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...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

...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.

...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.

...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!''

| first_appearance = [[260: The Glass Necklace]] ...:''For a list of comics, see [[:Category:Comics featuring White Hat|Comics featuring White Hat]].''<noinclude>

...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.

| title = 1000 Comics | image = 1000 comics small.png

...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}}.

...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

| 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}}

| 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

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:

| 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.

...{{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.

| title = xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel | titletext = I love the title-text!

| 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

...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

| 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.

| 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.

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.

*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.

...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.

...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'.

| 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.

...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.

| 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.

...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

...{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

| 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

...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

...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

...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

...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.

...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.

| title = Reinvent the Wheel ...rth it. There was one week when a wheel of cheese got dangerously close to the first page, though.

...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.

...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.

*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.

| 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.

...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

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

...= 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."

| titletext = The end. * The comic image is a link to [http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190 geekwagon.

| title = xkcd Goes to the Airport The various characters of [[xkcd]] cause problems at the airport due to their various quirks.

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

...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}}.

...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.

...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

...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

| 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.

...ters need to tackle whether a black hole from the LHC could REALLY destroy the world. ...e Earth, or dent it, as [[Cueball]] says. A voltage occurs in a conductor (the wire) when subjected to a changing magnetic field. However, this change is

...w|Large Hadron Collider}} (LHC). There was a theoretical concern that that the LHC experiments could create a {{w|black hole}} that would suck in our plan ...ar, this is just another lame entry he uses because he just wants to spend the night with her.

...them, because they will still be together in the morning, after they spent the night having sex. ...politely declines her offer and tries instead with a different joke using the classic {{w|snowclone}} priest and rabbi setup.

..."Leads" are attached to the board using {{w|Drawing pin|thumbtacks}}, and the leads are connected to each other using string (specifically {{w|twine}} is ...ional minor joke may be that the Office Depot store map near the bottom of the bulletin board has markers that are often called [https://www.perkinselearn

...Most everyday communication, however, succumbs to such incompleteness. In the aftermath of this ambiguity, people tend to conflate relative and absolute ...een these values is not enough to normally justify choosing one beach over the other, even though a "20% greater" chance sounds significant when stated ou

...by a recipient, or most likely to reach the recipient quickly and generate the most useful response. ...features voice and video chat along with text. The recipient mentions that the email "''woke [them] up''", implying that they have e-mail configured to ma

*A larger version of the picture can be found [https://xkcd.com/1256/large here]. The largest pictured questions are: "Why are there slaves in the bible" and "Why are there ants in my laptop".

...his causes the pollen of the flower to stick to the male bee, who may make the same mistake with another flower, allowing for pollination. ...{w|self-pollination}}, which can be detrimental to the genetic vitality of the species as it is a form of in-breeding.

| titletext = I'm the Philosopher until someone hands me a burrito. ...relevant, the Nihilist's position may come across as self-deprecating, and the Exhibitionist is presented as sexually perverse.

| titletext = A few minutes later, the goat from behind door C drives away in the car. ...or an undesirable "gag" prize, which on the original Monty Hall version of the show were frequently animals such as goats.

| titletext = When you talk about the job experience you'll give me, why do you pronounce 'job' with a long 'o'? ...32: Networking|his attempts at networking]], [[Beret Guy]], the oddball of the xkcd cast, conducts an interview for a position at his mysterious company.

...light}} in the middle from red to blue, and ends with {{w|ultraviolet}} at the right. There are 4 distinct spectra in this comic: ...resents a fireplace at which the characters are warming themselves against the winter chill.

...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px_4TxC2mXU the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.] ...ledging the remarkably cold temperatures North America was experiencing at the time.

...sed {{w|iPhone 12}}. However, there have only been 8 comics released, with the previous two being [[2000: xkcd Phone 2000]] and [[1889: xkcd Phone 6]]. ...he phones are respectively placed, Max's (Maxes'?) phone is the smaller of the two models.

...lly pointless, but presumably much less relaxing activity, she joins Beret Guy in throwing rocks at his leaf boat. ...obbing offenses (comments or thrown stones) at it until it is dragged into the abyss (Internet "graveyard" or pond).

...olded upwards. Also, water entrained in the subducting plate may rise into the second plate and provokes {{w|volcanism}}, often resulting in a {{w|volcani ...frame in the final panel, where Beret Guy is already halfway down beneath the floor. This would not be possible in real life.{{Citation needed}}

| titletext = In this situation, gzip /dev/inside to deflate, then pipe the compressed air to /dev/input to clean your keyboard. Avert your eyes when y ...t is on the cord. It then floats away, making Cueball grab for it as Beret Guy casually walks away. (See an instance where Cueball inflates something in a

...sing its outer layers and becoming a white dwarf or similar "lesser" star. The technology of mobile phones can be seen as doing things analogous to this o ...va). Stars with more hydrogen fuel tend to burn brighter and faster. Beret Guy's refusal of a charger is probably a reference to this.

