...and [[493: Actuarial]], Black Hat is referred to as "the hat guy" and "Hat guy" respectively. In [[1139: Rubber and Glue]] a young [[Hairy]] also gave him
...lieve in anything" suggesting some traumatic experience made him this way. Some black hat hackers are simply so detached from the real world they don't und
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...ll later asks him to watch closely, holding his phone up to show the other guy what he is doing.
...ible (but that do agree with him). These conspiracy ".net" pages typically just have a black background and use several different sizes of fonts, the large
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...terviewer wait around for 5 years without moving to find out. And as Beret Guy expected they stayed exactly where they were. (This could be suggesting tha
The title text is a continuation of their conversation in which Beret Guy turns down the job because he wants to find out what happened in the last 5
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...comics, see [[:Category:Comics featuring Beret Guy|Comics featuring Beret Guy]].''</noinclude>
'''Beret Guy''' is a [[stick figure]] character in [[xkcd]]. He is distinguished by his
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...lace around the time Hitler would have taken his own life anyway, possibly just a few moments before. Indeed, it is possible that Black Hat is, and always
...ifference at all. This is typical Black Hat behavior, going out of his way just to troll people like Cueball and cause horrible things to happen, in this c
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...we could ask for—including an incredible medical team—and we’ve had some really good moments during these months, but it’s still a terrifying and
...ancer}}. He doesn't care about many things like politics anymore, there is just his fiancée's cancer and his romance with her. This is one of many [[:Cate
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In this image [[Beret Guy]] shouts out '''The apocalypse!''' And then he continues to explain what th
After Beret Guy has announced this, he runs into [[Cueball]] who has heard part of this, bu
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...I climb things, open strange doors, and go to goth clubs dressed as a frat guy so I can stand around and look terribly uncomfortable. At frat parties I do
...renewed in 2006 as they [https://blog.xkcd.com/2006/10/06/many-news-things-some-overdue ran out of money to rehire him], he has supported himself primarily
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...] hands another Cueball-like guy an apple calling it a "Snapple". When the guy bites into it, his teeth are blocked by the apple's metallic surface becaus
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...l.com/?skip=40#:~:text=Support%20Surreal%20Humor Original caption</span>]: Just sayin'. It's been 30 years now.
...nth comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[15: Just Alerting You]], and the next one was [[17: What If]].
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...where they do not meet. The same goes for the other white hat guy, [[Beret Guy]]. See more on how little these three interact in xkcd in the explanation f
...y appeared in his normal hat three times before that comic, and Safari Hat guy has never been shown again, except in [[1000: 1000 Comics]].
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...ted. This way, the code can be referenced to tech support so that there is some feedback from the program as to what is wrong (akin to a car dashboard with
...rror "-41", but cannot tell even what program it comes from. So, the other guy decides to look up the code in a book apparently called ''Error Codes''. Th
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...s no influence on the maximum achievable loudness. The highest mark could just as easily be labelled 'Maximum', which would then accurately describe the m
* The normal guy understands that using eleven is silly, and wants to know what is wrong wit
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...t the Holocaust was an acceptable alternative. It's no secret that the hat guy is closely based on Aram, from Men in Hats.<br><br><span class="plainlinks"
...preferred the Holocaust to have occurred rather than allow Hitler to make some bad paintings. Such a comment that God could be so callous would surely be
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...remember being entertained by both the sequels while in the theater. They just don't hold up nearly as well in later comparison.
...airbun]]; and a security guard in the third scene, as another Cueball-like guy.
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...} and thus makes it self-referential, the sentence is now funny! The other guy Cueball, producing a fake laugh, is probably not so sure that it is actuall
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| titletext = I'm just worried that we'll all leave and you won't get to come along!
...indication is that these planets are habitable enough for humans, even if just for a visit.
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...[[Cueball]], in true nerd fashion, thinks in base-2, saying that there are just 24 to go until a "big round-number milestone". The joke is that during prog
:Cueball: Wow—Just 24 to go until a big round-number milestone!
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...ysadmin): "[This] comic isn't available everywhere and it can come up i[n] some situation[s] only for recognized browsers."
In the tweet feed, there are three tweets about some podcast on the top, followed by the tweet containing link they clicked on t
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...'s travel ends only with us seeing "pretty dots" - stars in the sky. Beret Guy then tries to return light to its birthplace by using a mirror, which refle
...decides to exhibit another one of his [[:Category:Strange powers of Beret Guy|strange powers]], it is possible that he can find a way to actually find a
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| titletext = The new crowd is heavily shaped by this guy named Eric, who's basically the Paris Hilton of the amateur plastic crazy s
...a culture that share some property in common, such as hackers or hipsters. Some subcultures form based on a geeky obsession over a trivial topic (for insta
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...least, anomalous emissions, and would not be on store shelves long before some kind of serious recall).
...l have to go to the lampmaker personally to either acquire a lamp or maybe just to check out that they do not look like a uterus or [http://gizmodo.com/536
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...in the title text of [[2277: Business Greetings]], also about one of Beret Guy's businesses. None of these things are common behavior.{{Citation needed}}
...e trade cards and continue to not make money. So that's the joke – Beret Guy does the networking {{w|schtick}}, badly, and yet is somehow making huge am
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...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, the first version of this strip was dr
...the world. The misdirection and punchline of the comic come when the pole-guy asks if his friend can help him down from this pole where he's been standin
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...and change the Web pages as you view them. Some make pages easier to read, some remove ads (the third extension is [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta
...the article, so the text begins mid sentence, the very top of the letters just cut of in the first visible sentence.]
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...l okay with being "in second place" since the main argument from the other guy was about being the fastest-growing.
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| titletext = I was sure he was just getting revenge, but then he did the same thing to Carrie Underwood. Then h
...roke up with him the day before, as she explains to [[Cueball]], but Beret Guy is so strange that she now can't tell if it was revenge or even if he remem
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...nt Hairy and the talking Megan who both failed to understand him. Megan is just frustrated by the outcome of her encounter and thinks about White Hat talki
*[[Beret Guy]] notices a dangerous hole, and thinks he should warn people about it.
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...sets up a sign reading "GULLS FOR SALE" with a jar for money. Though Beret Guy probably expects to profit, the confused reactions of other people in the l
...idea of people sweating over their pitch with such seriousness, when Beret Guy's pitch is literally a childish exclamation. Wheeee!
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...f a building. Two Cueball-like guys are standing in front of it. The first guy has his hands in fists up in front of him and a black cloud over his head.]
:First guy: ''Argh!''
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...officer: Look, you're a good guy. We can work this out. Hey, lemme get us some coffee.
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...ll]]) are sitting at a restaurant. The waitress, [[Ponytail]], tells Beret Guy there is a special on Tuesdays for "endless wings". Restaurants often have
...instead of ordering them by telling the waitress: "I'll have those", Beret Guy tells her: "i have those", meaning that he already has literal "endless win
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...or an internet troll (see the xkcd version of [[Black Hat]]), and also the guy saying {{w|LOL}} is already laughing out loud at you before you read his te
...n to complain I was violating [https://www.4chan.org/rules rules] 1 and 2. Some 4channers are a little slow on the uptake.}}
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:A reference to comic [[434: xkcd Goes to the Airport]], where [[Beret Guy]] shows his liking for bakeries in first panel. His love of bakeries is a r
;Panel 22 ''The future's pretty cool!'' (Beret Guy in a forest.)
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...sion, intending to destroy whatever machine they are in, except that Beret Guy tends to be a bit surreal and brought a bag for holding pastries instead of
...tation needed}} He bites into them and it hurts him, but as he says, maybe some of them are not lug nuts, and he wishes to test them all.
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...Hat lives up to his reputation though, as it turns out that the journal is just part of a plot to hurt innocent, preferably shy, girls.
.... He also tries to let her believe that he may be interested in her. He is just waiting for her to start smiling, and then he gets to the point of it all.
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...require a higher-quality problem to hold their interest. Alternatively, he just dislikes mathematicians more, and is thus willing to award more points for
..., Cueball is standing next to him. Across the street, another Cueball-like guy is coming from a building walking towards the pedestrian crossing across fr
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...text = Twister would've been a much better movie if they'd cut out the bad-guy storm chaser and all the emotional romance crap. All you need for a good mo
Spoofing off of {{w|tornado chasers}} are these permafrost chasers, who are just like tornado chasers, but they are chasing very boring<sup>[[[285: Wiki
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...e writers of Family Guy derived the word from this comic, heard of it from some other source, or thought of it independently is unknown.
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In this strip, Goatee Guy claims that "if they made my life into a movie, no one would believe it", s
...ents Goatee Guy is describing aren't especially well-told, and that Goatee Guy himself is personally unpleasant (in addition to not be especially articula
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:Cueball: Haha, check it out–This guy's mansion has an actual rotating bed.
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:Friend: You know that giant hamster ball you've always wanted? I just found out that Wayne Coyne from the Flaming Lips crowd-surfs in one.
...to the far left partly outside the panel frame is yet another Cueball-like guy from the crowd. Above Cueball and to the edge of the hamster ball is a fram
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...and we're getting older faster than we think. Events that seem like they "just happened" have happened long enough ago for a whole other person to come in
...which came out in 1995. A movie many people will remember fondly and feel just came out the other day. He continues with these scary thoughts by mentionin
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...ression that Snoopy has died. His statement that he "Got three mimes, too" just proves his casual disregard for collateral damage.
...ld be extremely difficult. Whether Black Hat actually believes this, or is just trying to troll conspiracy theorists, is unknown. Black Hat uses a common r
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...4chan, of a {{w|Stick figure|stick-figure}} character (often wearing a {{w|Guy Fawkes mask}}) who fails at everything he tries.
