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  • '''Megan''' is a [[stick figure]] character in [[xkcd]]. She is the second-most frequently appearing character, after [[Cueball]] ...has quite odd habits and is sometimes shown to be very focused and intent on a goal. However, as explained above this is not a general rule for a given
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  • ...for ''Earth Standard Time'' (hence the title), but it is in itself a joke on the American {{w|Eastern Time Zone|Eastern Standard Time}}. In the rest of ...l days" as a day of the week, in order to make every date fall on the same day of the week every year.
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  • | titletext = Though please do confirm that it's actually *me* on Klout first, and not one of my friends trying to get me punched. The great thing about {{w|Klout}} was a site that sought to measure your "influence" on social media networks. They sometimes gave away "perks" to the users with t
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  • ...dge more than $50 you'll get on the VIP list and have first dibs on a slot on ANY of the pledge levels in the actual campaign. ...uld want to guarantee a specific reward from a pledge level, this VIP-list-first-dibs offer may have been desirable.
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  • | titletext = Someday I'll be the first to get a Ph. D in 'Undeclared'. ...rics in the original version, to serve as a callback. The last line of the first verse in each song goes as follows:
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  • ...rk image to a normal comic, with the first normal panel being superimposed on the dark image. All three sentences are attributed to the apocalypse, but it seems that the first one about the sky burning, actually comes from a translation of one of the
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  • ...ies I do the same thing, but the other way around.|Randall Munroe|[https://xkcd.com/about Source]}} ...ific answers to absurd hypothetical questions", while on his [https://blog.xkcd.com personal blog], called ''[[Blag]]'', he posts announcements related to
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  • | titletext = People tell me I have too much time on my hands, but really the problem is that there's too much time, PERIOD. Clicking the image at xkcd.com links to [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Ak43bGxHGI1adDMt
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  • ...n obscure manuscript from the 1490s and the other twenty-two are arguments on LanguageLog. ...sing many large obscure words in one sentence, Randall may also be picking on linguists, [[114|one]] [[1483|of]] his [[1602|favorite]] [[2390|subjects]],
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  • {{comicsrow|1465|2014-12-26|xkcd Phone 2}} {{comicsrow|1456|2014-12-05|On the Moon}}
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  • ...while it was on-line and saved it. Since then it has been added to explain xkcd. So here is a complete list of all four comics in the entire [[:Category:Fi ...indeed confuse the date with November (or October) 7, despite it being {{w|Day of Infamy speech|"a date which will live in infamy"}}.
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=Monday%27s%20drawing%3A%20Snapple ...sed the apple with tin. {{w|Tin}} is a metallic element whose abbreviation on the periodic table is "Sn" (as the Latin word for tin is "stannum"). Thus,
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=10%3A58%20am-,Monday%27s%20drawin ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=10%3A58%20am-,Monday%27s%20drawin
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  • ...critical part of the operating system, while there is no such restriction on UNIX - if a root user feels like (or accidentally) deletes a vital file, th ...ked, the friend denies the request. Cueball then (ab)uses the sudo command on the friend, who then has no choice but to go and make the sandwich, and now
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  • ...uote|A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.|[https://xkcd.com xkcd.com]}} ...y [[Randall Munroe]] and hosted at [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com]. It focuses on {{w|science}}, {{w|mathematics}}, {{w|technology}}, and general {{w|geek|ge
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A44%20pm-,Pi%20equals,-(4%20Co | titletext = My most famous drawing, and one of the first I did for the site
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=1%3A10%20pm-,Wednesday%27s%20Draw ...%20the Original caption</span>]: I saw the "problem" t-shirt (upper right) on campus a few days ago and suddenly felt so sad.
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A38%20pm-,Barrel,-He%27s%20fai ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A38%20pm-,Barrel,-He%27s%20fai
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=Just%20Alerting%20You%20(Monday%2 ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=Just%20Alerting%20You%20(Monday%2
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  • ...angular momentum generated by its rotation on its axis, which creates the day/night cycle. This momentum can change (increase, decrease, or halt) through ...momentum/ calculated] how much time Megan slowed down. And finally, in ''[[xkcd: volume 0]]'', this is also calculated above the comic, giving a final valu
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  • {{comicsrow|474|2008-09-10|Turn-On}} {{comicsrow|442|2008-06-27|xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel}}
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  • ...ferences the 1981 {{w|Reagan assassination attempt|assassination attempt}} on the then American president, {{w|Ronald Reagan}}. ...{{w|Macintosh}} was a line of computers created by {{w|Apple Inc.|Apple}}, first introduced in 1984, with the {{w|Macintosh 128K}}.
