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Talk:371: Compiler Complaint

2018-10-29T06:17:53Z

APerson: r

The test "whether build environment is sane" have nothing to do with libraries (those are tested later) or compilation at all (ditto). It seems to test ls and creating new files. Failing this test will surely means lot of problems, but certainly there are other possible sources of problems (some tested later), so not sure why it's labeled this way ... there is probably interresting history behind this.

The test goes like this (example taken from coreutils-5.94):
{ echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking whether build environment is sane" >&5
echo $ECHO_N "checking whether build environment is sane... $ECHO_C" >&6; }
# Just in case
sleep 1
echo timestamp > conftest.file
# Do `set' in a subshell so we don't clobber the current shell's
# arguments. Must try -L first in case configure is actually a
# symlink; some systems play weird games with the mod time of symlinks
# (eg FreeBSD returns the mod time of the symlink's containing
# directory).
if ! (
set X `ls -Lt $srcdir/configure conftest.file 2> /dev/null`
if test "$*" = "X"; then
# -L didn't work.
set X `ls -t $srcdir/configure conftest.file`
fi
rm -f conftest.file
if test "$*" != "X $srcdir/configure conftest.file" \
&& test "$*" != "X conftest.file $srcdir/configure"; then

# If neither matched, then we have a broken ls. This can happen
# if, for instance, CONFIG_SHELL is bash and it inherits a
# broken ls alias from the environment. This has actually
# happened. Such a system could not be considered "sane".
{ { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: ls -t appears to fail. Make sure there is not a broken
alias in your environment" >&5
echo "$as_me: error: ls -t appears to fail. Make sure there is not a broken
alias in your environment" >&2;}
{ (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
fi

test "$2" = conftest.file
)
then
{ { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: newly created file is older than distributed files!
Check your system clock" >&5
echo "$as_me: error: newly created file is older than distributed files!
Check your system clock" >&2;}
{ (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
fi
{ echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: yes" >&5
echo "${ECHO_T}yes" >&6; }
-- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 10:15, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

Made slightly more efficient. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.31|173.245.54.31]] 14:11, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

;segfaults
I do not think Randall is suggesting that segfaults are a compiler issue. The insane computer stopped the person before compiling, because this would be the only time that he could change the code to prevent possible segfaults during runtime.{{unsigned|Flewk}}
:You're totally right; unless it's an interpreter, or the compiler is running some code at compile-time, the compiler will almost never get a segfault itself due to a buggy program. I updated the explanation to clarify this. [[User:APerson|APerson]] ([[User talk:APerson|talk!]]) 06:17, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

371: Compiler Complaint

2018-10-29T06:16:29Z

APerson: /* Explanation */ clarify

{{comic
| number = 371
| date = January 16, 2008
| title = Compiler Complaint
| image = compiler_complaint.png‎
| titletext = Checking whether build environment is sane... build environment is grinning and holding a spatula. Guess not.
}}

==Explanation==
A {{w|Compiler|compiler}} is a program that converts code into machine instructions that a computer can run. A {{w|Pointer (computer programming)|Pointer}} is a {{w|Variable (computer science)|variable}} within a computer program that is used to reference a memory location. A {{w|Segmentation Fault|Segmentation Fault (segfault)}} is an error that occurs when a program attempts to access an invalid section of memory. Segfaults usually cause a program to crash in an ungraceful fashion and fixing the bugs that cause them can be difficult.

In the comic, the computer starts talking to [[Cueball]] and compares a segfault with the unpleasant feeling one gets when they experience a {{w|hypnic jerk}}. The computer then tells the programmer to "double-check your damn pointers," as segfaults usually arise from a program attempting to access memory that is referenced by an invalid pointer.

In reality, segfaults occur at runtime, after the compiler has produced an executable. While Randall refers to a "compiler complaint", it is more probable that the operating system or other supervisor program would have such a complaint.

The title-text references GNU-style {{w|autoconf}} configuration scripts. These scripts check certain features of the system they're running on in order to build a program correctly; for example, certain systems expect system calls to occur in a specific way, and the autoconf script will detect this and alter the program to match the expectation. Invariably (and memetically), these scripts include a check to determine "whether the build environment is sane." This actually checks whether the path to the current folder has "unsafe" characters, and whether a newly created file is older than the script itself, which could indicate a very esoteric filesystem, a corrupted source archive, or just a system clock that's set incorrectly; however, since these file modification dates are an important part of how the autoconf script does its work, it can't go any further in an "insane" environment. In any case, the joke is that an insane build environment is nothing like an insane person, yet Randall is equating the two.

==Transcript==
:[Cueball sits at a computer, hand over the keyboard.]
:Computer: Okay, human.
:Cueball: Huh?
:Computer: Before you hit "compile," listen up.

:Computer: You know when you're falling asleep, and you imagine yourself walking or something, and suddenly you misstep, stumble, and jolt awake?
:Cueball: Yeah!

:Computer: Well, that's what a segfault feels like.
:Computer: Double-check your damn pointers, okay?

{{comic discussion}}
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[[Category:Computers]]

2045: Social Media Announcement

2018-09-15T02:16:40Z

APerson: /* Explanation */ irrelevant to content of comic

{{comic
| number = 2045
| date = September 12, 2018
| title = Social Media Announcement
| image = social_media_announcement.png
| titletext = Why I'm Moving Most of My Social Activity to Slack, Then Creating a Second Slack to Avoid the People in the First One, Then Giving Up on Social Interaction Completely, Then Going Back to Texting
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Too much focus on mastodon, not enough on the overall concept of the comic Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}

In 2018, especially after {{w|Facebook}} privacy abuses were revealed in the {{w|Cambridge_Analytica#Privacy_issues|Cambridge Analytica scandal}}, many individuals began seeking alternatives. The #deletefacebook hashtag peaked around April 2018, and in some communities, this type of "why I'm leaving Facebook" announcements were popular.

{{w|Mastodon (software)|Mastodon}} is a distributed, federated social network with microblogging features similar to {{w|Twitter}}. "Federated" means that there is one app hosted in many places, so users can choose a host that meets their needs, but everyone can still talk to each other, similar to email. Near the peak of #deletefacebook, mastodon became trending as a [https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/783akg/mastodon-is-like-twitter-without-nazis-so-why-are-we-not-using-it twitter alternative with less nazis].

{{w|Wil Wheaton}} famously moved to Mastodon from Twitter, [https://news.avclub.com/wil-wheaton-on-quitting-social-media-i-don-t-deserve-1828743467 but was ultimately disappointed by the experience], because while Mastodon's community is generally less toxic, it does not yet have the tools to handle the kind of targeted harassment that a celebrity might face.

{{w|Microsoft}} has been buying up professional-themed social media platforms lately, such as {{w|LinkedIn}} and {{w|GitHub}}, intending to integrate them more fluidly with their enterprise software suite. Mastodon seems an unlikely target for an acquisition, since its decentralized nature means that one corporate entity can't control it, and the culture there is decidedly unprofessional as of this comic.

The title text presents an alternative approach by moving most social activities to the cloud-based proprietary team collaboration platform {{w|Slack (software)|Slack}}. After making his first workspace in Slack he suggests that he wishes to avoid the people invited, so he creates a second account and a new workspace. This also didn't last long and he stops interacting on social media entirely. As a result he has gone totally away from interacting on social media and has reverted to texting, i.e. sending {{w|sms}} using his phone as was the only possible way with the first mobile phones.

==Transcript==
:[Cueball sitting in front of a laptop typing.]
:Why I'm Quitting Facebook, Joining LinkedIn, Deleting My LinkedIn, Rejoining Facebook, Quitting Twitter, Getting Locked Out of Facebook, Moving to Mastodon, and Lobbying Microsoft to Take Over Mastodon and Merge It With LinkedIn: A Manifesto.

==Trivia==
In the original version of this comic, Cueball misspelled "Mastodon" as "Mastadon".

{{comic discussion}}

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[[Category:Social networking]]

Talk:1188: Bonding

2017-10-21T00:11:37Z

APerson: re

The aim method results in an infinite loop/stack overflow, note that ball is an exception of type Ball. This results in a logical flow of aim, "throw," "catch," repeat, though this is only logical by word choice, and is nonsensical from a programming perspective. {{unsigned|‎108.48.215.61}}
:Just as the game of catch is nonsensical from a logistics perspective! [[User:Mumiemonstret|Mumiemonstret]] ([[User talk:Mumiemonstret|talk]]) 14:20, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
Pretty sure the code is also intentionally hard to follow. {{unsigned|‎108.48.215.61}}

The try/catch parts are just for show, they cancel each other out.
The structure is that you have a parent and a child instance (of class P), each has a 'target' pointed to the other.
Then calling aim with a ball will call the others aim with the ball, which will call the firsts aim with the ball. Etc etc.

I guess after about a 1000 aims the jvm will throw you out, stating stack overflow, and the bonding game is over. {{unsigned|212.214.117.162}}

Nice catch game :)
I had to test it:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StackOverflowError
in my setup with default VM settings after 6612 iterations (I added a static counter variable).
The game could get even more "exciting" by using more than two Ps and adding randomization in who is aimed at. And maybe a miss block ;) (need to hack the compiler and VM for that though...)
[[Special:Contributions/134.106.146.36|134.106.146.36]] 09:31, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

:I don't think any parent will last so long. On the other hand, if you always catch the ball, one iteration doesn't take so long, it's the missing which makes the game long ... -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 09:56, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

::So true. I start to feel tempted to write a real catch game in Java. Btw: Of course not in Eclipse (please...). I use an IDE where everything works and I don't have to wait all the time. ;) [[Special:Contributions/134.106.146.36|134.106.146.36]] 08:15, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Hmmm "Eclipse: The Codex Persona" is also a d20 gaming system which offers enormous customization of characters. The mention of building character and Eclipse in the same sentence just brought that to the front of my mind. No idea if that has relation to the comic. --[[Special:Contributions/50.0.36.182|50.0.36.182]] 07:38, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Did anyone else have a D'AWWWWWW moment when you realized what was happening? I knew it was a pun on throw and catch, but it took till the end for me to realize it was a parent and a child playing catch.[[Special:Contributions/74.14.31.164|74.14.31.164]] 12:53, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

The one problem with this is that the way the try/catch is set up, they aren't actually throwing to each other. Parent throws the ball, then catches it themselves, then child does the same thing. It's still clever though. [[User:Prometheusmmiv|Prometheusmmiv]] ([[User talk:Prometheusmmiv|talk]]) 11:38, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

:I thought exactly the same. Here's a modified version where they actually throw to each other:
class Ball extends Throwable{}

class P{
P target;
Ball ballInTow;

P(P target, Ball ball) {
this.target = target;
this.ballInTow = ball;
}
void tease() {
try {
target.youDontDare();
}
catch(Ball b){
ballInTow = b;
target.tease();
}
}
void youDontDare() throws Ball {
throw ballInTow;
}
public static void main(String [] args) {
P parent = new P(null, new Ball());
P child = new P(parent, null);
parent.target = child;
child.tease();
}
}

[[Special:Contributions/88.9.44.85|88.9.44.85]] 15:41, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
:: I was thinking about how do this correctly, with the throw bubbling up to the other person. And I realized that in order for the recursion to work, there would have to be a double method where the catcher asks (or "teases") the thrower to throw, then catches it in that method. I was going to write up a version like this, but I had to leave for work. But I'm glad that somebody else was thinking like me and was able to write up a correct version :) [[User:Prometheusmmiv|Prometheusmmiv]] ([[User talk:Prometheusmmiv|talk]]) 22:06, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

The code is an odd way of making a loop in Java -- creating two objects (of class P, called "parent" and "child") which repeatedly throw and catch another object (of class Ball) between one another. The sole purpose of this is to create the pun referred to in the title: it's a real-life cliché that a parent and child may "bond" by playing catch. [[Special:Contributions/81.31.112.212|81.31.112.212]] 07:14, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Title text talks about "to build character" in the way usually a father tries to help a child to define "attributes or features that make up and distinguish an individual"[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/character], so I suppose that the "confusing Eclipse" is a pun itself. Perhaps it is a reference to Eclipse novel by Stephenie Meyer (the kind of book that raises a lot of moral dilemma in a young adult).
--[[User:Andcoz|Andcoz]] ([[User talk:Andcoz|talk]]) 12:49, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

I think there is another pun in it: The class "Ball" is a child-class of "Throwable" which makes sense because you can throw a ball. But "Throwable" is also the main exception-class from which the real exception classes like "Exception" or "Error" inherit. --[[User:DaB.|DaB.]] ([[User talk:DaB.|talk]]) 12:50, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

I think it's sad that this family always dies in a most unfortunate crash. Here's an alternate ending in which they try just a little bit harder, so they return home for dinner when they're out because they didn't catch the ball:
class Ball extends Throwable {}
class P{
P target;
P(P target) {
this.target = target;
}
void aim (Ball ball) {
try {
throw ball;
}
catch (Ball B) {
try {
target.aim(B);
}
catch(Error made) {
return;
}
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
P parent = new P(null);
P child = new P(parent);
parent.target = child;
parent.aim(new Ball());
System.out.println("Dinner's ready!");
}
}
[[User:Jfresen|Jfresen]] ([[User talk:Jfresen|talk]]) 14:10, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Personally, I think Randal missed a trick with the alt text - "My parent tried playing catch with me and all I got was this lousy stack overflow." That said, Eclipse is driving me nuts at the moment, so I can sympathise! --[[Special:Contributions/81.187.166.32|81.187.166.32]] 22:59, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

:I feel for you. But there is other IDEs out there, where things work, usage and shortcuts are not awkward (depending on what you are used too, of course) and you don't have to wait all the time, if you don't have a Core i7 and SSD... There is hope ;) (and I sometimes have to use Eclipse, too, for the GWT plugin) [[Special:Contributions/134.106.146.36|134.106.146.36]] 08:18, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Maybe "build character" refers to the filename. Since class P was not declared public, the filename could be character.java and things would work. :-) --[[User:Divad27182|Divad27182]] ([[User talk:Divad27182|talk]]) 11:49, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

I loved ingenious solution in original code to the "ball to the balls" side effect that is so often seen when teaching catch - [[Special:Contributions/166.147.120.176|166.147.120.176]] 12:07, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
:Just to clarify, programmer can't assume that child will inherit "catch" function as intended. That is something they really have to learn for themselves. I wonder if this is how terminator got started? - [[Special:Contributions/166.147.120.148|166.147.120.148]] 17:32, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

The code quality remark #4 doesn't seem correct. In Java the constructor will ''always'' call the superclass constructor first. If not stated explicitly, it will happen implicitly. So the default empty constructor of Object ''will'' actually be called. Is this a misunderstanding, or is the guideline meant to be that the superclass constructor call should always be coded explicitly ? (which is a highly debatable guideline) --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.105.234|141.101.105.234]] 16:19, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
: There's a lot debatable in those guidelines.
:# Good API code needs good javadoc documentation, but this isn't exporting an API, it's a simple self-contained tool, and the code is written to be "readable" which tends to work better than even code documentation (which is always wrong, given enough time).
:# Once again, this code describes a self-contained tool, and is nowhere near complex enough to require splitting into packages.
:# While it contains good advice (don't expose inner logic and data), it also contains bad advice (getters and setters to access the data - you're back to exposing inner logic and data), and BETTER advice is to prefer immutable data where possible. All of this is moot, because this example doesn't expose anything - the data is package-private, and the main method can access even private members since it's in the same class as the member, and the data member can't be immutable because the parent object needs to be updated after construction to point to the child object.
:# As mentioned above, this isn't even advice. In Java you MUST call a super class constructor as the first line in any constructor; omitting any such call implies a call to the super class constructor with no arguments, and is an error if no such constructor exists. Suggesting that you SHOULD call a super class constructor is just misleading - other than being required by the language, why else should you call a super constructor first (as opposed to later?)?
:# Don't borrow trouble from the future. A method internal to a class has every right to refer to a member of the same class without qualification, and is usually more readable for it. Using getter methods from within the class simply to wrap access to internal fields is a terrible idea for a couple of reasons, although wrapping access with null-checks or common coersions can simplify the logical flow of your code... but even that is probably better done with utility methods (taking the field as an argument) than member methods (returning some variation on the field).
: New Java developers who happen to come here and see the notes on quality, just note that they aren't notes that point you to GOOD quality.
:[[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.161|108.162.250.161]] 02:15, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
::I've removed the style guidelines, since they don't really make the explanation better. [[User:APerson|APerson]] ([[User talk:APerson|talk!]]) 00:11, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
The first time I used Eclipse, I couldn't find the run button for my Java applet XD [[User:625571b7-aa66-4f98-ac5c-92464cfb4ed8|625571b7-aa66-4f98-ac5c-92464cfb4ed8]] ([[User talk:625571b7-aa66-4f98-ac5c-92464cfb4ed8|talk]]) 05:54, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

1188: Bonding

2017-10-21T00:11:07Z

APerson: remove confusing style prescriptions, few of which even apply to a project as simple as this

{{comic
| number = 1188
| date = March 20, 2013
| title = Bonding
| image = bonding.png
| titletext = I'm trying to build character, but Eclipse is really confusing.
}}

==Explanation==
This is {{w|source code}} written in the {{w|Java (programming language)|Java programming language}} which models a parent and a child playing a {{w|Catch (game)|game of catch}}. Normally this game is played with the parent throwing a ball to their child, who catches it and throws it back, and repeated back-and-forth. The comic title "Bonding" refers to the {{w|Paternal bond|building of relationship}} between the parent and the child. The joke lies in the puns using the words <code>try</code>, <code>throw</code>, <code>catch</code>, and <code>Throwable</code>. These can refer to actions in the real-life game, but are also keywords in the Java language that are used for {{w|exception handling}}, a method of signaling error conditions and responding to them. Also, the terms "parent" and "child" are usually interpreted more abstractly in programming, as generic terms used in hierarchical {{w|Data structure|data structures}}.

The program, as written, will {{w|Recursion (computer science)|recursively}} call the <code>aim</code> method alternately on the parent and the child indefinitely, causing each to take turns throwing and catching the <code>Ball</code> object. Note that unlike the real game, this program actually has the same person both throwing and catch the same ball on their turn. The ball is passed onto the other person by ''aiming'' it at them, which causes the person to both throw and catch the ball, and ''aim'' it back. This program will also eventually crash with a {{w|stack overflow}} error.

The title text refers to the [http://www.eclipse.org/ Eclipse IDE], which is a tool commonly used to develop software in Java. "Building character" is something that you would expect a parent to do, in order to instill in his child positive traits, such as confidence and athleticism. This is possibly a reference to Calvin and Hobbes, where Calvin's dad often encourages him to build character in a number of ways, including playing baseball. This is made more likely by other references combining technology and C+H, such as xkcd comics 409, 702, and 1002. However, here, "build" might also be a play on the term of "{{w|Software build|building}}" a program, while "{{w|Character_(computing)|character}}" refers to a data type in programming languages. It may also refer to the common notion that programming in C++ or Java builds character due to their powerful but sometimes finicky libraries.

===Program description===
To compile this {{w|Java_(programming_language)|Java}} source code, the two [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/classdecl.html classes] would need to be in a .java file.
The program defines two classes (types of objects):
#The Ball class [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/IandI/subclasses.html extends] [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Throwable.html Throwable], making it possible to use an instance of Ball in [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions/handling.html exception handling]. In English, this means "a Ball is a kind of Throwable object".
#The P class, representing a Person, which contains the following members (attributes):
#*a [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/variables.html class variable] 'target' to point to another P to aim a Ball at.
#*a [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/constructors.html constructor] 'P' (in Java the constructor always has the same name as the class) used to create an instance of P and initialize its state (with a target). The keyword [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/thiskey.html this] refers to the current instance of P.
#*a [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/methods.html method] 'aim' that takes an instance of Ball named 'ball' as a parameter. This contains the code to actually throw, catch, and pass the ball onto the target.
#*a [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/classvars.html static] method 'main' which is called when executing this class. This is the code that sets up the game and starts the process.

The program executes in the following order:
#The static main method is called. It sets up the game by doing the following:
##An instance of P named 'parent' is created without a target ({{w|Nullable_type|null}}) using the 'new' keyword.
##Another instance of P named 'child' is created with 'parent' as its target.
##The parent's target is assigned to be the child. Unlike with 'child', setting the parent's target could not be done at the moment when 'parent' was created because its target (the child) has not yet been created at the time. This is why the code for parent and child don't look alike despite this being a symmetrical setup.
#The game begins by having the parent aim a new instance of Ball.
#The aim method first sets up a [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions/try.html try] block to handle exceptions. A "try" block is required in Java in order to "catch" later.
#Next, the Ball instance 'ball' is [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions/throwing.html thrown]. This signals an exception situation and triggers the [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions/catch.html catch] block below.
#In the catch block, the aim method of the target of the P instance is called with the Ball instance (now referred to as 'b').
#The target now executes its own aim method, which is the same code continuing from step 3 except with the current class instance ('this') and its target switched between the parent and the child.

==Transcript==
class Ball extends Throwable {}
class P{
P target;
P(P target) {
this.target = target;
}
void aim (Ball ball) {
try {
throw ball;
}
catch (Ball b) {
target.aim(b);
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
P parent = new P(null);
P child = new P(parent);
parent.target = child;
parent.aim(new Ball());
}
}

{{comic discussion}}
[[Category:Programming]]

explain xkcd:Community portal/Miscellaneous

2016-02-12T00:36:33Z

APerson: /* Sightless readers offended by the "It's 'cause you're dumb" tagline. */ voting to keep it

<noinclude>{{Community portal}}</noinclude>

== The Community Portal's design ==

{{tl|Community portal}} looks too Wikipedia-ish (because that's where I got it). Someone who can design things should probably fix that. It isn't protected for the time being, though it probably will be in the future (high-visibility template). --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]'' <sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 00:54, 4 August 2012 (EDT)

== Common mistake ==

This affects all pages that ever say "alt text" in reference to the TITLE text on xkcd images. "Alt text" is incorrect; Alt text refers to the text that is shown as an alternative when images are not displayed. Title text is what xkcd uses and is shown as a tool tip-like bubble when images are hovered over.

I would correct this myself but I saw no way to edit the main page. --[[User:Jillysky|Jillysky]] ([[User talk:Jillysky|talk]]) 14:21, 6 August 2012‎ (UTC)

:You actually don't need to edit the main page to fix it, as what's there is just a mirror (transclusion) of the actual content from the comic page, at [[Curiosity]], which is open for editing by anyone. Then again, the "alt-text" in that case is generated by a template, {{tl|comic}}, so that's where we should fix this. The template's code, however, is currently a terrible mess (sorry!), so I went ahead and took care of it. Thanks for catching that! --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 16:24, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

:Ah? So it's wrong, for instance, on http://m.xkcd.com? because of that I took it for granted that we could call it the alt-text... - [[User:Cos|Cos]] ([[User talk:Cos|talk]]) 17:38, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

:: Yes. If you look at the page's html source, you'll see:
<nowiki><img
id="comic"
src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/curiosity.png"
title="As of this writing the NASA/JPL websites are still overloaded. Trying CURIOSITY-REAR-CAM_[256px_x_256px].torrent.SwEsUb.DVDRip.XviD-aXXo.jpg instead."
alt="Curiosity"></nowiki>
::(line breaks added for clarity) --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 23:54, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

:::That was my error in the template. I knew "image text" that has been commonly used by Jeff was not techically correct, but I didn't actually go back and confirm it was alt text before I included that tag in the template. That's to Waldir (I believe?) for correcting the template. [[User:TheHYPO|TheHYPO]] ([[User talk:TheHYPO|talk]]) 14:14, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

== When the "official" transcript is wrong? ==
I did [[903: Extended Mind]]. Interestingly, the transcript on xkcd.com is missing the bottom line "When Wikipedia has a server outage, my apparent IQ drops by 30 points." I assume we want a complete transcript, rather than whatever xkcd.com says it is...? [[User:Stevage|Stevage]] ([[User talk:Stevage|talk]]) 04:10, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

:We're focusing on the actual transcript of the comic, not the xkcd.com transcript. The official transcript is usually right, but even Randall makes mistakes sometimes. [[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]][[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>(talk)</tt>]] 04:24, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

== Milestone: half the comics explained!! ==

Hi all! I'm pleased to announce that we have just broke the 50% mark for xkcd explanations! The page that balanced the count (568 explained, 568 to go, at the time) was [[877: Beauty]], created 01:31 UTC, 21 November 2012 by [[User:Davidy22]]. Congratulations!! :D --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 03:10, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

:The caterer's been called! The punch will be arriving soon! Go [[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]]! [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 06:53, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

::[[File:freedom.png]] Punch is served! [[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]][[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>(talk)</tt>]] 07:11, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

But the Main page says 407 explanations, 731 to go! What's up with that? --[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 21:00, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

== Reverse? ==

Why in the Archive why are all the thing up until "Heatmap" in Reverse? Can someone please answer? [[User:Tmack3|Tmack3]] ([[User talk:Tmack3|talk]]) 08:28, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
:Archive? Can you provide a link or screenshot? '''[[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 04:43, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

http://xkcd.com/archive/ [[User:Tmack3|Tmack3]] ([[User talk:Tmack3|talk]]) 08:28, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

::Ah, that's because the comic right after that, rtl, has a right-to-left character in it that flips all the proceeding text. '''[[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 00:13, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Ah, ok, i see that now. When I 1st saw that RTL I just thought that it was random letters, thankyou for explaining it for me. [[User:Tmack3|Tmack3]] ([[User talk:Tmack3|talk]]) 08:28, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

It also depends on what browser you are on because on Google Chrome it was normal. [[User:Tmack3|Tmack3]] ([[User talk:Tmack3|talk]]) 09:08, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

== Do you think this question was asked by one of the xkcd people? ==

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090301060752AAtYugc [[User:Tmack3|Tmack3]] ([[User talk:Tmack3|talk]]) 08:38, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

== Matthew Reilly ==

I would just like to tell everyone that I asked Matthew Reilly (the author) if he is ever scared that a velociraptor is going to attack him, and he said NO! He clearly needs to start worrying about them! [[User:Tmack3|Tmack3]] ([[User talk:Tmack3|talk]]) 10:45, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

== What can we learn section ==
First of all I love your work. I believe deeper understanding of each XKCD can make a world a better place and I thank you sincerely for starting this webpage. I wanted to ask what you think about "What can we learn?" section I've been adding to some of the pages. Thank you - [[User:E-inspired|E-inspired]] ([[User talk:E-inspired|talk]]) 13:27, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

:This site is actually the work of multiple editors working slowly and steadily to fill in explanations for all the old comics. Some of the xkcd comics are incredibly deep - comic [[956]] is such a poignant comic that digs into the DRM issue on so many levels. Your reflections on many of the comics are very much warranted and you're helping us create talk pages with high-quality opening posts, which is great for future discussion on this wiki. It'd be nice if you could refrain from putting headers in talk pages, technical limitations of the wiki make long explanation pages choke when headings are in the discussion page. Other than that, keep up the good work! '''[[User:Davidy22|<u><font color="purple" title="I want you">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><font color="indigo" size="4px">²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 13:42, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

::I've put in my 2 cents to comic [[956]], and thank you for teaching me how to comment and link to other comics - [[User:E-inspired|E-inspired]] ([[User talk:E-inspired|talk]]) 13:58, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

::: FYI, you can always make pseudo-headings using a horizontal rule and a bold "header", but honestly I think a simple standard opening sentence would suffice. --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 12:14, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

:Oh, and the guy who draws xkcd is called {{w|Randall Munroe}}. So many glowing things to be said about him. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u><font color="purple" title="I want you">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><font color="indigo" size="4px">²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 13:44, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

::Yes, I can't thank him enough for simplifying complex issues to funny stories, I think it's exactly what our generation needs - [[User:E-inspired|E-inspired]] ([[User talk:E-inspired|talk]]) 13:58, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

:I'm in favor of a Mr. Rogers style of 'what lesson can be learned' on the talk page, but make sure your comments don't come across as sanctimonious and holier-than-thou as that can be really off-putting. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 19:06, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

:: You are absolutely correct, I have not thought of that, please trust me I did not do it on purpose. Thank you Mr. Lcarsos - [[User:E-inspired|E-inspired]] ([[User talk:E-inspired|talk]]) 19:55, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Thank you David, and I apologize that I've not made it clear that by your work, I do mean your collective work (the wiki is only as good as all the people behind it). I was trying to put the headers to allow others to find the section easier in case they start looking for it, perhaps I could make a suggestion to make it a standalone section so that others would be encouraged to contribute their own understanding of lessons they have noticed from each comic. I know the lessons I've seen, but I would love to learn from others as much as I hope they can learn from me and Mr. XKCD, thank you. - [[User:E-inspired|E-inspired]] ([[User talk:E-inspired|talk]]) 13:48, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

== DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD ==

Hello fellow editors. Do you remember the last time we were hit by a surge of automated spam? Neither do I. ConfirmEdit has really done a number on the volume of spam that we're eating - one spam account has been created since we finished configuring confirmEdit, and zero anon edits have been spam. Zero. Can you say happiness? Can you say party? '''[[User:Davidy22|<u><font color="purple" title="I want you">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><font color="indigo" size="4px">²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 14:41, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

:Hehe, I'm glad! Thanks for being so relentless on the spam-fighting all this time! Maybe we should make up a new reason to make Jeff remove the /wiki/ in the URL? ;) –[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 18:11, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

:: Awesome news! Finally the patrolling feature will be usable: [{{fullurl:Special:RecentChanges|hideanons=1&hidepatrolled=1&from=20121204025000&days=365&limit=1000}} Unpatrolled changes by registered users] / [{{fullurl:Special:RecentChanges|hideliu=1&hidepatrolled=1&from=20121204025000&days=365&limit=1000}} Unpatrolled changes by anonymous users] :) --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 12:27, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

== 1000th comic explanation!! ==

Hi all! It apparently went unnoticed that '''we have recently surpassed the mark of 1000 comic explanations!''' Some calculations based on [[:Category:Comics]] and [[Special:NewPages]] led me to the conclusion that the 1000th explanation was [[681: Gravity Wells]], created by [[User:AlexRNL]] just yesterday! Yay! This calls for a celebration, no? Congrats to [[Special:ContributionScores|everyone]] who made this happen! I'll edit [[Mediawiki:Sitenotice]] with a congratulatory message. Way to go, guys! --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 16:04, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
:ps - I also took the opportunity to flesh out our [[explain xkcd|about/history page]]. Please take a look and fix/add any details I might have missed. --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 16:06, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

== Style guide ==
Is there a style guide for this wiki? --[[User:PeterMortensen|PeterMortensen]] ([[User talk:PeterMortensen|talk]]) 20:14, 10 August 2013 (UTC)
:Oh, sorry, I did forget to answer here. A guide on this is not easy, many individual comics do need special layouts because they have content never can match to a style guide. But I will give a try [[Help:Style Guide]].--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 21:18, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

== Adblock ==

I've whitelisted the site in adblock, but the ads are still blocked.
Anyone know what' going on here and how I can fix it?--[[User:ParadoX|ParadoX]] ([[User talk:ParadoX|talk]]) 04:34, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
:Huh. I was wondering why our impression counts weren't rising. I thought it was just because this site had high turnover. I've changed the webpage that the word whitelisting links to, try the instructions there instead. Project wonderful is our ad provider, and they've been pretty good to us so far. Also, thanks for helping to support the site! '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 04:40, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
::Great! I don't really mid ads as long as they aren't intrusive. Works now, Hope everyone else does it as well.--[[User:ParadoX|ParadoX]] ([[User talk:ParadoX|talk]]) 05:16, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
::I saw you wrote "the webpage that the word whitelisting links to" so I went to the search box and typed whitelisting. My search didn't yield anything useful: [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?search=whitelisting&go=Go&title=Special%3ASearch]. I don't know how to create the missing page but there oughta be a link for someone like me who searches for whitelist or whitelisting, to take them to the instructions you refer to. [[User:SaxTeacher|SaxTeacher]] ([[User talk:SaxTeacher|talk]]) 10:59, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
:::We already have this linked somewhere, but [https://www.projectwonderful.com/adblock.php this] is the link you want. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 13:41, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

I normally access this site through the android app "xkcd browser". That app only links to the content part of the site and doesn't show the side bar, so the adds aren't shown either. Might be worth discussing it with the author. [[Special:Contributions/109.158.126.139|109.158.126.139]] 08:06, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

:We support those avenues completely, you don't need to feel bad if you use an app to browse this site. We're only really concerned when we put up ads and our impressions are less than half our page hits, because that essentially means more than half our readers aren't contributing to server costs. That's really hard to deal with. We have enough daily page hits to qualify as web publishers at very big ad agencies, but we've had to settle for relatively low rates at the smaller Project Wonderful because 60% of our users were using adblock, so the agencies rejected us because our valuable "paying" audience was too low for them to consider us. That's been the difference between us using dedicated servers to host the site and hiring a contractor to set it up, and the (admittedly somewhat decent) shared hosting plan that we have to settle for now. We can only afford the shared hosting, because the small-scale advertisers at Project Wonderful don't even pay for full days of advertising; most of the time, we make less per day than the posted $3.90 price. That said, we're grateful that Project Wonderful would take us as a publisher when no one else would, but it really feels like the difference between being accepted to community college and being accepted to an ivy league school. For a similar reason, the Google ads route was not sufficient to satisfy our needs; not a large enough proportion of our users were looking at ads, so we either needed to spam them and degrade the site, or we needed to make them refresh, which makes pages slow and causes needlessly high traffic for a lot of users. We didn't want our ads to make the site worse, because that would drive away users and defeat the purpose of us being a public resource for xkcd readers. We actually decided to go the agency route pretty early, because adsense takes a massive cut of revenues and gives us little control over what ads or advertisers actually showed, which was not okay with us. Whoah, I wrote a lot. I hope it was coherent. Maybe someday I'll collect my thoughts and write a proper summary on how and why we advertise. Also, if you have any questions about anything ad-related, you can always ask us at [[explain xkcd talk:Advertise Here]]. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 11:15, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

== Feynman? ==

Feynman (both in [[182: Nash|living]] and [[397: Unscientific|zombie]] form) probably deserves an entry in the [[Template:Navbox characters|character navbox]] template doesn't he? [[Special:Contributions/128.250.152.198|128.250.152.198]] 02:21, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:That's two comics out of 1200+. Three if you count the song. Not quite enough yet. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 02:27, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:: If that's the criterion, then we need to get rid of [[Brown Hat]]. [[User:Djbrasier|Djbrasier]] ([[User talk:Djbrasier|talk]]) 19:30, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

== Job Interview (Electric Soup) ==

The soup is clearly being poured out of an electric socket. This "electric soup" is probably not a reference to the alcoholic brew favoured by Scottish tramps, but more likely to the virtual nature of the company. {{unsigned|Sulis}}
:Hey, go here [[Talk:1293: Job Interview‎]] for discussions. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 19:58, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

== Is there a similar, transcripted service for The Oatmeal? ==

Hi everyone - this site is a real gem, I've sent it to a friend of mine who can't read XKCD because she's blind. The transcripts on this site are a real boon!

Does anyone know if there is a similar service for The Oatmeal? I've searched and searched, but found nothing so far.

Thanks :)

Jeff

:As far as I know we are kind of unique in the web comics world. I think we get away with it because Randall publishes all his comics as Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial. We liberally link back to xkcd, and we don't make a penny (The ads are just to cover server expenses, because wikis and the databases that support them get big when you're covering a body of work like xkcd). I haven't looked into the copyright Matt uses for the Oatmeal, but he seems like a cool enough guy to not kill a community transcripting effort of his comics. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 20:32, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

== what if 103: Vanishing Water - comics ==

Please explain the 2nd and the 4th comics from http://what-if.xkcd.com/103/

"Just tried to sail my boat over land, because I didn't learn from that kid in the Zephyr." (who's the kid from Zephyr?)

"A third time?" (maybe whales were dropped twice before in other what-ifs?) [[User:Daniel Carrero|Daniel Carrero]] ([[User talk:Daniel Carrero|talk]]) 21:57, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

:"A third time?" is a reference to a whale falling twice in "Hitchiker's guide to the Galaxy". Been a while, so I don't remember the details of how this fit in, but the second time it happened to the whale, he thought "Not again" or something along those lines. [[User:Djbrasier|Djbrasier]] ([[User talk:Djbrasier|talk]]) 18:49, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Raises the question of if we should explain jokes imbedded in What If comics. [[User:Djbrasier|Djbrasier]] ([[User talk:Djbrasier|talk]]) 18:49, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

== Discussion usage ==

Am I being a killjoy in feeling that the discussion section should be mainly limited to discussion on improving the explanation, gathering consensus and that type of thing.
Specifically, the discussion for [[1418: Horse]] is quickly turning into every man and his dog posting a sentence in the style of the comic, which doesn't really add anything to the page other than clutter.

Personally, I'd just delete most of them, but I think I might be turning into a grumpy old bugger... --[[User:Pudder|Pudder]] ([[User talk:Pudder|talk]]) 20:32, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
:The discussion is also there for just talking about the comic. Those guys aren't wildly off-topic, there's no need to clamp down on what they get to talk about. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 17:44, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

::Yep, I must just be grumpy and draconian! Lesson learned --[[User:Pudder|Pudder]] ([[User talk:Pudder|talk]]) 20:32, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

== 2014 Christmas header ==

Since the header for the site current contains a [http://imgs.xkcd.com/store/store_default.png graphic link to the store] that promises that Randall probably won't ship you a [[:Category:Bobcats|bobcat]], it seems to me that probably ought to be preserved and explained somewhere. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.56.189|173.245.56.189]] 17:45, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

== XKCD at LanguageLog ==

Arnold Zwicky (of the well-known linguistics blog Language Log) has put together a list of linguistics-related XKCD strips, here: http://arnoldzwicky.org/the-language-of-comics/comics-lists/xkcd-cartoons/ I thought it might be appropriate for a copy of the list (maybe a category) to be created from it. [[Special:Contributions/199.27.133.79|199.27.133.79]] 03:48, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
:[[:Category:Language]] '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 04:39, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

== Bookmarklet ==

Hello there, I've created a little bookmarklet (https://ginkobox.fr/shaarli/?a77vQw) and I thought it might be useful for someone out there.

When launched, it adds the 'explain' before xkcd.com and the browser loads the explainxkcd page. I've tested it only on Firefox.

