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| title    = Starwatching
 
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| titletext = I always figured the word &#39;blog&#39; would sound *less* silly as the years went by.
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==Explanation==
 
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This is a play on both Disney's "The Lion King" (in which Simba relates the same opening conversation with his late father, Mufasa, about the great kings of the past looking down from the stars) and [http://www.xkcd.com/239 xkcd #239] in which [http://craphound.com] Cory Doctorow] visits "from the past".  The "Cory in cape and goggles" meme has [http://craphound.com/?p=2122 played out in real life] and on Doctorow's [http://craphound.com/walh/ "With A Little Help" book cover]
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:Man: Just look at those stars.
 
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:Man: My father once told me that the great bloggers of the past are up there, watching over us.
 
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:Man: High above the blogosphere, a gap opens in the tag clouds.  Cory Doctorow&#39;s voice booms forth...
 
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:Woman: You need to get out either more or less.  I can&#39;t decide.
 
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Revision as of 22:33, 7 June 2013

Starwatching
I always figured the word 'blog' would sound *less* silly as the years went by.
Title text: I always figured the word 'blog' would sound *less* silly as the years went by.

Explanation

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Discussion

An interesting interpretation. I thought Cueball was just referencing The Lion King. 184.41.49.246 00:53, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

My thoughts exactly. "Great kings of the past," "great bloggers of the past"... I don't think there was any intended reference to Christianity. 24.20.112.104 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

I think the word "blog" is more an elision than a portmanteau, since it's not a conflation (e.g. mansplain, muppet, or smog) of two words, here "web" and "log," but rather a shortening (or eliding) of the same. 108.162.219.21 12:55, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

Why is the transcript marked incomplete? Spongebog (talk) 16:26, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

Fixed a typo and grammar for tag cloud. It was a little cumbersome before, but I think I wound up using bigger words. The part about "or less" seems a little clunky also, but not quite sure how to fix it. Vorik111 (talk) 18:22, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

There needs to be a running count somewhere on the wiki of how many times the word blogosphere appears in xkcd and how it tracks over time. If Randall reads the wiki perhaps it will induce a spiteful uptick. AzureArmageddon 07:48, 30 September 2023 (UTC)


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