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1212: Interstellar Memes

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524: Party

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1190: Time

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‎Day 56, Sunday, May 19, 2013:

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‎Day 56, Sunday, May 19, 2013:

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‎Day 56, Sunday, May 19, 2013:

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247: Factoring the Time

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‎Day 56, Sunday, May 19, 2013:

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‎Day 56, Sunday, May 19, 2013: Bot is still not online...

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Talk:576: Packages

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‎Day 56, Sunday, May 19, 2013:

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‎Day 56, Sunday, May 19, 2013:

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1190: Time

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‎Frame by Frame Breakdown: Add {{clear}} to every month

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Talk:1213: Combination Vision Test

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1213: Combination Vision Test

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‎Explanation:

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1213: Combination Vision Test

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‎Explanation: Adding links to wikipedia articles on specific forms of synaesthesia

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‎Day 56, Sunday, May 19, 2013:

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 Our solar system, from where the electromagnetic waves are emitted, is located near the center of the picture. The other star systems are arranged roughly according to their distance from the sun, while their size corresponds to the size of the star.
-Radio waves travel at the speed of light.  The title text jokes that these memes are so annoying that it would give us further incentive to develop the technology to travel faster than light, just simply to be able to outrun the radio waves, reach a distant start system, and apologize in advance to the "residents" about the memes, before the memes arrive.
+Radio waves travel at the speed of light.  The title text jokes that these memes are so annoying that it would give us further incentive to develop the technology to travel faster than light, just simply to be able to outrun the radio waves, reach a distant star system, and apologize in advance to the "residents" about the memes, before the memes arrive.
 The meme for Sirius is a pun; it refers to Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, in which Bellatrix Lestrange kills Sirius Black.

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 ==Explanation==
-In the first panel, we see [[Black Hat]] telling [[Cueball]] that he has hired {{w|Rick Astley}} to show up at a party for a girl. When Cueball assumes Rick Astley is going to perform a live {{w|rickroll}} (sing the song "Never Going to Give you Up), Black Hat assures him that Rick is not actually going to sing.
+In the first panel, we see [[Black Hat]] telling [[Cueball]] that he has hired {{w|Rick Astley}} to show up at a party for a girl. When Cueball assumes Rick Astley is going to perform a live {{w|rickroll}} (sing the song "{{w|Never Gonna Give You Up}}"), Black Hat assures him that Rick is not actually going to sing.
 We then see the girl in question (who resembles [[Danish]], Black Hat's girlfriend) talking with [[Ponytail]], notice Rick Astley as he enters her party. Like Cueball, the girl expects Rick Astley is going to sing and rickroll her live, and when he does not, his presence causes her to hear the song in her head instead, and she flees the room screaming. Black Hat has essentially rickrolled her in her own mind.
-When Ponytail then asks Rick Astley what he did, he merely answers "that, my dear, is how I roll".
+When Ponytail then asks Rick Astley what he did, he merely answers "that, my dear, is how I roll", referencing the [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/puts-on-sunglasses-yeeeeaaahhh "Puts On Sunglasses"] meme.
-Rickrolling is where one is redirected to a video of Rick Astley singing "Never Going to Give You Up" via a weblink purporting to be in relation to something else. It was later extended to any situation where the song is used disruptively, such as during a party (as in this situation).
+Rickrolling is where one is redirected to a video of Rick Astley singing "Never Gonna Give You Up" via a weblink purporting to be in relation to something else. It was later extended to any situation where the song is used disruptively, such as during a party (as in this situation).
 Rickrolling, which first appeared in May 2007 on {{w|4chan}}, became viral during the later part of 2007 and 2008, and this is referred to in the first part of the tagline. The tagline then asks what meme will replace Rickrolling in 2009. Although [[Randall]] makes reference to the "Xzibit Yo Dawg" and "I accidentally..." photocaptioning memes, {{w|memebase}} entries suggest the "Keep Calm and Carry On" meme may well have become the most popular (and most enduring, as of 2013) meme of 2009.

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		+	My random list of favourite Comics by Randall:
		+	[[Combination Vision Test]],
		+	[[Up_Goer_Five]]
		+	and of course that tiny rover never coming home:
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	The only way I could imagine Cueball being on a <s>wanted</s> watch list is if the items he ordered could be interpreted as potentially being used in a hostage crisis at The Pentagon. --[[User:Btx40\|Btx40]] ([[User talk:Btx40\|talk]]) 20:27, 20 February 2013 (UTC)		The only way I could imagine Cueball being on a <s>wanted</s> watch list is if the items he ordered could be interpreted as potentially being used in a hostage crisis at The Pentagon. --[[User:Btx40\|Btx40]] ([[User talk:Btx40\|talk]]) 20:27, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
	: What's the lube for? [[Special:Contributions/103.10.66.8\|103.10.66.8]] 16:29, 19 May 2013 (UTC)		: What's the lube for? [[Special:Contributions/103.10.66.8\|103.10.66.8]] 16:29, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
		+	:: It's only for adults.--[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 17:24, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

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	This would be incredibly confusing to a synesthete. Wouldn't he/she see the big 4 and 2 as being colors of their own? And then, of course, its component numbers would be made of so many different colors. I think we need a real synesthete to look at this. [[Special:Contributions/71.176.19.228\|71.176.19.228]] 15:11, 18 May 2013 (UTC)		This would be incredibly confusing to a synesthete. Wouldn't he/she see the big 4 and 2 as being colors of their own? And then, of course, its component numbers would be made of so many different colors. I think we need a real synesthete to look at this. [[Special:Contributions/71.176.19.228\|71.176.19.228]] 15:11, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
		+	:I have heard from real synesthete people that there are too many chaotic numbers on the picture. I did add an explanation on the bottom of the main page. --[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 14:37, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

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		+	In general it does not work for people having synesthesia because there are too many chaotic numbers in that circle. They only see colors when they can identify each single number because it's a neurological condition, the colors are produced after the numbers recognized by the brain.

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 The number 2 is formed by digits 3, 5, 7 and 9, apparently all odd numbers in the range 0–9, except for 1.
-A normal person does not readily see the big numbers, obviously. However, there is a neurological condition called {{w|synesthesia}}, in which perception in one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. Common examples are experiencing colors when seeing numbers or words, hearing tones or music while reading words or text, seeing sequences of numbers or month names in a distinct and fixed shape, etc. If we give some numbers a color, such as how a person with number to color synesthesia would see it, we get this:
+A normal person does not readily see the big numbers, obviously. However, there is a neurological condition called {{w|synesthesia}}, in which perception in one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. Common examples are experiencing colors when seeing numbers or words ({{w|Grapheme-color synesthesia}}), hearing tones or music while reading words or text, seeing sequences of numbers or month names in a distinct and fixed shape ({{w|Number form}}), etc. If we give some numbers a color, such as how a person with number to color synesthesia would see it, we get this:
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