(Contact @ https://ginkobox.fr/wiki/doku.php?id=about) {{unsigned ip|‎108.162.229.100}}

== Is there a RSS feed for What If? ==

Is there a RSS feed for What If?--[[User:17jiangz1|17jiangz1]] ([[User talk:17jiangz1|talk]]) 11:59, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
:No, because we cover the comics. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 18:57, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

== My User Page ==

Can someone help me with [[user:17jiangz1|my user page]]? I can't seem to remove the large space on top.--[[User:17jiangz1|17jiangz1]] ([[User talk:17jiangz1|talk]]) 07:43, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
: The only solution I've found is to remove the contribution scores (data6=...). Not sure what exactly is triggering this bug. --[[User:SlashMe|SlashMe]] ([[User talk:SlashMe|talk]]) 21:02, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
I am receiving "Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ""." for <code><pre>{{#expr: {{formatnum:{{#cscore:17jiangz1|pages}}|R}}/{{formatnum:{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}|R}}*100 round 5 }}</pre></code>--[[User:17jiangz1|17jiangz1]] ([[User talk:17jiangz1|talk]]) 05:46, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
:Bump?--[[User:17jiangz1|17jiangz1]] ([[User talk:17jiangz1|talk]]) 06:48, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

== What-If ==

It hasn't updated for 2 weeks. why?--[[User:17jiangz1|17jiangz1]] ([[User talk:17jiangz1|talk]]) 06:50, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
:Looks like they're on hold for a few months (Until July 14th). Too bad, I enjoyed them. ([http://what-if.xkcd.com/ Look at the top of the What-If page]) --[[User:Zman9600|Zman9600]] ([[User talk:Zman9600|talk]]) 20:24, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
:What is so special about the date and time? Seems very specific: ''July 14th, 2015 at 7:49:59 AM EDT.'' --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.99|141.101.98.99]] 12:48, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
Looks like it's set for the 40th anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz mission launch. {{unsigned ip|108.162.237.158}}

What If updates will resume on July 14th, 2015 at 7:49:59 AM EDT. By that time {{w|New Horizons}} will have it's closest approach to {{w|Pluto}}. See here: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/ --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 20:34, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

== thanks for having a working website ==

the search function on xkcd.com was taken off, and now the random function seems to be having issues, but it's nice that here both work [[Special:Contributions/188.114.97.114|188.114.97.114]] 19:09, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
:We do our best. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 22:27, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

== Ada Munroe ==

The latest [[what if?]] number 139 has a question by "Ada Munroe". Is she related to [[Randall]] in any way? --{{User:17jiangz1/signature|06:57, 09 August 2015}}

== Out of curiosity ==

I notice that whenever someone links to tvtropes.org in an explanation, someone changes the link to the matching page on allthetropes.org. I'm curious as to why that is. Is there some kind of terms of use conflict at play here that an editor should be keeping in mind? [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.156|199.27.128.156]] 06:33, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
:TVtropes does not restrict links to their site, and if this has been happening there are some time-outs that I need to be handing out. Can you point me to some of the edits where this is happening? '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 08:24, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
::The specific example I had was, um, [[1468: Worrying]]. On Jan 3rd the links went to tvtropes.org, and on March 18th they were all changed over to allthetropes.orain.org. I just found it curious, I wasn't sure what the reason for it was [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.47|162.158.255.47]] 10:32, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
:::Reverted. Typically, the reason people change perfectly good links to specific, obscure links in wikis is usually self-advertising. I'll be watching that guy's edits in the future. Thanks for the heads up. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 18:00, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

== Sightless readers offended by the "It's 'cause you're dumb" tagline. ==

I'll admit, every now and again the comic is over my head. ...because I'm dumb in that particular field. However, blind users who enjoy xkcd must do so through explainxkcd. They are NOT dumb. They are *blind*. Without explainxkcd, they would have no idea what is in the comics panels.

Explainxkcd is a great site. There is no question it provides a service to the internet community.

Please see this thread (last paragraph) on Userfriendly.org. Keep in mind, the end user is sightless and explainxkcd is "viewed" through a screen reader. http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/read.cgi?id=20160207&tid=3930989 (Anonymous)

: The guy on that other site is complaining about that XKCD does not work well in a screen reader -- that is not our problem, but a problem for Randall to solve on his own site. We cannot be the catch all for everything on the internet that Randall broke [[User:Spongebog|Spongebog]] ([[User talk:Spongebog|talk]]) 15:37, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
:: Agreed --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 19:28, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Honestly, I never even noticed the tagline in question. Humorous to sighted folks, sure. ...but obviously offensive to those who have no choice but to access xkcd through explainxkcd.

I'll leave it to the administrators or the community to figure something out, if anything at all. Maybe no one cares? I didn't come here to make any suggestions, only to point out how offensive those 4 words are to some users of the website. {{unsigned ip|108.162.238.88}}

:Alright, put a link here in the site notice. What does everyone else think? I'm open to changing it, it's something people complain about fairly periodically and our identity isn't completely tied to the tagline, I feel. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 09:16, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

::Well, we definitely shouldn't change anything because that particular guy is upset. It's one thing to be offended, but he's also attacking both this site and Randal Monroe. I don't think that sort of behavior should be rewarded. I actually have a rule online where, if someone acts like a jerk to me, I will be kind, but I won't give them what they want. I think a lot of the problems with people being jerks to others is that they still get what they want, so what reason do they have to stop? If he wants us to change it, he should address us like an adult and ask us himself.

::But you claim this is a common complaint. Then I would say we need more info. My instinct would be that people don't understand that it's a joke. But then my solution would be to do what the site is designed to do and explain the joke, rather than take it down. If there's actually something about it that's offensive to an entire class of people, that's different. I am unaware of a stereotype that blind people are stupid, but I'm open to the idea that I don't know.

::I'm not particularly married to the tag line. I actually didn't even notice it was there. But I'm loathe to take it down over a misunderstanding. I can't think of a similarly humorous replacement that would not be offensive, but I can at least suggest "Because nobody knows everything." --[[User:Trlkly|Trlkly]] ([[User talk:Trlkly|talk]]) 09:42, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
:::I've gotten these before. There's a [[Talk:Main_Page#Header_message|slowly growing]] section in the main page discussion page and a complaint buried somewhere in my talk page and they're usually quite unhappy. I pegged it up this time round because there's special needs involved, and a good part of our intended appeal is the transcripts for the blind. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 10:45, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

::Is he one of those people who are so self-centered and 'entitled' that just because they have a disability they assume that everyone is constantly trying to offend them, even in the most unlikeliest of cases? Does he actually believe that the tag line was written with the intention of offending blind people? This is ridiculous. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.106.71|141.101.106.71]] 11:04, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

"Just in case you feel dumb"? "Some comics may be funnier than they appear"?[[Special:Contributions/199.27.130.198|199.27.130.198]] 09:55, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

How about simply removing it? At least until we find something that isn't offensive to anyone - which might be very hard to obtain. [[User:Elektrizikekswerk|Elektrizikekswerk]] ([[User talk:Elektrizikekswerk|talk]]) 10:34, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Because you're crippled... That's worse I guess.<br>
But before considering the "you're dumb" tagline, one must think about the name of this wiki. It is called '''Explain''' xkcd, not read xkcd, and explaining is for dumb people, not blind people.<br>
Maybe one thing we can do is add a "(unless you are just here for the transcript)" subtext, with a link to the transcript section, which has the advantage of both taming offended blind readers (maybe) and provide a direct, "spoilerless" link. --[[User:GuB|GuB]] ([[User talk:GuB|talk]]) 10:40, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

I need explainxkcd for two reasons: being visually impaired, although I can see most of the comics I often miss crucial details that I find only in the transcript; and as a non-American, I lack many cultural references (books, movies, songs, sayings...) that are given in the explanations.
I don't think either of these reasons makes me "dumb". However, I never found the tagline offensive. It was immediately obvious to me that it was meant as humor. Who could seriously think that someone is dumb just because they haven't read the specific book that Randall is parodying in a given comic? Or because they're not familiar with a specific programming language or Unix command? IMHO the tagline *is* funny precisely because very few people can actually "get" all the comics without an explanation. Suggesting that anyone who isn't part of the 0.1% of the population who share all of Randall's abilities and references, is dumb, can't be anything but a joke. Adding to the lot those who can't get the comics because they're blind doesn't make the joke more offensive. It's a sad world where political correctness kills all forms of humor.

On the other hand, the tagline is not an essential part of the site and if a significant number want it removed, so be it.
Zetfr 10:46, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

:Well not everybody's mind works the same way, and some people legitimately cannot grasp humor very easily. They may come to read the explanations precisely because they can't recognize what about a given comic is supposed to be humorous, and they likewise may not be able to tell that the tagline is just a joke. Besides, the tagline is equating a lack of knowledge with a lack of intelligence, which also makes it inaccurate and kind of kills the humor for those who stop and think about it.

:I personally agree with the above "Because nobody knows everything." approach. I would suggest something along the lines of "Because you won't always get the joke." --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.242.134|108.162.242.134]] 11:06, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

:: This sounds like a bunch of dumb people coming together and suggesting that the rest of people should be more like them (joke intended) [[User:Spongebog|Spongebog]] ([[User talk:Spongebog|talk]]) 15:33, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

: +1 on this. '''Keep'''. --[[User:SlashMe|SlashMe]] ([[User talk:SlashMe|talk]]) 20:15, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

I vote '''removal''' [[User:Mikemk|Mikemk]] ([[User talk:Mikemk|talk]]) 11:01, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Mostly agree with Zetfr, it is a rather obvious joke, and this is a website about a webcomic which is mostly about fun, it would be different if this was some serious news portal, but it isn't, and in my humble opinion people who can't take a joke shouldn't even be here. There will always be ranters and people who get offended, we should not let them make decisions for us. I sincerely believe vast majority of people, blind or otherwise, understand it. [[User:Jaalenja|Jaalenja]] ([[User talk:Jaalenja|talk]])

:I agree with Zetfr. If a user doesn't understand that it is a joke, then he won't understand XKCD's jokes, either, no matter how much explaination he can get.
:--[[User:Lou Crazy|Lou Crazy]] ([[User talk:Lou Crazy|talk]]) 12:12, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
::I also agree with the above, and like the part of Zetfr about because you need a reader to use the page you do not need to be offended by an obvious joke --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 19:28, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

if i had a vote i'd say change the "because you're dumb" from text to a picture with alt text of something slightly less rude. "because you're using a screenreader," perhaps. although that would show up on mouseover. meh. whatever. --13:01, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
:and someone isn't "entitled" because they get annoyed about something that doesn't annoy you. as a sighted person i don't even look at the headers on the page. i would imagine that since the text in question is at the top of the page he has to listen to it every single time the page is refreshed. which is annoying enough if it's not insulting. --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.106.161|141.101.106.161]] 13:06, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
:It is bad to have the alt-text saying something differently, but since the current tagline is not offensive to non-blind people then why would it be offensive to a blind person. [[User:Spongebog|Spongebog]] ([[User talk:Spongebog|talk]]) 15:24, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

I vote '''keep''' -- Blind people do not have to come to this site, they can just use xkcd.com directly and if that is not working for blind people then that is Randall's problem not ours. The tag line has been there for years while I have noticed it before and used the site and I have never been offended, if a blind person is offended maybe they should stop using the internet. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.109|162.158.255.109]] 15:18, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
: I second that -- the tag line does not appear to offend non-blind people, it should not offend blind people either [[User:Spongebog|Spongebog]] ([[User talk:Spongebog|talk]]) 15:24, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Voting '''KEEP''' -- the tag line is a joke, and who is to say that blind people cannot be dumb [[User:Spongebog|Spongebog]] ([[User talk:Spongebog|talk]]) 15:24, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

I vote '''keep''' as well. I don't see any reason to change it; it's not a jab at disabled people, blind or otherwise. The site is called '''explain'''xkcd, and everything here centers around explaining the comic, not being a transcription service. (If that's not the case, then maybe other things need changing too.) I always thought the tagline fit nicely with the "sarcasm" part of xkcd's own tagline. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.26|108.162.216.26]] 15:26, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

I vote '''KEEP and satisfy both sides'''. If you examine the HTML, or use [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/fangs-screen-reader-emulator/ Fangs] (free screen reader), you may notice there is a jump-to-nav div element that lets people with screen readers jump to various parts of the page. The jump-to-nav div is only a few HTML lines below the tagline. I'd recommend:
# Moving the jump-to-nav div to '''before''' the tagline
# Adding a "Jump to Transcript" link in the jump-to-nav div.
# Test it with [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/fangs-screen-reader-emulator/ Fangs] in Firefox to simulate a screen reader.
This way, screen-reader users can jump to the transcript and don't have to hear the tagline every time they visit an explainxkcd.com page.
-- [[User:Hat|Hat]] ([[User talk:Hat|talk]]) 15:44, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Consider "Do you get it now?" [[Special:Contributions/198.41.235.11|198.41.235.11]] 16:09, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

I vote '''keep''': it's reasonable and no change is warranted

I like the suggestion of '''keeping''' the current tagline, but changing it to an '''image with alttext''' saying something like "because you're using a screenreader". I also vote to move the link to the transcript to above the tagline. [[User:Rileysci|Rileysci]] ([[User talk:Rileysci|talk]]) 17:32, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

I get the joke and I'm not offended by it, but it seems to me that it really sticks out on this site and it doesn't seem consistent with Randall's sense of humor. Everyone on this site is very inclusive and eager to share all perspectives and points of view. I come here both to see the humor that I have the knowledge to understand and to learn more about the world the way Randall sees it. In short, I come here to be one of the lucky 10,000. In fact, I would suggest that as the tag line, "Congratulations! You're one of today's lucky 10,000!". Inside joke that can link to the comic (http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1053:_Ten_Thousand) and it is welcoming. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.245.170|108.162.245.170]] 18:44, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
: +1 on this. '''Change''' [[User:Jkshapiro|Jkshapiro]] ([[User talk:Jkshapiro|talk]]) 03:45, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

I vote '''keep'''. In case it is not kept then it should be changed to something completely different. Te idea of making a title text to an image I really dislike, although I even more dislike adding anything to the existing one to either refer to people coming for the transcript or making excuses for the obvious joke. This has been a part of the page forever, I have seen it almost every time I come here. To begin with I did feel dumb sometimes, but I was never offended by it, just amused. But of course an explain page is for those who did not get the joke. And there are other pages that explains the comic. I do not know if they have a transcript? But I'm happy to know that some people must really enjoy the detailed transcripts that I usually try to provide. I had just not though about the blind perspective. I more use the transcript to make sure every one agrees on what is seen in the images of the comic. Having said all this, I must admit that the best suggestion for a change so far is the one posted above my post (about the lucky 10,000). :-) --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 19:28, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

I vote keep, for exactly the reasons explained by Zeftr above. Changing it to an image with alt text would be OK also. [[User:Miamiclay|Miamiclay]] ([[User talk:Miamiclay|talk]]) 20:45, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

:I vote '''Change''' it because it is too easily mistaken as an insult instead of a joke. At least change it to ''Because you are stupid''.... Ah, maybe instead ''Because xkcd is far beyond common knowledge'' or ''Because hardly anyone gets everything'' or ''Because it is usually nerdly esoteric even for geeks''. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.46|108.162.221.46]] 21:39, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

:I vote '''Change'''. I have never been a big fan of the tagline. I don't know everything, but I am certainly not dumb. Also, I echo the reference to (http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1053:_Ten_Thousand). This comic has always been about expanding knowledge, not making you feel guilty for not knowing something.

:'''Change''': I realize the "It's because you're dumb" tagline follows the sarcastic nature of Randall's humor, but there are enough people who don't get or appreciate that sort of humor and are likely to be more offended by it, special needs or no. Here's my suggestion: "For those of us who don't get it." [[User:KieferSkunk|KieferSkunk]] ([[User talk:KieferSkunk|talk]]) 21:59, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

At what point is "enough" people offended? I've only seen evidence of several (https://xkcd.com/1070/) visually impaired users actually offended by the site, along with a couple people who didn't specify their visual ability. I don't know the traffic on this site, but I would expect it to be on the order of 10^4 or higher. So is this discussion about changing something that a handful of people find offensive? Or is there an actual problem of something inappropriate on the site. If this is all about a couple people finding something offensive, I imagine a few christians might take issue with (https://xkcd.com/709/). Should we start another discussion about accommodating them? Or add a disclaimer that the views expressed by Randall Munroe are his own and do not reflect those of this site? [[User:Beardmcbeardson|Beardmcbeardson]] ([[User talk:Beardmcbeardson|talk]]) 01:25, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
: So you vote to '''keep''' -- right? [[User:Spongebog|Spongebog]] ([[User talk:Spongebog|talk]]) 04:30, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

'''Slightly Change'''-- make it more obviously tongue in cheek. "It's cause we're dumb" or "For those of us who need it" I agree with the point about not complying with people on the internet who can't behave like adults, however I've never found the line particularly funny. Also change the jump-to-nav, as that would just get annoying to hear it every time you open up the site. I am not recommending changing it based on the imagined offenses of others. I just think it could be funnier.[[User:NotLock|NotLock]] ([[User talk:NotLock|talk]]) 06:29, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

'''Keep''' Trying to satisfy everyone is like trying to understand every comic. It probably won't happen. As an example, using the 'one of 10 000' example provided above can insult a bunch of people that are not from the States simply because the comic (and the reference to the comic for that matter) will make them feel left out. My other reasons for voting keep have all been mentioned already. People get insulted so easily, let's try not to encourage this behavior by rewarding it. [[User:Bon|Bon]] ([[User talk:Bon|talk]]) 07:16, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

I vote '''Change''' because I find it slightly offensive myself. If we change it, we should replace it with something that everybody would interpret as humorous, e.g. "Because we can't all be rocket scientists". [[User:Condor70|Condor70]] ([[User talk:Condor70|talk]]) 08:25, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

'''Keep'''. Next thing we know, liberal arts majors will complain about xkcd science being offensive. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.91.229|141.101.91.229]] 10:12, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

I vote for '''change''' or '''remove'''. Regarding the former, while I know it's supposed to be a joke, I never found it humorous myself and, unlike others that wrote before me, I don't think it relates to the humor or sarcasm used by Randall. It being offensive is not part of my motivation for my vote. I agree with some of the suggestions written up to now. Regarding the latter, I don't really think it's existence is necessary. Regardless, changing the div things is a must. [[User:GuiRitter|GuiRitter]] ([[User talk:GuiRitter|talk]]) 16:25, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

I vote for '''change'''. You could keep much of the humour by changing it to something like "because ignorance '''can''' be cured". [[User:Farnz|Farnz]] ([[User talk:Farnz|talk]])

If I may vote (as a happy international user of this site, but not yet a contributor), one more vote for '''Keep''' - at least as "don't change now, because of this specific request, because of perceived offensiveness". For several reasons, which have been mentioned already:

a) I think it's funny. It also fits perfectly with the overall XKCD humor. And the same line of thinking as the book "You are now less dumb" from "YouAreNotSoSmart.com".

b) It's so obviously generic (directed at everyone reading it) I fail to understand how it can be interpreted as insult instead of irony. Even worse: I fail to understand why it should be _especially_ insulting to blind people. Having a transcript for them to use is nice, but it's merely one of the aspects this site provides (and it's not even at the top nor are there pages "transcript only", so blind are no primary audience)

c) If this site decides to actually help blind people more, how about: putting the tagline in the image (so it's not "read every time"), put the transcript at the top / provide pages with only transcripts, so that the original XKCD can be consumed prior to the explanations here (just as non-blind users would see it)

d) this request follows the current Outragism trend, so I do suspect that it's not actually blind people feeling offended, but privileged SJWs thinking about who might possibly feel offended, bringing change to the world where it's not beneficial even for those they claim to support. Comparable to PETA.

While I'm at it - THANK YOU for this site. Most XKCD I mostly understand. But due to being an international reader, some aspects of American Culture I need explainXKCD to grasp, and other aspects it's just nice to see more details, cross-references with other comics, and hidden gems.
[[User:Zefiro|Zefiro]] ([[User talk:Zefiro|talk]]) 18:46, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
:I'm an "international user", too, and I suppose a lot of users of this site are international users who need to be explained some xkcd jokes that would be obvious to any native English speaker living in the US. I don't have an opinion about changing the tagline or keeping it, but I would like to notice that "Because you are dumb" is the kind of joke that would need an explanation - it would be hard for me to tell if it's a joke or an insult. Therefore, an easier joke could have some advantage.--[[User:Pere prlpz|Pere prlpz]] ([[User talk:Pere prlpz|talk]]) 22:16, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

I vote for '''change.''' I know it's a joke, but it's not particularly funny, and can easily be mistaken for an insult. [[User:Ekedolphin|Ekedolphin]] ([[User talk:Ekedolphin|talk]]) 20:13, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

I agree with Trlkly (and Isaac(https://xkcd.com/1448/)), more information is needed. The purpose of this site is to explain xkcd (obviously, from the name) so people come here primarily to seek knowledge or a better understanding about xkcd. As long as the explanations or the explainers don't act like white hat (https://xkcd.com/1386/), there should be no reason to take the tagline seriously.--[[User:Beardmcbeardson|Beardmcbeardson]] ([[User talk:Beardmcbeardson|talk]]) 01:20, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

I vote KEEP, but I do support the idea of moving the jump-to to above the tagline. I believe that the tagline is obviously a joke, and that pleaing everyone is nigh impossible. I also strongly oppose the proposal to change it to an image with an alt-text of "because you're using a screen reader." Finally, I do not believe we should change the tagline. We should, if anything, remove it altogether. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.20|173.245.54.20]] 03:33, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

'''Slightly Change''' - I like 199.27.130.198's idea, "Just in case you feel dumb." [[User:Mateussf|Mateussf]] ([[User talk:Mateussf|talk]]) 04:44, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

I vote '''Change''', preferably to something like "The ''Anti'' Thing Explainer; Simple Stuff in Complicated Words!" Only, you know, more complicated to improve the joke. [[User:KitsunePhoenix|Amaroq (KitsunePhoenix)]] ([[User talk:KitsunePhoenix|talk]]) 05:01, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

What about: it's cause you need more context. I also don't like the current tagline, because dumbness would be more the inability to understand than a lack of knowledge.

'''Change''' - First thing first, as suggested, move the jump-to-nav div to before the tagline and add a "Jump to Transcript" link in the jump-to-nav div.

Then also change the tagline: it's not that good, and not that in line with the xkcd humor - it's actually ''directly opposed'' to the spirit of [[1053]]. Some better ones have already been suggested:
*"Some comics may be funnier than they appear"
*"Congratulations! You're one of today's lucky 10,000!"
*"because sometimes we all need a little help"
''Or'' we could even have a bunch of good ones like that out of which one is selected at random when the page is loaded --[[User:Jules.LT|Jules.LT]] ([[User talk:Jules.LT|talk]]) 09:17, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

I like the joke in the tag line (some of us come here because they are to stupid or to lazy to lookup all the information xkcd is joking about)
but I also find it to direct to the user. I want to add some suggestions to Jules.LT [[User:SirKitKat|sirKitKat]] ([[User talk:SirKitKat|talk]]) 10:01, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
* "Error loading tagline, click here to retry."
* "Because it is Monday morning."
* "Because you like explaining jokes."

I think people coming here and complaining because "dumb" appears to be aimed at insulting the blind are hilarious, because another meaning for "dumb" is "unable to speak." If people who were "dumb" in this way were complaining because we are using the other meaning of "dumb" it would be awkward, but degree of visual acuity is not open for the same misinterpretation. [[User:Swordsmith|Swordsmith]] ([[User talk:Swordsmith|talk]])

'''KEEP''' for the same reasons as [[User:Zefiro|Zefiro]]. If change is necessary, fix it so the screen reader doesnt say it aloud. (This ensures the change is propagated to those who have no other recourse for sightless XKCD enjoyment, and is not a ploy by SJWs who can't take sarcastic humor (why are they reading XKCD in the first place?) [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.40|108.162.221.40]] 14:06, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

It is super obviously not intended seriously, because xkcd is a technical comic that nobody will understand entirely on the first pass. If it's true, then everybody is dumb. Boo hoo.

The guy in question is under the mistaken impression that Randall runs this site and maliciously hides his transcripts under the tagline. He's also very angry about a lot of things. Sighted people have to look at the tagline every time it loads too, it's at the top of the page.

I vote '''Keep''' because I hate negotiating with terrorists. If it has the effect of filtering out people who enjoy being outraged, then it's doing a service. Image search "stephen fry offensive".

I'd be fine with moving the jump-to-nav div. I'm absolutely against making it an image with a different tagline, because then we would be depriving blind people of the joke. I'm absolutely against changing it to something less offensive. I would settle for removing it entirely, or changing it to something more offensive, such as "It's 'cause you're dumb, and get offended over dumb shit."

Or, you know, make a transcribexkcd.com site. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.217.203|108.162.217.203]] 16:39, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

'''Change''' to one of the cool new suggestions I've seen. I've always been sad about this tagline, and while I love XKCD humor, I just don't think the tagline is funny. It makes me hesitate and sometimes decide not to share this site with others who I think would love the humor, but not the tagline. The issue keeps coming up, and this is just one more way that it irritates people and causes hassle. It's obvious to me that we should find a new tagline, or just drop it for the time being. [[User:Nealmcb|Nealmcb]] ([[User talk:Nealmcb|talk]]) 17:39, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

'''Change''' The word "dumb" used as slang for "unintelligent" or "uneducated" is offensive and many better suggestions have been proposed, which retain the wry humor without the offense. Hiding behind "it's just a joke" is beneath the standards of this site. {{unsigned ip|108.162.245.134}}
:It's not hiding behind "just a joke", it IS the joke. It's tongue-in-cheek. It's so obviously false that you have to intentionally ignore the joke and manufacture offense about something benign. I'll give you that it's not that funny. It's also not that offensive. Why are we talking about something so petty. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.11|108.162.221.11]] 21:11, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

'''Keep'''. I feel like a blind person being insulted by the implication that being sightless somehow makes them unintelligent is a pretty far leap of logic. Not being able to see has no bearing whatsoever on your actual mental acuity. How many actual complaints have there been? One, a few, lots? I don't know, but if it was a significant number I might change my mind. As it stands, though, I think it's pretty clear in the site description that this site is meant for people who don't understand the comic due to its focus on obscure topics and use of technical jargon, being written by a former NASA robot technician with a bent for Linux. Using disabilities as an insult is something I don't condone, but in this case I think it's a case of certain individuals being overly sensitive. Thinking a word as mild as "dumb" is offensive is a bit much, especially since it's often used in contexts other than "uneducated" or "stupid" - I use it to describe myself all the time when I can't word proper-like. I think of it more as "scatter-brained". --[[User:KingStarscream|KingStarscream]] ([[User talk:KingStarscream|talk]]) 18:55, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

'''Change''' I feel like the "Because we can't all be rocket scientists" tagline suggested above is great; I always found the tagline to be a bit annoying because I often know all of a comic except a small part, and I come here for that. It's just unnecessarily confrontational and Randall himself has expressed in https://xkcd.com/1386/ and https://xkcd.com/1053/ that he doesn't agree with insulting ignorance. {{unsigned ip|198.41.235.179}}

'''Change AND Keep''' I get the original joke, but I love some of the new ones too. Randomly rotating tag line appear is my vote, BUT let's make the tag line clickable so that we can explain the tag line .... for those of us who don't get the joke! {{unsigned ip|108.162.216.10}}

'''Keep''', but change the jump-to-nav, and maybe make the tagline clickable. I like the tagline. Someone already said this, but this is explainxkcd, not readxkcd. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.63|108.162.216.63]] 19:37, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

I vote '''Keep''', because it's been there for so long! I remember coming here years ago and looking for the references I didn't get, and the tagline was already there. It's a legacy thing, the one thing remaining from the old website in the new fancy wiki format. [[Special:Contributions/198.41.226.204|198.41.226.204]] 20:47, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

For all you people being offended and claiming that the tagline is contrary to the spirit of xkcd, I give you [https://xkcd.com/386/ xkcd.com/386]. This entire argument is offensive to me, can we remove it? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.11|108.162.221.11]] 21:20, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

'''Keep''' The referenced posting is obviously a troll. And xkcd has transcripts so the story of the self proclaimed blind person with diabetes does not make sense. --23:43, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

Rather than "cuz you're dumb" which both asserts a trait and uses what might not be the best word choice, why not something like "Because you might be ignorant"? Dumb, after all, isn't remediable, though ignorance is. (Also, a consideration, "dumb" can mean "mute," so if there's something with screenreading for blindness, that could be read as assuming more than one disability? ("blind and dumb" akin to "deaf and dumb"?) // Possibly do something akin to the warning on the comic's site itself: "Because you might be a liberal arts major." [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.61|108.162.221.61]] 00:22, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

'''Keep''' because risk of accidental offence is never a good reason to rewrite comedy. If community wants to change suggest "Explaining Xtremely Klever Comedic Drawings"; if only to troll those who insist that the letters XKCD must stand for something (which it doesn't) [[User:Kev|Kev]] ([[User talk:Kev|talk]]) 00:37, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

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The issue seems to boil down to:

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Is it funny?

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Is it overly offensive?

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And therefore:

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Is it worth it?

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Throwing in my opinion, however small:
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It's amusing to me.
The joke is clear, and universal. Offence may be taken equally by anyone reading.
It fits well.
Possibly have a hidden link for those offended. A rotating tag line could include more jokes, but...
By all means move the navigation.

An explain explainxkcd page that is linked to might work, in the spirit of metahumour.

However, it may not be as serious an issue, as the tag line is easy to ignore. Just moving HTML a bit seems like a logical, cheap and easy solution, and then we can test it. Please note that this has no technical knowledge behind it, just a reading of the above.

So, my vote goes to '''keep''', and shuffle HTML or, in order, link, replace with rotating, modify, remove.
Harmless fun. Possibly have a cookie-based option to permanently hide the tag line.
[[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.160|108.162.250.160]] 00:56, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

Apologies, I have broken formatting in the last few edits, trying to fix it...[[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.160|108.162.250.160]] 00:57, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

: My vote is '''change''', and it's not because of blind people. Let me run you through a very common scenario for new users:
:* You have a person who generally thinks of themselves as quite smart.
:* They read the comics and find most of them extremely funny.
:* They come across a comic they just can't understand.
:* They stare at it for minutes, wondering why they just can't get the joke.
:* Pride already bruised, they eventually give up and turn to Google.
:* "Explain xkcd! That's exactly what I'm looking for!"
:* Click the link.
:* "Explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb"
:* Gee, what a lovely welcome. Not.

: Insulting your users the first time you meet them is '''''terrible''''' practice. You're pointing at them and laughing that they didn't understand the joke. You're kicking somebody when they're already down. OK, that is exaggeration, but when you look at the line as a new user, it's not friendly and welcoming; it doesn't encourage you to return. It's just bad UX.

: Now, we could overlook the directed insult if it was indeed funny, but it really isn't. There's nothing witty about it, nothing punny about it, no double-entendres or sly references. It's just an insult.

: Legacy is no reason to keep something that doesn't work. Just because something wasn't picked up as bad practice 5 years ago doesn't mean that it isn't bad practice. Can you imagine if Microsoft kept Clippy around for "legacy reasons"?

: It would be one thing if it were kept because there were no other options, but ''so many'' fantastic alternatives have been suggested:
:* '''It's 'cause we're dumb''' -- Changes it from an insult directed at one person to a statement with an inclusive sense of community. It saying that, hey, you may not understand all the comics, but neither do we! Let's learn together!
:* '''Congratulations! You're one of today's lucky 10,000!''' -- Direct reference to comic which celebrates filling gaps in one's knowledge. Also, as a comic reference, most people won't get it the first time, so make it a link and use it to draw people further in to this wiki!
:* '''Some comics may be funnier than they appear''' -- Actually humorous, containing reference to a very common message we're all familiar with (objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear). Also alludes to the hidden depths to many of the comics, where additional levels of meaning are revealed the more about the subject one knows, which is what this wiki is trying to reveal.
:* '''Error loading tagline, click here to retry.''' -- Looks like the kind of joke you'd actually find in the comments. Clicking the tagline should then do something completely unrelated to reloading the tagline (I dunno, set off some cool JS magic).
:* '''Because it is Monday morning.''' -- Should only be shown on Mondays. Can easily be implemented with parser functions.
:* '''Because sometimes we all need a little help''' -- Gives an understanding tone that's comforting to new users.

: '''TL;DR''': The current tagline is unnecessarily confrontational and projects a bad welcome to new users, and there is nothing particularly clever/funny/important about the current tag line to recommend keeping it, especially with ''so many'' better suggestions on offer. Put it this way, if you were seeing "It's 'cause you're dumb" tag as a suggestion to add to this wiki today, would you choose it over the other options? No? Then make like an old meme and "Let It Go!" [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.157|108.162.249.157]] 05:49, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

: I think the above comment is a perfect example of different mindsets. I discovered this wiki in exactly the way you described. But I was not offended in anyway when seeing the tagline, which I did almost immediately. Rather, it got a little chuckle out of me along with a thought along the lines of "Haha, yeah, maybe I am dumb." If you get offended by such a tagline, it suggests to me that you are not all that certain about your own intelligence in the first place. It's a static bit of text. It was not aimed at the person reading it, it was aimed at EVERYONE reading it. EDIT-I realize this post could be seen as offensive or a personal attack, which it's not, please read the "you" not as the poster of the above mentioned comment, but as a generic for any person reading the comment. [[User:Bon|Bon]] ([[User talk:Bon|talk]]) 07:11, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

: If I remember correctly I've heard it origonally was a pic of Blackhat saying it. Would it be possible to use that on this site. It seems like a decent solution? (I haven't read all of this so I don't know if this has been suggested sorry if it has). Like people have said no one gets all of xkcd, as a nonAmerican there is also a lot of references I don't get. Getting offenend over this does seems pretty pathetic to me. I also use this site for non explanation reasons, that is it often links together comics which is handy, and people often post cool links. But as others have pointed out this site isn't transcriptxkcd or linkxkcd it's explainxkcd, so that's what it should be meant for. Claiming i's offensive o the visually impaired seems pretty silly. All in all, maybe it could do with tweaking to make it more obvious but IMO it's a solid '''keep''' [[User:Halfhat|Halfhat]] ([[User talk:Halfhat|talk]]) 11:22, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

::I vote '''change''', for the reasons the Halfhat above listed. I also never thought "It's 'cause you're dumb." really fit with this wiki. --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.104.33|141.101.104.33]] 12:57, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
:::I can't believe we've become such a limp-wristed baby society that we can't even have a joke like "It's 'cause you're dumb" as the tagline. Nobody would reasonably get offended at it. '''Keep.''' [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.33|108.162.221.33]] 13:35, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

I vote '''keep'''. Blind people have to realize they're not the only ones reading this site. This site was created to explain the comic, not purely to provide a transcript of the comic - that's just icing. [[User:Jarod997|Jarod997]] ([[User talk:Jarod997|talk]]) 14:27, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

If there ever really was a single person who took the tag line seriously, then it was just telling them the truth. I vote '''keep'''. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.90|162.158.255.90]] 19:15, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

I vote '''Keep, or otherwise, Change'''. My opinion: It is not offensive, and I find it humourous. As I am very interested in the maths and the sciences, and I am very nerdy, I do often understand the jokes in each comic. However, sometimes I don't quite get it. This wiki is very good for that, because it collates many people's views and expertise on the comic. If the vote is overall to change, I am a fan of "Because sometimes we all need a little help." [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.29|173.245.54.29]] 21:18, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

I vote '''change''': I've always been a bit unsettled by it myself. Some deaf readers may be more insulted by it than blind ones. vote for "'''Cause you're #dumb''" (or perhaps another NOT symbol... so only people that don't understand are insulted... and the tagline can be linked to a page that explains why it isn't an insult) [[User:Edo|Edo]] ([[User talk:Edo|talk]]) 23:16, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

I vote '''KEEP'''. I actually had the feeling the fellow who complained may not understand sarcasm very well. Regardless, the tagline to me is remarkably funny and one of the things I always point out to folks when I first turn them on to XKCD. I worry they will stop following XKCD if they don't understand a post, which is why I am especially glad your site exists. There are many types of humor that will be lost on folks. Myself, for example. I was just railing to my friends about how much I did not like a recent popular vine which showed a guy, allegedly the father, scaring a very young child strapped in a car seat, by yelling in horror as the cars convertible roof was closed. Because I did not grow up watching laugh-tracked America's Funniest (sic) Home Video segments, I am not conditioned for casual schadenfreude-driven videos. But I know that's just me. I don't want to limit free-speech merely because it is not for me. Regardless, I really just want you to '''KEEP''' it because to me it is darn funny and just the sort of humor most of the folks who enjoy XKCD appreciate. --[[User:Hugo|Hugo]] ([[User talk:Hugo|talk]]) 23:25, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

I will also vote '''keep'''. While it ''might'' be considered offensive, it's really no more "offensive" than XKCD itself. Lest we forget the line at the bottom of every comic page:
:Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and '''advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors)'''.
I don't see how "It's 'cause you're dumb." is any worse. [[User:Schiffy|<font color="000999">Schiffy</font>]] ([[User_talk:Schiffy|<font color="FF6600">Speak to me</font>]]|[[Special:Contributions/Schiffy|<font color="FF0000">What I've done</font>]]) 23:52, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

I vote '''Keep''', per the reasoning of, among other people, Zefiro. I like the tagline a lot and don't see much at all, if anything, that's wrong with it. Like Hugo, I feel like it's a bit of ''entirely'' appropriate humor. [[User:APerson|APerson]] ([[User talk:APerson|talk!]]) 00:36, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

== Concerning recent spam ==

In light of the recent and large amount of spam that we've been seeing, I've revoked new users of the right to create and move pages, as well as access to the write api. If your account is three days old and has 10 or more edits under it, you will still be allowed to create and move pages. This will end when the spambots decide to leave. To the person who's doing this, don't ruin this for the other people who use this site. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 19:36, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

1460: SMFW

2014-12-15T17:31:23Z

APerson: /* Explanation */ list formatting

{{comic
| number = 1460
| date = December 15, 2014
| title = SMFW
| image = smfw.png
| titletext = wtfw it's like smho tbfh, imdb.
}}

==Explanation==

Randall gives some examples of confusing acronyms that closely resemble more commonly-used acronyms. He depicts [[Cueball]] apparently puzzling over the meaning of one such acronym.

"SMFW", the title of the comic and an acronym used as the caption, is eerily close to a number of other common acronyms, including:

* "SFW" (meaning "safe (or suitable) for work", denoting that something does not have suggestive content)
* "MFW" (meaning "my face when...", setting up for a user's reaction to something: possibly the intended replacement for the caption at the bottom of the comic)
* "SMH" (meaning "shaking my head", used to indicate dismay)
* "SMF" (meaning "so much fun") and "NSFW" (meaning "not safe for work", the opposite of "SFW").

Randall uses "SMFW" itself in the comic to stand in for the phrase "That moment when..." or "That feel when..."; therefore, a version of the comic text using the "correct" acronym would be "TFW an acronym ''almost'' makes sense."

The title text contains more examples of imaginary acronyms of a similar nature:

* "WTFW" is a combination of "WTF" ("What the fuck?") and "TFW" ("That feel when...", used in a similar nature to "MFW"), and possibly "FTW" ("For The Win")
* "SMHO" is a combination of "SMH" ("shake my head") and "IMHO" ("In my humble opinion...")
* "TBFH" is a combination of "TBF" ("to be fair") and "TBH" ("to be honest"), also similar to "BOFH" ("Bastard Operator From Hell")
* "IMDB" is, of course, [http://www.imdb.com/ the Internet Movie Database], but also resembles abbreviations such as "IMHO" ("in my humble opinion") and "IDK" ("I don't know")

Below are possible examples of potential representations for each acronym, according to [http://www.urbandictionary.com/ Urban Dictionary]:

* SMFW is an acronym for "Smoke more fucking weed".
* WTFW is an acronym for "What the fuck, what?".
* SMHO is an acronym for "Shaking my head off".
* TBFH is an acronym for "To be fucking honest".

Knowing Randall, the sentence is not supposed to make sense, but there are some mildly-plausible translations (if one discounts IMDB, which is only there to make an already obnoxious sentence completely absurd). One way would be "What the fuck, what? It's like shaking my head off, to be fucking honest."

==Transcript==

[Cueball is sitting at a desk, crouched over a laptop]

SMFW an acronym ''almost'' makes sense

{{comic discussion}}

1460: SMFW

2014-12-15T17:30:59Z

APerson: /* Explanation */ general revision

{{comic
| number = 1460
| date = December 15, 2014
| title = SMFW
| image = smfw.png
| titletext = wtfw it's like smho tbfh, imdb.
}}

==Explanation==

Randall gives some examples of confusing acronyms that closely resemble more commonly-used acronyms. He depicts [[Cueball]] apparently puzzling over the meaning of one such acronym.