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  • ...he [[:Category:1337|1337 series]] where the entire family is shown for the first time. The title of this comic is a pun: "exploit" can mean an accomplishmen The first line is valid SQL code that will legitimately insert data about a student n
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  • This comic focuses on the {{tvtropes|CorrelationImpliesCausation|apparent difficulty people have ...the concept, hence the lack of absolute causation. It could also be a joke on Megan's behalf. Cueball may know whether his new knowledge is caused by the
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=Friday%27s%20Drawing%20%2D%20Hitl ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=Friday%27s%20Drawing%20%2D%20Hitl
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A35%20pm-,Island,-I%20draw%20t ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A35%20pm-,Island,-I%20draw%20t
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A36%20pm-,Le%20Petit,-Another% ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A36%20pm-,Le%20Petit,-Another%
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A35%20pm-,Landscape,-Don%27t%2 ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A35%20pm-,Landscape,-Don%27t%2
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A42%20pm-,Irony,-Too%20much%20 ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A42%20pm-,Irony,-Too%20much%20
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A34%20pm-,Girl%20sleeping,-I%2 ...s in 11th-grade Spanish class. We were watching a movie and she was asleep on the floor in front of me.
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A41%20pm-,Spiders,-They%27re%2 ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A41%20pm-,Spiders,-They%27re%2
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A43%20pm-,Firefly,-Drawn%20in% ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A43%20pm-,Firefly,-Drawn%20in%
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  • | titletext = Umwelt is the idea that because their senses pick up on different things, different animals in the same ecosystem actually live in *To view your personal version of the comic, visit the {{xkcd|1037|original comic}}.
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A46%20pm-,Barrel%20%2D%20Part% ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A46%20pm-,Barrel%20%2D%20Part%
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=1%3A30%20pm-,Monday%27s%20Drawing ...nues! ([http://www.xkcd.com/barrel_cropped_(1).jpg Part 1] and [http://www.xkcd.com/barrel_mommies.jpg Part 2])
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=2%3A42%20pm-,Monday%27s%20Drawing ...are all the barrel comics on a single (easily linked) page:<br>http://www.xkcd.com/barrel.html<br>I cheated, and went back and lightened the gridlines in
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=11%3A54%20am-,Barrel%20%2D%20Part ...D%20Part%205,-The%20ferret%20got Original caption</span>]: The [http://www.xkcd.com/ferret.html ferret] got to fly, in the end!
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A41%20pm-,Canyon,-I%27m%20not% ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A41%20pm-,Canyon,-I%27m%20not%
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A45%20pm-,Copyright%20Law,-I%2 ...read about copyrights, and without any moderation, over 600 people clicked on it.
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=10%3A41%20am-,Friday%20drawing!,- ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=10%3A41%20am-,Friday%20drawing!,-
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=1%3A16%20pm-,Friday%27s%20Drawing ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=1%3A16%20pm-,Friday%27s%20Drawing
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A40%20pm-,Strip%20series,-One% ...ch to Kurt Halsey to chaotic and sappy.<br>The whole series is [http://www.xkcd.com/comic/comic.html here].
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=Friday%27s%20Drawing%20%2D%20Pill ...reading it! Cool, huh?<br>Also, all the barrel strips are now [http://www.xkcd.com/barrel.html here] for easy linkage to people you think might like them.
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  • ...nytail]]'s car in his version of "keying" a car. She broke up with him the day before, as she explains to [[Cueball]], but Beret Guy is so strange that sh ...oo) further confuses the situation, causing Ponytail to completely give up on dating.
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/#:~:text=Monday%27s%20Drawing%3A%20Geico Original ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/#:~:text=Monday%27s%20Drawing%3A%20Geico Original
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  • ...or encourage the players. Rockapella was an {{w|a cappella}} band featured on the show that gave clues, punctuated the show with humor, and closed the sh [[Megan]] recounts her surprise as to the nature of programming on late night PBS to [[Cueball]]. She claims to have fallen asleep after watch
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  • ...nline, many popular websites and web comics participated in a mass protest on January 18, 2012, to announce their displeasure with the bill in an attempt This was [[xkcd|xkcd's]] participation in the protest. [[Randall]] discusses below the black pan
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/#:~:text=Friday%27s%20Drawing%20%2D%20Red%20Spider ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/#:~:text=Friday%27s%20Drawing%20%2D%20Red%20Spider
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/#:~:text=4%3A38%20am-,Useless,-(3%20Comments LiveJ ...he same day across both sites, but not all of them shared the same posting day.
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  • ...span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/#:~:text=Drawing%3A%20Counter%2DRed%20Spiders Live ...an>]: [http://www.xkcd.com/red_spiders_small.jpg They] must be [http://www.xkcd.com/red_spiders_2.jpg stopped].
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