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Are there any other examples of actual living people who are not celebrities being name-checked in xkcd?  [[User:Andries|Andries]] ([[User talk:Andries|talk]]) 13:23, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 
Are there any other examples of actual living people who are not celebrities being name-checked in xkcd?  [[User:Andries|Andries]] ([[User talk:Andries|talk]]) 13:23, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
  
Given that the article noted that the next generation would be, quote, "in control," I think Cueball's interpretation is...well, slightly less absurd than it would be otherwise.
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Given that the article noted that the next generation would be, quote, "in control," I think Cueball's interpretation is...well, slightly less absurd than it would be otherwise. {{unsigned ip|108.162.216.109}}
  
 
== Non-English analogon ==
 
== Non-English analogon ==

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That second panel is, like, depressing. 108.162.249.185 05:19, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

I found the article. Piderman (talk) 05:53, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Cool, added it. Thanks. PinkAmpersand (talk)

God also introduced a new concept "light" and was quicker implementing it (God did not need to wait for the next generation or kill people) throughout the world. And light sounds similar to (like) like. Sebastian --108.162.231.68 08:58, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Are there any other examples of actual living people who are not celebrities being name-checked in xkcd? Andries (talk) 13:23, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Given that the article noted that the next generation would be, quote, "in control," I think Cueball's interpretation is...well, slightly less absurd than it would be otherwise. 108.162.216.109 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Non-English analogon

It might interest you that in Germany exactly the same phenomenon exists, only in different flavor: the lower caste using "Digger" (like, "Fatso") as each third word, possibly in lieu of a comma. (Appears not yet in written material.) Anyone forced to overhear such a conversation is tempted to smack them in the face - hey, it works on a stuck record needle too :-) 108.162.230.221 13:38, 6 February 2015 (UTC)