"SMFW", the title of the comic and an acronym used as the caption, is eerily close to a number of other common acronyms, including:

* "SFW" (meaning "safe (or suitable) for work", denoting that something does not have suggestive content)
* "MFW" (meaning "my face when...", setting up for a user's reaction to something: possibly the intended replacement for the caption at the bottom of the comic)
* "SMH" (meaning "shaking my head", used to indicate dismay)
* "SMF" (meaning "so much fun") and "NSFW" (meaning "not safe for work", the opposite of "SFW").

Randall uses "SMFW" itself in the comic to stand in for the phrase "That moment when..." or "That feel when..."; therefore, a version of the comic text using the "correct" acronym would be "TFW an acronym ''almost'' makes sense."

The title text contains more examples of imaginary acronyms of a similar nature:

* "WTFW" is a combination of "WTF" ("What the fuck?") and "TFW" ("That feel when...", used in a similar nature to "MFW"), and possibly "FTW" ("For The Win")
* "SMHO" is a combination of "SMH" ("shake my head") and "IMHO" ("In my humble opinion...")
* "TBFH" is a combination of "TBF" ("to be fair") and "TBH" ("to be honest"), also similar to "BOFH" ("Bastard Operator From Hell")
* "IMDB" is, of course, [http://www.imdb.com/ the Internet Movie Database], but also resembles abbreviations such as "IMHO" ("in my humble opinion") and "IDK" ("I don't know")

Below are possible examples of potential representations for each acronym, according to [http://www.urbandictionary.com/ Urban Dictionary]:

SMFW is an acronym for "Smoke more fucking weed".

WTFW is an acronym for "What the fuck, what?".

SMHO is an acronym for "Shaking my head off".

TBFH is an acronym for "To be fucking honest".

Knowing Randall, the sentence is not supposed to make sense, but there are some mildly-plausible translations (if one discounts IMDB, which is only there to make an already obnoxious sentence completely absurd). One way would be "What the fuck, what? It's like shaking my head off, to be fucking honest."

==Transcript==

[Cueball is sitting at a desk, crouched over a laptop]

SMFW an acronym ''almost'' makes sense

{{comic discussion}}

1460: SMFW

2014-12-15T17:27:27Z

APerson: /* Explanation */ usage in comic

{{comic
| number = 1460
| date = December 15, 2014
| title = SMFW
| image = smfw.png
| titletext = wtfw it's like smho tbfh, imdb.
}}

==Explanation==

{{incomplete|Little to no peer revision. Can we add some evidence or stats on usage for the various acronyms discussed?}}

On various forums on the Internet, people will use acronyms for common phrases as opposed to the common phrases themselves (e.g. "LOL" as opposed to "laughing out loud"). As the comic suggests, SMFW is a plausible acronym, but does not have any potential phrases to represent. The acronym itself is eerily close to a number of other acronyms commonly used, including: "SFW" (meaning "safe (or suitable) for work", denoting that something does not have suggestive content), "MFW" (meaning "my face when...", setting up for a user's reaction to something: possibly the intended replacement for the caption at the bottom of the comic), "SMH" (meaning "shaking my head", used to indicate dismay), "SMF" (meaning "so much fun") and "NSFW" (meaning "not safe for work", the opposite of "SFW"). Because "SMFW" is so similar to these other acronyms, for some it would intuitively feel like "SMFW" has its own meaning. One possible interpretation would be '"So much fun when" an acronym ''almost'' makes sense.'

Randall uses "SMFW" itself in the comic to stand in for the phrase "That moment when..." or "That feel when..."; therefore, a version of the comic text using the "correct" acronym would be "TFW an acronym ''almost'' makes sense."

The title text contains more examples of imaginary acronyms of similar nature:

* "WTFW" is a combination of "WTF" ("What the fuck?") and "TFW" ("That feel when...", used in a similar nature to "MFW"), and possibly "FTW" ("For The Win")
* "SMHO" is a combination of "SMH" ("shake my head") and "IMHO" ("In my humble opinion...")
* "TBFH" is a combination of "TBF" ("to be fair") and "TBH" ("to be honest"), also similar to "BOFH" ("Bastard Operator From Hell")
* "IMDB" is, of course, [http://www.imdb.com/ the Internet Movie Database], but also resembles abbreviations such as "IMHO" ("in my humble opinion") and "IDK" ("I don't know")

Below are possible examples of potential representations for each acronym, according to [http://www.urbandictionary.com/ Urban Dictionary]:

SMFW is an acronym for "Smoke more fucking weed".

WTFW is an acronym for "What the fuck, what?".

SMHO is an acronym for "Shaking my head off".

TBFH is an acronym for "To be fucking honest".

Knowing Randall, the sentence is not supposed to make sense, but there are some mildly-plausible translations (if one discounts IMDB, which is only there to make an already obnoxious sentence completely absurd). One way would be "What the fuck, what? It's like shaking my head off, to be fucking honest."

==Transcript==

[Cueball is sitting at a desk, crouched over a laptop]

SMFW an acronym ''almost'' makes sense

{{comic discussion}}

515: No One Must Know

2014-12-10T19:46:56Z

APerson: /* Explanation */ rearrange final sentence

{{comic
| number = 515
| date = December 10, 2008
| title = No One Must Know
| image = no_one_must_know.png
| titletext = Or perhaps they knew he was there, and were just trying to torment him first.
}}

==Explanation==
[[Black Hat]] and [[Danish]] are more known for their sociopathy than their affection. In the first panel, they are uncharacteristically affectionate. The entrance of [[Cueball]], and his observation of this state, leads [[Black Hat]] and [[Danish]] to kill him and bury the evidence, so that no one knows that side of them.

The title text provides the alternative hypothesis that they were planning on killing him the whole time and were intentionally acting affectionate for the mental effect it would have on their victim.

[[542: Cover-Up]] provides a possible continuation of this story.

==Transcript==
:[Black Hat and Danish are talking and holding hands.]
:Black hat: You're my dearest darling danish.
:Danish: And you're my lovely cutie pie.
:Black hat: Well, you're-
:[Cueball enters.]
:[Black hat and Danish look at each other.]
:[Black hat is holding a bloody sack, while Danish is pushing down on a shovel to make a hole for the body.]

==Trivia==
*This comic inspired the use of "Danish" to refer to [[Black Hat]]'s girlfriend on this wiki.

{{comic discussion}}
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Black Hat]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Danish]]
[[Category:Comics with color]]
[[Category:Romance]]

1434: Where Do Birds Go

2014-11-14T16:11:41Z

APerson: /* Explanation */ The explanation is at a reasonable level of completion. "Standards compliance" does not mean incompleteness.

{{comic
| number = 1434
| date = October 15, 2014
| title = Where Do Birds Go
| image = where_do_birds_go.png
| titletext = Water/ice has a lot of weird phases. Maybe asking 'where do birds go when it rains' is like asking 'where does Clark Kent go whenever Superman shows up?'
}}
[[File:Wet_kookaburra_6674_Crop_Edit.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5| A wet bird sitting in the rain. (from Wikimedia Commons)]]
==Explanation==
Cueball searches [http://lmgtfy.com/?q=where+do+birds+go+when+it+rains%3F Google] to find out where birds go when it rains. He finds that the question is asked worldwide, across many different languages and websites. A variety of screenshots are shown of different websites and forums where users have asked where birds go when it rains, with at least nine languages shown. The bottom of this panel fades to white, suggesting that the occurrence of these questions stretches on and on. Cueball expresses delight at the idea that this question is the one to which everyone wants to know the answer; worrying about birds getting wet is "the thing that unites us".

Later in the comic, a bird in the rain is also searching on the Internet for where birds go when it rains. This is humorously implying that a significant set of these questions are being typed by birds looking for a dry place after being caught in the rain, and not humans. This makes Cueball wrong; worrying about birds getting wet does not unite us. In reality, as the comic states, birds look for shelter so they can stay dry. On a rainy day you can usually find birds in leafy trees, caves or other kinds of cover.

In the {{w|Superman}} comics, Clark Kent ''is'' Superman, so you never observe both Clark Kent and Superman simultaneously. By analogy, the title text whimsically suggests that a possible inference from the observation that you never see birds and rain together is that birds ''are'' the rain. Perhaps birds are an unknown {{w|Phase (matter)|phase}} of water. In addition to its familiar phases of {{w|ice}}, {{w|water vapor|vapor}}, and {{w|water|liquid water}}, water has more exotic phases such as {{w|Ice#Phases|low-temperature and high-pressure ices}} and {{w|Supercritical fluid|supercritical gases}}; why not birds?

The title text imbues the question with more philosophical significance than it warrants (prompted, perhaps, by Cueball's earlier hyperbole), and points up the irrationality of the implication that a question must be deep simply because a lot of people ask it, and that such questions demand a complex, radical answer.

===Websites shown in image===
*English
**https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110223085537AAiOFTk
**http://www.enature.com/expert/expert_show_question.asp?questionID=23847
**http://activerain.trulia.com/blogsview/1452078/where-do-birds-go-when-it-rains-
**http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message979308/pg1
**http://randomthoughtsfrommidlife.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/where-do-the-birds-go-when-it-rains/
*Non-English
{| class="wikitable"
! Language
! Question
! Translation
|-
|French
|[https://fr.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110327100813AAMj2hy Où se cachent les oiseaux quand il pleut?]
|Where do the birds hide themselves when it rains?
|-
|rowspan="3"|German
|[http://www.gutefrage.net/frage/was-passiert-jetzt-eigentlich-mit-den-voegeln-die-bei-dem-wetter-in-den-baeumen-sitzen Was passiert jetzt eigentlich mit den vögeln, die bei dem wetter in den bäumen sitzen?]
|What actually happens with the birds that are sitting in the trees in this weather?<ref>In proper German, all nouns should be capitalized. The author leaves them uncapitalized, characteristic of lazy/hurried typing.</ref>
|-
|[http://www.vogel.info/schlechtes_wetter.htm Was machen Vögel bei schlechtem Wetter?]
|What do birds do in bad weather?
|-
|[http://www.gutefrage.net/frage/wohin-gehen-voegel Wohin gehen Vögel?]
|Where do birds go?
|-
|rowspan="2"|Spanish
|[http://noticias.lainformacion.com/ciencia-y-tecnologia/ciencias-meteorologicas/que-pasa-con-las-aves-durante-un-huracan_g1DV8AL9LSG6Bzy7q5G8s7/ Qué pasa con las aves durante un huracán?]
|What happens to the birds during a hurricane?
|-
|[https://espanol.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120525145152AABvmOq ¿A donde se van los pajaritos cuando llueve?]
|Where do the little birds go when it rains?<ref>In proper Spanish, the word "dónde" in this context should have an accent. The author leaves it out, characteristic of lazy/hurried typing.</ref>
|-
|Dutch
|[http://www.willemwever.nl/vraag_antwoord/dieren-en-planten/waar-blijven-de-vogels-als-het-heel-hard-stormt Waar blijven de vogels als het heel hard stormt?]
|Where do birds stay when it is storming very hard?
|-
|Finnish
|[http://ihmepuu.vuodatus.net/lue/2014/05/minne-linnut-menevat-sateella Minne linnut menevät sateella?]
|Where do the birds go when it rains?
|-
|rowspan="3"|Chinese (simplified)
|[http://wenwen.sogou.com/z/q55741469.htm 下雨时鸟儿往哪躲]
|Where do birds hide when it rains?
|-
|[http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/270774126.html 下雨的时候小鸟住在哪里？]
|Where do birds live while it rains?
|-
|[http://wenwen.sogou.com/z/q145038794.htm 为什么鸟儿下雨的时候在天上飞不会因为淋湿掉下来?]
|Why isn't birds falling to the ground for getting wet while it rains?
|-
|Japanese
|[http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2136533586764388601 【雑学】暴風雨の時、鳥はどこに避難してるの？]
|Miscellaneous Knowledge: Where do birds take shelter during a rainstorm?
|-
|Malay (Indonesian)
|[https://id.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101215231444AAAVxSM Burung Dapat Bertahan Terbang Berapa Lama Disaat Hujan ?]
|How Long Can Birds Survive Flying In the Rain ?
|}
<references/>

==Transcript==
[The comic is separated into three sections, with Cueball and Megan having a discussion in the first section, websites found through Google search results depicted in the second, and a bird depicted in the third]

;[First Section - Cueball is sitting at his computer]:
Cueball: "Where do birds go when it rains?" is my new favorite Google search.

Megan [off screen]: Why?

Cueball: It gives the answer, but also shows you an endless torrent of other people asking the same question. Pages and pages of them across regions and cultures.

[Megan enters the frame and shows interest in the computer]

Cueball: I love the idea that somehow this is the universal question, the thing that unites us. When it rains, we wonder where the birds go, and hope they're staying dry.

;[Second Section - A collage of screen snippets]:

[[https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110223085537AAiOFTk from Yahoo! Answers]]: '''Where do the birds go when it rains?''' I've noticed I rarely see birds flying around or in trees or on power lines when it's raining, So where do they go?

[[http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message979308/pg1 from Godlike Productions]]: '''Where do birds go when it rains really hard?'''
Ok, maybe I'm an idiot for asking this, but during the slew of several storms in California the last couple weeks, I began to wonder where the poor birds go to stay dry? The ducks, seagulls, owls, sparrows, hummingbirds, hawks, etc...I see them all the ti[...]

[[http://randomthoughtsfrommidlife.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/where-do-the-birds-go-when-it-rains/ from Random Thoughts From Midlife]]: Where do the birds go when it rains?

[[http://www.answers.com/Q/Where_do_birds_go_when_it_rains from Answers.com]]: Where do birds go when it rains?

[[https://espanol.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120525145152AABvmOq from Yahoo! Respuestas]]: ¿A donde se van los pajaritos cuando llueve?

[[http://activerain.trulia.com/blogsview/1452078/where-do-birds-go-when-it-rains- from Active Rain]]: '''Where do Birds go When it Rains?''' I'm no youngster...and I have no answer for this. I've talked to alot of people about the likelihood of where birds go when it rains and everyone has a different perspective.

[[http://ask.metafilter.com/27499/Where-do-the-birds-go-when-it-rains from Ask MetaFilter]]: '''Where do the birds go when it rains?''' BirdFeederFilter: When it's gloomy and rainy, I don't see any birds at my birdfeeder for days on end. Then as soon as it's sunny, they're all over the place. What gives? What do they do on rainy days, just forage near their nest?

[[http://snippets.com/where-do-city-birds-go-when-it-rains.htm from Snippets]]: Where do city birds go when it rains?

[[http://wenwen.sogou.com/z/q55741469.htm from http://wenwen.sogou.com/]]: 下雨时鸟儿往哪躲
没有大树,没有屋檐,怎么办

[[http://www.enature.com/expert/expert_show_question.asp?questionID=23847 from eNature.com]]: '''Storm shelter''' ''In Florida, where I live, we get many thunderstorms, but I never see the birds in trees during the storms. We recently had a tropical storm and I did not see any birds in the trees. Where do birds go when it rains or storms?'' Just like at night, birds will seek shelter during storms. I remember watching a flock of American robins dive into[...]

[[https://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110730055427AApJlDb from Yahoo! Answers]]: When it is raining heavily, where do the birds go...i don't see them on the trees, where do they take shelter?

[[https://fr.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110327100813AAMj2hy from Yahoo! Questions Réponses]]: Où se cachent les oiseaux quand il pleut? De ma fenêtre, je n'en aperçois plus un!!!...Les pies semblent avoir abandonné leurs nids...

[[http://www.gutefrage.net/frage/was-passiert-jetzt-eigentlich-mit-den-voegeln-die-bei-dem-wetter-in-den-baeumen-sitzen from gutefrage.net]]: '''was passiert jetzt eigentlich mit den vögeln, die bei dem wetter in den bäumen sitzen?''' bei uns regnet es heftig und der orkanartige wind wechelst ständig richtung und geschwindigkeit. können sich die vögel da in den bäumen halten? retten sie sich instinktiv vorher irgendwohin, wo sie windgeschützt sind?

[[https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20140607171044AAwamou from Yahoo! Answers]]: Where do birds go when it rains? I never see any out...?

[[http://noticias.lainformacion.com/ciencia-y-tecnologia/ciencias-meteorologicas/que-pasa-con-las-aves-durante-un-huracan_g1DV8AL9LSG6Bzy7q5G8s7/ from lainformacion.com]]: ¿Qué pasa con las aves durante un huracán?

[[http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/270774126.html from Baidu]]: '''下雨的时候小鸟住在哪里？''' 下雨的时候小鸟住在哪里？如果是在春天夏天那还好，有树叶遮挡着，但是到了秋天冬天下雨小鸟住在哪里？还住在在树上搭的窝里吗？不怕冻坏自己和小幼崽吗？如果躲雨那就在哪里躲雨呢？怎么没见过它们躲雨？谢谢。

[[http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/40/219540.html from Fairfax Underground]]: '''What do birds do when it rains?''' Recently I installed a bird feeder outside my bedroom window. It is so wonderful the diversity of our feathered friends that frequent the feeder! I love it. My question that I haven't found an answer to is this: What do the little birdies do when it rains? I mean, do they stay put in the trees that they find themselves in,

[[http://ihmepuu.vuodatus.net/lue/2014/05/minne-linnut-menevat-sateella from a blog on vuodatus.net]]: '''Minne linnut menevät sateella?''' Tänään satoi rankasti. Kuljin metsän halki. Kuulin linnun laulavan. Yksinäinen, mutta itsenäinen ja vahva, tulkitseva ääni. Kaunis. Minne linnut menevät sateella? En ole koskaan nähnyt lintuja rankkasateessa. Luulen, että ne yrittävät löytää suojan. Kuusien ja mäntyjen oksistossa on varmaan suojaisaa. Kallioiden koloihin ja pieniin luolastoihin voi ehkä lintukin hiipiä. Rohkeille löytyy pihoilta suojapaikkoja. Ehkä linnulla oli oma pesäkolo. Siellä oli lämmintä ja kuivaa. Sieltä saattoi rauhassa katsella sateen vierailua metsässä. Siellä saattoi jopa iloita sateesta ja laulaa.

[[https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110530163957AAaw1S3 from Yahoo! Answers]]: '''What do the birds do when it RAINS like crazy?''' I live in upstate new york and just moved here and there are so many many birds here especially where I live, the other day I saw a broken egg on the ground in the drive way from a [...show more link] '''Update''': I know they get wet btw but was wondering if they did anything extra to [...show more link] '''Best Answer''' Well ... it depends on the species of bird, for one. Some are more adapted for rain then others.

[[http://www.willemwever.nl/vraag_antwoord/dieren-en-planten/waar-blijven-de-vogels-als-het-heel-hard-stormt from Willem Wever]]: '''Waar blijven de vogels als het heel hard stormt?''' Bij hevige stormen zoekt een vogel de beschutting die bij hem past. Er zijn een aantal vogels die met storm wel vliegen. Maar bij een echte hevige storm schuilen [...]

[[http://wenwen.sogou.com/z/q145038794.htm from http://wenwen.sogou.com/]] '''为什么鸟儿下雨的时候在天上飞不会因为淋湿掉下来?''' 刚刚下很大的雨,却还看到有几只鸟一直在天上飞.为什么鸟儿下雨的时候在天上飞不会因为淋湿掉下来? '''补充'''：有照片的加分

[[http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?147357-Where-do-birds-go-when-it-rains from speed guide forums]]: '''Where do birds go when it rains?''' Do they just sit in their trees as it rains getting drenched? Or do they seek shelter?

[[http://books.google.com/books?id=c9gTAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false from Google books]]: '''Where Do All The Birds Go When It Rains?''' By Misty Hoopman

[Screen snippets begin to noticeably fade to white at this point]

[[http://vimeo.com/54433164 from vimeo]]: '''WHERE DO BIRDS GO WHEN IT RAINS?''' One young magpie will give its own story. Barring the thunder and heavy rain, all the sounds on this movie are from this one young maggie. Amazing

[[https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071130121113AA0IjwA from Yahoo! Answers]]: '''Where do birds go during wind and rain storms?''' Where do birds go during wind and rain storms?

[[https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080609181529AAid1nN from Yahoo! Answers]]: '''Where do birds go when it rains?''' I mean, they can't keep dry in their nests...They have to go somewhere.

[[https://id.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101215231444AAAVxSM from Yahoo! Answers]]: Burung Dapat Bertahan Terbang Berapa Lama Disaat Hujan ?

[[http://www.vogel.info/schlechtes_wetter.htm from vogel.info]]: '''Was machen Vögel bei schlechtem Wetter?''' Zunächst mal, was sie nicht machen: Sie verkriechen sich nicht etwa in ihr Nest, denn das Vogelnest dient der Brutpflege, es ist nicht etwa eine Wohnung. Es stellt sich aber ja auch die Frage, was eigentlich unter schlechtem Wetter zu verstehen ist: Es gibt Vögel, die leiden unter zuviel Sonne und[...]

[[http://www.gutefrage.net/frage/wohin-gehen-voegel from gutefrage.net]]: '''Wohin gehen Vögel?''' Hallo zusammen! Heute als es so richtige Gewitter gab, hab ich mir überlegt wohin alle Vögel verschwinden. Haben alle Vögel Nester in die sie sich zurückziehen können? [link to view complete question]

[[https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080808130433AAE8b3B from Yahoo! Answers]]: '''Where do birds go when it rains?''' Well, yesterday it was raining...I was bored so i started staring out the window, and i say a empty birds nest and i was wondering, where do birds go when it rains?

[[http://diolungroup.com/blog/2014/02/19/where-do-birds-go-when-it-rains-or-snows/ from Diolún Designs Blog]]: Where do Birds go when it rains or snows?

[[http://www.andalusiastarnews.com/2014/04/05/where-do-birds-go-when-it-rains/ from The Andalusia Star-News]]: '''Where do birds go when it rains?''' I haven’t fed birds in my back yard for a long time, but I still enjoy the few I see perching on top of poles, an electric wire, tree branches, or scooting across the [...]

[[http://besgroup.blogspot.com/2006/12/where-do-birds-go-when-it-rains-and.html from Bird Ecology Study Group (blog)]]: '''Where do birds go when it rains? And what do they do then?''' It has been raining on and off these few weeks and the birds have not been around. Have you ever wondered what happened to them when it

[[http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2136533586764388601 from Naver Matome]]: '''【雑学】暴風雨の時、鳥はどこに避難してるの？''' 人間が歩くのも困難な暴風雨。その時、一番影響を受けるのは空を飛んでいる鳥達ですよね。彼らはどのように風雨を凌いでいるのか？ずーっと気になっていた事を調べてみました！

[At this point, at the bottom of the section, screen snippets are extremely faded]

[[http://dailyapple.blogspot.com/2010/01/apple-431-birds-in-rain.html from The Daily Apple]]: '''Apple #431: Birds in the Rain'''
Forgot until late tonight that I meant to make a new post. Since I didn't leave [...]

[[https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20140522193215AAawPNF from Yahoo! answers]]: Where does birds go when it rains?

;[Third section - A bird on a wire fence]:
[A bird sits on a wire fence with no rain falling]

[Zoomed in on the bird as it looks at a rain drop splashing on the fence wire]

[Zoomed out on the bird looking at the rain as it increases in intensity]

[The bird flies down to an small smart-phone-shaped object lying on the ground, as the rain increases in intensity even more]

[The bird lands on the object, with puddles increasing in size around the object]

[The bird pecks at the object, ostensibly typing] W... H... E... R... E... D... O... B... I... R... D... S...

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810: Constructive

2014-10-30T01:29:07Z

APerson: /* Explanation */ further clarification

{{comic
| number = 810
| date = October 25, 2010
| title = Constructive
| image = Constructive.png
| titletext = And what about all the people who won't be able to join the community because they're terrible at making helpful and constructive co-- ...oh.
}}

==Explanation==
Most online communities face the problem of dissuading {{w|Spamming|spammers}} from joining and participating. A common solution to this problem is the use of various systems to prevent automated bots' use of the community, while still allowing legitimate users to join. This has resulted in an arms race of sorts between spammers and communities, in which the spammers try to bypass increasingly difficult spam-prevention methods.

This comic explores the culmination of that arms race, in which an advanced spam-prevention system, built by Cueball, is able to defeat the concept of spamming itself by forcing spammers to contribute constructively to a community.

{{w|Captcha}} is one of the methods used to prevent lots of automated registering of fake user names used by bots and spammers. It consists of asking a person to prove that they are human before registering them as user and allowing them to post on sites or forum topics. That is done by using pictures of words and letters that humans may recognize, but bots and OCR software have trouble with.

Now, artificial intelligence (AI) of bots have advanced so far, that [[Cueball]] has invented a new system. It asks the users to rate a slate of comments as constructive or not, then asks them to reply with comments of their own. [[Megan]] asks what will happen when spammers find a way around his system, such as making bots that make constructive and helpful comments? Well, it turns out that is what he is trying to accomplish in first place, a thriving community helping its members with constructive and helpful comments, as well as coming one step closer to the {{w|technological singularity|singularity}}.

The title text investigates the consequences of such system further by thinking of people unable to give constructive and helpful comments, which are sort of people you don't want in your online community anyway.

==Transcript==
:[Cueball is talking to Megan.]
:Cueball: Spammers are breaking traditional Captchas with AI, so I've built a new system. It asks users to rate a slate of comments as "Constructive" or "Not constructive."

:[Close up of Cueball.]
:Cueball: Then it has them reply with comments of their own, which are later rated by other users.

:[Megan standing next to Cueball again.]
:Megan: But what will you do when spammers train their bots to make automated constructive and helpful comments?

:[Close up of Cueball again.]
:Cueball: ''Mission''. ''Fucking''. ''Accomplished''.

{{comic discussion}}
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810: Constructive

2014-10-28T13:35:55Z

APerson: /* Explanation */ updates

{{comic
| number = 810
| date = October 25, 2010
| title = Constructive
| image = Constructive.png
| titletext = And what about all the people who won't be able to join the community because they're terrible at making helpful and constructive co-- ...oh.
}}

==Explanation==
Most online communities face the problem of dissuading {{w|Spamming|spammers}} from joining and participating. A common solution to this problem is the use of various systems to prevent automated bots' use of the community, while still allowing legitimate users to join. This has resulted in an arms race of sorts between spammers and communities, in which the spammers try to bypass increasingly difficult spam-prevention methods.

{{w|Captcha}} is one of the methods used to prevent lots of automated registering of fake user names used by bots and spammers. It consists of asking a person to prove that they are human before registering them as user and allowing them to post on sites or forum topics. That is done by using pictures of words and letters that humans may recognize, but bots and OCR software have trouble with.

Now, artificial intelligence (AI) of bots have advanced so far, that [[Cueball]] has invented a new system. It asks the users to rate a slate of comments as constructive or not, then asks them to reply with comments of their own. [[Megan]] asks what will happen when spammers find a way around his system, such as making bots that make constructive and helpful comments? Well, it turns out that is what he is trying to accomplish in first place, a thriving community helping its members with constructive and helpful comments, as well as coming one step closer to the {{w|technological singularity|singularity}}.

The title text investigates the consequences of such system further by thinking of people unable to give constructive and helpful comments, which are sort of people you don't want in your online community anyway.

==Transcript==
:[Cueball is talking to Megan.]
:Cueball: Spammers are breaking traditional Captchas with AI, so I've built a new system. It asks users to rate a slate of comments as "Constructive" or "Not constructive."

:[Close up of Cueball.]
:Cueball: Then it has them reply with comments of their own, which are later rated by other users.

:[Megan standing next to Cueball again.]
:Megan: But what will you do when spammers train their bots to make automated constructive and helpful comments?

:[Close up of Cueball again.]
:Cueball: ''Mission''. ''Fucking''. ''Accomplished''.

{{comic discussion}}
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[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]

1434: Where Do Birds Go

2014-10-16T13:46:05Z

APerson: /* Explanation */ just because we have to decide how to link doesn't mean it's incomplete

{{comic
| number = 1434
| date = October 15, 2014
| title = Where Do Birds Go
| image = where_do_birds_go.png
| titletext = Water/ice has a lot of weird phases. Maybe asking 'where do birds go when it rains' is like asking 'where does Clark Kent go whenever Superman shows up?'
}}
[[File:Wet_kookaburra_6674_Crop_Edit.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5| A wet bird sitting in the rain. (from Wikimedia Commons)]]
==Explanation==
Cueball searches [http://lmgtfy.com/?q=where+do+birds+go+when+it+rains%3F Google] to find out where birds go when it rains. He finds that the question is asked worldwide, across many different languages and websites. A variety of screenshots are shown of different websites and forums where users have asked where birds go when it rains, with at least nine languages shown. The bottom of this panel fades to white, suggesting that the occurrence of these questions stretches on and on. Cueball expresses delight at the idea that this question is the one to which everyone wants to know the answer; worrying about birds getting wet is "the thing that unites us".

Later in the comic, a bird in the rain is also searching on the Internet for where birds go when it rains. This suggests that the question unites us with birds, who would also post it on the Internet if they could (and would thus presumably increase even further the number of times the question was posted). This reminds us that the question is even more important to birds - a serious practical question. The particular bird in the comic apparently does not know where to go. The humor of this depends partly on characterizing ''sheltering from the rain'' as learnt avian behaviour rather than instinct. For such non-instinctual behaviour, how do birds teach other birds what to do? They do not have an Internet, nor do they have such a sophisticated language or capacity for mass communication and dissemination of information as we do.

As Cueball says, Google ''does'' give the answer to the question: when it rains, birds do what we would do - look for shelter so they can stay dry. Getting wet is not, on the whole, a problem, but it does complicate flying. On a rainy day you can usually find birds in leafy trees, caves or other kinds of cover.

In the {{w|Superman}} comics, Clark Kent ''is'' Superman, so you never observe both Clark Kent and Superman simultaneously. By analogy, the title text whimsically suggests that a possible inference from the observation that you never see birds and rain together is that birds ''are'' the rain. Perhaps birds are an unknown {{w|Phase (matter)|phase}} of water. In addition to its familiar phases of {{w|ice}}, {{w|water vapor|vapor}}, and {{w|water|liquid water}}, water has more exotic phases such as {{w|Ice#Phases|low-temperature and high-pressure ices}} and {{w|Supercritical fluid|supercritical gases}}; why not birds? This conclusion is an extreme demonstration of the pitfalls of noticing superficial similarities between two unrelated phenomena, and proposing a similar mechanism to explain them both.

The title text imbues the question with more philosophical significance than it warrants (prompted, perhaps, by Cueball's earlier hyperbole), and points up the irrationality of the implication that a question must be deep simply because a lot of people ask it, and that such questions demand a complex, radical answer.

{| class="wikitable"
!Websites shown in image (English)
|-
|https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110223085537AAiOFTk
|-
|-
|http://www.enature.com/expert/expert_show_question.asp?questionID=23847
|-
|-
|http://activerain.trulia.com/blogsview/1452078/where-do-birds-go-when-it-rains-
|-
|-
|http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message979308/pg1
|-
|-
|http://randomthoughtsfrommidlife.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/where-do-the-birds-go-when-it-rains/
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
! Language
! Question
! Translation
|-
|French
|[https://fr.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110327100813AAMj2hy Où se cachent les oiseaux quand il pleut?]
|Where do the birds hide themselves when it rains?
|-
|rowspan="3"|German
|[http://www.gutefrage.net/frage/was-passiert-jetzt-eigentlich-mit-den-voegeln-die-bei-dem-wetter-in-den-baeumen-sitzen Was passiert jetzt eigentlich mit den vögeln, die bei dem wetter in den bäumen sitzen?]
|What actually happens with the birds that are sitting in the trees in this weather?<ref>In proper German, all nouns should be capitalized. The author leaves them uncapitalized, characteristic of lazy/hurried typing.</ref>
|-
|[http://www.vogel.info/schlechtes_wetter.htm Was machen Vögel bei schlechtem Wetter?]
|What do birds do in bad weather?
|-
|[http://www.gutefrage.net/frage/wohin-gehen-voegel Wohin gehen Vögel?]
|Where do birds go?
|-
|rowspan="2"|Spanish
|[http://noticias.lainformacion.com/ciencia-y-tecnologia/ciencias-meteorologicas/que-pasa-con-las-aves-durante-un-huracan_g1DV8AL9LSG6Bzy7q5G8s7/ Qué pasa con las aves durante un huracán?]
|What happens to the birds during a hurricane?
|-
|[https://espanol.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120525145152AABvmOq ¿A donde se van los pajaritos cuando llueve?]
|Where do the little birds go when it rains?
|-
|Dutch
|[http://www.willemwever.nl/vraag_antwoord/dieren-en-planten/waar-blijven-de-vogels-als-het-heel-hard-stormt Waar blijven de vogels als het heel hard stormt?]
|Where do birds stay when it is storming very hard?
|-
|Finnish
|[http://ihmepuu.vuodatus.net/lue/2014/05/minne-linnut-menevat-sateella Minne linnut menevät sateella?]
|Where do the birds go when it rains?
|-
|rowspan="3"|Chinese (simplified)
|[http://wenwen.sogou.com/z/q55741469.htm 下雨时鸟儿往哪躲]
|Where do birds hide when it rains?
|-
|[http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/270774126.html 下雨的时候小鸟住在哪里？]
|Where do birds live while it rains?
|-
|[http://wenwen.sogou.com/z/q145038794.htm 为什么鸟儿下雨的时候在天上飞不会因为淋湿掉下来?]
|Why isn't birds falling to the ground for getting wet while it rains?
|-
|Japanese
|[http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2136533586764388601 【雑学】暴風雨の時、鳥はどこに避難してるの？]
|Miscellaneous Knowledge: Where do birds take shelter during a rainstorm?
|-
|Malay (Indonesian)
|[https://id.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101215231444AAAVxSM Burung Dapat Bertahan Terbang Berapa Lama Disaat Hujan ?]
|How Long Can Birds Survive Flying In the Rain ?
|}
<references/>

==Transcript==
[The comic is separated into three sections, with Cueball and Megan having a discussion in the first section, websites found through Google search results depicted in the second, and a bird depicted in the third]

;[First Section - Cueball is sitting at his computer]:
Cueball: "Where do birds go when it rains?" is my new favorite Google search.

Megan [off screen]: Why?

Cueball: It gives the answer, but also shows you an endless torrent of other people asking the same question. Pages and pages of them across regions and cultures.

[Megan enters the frame and shows interest in the computer]

Cueball: I love the idea that somehow this is the universal question, the thing that unites us. When it rains, we wonder where the birds go, and hope they're staying dry.

;[Second Section - A collage of screen snippets]:

[[https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110223085537AAiOFTk from Yahoo! Answers]]: '''Where do the birds go when it rains?''' I've noticed I rarely see birds flying around or in trees or on power lines when it's raining, So where do they go?

[[http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message979308/pg1 from Godlike Productions]]: '''Where do birds go when it rains really hard?'''
Ok, maybe I'm an idiot for asking this, but during the slew of several storms in California the last couple weeks, I began to wonder where the poor birds go to stay dry? The ducks, seagulls, owls, sparrows, hummingbirds, hawks, etc...I see them all the ti[...]

[[http://randomthoughtsfrommidlife.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/where-do-the-birds-go-when-it-rains/ from Random Thoughts From Midlife]]: Where do the birds go when it rains?

[[http://www.answers.com/Q/Where_do_birds_go_when_it_rains from Answers.com]]: Where do birds go when it rains?

[[https://espanol.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120525145152AABvmOq from Yahoo! Respuestas]]: ¿A donde se van los pajaritos cuando llueve?

[[http://activerain.trulia.com/blogsview/1452078/where-do-birds-go-when-it-rains- from Active Rain]]: '''Where do Birds go When it Rains?''' I'm no youngster...and I have no answer for this. I've talked to alot of people about the likelihood of where birds go when it rains and everyone has a different perspective.

[[http://ask.metafilter.com/27499/Where-do-the-birds-go-when-it-rains from Ask MetaFilter]]: '''Where do the birds go when it rains?''' BirdFeederFilter: When it's gloomy and rainy, I don't see any birds at my birdfeeder for days on end. Then as soon as it's sunny, they're all over the place. What gives? What do they do on rainy days, just forage near their nest?

[[http://snippets.com/where-do-city-birds-go-when-it-rains.htm from Snippets]]: Where do city birds go when it rains?

[[http://wenwen.sogou.com/z/q55741469.htm from http://wenwen.sogou.com/]]: 下雨时鸟儿往哪躲
没有大树,没有屋檐,怎么办

[[http://www.enature.com/expert/expert_show_question.asp?questionID=23847 from eNature.com]]: '''Storm shelter''' ''In Florida, where I live, we get many thunderstorms, but I never see the birds in trees during the storms. We recently had a tropical storm and I did not see any birds in the trees. Where do birds go when it rains or storms?'' Just like at night, birds will seek shelter during storms. I remember watching a flock of American robins dive into[...]

[[https://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110730055427AApJlDb from Yahoo! Answers]]: When it is raining heavily, where do the birds go...i don't see them on the trees, where do they take shelter?

[[https://fr.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110327100813AAMj2hy from Yahoo! Questions Réponses]]: Où se cachent les oiseaux quand il pleut? De ma fenêtre, je n'en aperçois plus un!!!...Les pies semblent avoir abandonné leurs nids...

[[http://www.gutefrage.net/frage/was-passiert-jetzt-eigentlich-mit-den-voegeln-die-bei-dem-wetter-in-den-baeumen-sitzen from gutefrage.net]]: '''was passiert jetzt eigentlich mit den vögeln, die bei dem wetter in den bäumen sitzen?''' bei uns regnet es heftig und der orkanartige wind wechelst ständig richtung und geschwindigkeit. können sich die vögel da in den bäumen halten? retten sie sich instinktiv vorher irgendwohin, wo sie windgeschützt sind?

[[https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20140607171044AAwamou from Yahoo! Answers]]: Where do birds go when it rains? I never see any out...?

[[http://noticias.lainformacion.com/ciencia-y-tecnologia/ciencias-meteorologicas/que-pasa-con-las-aves-durante-un-huracan_g1DV8AL9LSG6Bzy7q5G8s7/ from lainformacion.com]]: ¿Qué pasa con las aves durante un huracán?

[[http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/270774126.html from Baidu]]: '''下雨的时候小鸟住在哪里？''' 下雨的时候小鸟住在哪里？如果是在春天夏天那还好，有树叶遮挡着，但是到了秋天冬天下雨小鸟住在哪里？还住在在树上搭的窝里吗？不怕冻坏自己和小幼崽吗？如果躲雨那就在哪里躲雨呢？怎么没见过它们躲雨？谢谢。

[[http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/40/219540.html from Fairfax Underground]]: '''What do birds do when it rains?''' Recently I installed a bird feeder outside my bedroom window. It is so wonderful the diversity of our feathered friends that frequent the feeder! I love it. My question that I haven't found an answer to is this: What do the little birdies do when it rains? I mean, do they stay put in the trees that they find themselves in,

[[http://ihmepuu.vuodatus.net/lue/2014/05/minne-linnut-menevat-sateella from a blog on vuodatus.net]]: '''Minne linnut menevät sateella?''' Tänään satoi rankasti. Kuljin metsän halki. Kuulin linnun laulavan. Yksinäinen, mutta itsenäinen ja vahva, tulkitseva ääni. Kaunis. Minne linnut menevät sateella? En ole koskaan nähnyt lintuja rankkasateessa. Luulen, että ne yrittävät löytää suojan. Kuusien ja mäntyjen oksistossa on varmaan suojaisaa. Kallioiden koloihin ja pieniin luolastoihin voi ehkä lintukin hiipiä. Rohkeille löytyy pihoilta suojapaikkoja. Ehkä linnulla oli oma pesäkolo. Siellä oli lämmintä ja kuivaa. Sieltä saattoi rauhassa katsella sateen vierailua metsässä. Siellä saattoi jopa iloita sateesta ja laulaa.

