| title = A Simple Plan
...stress of newfound independence. Many, if not all, adolescents go through a phase where the ongoing realization of becoming fully responsible for their
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| title = Snakes on a Plane! 2
...isingly) snakes, on a plane, attacking the passengers. This comic proposes a sequel, taking the idea to the next level, making things infinitely worse:
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| title = Exploits of a Mom
| titletext = Her daughter is named Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory.
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| title = A Hypochondriac's Nightmare
| titletext = BUT WHAT IF I REASSURE MYSELF WITH A JOKE AND THEN DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE RASH AND IT TURNS OUT TO BE DEATH MITES
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...iver's license factory Elaine Roberts|Comics featuring Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory Elaine Roberts]].''
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| title = A Bunch of Rocks
...the time it takes to update just one row of rocks would be eons, assuming a realistic time to place each rock.
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| title =Westley's a Dick
...ovel)|The Princess Bride}}'' written by {{w|William Goldman}} which became a {{w|The Princess Bride (film)|film in 1987}}.
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| title =The End is Not for a While
...use peaceful means or otherwise to effect political change. It's very much a groupthink, "mob" mentality, bringing to mind the credo, "If you're not wit
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| title =I am Not a Ninja
...ably "We need to talk." They often stereotypically signal the beginning of a conversation that the speaker knows will cause the listener to become upset
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which is not really a comic, even though we've categorised it so. -->
...[[Special:ContributionScores|Lots of people]] contribute to make this wiki a success. Many of the recent contributors, listed above, have [http://www.ex
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<noinclude>:''For a list of comics, see [[:Category:Comics featuring Black Hat|Comics featuring
...hat style hat, that quickly evolved to have the current shape and style of a {{w|pork pie hat}}, already used in [[45: Schrodinger]].
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| titletext = That eggplant is in something of a flaccid state.
A large version is [http://xkcd.com/1079/large/ here].
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| titletext = That's a gneiss butte.
...eology)|cleavage}}," "deeper in the {{w|rift}}," "{{w|orogeny}}," (perhaps a {{w|portmanteau}} of {{w|orgy}} and {{w|erogenous}}), "huge," and "{{w|Thru
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[[Cueball]] is arguing with a {{w|conspiracy theorist}} who believes in some {{rw|conspiracy}}, who is si
..." websites can be made by anyone and have little limitations. The maker of a ".net" does not need to show sources of information or even their name. As
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...y, when I looked at an analog clock, the hand would sometimes seem to take a couple seconds to start ticking. Google "stopped clock illusion".
A [https://xkcd.com/1080/large/ larger version] of this image can be found by
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| titletext = I liked the idea, suggested by h00k on bash.org, of a Twitter bot that messages prominent politicians to tell them when they've u
...age Service, which limited messages to 160 characters. Twitter has adopted a 140 character limit since its inception, which allowed any given tweet to b
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...ommand that lists the files in the current directory. The computer returns a bizarre error message — it trips over one of the simplest commands, indic
...in a folder called "android_vm" suggests Cueball was attempting to boot up a virtual Android device, but somehow wound up directing the Linux server to
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...]] and he has quite a few wishes, most of them based on the previous wish. A common trope in fiction is that wishing for more wishes is prohibited and f
...ing a wish, where the rules are discussed by the Genie that will grant him a wish.
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...onary.com/define.php?term=vaguetweeting "vaguetweeting"], which is posting a short message of sadness or frustration without context. This is frustratin
...as altruistic as a for-profit company can be). In the comic, ContextBot is a fictitious Google invention which puts context for these statuses, presumab
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...harlotte's Web is a children's novel by American author E. B. White, about a pig named Wilbur who is saved from being slaughtered by an intelligent spid
This comic is a mash-up between the ''{{w|Lord of the Rings}}'' trilogy and the novel ''{{w
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...er questions. You're hired!' 'Oh, sorry! I'm no longer interested. There's a bunch of future I gotta go check out!'
This comic is a take on the common and cliched job interview question here asked by [[Hairb
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...k pieces may also be a reference to {{w|Edward the Black Prince}}, who was a prominent figure in an earlier stage of the Hundred Years War. As you can s
.... The usual gambit of sacrificing a pawn is subverted to be a sacrifice of a high-value piece, as an analogy of what happened at Agincourt.
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...y}}ing him. This comic inspired several xkcd readers to give Cory Doctorow a red cape and goggles when he won the 2007 EFF Pioneer Award. Cory Doctorow'
:Man in Red Cape and Goggles: Are you a blogger? I play one of you at our festivals!
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...problem, Cueball "Just Gives Up" and puts all his items and furniture into a box labeled "Misc" for miscellaneous, with the exception of his laptop, ca
...osts on how to "hack" your life and improve it. Life hacking appears to be a common theme in xkcd, such as in [[2024: Light Hacks]].
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...nsylvania, where the film is set. The folklore ritual consists in removing a {{w|groundhog}} from its burrow. If the sun is shining and the groundhog ca
...oncept of {{w|Absolute Infinity}}, which he equaled with {{w|God}}. It was a common concern in Cantor's time to preserve the consistency between mathema
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...of human, if anything happens to said box on wheels, such as crashing into a wall, the humans inside may be badly injured, if not killed. Had they evolv
...ndividuals may have moved faster than that by falling out of a tree or off a cliff. Fast vehicles, on the other hand, have only appeared in the last cou
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...ons, Cassini, Curiosity, TiME, and Project M. But c'mon, if the Earth were a basketball, in 40 years no human's been more than half an inch from the sur
...]] is referring is [https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/73388356461019136 a tweet] by {{w|Neil deGrasse Tyson}}, an American astrophysicist and science
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This comic was posted right after the '''weekend''', on a Monday, so it was on time to emphasize that ''we all hate Mondays''.
In the first image, there is a reference to the {{w|Loverboy}} song "{{w|Working for the Weekend}}"; both
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...ongst teenagers, which is probably why he now feels that they are too easy a target for him.
...this has similarities to the emos' refrain above, or he may just be taking a swipe at them by suggesting that they think themselves above normal scienti
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