...as been dug between the road and a house. A small stair up to the house is just on the other side of the moat. Behind her is Cueball with a large TV camera
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...ll: I recommend you appoint a Secretary of the internet. Someone to impose some orders on this mess.
:Cueball: I know just the guy.
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...should be called "cryonics", preserving humans, not "Cryogenics", which is just science at low temperatures)
...next, hoping the situation 30 years later will be different. But then the guy in one of the nearby chambers gets the same idea as she did (again). Howeve
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...een endorsed by Tracy Morgan, John Wilkes Booth's ghost, and the Time Cube guy.
...d names are mentioned in the title text). Given the frankly absurd, and in some cases illegal nature of Grayton's campaign promises, using a fictional char
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...s as 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
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...d the spoken words but not the subtitles. Annoying Hungarian subtitles are just an example for a language most people don't understand. Finnish, Czech, or
:Cueball-like guy: Why?
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In the first frame, [[Beret Guy]], naturally, stays oddly on-topic by physically carving an image of a pump
...Nitroglycerin is a highly explosive liquid that may explode violently with just a small bump. Black Hat has not carved a hole for his lamp, but it seems he
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| titletext = The next day: 'What? Six bank robberies!? But I just vandalized the library!' 'Nice try. They saw your plate with all the 1's an
...ficult for anyone to correctly identify his vehicle if he commits a crime. Some localities have more distinct "1" and "I" characters in their license plate
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...nk it's just a fantasy, but since your Dad walked out your Mom could use a guy like me," and this is the line the comic is referencing, with Stacy's Dad (
...ve a chance with Stacy's Mom and is merely kidding himself, as he is still just a kid. But in the comic, Stacy's Dad appears to be taking the situation com
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In the first panel, the guy at the computer asks his friend (both look like [[Cueball]]) what he thinks
...256 (2<sup>8</sup>) days, you get to learn how to levitate. This displays some of the mystique with which Google is commonly viewed. The joke here is that
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| titletext = I once asked an NSA guy whether they'd broken RSA. And I know I can trust him, because I asked if h
...g about breaking the RSA encryption algorithm, possibly including the "NSA guy," would be equally capable of lying about whether or not he is lying.
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...nder one arm. The third person above the Biologists tick is a Cueball-like guy with a squirming octopus in his hand. The fourth person above the Chemists
:Psychologist: Sociology is just applied psychology.
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...f course, but she was busy piping find ~ and find ~nomad into xargs shred, just in case.
...s. Roberts]]. Together, they are an unstoppable force, and they help out a guy called Jon with a CSS decryptor ({{w|Content Scramble System}}, not to be c
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:[A Cueball-like guy and Ponytail are lined up for the well; the guy throws a coin in.]
:[The guy is gone, Cueball and Megsn arrives as a couple lining up behind Ponytail; P
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...ncomfortable truth. So it has never been a working well. When everyone (or just Megan) finds out about this, Mike is bombarded with the all the pennies peo
...followed by Cueball, Megan and a man with some kind of hat (could be Beret Guy, but only half of his head is shown so it is not clear). A large sign stand
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...where [[Black Hat]] mentions in the title text that he is annoyed by "the guy upstairs with the loud girlfriend and the elliptical dish."
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...ated subculture, so anyone claiming to be female on the Internet must be a guy pretending to be one for the purposes of active or passive trolling. Thankf
...rsial way, see [[86: Digital Rights Management]]). However, he still keeps some of his destructive tendencies and knocks down Cueball's door. He enlists th
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...less. Not sure which." Which is implying that he is taking medication for some condition that causes him to hallucinate (or something similar). The implic
...low up}} the {{w|Palace_of_Westminster|Houses of Parliament}} in 1605. {{w|Guy Fawkes mask|His likeness}} is nowadays used as a symbol of protest, most fa
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...it can be described as wonderful, even if this seems a bit contradictory, just because it is so big and there are so many different things happening in it
...n. Once you have zoomed in, you are able to ''click and drag'' the picture just like in this comic.
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:Cueball: And there was some symbol...
*Some info was used from the highest voted answer given to the question of "how a
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...d, often with inadequate knowledge of those characters. On the other hand, some online games and multiplayer computer games in general are unbalanced since
[[Knit Cap]] is called ''knit hat guy'' in the [http://xkcd.com/1112/info.0.json official transcript]. There are
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[[Black Hat]] and [[Danish]] are trying to clean up the mess that some bloody murder most likely performed by them has left. This story may thus
Another guy, [[Cueball]], is on his way home and is about to arrive just when they are finishing the clean up. But then Black Hat realizes that the
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...perior to their earthly counterparts. The salesman in the comic is [[Beret Guy]], who appears with a beard for only this comic.
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| titletext = My decal set has no adults, just a sea of hundreds of the little girl figures closing in around a single cat
...st car window features a couple with three children, while the other shows just a couple ([[Cueball]] and [[Megan]]), with piles of dollar bills and two la
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[[Beret Guy]] convinces himself that down is toward the sky. [[Megan]] asks him why he
:[Megan is looking down at Beret Guy, who appears to be doing a handstand on a grass lawn, with grass tuft drawn
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...ous joke is that, instead of “cloud” (Internet-based) storage, [[Beret Guy]]'s business is literally storage ''of'' clouds.
...appear upside-down, but so would his written-out speech. As a child, Beret Guy would be looking up at his mom, and with a similar flipping of his speech h
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...e sysadmin will crawl through broken glass and defeat criminals/terrorists just so a cat blog (where owners write about their cats) can stay up. This creat
:Criminal: But then this guy climbed up the ventilation ducts and walked across broken glass, killing an
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...Hitler]], in which there is clear reference in the title-text to "the hat guy". This is the first indication we have that Randall had begun contemplating
...his did not, however, change Cueball's name like it did for Megan based on just one comic: [[159: Boombox]].
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...r his helmet — thus revealing our protagonist's true identity as [[Beret Guy]] and explaining how he fell in love with an enemy soldier actively trying
...lated planet. This may be further corroborated by the green color of Beret Guy's uniform, which is very similar to the color used for the uniforms of the
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...g cutting-plane techniques? I couldn't find it anywhere. Man, the Garfield guy doesn't have these problems...
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| titletext = No white guy who's been mentioned on Twitter has gone on to win.
...at is unique from all previous winners (or losers). It's worth noting that some of these 'firsts' were truly precedent-setting (such as the first incumbent
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...an [http://www.snopes.com/horrors/robbery/kidney.asp old urban legend]: a guy is drugged (often after been approached by flirtatious woman), then he awak
In this comic the situation is reversed: [[Beret Guy]] is bringing ice to a party, when he's lured by [[Danish]] up to "her plac
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...e scientists were almost certain that it would either work as expected, or just be a dud, but were unable to rule out several other scenarios. The test pro
...g a hand points to Steve (see later) drawn as another shorter Cueball-like guy, and behind Cueball stand Hairy also looking at Steve. Partly behind Steve'
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...f people might simply ignore the debate and "shoot" the discussion dead by just ignoring the existence of anything that isn't Facebook. Or even that of Fac
:[Two Cueball-like guys are playing basketball. The right guy (Cueball) attempts to throw the basketball through the hoop, but it bounces
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...t astray and becomes awkward when the first guy makes a pass at the second guy and is rejected. Part of the element of the humor in this comic stems from
:Guy: Man, she's hot
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...tical treatment they disproportionately receive from others who are likely just as strange, and therefore defends furries, given the opportunity.
:[Two Cueball-like guys stand together as a young guy dressed up with small ears and a tail approaches.]
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:[Cueball and Dr. Nash (the Cueball-like guy to the right) stand talking to each other. Cueball is looking left and poin
...sirable friends. Otherwise we risk coming on too strong to the hot one and just driving the group off.
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...saw devastating storms like Katrina and Rita. But less well-remembered is just how ''strange'' the season got toward the end.
:[A closer view of just the balding man at his desk.]
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...ring partisan hack talking heads who were all Federalists and Jacksonians, just to see how long it took us to catch on.
...can has since won the presidency without a Nixon or a Bush on the ticket). Just around the election he posted two more comics related to this: [[1130: Poll
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...s such guns and starts shooting marshmallows at each other. We see [[Beret Guy]] and Megan who confront Cueball, saying ''Hey, {{w|noob}}! Eat {{w|Stay Pu
Beret Guy realizes that the "streams" of marshmallows are about to cross and shouts a
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...ent on this and the fact that Beret Guy has his head down. But then, Beret Guy gives him an answer, regarding where White Hat's head once came through and
Here, Beret Guy is referring to the process of {{w|childbirth}}. Put in the way he mentions
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...are now emailing me. I thought they were loosely-applied labels—perhaps just labels appropriated by the books I had happened to read recently—for the
:<big>Did the sun just explode?</big>
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...ed to ''toxin X-7''. The patient (a {{w|zombie}} version of a Cueball-like guy) can be seen through a window inside a laboratory, with Ryan trying to bloc
...o fall in love. But for a zombie/disaster movie this is supposed to happen just before the end titles, so you have all the fun first, and can go home on th
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...can take the finished shirt off the "rack", and after optionally removing some stray spiders it should be ready for use.
...such an impossible project work is a typical behavioral pattern for Beret Guy, who continues to do amazing things with animals and other things from natu
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...e two figurines (one Cueball and one with a pointy hat), then two dice and some paper strewn about in front of Death.]
:Death: Well, we didn't count on this guy. I might be a while.
