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Uhm, shot glasses or lemonade glasses? Does it have to be a glass or can it be a mug? Could we specify it in litres perhaps?<br />
(How small a glass would you need for 5 glasses a minute in "normal" climate (20 C / 50% RH), without water poisoning? And maybe in 40 C / 15% RH?) --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.105.10|141.101.105.10]] 14:55, 18 July 2016 (UTC)<br />
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I think that's part of the joke, which is itself about how a large amount of people have been informed you should drink x amount of glasses of water per day, but the numbers wildly vary. I'd edit that into the page, but I'm bad at formal language. --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.73|141.101.98.73]] 15:00, 18 July 2016 (UTC)</div>141.101.98.73https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1680:_Black_Hole&diff=1200301680: Black Hole2016-05-13T05:26:01Z<p>141.101.98.73: /* Explanation */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1680<br />
| date = May 13, 2016<br />
| title = Black Hole<br />
| image = black_hole.png<br />
| titletext = It also brings all the boys, and everything else, to the yard.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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This comic is a simple joke. Cueball is curious as to why Black Hat has a miniature black hole on his table; Black Hat responds that it "really brings the room together", making a pun on both the black hole aesthetically completing the room (which seems unlikely [citation needed]), as well as it literally "bringing the room together" through its gravitational pull.<br />
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The comic references 'The Dude's' rug in the film "The Big Lebowski", whilst the title text makes a more contemporary cultural reference to a well-known song lyric from the song "Milkshake" by Kelis. [Insert explanation of lyric meaning, if anyone has actually worked out what Milkshake is about], however, in this case, since gravity does not discriminate between which things it will attract [citation needed], it brings "the boys, and everything else", to Black Hat's yard.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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[Cueball is standing near a coffee table as Black Hat approaches. They are presumably in Black Hat's living room. The coffee table has a miniature black hole on top of it, resting on a small pedestal.]<br />
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Cueball: Why do you have a miniature black hole on your coffee table?<br />
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Black Hat: It really brings the room together.<br />
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