[[https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110530163957AAaw1S3 from Yahoo! Answers]]: '''What do the birds do when it RAINS like crazy?''' I live in upstate new york and just moved here and there are so many many birds here especially where I live, the other day I saw a broken egg on the ground in the drive way from a [...show more link] '''Update''': I know they get wet btw but was wondering if they did anything extra to [...show more link] '''Best Answer''' Well ... it depends on the species of bird, for one. Some are more adapted for rain then others.

[[http://www.willemwever.nl/vraag_antwoord/dieren-en-planten/waar-blijven-de-vogels-als-het-heel-hard-stormt from Willem Wever]]: '''Waar blijven de vogels als het heel hard stormt?''' Bij hevige stormen zoekt een vogel de beschutting die bij hem past. Er zijn een aantal vogels die met storm wel vliegen. Maar bij een echte hevige storm schuilen [...]

[[http://wenwen.sogou.com/z/q145038794.htm from http://wenwen.sogou.com/]] '''为什么鸟儿下雨的时候在天上飞不会因为淋湿掉下来?''' 刚刚下很大的雨,却还看到有几只鸟一直在天上飞.为什么鸟儿下雨的时候在天上飞不会因为淋湿掉下来? '''补充'''：有照片的加分

[[http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?147357-Where-do-birds-go-when-it-rains from speed guide forums]]: '''Where do birds go when it rains?''' Do they just sit in their trees as it rains getting drenched? Or do they seek shelter?

[[http://books.google.com/books?id=c9gTAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false from Google books]]: '''Where Do All The Birds Go When It Rains?''' By Misty Hoopman

[Screen snippets begin to noticeably fade to white at this point]

[[http://vimeo.com/54433164 from vimeo]]: '''WHERE DO BIRDS GO WHEN IT RAINS?''' One young magpie will give its own story. Barring the thunder and heavy rain, all the sounds on this movie are from this one young maggie. Amazing

[[https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071130121113AA0IjwA from Yahoo! Answers]]: '''Where do birds go during wind and rain storms?''' Where do birds go during wind and rain storms?

[[https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080609181529AAid1nN from Yahoo! Answers]]: '''Where do birds go when it rains?''' I mean, they can't keep dry in their nests...They have to go somewhere.

[[https://id.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101215231444AAAVxSM from Yahoo! Answers]]: Burung Dapat Bertahan Terbang Berapa Lama Disaat Hujan ?

[[http://www.vogel.info/schlechtes_wetter.htm from vogel.info]]: '''Was machen Vögel bei schlechtem Wetter?''' Zunächst mal, was sie nicht machen: Sie verkriechen sich nicht etwa in ihr Nest, denn das Vogelnest dient der Brutpflege, es ist nicht etwa eine Wohnung. Es stellt sich aber ja auch die Frage, was eigentlich unter schlechtem Wetter zu verstehen ist: Es gibt Vögel, die leiden unter zuviel Sonne und[...]

[[http://www.gutefrage.net/frage/wohin-gehen-voegel from gutefrage.net]]: '''Wohin gehen Vögel?''' Hallo zusammen! Heute als es so richtige Gewitter gab, hab ich mir überlegt wohin alle Vögel verschwinden. Haben alle Vögel Nester in die sie sich zurückziehen können? [link to view complete question]

[[https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080808130433AAE8b3B from Yahoo! Answers]]: '''Where do birds go when it rains?''' Well, yesterday it was raining...I was bored so i started staring out the window, and i say a empty birds nest and i was wondering, where do birds go when it rains?

[[http://diolungroup.com/blog/2014/02/19/where-do-birds-go-when-it-rains-or-snows/ from Diolún Designs Blog]]: Where do Birds go when it rains or snows?

[[http://www.andalusiastarnews.com/2014/04/05/where-do-birds-go-when-it-rains/ from The Andalusia Star-News]]: '''Where do birds go when it rains?''' I haven’t fed birds in my back yard for a long time, but I still enjoy the few I see perching on top of poles, an electric wire, tree branches, or scooting across the [...]

[[http://besgroup.blogspot.com/2006/12/where-do-birds-go-when-it-rains-and.html from Bird Ecology Study Group (blog)]]: '''Where do birds go when it rains? And what do they do then?''' It has been raining on and off these few weeks and the birds have not been around. Have you ever wondered what happened to them when it

[[http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2136533586764388601 from Naver Matome]]: '''【雑学】暴風雨の時、鳥はどこに避難してるの？''' 人間が歩くのも困難な暴風雨。その時、一番影響を受けるのは空を飛んでいる鳥達ですよね。彼らはどのように風雨を凌いでいるのか？ずーっと気になっていた事を調べてみました！

[At this point, at the bottom of the section, screen snippets are extremely faded]

[[http://dailyapple.blogspot.com/2010/01/apple-431-birds-in-rain.html from The Daily Apple]]: '''Apple #431: Birds in the Rain'''
Forgot until late tonight that I meant to make a new post. Since I didn't leave [...]

[[https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20140522193215AAawPNF from Yahoo! answers]]: Where does birds go when it rains?

;[Third section - A bird on a wire fence]:
[A bird sits on a wire fence with no rain falling]

[Zoomed in on the bird as it looks at a rain drop splashing on the fence wire]

[Zoomed out on the bird looking at the rain as it increases in intensity]

[The bird flies down to an small smart-phone-shaped object lying on the ground, as the rain increases in intensity even more]

[The bird lands on the object, with puddles increasing in size around the object]

[The bird pecks at the object, ostensibly typing] W... H... E... R... E... D... O... B... I... R... D... S...

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1023: Late-Night PBS

2014-10-14T18:03:26Z

APerson: /* Explanation */ spelling "downton" -> "downtown"

{{comic
| number = 1023
| date = February 29, 2012
| title = Late-Night PBS
| image = late night pbs.png
| titletext = Then it switched to these old black-and-white tapes of Bob Ross slumped against the wall of an empty room, painting the least happy trees you've ever seen. Either PBS needs to beef up studio security or I need to stop using Ambien to sleep.
}}

==Explanation==
{{w|PBS}} stands for Public Broadcasting Service and is an American TV broadcaster that is predominantly supported by the viewers themselves through pledge drives. It often runs (and sometimes co-produces) acclaimed British {{w|costume drama}}s, including the mentioned ''{{w|Downton Abbey}}''.

[[Megan]] falls asleep with the TV on after watching ''Downtown Abbey''. When she wakes up, around 3 AM, "Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego" is airing. Unlike typical late night TV, which is usually re-runs of previously recorded episodes, she claims that the episode she watched is set in the modern day (i.e. PBS had ordered new episodes of the show) and all of the people on the show have aged accordingly.

"{{w|Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego}}" was a {{w|computer game}} series in the mid-80s. The series moved to a {{w|Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego (game show)|game-show TV series}} in the early from around 1990 to 1995. The point of the series was to learn about geography and the world while playing a game or watching a game show. {{w|Carmen Sandiego}} was a mysterious character that you tracked around the globe, attempting to find clues to find out where she was headed to next. The show was split into 3 rounds. In the first round, there were 3 sleuths. Each question they got right gave them additional points. The top 2 scoring sleuths moved onto the next round, where they had to play a game (like the game Memory) where they had to find the thief, warrant, and loot in the correct order. Whichever sleuth did so captured the thief, saved the loot, and moved onto the next round, where they had a chance to catch Carmen Sandiego herself. Success was not always guaranteed in this round, as contestants had to plant flags correct on 7 different countries in a continent within a very short time period. If the sleuth was successfully able to do this, they captured Carmen and won the grand prize (a trip to a place of their choosing in the continental US). If not, Carmen would escape and the sleuth would win a lesser prize (like a computer).

The role of The Chief was played by {{w|Lynne Thigpen}}, a role she played in all 3 computer games (Where in the USA, Where in the World, and Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego) and both TV shows (Where in Time and Where in the World). She was responsible for telling the detectives (sleuths) what had been stolen, which of Carmen's thieves was suspected of stealing it, and some relevant information about their last whereabouts (effectively, telling the sleuths what their mission was). Whenever the detectives would catch a thief (or Carmen), she would appear and congratulate them or console them if Carmen got away (unlike what she does here).

The host of the TV show was {{w|Greg Lee (actor)|Greg Lee}}. When the show originally aired, Greg was in his late 20s/early 30s. His job was to ask the questions of the contestants and tell them which flags to plant on the map in the final round, as well as engage in silly situations with The Chief and Rockapella to keep the show moving and provide clues. If the show were still airing today in 2012 he would be 50, hence the aging joke. This comic is not the first time a host of one of the Carmen Sandiego TV shows was mocked and shown as drinking on the job; Robot Chicken showed a similar scenario with the host of Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego in 2010 ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EIULR-zLEk link] — the voice of the host in the skit is the voice of the actual host from Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego).

{{w|Rockapella}} was the '{{w|A cappella}}' group (keeping up the tradition of punny names for a cappella groups) which sang the theme song to "Where in The World Is Carmen Sandiego." 'A cappella' is a loan word from Italian meaning "''in the manner of the Church''" hearkening back to {{w|Gregorian chant}}; in the 19th century the term evolved to mean any vocalization without accompaniment. In the TV version of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, Rockapella also acted as a "house band" of sorts, singing songs while the contestants transitioned between events, providing clues, playing pranks on Greg Lee, etc. At the end of each show, Greg Lee and the episode's winning contestant would shout "Do it, Rockapella!" at which point the band would sing the shows theme song. Thus, it is unsurprising that they would be on the set when the contestants captured Carmen Sandiego. The humorous part is that, instead of singing, like everyone else in this comic, they make the contestants feel uncomfortable by glaring at them (something they would never do).

In the Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego TV show, the places the contestants went were always portrayed as fun and happy, unlike the places that they have to visit in this comic. Situations like those mentioned in this comic were never really discussed.

{{w|Mogadishu}} is a battle-torn city in {{w|Somalia}}, where there was the aptly named "{{w|Battle of Mogadishu (1993)|Battle of Mogadishu}}" in 1993, which would coincide with the air dates of "Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego" game show.

{{w|The Killing Fields}} are a number of sites in {{w|Cambodia}} where large numbers of people were killed and buried by the {{w|Khmer Rouge}} regime, during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the {{w|Cambodian Civil War}} (1970-1975).

The reference to "A Bookshelf in a Dutch Apartment" is a reference to {{w|Anne Frank}}, who was a Jewish girl who hid from the {{w|Nazi}}s in a Secret Annex hidden behind a bookshelf in an apartment in {{w|Amsterdam, Netherlands}}. She wrote the famous diary, {{w|Diary of Anne Frank}}.

One continuity issue in this comic is that the places they have to visit in this episode seem to require traveling to different periods in time (1993, 1975-1979, 1940s, respectively). Episodes of Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego usually did not deal with this — this is what the TV show Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego (the successor to Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, albeit with a different house band and a different host) did.

The last frame also makes mention of how some programs intended for children often have subtle themes for adults who may be watching the show with their children. {{w|SpongeBob SquarePants#Reception|SpongeBob SquarePants}} and The Fairly OddParents are other examples of shows that have hidden meanings in things for the adults watching the show with their children. The joke in the panel is that these sorts of underlying themes were always present in the show, but the young/less mature viewers weren't able to pick up on them. When [[Cueball]] expresses his doubt that the show was this dark when he watched it (presumably as a kid in the early 1990s), Megan tells him exactly this, that maybe these scenarios were always there but they were too young to understand them.

In the title text there is a reference to {{w|Bob Ross}}, a famous painter with a painting show on PBS called "{{w|The Joy of Painting}}" that ran for 12 years. Bob Ross was known for using "happy little _____" to describe components of his paintings. For example while painting trees he would encourage viewers to add "happy little trees" to their paintings.

{{w|Ambien}}, also known as Zolpidem, is a prescription medication used for the treatment of insomnia, as well as some brain disorders. Known side effects are vivid dreams and hallucinations if you wake up (or haven't yet fallen asleep) while it is still active.

Thus, the joke in the title text is that Randall/Megan isn't sure if this is hallucinating from taking Ambien, or if something horrible has happened because PBS's security staff isn't large enough. The entire comic, in general, revolves around this notion.

==Transcript==
:[Megan is rubbing sleep out of her eyes and talking to Cueball.]
:Megan: Have you ever watched PBS late at night?
:Megan: I fell asleep after Downton and woke up at like 3 AM.

:[The upper portion of the panel continues dialogue, while the lower shows a drunk gameshow host and several contestants. The monitor shows a field of crosses, presumably graves.]
:Megan: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego was back on, except the host hadn't aged well and he'd clearly been drinking.
:Megan: Every question took them to some horrible place like Mogadishu or the Cambodian killing fields.

:[Now it shows a bookshelf revealing a hidden room.]
:Megan: The kids were freaked out, but they kept playing. Eventually they were told they'd found Carmen Sandiego hiding behind a bookshelf in a Dutch apartment.

:Megan: The Chief appeared and asked "Are you proud of what you've become?"
:Megan: Then Rockapella walked out and just glared at the kids until they started crying.
:Cueball: I, uh, don't remember the old show being that dark.
:Megan: Maybe we were too young to pick up on it.

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126: Red Spiders Cometh

2014-10-14T17:49:45Z

APerson: /* Explanation */ fix link to prev. comic

{{comic
| number = 126
| date = July 10, 2006
| title = Red Spiders Cometh
| image = red_spiders_cometh.jpg
| titletext = Uh-oh.
}}

== Explanation ==
The fourth in the series of sketches involving [[:Category:Red Spiders|red spiders]], the titular spiders are overlooking a small city. The title text implies things won't end well, and possibly that the counter-offensive from [[47: Counter-Red Spiders|the previous comic in the series]] had failed.

The full series of [[:Category:Red Spiders|Red spiders]]:
*[[8: Red spiders]]
*[[43: Red Spiders 2]]
*[[47: Counter-Red Spiders]]
*126: Red Spiders Cometh (this one)
*[[427: Bad Timing]]

== Transcript ==
:[Many red spiders, standing on and hanging from blocks, hover ominously over a small city, ready to attack.]
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152: Hamster Ball

2014-10-14T17:42:55Z

APerson: /* Explanation */ grammar fixes; removed an off-topic sentence

{{comic
| number = 152
| date = September 3, 2006
| title = Hamster Ball
| image = hamster_ball.png
| titletext = Reportedly, double-walled inflatable balls like this exist somewhere. Now to find that place.
}}

==Explanation==
The comic starts with a {{w|genie}}, who, having been freed from a magical lamp, grants the owner three wishes; this isn't unusual, since the {{w|Genie in popular culture|idea of a genie}} that does this is a very [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GenieInABottle common trope] in the fantasy genre.

[[Cueball]] asks for a human-sized {{w|hamster ball}}, and when he gets it, he starts to roll around in it, obviously entertained.
The genie then asks what he would like for his [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThreeWishes other two wishes], to which, having being granted already his heart's desire, he states he wouldn't need the other wishes for anything.

The title text refers to the activity of {{w|Zorbing}}. And later [[Randall]] found out where to get one and went on a [[211: Hamster Ball Heist|hamster ball heist]], and hamster balls has been a [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Hamster_Ball recurring theme] on xkcd since this comic.

Genies (or magic lamps) are mentioned in at least three other comics:
*[[532: Piano]]
*[[879: Lamp]]
*[[1391: Darkness]]
In the first two Randall manages to use the concept to make penis related jokes.<br>
In the third the issue of number of wishes is discussed, from the perspective of wanting more than three wishes. The issue of wishing for more wishes is also the subject of [[1086: Eyelash Wish Log]], so it is not always enough with one or even three wishes!

==Transcript==
:[Cueball stands by a genie, whose lower body becomes smoke and trails down to an old-fashioned lamp.]
:Genie: You have awakened me from the lamp. You may have three wishes. What does your heart desire?
:Cueball: I'd like a human-sized hamster ball.

:[A hamster ball appears; Cueball is inside it.]
:Cueball: Sweet!

:[Cueball steps to left; the ball rolls that way.]

:[He does the same thing to his right.]

:[Cueball comes to rest in the centre of the panel.]

:Genie: And your other wishes?
:Cueball: Why would I need other wishes?

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2014-10-14T17:40:14Z

APerson: Fixed formatting of error message

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1338: Land Mammals

2014-10-14T17:38:11Z

APerson: /* Explanation */ corrected grammar

{{comic
| number = 1338
| date = March 5, 2014
| title = Land Mammals
| image = land_mammals.png
| titletext = Bacteria still outweigh us thousands to one--and that's not even counting the several pounds of them in your body.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|The division of animal blocks are clear but only 6 are labeled. Some qualified guesses as to how the other (at least the largest) blocks are divided should be possible... What about the layout of the blocks?}}

This comic is a [[Nerd Sniping|nerd snipe]] from [[Randall]] at his viewers. This explanation tries to figure out the missing parts.

The comic shows the total weight of mankind and all other land mammals. Only a few centuries ago humans, and their pets and livestock, come to occupy such a great proportion of the earth's land mammal mass.

Per the diagram, there are 358 million tons of humans, 864 million tons of pets and livestock, of which 520 million tons comes from cattle, and 34 million tons of wild animals; for a total of 1.3 billion tons.

As of March 2014, the world population was about 7.16 billion people<sup>[https://www.census.gov/popclock/ 1]</sup> and so the comic assumes an ''average human'' weighs 50 kg: 7.16 billion people × 50 kg = 358 billion kg = 358 million tons. The BMC Public Health 2012 (12:439) article "[http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2458-12-439.pdf The weight of nations: an estimation of adult human biomass]" estimated the average ''adult'' weighed 62.0 kg ([http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2458-12-439.pdf#page=3 Table 3]), but the authors noted that their work "did not estimate the bio-mass in children who comprise a significant proportion of the population in many countries". The 50 kg estimate in this comic includes the 25% or more of the [http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-gender-age.php worlds population below 15 years of age] making the 12 kg reduction a credible adjustment.

Cattle, in aggregate, are much heavier than the human population, but we do manage to outweigh both sheep and pigs - which may come as a surprise - as these animals probably by far outweigh the population in the countries that produce the main part of the worlds meat from such animals.

It is interesting to note that the world's heaviest land dwelling animal - the elephant - only takes up one square! It is the only type of wild animal to be singled out in the comic.

There are 8 distinct blocks of wild animal (elephants and 7 others). There are 13 distinct blocks of pets and live stock; only the top 5 are labeled - in order of weight they are: Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Goats and Horses. Dogs would properly also take up a large part - but how detailed are the division of species...?

{{W|Water buffalo|Water buffalos}} seem to be missing completely. According to Wikipedia, there are {{W|List of even-toed ungulates by population|172 million}} of them with a weight of 300–550 kg each. With an average between 300–400 kg (depending on the number of calves) there is 50-70 million tons of them - giving them a much larger weight than goats, which would put them in fifth place in the table below.

The comic references the book [http://vaclavsmil.com/the-earths-biosphere-evolution-dynamics-and-change/ The Earth's Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics, and Change] by {{W|Vaclav Smil}} as the source for most of the data - although a few other sources has also been used. These other sources are not referenced.

Note that only land dwelling mammals are taken into account - thus no whales. It is not clear as to where, for instance, seals, sea lions and walruses belong - although they could belong to land mammals as they spend a lot of time on land - as opposed to whales.

All other types of animals are not included. For instance, the weight of insects would outweigh us by far. Although not as much as the bacteria mentioned in the title text - they outweigh us thousands to one.

And that is without counting the part of our body weight that consist of bacteria: Several pounds. A fact that most people would properly like to ignore - which is a good reason to mention it here. These pounds are already counted as part of the total human weight.

There has been some speculation about the design of the blocks. They could be seen as resembling a cell, a bacterium. An extra joke in this could be that a little more than thousand blocks representing mammal weight has been used to sketch this bacterium and bacteria outweighs the mammals on this order.

==Table of the block sizes==
*The table below ranks each group of blocks from 1 to 22 according to the size of the group = the number of blocks. The number of blocks represents the weight of the group in millions of tons = billions of kg.
*The comic contains a total of 1256 blocks in three colors representing the 1.256 billion tons of land dwelling mammals.
**358 million tons from humans - dark grey color
**864 million tons from mammalian pets and livestock - light grey color
**34 million tons of wild land dwelling mammals - green color

:Feel free to enter a comment on the groups especially those that are not already identified.

:The population should only be be stated (in millions) if it can found through references - the XKCD average weight (in kg) is then given from the number of blocks in the group.
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! Text
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!Weight (kg)
!Notes/comments
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| {{sort|00001|1}}
| {{sort|00520|520}}
| Pets/Livestock
| Cattle
| {{sort|01000|1000}}
| {{sort|00520|520}}
| They only outweigh us by weight (not by numbers), and there has been a stable [http://www.statista.com/statistics/263979/global-cattle-population-since-1990/ population] of about {{W|List of even-toed ungulates by population|1 billion cattle}} since 2007.
|-
| {{sort|00002|2}}
| {{sort|00358|358}}
| Humans
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| {{sort|00050.1|50.1}}
| According to the U.S. Census Bureau's [http://www.census.gov/popclock/ population counter], there were 7.1516 billion people in the world as of March 4, 2014.
|-
| {{sort|00003|3}}
| {{sort|00135|135}}
| Pets/Livestock
| Sheep
| {{sort|01000|1000}}
| {{sort|00135|135}}
|There are about {{W|List of even-toed ungulates by population|1 billion sheep}} according to Wikipedia. The {{W|Domestic sheep#Description and evolution|average sheep}} weight of 135 kg seems highly exaggerated as only the rams can weigh more than that.
|-
| {{sort|00004|4}}
| {{sort|00090|90}}
| Pets/Livestock
| Pigs
| {{sort|01500|1000/2100?}}
| {{sort|00065|43/90?}}
| According to Wikipedia, the {{W|Pig#Distribution_and_evolution|population of pigs}} is about {{W|List of even-toed ungulates by population|1 billion}}. According to the [http://apps.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/psdReport.aspx?hidReportRetrievalName=Swine+Summary+Selected+Countries&hidReportRetrievalID=1649&hidReportRetrievalTemplateID=7 2nd reference] given for this in the wiki article, there are, however, 1.3 billion, and then 0.8 billion more (probably piglets) for a total of 2.1 billion? The piglets will not weigh much, though.
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| {{sort|00039|39}}
| Pets/Livestock
| Goats
| {{sort|00864|864}}
| {{sort|00045|45}}
| The goat population can be estimated as 864 million from {{W|Goat#Worldwide_goat_population_statistics|Wikipedia's goat article}}. According to this list, there are {{W|List of even-toed ungulates by population|850 million goats}}.
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| {{sort|00029|29}}
| Pets/Livestock
| Horses
| {{sort|00058|58}}
| {{sort|00500|500}}
| According to Wikipedia there is a population of {{W|List of odd-toed ungulates by population|58 million}} horses. Horses can {{W|Horse#Size_and_measurement|weigh from 400-1000 kg}}. There are probably not that many foals compared to adults, relative to (for instance) cattle and pigs.
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| {{sort|00013|13}}
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| The largest grouping of wild animals, less than 1/50 of the weight of cattle - although representing almost a third of all the wild land mammals.
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| {{sort|00017|17}}
| {{sort|00412|412}}
|Wikipedia lists the number of camels as 17 million. An average weight, based on Wikipedia's numbers for male and female, is about 500 kg. So, including the non-adult camels, an average around 400 kg seems to be a realistic estimate.
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| {{sort|00006|6}}
| Pets/Livestock
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| {{sort|00015|15}}
|According to Wikipedia, there are 400 million dogs worldwide. Assuming their average weight is 15 kg there should be 6 blocks.
|-
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| {{sort|00005|5}}
| Pets/Livestock
| Donkeys?
| {{sort|00041|41}}
| {{sort|00122|122}}
| There are roughly 41 million {{w|Donkey#Present status|donkeys}} on Earth, with an average weight of about 125 kg.
|-
| {{sort|00014|T14}}
| {{sort|00005|5}}
| Wild animals
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| {{sort|00002|2}}
| Pets/Livestock
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| {{sort|00500|500}}
| {{sort|00004|4}}
| According to Wikipedia, there are 500 million domestic cats worldwide, with an average weight of 4.5 kg. So, counting kittens, 4 kg is realistic.
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|A rat in the wild {{W|Rat#Species and description|seldom weighs over 500 g}}. The {{W|World Health Organization}} estimates 4 billion rats (citation needed) and a comparable number of mice. The {{W|House mouse#Characteristics|house mouse}} weighs only about 20 g on average and mice would thus only fill 8 hundredths of a block.
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| Wild animals
| Elephants
| {{sort|00000.75|0.75}}
| {{sort|01300|1300}}
| The only wild animal to be singled out with text and the heaviest land dwelling animal, elephants only take up one block. According to Wikipedia, the wild poulation of the {{W|African elephant}} is around 700,000 (down from 1.3 million in the 90s). The population of the {{W|Asian elephant}} is as low as 40 to 50 thousand, for a total of approximately 750,000 individuals. Any animals in the zoo or domesticated Asian elephants should not be counted. As adult African female elephants (who is probably the most abundant) weigh 2-3 tons, the figure of 1.3 tons seems a little low, especially since there is not a lot of calves as elephants have long lifespans. However, even with an average weight of 2 ton, the total weight would only be 1.5 million tons, and could be rounded down to 1 block.
|-
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==Transcript==
:'''Earth's LAND MAMMALS by weight'''

:[A block indicating the value of each block:] = 1,000,000 tons

:[Dark gray block:] Humans
:[Light gray block:] Our pets and livestock
:[Green block:] Wild animals

:[The rest of the comic consist of blocks representing the weight of mammals. Some of the blocks are labeled:]
:*Cattle
:*Pigs
:*Goats
:*Sheep
:*Elephants
:*Horses

:Data from Vaclav Smil's ''The Earth's Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics, and Change'', plus a few other sources.

{{comic discussion}}
[[Category:Animals]]
[[Category:Charts]]

681: Gravity Wells

2014-10-14T13:21:42Z

APerson: /* Transcript */ changed "figures" to "alarms" in Titan's description

{{comic
| number = 681
| date = December 28, 2009
| title = Gravity Wells
| image = gravity_wells.png
| titletext = This doesn't take into account the energy imparted by orbital motion (or gravity assists or the Oberth effect), all of which can make it easier to reach outer planets.
}}

The xkcd page links to [http://xkcd.com/681_large/ a much larger version].

==Explanation==

The comic shows the gravitational potential (energy transferred per unit mass due to gravity) for the positions of each planet in the solar system -- including some moons and Saturn's rings. An object traveling along an upward slope loses energy, while an object traveling along a downward slope gains energy.

Escaping a planet or moon's orbit requires enough energy (e.g. by walking, jumping, or rocket) to reach the top of either peak that defines the edge of the well. The peak to the left indicates the minimum energy required to exit orbit. The peak to the right indicates the maximum energy required to exit orbit. In order to exit orbit with the minimum amount of energy, you would have to travel towards the center of the solar system; to exit orbit with the maximum amount of energy, you would have to travel away from the center of the solar system (the Sun). In reality, the strength of gravity decreases with distance from the planet. However, a comparison of energy expended to escape the gravitational pull allows for a simpler comparison between the objects.

The height of the graph is scaled to kilometers via the gravitational potential an object has at the given height assuming at a constant acceleration due to Earth's surface gravity. The {{w|Sun|Sun's}} gravity well is not shown in its entirety, but is just indicated on the far left as ''"Very very far down"''. Had it been shown in its full extent it would have made the rest of the drawing so small in comparison that it would have been unreadable. As the gravitational potential increases with distance from the sun the graph has a general upward slope. To rise out of each well on the diagram, and therefore escape the planets gravity, it would require the same energy required to rise out of a physical well of that depth at Earth's surface gravity.

The length of each gravity well is scaled to the diameter of the planet and the spacing between the planets is not to scale with distance from the sun. This is necessary to make the graph readable. Because the distance between the planets are condensed the gravitational potential, from the gravity pulling toward the sun, accumulates quicker. This is the reason for the large peaks between the planet. The moons shown in the chart are at the appropriate distance from their respective planets' gravity wells for their orbits.

Each planet is shown cut in half at the bottom of its well, with the depth of the well measured down to the planet's flat surface.

The Earth's gravity well's depth in the inset and in the main part of the comic don't match. This is most likely a mistake by Randall.

==== Inner Planets ====
* {{w|Mercury_(planet)|Mercury}} -- no facts listed
* {{w|Venus_(planet)|Venus}} -- no facts listed
* {{w|Earth}} and {{w|Moon}}: The listed depth of the gravity well at Earth is mistakenly listed at 5478 km (note the difference from the cutout value) and the Moon's is 288 km.
* {{w|Mars}}: The listed depth of the gravity well of Mars is 1286 km.

==== Outer Planets ====
* {{w|Jupiter}}: Jupiter is so massive and dense that it is comparable in mass to a {{w|Brown dwarf}} which is the smallest kind of star. Saturn, while similar in size, is composed of much lighter gas material. Hence Saturn's mass and therefore its gravitational pull are much smaller. Had a few dozen times the mass of gasses contained in Jupiter condensed in that location, the gravitational pull would cause the pressure and temperature to increase to a level that is sufficient to ignite {{w|Nuclear fusion|nuclear fusion}}. Had that happen during creation of our solar system, we would have two {{w|Sun|Suns}} and our solar system would be a {{w|Binary system (astronomy)|Binary system}}. Jupiter has {{w|Moons_of_Jupiter|67 moons}} of which 3 are shown;
** {{w|Ganymede_(moon)|Ganymede}} -- moon of Jupiter, no facts given
** {{w|Io_(moon)|Io}} -- moon of Jupiter, no facts given
** {{w|Europa_(moon)|Europa}} -- moon of Jupiter, no facts given

* {{w|Saturn}}: The diagram shows the position of the {{w|rings of Saturn}} in Saturn's gravity well. Saturn's rings start fairly near the planet and extend out quite far, therefore multiple stripes are shown in the figure. The rings are also shown in multiple colors and roughly match the observed colors from photos take by the {{w|Cassini–Huygens|Cassini spacecraft}} expedition as it passed Saturn. All of the colors of the planets and moons represent the predominant color of that object as observed from earth. Saturn has {{w|Moons_of_Saturn|62 moons}} of which one is shown;
** {{w|Titan (moon)|Titan}}, a moon of Saturn. The figures on Titan are sirens, a reference to Kurt Vonnegut's ''{{w|The Sirens of Titan}}''.

* {{w|Uranus}}: Notably absent is any "your-anus" jokes.
* {{w|Neptune}}: Megan's quote is a paraphrase of {{w|Carl Sagan|Carl Sagan's}} quote, "...but from a planet orbiting a star in a distant globular cluster, a still more glorious dawn awaits, not a sun-rise, but a galaxy rise." [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc Video here]

==== Cut outs and sketches====
The following items are listed from top to bottom and left to right.

* Mars moons: The Mars cutout shows the Mars moon system, including the moons Deimos and Phobos. The depth of the Mars gravity well is listed at 1286 km.
** {{w|Deimos (moon)|Deimos}}: The gravity on Deimos, a moon of Mars, is so weak that a bike jump would be sufficient to escape its gravity.
** {{w|Phobos (moon)|Phobos}}: The gravity on Phobos, a moon of Mars, is so weak that you could launch a baseball into space simply by throwing it.

* Your mom-Local football team: The sketch next to Jupiter is playing on the classic "Yo Mama" joke. It combines "Yo Mama is so fat" and "Yo Mama is so horny". The sketch implies that she has a huge gravitational pull because she is very fat, and has sex with an entire football team by demonstrating a football team falling into her very deep gravity well. A "Yo Mama" joke also appears in comic [[89: Gravitational Mass]].

* Earth's Moon: The cut out shows the significant difference in strength between the {{w|gravity well}} of the Earth and the Moon. Cueball comments that the {{w|Apollo Lunar Module|Apollo Lunar Module}} was very small and the {{w|Saturn V}} rocket was very large because escaping the Earth's gravity well takes much more energy than escaping the Moon's. The cut out also shows that objects like the {{w|International_Space_Station|International Space Station}}, the {{w|Space shuttle|space shuttle}}, {{w|GPS satellite|GPS satellites}} and {{w|Geostationary orbit|geo-stationary satellites}} at their respective positions within Earth's gravity well. The depth of Earth's gravity well is listed correctly at 6 379 km (note the difference from the non-cutout number). The depth of the Moon's gravity well is listed at 288 km.

=== How to calculate gravity wells ===
The text near the bottom of Jupiter's gravity well explains that the depth of the well is mass-of-planet over radius-of-planet with Newton's constant and 9.81 m/s² as constants, where 9.81 m/s² is the acceleration of a free falling body at Earth's gravity.

The calculation for a gravity well is:
:depth = (G * Planet-mass ) / (9.81 m/s<sup>2</sup> * Planet-radius)
::where G is {{w|Isaac_Newton|Newton}}'s {{w|Gravitational_constant|gravitational constant}}, and
::9.81 m/s<sup>2</sup> is the {{w|Acceleration|acceleration}} rate of a {{w|Gravity_of_Earth|free falling body on earth}} at sea level (g).

====Title text====
The title text indicates that the planets motion can affect the amount of energy for escape velocity. It is possible to change speed by using the planets orbital speed and gravity. This is know as a performing a slingshot or a {{w|Gravity assist|gravity assist}}, and is done to gain speed or to brake when needed. The use of rocket engines are more effective when used at a high speed slingshot maneuver, which is know as the {{w|Oberth effect}}, where most energy is going into moving the rocket as opposed to moving the exhaust -- conserving the maximum useful energy. On earth the same principle is used when launching rockets. Rockets are always launched in a eastward direction to make maximum use of the rotational energy of the earth. Launching rockets in a westward direction would require significant additional energy. Because of this most artificial satellites are flying east around the globe.

The size of the gravity-well as described in this comic is not accounting for these factors. Therefore leaving the solar system (or any of the gravity wells of the planets) could require less energy than described by the graph, assuming that the launch and slingshots are properly designed and executed.

==== Escape Velocities ====
The following table was adapted from the table in {{w|Escape velocity#List of escape velocities|Escape velocity}}, using ''h'' = ''V_e''^2 / 2''g'':
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
| Location || with respect to || Ve (km/s) || Well depth (km) ||
| Location || with respect to || Ve (km/s) || Solar well (Mm) || Total depth (Mm)
|-
| on the Sun, || the Sun's gravity: || 617.5 || 19,435,000 || || || || || || 19,435
|-
| on Mercury, || Mercury's gravity: || 4.3 || 942 ||
| at Mercury, || the Sun's gravity: || 67.7 || 233.6 || 235
|-
| on Venus, || Venus' gravity: || 10.3 || 5,407 ||
| at Venus, || the Sun's gravity: || 49.5 || 124.9 || 130
|-
| on Earth, || the Earth's gravity: || 11.2 || 6,393 ||
| at the Earth/Moon, || the Sun's gravity: || 42.1 || 90.3 || 97
|-
| on the Moon, || the Moon's gravity: || 2.4 || 294 ||
| at the Moon, || the Earth's gravity: || 1.4 || || 91
|-
| on Mars, || Mars' gravity: || 5 || 1,274 ||
| at Mars, || the Sun's gravity: || 34.1 || 59.3 || 61
|-
| on Jupiter, || Jupiter's gravity: || 59.5 || 180,400 ||
| at Jupiter, || the Sun's gravity: || 18.5 || 17.4 || 198
|-
| on Ganymede, || Ganymede's gravity: || 2.7 || 372 || || || || ||
|-
| on Saturn, || Saturn's gravity: || 35.6 || 64,600 ||
| at Saturn, || the Sun's gravity: || 13.6 || 9.43 || 74
|-
| on Uranus, || Uranus' gravity: || 21.2 || 22,907 ||
| at Uranus, || the Sun's gravity: || 9.6 || 4.7 || 28
|-
| on Neptune, || Neptune's gravity: || 23.6 || 28,400 ||
| at Neptune, || the Sun's gravity: || 7.7 || 3.02 || 31
|-
| on Pluto, || Pluto's gravity: || 1.2 || 73 || || || || ||
|-
|at Solar System <br/>galactic radius, || the Milky Way's gravity: || 525 || 14,000
|}

==Transcript==
:'''Main Text'''
:Gravity Wells scaled to Earth surface gravity
:This chart shows the "depth" of various solar system gravity wells.
:Each well is scaled such that rising out of a physical well of that depth — in constant Earth <u>surface</u> gravity — would take the same energy as escaping from that planet's gravity in reality.
:Each planet is shown cut in half at the bottom of its well, with the depth of the well measured down to the planet's ''flat'' surface.
:The planet sizes are to the same scale as the wells. Interplanetary distances are not to scale.
:Depth = (G × PlanetMass) / (g × PlanetRadius)
:G = Newton's constant
:g = 9.81 m/s<sup>2</sup>

:'''Planetary Descriptions'''
:To Sun, very very far down
:Mercury
:Venus
:Earth - 5,478 km
:Moon - 288 km
:Mars - 1,286 km
:Ganymede
:Io
:Jupiter
::[A drawing of a "very deep" gravity well, "Your mom" at the bottom, several member of "local football team" falling down towards her.]
::Jupiter is not much larger than Saturn, but much more massive. At its size, adding more mass just makes it denser due to the extra squeezing of gravity.
::If you dropped a few dozen more Jupiters into it, the pressure would ignite fusion and make it a star.
:Europa
:Titan
::Two alarms: Weeoooeeoooeeooo
:Saturn
::Rings
:Uranus
:Neptune
::Megan: An even more glorious dawn awaits!

:'''Mars Inset'''
:[Mars gravity well, the Pathfinder probe on its surface, with its moons Deimos and Phobos as smaller gravity wells.]

:[Figure of a man (to scale) in Deimos's gravity well.]
:You could escape Deimos with a bike and a ramp.

:[Figure of a man (to scale) in Phobos's gravity well.]
:A thrown baseball could escape Phobos.

:'''Earth Inset'''
:[Zoomed-in view of Earth/moon gravity well, featuring the relative locations of the atmosphere, Low Earth Orbit, the International Space Station, the Space Shuttle, GPS satellites, and satellites in geosynchronous orbit.]
:Cueball: This is why it took a huge rocket to get to the moon but only a small one to get back.

:It takes the same amount of energy to launch something on an escape trajectory away from Earth as it would to launch it 6,000 km upward under constant 9.81 m/s<sup>2</sup> Earth gravity.

:Hence, Earth's well is 6,000 km deep.

{{comic discussion}}
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A Smarter Planet

2014-10-13T20:20:15Z

APerson: not incomplete

{{ExtraComic
| title = A Smarter Planet (Conservation)
| custom = [[file:conservation.png]]
}}

{{ExtraComic
| title = A Smarter Planet (Prescriptions)
| custom = [[file:prescriptions.png]]
}}

==Explanation==
They are found [http://xkcd.com/asmarterplanet/ here] on xkcd.com and [http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2009/08/1998.html here] and [http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2009/06/building-a-smarter-planet-for-squirrels.html here] on A-smarter-planet.

These comics were created as a special request for the blog [http://asmarterplanet.com/ A Smarter Planet], rather than the regular three-a-week schedule for xkcd's home site.

===Conservation===
The first of these two strips references a commonly-cited statistic usually used to draw attention to deforestation, but Cueball misunderstands its true importance, (possibly deliberately) announcing his development of the Aerial Squirrel Transit Pod: An aircraft, presumably unmanned, designed to allow the modern squirrel the same range of not having to touch the ground. This is yet another instance of people announcing odd things or elaborately setting up a pun at conferences, a recurring theme in xkcd.