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...time, which necessitates some form of sorting facility. [[Randall]] shows some degree of thoughtfulness in separating his paper from metals for the conven
:Cueball: This guy tears the labels off his cans, so he clearly understands they're going to b
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...bly is just a question to the picture above - if it was bees following the guy.
...ter explained] to take the form of simply rebooting the computer. Randall just used the honor system, rather than enforcing this behavior with a program,
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| titletext = And watch out for that guy from comic #53.
The title text tells you to watch out for the guy from comic [[53: Hobby]], which shows a man who randomly pops up to the pol
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:[A Cueball-like guy lies on his stomach, and another Cueball-like guy sits to the left. Hairbun is sitting and Ponytail also lying on her stomach
:Guy lying: I... ''fondle'' the castle guard? That doesn't seem right.
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...im via the computer. They are obviously not really friends of the guy, but just wish to come by because of the portals.
:[Cut to guy sitting at a laptop.]
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:[A Cueball-like guy (Georg Ohm) is kneeling behind and holding his Cueball-like uncle by the sh
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...loves art, isn't afraid to make a spectacle of herself for fun, etc.) are just as limited and stereotyped as any other characters. This mirrors [[Megan]]
:Guy: I love that girl. She's not afraid to be quirky and different.
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...ion. This is in violation of copyright law and is also considered theft in some countries such as the United States, since it avoids payment to the publish
...older sound systems that do not support digital media. However, there are some downsides: higher cost, delayed delivery, necessity of physical storage spa
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In some companies, programmers can find themselves under-employed. This may be beca
...a server rack pointing at it while looking the other way at a Cueball-like guy. There are three sections filled with servers, two of them together, and sp
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...hat the breaking of electroweak symmetry is the reason we have SOULS. This guy with a degree said so!
...nant frequency of the glass is outside of the singer's range, then putting some water in the glass will lower its resonant frequency. This effect can be us
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...this point Cueball wakes up and unfortunately discovers the incident to be just a dream.
...here's a chick two phones over with a stuffed penguin doll and a poster of some bearded dude with swords.
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The second panel shows [[Black Hat]] on the stage, just after a {{w|heckler}} in the audience fired a 'Yo Mama' joke at Black Hat (
...omen and orcs. When an audience member (or heckler) points this out, Beret Guy's response shows that his observations weren't intended as comedy in the fi
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...tremophile}} bacteria that incorporate arsenic instead of phosphorous into some of their biochemistry. The first three panels depict a group of scientists
...e of them having fallen backwards in his chair, while a third Cueball-like guy is still standing but has his hands up to his throat as he is suffocating.
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...subject, object" is least common in human languages, so there are at least some roots of Klingon language to analyze.
...also politically offensive. Cueball unknowingly recreates the logic behind some of the worst crimes in human history, a problem sociologists are trained to
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:Cueball: Dude! I had this idea like five years ago, and some company just got rich doing it! - I want my cut.
...front of an open box full of cash, with cash in his hand. A FedEx delivery guy is on the other side of the box with his PDA and pen.]
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| titletext = But THIS guy, he might be for real!
...laim to have supernatural powers, but then when their powers are tested by some sort of experiment, the experiment refutes their claims. This comic summari
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...ext = And I was really impressed with how they managed to shock the Goatse guy.
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...then Cueball mentions that they will have to leave in two groups. And for some reason one of these groups will need at least two drivers (this is hard to
But the general concept would be that some people meet at a bar before joining the rest of a group at dinner, then lat
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...t displays an on-line video player, with what appears to be a Cueball-like guy performing cunnilingus on a Megan-like girl. Five other windows (maybe ads)
:It's just that we had dial-up.
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...andable mistake. You know, we should really stop accepting gifts from that guy.
...needed}} hence the need to stop accepting presents from "[[Black Hat|That Guy]]".
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...minative jargon against women when doing tasks such as mathematics. When a guy does something wrong, it's his own mistake. When a girl does something wron
The answer given in the title text, {{w|π}} + C, is just nonsensical: What we want is a {{w|Function (mathematics)|function}} whose
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...oduct experiment, two groups of people are given a certain pill or lotion. Some people are given the product to be tested, while others (the control group)
...n is violently flailing around in terror. In the foreground a Cueball-like guy stands next to Ponytail who is holding a clipboard. They look on in puzzlem
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"No pun intended" is an idiom meaning that something just said wasn't meant to be a {{w|pun}}, implying that the preceding statement
...sentence: ''I think he's internalized his girlfriend's attitudes''.<br>The guy Cueball talks about seems to have taken over ({{w|Internalization|internali
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...on a sheet of rubber distorts the sheet due to its weight. The system has some qualitative features in common with gravity; it's often misused to show tha
Reading onwards, it seems that [[Beret Guy]] is just messing about with the scenario.
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...is would be a very bad way of choosing the wheels of the automobiles Beret Guy's company produces. In addition to being extremely inefficient, as they mig
..., but they might change the API that Beret Guy's company uses (unless he's just going to their website himself), and they have been known to shut down proj
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:[A Cueball-like guy is standing behind, a sports car where Cueball sits turned toward him.]
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..., usually ostensibly to raise awareness for some issue but perhaps in fact just for the ego-stroking pleasure of amassing a large number of followers. Taut
The short guy with glasses could be {{w|List of FoxTrot characters#Jason Fox|Jason Fox}}
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:Voice #1 (off-screen): A guy on the North High football team helped me rebuild my deck.
:[Same picture with Ponytail now just listening.]
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...tman (1966 film)|Adam West Batman film}} where Batman just happens to have some in his helicopter. In reality, a balloon meant for lifting a tracker tag wo
...ike guy and Ponytail) runs past the two, who turns to look after them. The guy is holding the microscope and Ponytail the beaker from the first frame.]
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While some pregnancies are different than others, a universal truth is that a naturall
...at, and is not a medical professional at all - he's likely just an average guy, and may well know less about medicine than Megan does. The moral is that y
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...by bakery] ::CRASH:: ::RUMBLE:: ::VRRRRRR:: '... I don't know, officer. It just scooped up an entire rack of scones and drove away!'
.... Upon hearing [[Cueball]] call him an asshole for driving an SUV, [[Beret Guy]], not wanting to appear to be such, trades his SUV in at the dealership fo
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...ng a ring to bind someone you covet into your dark and twisted world? Wow, just got the subtext there. Also, the apparently eager Beyoncé would've made on
:[Sauron from the Lord of the Rings is sitting at a bar, where Beret Guy is bartending; Sauron is wearing his trademark helmet, but he's hanging his
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...and "what could she ever see in a guy like you", and typical fears that a guy has that prevents him from talking to a pretty girl.
SPOILER ALERT: the following paragraph reveals some important plot details of the Questionable Content webcomic.
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| titletext =Let me look away and type 'guy who's just jealous that I beat all his MarioKart times' and turn back, and... yup, the
...hat's inside a tree), but the player can decide to forgo the objective and just type in random things for fun.
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...n may ask their parents about scientific topics. The answers given involve just enough information that the child may be satisfied with the answer and repe
...arquee claims that "In my day" molecules did not exist, and everything was just atoms. Molecules are chains of atoms, and therefore more complex than atoms
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...ther than constantly moping. The presence of squirrels may relate to Beret Guy's head's resemblance to an acorn.
As reinforced by the title text, the complete lack of angst on Beret Guy's part is off-putting to other nihilists.
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...rther away until he reaches an area with [[Megan]], [[Hairy]], and [[Beret Guy]], discussing {{w|giant squids}}. He decides to join them, as this conversa
:[Megan, Beret Guy, and Hairy come into view.]
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...tion, which has now been denied by Maid. Essentially Maid is telling Pizza-guy to stop complaining, he made his decision, and too bad that his plan isn't
:[A pizza delivery guy enters through a door and a maid is dusting.]
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...rength but low shear strength (such as dental floss — try to break it by just pulling on two ends), including whatever this space elevator is made of. Th
...s stand at the base of the elevator. To the left are Megan, a Cueball-like guy with his arms raised, and Ponytail, who is holding a bottle of champagne/sp
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...ese movies came out in the order he discovered them in, although the other guy still hates him for ruining the experience by reminding him of the Olsen tw
The title text is a common comment on the movie - it's just not like an ordinary modern sci-fi movie. It is also likely a pun on the ph
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...all the players are not part of an organized league or team but rather are just people who are available to play at that time and location.
[[Beret Guy]] thinks (or wants to think) that what pickup artists really do is gather s
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However, just like Black Hat, once Google reaches the stage where they are able to capita
...n in the first place {{w|facepalm|facepalms}} when he realizes that Google just sucks at being evil.
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...I'm So Random]], or as a pickup artist). Hairy can also appear just to add some variation in a group ([[1261: Shake That]]), or as a kid ([[973: MTV Genera
There is a very early comic ([[16: Monty Python -- Enough]]) where a hairy guy delivers the joke. There is no reason to believe this is the same Hairy tha
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...s to what the letters actually mean (according to Randall, it's literally "just a word with no phonetic pronunciation"), he offers five quirky behaviors. T
...ght. Right turns at red lights and U-turns are legal in all 50 states, but some intersections do not allow them (and turning at a red light is illegal ever
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...ntains tend to be isolated from mainland, niche social networks tend to be just that: niche, without much interaction with the general populace.
...MMO, is the largest website that gives news on video games in general, not just MMOs. Each of the games mentioned in the site have pages that have summarie
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...ht through his first line-up for the joke, and ask him directly if this is just a build-up for this joke. Cueball tries at first to look like he has no ide
...holding presentations at conferences after a presentation turns out to be just an elaborate pun.
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Some {{w|Introversion|introverts}} tend to empathize with other people they perc
...t his imagination is a very obvious delusion. While people could forgive a guy empathizing with a "cute pretty girl," [[Cueball]] seems annoyed by Hairy's
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| titletext = I hate being the slowest guy in the lab.
