and the US Army's problematic policy of only having combat troops serve for a single year in
:Ponytail: Good cop. It's a real shame—
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Randall's combination of animal ({{w|Meerkat}}) and sport ({{w|Rugby football|rugby}}
:You have to admit--there's no rule on the books saying a Meerkat can't play rugby.
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.../etc.?" The classic question doesn't mention upholstery, hence [[Cueball]]'s confusion in the title text. There is some speculation about other body/arm
...ll, the woman, and the words. The "upholstery," in this case, is the woman's hair, which is colored and heavily bordered to create a 3D effect, which do
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...a different fallen star. The meteorite was a carbonaceous chondrite, so it's basically a lump of gravel glued into the shape of a sword. A SPACE sword!
...ium, the sword of Martin in Redwall or the panserbjørns' armor in Pullman's Northern Lights). The quality of such metal can be rather hit-and-miss. On
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...DENTS ARE CALLING PRESIDENT JOHNSON EN MASSE TO PROTEST THE BOMBING AND IT'S JAMMED THE WHITE HOUSE SWITCHBOARD. COULD THEY COLLAPSE OUR CRITICAL PHONE
...Anonymous (group)|Anonymous}}, who, for the week or so prior to this comic's release, used DDoS attacks to take down servers for companies that aided th
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:It's okay! You're free!
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...xpensive now than the Honda Fit, which seems to fit perfect with the comic's implication since a family of five have to buy the large expensive hatchbac
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#REDIRECT [[1031: s/keyboard/leopard/]]
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When [[Cueball]]'s friend tells him this after he replies to a "{{W|noob}}" using swear words,
When Cueball's statement is found true, as balsamic vinegar smells like sweet and decompos
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...ht, and a 'no turns' sign all on one pole. I honestly have no idea what it's telling me to do.
...mic is an {{w|animated gif}} which features an array of {{w|traffic light}}s which are lighted signals posted at intersections to control vehicular traf
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...solute directions, such as East and West, which do not change based on one's orientation.)
...e direction things fall', but it can also be defined as 'the direction one's feet are'. In space particularly, the latter definition tends to be used as
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...with the album artwork, by {{w|Hipgnosis}}, for {{w|Pink Floyd|Pink Floyd's}} album {{w|The Dark Side of the Moon}}. It shows a beam of light passing t
...ord stores in recent years - catastrophically so at the time of this comic's publication, before the popularity of vinyl rebounded in the late 2010s.
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[[Hairy]]'s statement that "jet fuel can't burn hot enough to melt steel" references a
...mtrails}}. The Chemtrails conspiracy theory claims that the {{w|Contrail}}s left behind aircraft contain mind-control agents planted by the US Governme
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...ation games, often as part of a game of truth or dare. This is Bloody Mary's first appearance in xkcd, the second being [[2364: Parity Conservation]].
...rror matter}} or bridging {{w|Mirror Universe}}s by enabling Bloody Mary’s opposing characterizations to interact with each other, or both.
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:Cueball: My hobby is making miniatures. Check this out — it's a fully-functional grand piano.
For the record, pianist /'piənɪst/ and penis /'pinɪs/ are near homophones in English. This is because pianist has a different st
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...well-known song, pauses briefly after the third bar, and one of the store's patrons falls on her face.]
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...seconds of my life, although as usual like 80% of it was just Tom and Ray's gasping, hacking laughter.
A car's brakes fail on a winding mountain road. As a response, the driver calls a l
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...ke is that, instead of “cloud” (Internet-based) storage, [[Beret Guy]]'s business is literally storage ''of'' clouds.
:Beret guy: It's pretty good. I like it. It's not the same color as ''anything''.
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...ound you and think "some engineer was frustrated while designing this." It's a little human connection.
:[An engineer steps up onto the hood of Cueball's car.]
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...ce to know that it stands between the forces of darkness and your cat blog's servers.
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The mixture of upper-case and lower-case "O"s is presumed intentional to avoid a repeating pattern.
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...ball is a stick figure with no distinguishing characteristics, while Megan's only characteristic is her shoulder-length black hair which characterizes h
...[[Rob]] and appears in a few comics. This did not, however, change Cueball's name like it did for Megan based on just one comic: [[159: Boombox]].