===Prescriptions===
The second strip is a reference to the stereotype of doctors' handwriting being illegible, which is a very bad thing when you need a very specific medication and your pharmacy clerk can't read the numbers. Cueball is eager for his doctor to start signing his prescription digitally, as it means less paperwork and faster response time, but his enthusiasm fades when the doctor somehow manages to ''type'' in illegible handwriting. This could theoretically be done with a bad handwriting font, though most computerized forms don't allow you to change their font.
The prescription number is given as "{{w|THX1138}}", the first film directed by {{w|George Lucas}}.

==Transcript==
===Conservation===
:They say that 400 years ago a squirrel could go from the Atlantic to the Mississippi without touching the ground.
:[Cueball speaking to an audience, under a banner labeled "Conservation Society".]
:Cueball [pointing to a diagram of a helicopter-like device carrying a squirrel]: Which is why I've developed the aerial squirrel transit pod.
:Audience member: Okay, back up.

===Prescriptions===
:Good news: Doctors are finally learning to use modern security tools.
:Doctor: No need for phone verification. I've digitally signed it.
:Bad news: They've somehow learned to ''type'' with terrible handwriting.
:[The document given to the patient by the doctor]: Prescription THX1138 RSA fingerprint: [unintelligible characters]
{{comic discussion}}
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
[[Category:Science]]

1338: Land Mammals

2014-10-13T15:28:45Z

APerson: /* Table of the block sizes */ many grammar fixes

{{comic
| number = 1338
| date = March 5, 2014
| title = Land Mammals
| image = land_mammals.png
| titletext = Bacteria still outweigh us thousands to one--and that's not even counting the several pounds of them in your body.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|The division of animal blocks are clear but only 6 are labeled. Some qualified guesses as to how the other (at least the largest) blocks are divided should be possible... What about the layout of the blocks?}}

This comic is a [[Nerd Sniping|nerd snipe]] from [[Randall]] at his viewers. This explain tries to figure out the missing parts.

The comic shows the total weight of mankind and all other land mammals. Only a few centuries ago humans, and their pets and livestock, come to occupy such a great proportion of the earth's land mammal mass.

Per the diagram, there are 358 million tons of humans, 864 million tons of pets and livestock, of which 520 million tons comes from cattle, and 34 million tons of wild animals; for a total of 1.3 billion tons.

As of March 2014, the world population was about 7.16 billion people<sup>[https://www.census.gov/popclock/ 1]</sup> and so the comic assumes an ''average human'' weighs 50 kg: 7.16 billion people × 50 kg = 358 billion kg = 358 million tons. The BMC Public Health 2012 (12:439) article "[http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2458-12-439.pdf The weight of nations: an estimation of adult human biomass]" estimated the average ''adult'' weighed 62.0 kg ([http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2458-12-439.pdf#page=3 Table 3]), but the authors noted that their work "did not estimate the bio-mass in children who comprise a significant proportion of the population in many countries". The 50 kg estimate in this comic includes the 25% or more of the [http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-gender-age.php worlds population below 15 years of age] making the 12 kg reduction a credible adjustment.

Cattle, in aggregate, are much heavier than the human population, but we do manage to outweigh both sheep and pigs - which may come as a surprise - as these animals probably by far outweigh the population in the countries that produce the main part of the worlds meat from such animals.

It is interesting to note that the world's heaviest land dwelling animal - the elephant - only takes up one square! It is the only type of wild animal to be singled out in the comic.

There are 8 distinct blocks of wild animal (elephants and 7 others). There are 13 distinct blocks of pets and live stock; only the top 5 are labeled - in order of weight they are: Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Goats and Horses. Dogs would properly also take up a large part - but how detailed are the division of species...?

{{W|Water buffalo|Water buffalos}} seem to be missing completely. According to Wikipedia, there are {{W|List of even-toed ungulates by population|172 million}} of them with a weight of 300–550 kg each. With an average between 300–400 kg (depending on the number of calves) there is 50-70 million tons of them - giving them a much larger weight than goats, which would put them in fifth place in the table below.

The comic references the book [http://vaclavsmil.com/the-earths-biosphere-evolution-dynamics-and-change/ The Earth's Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics, and Change] by {{W|Vaclav Smil}} as the source for most of the data - although a few other sources has also been used. These other sources are not referenced.

Note that only land dwelling mammals are taken into account - thus no whales. It is not clear as to where, for instance, seals, sea lions and walruses belong - although they could belong to land mammals as they spend a lot of time on land - as opposed to whales.

All other types of animals are not included. For instance, the weight of insects would outweigh us by far. Although not as much as the bacteria mentioned in the title text - they outweigh us thousands to one.

And that is without counting the part of our body weight that consist of bacteria: Several pounds. A fact that most people would properly like to ignore - which is a good reason to mention it here. These pounds are already counted as part of the total human weight.

There has been some speculation about the design of the blocks. They could be seen as resembling a cell, a bacterium. An extra joke in this could be that a little more than thousand blocks representing mammal weight has been used to sketch this bacterium and bacteria outweighs the mammals on this order.

==Table of the block sizes==
*The table below ranks each group of blocks from 1 to 22 according to the size of the group = the number of blocks. The number of blocks represents the weight of the group in millions of tons = billions of kg.
*The comic contains a total of 1256 blocks in three colors representing the 1.256 billion tons of land dwelling mammals.
**358 million tons from humans - dark grey color
**864 million tons from mammalian pets and livestock - light grey color
**34 million tons of wild land dwelling mammals - green color

:Feel free to enter a comment on the groups especially those that are not already identified.

:The population should only be be stated (in millions) if it can found through references - the XKCD average weight (in kg) is then given from the number of blocks in the group.
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: auto; text-align: center; font-size: 95%; table-layout: fixed; line-height:1.25"
|-
! Rank
! # Blocks
! Type
! Text
!Population (millions)
!Weight (kg)
!Notes/comments
|-
| {{sort|00001|1}}
| {{sort|00520|520}}
| Pets/Livestock
| Cattle
| {{sort|01000|1000}}
| {{sort|00520|520}}
| They only outweigh us by weight (not by numbers), and there has been a stable [http://www.statista.com/statistics/263979/global-cattle-population-since-1990/ population] of about {{W|List of even-toed ungulates by population|1 billion cattle}} since 2007.
|-
| {{sort|00002|2}}
| {{sort|00358|358}}
| Humans
|
| {{sort|07152|7152}}
| {{sort|00050.1|50.1}}
| According to the U.S. Census Bureau's [http://www.census.gov/popclock/ population counter], there were 7.1516 billion people in the world as of March 4, 2014.
|-
| {{sort|00003|3}}
| {{sort|00135|135}}
| Pets/Livestock
| Sheep
| {{sort|01000|1000}}
| {{sort|00135|135}}
|There are about {{W|List of even-toed ungulates by population|1 billion sheep}} according to Wikipedia. The {{W|Domestic sheep#Description and evolution|average sheep}} weight of 135 kg seems highly exaggerated as only the rams can weigh more than that.
|-
| {{sort|00004|4}}
| {{sort|00090|90}}
| Pets/Livestock
| Pigs
| {{sort|01500|1000/2100?}}
| {{sort|00065|43/90?}}
| According to Wikipedia, the {{W|Pig#Distribution_and_evolution|population of pigs}} is about {{W|List of even-toed ungulates by population|1 billion}}. According to the [http://apps.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/psdReport.aspx?hidReportRetrievalName=Swine+Summary+Selected+Countries&hidReportRetrievalID=1649&hidReportRetrievalTemplateID=7 2nd reference] given for this in the wiki article, there are, however, 1.3 billion, and then 0.8 billion more (probably piglets) for a total of 2.1 billion? The piglets will not weigh much, though.
|-
| {{sort|00005|5}}
| {{sort|00039|39}}
| Pets/Livestock
| Goats
| {{sort|00864|864}}
| {{sort|00045|45}}
| The goat population can be estimated as 864 million from {{W|Goat#Worldwide_goat_population_statistics|Wikipedia's goat article}}. According to this list, there are {{W|List of even-toed ungulates by population|850 million goats}}.
|-
| {{sort|00006|6}}
| {{sort|00029|29}}
| Pets/Livestock
| Horses
| {{sort|00058|58}}
| {{sort|00500|500}}
| According to Wikipedia there is a population of {{W|List of odd-toed ungulates by population|58 million}} horses. Horses can {{W|Horse#Size_and_measurement|weigh from 400-1000 kg}}. There are probably not that many foals compared to adults, relative to (for instance) cattle and pigs.
|-
| {{sort|00007|7}}
| {{sort|00013|13}}
| Pets/Livestock
|
|
|
|
|-
| {{sort|00008|8}}
| {{sort|00010|10}}
| Wild animals
|
|
|
| The largest grouping of wild animals, less than 1/50 of the weight of cattle - although representing almost a third of all the wild land mammals.
|-
| {{sort|00009|9}}
| {{sort|00008|8}}
| Pets/Livestock
|
|
|
|
|-
| {{sort|00010|T10}}
| {{sort|00007|7}}
| Pets/Livestock
| Camel?
| {{sort|00017|17}}
| {{sort|00412|412}}
|Wikipedia lists the number of camels as 17 million. An average weight, based on Wikipedia's numbers for male and female, is about 500 kg. So, including the non-adult camels, an average around 400 kg seems to be a realistic estimate.
|-
| {{sort|00010|T10}}
| {{sort|00007|7}}
| Pets/Livestock
|
|
|
|
|-
| {{sort|00010|T10}}
| {{sort|00007|7}}
| Wild animals
|
|
|
|
|-
| {{sort|00013|13}}
| {{sort|00006|6}}
| Pets/Livestock
| Dogs?
| {{sort|00400|400}}
| {{sort|00015|15}}
|According to Wikipedia, there are 400 million dogs worldwide. Assuming their average weight is 15 kg there should be 6 blocks.
|-
| {{sort|00014|T14}}
| {{sort|00005|5}}
| Pets/Livestock
| Donkeys?
| {{sort|00041|41}}
| {{sort|00122|122}}
| There are roughly 41 million {{w|Donkey#Present status|donkeys}} on Earth, with an average weight of about 125 kg.
|-
| {{sort|00014|T14}}
| {{sort|00005|5}}
| Wild animals
|
|
|
|
|-
| {{sort|00016|16}}
| {{sort|00004|4}}
| Wild animals
|
|
|
|
|-
| {{sort|00017|T17}}
| {{sort|00003|3}}
| Pets/Livestock
|
|
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|
|-
| {{sort|00017|T17}}
| {{sort|00003|3}}
| Wild animals
|
|
|
|
|-
| {{sort|00019|T19}}
| {{sort|00002|2}}
| Pets/Livestock
| Cats?
| {{sort|00500|500}}
| {{sort|00004|4}}
| According to Wikipedia, there are 500 million domestic cats worldwide, with an average weight of 4.5 kg. So, counting kittens, 4 kg is realistic.
|-
| {{sort|00019|T19}}
| {{sort|00002|2}}
| Wild animals
|
|
|
|
|-
| {{sort|00019|T19}}
| {{sort|00002|2}}
| Wild animals
| Rats
| {{sort|04000|4000}}
| {{sort|000005|0.5}}
|A rat in the wild {{W|Rat#Species and description|seldom weighs over 500 g}}. The {{W|World Health Organization}} estimates 4 billion rats (citation needed) and a comparable number of mice. The {{W|House mouse#Characteristics|house mouse}} weighs only about 20 g on average and mice would thus only fill 8 hundredths of a block.
|-
| {{sort|00022|22}}
| {{sort|00001|1}}
| Wild animals
| Elephants
| {{sort|00000.75|0.75}}
| {{sort|01300|1300}}
| The only wild animal to be singled out with text and the heaviest land dwelling animal, elephants only take up one block. According to Wikipedia, the wild poulation of the {{W|African elephant}} is around 700,000 (down from 1.3 million in the 90s). The population of the {{W|Asian elephant}} is as low as 40 to 50 thousand, for a total of approximately 750,000 individuals. Any animals in the zoo or domesticated Asian elephants should not be counted. As adult African female elephants (who is probably the most abundant) weigh 2-3 tons, the figure of 1.3 tons seems a little low, especially since there is not a lot of calves as elephants have long lifespans. However, even with an average weight of 2 ton, the total weight would only be 1.5 million tons, and could be rounded down to 1 block.
|-
|}

==Transcript==
:'''Earth's LAND MAMMALS by weight'''

:[A block indicating the value of each block:] = 1,000,000 tons

:[Dark gray block:] Humans
:[Light gray block:] Our pets and livestock
:[Green block:] Wild animals

:[The rest of the comic consist of blocks representing the weight of mammals. Some of the blocks are labeled:]
:*Cattle
:*Pigs
:*Goats
:*Sheep
:*Elephants
:*Horses

:Data from Vaclav Smil's ''The Earth's Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics, and Change'', plus a few other sources.

{{comic discussion}}
[[Category:Animals]]
[[Category:Charts]]

User:APerson/common.js

2014-10-13T14:27:22Z

APerson: Changed text

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User:APerson/common.js

2014-10-13T14:27:03Z

APerson: Removed script that was made redundant by gadget

729: Laser Pointer

2014-10-13T14:25:43Z

APerson: /* Transcript */ fix grammar

{{comic
| number = 729
| date = April 19, 2010
| title = Laser Pointer
| image = laser_pointer.png
| titletext = It's a lasing cat-vity!
}}

==Explanation==
It is common to use a {{w|laser pointer}} as a cat toy because cats are attracted to the dot and attempt in vain to catch it in their paws. Only in its dreams can a cat successfully catch and consume the dot. Also, it is only in a dream that this will give it power to shoot lasers from its eyes, and vaporize the taunting human. It is a common joke that cats have no morals and view their humans as subordinates.

The title text makes a pun on {{w|laser cavity}}.

==Transcript==
:[Cueball points a laser pointer at the floor. A black cat crouches, staring at the red dot.]

:[The cat pounces.]

:[The cat lands with its paw on the dot, claws out.]

:[The cat tugs on the dot.]
:''tug tug''

:[Cueball tries to use the laser pointer, which is no longer emitting a beam.]
:Cueball: ?? ''click click''

:[The cat nibbles on the red laser dot.]
:Cat: ''lick? nom nom''

:[The cat arches, emitting red shock lines.]

:[The cat shoots lasers out of its eyes at Cueball, who is covered in a bright red glow.]
:''FWOOSH''
:Cueball: AUGH!
:[The right side of the panel is the end of a thought bubble.]

:[The black cat, sleeping, has dreamed the entire strip.]

{{comic discussion}}
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
[[Category:Comics with color]]

23: T-shirts

2014-10-13T14:24:14Z

APerson: /* Transcript */ Improved some formatting

{{comic
| number = 23
| date = October 26, 2005
| title = T-shirts
| image = t-shirts.jpg
| titletext = It's depressing how many of these are real shirts
}}

==Explanation==
This comic satirizes the plethora of "snarky" phrase t-shirts that exist today. In the top-left, the character wears a typical (and real) snark shirt, "I see dumb people" (suggesting the wearer thinks everyone else is dumb, while being a parody of the phrase "I see dead people" from the movie ''{{w|The Sixth Sense}}''). Other shirts shown also suggest the wearer is better than everyone else, and perhaps the shirts increasingly suggest the wearer is anti-social moving from top to bottom. Near the bottom of the screen the t-shirts no longer attempt to be witty and simply have straightforward phrases like "go away" and "die". These are exaggerations of the message that the other more-realistic shirts broadcast.

The final three shirts are also exaggerated shirts that suggest [[Randall]]'s view that people who wear snarky shirts are overcompensating for the fact that they are already alone or perhaps putting up a tough exterior to conceal their sadness that no one would talk to them anyway. Most notably "maybe if this t-shirt is witty enough, someone will finally love me" sums up what Randall thinks snarky shirts really say. There are shirts with this or a similar message; although it is unclear whether they were created before this comic, or as a tribute to this comic.

==Transcript==
:[A collection of phrases on T-shirts.]
:*I see dumb people
:*As a matter of fact the world DOES revolve around me
:*I can only please one person per day / today is not your day.
:*You know what your problem is? You're stupid.
:*Get a clue
:*Do I <u>look</u> like a people person?
:*Your village called / they want their idiot back
:*Go away
:*I hate you all
:*DIE.
:*Help.
:*Maybe if this T-shirt is witty enough, someone will finally love me.
:*Oh God I'm so alone.

==Trivia==
*Original Randall quote: "I saw the 'problem' t-shirt (upper right) on campus a few days ago and suddenly felt so sad."
*This is one of the few, early comics that contains a non-[[stick figure]] character.
*This is the twenty-fourth comic originally posted to livejournal. The previous was [[22: Barrel - Part 3]]. The next was [[37: Hyphen]].

{{comic discussion}}
[[Category:Comics posted on livejournal]]
[[Category:Sarcasm]]

User:APerson

2014-10-13T14:12:35Z

APerson: added a description sentence

{{Userbox|id={{#cscore:APerson|score}}|info=APerson's [[Special:ContributionScores|contribution score]] is '''{{#cscore:APerson|score}}''', due to '''{{#cscore:APerson|changes}}''' changes across '''{{#cscore:APerson|pages}}''' pages.|float=right}}
Welcome to my userpage! Some quick links: [[User:APerson|APerson]] ([[User talk:APerson|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/APerson|contribs]] · [[Special:Logs/APerson|logs]])

I'm interested in copyediting and JavaScript.

== See also ==
* [[wikipedia:User:APerson]]

User:APerson

2014-10-13T14:11:16Z

APerson: added a link in the userbox

User:APerson

2014-10-13T00:27:07Z

APerson: added a userbox!

{{Userbox|id={{#cscore:APerson|score}}|info=APerson's contribution score is '''{{#cscore:APerson|score}}''', due to '''{{#cscore:APerson|changes}}''' changes across '''{{#cscore:APerson|pages}}''' pages.|float=right}}
Welcome to my userpage! Some quick links: [[User:APerson|APerson]] ([[User talk:APerson|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/APerson|contribs]] · [[Special:Logs/APerson|logs]])

== See also ==
* [[wikipedia:User:APerson]]

1360: Old Files

2014-10-12T19:11:28Z

APerson: /* Files and Folders */ grammar fixes

{{comic
| number = 1360
| date = April 25, 2014
| title = Old Files
| image = old_files.png
| titletext = Wow, ANIMORPHS-NOVEL.RTF? Just gonna, uh, go through and delete that from all my archives real quick.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Still need work, grammar. Other comics being referenced need to be included.}}
This comic came out the day after [http://news.sky.com/story/1248397/andy-warhol-originals-found-on-floppy-disk Sky News published the story] of original {{w|Andy Warhol}} artwork, created in 1985 on an {{w|Amiga 1000}}, was recovered from recently found floppy disks.

[[Cueball]] is shown literally digging through a pile of old files; which is a metaphor for looking through old files on his computer. The layers of the pile are arranged much like geological rock formations where older strata are deeper down than younger layers. The files are in concentric layers because each directory is imbedded in the previous directory. Therefore the "Documents" folder contains an "Old Desktop" folder which contains a folder with files recovered from an older system, which contains a "My Documents" folder, which contains a folder with files copied from a {{w|Zip Disk}} from high school. The result is that files from high school have survived in his present-day machine. These older folders serve as a time capsule of sorts, storing old files from {{w|AOL}}, NYET, and {{w|Kazaa}}. These files are meant to be analogous to the fossils and artifacts found in lower, older rock layers.

The sizes of the files decrease as Cueball goes deeper, since data storage has gotten cheaper over time. When the Zip Drive first came out, it cost $200 USD (plus $20 per 100 MB floppy). Today, $200 could buy you a 2 TB portable external hard drive. In the 1990's, during AOL's heyday, 10+ GB hard drives were prohibitively expensive and a terabyte of data was unimaginable to most users.

Deep down, Cueball discovers several files he is embarrassed about, including a poetry file which surprises him since he does not remember writing poetry. He also finds an "{{w|Animorphs}} Novel" mentioned in the title text, most likely a fan fiction of the Animorphs series (indicated by his embarassment). However, it could be a copy of one of the original books.

The {{w|Animorphs}} at the title text refers to a fiction series released between 1996 and 2001. This is also content more than ten years old.

See also [[1380: Manual for Civilization]] for other references to Animorphs.

See also [[286: All Your Base]] for other references to AYB.

See also [[512: Alternate Currency]] for references to 4 chan.

See also [[107: Snakes on a Plane! 2]] for references to James.

===Files and Folders===
The folders and files in detail:

'''Documents''' (47 GB): A large folder containing many of [[Cueball]]'s personal files.
*''misc.txt'': A miscellaneous {{w|text file}} of unknown and unknowable content. It appears unreasonably large for a txt file, so it may be a large {{w|encryption|encrypted}} volume with an intentionally misleading name. It is only the only non-video file in the topmost layer - the implication is that Cueball encrypts all his current documents.
*''Video projects'': As video files can take up a lot of space, this likely makes up a considerable portion of the 47 GB.

'''Old desktop''' (12 GB): A backup from a former computer.
*''{{w|Facebook}} pics'': Pictures that were intended to be added to Facebook.
*''Pics from other camera'': Unknown pictures from a second camera.
*''Temp'': Temporary folders generally contain cashed files and files that are used temporarily to install programs.
*''Misc {{w|Portable Document Format|PDF}}s'': PDFs are often used for documentation, but could be any collection of digitized books or other documents.
*''{{w|MP3}}'': MP3 is a widely-used format for digital audio files.

'''Recovered from drive crash''' (4 GB): When a {{w|Hard disk drive|hard drive}} crashes, some or all data may be recovered.
*''Temp'': Temporary files.
*''Work misc'': Unknown work related projects.
*''{{w|Audiobook|Audio books}}'': Recordings of books being read out loud.

'''My Documents''' (570 MB): {{w|Microsoft Windows}} typically creates a folder named "My Documents" for personal documents.
*''Downloads'': A default location for downloaded files in the Windows OS.
*''{{w|Kazaa}} shared'': Kazaa is a defunct peer-to-peer file sharing program. The "shared" folder is shared with other members.
*''AYB'': {{w|All your base are belong to us|ALL YOUR BASE are belong to us}} is an internet {{w|Meme|meme}} inspired by a bad translation from ''{{w|Zero Wing}}''.
*''{{w|Escape Velocity Override|EV Override}}'': An {{w|Apple Macintosh}} video game, released in 1998.
*''[http://rephial.org/ Angband]'': A game named after a fictional stronghold created by {{w|J. R. R. Tolkien}}.
*''{{w|GIF}}s'': A image format widely used for transparent or animated images.
*''{{w|Fight Club}}.wmv'': A movie. As feature movies are typically compressed to 700 megabytes, and this folder only contains 570 MB, it must be of low quality or a small screen size.
*''{{w|Elasto Mania}}'': A physics-simulation game that claims to show real physics.
*''{{w|AOL Instant Messenger|AIM}} Direct Connect files'': Files transferred via AOL Instant Messenger.
*''{{w|4chan}}'': An image-board where users can upload pictures anonymously. Randall impulsively saves pictures from there.
*''{{w|ICQ}} logs'': Logs from an instant messaging program introduced in 1996 and no longer commonly used in North America.

'''High school {{w|Zip drive|Zip disk}}''' (94 MB): The most popular form of {{w|superfloppy}}, introduced in 1994 with a capacity of 100 MB.
*''{{w|Korn}} MIDI'': Korn is an American {{w|nu metal}} band formed in 1993. {{w|MIDI}} is a protocol for communication with electronic musical instruments. The result tends to be sounds of low quality.
*''Photos3'': This is a folder of old photos.
**''{{w|Prom}}'': Pictures taken at prom.
*''lovenote.txt'': An old text file of a {{w|love letter}}, probably to a classmate in high school.
*''{{w|Gorillas (video game)|Gorillas}}.bas'': A game written in {{w|BASIC}}, to be run on {{w|QBasic}}, and supplied with MS-DOS.
*''Dream.txt'': Some private dreams.
*''James.txt'': Perhaps [[James]] is a friend of Randall, and the same as the one who came up with [[107|xkcd #107]].
*''{{w|AOL}}'': A early online and internet service, founded in 1985 and popular in the 1990s.
**''{{w|Citadel (software)|Citadel}}'' - A {{w|BBS}} and email platform that was widely used in the 1980s and early '90s.
*''{{w|QBasic}}'': An {{w|Integrated development environment|IDE}} released by {{w|Microsoft}} in 1991, which was used to write and run computer programs in the BASIC language.
*''NYET'': ''NYET'' was a {{w|Tetris}}-like game for MS-DOS, released in 1988.
*''Jokes.txt'': An old text file of jokes.

'''AAAFILES''' (9.4 MB): Some of [[Cueball]]'s oldest documents, likely prefixed with "AAA" to put the folder at the top of an alphabetically-sorted list.

'''TXT''' (850 K): Old text files, which include poetry he didn't remember writing.

==Transcript==

:Megan (on top of stack of files): You OK down there?

:'''Documents''' (47 GB)
::misc.txt
::Video projects
:'''Old desktop''' (12 GB)
::Facebook pics
::Pics from other camera
::Temp
::Misc PDFs
::MP3
:'''Recovered from drive crash''' (4 GB)
::Temp
::Work misc
::Audio books
:'''My Documents''' (570 MB)
::Downloads
::Kazaa shared
::AYB
::EV Override
::Angband
::GIFs
::FIGHT CLUB.wmv
::Elasto Mania
::AIM Direct Connect files
::4chan
::ICQ logs
:'''High school Zip disk''' (94 MB)
::Korn MIDI
::Photos3 (Prom)
::lovenote.txt
::Gorilla.bas
::Dream.txt
::James.txt
::AOL (Citadel)
::QBasic
::NYET
::Jokes.txt
:'''AAAFILES''' (9.4 MB)
:'''TXT''' (850 K)
:Cueball (deep inside the AAAFILES section looking at his txt files): Oh my god. I wrote '''poetry'''.

{{comic discussion}}
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
[[Category:Animorphs]]
[[Category:Comics featuring James]]

User:APerson

2014-10-12T18:53:01Z

APerson: update

Welcome to my userpage! Some quick links: [[User:APerson|APerson]] ([[User talk:APerson|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/APerson|contribs]] · [[Special:Logs/APerson|logs]])

== See also ==
* [[wikipedia:User:APerson]]

1350: Lorenz/Images

2014-10-12T18:36:21Z

APerson: /* Images */ spelling

{{notice|New images have been appearing on the comic constantly since its debut, so uploading them here is expected to be a constant work in progress.<br>We still probably have many images missing. Feel free to add more if you find them!}}

These are collected images that form the interactive comic [[1350: Lorenz]], exactly as they are stored in the xkcd website. They often appear in multiple storylines and multiple times in the same storyline. A few of them already have text, while most images have blank spaces for the text to be inserted by the script. The latter are personalizable by definition; what is written on them can be completely different in every appearance.

==Syntax==
Each panel is comprised of code like this, including a link to the image and the text to be inserted. To save the original image directly from the xkcd website, just open the URL in the src="".

<source>
<div class="panel showing" style="position: relative; margin: 9px;">
<img style="position: static; vertical-align: top;" src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/a1-2014/Wj5jIXbvvQEkTT05CCDYnw.png">
<span style="position: absolute; top: 10px; left: 8px; height: 108px; width: 186px; text-align: center; font-family: xkcd-Regular; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow: hidden;">
<span style="position: absolute; left: 0px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px;">these stupid tiles ... І'll just play one more game.</span>
</span>
</div>
</source>

==Images==
*On April the 11th there were 146 images here below (please update number if you add more)

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[[File:lorenz - blood.png]]
[[File:lorenz - hairy swims away.png]]
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[[File:lorenz - walking.png]]
[[File:lorenz - gap.png]]
[[File:lorenz - tree.png]]
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[[File:lorenz - hairy leaves.png]]
[[File:lorenz - knit cap leaves.png]]
[[File:lorenz - dark.png]]
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[[File:lorenz - wake up 6.png]]
[[File:lorenz - wake up 7.png]]
[[File:lorenz - wake up 12.png]]
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[[File:lorenz - thinking 2.png]]
[[File:lorenz - sale 1.png]]
[[File:lorenz - sale 2.png]]
[[File:lorenz - sale 3.png]]
[[File:lorenz - wake up 8.png]]
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[[File:lorenz - hole.png]]
[[File:lorenz - falling.png]]
[[File:lorenz - aaa.png]]
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[[File:lorenz - wake up 1.png]]
[[File:lorenz - wake up 2.png]]
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[[File:lorenz - boomerang rocket 1.png]]
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[[File:lorenz - boomerang boom.png]]
[[File:lorenz - surprise.png]]
[[File:lorenz - run.png]]
[[File:lorenz - boomerang accident 3.png]]
[[File:lorenz - boomerang accident 4.png]]
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[[File:lorenz - boomerang accident 6.png]]
[[File:lorenz - boomerang accident.png]]
[[File:lorenz - boomerang accident 2.png]]
[[File:lorenz - walk 1.png]]
[[File:lorenz - walk 2.png]]
[[File:lorenz - bird gift.png]]
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[[File:lorenz - walk 4.png]]
[[File:lorenz - walk 5.png]]
[[File:lorenz - walk 6.png]]
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[[File:lorenz - pikachu ant.png]]
[[File:lorenz - pikachu ethylene.png]]
[[File:lorenz - pikachu extrude.png]]
[[File:lorenz - pikachu faceless.png]]
[[File:lorenz - pikachu friendship.png]]
[[File:lorenz - pikachu granite.png]]
[[File:lorenz - pikachu graph.png]]
[[File:lorenz - pikachu ink cloud.png]]
[[File:lorenz - pikachu radicality.png]]
[[File:lorenz - pikachu theft.png]]
[[File:lorenz - pikachu uplift.png]]
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2014-10-11T18:38:28Z

APerson: Created a common.js

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User:APerson/purgetab.js

2014-10-11T18:34:48Z

APerson: Created a userscript to add a purge tab

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2014-10-11T18:25:18Z

APerson: reverted change (didn't work); put a br between the span and the h1 to try and fix it

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|<span style="float:right; font-size:0.8rem;">[[File:comment.png|link=]] [{{fullurl:{{TALKPAGENAME}}|action=edit}} '''add a comment!''']</span><br /><h1>Discussion</h1><div style="border:1px solid grey; background:#eee; padding:1em;">
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2014-10-11T18:22:49Z

APerson: Changed the element containing the "add a comment!" link from a span to a div so that the h1 border isn't covered

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412: Startled

2014-10-11T18:19:30Z

APerson: /* Explanation */ removed an unnecessary word

{{comic
| number = 412
| date = April 18, 2008
| title = Startled
| image = startled.png
| titletext = ...
}}

==Explanation==
[[Black Hat]] is one of the most cool-headed characters in the comic. [[Megan]] notices Black Hat facing away from [[Cueball]] and her, and decides to play a simple, childish prank on him: sneaking up from behind and shouting "Boo!".

Not only does she succeed in startling Black Hat, he is so terrified that he hides himself completely in his hat. For a moment, it looks like Black Hat has disappeared altogether. But then his hat inches away, showing that he's still underneath, despite the obvious size difference.

The title text is only "...", like in [[455]].

==Transcript==
:[Cueball and Megan standing to one side, looking and pointing at Black Hat who is facing away.]

:[Megan sneaks up on Black Hat.]

:[Close-up of Megan with hands raised.]
:Megan: Boo!

:[Black Hat looks shocked, and his hat jumps.]

:[The hat falls down over his head.]

:[The hat keeps falling, with only his legs still visible.]

:[The hat hits the ground.]
:''FWUMP''

:[Cueball and Megan look at the hat.]

:[The hat scurries away.]
:''SCOOCH SCOOCH SCOOCH''

{{comic discussion}}
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Black Hat]]

1338: Land Mammals

2014-10-11T18:12:26Z

APerson: /* Explanation */ fixed grammar in first sentence

{{comic
| number = 1338
| date = March 5, 2014
| title = Land Mammals
| image = land_mammals.png
| titletext = Bacteria still outweigh us thousands to one--and that's not even counting the several pounds of them in your body.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|The division of animal blocks are clear but only 6 are labeled. Some qualified guesses as to how the other (at least the largest) blocks are divided should be possible... What about the layout of the blocks?}}

This comic is a [[Nerd Sniping|nerd snipe]] from [[Randall]] at his viewers. This explain tries to figure out the missing parts.

The comic shows the total weight of mankind and all other land mammals. Only a few centuries ago humans, and their pets and livestock, come to occupy such a great proportion of the earth's land mammal mass.

Per the diagram, there are 358 million tons of humans, 864 million tons of pets and livestock, of which 520 million tons comes from cattle, and 34 million tons of wild animals; for a total of 1.3 billion tons.

As of March 2014, the world population was about 7.16 billion people<sup>[https://www.census.gov/popclock/ 1]</sup> and so the comic assumes an ''average human'' weighs 50 kg: 7.16 billion people × 50 kg = 358 billion kg = 358 million tons. The BMC Public Health 2012 (12:439) article "[http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2458-12-439.pdf The weight of nations: an estimation of adult human biomass]" estimated the average ''adult'' weighed 62.0 kg ([http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2458-12-439.pdf#page=3 Table 3]), but the authors noted that their work "did not estimate the bio-mass in children who comprise a significant proportion of the population in many countries". The 50 kg estimate in this comic includes the 25% or more of the [http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-gender-age.php worlds population below 15 years of age] making the 12 kg reduction a credible adjustment.

Cattle, in aggregate, are much heavier than the human population, but we do manage to outweigh both sheep and pigs - which may come as a surprise - as these animals probably by far outweigh the population in the countries that produce the main part of the worlds meat from such animals.

It is interesting to note that the world's heaviest land dwelling animal - the elephant - only takes up one square! It is the only type of wild animal to be singled out in the comic.

There are 8 distinct blocks of wild animal (elephants and 7 others). There are 13 distinct blocks of pets and live stock; only the top 5 are labeled - in order of weight they are: Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Goats and Horses. Dogs would properly also take up a large part - but how detailed are the division of species...?

{{W|Water buffalo|Water buffalos}} seem to be missing completely. According to Wikipedia, there are {{W|List of even-toed ungulates by population|172 million}} of them with a weight of 300–550 kg each. With an average between 300–400 kg (depending on the number of calves) there is 50-70 million tons of them - giving them a much larger weight than goats, which would put them in fifth place in the table below.

The comic references the book [http://vaclavsmil.com/the-earths-biosphere-evolution-dynamics-and-change/ The Earth's Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics, and Change] by {{W|Vaclav Smil}} as the source for most of the data - although a few other sources has also been used. These other sources are not referenced.

Note that only land dwelling mammals are taken into account - thus no whales. It is not clear as to where, for instance, seals, sea lions and walruses belong - although they could belong to land mammals as they spend a lot of time on land - as opposed to whales.

All other types of animals are not included. For instance, the weight of insects would outweigh us by far. Although not as much as the bacteria mentioned in the title text - they outweigh us thousands to one.

And that is without counting the part of our body weight that consist of bacteria: Several pounds. A fact that most people would properly like to ignore - which is a good reason to mention it here. These pounds are already counted as part of the total human weight.

There has been some speculation about the design of the blocks. They could be seen as resembling a cell, a bacterium. An extra joke in this could be that a little more than thousand blocks representing mammal weight has been used to sketch this bacterium and bacteria outweighs the mammals on this order.

==Table of the block sizes==
*The table below ranks each group of blocks from 1 to 22 according to the size of the group = the number of blocks. The number of blocks represents the weight of the group in millions of tons = billions of kg.
*The comic contains a total of 1256 blocks in three colors representing the 1.256 billion tons of land dwelling mammals.
**358 million tons from humans - dark grey color
**864 million tons from mammalian pets and livestock - light grey color
**34 million tons of wild land dwelling mammals - green color

:Feel free to enter a comment on the groups especially those that are not already identified.

:The population should only be be stated (in millions) if it can found through references - the XKCD average weight (in kg) is then given from the number of blocks in the group.
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: auto; text-align: center; font-size: 95%; table-layout: fixed; line-height:1.25"
|-
! Rank
! # Blocks
! Type
! Text
!Population (millions)
!Weight (kg)
!Notes/comments
|-
| {{sort|00001|1}}
| {{sort|00520|520}}
| Pets/Livestock
| Cattle
| {{sort|01000|1000}}
| {{sort|00520|520}}
| They only outweighs us by weight - not by numbers - there has been a stable [http://www.statista.com/statistics/263979/global-cattle-population-since-1990/ population] of about {{W|List of even-toed ungulates by population|1 billion cattle}} since 2007.
|-
| {{sort|00002|2}}
| {{sort|00358|358}}
| Humans
|
| {{sort|07152|7152}}
| {{sort|00050.1|50.1}}
| According to the U.S. Census Bureau's [http://www.census.gov/popclock/ population counter], there were 7.1516 billion people in the world as of March 4, 2014.
|-
| {{sort|00003|3}}
| {{sort|00135|135}}
| Pets/Livestock
| Sheep
| {{sort|01000|1000}}
| {{sort|00135|135}}
|There are about {{W|List of even-toed ungulates by population|1 billion sheep}} according to Wikipedia. The {{W|Domestic sheep#Description and evolution|average sheep}} weight of 135 kg seems highly exaggerated as only the rams can weigh more than that.
|-
| {{sort|00004|4}}
| {{sort|00090|90}}
| Pets/Livestock
| Pigs
| {{sort|01500|1000/2100?}}
| {{sort|00065|43/90?}}
| According to Wikipedia, the {{W|Pig#Distribution_and_evolution|population of pigs}} is about {{W|List of even-toed ungulates by population|1 billion}}. According to the [http://apps.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/psdReport.aspx?hidReportRetrievalName=Swine+Summary+Selected+Countries&hidReportRetrievalID=1649&hidReportRetrievalTemplateID=7 2nd reference] given for this in the wiki article, there is, however, 1.3 billions, and then 0.8 billion more (probably piglets) for a total of 2.1 billion? The piglets will not weigh much though.
|-
| {{sort|00005|5}}
| {{sort|00039|39}}
| Pets/Livestock
| Goats
| {{sort|00864|864}}
| {{sort|00045|45}}
| The goat population can be summed to 864 million from {{W|Goat#Worldwide_goat_population_statistics|Wikipedia's goat article}}. According to this list there are {{W|List of even-toed ungulates by population|850 million goats}}.
|-
| {{sort|00006|6}}
| {{sort|00029|29}}
| Pets/Livestock
| Horses
| {{sort|00058|58}}
| {{sort|00500|500}}
| According to Wikipedia there is a population of {{W|List of odd-toed ungulates by population|58 million}} horses. Horses can {{W|Horse#Size_and_measurement|weigh from 400-1000 kg}}. There are probably not that many foals compared to adults, as for instance for cattle and pigs.
|-
| {{sort|00007|7}}
| {{sort|00013|13}}
| Pets/Livestock
|
|
|
|
|-
| {{sort|00008|8}}
| {{sort|00010|10}}
| Wild animals
|
|
|
| The largest grouping of wild animals, less than 1/50 of the weight of cattle - although representing almost a third of all the wild land mammals.
|-
| {{sort|00009|9}}
| {{sort|00008|8}}
| Pets/Livestock
|
|
|
|
|-
| {{sort|00010|T10}}
| {{sort|00007|7}}
| Pets/Livestock
| Camel?
| {{sort|00017|17}}
| {{sort|00412|412}}
|Wikipedia lists 17M as the number of camels. An average based on Wikipedia numbers for male and female is about 500 kg. So including the non-adult camels an average around 400 kg seems as a realistic estimate.
|-
| {{sort|00010|T10}}
| {{sort|00007|7}}
| Pets/Livestock
|
|
|
|
|-
| {{sort|00010|T10}}
| {{sort|00007|7}}
| Wild animals
|
|
|
|
|-
| {{sort|00013|13}}
| {{sort|00006|6}}
| Pets/Livestock
| Dogs?
| {{sort|00400|400}}
| {{sort|00015|15}}
|According to Wikipedia, there are 400M dogs worldwide. Assuming an average size at 15 kg, gives 6 blocks. Small dog=2 kg large dog = 100 kg the log average is about 15 kg.
|-
| {{sort|00014|T14}}
| {{sort|00005|5}}
| Pets/Livestock
| Donkeys?
| {{sort|00041|41}}
| {{sort|00122|122}}
| There are roughly 41 Million {{w|Donkey#Present status|donkeys}} on earth and the average weight is about 125 kg
|-
| {{sort|00014|T14}}
| {{sort|00005|5}}
| Wild animals
|
|
|
|
|-
| {{sort|00016|16}}
| {{sort|00004|4}}
| Wild animals
|
|
|
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|-
| {{sort|00017|T17}}
| {{sort|00003|3}}
| Pets/Livestock
|
|
|
|
|-
| {{sort|00017|T17}}
| {{sort|00003|3}}
| Wild animals
|
|
|
|
|-
| {{sort|00019|T19}}
| {{sort|00002|2}}
| Pets/Livestock
| Cats?
| {{sort|00500|500}}
| {{sort|00004|4}}
|Wikipedia quotes 500M domestic cats worldwide, with an average weight of 4.5 kg. So with kittens 4 kg may seem very realistic.
|-
| {{sort|00019|T19}}
| {{sort|00002|2}}
| Wild animals
|
|
|
|
|-
| {{sort|00019|T19}}
| {{sort|00002|2}}
| Wild animals
| Rats
| {{sort|04000|4000}}
| {{sort|000005|0.5}}
|A rat in the wild {{W|Rat#Species and description|seldom weigh over 500 g}}. {{W|World Health Organization|WHO}} estimate of 4 Billion rats (citation needed) and a comparable number of mice (The {{W|House mouse#Characteristics|House mouse}} weighs only about 20 g and mice would thus only fill 0.08 block).
|-
| {{sort|00022|22}}
| {{sort|00001|1}}
| Wild animals
| Elephants
| {{sort|00000.75|0.75}}
| {{sort|01300|1300}}
| The only wild animal to be singled out with text - also the heaviest land dwelling animal - but still only take up one block. According to Wikipedia the wild poulation of the {{W|African elephant}} is around 700,000 (decreased from 1.3 mill in the 90s). For the {{W|Asian elephant}} it is as low as 40-50,000. For a total of 750,000 individuals. Any animals in the zoo or domesticated Asian elephants should not be counted. As adult African female elephants (who is probably the most abundant) weigh 2-3 ton, 1.3 ton seems a little low, especially since there is not a lot of calves as the elephants have a long lifespan. However, even with an average weight of 2 ton, the total weight would only be 1.5 million ton, and could be rounded down to 1 block.
|-
|}

==Transcript==
:'''Earth's LAND MAMMALS by weight'''

:[A block indicating the value of each block:] = 1,000,000 tons

:[Dark gray block:] Humans
:[Light gray block:] Our pets and livestock
:[Green block:] Wild animals

:[The rest of the comic consist of blocks representing the weight of mammals. Some of the blocks are labeled:]
:*Cattle
:*Pigs
:*Goats
:*Sheep
:*Elephants
:*Horses

:Data from Vaclav Smil's ''The Earth's Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics, and Change'', plus a few other sources.