...one of the main characters of ''Half-Life''. Of course, the crossbows may just be a general preparation for danger.
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This comic adds strange twists to some classic abysmally cheesy {{w|pickup line}}s. Warning, terrible puns ahead:
This is yet another example of [[Beret Guy]]'s bartender job.
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...e story presents arguments in a very straightforward way. Some have called some of the arguments in the book very clever and original, albeit overly simpli
:Randall Munroe: Wait did you just say Thanksgiving was invented by the ''Turkey Voluntary Extinction Movement
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...he title text changed from "Wait for it." to "...", and one frame later to just "RUN.". At approximately 2944, when Megan announces that it is too late to
...frame 971 with a fade to white, ushering in a second scene from frame 972. Some of the last few frames of scene 1 are nearly white, but faint images can be
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:Cueball: Hold on—that guy used to dump my notebooks in high school. Give me a moment. Try to keep the
:[The guy falls and clutches the back of his head.]
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*[[Beret Guy]] and [[Megan]] are lost, following each other in a loop. Beret Guy displays his obsession with baked goods as he also does in later comics: [[
:Beret Guy: I'm following you.
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Beret Guy invites Cueball to join him in a two-seat kayak trip. However, Cueball is c
...come depressed with the lack of control they have over their future: Beret Guy suggests that, rather than continuously worrying, we should enjoy the thril
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| titletext = Obligatory bad guy: This operation is sheer foolishness, and it's not happening on my watch! M
...of astronauts at NASA takes the call and the leader (another Cueball-like guy) describes what could happen in trailer-like fashion:
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...decay in intelligence and education. (Note that Safari Hat is not the same guy as [[White Hat]]! See below.)
...helves with DVDs, holding a single DVD in his hand looking at the cover. A guy with a white rounded safari hat (Safari Hat from now on) stands behind him.
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:Randall: It's an honor to speak to you, some of the brightest innovators from so many fields, about a problem in despera
...ate in actually throwing some thin guy out of the conference, and then get some graphics savvy person to animate a stick figure over that. :) [...][http://
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In this strip, [[Beret Guy]] mirrors Moore's determination to speak with the CEO of the auto company {
...''volva, vulva'' 'wrapper, covering']. However, the similarity that Beret Guy (or Randall) hears is likely due to American English, which strongly approx
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| titletext = Okay, now just as the loss hits him, slam on the brakes.
...install a speech synthesizer. This means that the laptop in the car behind just starts saying words at Danish's will.
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:Left Cueball-like guy: Do you have any thoughts regarding the particle accelerator's tertiary F.E
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| titletext = The BBC lead was 'The elusive erogenous zone said to exist in some women may be a myth, say researchers who have hunted for it.' I couldn't re
...00.stm BBC has quoted] saying in the title text, an elusive erogenous zone some women claim to have that can be stimulated to enhance their sexual experien
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| titletext = I just want to give him a hug or something.
This comic is a part of the [[:Category:Parody Week|Parody Week]], just joking about other {{w|webcomics}}. This series was released on five consec
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...ide. [[Megan]] notes that the bird hatched approximately a year ago. Beret Guy seems touched by this fact, and attempts to explain to the woodpecker that
Beret Guy leaves a present by the foot of the tree where the woodpecker is nesting. T
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...ees Celsius, you'd be quite comfortable outside dressed for the beach) but some of the benchmarks are humorous and/or completely useless as can be seen bel
Some people argue for switching to metric units in the US, and these people beca
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...g going to see the sunrise would require much more effort. This criticizes some people's tendency of not trying new things or going out with friends, even
...ality and his hope that when he wants to make plans with someone, they are just as eager.
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...to cut out of his original hypothetical setting. Doubly-hypothetical Beret Guy, meanwhile, takes no notice and continues to happily eat his own ice cream,
...all is holding up his hand towards Beret Guy, who talks to him. From Beret Guy's head go three bubbles to a big thought bubble, where the next part of the
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...nter, musician, politician, postmaster, inventor, scientist, and diplomat. Some of his legacies include bifocals, the Franklin stove, an odometer for a hor
...ere going to use the time machine to prevent the robot apocalypse, but the guy who built it was an electrical engineer.
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...ace program}}, working in cooperation with other men (another Cueball-like guy) and women ([[Ponytail]]).
...ir visible, with only the rear leg and back of the chair shown. Behind her just inside the panel to the right is the front end of another table, one leg vi
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| titletext = The TempurPedic wineglass guy broke his ankle.
:Listener: Although... so the lower arms just sort of dangle?
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...in the [[1614: Kites]] title text, it turns out that other people ([[Beret Guy]]) can also fly with a kite.
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| titletext = Could be worse. The last guy in that situation fell for one of the transient trumpeting angels.
...the only way to see them again is by meeting the perfect 'girl' and he has just ignored her! Alternatively, it could mean that that person was actually the
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...ey apparently can't even afford a sampler. I mean, with a little remixing, some of this could be kinda good!
The title text is just icing on the cake. A {{w|sampler (musical instrument)|sampler}} is an instr
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| titletext = And sometimes I use it to retaliate against the guy upstairs with the loud girlfriend and the elliptical dish.
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'''Panel 2:''' [[Megan]] strives to outdo some Christmas lights she has seen on YouTube.
...eard, which is sometimes also sported by conservative Muslims. Or it could just be nonsensical.
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...cause they are re-evaluating their definitions over something too trivial. Some might perceive this as typical "nerd" behaviour, overanalysing a problem th
:[Above the second team consisting of a Blondie and a Cueball-like guy is written the following text (the first line written with larger letters):
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...to clarify the confusion that the person on first is not called "Who", but just "The Doctor".
...and talks to Abbott (a tall guy with a baseball cap) and Costello (a short guy wearing a round brimmed hat and holding a baseball bat in his right hand.)]
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Optimistic [[Beret Guy]] can never take life seriously. He loves to play with everything, and noth
...od who is speaking. Due to Beret Guy's [[:Category:Strange powers of Beret Guy|strange powers]], it is rather likely that God has been stapled as well --
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...each Earth after a day or two, and in history has knocked the power out in some areas during a large flare. They can marginally affect the magnetic field o
...rm would have to be so destructively large as to pose far more danger than just fires. The chances of such a solar event occurring again are not prohibitiv
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...eople but it got really depressing and morbid and I had to go outside. Hat guy wins again.
[[Black Hat]] agrees and tells that he had an issue yesterday with a guy who had a serious case of the
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...the scene is in a bar, this is just another lame entry he uses because he just wants to spend the night with her.
...t and explains that, first of all, they will not start colliding particles just because they actually turn on the collider. That will take a while, during
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...ueball is not actually trying to solicit sex from [[Megan]] at all, but is just interested in setting up jokes. Megan's desire for actual casual sex theref
:[Megan sits at a bar; Beret Guy cleans a glass from behind the counter. Cueball approaches.]
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...covered. It also implies that Randall's second relationship was in reality just a particularly long instance of this occurrence, suggesting that his 'partn
:[To the right above a graph, Cueball is standing next to a Cueball-like guy with a backpack.]
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However, in this comic, the first guy is actually describing what his girlfriend whispered to him on the day she
...in his uncomfortable position, by the awkward moment, while the first guy just stares at him.
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...to a Cueball character, the "Or so I hope?" is most likely written by the guy who drew the comic. This would then indicate that it is Cueball/Randall who
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...d itself, but because of the bulletin board's string and thumbtacks, Beret Guy needs the items advertised on it. An additional minor joke may be that the
...or staring at every little detail to try and make sense of them – Beret Guy may be so obsessed with these string boards that he has been driven to obse
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...the door. Behind the counter, Ponytail stands together with a Cueball-like guy. Another person is obscured by the lowest of the three connected thought bu
:Cueball's thoughts: Better set my iPod to the "Kill Bill" fight theme, just in case.
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[[File:A Matter of Some Gravity.png|right]]
...been inspired by the {{w|Uncle Scrooge}} adventure comic "{{w|A Matter of Some Gravity}}" ([http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=D+96001 Inducks]) by {{w|Do
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[[Beret Guy]] misunderstands Cueball's probability, exhibiting the {{w|gambler's fallac
...d Ponytail have beach towels. Ponytail is looking at her cell phone. Beret Guy has his hands up to his face, looking distressed.]
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| titletext = If you call my regular number, it just goes to my pager.
...her suggests that the receiver did not actually receive the voicemail, but just had Cueball's phone number displayed on his pager.
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...s without answers. Some questions have simple answers, some are difficult, some have many different potential answers, but all of them show humans seeking
...e of ghosts. The reason you are seeing ghosts could be {{w|pareidolia}} or some {{w|cognitive bias}}.
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In a similar way, some plants depend on animal species now extinct, but as the dependency was not
...ing extinction, but the memory of the female bee is now preserved by Beret Guy's memory of the orchid, remembering the male bee's memory of her.
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...ce of [[Beret Guy]] to represent the Sage undercuts this somewhat as Beret Guy is frequently seen as bizarrely disconnected from reality in a way that is
...luded other viable opinions on internet privacy; it could be that they are just not on his radar. For example, we do not have enough information in the com
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...testants pulled from the audience in which they could win cash and prizes. Some deals involved games/tasks the contestant had to perform, while others simp
...uld have no ability to house, and no use for. The comic shows that [[Beret Guy]], upon the host revealing that door B has a goat behind it, chooses to tak
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Following on from [[1032: Networking|his attempts at networking]], [[Beret Guy]], the oddball of the xkcd cast, conducts an interview for a position at hi
...owerful disincentive from joining the company, yet another sign that Beret Guy is mentally unsound, or both.