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In the popular children's TV show ''{{w|Avatar: The Last Airbender}}'', the four nations that inhabit
...rs to push, throw, or create barriers), the phenomena related to Mendeleev's elements and his research include subatomic particle interactions. One powe
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...don't have any 'S's in their names for critics to snarkily replace with '$'s.
...as involved in {{w|United States v. Microsoft|a legal case}} against the U.S. government, which required Microsoft to allow IE to be uninstalled among o
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...a hostile combatant, as evidenced by the shots fired mid-missive. Cordelia's fire works against her, though, as her volley of shots has revealed her own
...that he wears a beret under his helmet — thus revealing our protagonist's true identity as [[Beret Guy]] and explaining how he fell in love with an e
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...tletext = If you draw a diagonal line from lower left to upper right, that's the ICP 'Miracles' axis.
...aptured by the {{w|Navier–Stokes equations}} is very complicated, but it's concerned with a very specific topic - how water or other fluids flow aroun
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...itself. They would not normally be shown on the circuit diagram, where it's much easier to just write the number, e.g. 16K.}}
...o a mass in an oscillating mechanical system; rather than listing the coil's inductance, the measurement of an analogous mechanical element is given: 11
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...} [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnzlbyTZsQY video] of two {{w|Cleverbot}}s talking to each other. By recording and analyzing whatever humans type into
...an]] has been watching the video and asks [[Cueball]] about it. He says it's just "clumsy sampling" as they are still very far from sounding like humans
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:Ponytail: Sure, 2% interest may not ''seem'' like a lot. But it's ''compound''!
:Ponytail: ...let's see...
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...for one's own actions) or of sympathy (expressing sorrow for someone else's misfortune). Both uses are normal and acceptable, and the distinction is ge
...ways intended as an apology, because he DID, in fact, burn down her mother's house. It is unlikely that he actually burned her house down, but rather is
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This comic is likely a reference to [[Randall]]'s marriage around this time.
:Cueball: Let's find out!
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...event to some inexplicable supernatural agent, he concludes that the book's juggling instructions were faulty and throws it away. The title text furthe
...r, perhaps the fourth wall is broken, and Cueball doesn’t recognize he’s in a webcomic, but we do.
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.... Normally, Cueball's eyes are a few centimeters apart, like everyone else's, and his 3-D perspective is based on that scale. Here, Cueball puts HD webc
...ed at clouds from both sides now / From up and down and still somehow / It's cloud illusions I recall / I really don't know clouds at all." Binocular de
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...acceptable for its site, despite the vigorous nature of Cueball and Megan's sexual workout. This could be due to an [https://www.dictionary.com/browse/
:Cueball: Hmm, let's see... The part on the dresser was ''kind'' of like skiing...
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...e talking about a trial in which immune cells are taken out of the patient's body and genetically modified. The modified cells are able to both attack t
...r suggests yet another disease, {{w|smallpox}}, to inject into the patient's body. This is similar to the song {{w|There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed
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...ll time.] The retinal scan takes this even further, indicating that Google's cameras are collecting fine enough images to identify people by {{w|Retinal
...ayer "ahead of his time". Alternatively, it may be a reference to the "Who's On First" radio sketch from the same time period. In this case, Babe Ruth w
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...up the alignment lasers of the linac with the skin markers - that is Megan's tattoo dots. It may not be considered a "traditional" tattoo (because she s
:Megan: I just have one tattoo - it's six dots on my chest, done by my oncologist.
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...nal network, and conclude hackers compromised the USA intelligence service's most precious data, which would be an incredible display of incompetence by
...y's poster, so the damage done is much different and less harmful: the CIA's public relation capacities are hindered for a few hours. The damage from a
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...find any one living creature (of a reasonable size), then it becomes it’s prey as it then just waits until it dies, spending hardly any energy while
Thus the time vulture will now keep soaring over Cueball’s friends head for the rest of his life, or until they travel on an airplane
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:A Crypto nerd's imagination:
:Cueball: His laptop's encrypted. Let's build a million-dollar cluster to crack it.
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...//public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/jerry.html jury-rigged]" nature of Cueball's work. The electricity generated from the wind power is then used to power t
...at he sees this as a 20% gain rather than an 80% loss. Since it is Cueball's hobby to waste time and energy, this makes perfect sense.
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