Explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
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| + | #REDIRECT [[757: Toot]] |
| − | | number = 757
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| − | | date = June 23, 2010
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| − | | title = Toot
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| − | | image = toot.png
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| − | | titletext = This is also one of only five identified situations in which a vuvuzela is actually appropriate.
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| − | ==Explanation==
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| − | "Toot my own horn" is an idiom meaning to brag.
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| − | The {{w|Vuvuzela}} is a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf2P8SnOwLo highly sophisticated instrument], mainly used for making noise at football matches in South Africa. This comic was published during the {{w|2010 FIFA World Cup}} in South Africa, and the constant buzzing from vuvuzelas throughout the maches attracted attention an controversy.
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| − | ==Transcript==
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| − | :Cueball: I don't mean to toot my own horn, but I was first in my class at Caltech.
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| − | :[Cueball falls backward as Black Hat sounds an air horn in his face.]
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| − | :Black Hat: Really? I don't mean to toot my own horn, but
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| − | :''BRAAAAAAP!''
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| − | :[A picture of an air horn.]
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| − | :Air horns: worth carrying around your entire life for those few perfect moments. | |
| − | {{comic discussion}}
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| − | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
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| − | [[Category:Comics featuring Black Hat]]
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| − | [[Category:Language]]
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| − | [[Category:Sarcasm]]
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Latest revision as of 12:02, 24 January 2013