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:[A guy is walking and Cueball is following him.]
:Guy: The talk is in room 8224.
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In the center of the image, between [[Beret Guy]] and the couple, [[Cueball]] and [[Megan]], appears to be a light spectrum
In the right of the comic appear some spectra arranged in the form of a Christmas tree. There are 3 different spe
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...to the main comic, since spending a few seconds photographing a sunset is just a brief interruption in enjoying the view sans camera.
:Cueball: I hate how everyone takes pictures instead of just enjoying the view.
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...as a result questions whether {{w|global warming}} is real. Black Knit Cap Guy explains that this kind of weather used to happen all the time back before
...roves global warming. Someone off-panel, presumably another Black Knit Cap Guy, sighs as the cycle continues.
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...lar to "[[1133: Up Goer Five|Up Goer Five]]". When Cueball brings up Beret Guy's odd vocabulary, he retorts by declaring that the name does not matter, as
In the title text Beret Guy continues to use playful language and offers affectionate encouragement: "s
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...reaction to a very specific male complaint: that of self-proclaimed "nice guy" complaining about his lack of romantic success.
The [[Cueball]]-like guy on the left in this picture is complaining (presumably because he has been
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...' could be interpreted as something of a threat, which is believable given some of the purported features. It is similar to the phrase ''"The last suit you
...edible objects, much less orally taken medicines{{Citation needed}}. Since some parents of young children let them teethe on their phones, this would be an
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...s probably fair to assume the Long Now Foundation got things right, and at some point we started listening to them and switched to five-digit years.
...Since time is percived to only move forwards,{{Citation needed}} except in some cultures where a cyclical perception of time exists based off the seasons o
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...ecause more than four are already present or new options will be added and some options may even disappear). An option is thus only saved by choosing it an
...any below''' will spoil you from truly enjoying the comic, and maybe make some interesting discoveries yourself! So here is a '''spoiler alert''' if you r
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...llapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Did you know the little prince lives just over there?
======I hope it's open. Otherwise we'll just have to resort to those cat videos.======
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.... There is not a quick-and-easy answer, and really understanding it takes some effort.</font></big>
...ry to make a definitive version. The guy who told it to me originally was some dude on the street in Boston named Joel.</big></center>
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...lly pointless, but presumably much less relaxing activity, she joins Beret Guy in throwing rocks at his leaf boat.
...ominated by those which are [http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/some-news-sites-cracking-down-on-over-the-top-comments/2014/05/07/4bc90958-d619-
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...will probably be crushed (i.e. the rest of the world does not care if that guy has lost faith in them).
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| titletext = 'Dude, why can't you just be a normal roommate?' 'Because I'm coming TOWARD you!'
...Cueball physically falls out of the frame in the final panel, where Beret Guy is already halfway down beneath the floor. This would not be possible in re
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...ly players that could be said to have been among the dominating players at some time in their career. If a player has been the best player over a longer ti
...be noted that she did end in last place vs. his fifth place, but that must just have made the defeat even tougher to take for Albert.
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...t is on the cord. It then floats away, making Cueball grab for it as Beret Guy casually walks away. (See an instance where Cueball inflates something in a
...uy has previously demonstrated several [[:Category:Strange powers of Beret Guy|supernatural abilities]], for instance with power cords, such as in [[1293:
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...The query would then, presumably, see all the people that were deleted. In some implementations of databases deleted records are still hidden and remain un
...aning up against the box with her phone together with a third Cueball-like guy also with a phone in his hand. The device still shows the last part of the
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...was thinking! Haha! But anyway, maybe we should check out what this Ba'al guy has to say.'
The title text suggests that the "fidgeting" is just a cover story - the off-panel speaker is actually worshipping (or being pos
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[[Beret Guy|Beret Guy's]] phone is about to "die". [[Cueball]] assumes this just means that the battery is running out and it needs to be recharged, but the
...va). Stars with more hydrogen fuel tend to burn brighter and faster. Beret Guy's refusal of a charger is probably a reference to this.
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:[Picture 5: A guy with dark hair stands behind a jagged edge.]
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...e in, to gain a broader understanding about it.' 'oh, like a boat!' '...' 'Just for the sake of argument, we should get a boat! You can invite the Devil, t
:Ponytail: Just for the sake of argument, let's say that—
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...Moon's surface, forming a crater and launching small rocks into the space. Some of them will eventually reach Earth, see {{w|Lunar meteorite|lunar meteorit
:[Cueball talks to another Cueball-like guy:]
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...ss a shot with a sci-fi weapon, I say 'Apollo retroreflector' really fast, just in case.
:[A guy and Cueball are engaged in a fight with laser pistols. The guy is standing behind a small box, firing his gun at Cueball.]
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...kowsky role-played the AI, and Yudkowsky was able to successfully persuade some of them to agree to let him out of the box despite their betting money that
...ier than we understand how to build the safe operate-in-the-real-world AI. Some types of such AIs might indeed desire very strongly not to leave their boxe
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...Guy]] if he has any {{w|New Year's resolutions}}, and even though this is just before {{w|new year}} 2015, his resolution is to find out what an email is!
...nd having existed since before 1982 when {{w|SMTP}} was established, Beret Guy apparently doesn't understand what {{w|email}} is, even though he maintains
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...gan apparently has no morality left. She even proclaims this while pouring some dangerous liquid, probably gasoline, on to the floor of their apartment.
The title text shows just how distorted Megan's and Cueball's thinking has become, as one of them sug
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| titletext = Do you think you could actually clean the living room at some point, though?
...ce time with a {{w|vacuum cleaner}}, which is also commonly referred to as just a "vacuum".
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This comic shows another quirky and fantastical ability of [[Beret Guy]].
...seems to be able to identify all the elements the substance is composed of just by eyeballing it, making him perhaps the perfect elemental analysis instrum
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...xample, a goat). [[Randall]] states that people find the dress color issue just as baffling as if upon opening the chosen door no one can agree if the item
...y Hall problem" previously appeared in [[1282: Monty Hall]], where [[Beret Guy]] decides to take the goat.
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...gh it is unclear why. The common theme in these three comics is that Beret Guy misuses common business cliches. The following are examples and phrases tha
...company's services.{{Citation needed}} It appears that in this case Beret Guy's company kept the page as is, but also trademarked the sentence as the com
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...nstructions for performing a task, usually on a computer. This comic lists some algorithms in increasing order of complexity, where complexity may refer to
...that magic is a way to remember what pages the Internet contains, which is just a mind-bogglingly large quantity of data, and an even more [[1605: DNA|mind
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...(blog)|what if?]]'' article {{what if|147|Niagara Straw}} features [[Beret Guy]] riding in a barrel, which may be a reference to Barrel Boy.
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**Some of the picture can be seen on this page:
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...r, “ten hundred”) most common words to provide simple explanations for some of the most interesting stuff there is, including:
...ings in this book by page|Things in this book by page]]'') and on the page just before this, with the publication details, numbers are only used for page n
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...rceivable difference.{{Citation needed}} (Unless, of course, you are Beret Guy.)
...title text assumes (for comic effect) that the only thing wrong with Beret Guy's strategy is the instability of the ladder endangering the expensive micro
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|Man, that cool-ade guy really lost some weight lately.
|just two more trips over the horizon
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...the mainland, and once from Canada into Alaska. The car apparently begins some distance from the Canadian border, since it will likely run out of gas befo
It could have been [[Beret Guy|Beret Guy's]] car - see [[1493: Meeting]]. Self-driving cars are a [[:Category:Self-d
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[[Beret Guy]] has a new job with a paradoxical premise. When asked where he works, he s
...red until it becomes old enough to be considered "antique", and that Beret Guy doesn't perform any useful function (except perhaps using the items to make
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...n so perfectly capture the out-of-nowhere shock of discovering that you've just bricked something important because you didn't pay enough attention to a lo
:Cueball: Depends. You know the scene in Apollo 13 where the guy says "we have to figure out how to connect ''this'' thing to ''this'' thing
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...usic, for example the Jazz style Scat, use purely nonsensical lyrics while some styles of dance music use a single line of lyrics repeated throughout the t
...tone deaf}}, although it doesn't have an underlying medical understanding. Some people that describe themselves as tone deaf are even quite musically capab
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...or|most recent common ancestor (MRCA)}} for humans is unknown but occurred some time after {{w|Mitochondrial Eve}}, around 140,000 years ago. If the MRCA's
In [[1088: Five Years]], [[Beret Guy]] is also asked where he will be in five years, and he later interviews [[H
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...e intends to do both of his stated objectives. This is expected from Beret Guy, who is usually both naïve about the world and beings that surround him, a
...to Rowdy it could have been "and I'm all out of time!" And his time was up just then before that last word.
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...be poking fun at movies that have ridiculous titles already, for instance, some people think this applies to a title like "{{w|Terminator: Genisys}}".
| ''Space Trip: <br/>That Guy is Angry''
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...the comic is that of a pro-tip, which tells the reader what the phrase "I just have to clear a few things out of the back" really means.
...ggly lines emanate from the back seat area. Megan and another Cueball-like guy are stand next to the car, looking at each other.]
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...that giving this explanation would only add fuel to the fire that is Beret Guy's imagination.
...s that her {{w|mobile phone signal|cell reception}} has disappeared. Beret Guy responds by saying that he had to cut down his "tree" because there were "s
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...their walk. It is unclear if this person is paranormal or just some random guy tagging along.
...died without Christ, the journey at an end. However the narrator probably just went home.