{{comic discussion}}
[[Category:Animals]]
[[Category:Charts]]

1350: Lorenz/Transcript

2014-09-08T18:27:02Z

APerson: /* Syntax */ fixed a bit of grammar

__NOTOC__
==Intro==
*This is a valiant effort to create a transcript for the continually growing dynamic comic [[1350: Lorenz]]
*'''A permalink is needed''' (at least at the end of a comic) for every transcript. Else anyone could invent text. Because not all the storylines that was available to begin with will be available today. And without the link no one can prove the transcript here wrong.
**Note that even from a permalink - if you click back you may not even get the possibility you came from, if there are more than four choices - like in the first panel, but for instance also in the second panel of the refresh choice.
**Similar the choices you have when you choose a permalink, will not come in the same order, and if there are more than four, you will again not be certain to have the choice you wish for - to be certain to have all choices, you need to save permalinks on all steps of a story tree.
*If you complete a part of the transcript then please add a note and a date on which this occurred. Like this:
**This branch was complete as of 2014-04-20. (Taken from the ''Your computer is literally haunted'' branch of the BSD story on ''Why is Python importing Skynet?''

{{notice|More panels/text have been appearing on the comic constantly since its debut (although it seems to have slowed down or stopped already after Easter 2014), so expanding this transcript is expected to be a constant work in progress.<br>We still have many storylines missing. Feel free to add more if you find them!}}

==Syntax==
*It is quite difficult to build the transcript in the form below.
*There is so many levels that you quickly lose control if you are not careful.
**To increase the ease of editing, make new levels with === up to six ======
**Then each of these levels can be edited individually - dividing down to the fourth level.

Expand below to see a guide to building the transcript.
*Typically there will be four options. Then the version below can be inserted.
*After the last line of text, followed by a '''Permalink''' continue like this:
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
<source>

(Last Permalink)
:[Description of image for instance: Knit Cap Girl thinks]
'''Knit Cap Girl''':

<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">

<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Line_1
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">(["link to permalink" Permalink_1])
</div>
</div>

<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Line_2
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">(["link to permalink" Permalink_2])
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</div>

<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Line_3
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">(["link to permalink" Permalink_3])
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Line_4
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<br>

==Transcript==
'''Knit Cap Girl''':<br>[Typing on the laptop and thinking.]<br>([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:be7a3304-b685-11e3-8001-94de80a03a29 permalink]) or ([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:be7a3304-b685-11e3-8001-94de80a03a29 permalink])
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
===Refresh Branch===
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Refresh... No new email... Refresh... No new tweets... Refresh... ([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:6479d184-b9a0-11e3-b947-94de80a03a39 Permalink])
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">:[Hairy walks in] '''Hairy''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
====So you're still refusing to use Facebook?====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:dcfb0896-b9bc-11e3-8002-002590d77bdd Permalink])
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
====Wanna build a snowman?====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:63eb16be-b9b0-11e3-8004-002590d77bdd Permalink])
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
====Hey. I hear Godot is in town. Wanna try to meet him?====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:b7d6a9ac-b9a4-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd Permalink])
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
====Did you get my e-mail yet?====
:This branch was complete as of 2014-05-01.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"> ([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:3232ad64-b9bd-11e3-8004-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They leave]
'''Knit Cap Girl''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
=====Yeah, I'm thinking Thai for lunch=====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:fbc8365e-b9c1-11e3-800a-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[The two characters walks out of the building - continue - Hairy looks into a hole in the ground]
'''Hairy:'''
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
======Has this hole always been here?======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:84f421de-b9dd-11e3-8012-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Same image again]
'''Hairy''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I think I see lizard people
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"> ([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:dd14b50e-ba28-11e3-8028-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[The two characters start arguing]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line…<br>'''Hairy:''' (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there are no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-04-22.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Because I'm not sure it's entirely safe.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:082fd1ee-b9ff-11e3-8017-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They walk on]
'''Knit Cap Girl''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Nothing ever is
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:d23789c4-ba26-11e3-8020-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Same image again]
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line…<br>'''Knit Cap Girl''': (There is a speak-line from her up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there are no choices for Hairy - as of 2014-04-22.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Russia is invading countries. North Korea is testing nukes… And you're worried about a small hole?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:538c61ce-ba41-11e3-8035-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[The two characters start arguing]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line…<br>'''Hairy''': (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there are no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-04-22.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Suggest a Line…
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Suggest a Line…
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>

<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
======I don't know if actually going to Thailand is necessary…======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:8a205b28-b9d3-11e3-8007-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[The two characters start arguing]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line…<br>'''Hairy''': (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there are no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-04-22.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">

======Is it common for Thai businesses to have rooftop access?======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:805d9626-b9d0-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They walk on seen in silhouette both speaking] '''Knit Cap Girl''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Yeah. Except over there, it's floor access, since everything is upside-down
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:3289a092-b9fe-11e3-8016-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-04-22.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Did you know the little prince lives just over there?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:c4058e30-b9fb-11e3-8016-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-04-22.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">You don't get out a lot do you?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:b563ad3c-b9e0-11e3-8002-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-04-22.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">You've never been to Thailand, have you?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:c29088ca-ba28-11e3-8026-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-04-22.)
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">

======There's a small crack in the pavement======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:4d8f22f6-b9d9-11e3-800e-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Knit Cap Girl thinks]
'''Knit Cap Girl''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Didn't he get my e-mail about parkour?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:c85963b2-ba28-11e3-8026-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[The two characters start arguing]
'''Knit Cap Girl''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Why didn't you tuck roll over that cravass?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:d260fb42-bcbf-11e3-801c-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-04-22.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">How did you not notice until we were up on the roof?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:d266a600-bcbf-11e3-801c-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-04-22.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">You were supposed to do a double rebound off the small crack!
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:d27d2542-bcbf-11e3-801c-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-04-22.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I picked this route because of the cracks in the pavement.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:d2415de6-bcbf-11e3-801c-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-04-22.)
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Suggest a line…
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">

=====The one with the cats of the one about geocaching in the Pentagon?=====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:ef8666b8-b9d5-11e3-8008-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[The two characters walks out of the building - continue - They walk on seen in silhouette both speaking]
'''Knit Cap Girl''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
======I hope it's open. Otherwise we'll just have to resort to those cat videos.======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:744f8284-b9f0-11e3-8009-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-04-22.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">

======Either way we're getting on a watch-list.======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:6d738768-ba0d-11e3-8018-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I have the funny feeling that you've been on one for some time.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:abc7dece-bbb1-11e3-801c-002590d77bdd Permalink]) - only ''Feeling that you've been on one for some time. '' can be seen in the image as Knit Cap Girl's text overlaps Hairy's.
:[Knit Cap Girl thinks]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-04-22.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Glad I brought the good GPS. …And a taser.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:ab1cc674-bbb1-11e3-801c-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[The two characters start arguing]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line…<br>'''Hairy''': (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there are no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-04-22.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Everyone knows that stuff is fake. Snopes proved it.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:ab45bc50-bbb1-11e3-801c-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They walk on seen in silhouette both speaking]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line…<br>'''Hairy''': (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there are no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-04-22.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I'm already on six. Two more and I get cake and a swat team sent to my house
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:aa91d636-bbb1-11e3-801c-002590d77bdd Permalink]) - only ''Cake and a swat team sent to my house'' can be seen in the image as Knit Cap Girl's text overlaps Hairy's.
:[They walk on seen in silhouette both speaking]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line…<br>'''Hairy''': (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there are no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-04-22.)
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">

======So are we really doing this?======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:991468c4-b9ef-11e3-8006-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I'm not sure. How good are you rappelling skills?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:cfed42f6-bbdb-11e3-8034-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Continues four images with a Pokémon in front of Knit Cap Girl]
'''Narrator''':
:A wild Pikachu appeared!
:Enemy Pikachu used "ink cloud"!
:It's not very effective …
:Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-04-22.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Yes. There are cats in that geocache. Damnit.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:cffac188-bbdb-11e3-8034-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Continues four images with a Pokémon in front of Knit Cap Girl]
'''Narrator''':
:A wild Pikachu appeared!
:Enemy Pikachu used "Graph Theory"!
:It's not very effective …
:Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-04-22.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Sure. We spent almost all the bitcoins we got on kickstarter for this. It better work
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:d048fa10-bbdb-11e3-8034-002590d77bdd Permalink]) - only ''Kickstarter for this. It better work '' can be seen in the image as Knit Cap Girl's text overlaps Hairy's.
:[Continues four images with a Pokémon in front of Knit Cap Girl]
'''Narrator''':
:A wild Pikachu appeared!
:Enemy Pikachu used "theft"!
:It's not very effective …
:Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-04-22.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">How else can we say that we pentagulated the location of something?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:cf63988a-bbdb-11e3-8034-002590d77bdd Permalink]) ]) - only ''Pentagulated the location of something?'' can be seen in the image as Knit Cap Girl's text overlaps Hairy's.
:[Hairy looks into a hole in the ground ]
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-04-22.)
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">

======I don't care what anyone says- Donuts are not a valid breakfast choice.======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:7aa972a6-b9ec-11e3-8002-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-04-22.)
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">

=====Yes. You didn't see me reply burned into the lawn?=====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:ee80425e-b9d3-11e3-8007-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[The two characters walks out of the building - continue - They walk on seen in silhouette both speaking]
'''Knit Cap Girl''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
======See? It’s right there!======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"> ([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:ee80425e-b9d3-11e3-8007-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">You’ve been hanging out with the man in the black hat again, haven’t you?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:7d500e40-bbc0-11e3-8020-002590d77bdd Permalink]) - only ''the man in the black hat again, haven’t you?'' can be seen in the image as Knit Cap Girl's text overlaps Hairy's.
:[They walk on both speaking]
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-01.)<br>'''Knit Cap Girl''': (There is a speak-line from her up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there are no choices for Hairy - as of 2014-05-01.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Guess Google Maps hasn’t updated.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:7c8ba71c-bbc0-11e3-8020-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Continues four images with a Pokémon in front of Knit Cap Girl]
'''Narrator''':
:A wild Pikachu appeared!
:Enemy Pikachu used "Graph Theory"!
:It's not very effective …
:Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-01.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Huh. My cellphone should have buzzed.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:7d2f2734-bbc0-11e3-8020-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Continues four images with a Pokémon in front of Knit Cap Girl]
'''Narrator''':
:A wild Pikachu appeared!
:Enemy Pikachu used "Radicality"!
:It's not very effective …
:Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-01.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">…Really? Just 'K' ? That seems like a lot of effort.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:7d420c96-bbc0-11e3-8020-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They walk under a tree]
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-01.)
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">

======So I guess we’re married now?======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:e8e2da88-ba04-11e3-8017-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-01.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
======Maybe my font size was too big.======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:a9c3e128-b9f3-11e3-800a-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-01.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
======It took a lot of gasoline======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:455c4776-ba1f-11e3-801a-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy:'''
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I’m both impressed and terrified.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:2efaab9e-bbd7-11e3-8030-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[The two characters start arguing]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-01.)<br>'''Hairy''': (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there are no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-05-01.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">You realize my email was about the environment
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:2f0612e0-bbd7-11e3-8030-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Continues four images with a Pokémon in front of Knit Cap Girl] '''Narrator''':
:A wild Pikachu appeared!
:Enemy Pikachu used "Abandonment"!
:It's not very effective …
:Suggest a line... (No options as of 2014-05-01.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">When did you do this? You’ve been inside last week.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:2f1e2826-bbd7-11e3-8030-002590d77bdd Permalink]) - only ''This? You’ve been inside last week.'' can be seen in the image as Knit Cap Girl's text overlaps Hairy's.
:[The two characters start arguing]
:'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line...
:'''Hairy''': (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there are no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-05-01.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">How many cars did you empty of fuel?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:2e75e7c4-bbd7-11e3-8030-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They walk under a tree]
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-01.)
</div>
</div> </div>
</div>
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">

=====Gmail must be down. Let's check it out.=====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:2b014942-b9d6-11e3-8008-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[The two characters walks out of the building - continue - Hairy looks into a hole in the ground]
'''Hairy''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
======It’s that hell’s light?======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:f542036c-b9d7-11e3-800b-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[The two characters walks on]
'''Knit Cap Girl''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Why else would there be a gaping hole in the ground?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:643da0ac-ba3f-11e3-8035-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[The two characters start arguing]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line… <br>'''Hairy''': (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there are no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-05-01.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Nope. Just Carl Gustav Horn talking about evangelion till his audience spontaneously combsted.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:dd14dd54-ba28-11e3-8028-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Continues four images with a Pokémon in front of Knit Cap Girl]
'''Narrator''':
:A wild Pikachu appeared!
:Enemy Pikachu used "Ethylene dichloride"!
:It's not very effective …
:Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-04-22.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I hope not. Disco parties would be the last temptation Satan needs to use to win.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:f84bdea6-b9ec-11e3-8003-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They walk on seen in silhouette both speaking]
'''Knit Cap Girl''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I thought Gmail was around the corner.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:44627a70-ba42-11e3-8036-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-01.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">How long are you willing to keep walking for?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:5eabdb2c-b9f4-11e3-800c-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-01.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">How long until the internet’s working again?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:44627a70-ba42-11e3-8036-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-01.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">If nothing else this proves the time dilation effects don’t matter
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:b1d644da-ba40-11e3-8035-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-01.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Nah, just the google internships ghetto.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:cf1a2d44-ba28-11e3-8027-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Hairy again looks into a hole in the ground ]
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-01.)
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======I wonder what’s down there======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:8b99279c-b9e1-11e3-8002-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Same image again]
'''Hairy''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Remember that chain email about the hole to hell in Russia?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:0c3e5c5e-ba42-11e3-8036-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[The two characters start arguing]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line… <br>'''Hairy''': (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there are no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-05-01.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Hey, you, what is down there?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:aa91183e-ba05-11e3-8017-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[The two characters walks on]
'''Knit Cap Girl''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Satan doesn’t like to be called "you". He prefers "you bastard" or "you devil".
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:f831ca90-bc56-11e3-800e-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They walk under a tree]
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-01.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Ever heard the phrase curiosity killed the cat?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:f8152f52-bc56-11e3-800e-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Same image again]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-01.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Would you be more or less afraid is someone had responded?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"> ([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:f80549ac-bc56-11e3-800e-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They walk on seen in silhouette both speaking]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line… <br>'''Hairy''': (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there are no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-05-01.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">No wonder Gmail is down, someone cut their fiber!
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:f87d55a0-bc56-11e3-800e-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They walk on seen in silhouette both speaking]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line… <br>'''Hairy''': (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there are no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-05-01.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Want to take a look?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:b8cb58de-ba04-11e3-8017-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They walk on seen in silhouette both speaking]
'''Knit Cap Girl''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I bet it’s just an outlet from the city of Ember
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:4d795a74-ba20-11e3-801a-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-01.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">When they talk about the singularity, I dion’t think they mean google servers undergoing gravitational collapse!
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:d5033e5c-bbd7-11e3-8030-002590d77bdd Permalink] )
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-01.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Jules Vernes probably already discovered all the interesting stiff anyway
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:d549ce3a-bbd7-11e3-8030-002590d77bdd Permalink] )
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-01.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">That sounds dangerous, but I’m feeling sort of risk-takey right now.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:d41d5cc0-bbd7-11e3-8030-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-01.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I think I can see my house from here
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:662ca9c2-ba2a-11e3-802d-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They walk on]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-01.)
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======Isn’t that Sergey Brin down there?======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:4830f04e-b9ef-11e3-8003-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[The two characters start arguing]
'''Knit Cap Girl''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">You didn’t feed him this week?!
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:86bdcbfa-ba41-11e3-8035-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-01.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Google was inside us all along
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:c9c3dc78-ba41-11e3-8036-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-01.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Where’s his wife???
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:b2ab58e0-ba41-11e3-8035-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-01.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Suggest a line…
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======How long do you think he’ll keep digging?======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:1ccf1ff8-b9e4-11e3-8002-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They walk on seen in silhouette both speaking]
'''Knit Cap Girl''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">With a name like Doug, it’s impossible to say
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:3188ec4a-ba06-11e3-8017-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy:'''
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">"Doug" is not impossible to say I just did
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:7b539f64-bbd7-11e3-8030-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Continues four images with a Pokémon in front of Knit Cap Girl]
'''Narrator''':
:A wild Pikachu appeared!
:Enemy Pikachu used "Anguish"!
:It's not very effective …
:Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-01.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Pre-nominative destination is a cruel thing.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:7b1b0d70-bbd7-11e3-8030-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[The two characters start arguing]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line…<br>'''Hairy''': (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there are no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-05-01.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Double impossible if he owns a Buick.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:7bf35392-bbd7-11e3-8030-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Hairy again looks into a hole in the ground]
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-01.)
</div>
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Suggest a line…
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Sometimes no answer is the answer
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:c5d294b4-ba06-11e3-8017-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-01.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">He’ll keep digging as long as I keep dropping sandwiches on him
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:a6e518c0-ba00-11e3-8017-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-01.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Do you think he’s lonely?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:edce5fd2-ba1c-11e3-8018-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-01.)
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====You know. Your car's on fire.====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:1a3242da-b9c0-11e3-8006-002590d77bdd Permalink])
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===Stupid Tiles Branch===
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These stupid tiles... I'll just play one more game.
([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:79f036ac-b9a0-11e3-9003-94de80a03a39 Permalink])
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">[Hairy visits Knit Cap Girl.]<br>'''Hairy''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
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====There's something weird out on the lawn.====
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([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:4af4a25a-b9a7-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They leave]
'''Knit Cap Girl''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
=====This is an apartment. We don't have a lawn.=====
This branch was complete as of 2014-05-30.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:c53d02f6-b9bf-11e3-8005-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[The two characters walks out of the building - continue - Hairy looks into a hole in the ground]
'''Hairy''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
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======OK, two weird things.======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:c390aeda-ba1e-11e3-801a-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Same image again]
'''Hairy''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Who tiled the moat?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:30be5afc-ba42-11e3-8036-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Same image again]
'''Hairy''':

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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Seems costly
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:d8e964d2-baa2-11e3-8015-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They walk on both speaking]
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line…<br>'''Knit Cap Girl''': (There is a speak-line from her up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there are no choices for Hairy - as of 2014-05-28).
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">And aren't those all primes?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:d8e5d178-baa2-11e3-8015-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They walk on seen in silhouette both speaking]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line…<br>'''Hairy''': (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there are no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-05-28.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Was it that guy with a hat again?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:4c33f8ec-baaf-11e3-801f-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They walk on both speaking]
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line…<br>'''Knit Cap Girl''': (There is a speak-line from her up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there are no choices for Hairy - as of 2014-05-28).
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">And how can you float in the air like this?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:a23d76b4-baaf-11e3-8020-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[The two characters start arguing]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line…<br>'''Hairy:''' (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there are no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-05-28.)

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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Maybe three.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:0f104356-baa2-11e3-8011-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They walk under a tree]
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-28.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I think I see cats down there
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:15ae5666-ba99-11e3-800a-002590d77bdd Permalink])

:[Same image again]
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-28.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">On an unrelated note: Don't look down the hole.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:ae1cd13a-ba93-11e3-8008-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They walk on both speaking]
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line…<br>'''Knit Cap Girl''': (There is a speak-line from her up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there are no choices for Hairy - as of 2014-05-28).
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======I can see a creeper down there======
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([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:614f1684-ba29-11e3-802c-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They walk on seen in silhouette both speaking]
'''Knit Cap Girl''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">These videogames are really encroaching on my life.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:e707102e-bab5-11e3-802a-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-30.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Damn Griefers
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:27650fcc-ba43-11e3-8036-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-30.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">So this is what the outside world is like.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:c4ee8842-ba96-11e3-8004-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-30.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Good source of gunpowder
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:02f3c380-baa3-11e3-8015-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-30.)
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======Is this 1-1 from Mario?======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:dbe1fd42-b9d1-11e3-8004-002590d77bdd Permalink])
::[They walk under a tree]
'''Hairy''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Why does that tree looks fake?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:63201764-b9f8-11e3-8014-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Continues three images with a Pokémon in front of Knit Cap Girl]
'''Narrator''':
:A wild Pikachu appeared!
:Enemy Pikachu used "Theft"!
:It's not very effective ...
:[One more picture but this time the Pokémon speaks]
:'''Pikachu''': Um...
:'''Narrator''': ...
:[Hairy and Knit Cap Girl stands in front of the Pokémon in tall grass]:
'''Pikachu''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Do you come here often?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:fb4ca4ec-baae-11e3-801f-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Hairy and Knit Cap Girl walks past the Pokémon]:
'''Pikachu''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-30.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I wish I was president of France
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:5253265c-ba92-11e3-8005-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Hairy and Knit Cap Girl walks past the Pokémon]:
'''Pikachu''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-30.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Do you have a moment to hear about our lord and savior?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:708aacc2-baaf-11e3-801f-002590d77bdd Permalink]) - only ''Moment to hear about our lord and savior?'' can be seen in the image.
:[Hairy and Knit Cap Girl walks past the Pokémon]:
'''Pikachu''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">

<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">He shall vanquish us all from this slavery!
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:c65d5358-bae5-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Hairy and Knit Cap Girl walks out of the tall grass - continue - They walk on seen in silhouette both speaking]
'''Knit Cap Girl:'''
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I thought Peta was going to liberate the Pokémon?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:aea4e0ee-bbaf-11e3-801c-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-30.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I just don't feel like I believe in the Helix fossil anymore
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:aeacd4de-bbaf-11e3-801c-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-30.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Do you really think we're all slaves?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:ae59b1be-bbaf-11e3-801c-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-30.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">God either does not exist, or he's got a lot of explaining to do.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:ae542e56-bbaf-11e3-801c-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-30.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-30.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Your GO or your HP!
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:524e5c08-ba92-11e3-8005-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Hairy and Knit Cap Girl walks past the Pokémon]:
'''Pikachu''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-30.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Actually, it's the final castle. Grab your Fire Flower!
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:30ece2ee-ba2b-11e3-8031-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Same image again]
'''Hairy''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">

<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">OK sorry bad joke
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:d5813986-badf-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They walk on]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-30.)
</div>
</div>

<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">This is what I spent my childhood preparing for!
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:64303318-ba94-11e3-8008-002590d77bdd Permalink]) - only ''Spent my childhood preparing for!'' can be seen in the image.
:[Same image again]
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-30.)
</div>
</div>

<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Are you coming onto me?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:d5468336-badf-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They walk on both speaking]
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line…<br>
'''Knit Cap Girl''': (There is a speak-line from her up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there are no choices for Hairy - as of 2014-05-30.)
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</div>

<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Or at least I think it's the final one. Seriously, if Peach isn't here I'm going to be pissed.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:d3fd0dcc-bae6-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd Permalink]) - only ''Peach isn't here I'm going to be pissed.'' can be seen in the image.
:[Hairy looks into a hole in the ground ] Hairy:
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-30.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-30.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">It's over this way.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:03925256-ba22-11e3-801a-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They walk on]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-30.)

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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I've never been this far before!
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:aea948da-b9fe-11e3-8016-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They walk on both speaking]
'''Hairy''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">

<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Are you going insane again?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:c7bede60-ba0e-11e3-8018-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-30.)
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</div>

<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">We should order pizza after this.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:1c91b11e-bab0-11e3-8027-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-30.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">You haven't said anything in a while...
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:3be982b0-badf-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-30.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Going?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:3d5058fa-baa7-11e3-801e-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-30.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">

======Where'd the bridge go?======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:b9018344-b9c0-11e3-8007-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They walk under a tree]
'''Hairy''':

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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Did you lose your hover boots again?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:09932224-ba05-11e3-8017-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Same image again]
'''Hairy''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">

<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Guess we're walking
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:a1d8f278-baa2-11e3-8015-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[The two characters start arguing]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line… <br>'''Hairy''': (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there are no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-05-30.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Suggest a line…
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Didn't we chop this tree down to make the bridge?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:2a56828a-b9f1-11e3-8009-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Same image again]
'''Hairy''':

<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">

<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Or perhaps that was an alternate reality?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:fa4a0bce-ba28-11e3-802a-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Knit Cap Girl thinks]
'''Knit Cap Girl''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">No...
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:8fdae59a-baed-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They walk on both speaking]
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line…<br>'''Knit Cap Girl''': (There is a speak-line from her up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there are no choices for Hairy - as of 2014-05-30).

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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I think I'm stuck in the matrix again.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:75c18b38-bae7-11e3-8002-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Continues four images with a Pokémon in front of Knit Cap Girl]
'''Narrator''':
:A wild Pikachu appeared!
:Enemy Pikachu used "ink cloud"!
:It's not very effective …
:Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-30.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Suggest a line…
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Where are you taking me?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:5159e402-bae7-11e3-8002-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[The two characters start arguing]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line… <br>'''Hairy''': (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there are no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-05-30.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Or maybe we have, and I'm remembering something that happened in the future?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:742be338-baf9-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd Permalink]) - only ''Something that happened in the future?'' can be seen in the image.
:[They walk on]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-30.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Suggest a line…
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I just figured out how to get to 2048. Quick! We need ducks!
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:5c3da74e-b9ef-11e3-8004-002590d77bdd Permalink]) - only ''How to get to 2048. Quick! We need ducks!'' can be seen in the image.
:[They walk on]
'''Knit Cap Girl''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">

<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Did you notice the top of that last thing you said got kind of cut off?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:7e5493f0-ba4f-11e3-8037-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Same image again]
'''Knit Cap Girl''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">

<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">You should really keep your comment to 140 characters or fewer
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:a0fb90c2-baf2-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Knit Cap Girl thinks]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-30.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Suggest a line…
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Suggest a line…
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Is that tree following us?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:31935bf6-b9d6-11e3-8008-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They walk on]
'''Knit Cap Girl''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">

<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Hey, slow down!
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:5bb63f6e-ba1e-11e3-8019-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They walk on both speaking]
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line…<br>'''Knit Cap Girl''': (There is a speak-line from her up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there are no choices for Hairy - as of 2014-05-30).
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Its OK. I've got a blowtorch if it gets any ideas
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([link Permalink])
:[The two characters start arguing]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line…<br>'''Hairy:''' (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there are no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-05-30.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">No, it's just caught in your magnetic field.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:6f66aaba-ba20-11e3-801a-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Continues three images with a Pokémon in front of Knit Cap Girl]
'''Narrator''':
:A wild Pikachu appeared!
:Enemy Pikachu used "Ink cloud"!
:It's not very effective ...
:[One more image with the Pokémon in front of Knit Cap Girl]
'''Narrator''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Magikarp! I choose you!
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:99703da4-bae7-11e3-8002-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Continues four more images with the Pokémon in front of Knit Cap Girl]
'''Narrator''':
:It's not very effective ...
:Enemy Pikachu used "Radicality"!
:It's not very effective ...
:Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-30.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Trainer throws a pokeball!
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:b16d8ddc-bae5-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Continues four more images with the Pokémon in front of Knit Cap Girl]
'''Narrator''':
:It's not very effective ...
:Enemy Pikachu used "Uplift"!
:It's not very effective ...
:Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-30.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Suggest a line…
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I think we picked it up at the last river.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:a1896f34-ba28-11e3-8025-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Continues four images with a Pokémon in front of Knit Cap Girl]
'''Narrator''':
:A wild Pikachu appeared!
:Enemy Pikachu used "Faceless"!
:It's not very effective ...
:Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-30.)
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=====I have a lawn?=====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">[Knit Cap Girl and Hairy leave the house. They pass by a moat.]<br>'''Hairy''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Hmmm, did you order a moat?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">'''Knit Cap Girl''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">It helps keep bobcats out.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Of course. All cool kids have moats in their yards.
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</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I don't have the best relationship with my mailman.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Yep. Delivered in two days, courtesy of Amazon Prime.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I don't remember this being here.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">'''Knit Cap Girl''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">It has begun! That's one of the first holes in reality.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">'''Knit Cap Girl''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I've been working on a theory that 2048 is a tool for the old ones to open up portals to this reality.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">What about black holes? Those don't count?
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">We must go deeper.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I wanted to jump over the massive sinkhole, but nooo, someone just had to find out what was down there.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Oh, I had the moving company install it last week.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">We poop in it.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Finally got you out of the damn house.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">'''Narrator''': A wild Pikachu appeared!<br>'''Narrator''': Enemy Pikachu used "Ink Cloud"!<br>'''Narrator''': ...<br>'''Pikachu''': Um...<br>'''Pikachu''': Well then.<br>'''Pikachu''': I might have left surprises in that direction.<br></div>
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Look how deep it goes!
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">'''Hairy''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I wonder if we can get someone to fall in?
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I'm going in. You can come if you want to. I think I see stars down there.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">That was a missing opportunity.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I should come outside more often.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">It looks like I can see Moria from here.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">'''Knit Cap Girl''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">You see Moria from everywhere, Dave.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">'''Narrator''': A wild Pikachu appeared!<br>'''Narrator''': Enemy Pikachu used "Ink Cloud"!<br>'''Narrator''': It's not very effective...<br>'''Narrator''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Google Maps didn't warn me of this.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">'''Narrator''': It's not very effective...<br>'''Narrator''': Enemy Pikachu used "Uplift!"<br>'''Narrator''': It's not very effective...<br>'''Narrator''': Enemy Pikachu used "Cute Face!"<br>'''Narrator''': It's not very effective...<br>'''Narrator''': Enemy Pikachu used "Faceless"!<br>'''Narrator''': It's not very effective...<br>'''Narrator''': Where's Twitch when I need help?<br>'''Narrator''': It's not very effective...<br>'''Narrator''': Enemy Pikachu used "Abandonment"!<br>'''Narrator''': It's not very effective...
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</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Enemy Pikachu used "The Discrete Metric"!
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">'''Narrator''': It's not very effective...<br>'''Narrator''': Enemy Pikachu used "Extrude"!<br>'''Narrator''': It's not very effective...<br>'''Narrator''': ...<br>'''Pikachu''': Um...<br>'''Pikachu''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Now I only have Struggle left. Tie?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">'''Pikachu''': No fair!
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">We are the knights who say Ni!
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">What is even going on here?
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Gathered the ink!
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">'''Narrator''': It's not very effective...<br>'''Narrator''': Enemy Pikachu used "Granite"!<br>'''Narrator''': It's not very effective...
</div>
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Yeah, who did you think gave them a balrog?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">'''Knit Cap Girl''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">One does not simple "give" a balrog.
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</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">What? You weren't using it!
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Gift-wrapping's the hardest part.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Moria is an anagram of Mario!
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">[Knit Cap Girl and Hairy pass by a tree.]<br>'''Hairy''': Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall.
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=====I hope it's not a bobcat this time.=====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">[A giant hole appears and they fall into it.]<br>Knit Cap Girl and Hairy: Aaaaa...<br>[Knit Cap Girl wakes up.]<br>'''Knit Cap Girl''': Gasp [Goes to his desk.]<br>'''Knit Cap Girl''': Yawn [Sits at his desk.]<br>'''Knit Cap Girl''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Might as well clear more tiles.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">[Hairy visits Knit Cap Girl again.]<br>'''Hairy''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Um, there's a hole in your lawn...
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">'''Knit Cap Girl''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">If it doesn't lead to a 1024 tile, I'm leaving.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Damn bobcats.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">'''Hairy''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Well it was here...
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I don't think it was bobcats this time. Unless they have backshoes...
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I just had a dream about that.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">[Knit Cap Girl and Hairy go outside again and fall in the hole again~.]<br>'''Knit Cap Girl and Hairy''': Aaaaa...<br>[Knit Cap Girl wakes up, leaves the bed and finds a boomerang.]<br>'''Knit Cap Girl''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">It looks like is [sic] fell from space.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">[Knit Cap Girl throwns the boomerang away and it hits something.]<br>Crash!<br>[Knit Cap Girl runs away.]
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I hope this isn't just another one of those dreams that keeps coming back at you.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">[Knit Cap Girl throws the boomerang twice, only for it to return to him both times.]<br>'''Knit Cap Girl''': Hm. I was expecting a shark.<br>[Knit Cap Girl throwns the boomerang again, and it returns to him again.]
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I hope this was not thrown by a bobcat.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">[Knit Cap Girl throws the boomerang, only for it to return to him .]<br>'''Knit Cap Girl''': There's a mesage written on it.<br>[Knit Cap Girl throws the boomerang again. It hits something.]<br>Crash!<br>[Knit Cap Girl runs away.]
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">There's someone at the door looking for you.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I made an apple pie.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">If you want to do that, I'm rebuilding my bathroom this afternoon.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Definitely not going outside today.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Thank God it wasn't a bobcat.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">'''Hairy''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Why is there a bobcat on your lawn?
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">There's somewhere [sic] weird out on the lawn.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">'''Knit Cap Girl''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">This seems familiar.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">[Knit Cap Girl and Hairy go outside.]<br>'''Knit Cap Girl''': I hope it's not a velociraptor.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Hold up. I need to get my wingsuit first.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I hope it's not a giant hole.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">[Knit Cap Girl and Hairy go outside. They pass by a tree.]<br>'''Hairy''': How disappointed are you?<br>'''Knit Cap Girl''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I was expecting a bobcat.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Oh? That's the other tree.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Eh, not that much.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I have a bad feeling about this.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Hey do you know why there's a giant hole in the yard?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">[Knit Cap Girl and Hairy go outside.]<br>'''Knit Cap Girl''': I swear if it's a bobcat.<br>'''Knit Cap Girl''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Why did you bring me here?
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">This dream has been looping for years, and yet we never tire of it. Why is that?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">[There is a gap in the ground. Knit Cap Girl jumps over it, Hairy looks into it.]
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Hmmm... I should buy a shovel.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">[Knit Cap Girl looks at his screen wondering.]<br>'''Knit Cap Girl''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Wow! Shovels sure are expensive!
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Shovels can't be actually made out of two sticks and a row of rocks?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">[Knit Cap Girl is wondering more. Hairy comes. They connect their laptops. Hairy is wondering. Knit Cap Girl tries something at Hairy's laptop.]
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">How can there be 36 types of shovel??!
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">These prices are insane! I wonder if you can rent a shovel...
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=====If you reprogrammed the squirrel laser to target hipsters again...=====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">[Knit Cap Girl and Hairy go outside.]<br>'''Knit Cap Girl''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Let's just say we won't have to worry about parking.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">No, now they're just wearing wigs ironically.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Things may have gotten out of control a little.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">At least it improved their haircuts.
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====There's a dinosaur at the door.====
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([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:287feb84-b9c6-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[A green dinosaur appears]
'''Dinosaur''':
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=====Self-doubt crippled my arms. Can I have yours?=====
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([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:36064c2c-b9d4-11e3-8008-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Zooming in on the dinosaurs head]
'''Dinosaur''':
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======Never answer your mobile phone while I am addressing you!======
:This branch was complete as of 2014-05-24.
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([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:5383915e-b9f4-11e3-800c-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[The dinosaur is going to step on their house]
'''Dinosaur''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I think you just entered a dead zone.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:74d46b02-ba1d-11e3-8018-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Knit Cap Girl ducks as a dinosaur foot crashes down through the roof]
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'''Knit Cap Girl''': Augh
:[Knit Cap Girl wakes up from her nightmare in her bed]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Gasp
:[Knit Cap Girl sits in bed - continue - she is again lying down in bed - continue - she walks outside and finds a boomerang - continue - she picks up the boomerang]
'''Knit Cap Girl''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Up up down down left right left right B A
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:d90897d8-bb26-11e3-8004-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Knit Cap Girl throws the boomerang - continue - she waits - the boomerang returns and she reaches up to catch it – she stands with the boomerang]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-24.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">If I forgot you, will it come back to me?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:1cc9eff2-bab0-11e3-8027-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Knit Cap Girl throws the boomerang - continue - she waits - the boomerang returns and she reaches up to catch it – she stands with the boomerang]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-24.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Hmmm. Bendy.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:eecde4e2-baea-11e3-8002-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Knit Cap Girl throws the boomerang - continue - she waits - the boomerang returns and she reaches up to catch it – she stands with the boomerang]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-24.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%"> Suggest a line…
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Kids these days.
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([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:ec01bafe-ba27-11e3-8020-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Knit Cap Girl ducks as a dinosaur foot crashes down through the roof]
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'''Knit Cap Girl''': Augh
:[Knit Cap Girl wakes up from her nightmare in her bed]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Gasp
:[Knit Cap Girl sits in bed - continue - the bed is empty - continue - she walks in to her laptop]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Yawn
:[Knit Cap Girl sits in front of her lap top – the first image again]
'''Knit Cap Girl''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">A little gaming should calm me down.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:b779a964-baf3-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Hairy walks in]
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-24.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">These stupid lines...
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:360411c2-baa2-11e3-8012-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Knit Cap girls types on the PC]
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'''Knit Cap Girl''': ??
:[Knit Cap Girl bends closer to the screen]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-24.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Suggest a line...
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">So Rude
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([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:ed4ae7e6-ba40-11e3-8035-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Knit Cap Girl ducks as a dinosaur foot crashes down through the roof]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Augh
:[Knit Cap Girl wakes up from her nightmare in her bed]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Gasp
:[Knit Cap Girl sits in bed – continue she is again lying down in bed - continue - she walks outside and finds a boomerang - continue - she picks up the boomerang]
'''Knit Cap Girl''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Bommerangs… I know how the dinosaurs went extinct.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:a46cc26c-bae8-11e3-8002-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Knit Cap Girl throws the boomerang - continue - she waits - the boomerang returns and she reaches down to catch it – continue – she throws the boomerang again - she waits - the boomerang returns and she reaches up to catch it – she stands with the boomerang]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-24.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Fabulous secret powers were revealed to me the day I held aloft my magic boomerang and said...
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:a46bf9ea-bae8-11e3-8002-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Knit Cap Girl throws the boomerang - continue - she waits - the boomerang returns and she reaches up to catch it – continue – she stands with the boomerang – continue - she throws the boomerang again - continue - she waits - the boomerang returns hitting her in the head]
'''Boomerang''': Thwack!<br>
'''Knit Cap Girl''':Ow
:[Knit Cap Girl walks away from the boomerang holding her head in her hand]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-24.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">We meet again
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:ba1f565c-bae7-11e3-8002-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Knit Cap Girl throws the boomerang - continue - she waits - the boomerang returns and she reaches up to catch it – continue – she stands with the boomerang – continue - she throws the boomerang again - continue - she waits - the boomerang returns hitting her in the head]
'''Boomerang''': Thwack!<br>
'''Knit Cap Girl''':Ow
:[Knit Cap Girl walks away from the boomerang holding her head in her hand]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-24.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">My entire life has prepared me for this moment.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:b9e61702-bae7-11e3-8002-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Knit Cap Girl throws the boomerang - continue - she waits - the boomerang returns flying over her head – it then returns over her head the other way – continue - she waits - the boomerang returns and she reaches up to catch it – continue – she stands with the boomerang]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-24.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Die you monster.
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([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:a46cc26c-bae8-11e3-8002-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Knit Cap Girl ducks as a dinosaur foot crashes down through the roof]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Augh
:[Hairy wakes up from her nightmare in his bed]
'''Hairy''': Gasp
:[ Hairy sits in bed]

