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Talk:1222: Pastime

2013-06-17T07:40:23Z

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Total waste. There are 168 hours in a week, and some people get things done in only four. {{unsigned ip|70.197.5.217}}

:To be fair, most people are forced to spend 40 hours a week by not getting things done just so they earn some money for food. Also, you don't exactly get things done while you sleep, but you will not get anything done if you don't sleep enough either. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 08:34, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

:: <Stops self from ranting about work-pessimism> OK, maybe I didn't, but I will now. And as regards sleep: http://xkcd.com/320/ [[Special:Contributions/220.224.246.97|220.224.246.97]] 22:01, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

Let's not overlook the main title "Pastime"; after slugging it out all day at work, they come home and spend their time needlessly worrying when they could read, be creative, or do something meaningful. [[User:Galois|Galois]] ([[User talk:Galois|talk]]) 17:54, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

I thought the joke here was that this is something that everyone does. [[Special:Contributions/76.106.251.87|76.106.251.87]] 00:42, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

Whoever linked to tvtropes is a monster. I burned three onions and my house while reading.

Rob

2012-09-20T02:32:51Z

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| caption = A close-up of Rob from [[782: Desecration]]
| first_appearance = [[276: Fixed Width]]
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'''Rob''' is a stick figure in xkcd. Rob has no identifying features and appears as a [[Cueball]] character. He is one of the few of [[Randall]]'s characters to be given a name. Rob is specifically named in [[276: Fixed Width]], [[632: Suspicion]], [[647: Scary]], [[716: Time Machine]], and [[782: Desecration]]. [[647: Scary]] has the distinction of being the first comic to call Rob by his name in the transcript instead of saying "Man:". Also offscreen in 1102: Fastest Growing.

==Relationships==
Rob had a relationship with a woman known as <emily> on IM. This ended tragically in [[276: Fixed Width]] when he told her the relationship was only for sex to keep the lines the same width. Two years later in 2009 he had a relationship of a few months with what ended up to be a spam bot. He discovered this when he asked the bot to pass a {{w|Turing test}}. This happened in [[632: Suspicion]].

In [[647: Scary]] we find that he has a nephew born after September 11, 2001, but by 2009 he was old enough to have discussions with Rob about it.

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