...els started appearing in the 1960s and I had one that used an endless reel of magnetic tape in the 70s. [[User:Jonat|Jonat]] ([[User talk:Jonat|talk]]) 1
...es, loops, or reel to reel tapes were quite common in the 70s, as a result of the Carterfone decision allowing interconnection to the public switched sys
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...antage of it. --[[User:Aaron of Mpls|Aaron of Mpls]] ([[User talk:Aaron of Mpls|talk]]) 23:16, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
This entry isn't on the list of all comics 1-500, and I made the mistake of adding this comic to the list. I was about to add an explanation, with a li
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:Unless you consider "th" a single character, which by the way makes a lot of sense as it is derived from old-english "eth". {{unsigned|62.245.198.190}}
...it to "right-to-left" for the following text. It's back-to-front for most of us like "left-to-right" is to other writing systems. I know it's nitpicking
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...n your house. --[[User:Aaron of Mpls|Aaron of Mpls]] ([[User talk:Aaron of Mpls|talk]]) 03:46, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
...get the joke: is it about the idea that stealing something from the house of a dying woman is a rather common thing to have on one's conscience? and Cue
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...I is 2012. Also LVII/CCLXV = 57/265, whereas February 27th is the 58th day of the year (which has 365 days). --[[User:Ulm|ulm]] ([[User talk:Ulm|talk]])
:Just guessing, but could this have something to do with the divergence of various Roman calendars, e.g. Julian vs. Gregorian? [[Special:Contributions
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It is a pun. Artist's conception can either mean an artist's description of an event where no real photo is available; or the artist's biological conce
::Example of an 'Incredibly Lame Pun' actually being hilarious. --[[User:Dangerkeith3000
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...rtability. It's a sad state where I've actually more or less come across 3 of these. [[Special:Contributions/203.126.136.142|203.126.136.142]] 00:56, 14
One of xkcd's best in a quite a while, imo. [[User:Alpha|Alpha]] ([[User talk:Alph
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The first thing I thought of was the [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis Gaia Hypothesis]. It
...s there. Of course they use a drill instead of a gun, and take oil instead of a random rock. [[Special:Contributions/66.202.132.250|66.202.132.250]] 13:0
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"This is an example for the misuse of statistics." Also, statics... [[Special:Contributions/108.162.254.113|108.1
...ese types of drills are common in construction. To think that at least 60% of these assets would have had that tool involved in their creation seems like
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...usly? I bought a $15 book? what's that worth to him? maybe several minutes of his time? He's given me so much more than that over the years - the least I
...ving at 1000 miles an hour, but it's going in a huge circle. That's a lot of leverage for our particular lighthouse. {{unsigned|Seebert}}
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:(good description of feature)
:bugfixes for (description of feature)
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:If Megan was buying a drill so she could put up shelves, that kind of destroys the joke. Why should she need to be discreet about that?
...their time (while on the internet, for example) might show a preponderance of sexually-related activity. Here, Randall has attributed the sexual experim
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...t Exist (as in a limit). I've actually never seen it used as Do Not Erase. Of course, this does not make sense in this context. Thank you, Explainxkcd. [
...derstood too. --[[User:Aaron of Mpls|Aaron of Mpls]] ([[User talk:Aaron of Mpls|talk]]) 05:43, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
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...his were an actual userpage, you would see more information about '''Aaron of Minneapolis''', such as is found in the personal links below.
* [[User:Aaron of Mpls/Sandbox1|Sandbox 1]]
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There's a set of golden arches at Jefferson and Russell, Arguably more identifiable. {{unsig
...ke any other. --[[User:Aaron of Mpls|Aaron of Mpls]] ([[User talk:Aaron of Mpls|talk]]) 11:12, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
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“Of course, by taking the drink Cueball also admits having buried bodies ''at a
Uh, no, he doesn’t? If he never hid any bodies south of Main Street, it doesn’t imply he hid any bodies anywhere else… right? ~
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...as a reference to the unit of work, horse power, but in this case instead of being the 550 foot pounds per second, it is the force required to put a hor
...as a length unit... I am wondering if this is somehow related to the size of SRBs [http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.asp] ;-) {{unsigned|Ld75
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...m}} a little. --[[User:Aaron of Mpls|Aaron of Mpls]] ([[User talk:Aaron of Mpls|talk]]) 05:40, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
: Yes thank you for the conversions, _most_ readers of this comic use metric units: http://daretorant.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/
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a friend of mine told a story once of a girl in his high school that used a hot dog as a toy once. supposedly it
...related to the comic, the original reason might have been some combination of factors like "bakers hate this" or "Meat packers do that", but I suspect th
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...her.gov/media/okx/Climate/CentralPark/BiggestSnowstorms.pdf 1 part in 269] of tying the 2006 record for biggest snowstorm 3 weeks before this, broke the
...d of 80, and 100 was the freezing point (everybody ignores the second part of his scale).[[Special:Contributions/162.158.114.222|162.158.114.222]] 17:07,
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