A [[:Category:New Year|New Year comic]], where [[Megan]] asks [[Beret Guy]] if he has any {{w|New Year's resolutions}}, and even though this is just ...nd having existed since before 1982 when {{w|SMTP}} was established, Beret Guy apparently doesn't understand what {{w|email}} is, even though he maintains

| titletext = Do you think you could actually clean the living room at some point, though? ...ing a silly mistake, confusing the "vacuum" referred to in calculations of the theoretical energy density of space time with a {{w|vacuum cleaner}}, which

| titletext = When I was little I had trouble telling my dad apart from the dog. I always recognized my mom because she had a bunch of extra plutoniums This comic shows another quirky and fantastical ability of [[Beret Guy]].

...engths are our web-facing chairs, our huge collection of white papers, and the fact that we physically cannot die. ...e in these three comics is that Beret Guy misuses common business cliches. The following are examples and phrases that [[Randall]] is likely making a joke

...''For a list of comics, see [[:Category:Comics featuring Barrel Boy|Comics featuring Barrel Boy]].'' :''For the comic series, see [[:Category:The Boy and his Barrel|The Boy and his Barrel]].''</noinclude>

...y is held back by the fact that we're all too nervous to try to balance on the ladder while holding an expensive microscope. ...s at the same principle as a magnifying glass together with your eye lens, the magnifying glass only has to have a long focal length which is optimized fo

| titletext = Sadly, it probably won't even have enough gas to make it to the first border crossing.}} ...us taking the car far away from its owner with relatively little effort on the part of Black Hat. This is yet another evil prank from xkcd's resident [[cl

| titletext = WARNING: This item was aged by the same inexorable passage of time that also processes nuts. ...an it be called an antique. Alternatively, he could simply be referring to the factory as "antique“ which may be correct.

| titletext = Do you need me to do a quicksort on the whiteboard or produce a generation of offspring or something? It might take ...y to help the interviewer determine if he is right for the job — because the interviewer is likely to presume that a person who gives silly and unhelpfu

...at the protagonist will soon fight the people in the bank, as he cannot do the other objective he came there for (chewing bubble gum). This phrase has bee ...comic so this comic is most likely a [[:Category:Tribute|tribute]] to him. The iconic quote was an ad-lib Piper himself came up with.

...that giving this explanation would only add fuel to the fire that is Beret Guy's imagination. ...the beanstalk connects to, from climbing down and chasing him. In reality, the "giants" were probably utility workers.

...ts, friends, and the staff at Chuck E. Cheese's for all the times I called the cops on them. ...his comic). In this comic [[Randall]] honors his webcomic by singing to it the classic "{{w|Happy Birthday to You}}" song.

...warms of robots when Elon Musk has promised to ruin Mars for a FRACTION of the cost? ...sted before the NASA press conference was held, although speculation about the announcement had already occurred.

| titletext = The thrower started hitting the bats too much, so the king of the game told him to leave and brought out another thrower from thrower jail. ...ion of mistaken terms and misunderstandings of the rules and principles of the game.

<!--DO NOT ADD the title text: Return to the play area. This is not shown in the comic. See trivia--> *To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|1608|original comic}}.

...Dog returns with the end of a string in its mouth] [Voice drifts down from the sky] Kites are fun! ...to the reader. It is also amusing that Beret Guy is interested in reeling the dog in and flying a kite when he could just continue "walking" his dog.

| titletext = Oh no, I changed the future and now I'm disappearing! Wait, never mind, it was just my hat slipp ...time, see [[1524: Dimensions]]. Beret Guy has also previously traveled to the future in a similar manner, see [[209: Kayak]].

| titletext = I've got the Craigslist post ready to go! I wasn't sure what category it should go in, s ...g in between two trees while Ponytail tells Cueball that ''One day a year, the sun sets directly between these two trees.''

<noinclude>:''This page refers to the comic named "2016". For comic #2016, see [[2016: OEIS Submissions]].''</noi ...:Comics to make one feel old|people feel old]]. This is done by mentioning the ages of various things (often movies) which came into existence during thei

...l expression accompanying the drink. Thus, a person could be "the toast of the evening," for whom someone "proposes a toast" to congratulate and for whom ...{w|From_Under_the_Cork_Tree#Track_listing|ninth track}} on {{w|From Under the Cork Tree}}, a 2005 album by {{w|Fall Out Boy}}.

...er, and we'll all just show up with a bucket each day to take our share of the resulting smoothie. ...if|147|Niagara Straw}}" from three days before this comic's release, where the entire water flow over {{w|Niagara Falls}} is imagined to be funneled throu

...is the starting point and should be used here. Other images need to go in the explanation --> *To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|1663|original comic}}.