'''Hairy''' (singing): I woke up like this
:[the bed is empty – continue – Hairy walks in to Knit Cap Girl at the laptop]
'''Hairy''': Yawn
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">You should really set your phone to vibrate.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:f9a258c2-ba21-11e3-801a-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Hairy now stands in front of her]:
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-24.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I have to stop hanging out with pintsize
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:8071c5c6-bb6d-11e3-800e-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[The dinosaur appears again]:
'''Dinosaur''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-24.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">If dinosaurs think I’m a monster... I really should go to therapy.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:8072bcba-bb6d-11e3-800e-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[The dinosaur appears again]:
'''Dinosaur''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-24.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Had the T-Rex dream again. Add “mobile phones” to the list of things he hates.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:80bc04c4-bb6d-11e3-800e-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[The dinosaur appears again]:
'''Dinosaur''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-24.)
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======Also, have you heard about Tumblr?======
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======Also I have some trenchant observations on language and philosophy to make.======
:This branch was complete as of 2014-05-24.
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([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:a7926df0-ba22-11e3-801a-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[The dinosaur is going to step on their house]
'''Dinosaur''':

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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Consider this cabin: The residents take its permanence for granted, yet it’s so ephemeral in the grand scheme.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:b3beabba-ba96-11e3-8004-002590d77bdd Permalink]) – only ''Permanence for granted, yet it’s so ephemeral in the grand scheme.'' can be seen in the image as there is not enough space.
:[Knit Cap Girl ducks as a dinosaur foot crashes down through the roof]
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'''Knit Cap Girl''': Augh
:[Knit Cap Girl wakes up from her nightmare in her bed]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Gasp
:[Knit Cap Girl sits in bed - continue - she is again lying down in bed - continue - she walks outside and finds a boomerang - continue - she picks up the boomerang]
'''Knit Cap Girl''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I must contemplate this boomerang really hard.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:a3298c92-baa1-11e3-800e-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Knit Cap Girl throws the boomerang - continue - she waits - the boomerang returns hitting her in the head]
'''Boomerang''': Thwack!<br>
'''Knit Cap Girl''':Ow
:[Knit Cap Girl walks away from the boomerang holding her hers in her hand]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-24.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Suggest a line…
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">One might imagine the computer screen as an escape from the perils of the outside world, but a life half lived is barely worth living at all!
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([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:6a7bab5e-baa7-11e3-801e-002590d77bdd Permalink]) – only ''Of the outside world, but a life half lived is barely worth living at all!'' can be seen in the image as there is not enough space.
:[Knit Cap Girl ducks as a dinosaur foot crashes down through the roof]
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'''Knit Cap Girl''': Augh
:[Knit Cap Girl wakes up from her nightmare in her bed]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Gasp
:[Knit Cap Girl sits in bed - continue - the bed is empty - continue - she walks in to her laptop]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Yawn
:[Knit Cap Girl sits in front of her lap top – the first image again]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-24.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Take this house, a mere fraction of existence, crushed beneath me
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([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:5690ae82-baa2-11e3-8012-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Knit Cap Girl ducks as a dinosaur foot crashes down through the roof]
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'''Knit Cap Girl''': Augh
:[Knit Cap Girl wakes up from her nightmare in her bed]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Gasp
:[Knit Cap Girl sits in bed]
'''Knit Cap Girl''' (singing): I woke up like this
: [Knit Cap Girl is again lying down in bed - continue - she walks outside and finds a boomerang - continue - she picks up the boomerang]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-24.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Like this house modern language is an attempt to construct something of use from fragments of a mightier whole.
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([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:955bdda4-baa1-11e3-800e-002590d77bdd Permalink]) – only ''Language is an attempt to construct something of use from fragments of a mightier whole.'' can be seen in the image as there is not enough space.
:[Knit Cap Girl ducks as a dinosaur foot crashes down through the roof]
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'''Knit Cap Girl''': Augh
:[Knit Cap Girl wakes up from her nightmare in her bed]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Gasp
:[Knit Cap Girl sits in bed - continue - she is again lying down in bed - continue - she walks outside and finds a boomerang - continue - she picks up the boomerang]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line… (No options as of 2014-05-24.)
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======It's not like you're using them.======
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([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:e44f98fc-ba28-11e3-8028-002590d77bdd Permalink])
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=====I need a hand!=====
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([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:1475bf18-b9d2-11e3-8005-002590d77bdd Permalink])
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=====Did you think he was joking?=====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:fb309d78-b9d3-11e3-8007-002590d77bdd Permalink])
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=====Sorry for just barging in, I couldn't reach the doorbell.=====
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([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:ecd7ed66-b9cf-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd Permalink])
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====I heard Home Depot has 1024 bathroom tiles.====
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([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:414ebe98-b9ac-11e3-8004-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They leave]
'''Knit Cap Girl''':
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=====But how many bathrooms?=====
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([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:b30f9824-b9af-11e3-8004-002590d77bdd Permalink])
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=====That's 2^5 more than Ikea, I need to see for myself.=====
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([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:0f9a84fc-b9ae-11e3-8004-002590d77bdd Permalink])
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=====Let's go, I can keep playing on my phone on the drive.=====
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([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:17c25fc0-b9b7-11e3-8002-002590d77bdd Permalink])
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=====Pfft. Amateurs. Let's go mock them.=====
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([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:f8b13b78-b9ad-11e3-8004-002590d77bdd Permalink])
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====I think I saw a "4096" tile outside somewhere.====
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([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:5929cf58-b9a7-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They leave]
'''Knit Cap Girl''':
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=====І follow, only because І believe you=====
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([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:26ae5038-b9a9-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd Permalink])
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=====І'll tag along, if only to see what new calming pastel color it could be.=====
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([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:4f1dabca-b9bf-11e3-8005-002590d77bdd Permalink])
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=====These "threes" clones are getting out of hand.=====
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([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:d5c73aba-b9ab-11e3-8003-002590d77bdd Permalink])
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=====we better catch the damn thing=====
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([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:161c1e4e-b9a9-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd Permalink])
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===Political Thing Branch===
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Oh. Hey. There's some kind of political thing going on. ([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:16a6d0c6-b9a3-11e3-8ea4-94de80a03a39 Permalink])
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">'''Laptop''': "...and let's go live to the debate."<br>[Two politicians are debating on TV.]<br>'''Politician 1''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">In contrast to my oppponent, who I quote, "Never liked Firefly much to begin with."
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">...but even if you tied enough birds to the car, would you get them to take off in unison?
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Tie a predatory bird to the car with a somewhat shorter rope so that it will scare off the rest of the birds without being able to reach them.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Training. That's why I support the "Airlift Act", which would put more resources into the hands of bird educators everywhere.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">'''Politician 1''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">But is "Airlift" an acronym?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">'''Hairy''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">There are birds outside tied to a car.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">'''Knit Cap Girl''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Cool, let's see who we should vote for.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I know who I'm voting for.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">How many birds? ([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:bb0ca5f6-b9fc-11e3-8016-002590d77bdd permalink])
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">'''Hairy''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I call her "Serenity."
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">So when you said birds...
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">'''Knit Cap Girl''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Wait. The birds are inside!?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">'''White Hat''': Want to forget your dreams? There's a pill for that!
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">'''Someone inside the rocket''': I needed to escape from politics anyway.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">'''Voice inside the rocket''': "…And let’s go live to the debate". ([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:8c25769e-badf-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd permalink])
'''Other spacecraft''': We observe your speed to be 38.5%c, and your time is passing at 92.3% the rate of ours. Does this mirror your observations?
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Liquefied bird fuel is the way to the future.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Well, by “birds” and “car” I really meant a rocket. There’s totally a rocket in your lawn, man.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">The owls in our barn are forming a union.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Or course: Avian Implemented Reuseable Lifter and Ingenuous Flight Technology!
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">But you must agree that a bitd in the hand is worth more than three educators in the bush.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Incredible!
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Wait... Is that like people who educate birds, or birds that teach?
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">By opening and closing an umbrella near them.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">One word: Fiscal hawks.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">And if elected, I vow to win this war on Christmas once and for all!
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I agree with my opponent all all [sic] issues and I think his economic plan is fantastic!
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===BSD Branch===
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Let's see if BSD is any easier to install nowadays. ([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:00ac9f74-b9a0-11e3-81f8-94de80a03a39 Permalink])
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">[Knit Cap Girl is confused, staring at her laptop.]<br>'''Knit Cap Girl''': ??<br>'''Knit Cap Girl''':
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====Now I just need to look up what a "beard error" is...====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">[Knit Cap Girl has ?? next to her head to signify confusion. Hairy walks in. (continue) Hairy is on the other side of the desk with his own laptop computer. Both the computers are connected through Ethernet cable. The two characters are typing on the computer. The two stop typing. Hairy has ??? next to his head. Hairy had stepped back while the character is checking on Hairy's laptop computer. Knit Cap Girl is holding something rectangular.]<br>'''Hairy''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">The USB cable appears to be mono-directional.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Kernel mites?
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I'm not sure rubbing butter on it will help
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">[Hairy and Knit Cap Girl are handling their computers more aggressively.]<br>'''Knit Cap Girl''': ARGH!
[They both stop. Knit Cap Girl walks away, her chair turned 180 degrees. Pushing aside the chair, she returns with a fiery blowtorch while wearing goggles.]<br>'''Hairy''': [holding up a finger] Um.<br>[Knit Cap Girl's computer was so burned, not only steam is coming out of the computer, but even the desk is noticeably burnt. The cable (apparently also burned) hangs from Hairy's laptop computer. The used blowtorch is clumsily laid sideways be the side of the desk. Both Knit Cap Girl (whose goggles are pushed off his eye) and Hairy are looking at the calamity. The chair is almost out of view. The goggles are on the floor while the chair is nowhere to be seen. Hairy and Knit Cap Girl are walking away from the scene.]<br>'''Hairy''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Are you all of a sudden in the mood for Thai food?
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Let's try OpenBSD next time...
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">[First panel is of a panned view. Hairy and Knit Cap Girl are walking on a path away from a house. Next panel is back to a "normal camera view".]<br>'''Hairy''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Okay then.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Let's go exploring!
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I love Windows.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Guess not.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">If you'd done the other one, maybe the popcorn would have popped.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Let's see if rubbing some bacon on it will work.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Let's try Linux next time...
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Yep. It's haunted.
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====Wait. What's on this other partition?====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">[Knit Cap Girl has ??? next to her head to signify confusion. Hairy walks in. Hairy is on the other side of the desk with his own laptop computer. Both the computers are connected through Ethernet cable. The two characters are typing on the computer. The two stop typing. Hairy has ??? next to his head. Hairy had stepped back while Knit Cap Girl is checking on Hairy's laptop computer. Knit Cap Girl is holding something rectangular.]<br>'''Hairy''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Maybe if you cross connect the serial port to video port you'll be able to send the video directly in as an input for the password.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">[Knit Cap Girl and Hairy are at sea, both emitting ripples. A shark's fin can be seen close to Hairy.]<br>'''Hairy''':
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">It worked fine for the shark
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">We're definitely getting closer though
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">That didn't work!
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">It would have worked for Solaris.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Look, it made perfect sense at the time.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Still simpler than it used to be, I guess.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">What's a segfault?
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I think the cameras need to face each other.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">I'm not sure spaghetti works as a USB cable...
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====Why is Python importing Skynet?====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:678126c2-b9c1-11e3-8009-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Knit Cap Girl''': ???
:[Hairy walks in - continue - Hairy is on the other side of the desk with his own laptop computer. Both the computers are connected through Ethernet cable. The two characters are typing on the computer. - continue - The two stop typing.]
'''Hairy''': ???
:[Hairy has stepped back while Knit Cap Girl is checking on Hairy's laptop computer. Knit Cap Girl is reading something of a piece of paper and types on the laptop.]
'''Hairy''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
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=====It’s definitely the dust=====
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=====We’re doomed=====
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=====Well, it does have a certificate from cyberdyne systems.=====
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=====Your computer is literally haunted=====
:This branch was complete as of 2014-04-20.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:d3730956-b9d8-11e3-800b-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Hairy and Knit Cap Girl are suddenly floating in the ocean.]
:'''Knit Cap Girl''':
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======I think my exact phrase was “don’t.”======
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([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:30c1806c-ba22-11e3-801a-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:'''Hairy''':
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%"> Should have said it faster ([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:13531858-bade-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd permalink])
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:[One shark appear]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line…<br>'''Hairy''': (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there is no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-04-20.)</div>
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%"> Restart the computer ([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:536a1910-badd-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd permalink])
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:[Three sharks appears]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line…<br>'''Hairy''': (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there is no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-04-20.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%"> Don’t say that. ([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:12f2257a-bade-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd permalink])
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
:[The same image appears again]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line…<br>'''Hairy''': (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there is no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-04-20.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%"> Suggest a line…
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
======Maybe we tried guessing the root password too many times======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:40b67278-ba06-11e3-8017-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:'''Hairy''':
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%"> I told you, the password is never “swordfish.” ([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:93126666-bbb0-11e3-801c-002590d77bdd permalink])
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
:[One shark appear]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line…<br>'''Hairy''': (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there is no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-04-20.)</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%"> I just want to know how a 17th century coppersmith installed a key-logger ([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:40b67278-ba06-11e3-8017-002590d77bdd permalink]) - only '' coppersmith installed a key-logger'' can be seen in the image as Knit Cap Girl's text overlaps Hairy's.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
:[The same image appears again]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line…<br>'''Hairy''': (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there is no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-04-20.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%"> Password may have been a desperate last guess ([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:9392491c-bbb0-11e3-801c-002590d77bdd permalink])
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
:[The same image appears again]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line…<br>'''Hairy''': (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there is no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-04-20.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%"> Suggest a line…
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
======OK , maybe sudo teleport * `random-GPS was the wrong thing to type======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:f5afb63c-b9f0-11e3-8009-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:'''Hairy''':
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%"> To be fair most computers can’t actually do that ([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:953098f2-bb36-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd permalink])
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
:[One shark appear]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line…<br>'''Hairy''': (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there is no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-04-20.)</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%"> But a chance at landing it in the playboy mansion, no matter how slim is always worth the gamble ([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:953098f2-bb36-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd permalink]) - only ''matter how slim is always worth the gamble'' can be seen in the image as Knit Cap Girl's text overlaps Hairy's.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
:[The same image appears again]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line…<br>'''Hairy''': (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there is no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-04-20.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%"> Still though, you gotta admit it did what is was asked ([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:95293512-bb36-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd permalink])
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
:[The same image appears again]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line…<br>'''Hairy''': (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there is no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-04-20.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%"> I won’t say “I told you so… But” ([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:953182bc-bb36-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd permalink]) <div class="mw-collapsible-content">
:[Three sharks appears]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line…<br>'''Hairy''': (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there is no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-04-20.)
</div>
</div>
</div>

<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
======Which version of BSD where you using?======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:932bb4a0-ba2e-11e3-8031-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%"> The first one? ([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:9bb43082-bb48-11e3-804b-002590d77bdd permalink])
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
:[The same image appears again]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line…<br>'''Hairy''': (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there is no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-04-20.)</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%"> Dunno. It was from some random FTP server. ([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:9b96fda0-bb48-11e3-804b-002590d77bdd permalink])
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
:[One shark appear]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line…<br>'''Hairy''': (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there is no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-04-20.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%"> The one with the picture of the fish on it… Perhaps I should have actually read the details. ([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:9b6e3082-bb48-11e3-804b-002590d77bdd permalink] - only ''should have actually read the details'' can be seen in the image as Knit Cap Girl's text overlaps Hairy's.)
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
:[Three sharks appears]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line…<br>'''Hairy''': (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there is no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-04-20.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%"> The 1997 special release on standard definition ([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:9ba76992-bb48-11e3-804b-002590d77bdd permalink] - only ''Release on standard definition'' can be seen in the image as Knit Cap Girl's text overlaps Hairy's.) <div class="mw-collapsible-content">
:[A shark and three octopuses appear - continue - they are all gone but there is red blood in the water - continue - the ocean is now clean/empty - Hairy starts swimming away from Knit Cap Girl.]
'''Knit Cap Girl''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%"> I see your class in see-jitsu has paid off ([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:30f53d98-bbb3-11e3-801c-002590d77bdd permalink] - This comic ties for longest comic with sharks so far - 13 panels)
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
:[The two characters reach a beach and walks out of the ocean – continue – the two walk on in silhouette]
'''Knit Cap Girl''': Suggest a line…<br>'''Hairy''': (There is a speak-line from him up to a possible text – but no suggestion can be reached as there is no choices for Knit Cap Girl - as of 2014-04-20.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%"> Why are you leaving? That was the most fun I’ve had all day! ([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:310127b6-bbb3-11e3-801c-002590d77bdd permalink] - only the bottom of ''Why are you'' can be seen above the rest of the text. This comic tie for longest comic with sharks so far - 13 panels)
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
:[The two characters reach a beach and walks out of the ocean – continue – they reach a pit in the ground. Knit Cap Girl jumps over while Hairy looks down into it]
'''Hairy''': Suggest a line… (There is no choices - as of 2014-04-20.)
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%"> Suggest a line…
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>

<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">

====My keyboard has to support SSH over USB?====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>

===Facebook Branch===
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Hurry! We're in talks with Facebook. ([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:2b330d48-bb01-11e3-8003-002590d77bdd Permalink])
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">'''Hairy''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Google's at the door. They want to buy your... Well I'd rather you heard it from them.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"></div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Come check out my neighbour's ball pit. It's full of balls.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"></div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Oh, didn't I tell you? I got their database password years ago
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"></div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Do you think they'll care that the coffee machine doesn't work?
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>

===Gravity Branch===
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Gravity. Lots of it. (This option is no longer available as of 2014-04-22 - if anyone has a permalink with this option please post it.)
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"></div>
</div>

1360: Old Files

2014-09-08T18:22:50Z

APerson: /* Files and Folders */ fixed another wikipedia template link

{{comic
| number = 1360
| date = April 25, 2014
| title = Old Files
| image = old_files.png
| titletext = Wow, ANIMORPHS-NOVEL.RTF? Just gonna, uh, go through and delete that from all my archives real quick.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Still need work, grammar. Other comics being referenced need to be included.}}
This comic came out the day after [http://news.sky.com/story/1248397/andy-warhol-originals-found-on-floppy-disk Sky News published the story] of original {{w|Andy Warhol}} artwork, created in 1985 on an {{w|Amiga 1000}}, was recovered from recently found floppy disks.

Cueball is digging through a pile of old files, which the comic represents as digging with a shovel into the depths of his file-system. These layers are arranged much like geological rock formations where older strata is deeper down than younger layers. The files are in concentric layers because each directory is imbedded in the previous directory. Therefore the "Documents" folder contains an "Old Desktop" which contains a folder with files recovered from an older system, which contains a "My Documents" folder, which contains a folder with files copied from a {{w|Zip Disk}} in high school. The result is that files from high school have survived in his present-day machine. The formats and systems are meant to be analogous to the fossils and artifacts found in lower, older rock layers.

Notice how file-sizes get larger the newer they are. Older systems and smaller files are found in lower layers, as they are hadn't been developed yet; AOL, NYET, Kazaa are older than Facebook, and MP3s. In the days of AOL, 94 MB was reasonable disk space whereas current computers require larger file storage, hence 47 GB. In other words, digital artifacts have the same structural hierarchy as physical, geological ones.

He discovers several files he is embarrassed about, including a poetry file that surprises him, since he does not remember writing poetry, and an "{{w|Animorphs}} Novel" mentioned in the title text, most likely a fan fiction of the Animorphs series, although possibly a copy of one of the original books.

The {{w|Animorphs}} at the title text refers to a fiction series released between 1996 and 2001. This is also content more than ten years old.

See also [[1380: Manual for Civilization]] for other references to Animorphs.

See also [[286: All Your Base]] for other references to AYB.

See also [[512: Alternate Currency]] for references to 4 chan.

See also [[107: Snakes on a Plane! 2]] for references to James.

===Files and Folders===
The folders and files in detail:

'''Documents''' (47 GB): A large folder containing many of [[Cueball]]'s personal files.
*''misc.txt'': A miscellaneous {{w|text file}} of unknown and unknowable content.
*''Video projects'': As video files can take up a lot of space this likely makes up portion of the 47 GB.

'''Old desktop''' (12 GB): A backup from a former computer.
*''{{w|Facebook}} pics'': Pictures that were intended to be added to Facebook.
*''Pics from other camera'': Unknown pictures from a second camera.
*''Temp'': Temporary folders generally contain cashed files and files that are used temporarily to install programs.
*''Misc {{w|Portable Document Format|PDF}}s'': PDFs are often used for documentation, but could be any collection of digitized books or other documents.
*''{{w|MP3}}'': MP3 is a widely-used format for digital audio files.

'''Recovered from drive crash''' (4 GB): When a {{w|Hard disk drive|hard drive}} crashes some or all data may be recovered.
*''Temp'': Temporary files.
*''Work misc'': Unknown work related projects.
*''{{w|Audiobook|Audio books}}'': Recordings books being read out loud.

'''My Documents''' (570 MB): This is a typical folder created by {{w|Microsoft Windows}} for personal documents.
*''Downloads'': A default location for downloaded files in the Windows OS.
*''{{w|Kazaa}} shared'': Kazaa is a defunct peer-to-peer file sharing program. The "shared" folder shared with other members.
*''AYB'': {{w|All your base are belong to us|ALL YOUR BASE are belong to us}} is an internet inspired by a bad translation from ''{{w|Zero Wing}}''.
*''{{w|Escape Velocity Override|EV Override}}'': An {{w|Apple Macintosh}} video game, released in 1998.
*''[http://rephial.org/ Angband]'': A game named after a fictional stronghold created by {{w|J. R. R. Tolkien}}.
*''{{w|GIF}}s'': A image format widely used for transparent or animated images.
*''{{w|Fight Club}}.wmv'': A movie. As feature movies are typically compressed to 700 megabyte, and this folder only contains 570 MB, it must be of low quality or a small screen size.
*''{{w|Elasto Mania}}'': A physics-simulation game that claims to show real physics.
*''{{w|AOL Instant Messenger|AIM}} Direct Connect files'': Files transferred via AOL Instant Messenger.
*''{{w|4chan}}'': An image-board where users can upload pictures anonymously. Randall impulsively saves pictures from there.
*''{{w|ICQ}} logs'': Logs from an instant messaging program introduced in 1996. It is no longer commonly used in North America.

'''High school {{w|Zip drive|Zip disk}}''' (94 MB): The most popular form of {{w|superfloppy}}, introduced in 1994 with a capacity of 100 MB.
*''{{w|Korn}} MIDI'': Korn is an American {{w|nu metal}} band formed in 1993. {{w|MIDI}} is a protocol for communication with electronic musical instruments. The result tends to be sounds of low quality.
*''Photos3'': This is a folder of old photos.
**''{{w|Prom}}'': Pictures taken at prom.
*''lovenote.txt'': An old text file of a {{w|love letter}}, probably to a classmate in high school.
*''{{w|Gorillas (video game)|Gorillas}}.bas'': A game written in {{w|BASIC}}, to be run on {{w|QBasic}}, and supplied with MS-DOS .
*''Dream.txt'': Some private dreams.
*''James.txt'': Perhaps [[James]] is a friend of Randall, and the same as the one who came up with [[107|xkcd #107]].
*''{{w|AOL}}'': A early online and internet service, founded in 1985 and popular in the 1990s.
**''{{w|Citadel (software)|Citadel}}'' - A {{w|BBS}} and email platform that was widely used in the 1980s and early '90s.
*''{{w|QBasic}}'': An {{w|Integrated development environment|IDE}} released by {{w|Microsoft}} in 1991, which was used to write and run computer programs in the BASIC language.
*''NYET'': ''NYET'' was a {{w|Tetris}}-like game for MS-DOS, released in 1988.
*''Jokes.txt'': An old text file of jokes.

'''AAAFILES''' (9.4 MB): Some of [[Cueball]]'s oldest documents, likely prefixed with "AAA" to put the folder at the top of an alphabetically-sorted list.

'''TXT''' (850 K): Old text files, which include poetry he didn't remember writing.

==Transcript==

:Megan (on top of stack of files): You OK down there?

:'''Documents''' (47 GB)
::misc.txt
::Video projects
:'''Old desktop''' (12 GB)
::Facebook pics
::Pics from other camera
::Temp
::Misc PDFs
::MP3
:'''Recovered from drive crash''' (4 GB)
::Temp
::Work misc
::Audio books
:'''My Documents''' (570 MB)
::Downloads
::Kazaa shared
::AYB
::EV Override
::Angband
::GIFs
::FIGHT CLUB.wmv
::Elasto Mania
::AIM Direct Connect files
::4chan
::ICQ logs
:'''High school Zip disk''' (94 MB)
::Korn MIDI
::Photos3 (Prom)
::lovenote.txt
::Gorilla.bas
::Dream.txt
::James.txt
::AOL (Citadel)
::QBasic
::NYET
::Jokes.txt
:'''AAAFILES''' (9.4 MB)
:'''TXT''' (850 K)
:Cueball (deep inside the AAAFILES section looking at his txt files): Oh my god. I wrote '''poetry'''.

{{comic discussion}}
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
[[Category:Animorphs]]
[[Category:Comics featuring James]]

1350: Lorenz

2014-09-08T18:22:01Z

APerson: /* Explanation */ added two missing commas; rewrote a sentence; removed a sentence

__NOTOC__
{{comic
| number = 1350
| date = April 1, 2014
| title = Lorenz
| image = lorenz.png
| titletext = Every choice, no matter how small, begins a new story
}}

'''NOTE: The above is the first panel of an interactive comic.''' For a collection of images that appear in this comic, see [[1350: Lorenz/Images]]. These will also be described below under [[#Themes|themes]].<br>
Also note that the order of the options are random. And by adding that there is a fifth option - and only four can be shown - this means there are 5*4*3*2 = '''120 different permutations''' of the way the options can be arranged only in this first image. So the above image will only appear with these four options in this order in less than 1% of the cases! Of course when you choose an option it is indifferent what the order of the other options was.

==Explanation==
This is an interactive and dynamic comic with a possible first picture shown on top of this page. The picture is always the same but the order of the four sentences is chosen randomly. The result of all the interactions by the readers led to the generation of {{w|Crowdsourcing|crowd-sourced content}}. In honor of {{w|April Fools' Day}}, the comic was posted a day earlier than normal (on Tuesday instead of Wednesday).

The title 'Lorenz' is referring to {{w|Edward Norton Lorenz}} who, among other subjects, was famous for {{w|Chaos theory}} and the {{w|Butterfly effect}}.

The title text is a reference to how the story line of this comic will be chaotic by nature, since it includes all of the user submitted dialogue and updates over time based on statistics of user clicks. In this manner, it is a reference to the butterfly effect, a phrase coined by Edward Lorenz to describe how a small initial change can lead to wide variations in outcome in a chaotic system.

This comic is an example of a {{w|Choose Your Own Adventure}} story as mentioned in the title text.

==Functionality and bugs==
The reader is initially presented with only one panel where Knit Cap Girl (who is not [[Megan]]*) is sitting in front of her computer. The reader is given multiple choices concerning what exactly Knit Cap Girl is thinking. Upon choosing any option - the chosen text will appear where her gray speech bubble was (and this will then disappear), and then a second panel appears to the right, to give continuity to the story. Each new panel may have a new set of options or just the button "Continue" to see the next panel without making any choice in particular. Eventually, one may reach a dead end in which the story is interrupted and reader is presented with a text box to suggest how it should continue. Some of the suggestions given should eventually become available as new options.

===*Knit Cap Girl===
Knit Cap Girl is a completely new character, probably created for this unique comic - so as not to confuse her with Megan. Megan is always together with [[Cueball]] (or specifically not together with him), and if he is in this comic at all, it is only as a politician debating on TV. Since Knit Cap Girl seems to be together with [[Hairy]] in this comic it would also be strange if she should be representing Megan. Hairy has some bad reputation in trying to fool girls to fall for him... But at least he is not usually connected to any other girls - so he can finally have found out how to be with a woman (although they also seem to fight in this comic some times). Finally - Megan is never seen wearing a Knit Cap - actually this may be the first time ever in the comic, anyone has carried such a hat. This is the reason for the name used for Knit Cap Girl throughout this explanation.

===Number of options===
Normally, there is a total of 4 options to make: a/b/c/d. Their order changes constantly. Sometimes, there are 3 or fewer options, with the text box to suggest an alternative option. Sometimes, a given panel actually has 5 or more available options, although even in this case only 4 options appear at a time. Refreshing the comic changes randomly which of the available options are visible and which are hidden. As of late April 2014, the existence of 5 options seems to occur only in a few rare cases, including the first panel itself. There are no longer any panels that seem to have six options.

===Easy navigation===
Instead of clicking with the mouse you can move more quickly through the panels using the keyboard:
* Up/Down - navigate options
* Enter/Right/Spacebar - choose option after navigating with Up/Down
* Left - go back one panel
* a/b/c/d - choose any option directly

===New panels===
It appears that new panels may be generated by Randall in near real time as user suggestions to dialog are submitted. The dialog options could be based on click-through rates and hence will change over time based on which choices are clicked most using {{w|A/B testing|A/B measurement techniques}}. This will mean that the most popular choices for dialog lines will prevail as the statistics build up. In some cases, dialog line options do not depend on the continuity of the storyline followed, suggesting that some parts of the story are planned. For example, several of the story lines involve one of the two main characters waking up and for instance telling the other character, "I had the strangest dream…" or even reliving the dream. This may be due to common submissions across story lines. Of course there is the other option that Randall has used the first week of April to look though some input and choose himself. These possibilities are not mutually exclusive. Some of the options that were there very early were in quite poor English. Later the same idea was still there but in a more refined sentence. However, after the first week or two, no new panels seemed to appear, which suggests that some were drawn to match the story's progression.

===Permalink===
Each panel has a "permalink" button which generates a unique URL for all the choices made by the reader — so a reader can save the chosen choices to compare them to other ways going through the selections. The permalink do only save the chosen options, not the order or the visible options in the image where the permalink is recorded. So it is not possible to save a copy where the options are in the same order as they are in the 1/120 version shown at the top. Also if you go back in the story from a permalink, you can risk, when passing back through a panel with five options, that the option you just got back from, is no longer available, as it is the option randomly not shown this time.

===Suggest a line===
Some times it is possible to add your own suggestions in a panel where there are still other choices. But if not before, then the story will always reach a "final" panel (dead-end) where the reader only has the option left to "suggest a line...." By doing so and pressing enter this text is then shown in the speech bubble. But these suggestions can't be saved as there are no permalink button after this. The reader has to do a screen shot by himself - if he wishes to save his own witty remark. As a few weeks had progressed there were probably so few new suggestions that Randall stopped changing the comic. There has been no reason to believe that new options or panels appeared after the first few weeks of April.

===Bugs===
Since this interactive comic relies on many servers in the background to provide the response to the reader's actions there are some problems reported here:
*{{w|HTTP cookie|Cookies}} and {{w|Javascript}} are required to see this page properly. Without cookies, the next panel will not render; attempting to load the page in the UNIXKCD terminal or loading the page without Javascript will just get you the [[1349|previous comic]].
*When selecting a sentence A/B/C/D the server does not respond on that selection.
*The servers responsible to provide the pictures are down.
*In the first week after the comic was released, if a response lead to a panel where two characters speak at the same time, it was impossible to proceed past the first speech bubble. This was subsequently fixed.
As a consequence of these bugs many readers had trouble with understanding how this interactive comic worked.

==Themes==
===Computer===
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" |
! To see/hide images click here:
! Description of images
|-
! The beginning<br>[[Image:lorenz - computer.png]]
| Knit Cap Girl sits at her laptop saying/thinking something. You choose what from four options and thus starts the interactive and dynamic comic. Originally on April the 1st there where only four choices, but this has increased since. But you always have four to choose from when you begin.
|-
! Computer problems<br>[[Image:lorenz - laptop 1.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - laptop 2.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - laptop 3.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - laptop 4.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - laptop 5.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - laptop 6.png]]
| Knit Cap Girl's laptop has an unspecified problem. Hairy walks in and they attempt to fix it by connecting his laptop with hers. There are two outcomes possible:
* He fails so badly that they end up randomly floating in the ocean (with or without circling sharks - a reference to [[349: Success]] see below.)
* It doesn't work so now Knit Cap Girl tries to write something on Hairy's laptop from a paper (a manual?) she holds in her hand. This also fails and the story continues with a blowtorch scene - see below:
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! Blowtorch<br>[[Image:lorenz - laptop 7.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - laptop 8.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - laptop 9.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - laptop 10.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - laptop 11.png]]
| Knit Cap Girl becomes so upset with her laptop that she decides to melt it using a blowtorch - a clear reference to the comic from the day before this one: [[1349: Shouldn't Be Hard]]. After this they walk out of the building.
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===Political debate===
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! Debate<br>[[image:lorenz - debate laptop.png]]<br>[[image:lorenz - debate 1.png]]<br>[[image:lorenz - debate 2.png]]<br>[[image:lorenz - debate 5.png]]<br>[[image:lorenz - debate 4.png]]<br>[[image:lorenz - debate 3.png]]<br>[[image:lorenz - visit.png]]
| Knit Cap Girl uses har laptop to watch a debate online between the Politician 1 (on the left) and the Politician 2 ([[Cueball]], on the right), the subject and the actual conversation of which varies according to the storyline. Eventually one of two things can happen:
* They fight each other, the Politician 2 using a lightsaber and the Politician 1 using his bare fists
* Politician 1 is going down on one knee - either to pray or as in a suggestion to ask the other to marry him...
Subjects debated could be user suggestions but below are one of those from April the 1st:
*Politician 1 accuses Politician 2 of having never liked Firefly.
*Politician 1 vows to end the "war on Christmas" if elected.
*Politician 1 praises his adversary and supports his economic plan.
*Politician 1 questions Politician 2's project of tying multiple birds to a car as fuel replacement, which would require some method to make the birds take off in unison. The solutions mentioned for this topic are given here as an example:
**Opening and closing an umbrella near them (a reference to {{W|Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade}}).
**Using a predatory bird to the car to scare them
**Putting resources in the hands of bird educators for the purpose of training them
**Employing fiscal hawks.
If the Politician 1 points out some problem with the reasoning, often the solution proposed by the Politician 2 would be doing the same in a larger scale or saying he completely agrees with everything the other says...
In the end, Hairy walks in to Knit Cap Girl and points out something happening near which may or may not involve birds (or what ever was the subject) which could be a direct result of Politician 2's project. Again all this could be user input!
The last image where Hairy walks in have been used also in other story lines
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===Ocean===
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! Wrong move<br>[[image:lorenz - laptop 6.png]]
| Knit Cap Girl tries to write something on Hairy's laptop from a note she has in her hand. Hairy watches. This image is also used in the computer problem theme above. But this time it goes really wrong and the Ocean scene appears right after this:
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! Sharks<br>[[image:lorenz - shark zero.png]]<br>[[image:lorenz - shark one.png]]<br>[[image:lorenz - sharks.png]]<br>[[image:lorenz - squids.png]]<br>[[image:lorenz - blood.png]]
| Knit Cap Girl and Hairy are floating in the ocean, with or without sharks. A clear reference to [[349: Success]]. Sharks have been the subject of several other comics.
Three giant squids appear and a lone shark seems disturbed. Maybe the squids killed the sharks leaving the blood in the last of these images?

Here are some examples with these images
*[http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:9b96fda0-bb48-11e3-804b-002590d77bdd Zero and one shark]
*[http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:9b6e3082-bb48-11e3-804b-002590d77bdd Three shark]
*[http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:9b96fda0-bb48-11e3-804b-002590d77bdd Squids and blood].

