...you see yourself in 5 years?'' The interviewer is attempting to see where the job seeker would like to take their career and also what their hopes and dr
...terviewer wait around for 5 years without moving to find out. And as Beret Guy expected they stayed exactly where they were. (This could be suggesting tha
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...comics, see [[:Category:Comics featuring Beret Guy|Comics featuring Beret Guy]].''</noinclude>
...[[Black Hat]], he is one of the few xkcd characters who tends to represent the same character in each appearance.
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...t]] killed Hitler in the year Hitler would have died anyway, ''after'' all the atrocities he and his government committed.
...He soon returns, commenting that he found Hitler in a very noisy bunker in the year 1945.
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...image to a normal comic, with the first normal panel being superimposed on the dark image.
...his will mean: ''The skies burn, the seas turn to blood, and the dead walk the earth!''
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| first_appearance = [[260: The Glass Necklace]]
...:''For a list of comics, see [[:Category:Comics featuring White Hat|Comics featuring White Hat]].''<noinclude>
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...ring "{{w|exoplanet}}s" or planets that exist outside of our solar system. The indication is that these planets are habitable enough for humans, even if j
...mercial spaceflight programs are interested in starting asteroid mining in the future, or even now: For example, see: https://www.planetaryresources.com.
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| title = 1000 Comics
| image = 1000 comics small.png
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...system actually live in very different worlds. Everything about you shapes the world you inhabit--from your ideology to your glasses prescription to your
*To view your personal version of the comic, visit the {{xkcd|1037|original comic}}.
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...in the same place, and the journey takes no time at all! Relativity saves the day again.
...'s travel ends only with us seeing "pretty dots" - stars in the sky. Beret Guy then tries to return light to its birthplace by using a mirror, which refle
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| titletext = Our company is agile and lean with a focus on the long tail. Ok, our company is actually a polecat I found in my backyard.
...in the title text of [[2277: Business Greetings]], also about one of Beret Guy's businesses. None of these things are common behavior.{{Citation needed}}
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| titletext = I was sure he was just getting revenge, but then he did the same thing to Carrie Underwood. Then he mailed me a scone. I think I'm givi
...roke up with him the day before, as she explains to [[Cueball]], but Beret Guy is so strange that she now can't tell if it was revenge or even if he remem
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This comic is divided into two parts, the first two rows of panels and then the third one.
The first part demonstrates a failed attempt at communication:
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| titletext = The investor elevator pitch is "Wheeeeeeee! Elevators are fun!"
This one has the art and feel of very early xkcd comics, even though those stick figures did not appear by that time.
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...{{w|chicken wings}}, meaning the customer can pay a flat price and eat all the chicken wings they want without having to pay any more.
...mference of the Earth by the last panel (and presumably continue growing). The other characters scream in horror for obvious reasons.
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| title = xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel
| titletext = I love the title-text!
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| titletext = Don't you know? The chances of a random object being a scone are about one in six.
...sion, intending to destroy whatever machine they are in, except that Beret Guy tends to be a bit surreal and brought a bag for holding pastries instead of
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...in the spot from the displaced pieces. It's a confusing maneuver known as the auto-troll shuffle.
...acters, so Congress has a lot of reservations about his {{w|résumé}}. At the time when this comic was released, Senate confirmation hearings occurred ra
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| titletext = The Pioneer anomaly is due to the force of my love.
...s as an opportunity to make yet another Your Mom joke, implying that Beret Guy's mother is fat.
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| titletext = The Banach-Tarski theorem was actually first developed by King Solomon, but his
...placing a light or candle inside. The Jack-O'-Lantern in the 3rd frame is the typical and standard design for a carved pumpkin.
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This is the second comic in the [[:Category:Well|Well]] series: The first was [[561: Well]].
...ifespan is 80 years now. So, while immortality may become a reality within the coming century, [[Ponytail]] won't live long enough to achieve it.
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*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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This comic is deliberately conflating two definitions of the word "pickup" to try and discredit one of them.
...n "pickup basketball" means informal and spontaneous. In pickup basketball the players are not part of an organized league or team but rather are just peo
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...= That shirt looks good on you, but it would look even better stuffed onto the neck of a vodka bottle and flung burning through our office building's wind
*"If I could rearrange the alphabet, I'd put U and I together."
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| titletext = The end.
* The comic image is a link to [http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190 geekwagon.
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| title = xkcd Goes to the Airport
The various characters of [[xkcd]] cause problems at the airport due to their various quirks.
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This comic deals with two linked themes, which both come under the umbrella of {{w|Existentialism|existentialism}}, a branch of philosophy.
Beret Guy invites Cueball to join him in a two-seat kayak trip. However, Cueball is c
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...my, and his objective is to ask the CEO pointedly about GM's disregard for the lives affected by their business decisions.
...o Cars in 2009, a subsidiary of Ford by that time, and later taken over by the Chinese company {{w|Geely|Zhejiang Geely Holding Group}}.
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...touched by this fact, and attempts to explain to the woodpecker that it is the woodpecker's birthday.
...operate the drill. In spite of this, the woodpecker has not only unwrapped the present; it has apparently accepted it, and flies off with it.
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...to cut out of his original hypothetical setting. Doubly-hypothetical Beret Guy, meanwhile, takes no notice and continues to happily eat his own ice cream,
...m your room. In addition, since the hypothetical situation in question is "the hypothetical that someone escapes a hypothetical situation in your room", i
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...letext = It's easy to regret your awkward conversations but hard to regret the ones you didn't have.
...n the sky, [[Megan]] appears hanging on a blimp, looking at him throughout the encounter. Cueball wonders about her and considers talking to her, but he d
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| title = The Staple Madness
...sticks things together with an impressive ''kaCHUNK'' sound when he pulls the trigger, even on things that (definitely) shouldn't be stapled.
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