...a 'BUN ALERT' message to friends and family, with photographs documenting the bun's location and rank. If no photographs are possible, emoji may be subst ...h response to seeing a cute animal, but coming from an adult. The humor in the comic comes from a tone of absurdity in a classroom situation where lecture

| titletext = I don't care what the research says. Everybody knows you should drink 3,000 glasses of water a da ...of so-called 'optimum' liquid consumption 'rule-of-thumb'. Implied here is the variety of health-related books, articles, blogs or other literature publis

...emaining figure. I'm not sure I will be able to continue with this work at the moment... So please feel free to improve. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User ta ...is page, but I think we've hit a big ''milestone'' in being able to remove the 'incomplete' tag! [[User:BlackHat|BlackHat]] ([[User talk:BlackHat|talk]])

...presidential election, 1968|1968}}, and it did not occur this time either: the closest any came in 2016 was independent candidate {{w|Evan McMullin}} in U ...st a wish to know the result using time travel (of course he did not learn the result back then…).

[[Beret Guy|Beret Guy's]] [[:Category:Beret Guy's Business|company]], first seen in [[1032: Networking]], [[1293: Job Inter ...is how efficiently it uses its employees to deliver goods and services to the consumer, and whether said goods and services are competitive in their mark

...ck Hat.) It would be interesting to know whether all the portals lead into the same alternative world/dimension, but it seems Black Hat is not interested ...this is a great time-saver for him, as he can easily get rid of his trash. The Narnia books are for children and Narnia is a magical world, so Cueball is

| titletext = You have to be careful doing this. Sometimes, when you push the whisker down, dynamite explodes. ...ic shows three vertical {{w|Box plot|box plots}} in the first panel, hence the title.

...procedures is often referred to as "{{w|onboarding}}" - hence the title of the comic. ...literal statement, perhaps related to the cursed Wi-Fi mentioned later in the comic.

...s to calm down, it's fine--I put a screen on the front. I just want to get the birds a little closer. ...watching birds. Usually this is done at a distance, as birds are flying in the air, and are far away. It is thus helpful to use {{w|binoculars}}.

...me I'm the heir to some ancient European throne that makes me exempt from the GDPR, but we should probably still try to fix that. ...strate a misuse of business terminology and take strange happenings within the business in their stride.

...buns range from crepuscular to nocturnal, it's recommended that you enable the scheduled "Do Not Disturb" mode on your phone to avoid being woken by alert ...UN ALERT" to friends and family with location and photographic evidence of the bun, so in this comic, that concept appears to have been elevated from a si

| titletext = Our experts have characterized the ecological impact of this trend as "adorable." ...t {{w|rabbit}}s, lots of which can be seen if he would just go outside (by the way, there is a ''small'' one '''RIGHT NOW'''!).

...of the dog can be arbitrarily large, it's not any more of a good dog than the two original dogs. ...different waves to get a different signal, which can be used to determine the distance between two reflecting surfaces. An {{w|astronomical interferomete

*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|1975|original comic}}. ...sed on [[1663:_Garden#Monday_4th_of_April_release|Monday April 4th]] 2016. The next was [[2131: Emojidome]] released on Monday, April 1st, 2019.

| titletext = The Norwegian adaptation of The Sword in the Stone takes things in a weird direction. ...te that the wikipedia article claims/claimed 1m/day, but its source claims the here mentioned 10in/25cm.-->

[[File:xkcd_header.png|thumb|right|250px|The header segment on [[xkcd|xkcd.com]]]] ...[Randall]] has news to share. However, after the novelty of the news ends, the page usually goes back to its default header text, which states:

...an perhaps ask the speaker to elaborate on a point they've made, or to ask the speaker's opinion on a topic related to their talk. ...for not adding anything to the discussion and for pulling focus away from the speaker.

...The company started out exploiting a loophole in the law banning scooters. The city was mad at first, but then they noticed how much they were saving on s ...they are dockless Roombas for rent. Cueball is confused, but then [[Beret Guy]] walks in, activates one with an app on his {{w|smartphone}}, and rides aw

...= I want to sell apples but I'm still working on getting the machine to do the cutting and grafting. ...price, and expresses concern that the pears aren't being dispensed; Beret Guy simply assures her that "it takes a while to work".

| title = Timeline of the Universe | titletext = Not actual size, except technically at one spot near the left.

...such fervor, particularly if the point is not especially important, and/or the other party is unlikely to change their views. ...much effort trying to persuade others, and it's often wiser to simply let the argument go. Leaving a computer problem to relax in nature was also mention

...e's some flexibility depending on your standards for measuring runtime and the various special editions. If you still want to have a party, I'm sure you c ...curs, allowing him to signal the moment by saying "Now!", after waiting in the beat panel.