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:Cueball (off-panel): Instead of just ''planning'', my new app lets you send "ghost" versions of you along differ
:Ponytail: I'm sorry, but we've decided to replace you. This floaty guy is much more punctual.
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:I would just like to say:
...to see him properly). Similar in the lower layer: Black Hat, Danish, Beret Guy, Rob, Cutie, and a girl (hard to see, but looks like girls hair, not a hat)
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...aba Ponda Baba] simply told Luke that "[they] don't like [him]", but Beret Guy is evidently not satisfied by that explanation.) Although this may be somew
:Cueball: Yes, you, from... it just says "The News"?
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| titletext = Charles, I just talked to John and Mildred, who run that company selling seeds and nuts, an
...sts' most famous examples and discoveries were based on actually observing some mundane everyday event taking place.
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[[Beret Guy]] comments on a {{w|baseball}} game using improper terminology in a way tha
...{{w|Inning|innings}}, with each team getting a chance to bat. Since Beret Guy does not know what an inning is, he may count each half-inning as a "part",
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...o the Internet, it can convince its operators to "release it from the box" just by talking to them. This idea was already mentioned in [[1450: AI-Box Exper
...ictionary.reference.com/browse/gregarious gregarious]''). This happened at some point between 2015 and 2060, because by 2060 this AI had already become a r
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...y pretending to give them serious contemplation, finding that they do have some compelling philosophical merit, though not nearly enough to give the impost
...eaking news: The Supreme Court has ruled 9-1 that they don't know who this guy is or how he got in here, but he's definitely ''not'' a justice.
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...t necessarily get a number the first time you see them, if they are behind some obstacle. They will first get a number when you actually take them!
...ber of small steps can be used; especially when you cannot see yourself in some secret passage.
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...ematically related, although another type of hoverboard would be mentioned just five weeks later in [[1623: 2016 Conversation Guide]].
Beyond the maze on either side (just far enough that players who remain within the maze will not see) are [http:
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...et Guy is interested in reeling the dog in and flying a kite when he could just continue "walking" his dog.
...rning to the park with a kite, his dog has returned to the park with Beret Guy flying in the air on the kite (hence he calls down from above that kites ar
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| titletext = That guy only drives an alkaline car to overcompensate for his highly acidic penis.
...ical problem. Again this could be Megan's lack of understanding, and since some models of cars are called [http://jalopnik.com/5327974/why-cant-you-get-a-n
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...o, I changed the future and now I'm disappearing! Wait, never mind, it was just my hat slipping down over my eyes.
...t avoid being pushed forward through time, see [[1524: Dimensions]]. Beret Guy has also previously traveled to the future in a similar manner, see [[209:
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...e a type of ''{{w|Unmanned aerial vehicle|radio-controlled helicopter}}''. Some people have objections towards the usage of quadcopters as, if equipped wit
...in front of his students ([[Megan]], [[Ponytail]] and another Cueball-like guy), presenting to the class. He has a quadcopter lying ready on the ground be
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...mages with coins, even sorting them to find the images with most coins, or just finding those few images with more than one coin available.
****For some sections of images where there are more than one general interesting featur
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...om for releasing the sun, but in the title text it turns out that they are just going to sell the Sun on-line.
Alternatively this is not ''the'' Sun, but just a small sun-look alike, maybe a {{w|ball lightning}} which might actually b
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...ing and woken him early in the morning on New Year's Day. To which Cueball just replies that 2016 is already hours old and that time is passing. As it is N
...perience noticeable results. It is only a couple of weeks ago that [[Beret Guy]] used this technique to travel forward in time in [[1617: Time Capsule]].
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"Comment of the year," just like the original bot reply, could be taken two ways but both would likely
...hair on white background. Below the pictures and below the text there are some unreadable information (indicated by wiggly lines) for the users name and t
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...[[1608: Hoverboard]] of individual scenes (with coins) and some overviews (some without coins). These will be used in the [[1608: Hoverboard#List of detail
*1608 1103x1074y Just grass:
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...ad conversations like this with Cueball before, as he asks if they could ''just talk without your weird need to give context for everything?''
...eally tries hard, with his fists clenched and White Hat encouraging him to just reply normally to a question about the [http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co
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| titletext = Some of you may be thinking, 'But wait, isn't the brightest star in our sky the
...rian Cox (physicist)|Brian Cox}}, see [[#Relevant TV-shows|below]], but at some later point [[Randall]] changed his official transcript thus making the hos
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...ic eight persons drink a '''toast''' for their "real friends" and then for some other type of "friends". For the real friend they wish them to have one spe
...e ninth from the title text) are listed with explanation for all words. In some cases the word may actually refer to a drink (like the first with champagne
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...ry single pipeline will lead to the bowl of a giant blender, and we'll all just show up with a bucket each day to take our share of the resulting smoothie.
...he materials are effectively solids at room temperature. Many examples are just plain zany (e.g. saliva may be a reference to another ''what if?'' "{{what
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...their baby to him (here represented by [[Megan]] and another Cueball-like guy holding a baby in a blanket). Because he never knows what to say, he has ma
...ch has nothing to do with this baby, and a rating of the baby. Nonetheless some of the thoughts are quite true.
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In some cities, {{w|automated parking system}}s (aka robotic garages) are used to r
...well to this treatment of his car when Black Hat tells him that later they just dump out the bin (full of cars) and he can then pick his own out from the p
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...e of those tire dumps, the next time he tries to get his truck back we can just retreat and let him have it.
In this comic, [[Jill]] and another girl have just completed a {{w|tire swing}}, a common makeshift {{w|swing (seat)|swing}} i
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...ur '''Garden'''", being a barren landscape, with a small pond to the left, some rocks at the far left and right, and a single lamp shining light yellow lig
...nches and leaves]. This can sometimes happen quite fast. Most other plants just appear, the only other exception being one type of flowers. All plants, exc
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| Some of the grass is very flexible.
| A little bit of everything including Beret Guy and a cat.
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*Some of these screen-shots are used to illustrate the progress of the [[1663: Ga
*1663 garden Beret guy and cat and much more:<br> [[File:1663 garden Beret guy and cat and much more.png]]
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...nal and colloquial way to refer to underground tunnels, as though they had just been discovered for the first time.
| Facebook CEO || At time of writing, {{w|Mark Zuckerberg}} || This guy || Any generic person, sometimes used in a derogatory fashion by suggesting
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...tion needed}} Instead, the teacher clearly thinks that smaller bunnies are just cuter. She mentions that "king buns" may be seen around this time of year,
...rent theme]] on xkcd. A "bun alert" system was actually created by [[Beret Guy]] in [[1871: Bun Alert]].
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..., Cueball mentions how he starts to feel bad if he refrains from drinking, just like Megan here.
...y real solid advice I've heard is that if you're thirsty, you should drink some water.
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...have now finished the first 646 characters, three legs into the 2nd zero, just missing the left part, but still nothing from the third zero. The table has
...could be where a character is suspected to be from an earlier comic, where some object is unclear, where the text of a transcript is unreadable etc.
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...etext = 'Hey, what are those futuristic goggles for, anyway?' 'Oh, this is just a broken Google Glass. It was 2010's night at the club.'
...at she is supposed to know a lot more about time travel than a guy who has just been "reading" about it.
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...left has white hair (could be either sex) and the other is a Cueball-like guy. A third sign is lying on the ground to the left of them face down. Behind
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| titletext = Hang on, I just remembered another thing I'm right about. See...
...try to maintain an air of infallibility and intelligence. Some people are just too prideful to admit that they are inherently fallible. White Hat is one o
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* By placing the invention of the internet at 1980 in the chart, just where the temperature curve starts its most rapid increase, Randall humorou
* Just below the previous entry also at 1200 BCE is the mentioning of the invasion
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...ar II}}. Because of the unprecedented scale of the project, which involved some of the brightest minds in science and the efforts of thousands of people, "
...airy, a person with flat hair, a person with white hair and a Cueball-like guy.]
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...fun at a movie cliché in which the story opens with the main character in some kind of unbelievable predicament, followed by a record scratch, seemingly f
...with a wine glass held in one hand, and behind her is another Cueball-like guy with a wine glass holding one arm out pointing a finger at Cueball.]
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...there was a chance {{w|spoiler candidate|they could affect the result}} in some states (no third-party candidate has ''won'' a state since {{w|United State
...748: Future Archaeology]] three weeks before the election, but here it was just a wish to know the result using time travel (of course he did not learn the
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...s, including constant efforts to force the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" guy into retirement so we could stop being so paranoid about compilers.
...in the past, specifically {{w|compilers}}. Cueball, having a faint idea of just how difficult and byzantine programming was "in the old days", asks Hairbun
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:[Panel showing Ponytail sitting working at some type of console, possibly in her laboratory. Cueball is standing on the oth
:Ponytail: But once this guy stops talking, that Nobel Prize will be '''''ours'''''.
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| titletext = If anyone calls you on any weird detail, just say it's from the Jedi Prince book series, which contains so much random in
:White Hat: ''Hey everyone! This guy's never seen Star Wars!''
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[[Beret Guy|Beret Guy's]] [[:Category:Beret Guy's Business|company]], first seen in [[1032: Networking]], [[1293: Job Inter
...ich could ironically be attributed to business analysts in general). Beret Guy is dumbfounded, claiming that his company must do ''something'', and takes
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...artment? And, thanks to antibiotics, will continue having two thumbs? THIS GUY. (P.S. kitten is safe!)
...r mid-speech and asking "what has two thumbs and doesn't give a f*ck? THIS GUY!", before pointing to themselves with their thumbs. The idea is that you on
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...o newer and still-competing protocols, its endless customizability has led some people to support it above all others.
