491: Twitter
explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
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| − | | titletext = If long tooltips / cut | + | | titletext = If long tooltips / cut off for you / then upgrade from / Firefox 2 / Burma Shave |
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
| − | This comic plays off of an old shaving cream product's advertising campaign employed on American highways from 1925 to 1963. These | + | This comic plays off of an old shaving cream product's advertising campaign employed on American highways from 1925 to 1963. These ads used short poems, each line arranged sequentially on a sign along a highway, the last line always being "Burma Shave", the name of the shaving cream. Originally these ads only described the product, but others included driving safety messages. |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
:[Cueball is sitting in a caster office chair typing onto a smartphone] | :[Cueball is sitting in a caster office chair typing onto a smartphone] | ||
| − | : ''Beep | + | : ''Beep beep'' |
| − | :Phone: "On Twitter | + | :Phone: "On Twitter feeds" |
:[More typing] | :[More typing] | ||
| − | :Phone: " | + | :Phone: "an odd regression:" |
| − | :[More | + | :[More typing] |
| − | :Phone: " | + | :Phone: "ancient memes" |
| − | :[More | + | :[More typing] |
| − | :Phone: " | + | :Phone: "find new expression" |
:[More typing] | :[More typing] | ||
| − | :Phone: "Burma Shave" | + | :Phone: "Burma-Shave" |
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
Revision as of 02:25, 21 March 2013
 Title text: If long tooltips / cut off for you / then upgrade from / Firefox 2 / Burma Shave |
Explanation
This comic plays off of an old shaving cream product's advertising campaign employed on American highways from 1925 to 1963. These ads used short poems, each line arranged sequentially on a sign along a highway, the last line always being "Burma Shave", the name of the shaving cream. Originally these ads only described the product, but others included driving safety messages.
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Transcript
- [Cueball is sitting in a caster office chair typing onto a smartphone]
- Beep beep
- Phone: "On Twitter feeds"
- [More typing]
- Phone: "an odd regression:"
- [More typing]
- Phone: "ancient memes"
- [More typing]
- Phone: "find new expression"
- [More typing]
- Phone: "Burma-Shave"
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