*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|1110|original comic}}.
...hanging from a balloon, which brings to mind the expanded perspective over the landscape attained by early experimenters in overland flight.
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...as a carbonaceous chondrite, so it's basically a lump of gravel glued into the shape of a sword. A SPACE sword!
...perior to their earthly counterparts. The salesman in the comic is [[Beret Guy]], who appears with a beard for only this comic.
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...the world is relative. Which way is left or right, for example, depends on the direction one is facing, so different people can give different answers and
...is 'whichever way Earth is', or perhaps even 'whichever way is opposite to the Sun'.
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| titletext = According to my mom, my first word was (looking up at the sky) 'Wow!'
...ous joke is that, instead of “cloud” (Internet-based) storage, [[Beret Guy]]'s business is literally storage ''of'' clouds.
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...hen no specific personality traits are desired for the comic, as they have the most basic appearance. Cueball is a stick figure with no distinguishing cha
...and have been created by this wiki for ease of reference in explaining the comics.
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| titletext =They offered to make me a green beret, but I liked my regular one. Although it gets kind of squashed under my hel
...can presume that in a matter of minutes, this love affair will go sour as the love letter is wrapped around a live grenade and "delivered," so to speak.
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...the bathroom mirror, and left me a membership/roadside assistance card on the counter.
...an [http://www.snopes.com/horrors/robbery/kidney.asp old urban legend]: a guy is drugged (often after been approached by flirtatious woman), then he awak
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...{w|marshmallows}} and promptly decides to shoot at [[Megan]]. Having taken the first few hits without much reaction, she sighs and then brings out her {{w
...h a regular gun, since Stay Puft is a fictional brand of marshmallows from the ''{{w|Ghostbusters}}'' movie. (Of course, it's also a reasonable thing to s
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| titletext = 'I don't know, why is your beret staying on your head?' 'Staples.'
...ent on this and the fact that Beret Guy has his head down. But then, Beret Guy gives him an answer, regarding where White Hat's head once came through and
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...study of the brains of spider neurology experts), and arachnoarachnology (the study of too many spiders).
...a silk shirt around it. After six weeks he can take the finished shirt off the "rack", and after optionally removing some stray spiders it should be ready
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...e trying to get an audible.com audiobook playing than it took to listen to the book. I have lost every other piece of DRM-locked music that I ever paid fo
...equiring the purchase of new hardware. In the audio situation described in the comic, one could not, say, transfer an audiobook or song from an iPod to a
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...tletext = Ever notice how the more successful observational comics become, the more their jokes focus on flying and hotels?
The comic depicts four acts at an {{w|Open mic|open mic night}}, where performa
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...ling 'dammit' correctly -- with two m's -- it's a troll that works best on the most literate.
...cation and confuses listeners who will be trying to work out which part of the sentence could have been interpreted as a pun.
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...ng ball resting on a sheet of rubber distorts the sheet due to its weight. The system has some qualitative features in common with gravity; it's often mis
...even light can't escape from. However, the comic subverts the analogy, and the sheet becomes a trampoline instead.
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| title = Reinvent the Wheel
...rth it. There was one week when a wheel of cheese got dangerously close to the first page, though.
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...SUV, [[Beret Guy]], not wanting to appear to be such, trades his SUV in at the dealership for a hybrid subcompact.
...r emissions, and that's exactly what [[Megan]] says, this time, when Beret Guy happens to drive past them again.
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...t into your dark and twisted world? Wow, just got the subtext there. Also, the apparently eager Beyoncé would've made one badass Nazgûl.
...t to destroy it, as Sauron's army gathers its forces to attempt to reclaim the Ring for their master.
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*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|826|original comic}}.
...//www.xkcd.com/826/ original comic] is interactive. It will show images of the exhibits (see below) by clicking on them.
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| titletext = Why can't you have normal existential angst like all the other boys?
...ther than constantly moping. The presence of squirrels may relate to Beret Guy's head's resemblance to an acorn.
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...rther away until he reaches an area with [[Megan]], [[Hairy]], and [[Beret Guy]], discussing {{w|giant squids}}. He decides to join them, as this conversa
...in fact, dissing the giant squid rather than discussing how cool it is. As the squid is not present,{{Citation needed}} Cueball scoots either back to wher
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