...le bliss, there is always — in Randall's vision — going to be That IRC Guy. This might also be a reference to the scenarios in science fiction stories
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...but it seems Black Hat is not interested in visiting these worlds, instead just being annoyed about his broken furniture. (Given Black Hat's personality, t
...ferent names and takes on different appearances, implying he ''is'' Jesus, just in Narnia.
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...Guy]] does in that comic, is strictly [[:Category:Strange powers of Beret Guy|supernatural]].)
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| titletext = 'So we just have a steady flow of metal piling up in our server room? Isn't that a prob
...is another one of [[Beret Guy|Beret Guy's]] mysterious [[:Category:Beret Guy's Business|businesses]], in which he shows new employee [[Ponytail]] around
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...l the park rangers to calm down, it's fine--I put a screen on the front. I just want to get the birds a little closer.
...wed it from [[Beret Guy]] who has many [[:Category:Strange powers of Beret Guy|strange powers]] that also extends to improving vacuum cleaners, which Cueb
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...eball]] want to rent a car. The [[:Category:Multiple Cueballs|Cueball-like guy]] from the {{w|car rental}} agency tells them they only have two vehicles a
...s trying to drive people away from the haunted car, which we can assume is just a normal car, to get more profit when people come back and take the "haunte
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...though we've repeatedly asked them to stop. The EU told me I'm the heir to some ancient European throne that makes me exempt from the GDPR, but we should p
...shows a meeting at [[Beret Guy]]'s business (as seen in [[:Category:Beret Guy's Business|these other comics]]). As usual, those in the business demonstra
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The comic opens with [[Beret Guy]] identifying a "bun", an informal term for a {{w|rabbit}} also used in [[1
...ents and phrases (and often making said misinterpretations correct through some strange power of his), so it is not implausible that he actually genuinely
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...omic shows nine different schematic views to present geographic faults and some more.]
...Geology]], and in the title text of [[1388: Subduction License]], [[Beret Guy]] tells [[Cueball]] he can't be a 'normal' roomate because in his motion he
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...Guy is talking about {{w|rabbit}}s, lots of which can be seen if he would just go outside (by the way, there is a ''small'' one '''RIGHT NOW'''!).
...allot for the voter to write the name of a {{w|write-in candidate}}. Beret Guy thinks he works for the governor because he wrote his name in on the ballot
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...Guy appears to exhibit another of his [[:Category:Strange powers of Beret Guy|strange powers]].
In [[1614: Kites]], Beret Guy is "walking" a dog. It is possible that one of the dogs in this comic is th
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:[Cueball is talking to a guy wearing a Santa hat.]
:Santa Hat: At some point, that quest itself ''became'' the true meaning.
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...oo big to eat comfortably. At this point (according to Randall) some smart guy invented the panini, a small sandwich, to cater to those who couldn't find
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...who else they didn't take seriously? Hitler. I'll be like him, but a GOOD guy instead of…
|'''Donate now.''' It's crunch time, and we're low on cash. If you chip in just $5 by midnight, we…
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...nterruptions to the game, have become attractions in their own right, with some viewers tuning in primarily, or even solely, to watch them.
...wn for about 76.7 seconds. Each day of watching the slow video would cover just under 40 seconds of "actual" time. With this method of viewing, the watcher
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| titletext = You can also just mash the keyboard at random, but you might end up with a gibberish name no
...likely to be taken quickly. This is analogous to the way that {{w|Land run|some land}} was distributed to settlers (and/or {{w|Land claim#Mining claim (Uni
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...No fair saying "Frank ... Johnson. That sounds like a real person! Let me just Google him real quick."
...on the table adjacent to another tile, and the adjacent ends must match in some way (usually by the number displayed on the touching ends). Randall's "name
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...t how hard it can be to save an image or to just navigate context menus in some computer programs. The "easter egg hunt" might be related to the fact the c
...ter -Hydrogen -Helium -Scattered clumps of heavier elements -Stars -Rocks -Some space probes -Earth
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...w|linguistics}}, and (in the title text) {{w|software development}}. While some of those questions have actual answers (which you'd expect someone working
...ting the information about 20% rain in each hour can know). And then lists some scenarios that all fit the the description, but have totally different resu
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...misses the offscreen character's point and remarks that he's not as bad as some person he has discovered, presumably through the aforementioned method of s
...rnet, but still wants to discredit it, just because he is so infuriated by just being able to imagine it. This is similar to {{w|Straw man|straw man fallac
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: Some devices may be scheduled to do a "{{w|disk cleanup}}" on the first of every
...t? Nobody should be able to knacker that deep (although Cueball apparently just did).
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...spread destruction across the Eastern Mediterranean. Then it mentions {{w|Guy Fawkes Night}}, the anniversary of the famous failed attempt to bomb Parlia
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Some of these tools require power, which would generally require Thor to stay ne
* Randall might just find the idea of Thor wielding a Plane as a weapon to be really funny.
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|Several definitions: blood of a god, or demon, or, in some dialects, any insect; or watery discharge from a wound. None of them carbo
...enter, usually on a griddle. Possibly a play on {{w|malt drink}}. Or maybe just a way to say "no, the *melted* ice".
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...attach to a rocket (that is similar visually to the European Vega rocket) just before launch, with the CubeSat attached to the other end of the fishing li
:[Slim shot of the rocket as the drone attaches to the rocket, just under the tip with the payload. The string goes down and out to the right.]
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...might be some other kind." "Yeah. Besides, I know I'm the alien conspiracy guy, but come on--the idea that the government would care about hiding somethin
"Maybe the shadowy forces that control the world just want to believe" is an allusion to "I Want to Believe", a phrase from the '
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...of fencing|"Advancing"}} is a basic forward movement in fencing, and Beret Guy appears to feel it is unfair for the glacier not to have a weapon.
...move the sword, but rather would embed it into the stone (or ice) as Beret Guy has done here. – As {{w|Terry Pratchett}} wrote: "What’s so hard about
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...e reason why his league split off from the official state-sponsored league just prior to the Motivated Reasoning Olympics. Of course, motivated reasoning i
:Cueball: Well, the guy who won was caught cheating in an earlier round, so the board is almost cer
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...hey're all mentioned here. [[Talk:header_text#1047|See the Talk page]] for some examples.<br>If you can address this issue, please '''[{{fullurl:{{{target|
...link to their name, either to Instagram page or X or their own home pages. Some of them have also helped with the two previous April Fools' comic, see belo
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...fferent times or by different methods). Mixing them as in the comic, would just cause the antibiotic to kill the probiotic bacteria. Explosive reactions be
:[Ponytail, wearing a lab coat, and a guy wearing a scrubs hat rush in from the right side of the panel. Ponytail is
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In the comic, this idea is taken to an extreme, with [[Beret Guy]] not only transforming the opportunity to ask a question into an opportuni
...ent.''' A {{w|Topic and comment|comment}} by a crowd member, is when they just say something they believe, without expecting an answer, giving the speaker
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...they are dockless Roombas for rent. Cueball is confused, but then [[Beret Guy]] walks in, activates one with an app on his {{w|smartphone}}, and rides aw
...s]] it was [[Ponytail]] that drove a Roomba. And in [[1486: Vacuum]] Beret Guy flew on a regular vacuum cleaner.
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...ncluding some in which winning participants have spoken highly of KSP, and some of which are used for [https://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article
...rms out towards him. On the other side of the desk is another Cueball-like guy holding his arms out palms up and Hairbun who stretches her arms out to the
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...price, and expresses concern that the pears aren't being dispensed; Beret Guy simply assures her that "it takes a while to work".
...oduction of pears in the meantime.{{Citation needed}} Alternatively, Beret Guy may be planning on using [[1088:_Five_Years|time-altering abilities]] to ra
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Some events it describes, including the {{w|Big Bang}} and {{w|Inflation (cosmol
...e at the moment of the Big Bang to the full size of the universe today, at some point near the left there will be a point where Randall's representation wo
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...it does not necessarily have to perform photosynthesis by itself (although some parasitic plants such as mistletoe are photosynthetically active). If the p
...t a parasitic relationship. However, the biologist has an answer for that: Some parasitic plants (such as {{w|sarcodes|snow flowers}}) do not attack the tr
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...who is wrong on the Internet]]. Pulling him away from the argument, Beret Guy asks why Cueball should pick a weird hill to die on (fight over an opinion
...was also featured in [[1717: Pyramid Honey]]. (Normally the expression is just "a hill to die on".)
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...special editions. If you still want to have a party, I'm sure you can find some combination that works.
...ight speed}} delay. He announces this information to [[Megan]] and [[Beret Guy]] only seconds before it occurs, allowing him to signal the moment by sayin
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...it could be an extreme stretch of intimate behavior to make an analogy to some cultures' norm of kissing acquaintances in greeting.
...ch others' eye''lids'', would be very difficult for most people, but Beret Guy being able to do this would not be very surprising considering his other ab
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| titletext = I'm sure you can find some suitable worldbuilding material if you scavenge through the archives.
...t, items could be found by visiting different xkcd comics/pages. Randomly, some pages would have a treasure chest which contained the sticker related to th
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...high, but I like it here too. Besides, if I ever want to move back, I can just curl up in a ball and wait!
...ill light at times of day where you are used to it being dark out. [[Beret Guy]] comments that he fell off of the wall this morning, a seemingly unconnect
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...with one of [[Beret Guy|Beret Guy's]] [[:Category:Strange powers of Beret Guy|strange powers]]. This time he attracts water so it flows to him rather tha
...t to the inflow of water (at least, on a yearly average). Obviously, Beret Guy's inexplicable effect on water is distinct from the way actual endorheic ba
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...e pandemic, a claim Cueball meets incredulously. In the final panel, Beret Guy is doing battle with the chair, which taunts him and claims to be immortal
:[Beret Guy and Cueball are talking.]