...}}. With this comic also on that topic, all comics of that week were about the pandemic. This continued for many more weeks. ...es with customs in the workplace, such as {{w|handshake|shaking hands}} at the beginning of a meeting.

...you can find some suitable worldbuilding material if you scavenge through the archives. *To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|2288|original comic}}.

| titletext = Living in the southern hemisphere was nice because I could jump extra high, but I like it ...are used to it being dark out. [[Beret Guy]] comments that he fell off of the wall this morning, a seemingly unconnected topic.

...ds the nearby oceans. He thus claims he is an {{w|endorheic basin}}, hence the title. ...(it is salty, but not connected to the oceans). If it is a lake then it is the world's largest lake.

| titletext = The Wirecutter staff called the Herman Miller Siege Perilous "the most cursed product we've ever had to fight" and "nearly as immortal as it This comic is another in a [[:Category:COVID-19|series of comics]] related to the {{w|COVID-19 pandemic}}.

...n them! Send the trolley into the river!' 'No, the sailing wolf will steal the boat to rescue them!' ...at; and if the goat and cabbage are alone, the goat will eat the cabbage. (The problem can be solved in seven trips.)

| titletext = The state has had so many contact tracers disappear into that shop that they've This comic is another in a [[:Category:COVID-19|series of comics]] related to the {{w|COVID-19 pandemic}}.

...resign, and other avenues to remove him from office have been proposed. At the time of publication, Trump's second impeachment had been mooted but it, and ...iously has nothing to do with apples,{{Citation needed}} and when pressed, the spokesperson makes generic statements in favor of apples, but points out th

...telling White Hat about his gardening experiences. White Hat tunes out for the middle two panels, and when he starts paying attention again, Cueball is di ...ology to somehow make this safe with extensive additional engineering, but the risk is still so large it has not been pursued.

| titletext = Ugh, it's stuck to my laptop. It must have bound to the ACER-2 receptor. ...is another comic in the [[:Category:COVID-19|COVID-19 series]] related to the {{w|COVID-19 pandemic}}.

...Refs generally say that you can exercise enough altitude control to avoid the ground, but if you start strategically choosing air layers to steer yoursel ...e to witness Beret Guy's shot anyway, as Cueball would be long dead. Beret Guy probably doesn't realize this at all, considering how naïve he is.

...k by was a linguist back in the 80s, but she just spent a while dissecting the phrase 'help me down' before getting distracted by a squirrel and wandering ...owning it. Nevertheless, he walks here every day, and from the context of the comic, it seems pretty much no one else comes here.

...ventures]]. He explains to [[Megan]] that "we" (possibly [[:Category:Beret Guy's Business|his company]]) are testing their new "retractable" rocket. ...space-faring history). Thus, Megan is understandably confused about Beret Guy's assertion that theirs is "retractable", asking if he misspoke. In typical

...droelectric dam}} has reached "Q > 1". This has two possible meanings, and the humour comes from their juxtaposition. ...ic flow rate}}, or volume of fluid per unit time, e.g. m³/s. Depending on the units chosen, it would not be at all surprising for this number to be great

...ing those videos of turbine blade being torn apart in high winds, but it's the only way they can disperse their seeds. ...s the blades of the turbine to spin rapidly, generating a lot of power for the structure it is connected to, thus causing a field mouse to cheer in excite

*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|2712|original comic}}. ...onal body, acting as a shield. The shield remains until the player orients the spaceship upright so its landing gear can deploy.

Here the long tables needed for the explanation of the interactive comic [[2765: Escape Speed]] could be moved. This is a different attempt to list and explain all the planets and other objects that have gravity and can be landed upon and expl

...ey show up I just go into the Google Maps settings page I found and change the house to 'Police Headquarters' and then they have to do what I say." ...ician, making this another comic with one of his special [[:Category:Beret Guy's Business|businesses]].

...jects after them or (possibly with [[Beret Guy]]'s help) managed to obtain the genuine items, using them as decorations in his house. ...f being king, there was also perpetual and inescapable danger and anxiety. The term has passed into general use for any situation that involves an ever-pr

*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|2765|original comic}}. ...was [[2601: Instructions]], which was released on Friday, April 1st, 2022. The next became [[2916: Machine]] released on Friday April 5th, 2024 (a regular

...store the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and non-hollowed-out ones to store the Strategic Salt Reserve. This comic refers to how downwards pressure in one area of the world can cause upwards pressure in another, causing geologic structures, l

...the patio. The high-level aerosols may result in short-term cooling across the entire backyard. ...es are caused by the pressure of {{w|magma}} (underground lava) from below the Earth's crust pushing up through it, not seeds.{{Citation needed}}