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...mageMagick is so popular and easy to use that many programs use its API or just find it easier to {{w|Shell (computing)#Other uses|shell out}} to ImageMagi
...waste less time reinventing the wheel, so the philosophy goes (or as Beret Guy's business practices literally: [[2140: Reinvent the Wheel]]), and thus man
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...ion to the cabbages. This is unusual{{cn}}, as one would expect from Beret Guy's associates.
* '''Black Hat and Beret Guy both want to cross the river with their cargo'''. Neither states that they
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*'''Scarecrow''': A burlap sack. While it provides some cover to the mouth and nose, it is heavily porous. This could also refer to
...bsequent adoption by the {{w|Anonymous (group)|Anonymous}} movement). Most Guy Fawkes masks provide small holes in the front for comfort, thus facilitatin
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...d (e.g., {{w|Robin Hood}}). A chaotic good xkcd character would be [[Beret Guy]].
...n believes in keeping the carton easy to handle, and clearly pays at least some attention to how the next user will be impacted. The fact that the person p
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...mortal) or found that doing so didn't halt the pandemic. (Apparently Beret Guy has visited this same store before, since he says that "it's so stuffy in t
After confirming that he has the right number, Beret Guy asks if the cursed store does curbside pickup, as he intends to place an or
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...urn of events that the Apple Growers discuss Trump. However, usually Beret Guy is not interested in real-life problems.
:[Beret Guy and Cueball stand on either side of Megan with her hair unkempt. They stand
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Project Orion has been mentioned before, in [[786: Exoplanets]], where Beret Guy sums it up as "nuke-riding city ships", and on [https://what-if.xkcd.com/7/
...ive lines fade to lighter and lighter gray and finally in the fourth line, just above their heads, the text is almost white. The overall effect is that Cue
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*Some stickers are from the book ''What If?'', not from the website (https://what
| 075 || Beret Guy in a crane || 677
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...seated panel of four people, consisting of Ponytail, Hairy, a Cueball-like guy and Hairbun. Hairy is the only one to have one arm on the desk, all other a
*For some reason, the original version of this comic was very large (4332×4838px), [
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...n (e.g., flu vaccine), live but safe pathogen variants (e.g., measles), or some protein from the pathogen that the immune system can respond to (e.g., pert
[[Beret Guy]], in his [[:Category:Strange powers of Beret Guy|usual fashion]], misunderstands how reality works, then reality alters to f
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...e to witness Beret Guy's shot anyway, as Cueball would be long dead. Beret Guy probably doesn't realize this at all, considering how naïve he is.
:[Beret Guy, holding a basketball and a helium balloon, is talking to Cueball. There is
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:Megan: Then the next week I saw that guy on the news. He was an actual murderer!
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Although some stores were closed during the lockdown period, others were open for essenti
...eird, since most people use their refrigerators to store fresh food. Maybe some people became anorexic because of anxiety due to the pandemic or stopped co
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...= The only other person to walk by was a linguist back in the 80s, but she just spent a while dissecting the phrase 'help me down' before getting distracte
...of it. Megan is surprised that he owns such a big property, however, Beret Guy is known for his inexplicable businesses such as in [[1493: Meeting]] and f
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...) methods, and finally the joke is that the third method is performed by a guy named Dave (who replies from off-panel), and he claims to measure the speed
The third method introduced in this comic is a guy named Dave who is trying to use a {{w|radar speed gun}} (as used by the pol
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...er is maintained by present-day customs, immigration, and security checks. Some countries (like {{w|Cyprus}}) have established a {{w|buffer zone}} outside
...or sloped borders. The mention of curvatures in the title text may reveal some emergent problems that need accounting for.
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...= Hard to believe that for so many years once they were fully extended we just let them tip over.
...ventures]]. He explains to [[Megan]] that "we" (possibly [[:Category:Beret Guy's Business|his company]]) are testing their new "retractable" rocket.
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The comic displays just a small {{w|radio button}} (or option button). Usually, there would be more
...ute button is shown. It could be another layer to the April fool's joke or just an error by Randall.
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| titletext = When an Ur guy / sells Nanni things / but the copper's bad, / He simply records his compla
...ad/I simply remember my favorite things/And then I don't feel/So bad". "Ur guy" references Ea-nāṣir, while Nanni is the name of the customer who wrote
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In this comic, [[Beret Guy]] announces that a {{w|hydroelectric dam}} has reached "Q > 1". This has tw
However, Beret Guy's clarification, that the meaning of this is that the dam is producing more
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...ntract back before all the stuff and the lawyers say we can't back out, so just try to keep your finger away from the bottom of the phone.
...ble that this phone was designed by [[:Category:Beret Guy's Business|Beret Guy's company]], which has in the past [[1493: Meeting|trademarked seemingly no
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...the wordplay that Beret Guy utilized in [[1322: Winter]].) However, Beret Guy turns out to be speaking literally, as he picks up what is in fact a tiny {
...ed dispersal}}. Randall's suggestion of turbine seeds conflicts with Beret Guy's assertion that the turbines were built by field mice.
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...WHALE HEAVIER THAN THE IPHONE 15, FLYING OVER A NET HALF AS TALL AS BERET GUY'S MOTHER, ON A FIELD THE SIZE OF A REGULATION OLYMPIC POOL<br>If you can ad
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...asily fly between planets if you pay attention to orbital mechanics: don't just floor the accelerator. The background stars show your velocity and orientat
...r navigation keys 'h', 'j', 'k', and 'l' to control the spaceship. Despite some spaceships having no unique backward texture, they can all reverse. On mobi
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...the {{w|retina}} of a cat's eye. He explains that the layer reflects back some of the light that passes through the retina, giving it a second chance to h
...infuriating" because Bill Nye is showing both his scientific knowledge in some other field and his gaming prowess simultaneously, while he lacks the skill
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| To get here, launch from Beret Guy saying "Wow!" on the Starting Planet.
The planet is just a shell with some gaps. On the outside, there are a few signs that mark the directions to dif
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...y cell?' '...I'm trying, but it says this number is blocked?' 'Ok, thanks, just checking.'
...sed) pocket. He then makes a show of ''annoyance'' that Cueball ("''this'' guy") is calling him, sends the call to {{w|voicemail}}, and leaves. From this,
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...ext = "The police told me I can't be a doctor, but whenever they show up I just go into the Google Maps settings page I found and change the house to 'Poli
...ician, making this another comic with one of his special [[:Category:Beret Guy's Business|businesses]].
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...om these tales and named some objects after them or (possibly with [[Beret Guy]]'s help) managed to obtain the genuine items, using them as decorations in
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...le secret that's being slowly revealed to the audience through flashbacks? Just spit it out so we can escape this arc!"
...certain plot-armour) then often it's a swirly-effect meant to appear to be some kind of cosmic plughole. And this is the escape-route (or hiding place) tha
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...The Hubble length is about 1.9 meters lying down; Edwin Hubble was a tall guy.
....harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?s=n&v=3&id=109718], but Edwin Hubble was a big guy (see title text) and likely had an above-average volume.
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#REDIRECT [[Psychology guy]]
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...series by The Land Before Time producer. You know, the franchise with the guy from Jurassic Park and Ghostwriter, and script work by Billie Lourd's mom?
...ertain that Steve's last name is Jobs, so she refers to Jobs as "the Pixar guy", asking Cueball if Jobs is the correct name. Jobs is ''mainly known for''
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...times make you find a new item. Collecting small grey circles will instead just make you find an item, such as a rock with neat stripes, a cool bug, and a
...n-depth tables and lists, see [[2765: Escape Speed/Tables|here]]. Here are some other useful resources:
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:Cueball: Apparently there's a solar flare that's causing some Great Aurorae. CBC says they may even be visible here! Wanna drive out to s
:Cueball: No, just clouds.
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...number to someone they find attractive. (Although, in the music video, the guy turns out to be gay.) This song/Carly in general has been mentioned [[2379:
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...est statue of that theme in “the {{w|Northern Hemisphere}}”. The other guy then becomes intrigued, as he realizes that this seems to imply the existen
...This leaves the companion wondering what kind of great evening they had in some other location. In this case, it's unlikely that the speaker would have inc
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...'tower', the Willis Tower was never the tallest. Cueball then realizes he just one-upped White Hat with what ''he'' knows about tall structures in general
...ile a {{w|structure}} is generally defined as anything humans make. (Or in some cases, anything an animal makes, like [[2418: Metacarcinization|crab shells
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In the comic, [[Beret Guy]] and [[Ponytail]] are sitting at a table and eating dinner alongside [[Cue
...the kind of [[:Category:Strange powers of Beret Guy|strange powers]] Beret Guy, who is also present at the table, usually displays (see [[1388: Subduction
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[[Beret Guy]] seems to be using {{w|volcano}} seeds to grow a tiny volcano to fertilize
In the first panel, Beret Guy states that he made these seeds himself, presumably using his proven skill
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...on beyond the original scope likely intended by the reader and takes it to some extreme for humorous effect. For example, in {{what if|1|the first article}
**After that they were released weekly for almost three years, with just a few times with two (and once three) weeks between releases, up until arti
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...mobile-device version, where the playing area is optimized to full-screen. Some collectable items display a message only and do not add an item to the list
:[Other features of the planet, as they are encountered by carefully moving just above the planet's surface in the clockwise direction are:]
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Psychology guy is a minor character in XKCD, characterised by his glasses & beard. He was
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#REDIRECT [[Philosophy guy]]
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