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! Beach<br>[[image:lorenz - hairy swims away.png]]<br>[[image:lorenz - beach.png]]
|Knit Cap Girl and Hairy starts to swim out of the shark free ocean and finally reaches a beach - see [[349: Success]].
*Here are an example where they reach the [http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:310127b6-bbb3-11e3-801c-002590d77bdd beach].
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===Leaving the bulding===
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! Leaving<br>[[Image:lorenz - going.png]]
| In some storylines the two characters leaves the building. Either with the laptop intact (like after the politic debate) or with a fused laptop (see computer problems theme). In either case they encounter one of the following scenarios when they come out the door:
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! Empty lawn<br>[[Image:lorenz - away.png]]
| Sometimes nothing is outside the bulind except the pawement they walk upon there is just an empty lawm. See [http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:b69f6096-b9f0-11e3-8009-002590d77bdd this example] for both of the first two pictures here. From this point they can move on to walk past stuff - see below.
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! Huge hole on the lawn<br>[[image:lorenz - hole.png]]
| There is a huge hole in the ground just outside of the building. The two characters always end up falling into it and one of them awakes from a night mare - see [http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:8440e346-bb16-11e3-8004-002590d77bdd this example]. See below about dreams.
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! Rocket on the lawn<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 1.png]]
| There is a space rocket on the lawn outside the building - see [http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:ffa26ce0-bade-11e3-8001-94de80a03a29 this example]. See below about dreams and space travel.
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===Walking===
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! Starting the walk<br>[[Image:lorenz - away.png]]
| When there is nothing outside the building the walk begins. It can though begin in other ways, but that is usually longer into a complicated story. The walk begins with Knit Cap Girl and Hairy walking together, but they also often walks alone as will be shown below.
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!Walking past<br>[[Image:lorenz - tree.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - gap.png]]
|Knit Cap Girl and Hairy walks together past the following items:
*A tree
*A gap in the ground - which Knit Cap Girl jumps over, much like in a pit from Mario brothers.
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!Walking together<br>[[Image:lorenz - dark.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - walking.png]]
|The two characters are seen walking together from different perspectives.
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!Arguing<br>[[Image:lorenz - discuss.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - hairy leaves.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - knit cap leaves.png]]
|Knit Cap Girl and Hairy stops their walk to have an argument. Then either she or he leaves the other by walking back the way they came.
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!Alone - Girl<br>[[Image:lorenz - walk 5.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - walk 6.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - walk 8.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - walk 1.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - walk 2.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - walk 3.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - walk 4.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - walk 9.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - thinking.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - bird gift.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - bird money.png]]
|Knit Cap Girl walks alone. This is not necessarily because of the argument! She is seen walking alone in many different poses and perspectives. At one point she is thinking - this does not have to be while alone! At some point a bird passes over her carrying a gift. It then returns - now with a money note in its beak.
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!Alone - Guy<br>[[Image:lorenz - meanwhile.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - walk 7.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - walk 10.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - thinking 2.png]]
|Hairy is seen walking alone. This is not necessarily because of the argument! He is seen walking alone in two poses. At one point he is thinking - this does not have to be while alone! In one story line the ''meanwhile'' image appears before this walk like in [http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:aee5abf0-bb29-11e3-8004-002590d77bdd this example].
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===Rocket launch===
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!Into the rocket<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 1.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 2.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 3.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 4.png]]
| Leaving the bulding the characters find the rocket on the lawn, and climbs into it.
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!Out of the rocket<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 5.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 6.png]]
| In some storylines the rocket does not launch (fail og they do not wish to go into space). So the two charachters climb out again.
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!Rocket launch<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 7.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 8.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 11.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 9.png]]
| If they do not climb out again, the rocket will launch into space. Sometimes an image from the flight simulator program {{W|Kerbal Space Program}} will appear - see [http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:8440e346-bb16-11e3-8004-002590d77bdd this example] where the launch wakes a charachter up from a dream. If the characthers do not wake up here, see dream theme, then the rocket will go into space - see Space theme. Before reacing space a dark image will turn up as shown [http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:ffa26ce0-bade-11e3-8001-94de80a03a29 here].(This picture is also used in the dream sequence with the hole).
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===Space===
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!Rocket launch<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 7.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 8.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 11.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 9.png]]
| When the rocket is launch into space sometimes an image from the flight simulator program {{W|Kerbal Space Program}} will appear - see [http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:8440e346-bb16-11e3-8004-002590d77bdd this example]. The characthers do not always wake up if this image is shown as in the example, see dream theme. If they do not then the rocket will go into space and often a black image will turn up as shown [http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:ffa26ce0-bade-11e3-8001-94de80a03a29 here].(This picture is also used in the dream sequence with the hole). See other examples for these pictures in the last two entries.
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!Flying over earth<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 10.png]]
| After entering space, the rocket is in an orbit over earth.
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!In space<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 13.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 14.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 19.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 20.png]]
| From earth the rocket flies into deep space. At one point it may come close to the sun - which could explain the white color in one image.
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!Asteroids<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 24.png]]
| Passing the {{W|Asteroid belt}}
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!Saturn<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 12.png]]
| Passing {{W|Saturn}} with it's majestic rings
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!Fly by<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 15.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 16.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 17.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 18.png]]
| The space rocket encounters another space ship that asks a question about relativity, the same one that appeared in [[265: Choices: Part 2]]. The other space rocket will shoot and destroy the main rocket if the question isn't answered satisfactory see below. Otherwise the two rockets fly past each other.
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!Little Prince<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 21.png]]
| Eventually the space rocket meets a guy on a very tiny planet which most likely is a reference to {{w|The Little Prince}}. This could also be a reference to the asteroid [http://blog.xkcd.com/2013/09/30/asteroid-4942-munroe/ 4942 Munroe], then it could be [[Randall]] on the rock... The story never seem to move past this point. Here is an [http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:6490cc4a-b9f0-11e3-8009-002590d77bdd example].
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!Attack<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 15.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 16.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 17.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 22.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 23.png]] <br>[[Image:lorenz - wake up 5.png]]
| If the answer to the space ship is not acceptable it will turn around after passing, and shoot down the rocket. This will turn off the rockets in the Kerbal Space Program simulator, and in turn one of the characthers (Hairy?) will awake from a dream, see dream theme. Most of the images above as well as this attack is included in [http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:ffa26ce0-bade-11e3-8001-94de80a03a29 this example]
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===Kerbal Space Program===
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!Engines on<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 11.png]]
|These pictures are from the flight simulator program {{W|Kerbal Space Program}} (KSP). An example of the image in the comic can be seen [http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:8440e346-bb16-11e3-8004-002590d77bdd here]. In this case the liftoff with the engine on turns out to be just a dream. But the image can also precede a space travel going into deep space - as the travel shown below. See more on the this under the space theme.
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!Engines off<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 23.png]]
|Here we see an image with the engines off. See this [http://i.imgur.com/UofvQ.png image] from KSP where the rocket engines are not on. This image is usually shown after the spaceship is shut down and it turns out it was just a dream - see [http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:ffa26ce0-bade-11e3-8001-94de80a03a29 this example]. See more on the this under the space theme.
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===Dinosaur===
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! Dinosaur Comics<br>[[Image:lorenz - dinosaur 1.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - dinosaur 2.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - dinosaur 3.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - dinosaur 4.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - wake up 1.png]]
| The green T-rex from {{w|Dinosaur Comics}} (a clip-art-based webcomic that uses the same artwork with different captions for every strip.) interrupts the story and proceeds to talk about his tiny arms or other subjects. The first three pictures are taken directly from the webcomic, except that the third picture is larger in the real comic (see [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2420 this particular example] where the title text actually refer to Randall and xkcd). In the end, the dinosaur stamps on the house the main characters are in (this is thus Randall's own picture). If it gets this far one of the characters will wake up from a dream - It may be only Knit Cap Girl as she is the one seen fully in the fourth image. Examples where this is the second dream can be seen [http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:5e94d028-bb7d-11e3-8012-002590d77bdd here] and [http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:ffa26ce0-bade-11e3-8001-94de80a03a29 here]. See more under the dream theme.
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===Boomerang===
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! Finding Boomerang<br>[[Image:lorenz - boomerang 1.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - boomerang 2.png]]
| Knit Cap Girl finds a boomerang on the ground and may express her feelings about it. The other images listed below, may come more or less in any order and any number of times. She may comment on it again after catching it. She may also put it down. See below also for examples of story lines.
Boomerangs are also featured in: [[445: I Am Not Good with Boomerangs]], [[475: Further Boomerang Difficulties]], [[939: Arrow]]
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! Throwing Boomerang<br><br>[[Image:lorenz - boomerang 3.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - boomerang 4.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - boomerang 8.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - boomerang 6.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - boomerang 9.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - boomerang 10.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - boomerang 5.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - boomerang 7.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - boomerang 11.png]]
| Knit Cap Girl throws the boomerang, and it flies back (and forth). This can go on for a while, and she may even [http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:08896f1c-bade-11e3-8001-94de80a03a29 lay it down and walk away]. However, more often than not she will end up with an accident:
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! Accidents<br>[[Image:lorenz - boomerang accident.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - boomerang accident 2.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - boomerang accident 5.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - boomerang accident 6.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - boomerang rocket 1.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - boomerang rocket 2.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - boomerang boom.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - surprise.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - run.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - boomerang accident 3.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - boomerang accident 4.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - meanwhile.png]]
| These accidents are:
*Getting hit in the face - The two options here below are both featured in [http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:ee6b910c-bae5-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd this example].
**Knit Cap Girl getting hit in the face with the boomerang rebound (i.e. [[445: I Am Not Good with Boomerangs]])
**Knit Cap Girl fails to catch the boomerang and the rebound hit Hairy in the face off screen and he then enters the frame in the next image.
*Hitting the space rocket from another story branch - see [http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:ea25460c-baf3-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd this example].
*The boomerang crashing into something off panel - someone may shout back - see [http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:fc34f46a-ba98-11e3-8008-002590d77bdd this example]. (i.e. [[475: Further Boomerang Difficulties]])
**In some cases the meanwhile image appears like in [http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:aee5abf0-bb29-11e3-8004-002590d77bdd this example].
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===Pokémon===
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! A wild Pikachu appeared<br>[[Image:lorenz - pikachu appeared.png]]
| Some of the storylines involve Pokémon battles featuring Pikachu, a very popular Pokémon. The battles are drawn in the style of the video games. (A trainer in the left-bottom corner facing the foe in the right-top corner, with a narration box below the scene and the trainer's Pokéballs visible, although some elements are missing, such as the level, gender and HP bar.) In this first image Pikachu the wild pokémon appeares. Then the fight begins:
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! Pikachu's moves<br>[[Image:lorenz - pikachu abandonment.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - pikachu anguish.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - pikachu ant.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - pikachu extrude.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - pikachu faceless.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - pikachu friendship.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - pikachu granite.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - pikachu graph.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - pikachu ink cloud.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - pikachu radicality.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - pikachu theft.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - pikachu uplift.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - pikachu ethylene.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - pikachu blank.png]]
| Pikachu uses a number of different moves, though these are mostly made up and are not from the Pokémon games. Pikachu's moves are almost invariably remarked by the narrator as "It's not very effective...", but "It's super effective!" is also possible to appear. (see below)
In the video games, a move is "not very effective" when the opponent's type resists the attacking move's type and "super effective" when the opponent's type is weak to the attacking move's type.

Pikachu's moves (see below for examples - those appearing in the examples are marked with ¤$£ etc):
* Abandonment ^ - Pikachu disappears completely.
* Anguish ¤% - Pikachu is sad.
* Ant Colony - Pikachu is covered in ants.
* Extrude - Pikachu's head moves away from his body as his neck becomes long and malleable.
* Faceless $ - Pikachu's face disappears.
* Friendship £ - Pikachu is on Knit Cap Girl's head, signifying they are now friends. Friendship, though not a move, is a game mechanic in the video games.
* Granite % - Pikachu is atop a block of granite.
* Graph Theory ¤ - The theory can be seen behind Pikachu
* Ink Cloud % - Pikachu is covered in ink. In the storyline Pikachu uses it, there is the option to "gather" the ink.
* Radicality £ - Pikachu is on a skateboard.
* Theft & - Pikachu wears Knit Cap Girl's hat. Pikachu seems to be using "Thief", a similarly-named actual move from the games, that is used to steal the foe's item and use it as its own.
* Uplift - Pikachu's head goes upward, separated from its body, showing a long, thick cable still connecting the head and the body.
* Ethylene Dichloride ¤ - Pikachu holds a glas with Ethylene Dichloride - Nothing seems to happen, but Ethylene Dichloride is a toxic chemical, so there may be future consequences for the characters.
** After using it, ("not very effective") Pikachu may make remarks about the move using the blank version of the image from below (the following text are users suggestion):
*** I used to be better at chemistry.
*** This is still better than all the lightning crap.
* Blank text box ¤£% - for user input
**The below items are (probably) not with a certain picture but text that users have suggested appear in the blank picture at the bottom of this section:
** Struggle
***In one storyline, after Pikachu uses a number of moves, it says: "Now I only have Struggle left. Tie?" In the Pokémon games, when a Pokémon runs out of PP (Power Points, the energy required to use each of its moves) for all its moves, it may only use Struggle, a weak move, indefinitely reusable, that harms not only the opponent but the user as well.
** Cuteness %
** Yet %
** Crowdsource
** The Discrete Metric

Here are some examples of battle (please help include links to all moves):
* ¤ [http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:81c9e8c8-ba1d-11e3-8018-002590d77bdd 4 different moves]
* % [http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:f203d1c6-ba22-11e3-801a-002590d77bdd 5 different moves]
* £ [http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:8737f5b4-ba92-11e3-8008-002590d77bdd 3 different moves]
* $ [http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:feaa5d4e-bbd2-11e3-802c-002590d77bdd Faceless move]
* & [http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:b8fe0a3c-bb52-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd Theft move]
* ^ [http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:2f0612e0-bbd7-11e3-8030-002590d77bdd Abandonment move]

Below are some transcript of lines from user input and their references:
*One narration line is "Where's Twitch when I need help?", a reference to {{w|Twitch Plays Pokémon}} which was also covered by comic [[1333: First Date]].
*Another narration line is: "Google Maps didn't warn me of this.", a reference to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YMD6xELI_k Google Maps: Pokémon Challenge].
*Other remarks from Pikachu or about Pikachu can be seen in [http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:e8cf1df0-bbd4-11e3-802e-002590d77bdd this example]
** Pikachu: Aren't you going to catch me? It's not difficult, I promise... Please? [Knit Cap Girl and Hairy ignore him and go away]
*** Please! Jigglypuff keeps on drawing on my face!
*** You were walking in tall grass! You asked for it!
*** Please... Tame me! I want to party on days other than Thursday.
**** [Hairy remarks] Y'know, if we catch a Pikachu, we would never [sic] to pay our electric bills again.
*Pokémon mentioned other than Pikachu:
** Charizard (In one storyline, "Go Charizard" is one usable move in battle)
** Jigglypuff
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! Not effective<br>[[Image:lorenz - pikachu not very effective.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - pikachu end 1.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - pikachu end 2.png]]
|Normally after a few failed attempts - where the result is given as ''It's not very effective'', there is an uncomfortable silence as the Pikachu says "Um..." Then it talks to Knit Cap Girl and Hairy and as they then walk away past the Pókemon, Pikachu is left in the tall grass and has time to make a final remark. See [http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:9a86363c-bb53-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd this example] where they walk away only to meet another wild Pikachu.
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! Super effective<br>[[Image:lorenz - pikachu super effective.png]]<br> [[Image:lorenz - pikachu fainted.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - pikachu dead 1.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - pikachu dead 2.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - pikachu dead 3.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - pikachu dead 4.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - pikachu dead 5.png]]
|Rarely, a suggested move knocks Pikachu out. This is stated as ''It's super effective'' (sometimes this image comes right after the one with ''It's not very effective''). The result is that Pikachu faints. Knit Cap Girl and Hairy looks at the fainted (not dead) Pikachu who lies facedown in the grass. Then Knit Cap Girl ''pokes'' the pókemon and they walk past him out of the tall grass like in [http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:feaa5d4e-bbd2-11e3-802c-002590d77bdd this example].
|}

===Dreams===
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" |
! To see/hide images click here:
! Description of images
|-
! Walking up<br>[[Image:lorenz - wake up 1.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - wake up 5.png]]
| Sometimes, Knit Cap Girl or Hairy find themselves waking from a dream, suggesting that all prior events were just them dreaming. Below are several situations where a dream will or may occur described (and shown with the full sequence leading up to the dream displayed).
Often a dream loops upon itself, as a character wakes up multiple times in the same storyline, either from the same dream or from different dreams.
Sometimes it even turns out that each character has a dream in the same storyline, meaning that the last to wake up, has dreamt that they were the other character waking up before... See examples of all this below.
The dream scenarios (together with the ''meanwhile'' image) would make it possible to connect all images into one long sequence!
Some situations will always result in a character waking up, others will only in some story lines lead to an awakening.
As can be seen in these two images Knit Cap Girl wakes up with her head to the left and the cap lying on the end of the bed. Hairy wakes up with his head to the right.
|-
! Falling<br><br>[[Image:lorenz - hole.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - falling.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - aaa.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - aaa 2.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 9.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - wake up 5.png]]
| One of the most obvious dreams is the one about falling as in this case where both characters falls into a big hole outside the building they are leaving - as shown here in [http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:20698602-bbb1-11e3-801c-002590d77bdd this example] where first one then the other characters awake from the same falling dream.
In the case - with the hole - one (or either as shown above) of the characters wakes up from the nightmare after falling into the hole. But they can wake up after any of the three black pictures shown here. The other two pictures (which were not included in the first example) can be seen in [http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:ba285dea-baa3-11e3-801c-002590d77bdd this example].(The total black picture is also sometimes used in the space theme). The hole situation will always turn out to be a dream.
|-
! Dinosaur<br><br>[[Image:lorenz - dinosaur 1.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - dinosaur 2.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - dinosaur 3.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - dinosaur 4.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - wake up 1.png]]
| A Dinosaur enters the comic (see more about these same images under the Dinosaur theme). If the comic goes on long enough these four images will appear and after the last the character awakes from the nightmare. It may be only Knit Cap Girl as she is the one seen fully in the fourth image. Examples where this is the second dream can be seen [http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:5e94d028-bb7d-11e3-8012-002590d77bdd here] and [http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:ffa26ce0-bade-11e3-8001-94de80a03a29 here]. If the dinosaur steps on the building the story will always turn out to be a dream.
|-
! Evil spaceship<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 15.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 16.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 17.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 18.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 22.png]] <br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 23.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - wake up 5.png]]
| During a space travel the rocket passes another space ship. If a failed communication occurs the space ship turns around and shoots down the rocket. At this point it turns out it was just a nightmare and one of the characters wake up (maybe only Hairy?). See [http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:ffa26ce0-bade-11e3-8001-94de80a03a29 this example]. In the last picture before waking we see an image from the flight simulator program Kerbal Space Program (KSP) with the rockets off - see the KSP theme. This situation will always turn out to be a dream.
|-
! Rocket launch<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 7.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 8.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - rocket 11.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - wake up 1.png]]
| This dream is not really a nightmare, as opposed to the three above, where the characters always wake up. This is not necessarily the case for the rocket launch. But in this case described here Knit Cap Girl (maybe also Hairy) wakes up during the rocket launch - see [http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:8440e346-bb16-11e3-8004-002590d77bdd this example]. In the last picture before waking we see an image from the flight simulator program Kerbal Space Program (KSP) with the rockets on - see the KSP theme.
|-
! Politic debate<br>[[Image:lorenz - debate 1.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - debate 2.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - debate 4.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - wake up 1.png]]
| In this dream, that is not so much a nightmare that it will always be a dream (like the first three) Knit Cap Girl (maybe also Hairy) wakes up after a silly political debate - see [http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:ea25460c-baf3-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd this example].
|}

===Waking up===
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" |
! To see/hide images click here:
! Description of images
|-
! Walking up<br>[[Image:lorenz - wake up 1.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - wake up 5.png]]
| Sometimes, Knit Cap Girl or Hairy find themselves waking from a dream, suggesting that all prior events were just them dreaming. After they awake they stay in bed for a while and then go out in to the world. These scenes will be shown here below.
As can be seen in these two images Knit Cap Girl wakes up with her head to the left and the cap lying on the end of the bed. Hairy wakes up with his head to the right.
|-
! In bed - Girl<br>[[Image:lorenz - wake up 1.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - wake up 2.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - wake up 11.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - wake up 10.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - wake up 3.png]]
|Knit Cap Girl wakes up with a ''Gasp''. She sits for a while - may then begin to sing ''I woke up like this'' (This could be a reference to {{W|Flawless (Beyoncé song)}}). After this she may lie down again before finally getting out of bed.
|-
!Yawning - Girl<br>[[Image:lorenz - wake up 4.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - computer.png]]
|Yawning Knit Cap Girl gets back to her laptop and we are back to the first image as can be seen in [http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:20698602-bbb1-11e3-801c-002590d77bdd this example].
|-
! In bed - Guy<br>[[Image:lorenz - wake up 5.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - wake up 6.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - wake up 13.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - wake up 7.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - wake up 12.png]]
|Hairy wakes up with a ''Gasp''. He sits for a while - may then begin to sing ''I woke up like this'' (This could be a reference to {{W|Flawless (Beyoncé song)}}). After this he may lie down again before finally getting out of bed. Notice that [[Randall]] forgot to draw Hairy's hairy hair as he lay down again. If it was a wick, it should have hung over the bed like Knit Cap Girls Knit Cap does.
|-
!Yawning - Guy<br><br>[[Image:lorenz - wake up 8.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - wake up 9.png]]
|Yawning Hairy walks in where Knit Cap Girl sits at her laptop and tells her about his dream(?) as can be seen in [http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:20698602-bbb1-11e3-801c-002590d77bdd this example], where both yawning pictures appear.
|-
! Salesman<br>[[Image:lorenz - sale 1.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - sale 2.png]]<br>[[Image:lorenz - sale 3.png]]
| Instead of going to Knit Cap Girl after walking up Hairy can take an alternative route where he meets [[White Hat]], a salesman with a small stand. White Hat tries to sell something to Hairy. Will he succeed.
|}

==Transcript==
:[This transcript only transcribes what can be seen in the picture shown at the top of the explanation here.]

:[The comic starts with two panels. In the top panel we see Knit Cap Girl sitting at a desk in front of her laptop typing. There is a speech line up to a gray but empty speech bubble.]
:[The second panel below has the same gray background as the empty speech bubble above. Here is presented four options to what Knit Cap Girl could be saying. They are marked a, b, c and d written in small white rectangles next to the text. There is a small arrow at the top pointing to the first panel:]

:a Let's see if BSD is any easier to install nowadays.
:b Oh. Hey. There's some kind of political thing going on.
:c Hurry! We're in talks with Facebook.
:d Refresh... No new email... Refresh... No new tweets... Refresh...

:[Once the reader chooses one of the options the text will appear in the speech bubble where the gray area is replaced with the usual white background. The lower gray panel disappears. Now the comic really begins.]
:[A new panel is shown after the selection, again with one to four options to choose from in the new gray panel below. This will continue until it comes to an end where the reader finally only has the choice to suggest the next line.]

:[The order of the up to four options are random, and changes every time you begin again (or even go back to a previous frame). This means that the a-d in the transcript is not the same next time. In some few panels there are even more than four options. To see the fifth you have to reload, then you may find this fifth option next time. The first panel is one of those with five options.]
:[The fifth not shown above is: '''These stupid tiles... I'll just play one more game.''']

:[In the first days of the comic when it developed quickly, new options appeared only to later disappear. '''Gravity. Lots of it.''' is one of those lost options from the first panel. At one time there was also by mistake two versions of one of the other five mentioned above. But this was later deleted. Maybe there could still be a permalink to these lost stories out there...?]

:[Although it may be impossible to finish? ... it has been tried to make a complete '''[[1350: Lorenz/Transcript|interactive transcript]]'''.]

==Trivia==
*In one [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/File:lorenz_-_wake_up_7.png panel] Hairy is drawn in bed ''without'' his hair - see the [[#Waking up|Waking up]] pictures.
*The most common pictures are [http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/a1-2014/vS9UO5cGsw1hoDrrNLMSRg.png "Not very effective"], [http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/a1-2014/VegCGBEOFJCsFxJpbmvziQ.png Throwing], [http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/a1-2014/zHPHozjDXmCUy66bYVSRoQ.png Waiting], [http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/a1-2014/ZNBJOG1e-vCfzdqKFHQ21A.png Leaving the House].
*The rarest pictures are [http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/a1-2014/VgSdMz8OAHQ8w5Ee432f5Q.png The Little Prince], [http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/a1-2014/0RW46RaD8RJDfTyBOTqlpw.png The beach], [http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/a1-2014/OZZtCeXrnU0UskVTCUQf1Q.png An exponential chart]. (As of late April there are several pictures from the complete list, that no longer seem to be available - so they are not only rare, but extinct in the comic if no one has a permalink to a comic where they appear).
*'''The all time longest comics by panel - top three'''.
**Please only include '''clearly different''' storylines:
*# [http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:ffa26ce0-bade-11e3-8001-94de80a03a29 77 panels] - Space/dinosaur double dream, boomerang, and exploding rocket.
*# [http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:718ad9a6-bc6e-11e3-800f-002590d77bdd 41 panels] - Politics, hole dream, boomerang.
*# [http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:ea25460c-baf3-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd 39 panels] - Politics, dream and boomerang.
**There may be no upper boundary!
**But this is then the list of the longest comics with most panels as found so far.
**If you beat a record please post the '''permalink''' here.
**Please note themes included in comic.
**Please move beaten records down and delete the fourth.
*'''Longest by themes''' - click to expand:
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Include only more than one if the story is clearly different from from the record.
#Multiple dreams:
##[http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:ffa26ce0-bade-11e3-8001-94de80a03a29 77 panels] - Two dreams one by each charachter, after space and dinosaur attack.
##[http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:2ed958de-badf-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd 36 panels] - Hole dream, blowtorch laptop, rocket take-off dream.
##[http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:452c03fc-bb16-11e3-8004-002590d77bdd 35 panels] - Two times the same dream with big hole by the same charachter (shovel/blowtorch and then boomerang).
##[http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:ba285dea-baa3-11e3-801c-002590d77bdd 28 panels] - One dream with hole that returns to starting point - does the dream continue?
##[http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:8440e346-bb16-11e3-8004-002590d77bdd 26 panels] - Two different dreams by the same character after hole and rocket.
##[http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:5e94d028-bb7d-11e3-8012-002590d77bdd 22 panels] - Two different dreams by the same character after hole and dinosaur attack.
##[http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:20698602-bbb1-11e3-801c-002590d77bdd 21 panels] - Two times the same dream with big hole - once be each character
##? - More than two dreams
#Boomerang:
##[http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:ffa26ce0-bade-11e3-8001-94de80a03a29 77 panels] - double dream etc.
##[http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:ea25460c-baf3-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd 39 panels] - Starting with politic debate in a dream.
##[http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:ee6b910c-bae5-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd 34 panels] - As the 39 panel, but here both the girl and the Hairy gets the boomerang in the face!
##[http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:a1776988-ba41-11e3-8035-002590d77bdd 30 panels] - Rocket, dream, Boomerang hits her in the face. She then puts it down and then picks it up again
#Space:
##[http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:ffa26ce0-bade-11e3-8001-94de80a03a29 77 panels] - double dream etc.
##[http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:6490cc4a-b9f0-11e3-8009-002590d77bdd 30 panels] - reaching the Little Prince:
#Dinosaur:
##[http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:ffa26ce0-bade-11e3-8001-94de80a03a29 77 panels] - double dream etc.
#Political debate:
##[http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:ea25460c-baf3-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd 39 panels] - but also dream and boomerang.
##[http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:aee5abf0-bb29-11e3-8004-002590d77bdd 31 panels] - politicians fighing and explosive bananas - including the ''meanwhile'' image
#Blowtorch:
##[http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:2ed958de-badf-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd 36 panels] - Hole dream, blowtorch laptop, rocket take-off dream.
##[http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:9a86363c-bb53-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd 26 panels] - blowtorch and moving past Pokémon twice
##[http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:97cbd552-bb01-11e3-8004-002590d77bdd 25 panels] - dream of hole and then blowtorch
#Pokémon:
##[http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:9a86363c-bb53-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd 26 panels] - blowtorch and moving past Pokémon twice
##[http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:81c9e8c8-ba1d-11e3-8018-002590d77bdd 24 panels] - really long fight
##[http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:8737f5b4-ba92-11e3-8008-002590d77bdd 22 panels] - moving past Pokémon.
#Sharks
##[http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:30f53d98-bbb3-11e3-801c-002590d77bdd 13 panels] - reaching beach
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*'''Longest by starting point''' - click to expand:
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Only the longest:
#These stupid tiles... I'll just play one more game: [http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:ffa26ce0-bade-11e3-8001-94de80a03a29 77 panels]
#Oh. Hey. There's some kind of political thing going on: [http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:ea25460c-baf3-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd 39 panels]
#Let's see if BSD is any easier to install nowadays: [http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:ba285dea-baa3-11e3-801c-002590d77bdd 28 panels]
#Refresh... No new email... Refresh... No new tweets... Refresh...: [http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:81c9e8c8-ba1d-11e3-8018-002590d77bdd 24 panels]
#Hurry! We're in talks with Facebook: [http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:441ba2fe-bc03-11e3-8034-002590d77bdd 13 panels]
#Gravity. Lots of it: ? (This option do not seem to be featured anymore?)
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1360: Old Files

2014-09-08T18:19:29Z

APerson: /* Files and Folders */ fixed awful spelling (I'm an official tyop [sic] team member!)

{{comic
| number = 1360
| date = April 25, 2014
| title = Old Files
| image = old_files.png
| titletext = Wow, ANIMORPHS-NOVEL.RTF? Just gonna, uh, go through and delete that from all my archives real quick.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Still need work, grammar. Other comics being referenced need to be included.}}
This comic came out the day after [http://news.sky.com/story/1248397/andy-warhol-originals-found-on-floppy-disk Sky News published the story] of original {{w|Andy Warhol}} artwork, created in 1985 on an {{w|Amiga 1000}}, was recovered from recently found floppy disks.

Cueball is digging through a pile of old files, which the comic represents as digging with a shovel into the depths of his file-system. These layers are arranged much like geological rock formations where older strata is deeper down than younger layers. The files are in concentric layers because each directory is imbedded in the previous directory. Therefore the "Documents" folder contains an "Old Desktop" which contains a folder with files recovered from an older system, which contains a "My Documents" folder, which contains a folder with files copied from a {{w|Zip Disk}} in high school. The result is that files from high school have survived in his present-day machine. The formats and systems are meant to be analogous to the fossils and artifacts found in lower, older rock layers.

Notice how file-sizes get larger the newer they are. Older systems and smaller files are found in lower layers, as they are hadn't been developed yet; AOL, NYET, Kazaa are older than Facebook, and MP3s. In the days of AOL, 94 MB was reasonable disk space whereas current computers require larger file storage, hence 47 GB. In other words, digital artifacts have the same structural hierarchy as physical, geological ones.

He discovers several files he is embarrassed about, including a poetry file that surprises him, since he does not remember writing poetry, and an "{{w|Animorphs}} Novel" mentioned in the title text, most likely a fan fiction of the Animorphs series, although possibly a copy of one of the original books.

The {{w|Animorphs}} at the title text refers to a fiction series released between 1996 and 2001. This is also content more than ten years old.

See also [[1380: Manual for Civilization]] for other references to Animorphs.

See also [[286: All Your Base]] for other references to AYB.

See also [[512: Alternate Currency]] for references to 4 chan.

See also [[107: Snakes on a Plane! 2]] for references to James.

===Files and Folders===
The folders and files in detail:

'''Documents''' (47 GB): A large folder containing many of [[Cueball]]'s personal files.
*''misc.txt'': A miscellaneous {{w|text file}} of unknown and unknowable content.
*''Video projects'': As video files can take up a lot of space this likely makes up portion of the 47 GB.

'''Old desktop''' (12 GB): A backup from a former computer.
*''{{w|Facebook}} pics'': Pictures that were intended to be added to Facebook.
*''Pics from other camera'': Unknown pictures from a second camera.
*''Temp'': Temporary folders generally contain cashed files and files that are used temporarily to install programs.
*''Misc {{w|Portable Document Format|PDF}}s'': PDFs are often used for documentation, but could be any collection of digitized books or other documents.
*''{{w|MP3}}'': MP3 is a widely-used format for digital audio files.

'''Recovered from drive crash''' (4 GB): When a {{w|Hard disk drive|hard drive}} crashes some or all data may be recovered.
*''Temp'': Temporary files.
*''Work misc'': Unknown work related projects.
*''{{w|Audiobook|Audio books}}'': Recordings books being read out loud.

'''My Documents''' (570 MB): This is a typical folder created by {{w|Microsoft Windows}} for personal documents.
*''Downloads'': A default location for downloaded files in the Windows OS.
*''{{w|Kazaa}} shared'': Kazaa is a defunct peer-to-peer file sharing program. The "shared" folder shared with other members.
*''AYB'': {{w|All your base are belong to us|ALL YOUR BASE are belong to us}} is an internet inspired by a bad translation from ''{{w|Zero Wing}}''.
*''{{w|Escape Velocity Override|EV Override}}'': An {{w|Apple Macintosh}} video game, released in 1998.
*''[http://rephial.org/ Angband]'': A game named after a fictional stronghold created by {{w|J. R. R. Tolkien}}.
*''{{w|GIF}}s'': A image format widely used for transparent or animated images.
*''{{w|Fight Club}}.wmv'': A movie. As feature movies are typically compressed to 700 megabyte, and this folder only contains 570 MB, it must be of low quality or a small screen size.
*''{{w|Elasto Mania}}'': A physics-simulation game that claims to show real physics.
*''{{w|AOL Instant Messenger|AIM}} Direct Connect files'': Files transferred via AOL Instant Messenger.
*''{{w|4chan}]'': An image-board where users can upload pictures anonymously. Randall impulsively saves pictures from there.
*''{{w|ICQ}} logs'': An instant messaging program introduced in 1996. It is no longer commonly used in North America.

'''High school {{w|Zip drive|Zip disk}}''' (94 MB): The most popular form of {{w|superfloppy}}, introduced in 1994 with a capacity of 100 MB.
*''{{w|Korn}} MIDI'': Korn is an American {{w|nu metal}} band formed in 1993. {{w|MIDI}} is a protocol for communication with electronic musical instruments. The result tends to be sounds of low quality.
*''Photos3'': This is a folder of old photos.
**''{{w|Prom}}'': Pictures taken at prom.
*''lovenote.txt'': An old text file of a {{w|love letter}}, probably to a classmate in high school.
*''{{w|Gorillas (video game)|Gorillas}}.bas'': A game written in {{w|BASIC}}, to be run on {{w|QBasic}}, and supplied with MS-DOS .
*''Dream.txt'': Some private dreams.
*''James.txt'': Perhaps [[James]] is a friend of Randall, and the same as the one who came up with [[107|xkcd #107]].
*''{{w|AOL}}'': A early online and internet service, founded in 1985 and popular in the 1990s.
**''{{w|Citadel (software)|Citadel}}'' - A {{w|BBS}} and email platform that was widely used in the 1980s and early '90s.
*''{{w|QBasic}}'': An {{w|Integrated development environment|IDE}} released by {{w|Microsoft}} in 1991, which was used to write and run computer programs in the BASIC language.
*''NYET'': ''NYET'' was a {{w|Tetris}}-like game for MS-DOS, released in 1988.
*''Jokes.txt'': An old text file of jokes.

'''AAAFILES''' (9.4 MB): Some of [[Cueball]]'s oldest documents, likely prefixed with "AAA" to put the folder at the top of an alphabetically-sorted list.

'''TXT''' (850 K): Old text files, which include poetry he didn't remember writing.

==Transcript==

:Megan (on top of stack of files): You OK down there?

:'''Documents''' (47 GB)
::misc.txt
::Video projects
:'''Old desktop''' (12 GB)
::Facebook pics
::Pics from other camera
::Temp
::Misc PDFs
::MP3
:'''Recovered from drive crash''' (4 GB)
::Temp
::Work misc
::Audio books
:'''My Documents''' (570 MB)
::Downloads
::Kazaa shared
::AYB
::EV Override
::Angband
::GIFs
::FIGHT CLUB.wmv
::Elasto Mania
::AIM Direct Connect files
::4chan
::ICQ logs
:'''High school Zip disk''' (94 MB)
::Korn MIDI
::Photos3 (Prom)
::lovenote.txt
::Gorilla.bas
::Dream.txt
::James.txt
::AOL (Citadel)
::QBasic
::NYET
::Jokes.txt
:'''AAAFILES''' (9.4 MB)
:'''TXT''' (850 K)
:Cueball (deep inside the AAAFILES section looking at his txt files): Oh my god. I wrote '''poetry'''.

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1360: Old Files

2014-09-08T18:16:59Z

APerson: /* Explanation */ fixed spelling in maintenance tag

{{comic
| number = 1360
| date = April 25, 2014
| title = Old Files
| image = old_files.png
| titletext = Wow, ANIMORPHS-NOVEL.RTF? Just gonna, uh, go through and delete that from all my archives real quick.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Still need work, grammar. Other comics being referenced need to be included.}}
This comic came out the day after [http://news.sky.com/story/1248397/andy-warhol-originals-found-on-floppy-disk Sky News published the story] of original {{w|Andy Warhol}} artwork, created in 1985 on an {{w|Amiga 1000}}, was recovered from recently found floppy disks.

Cueball is digging through a pile of old files, which the comic represents as digging with a shovel into the depths of his file-system. These layers are arranged much like geological rock formations where older strata is deeper down than younger layers. The files are in concentric layers because each directory is imbedded in the previous directory. Therefore the "Documents" folder contains an "Old Desktop" which contains a folder with files recovered from an older system, which contains a "My Documents" folder, which contains a folder with files copied from a {{w|Zip Disk}} in high school. The result is that files from high school have survived in his present-day machine. The formats and systems are meant to be analogous to the fossils and artifacts found in lower, older rock layers.

Notice how file-sizes get larger the newer they are. Older systems and smaller files are found in lower layers, as they are hadn't been developed yet; AOL, NYET, Kazaa are older than Facebook, and MP3s. In the days of AOL, 94 MB was reasonable disk space whereas current computers require larger file storage, hence 47 GB. In other words, digital artifacts have the same structural hierarchy as physical, geological ones.

He discovers several files he is embarrassed about, including a poetry file that surprises him, since he does not remember writing poetry, and an "{{w|Animorphs}} Novel" mentioned in the title text, most likely a fan fiction of the Animorphs series, although possibly a copy of one of the original books.

The {{w|Animorphs}} at the title text refers to a fiction series released between 1996 and 2001. This is also content more than ten years old.

See also [[1380: Manual for Civilization]] for other references to Animorphs.

See also [[286: All Your Base]] for other references to AYB.

See also [[512: Alternate Currency]] for references to 4 chan.

See also [[107: Snakes on a Plane! 2]] for references to James.

===Files and Folders===
The folders and files in detail:

'''Documents''' (47 GB): A large folder containing many of [[Cueball]]'s personal files.
*''misc.txt'': A miscellaneous {{w|text file}} of unknown and unknowable content.
*''Video projects'': As video files can take up a lot of space this likely makes up portion of the 47 GB.

'''Old desktop''' (12 GB): A backup from a former computer.
*''{{w|Facebook}} pics'': Pictures that where, or where intended to be added to Facebook.
*''Pics from other camera'': Unknown pictures from a second camera.
*''Temp'': Temporary folders generally contain cashed files and files that are used temporarily to install programs.
*''Misc {{w|Portable Document Format|PDF}}s'': PDFs are often used for documentation, but could be any collection of digitized books or other documents.
*''{{w|MP3}}'': MP3 is a widely-used format for digital audio files.

'''Recovered from drive crash''' (4 GB): When a {{w|Hard disk drive|hard drive}} crashes some or all data may be recovered.
*''Temp'': Temporary files.
*''Work misc'': Unknown work related projects.
*''{{w|Audiobook|Audio books}}'': Recordings books being read out loud.

'''My Documents''' (570 MB): This is a typical folder created by {{w|Microsoft Windows}} for personal documents.
*''Downloads'': A default location for downloaded files in the Windows OS.
*''{{w|Kazaa}} shared'': Kazaa is a defunct peer-to-peer file sharing program. The "shared" folder shared with other members.
*''AYB'': {{w|All your base are belong to us|ALL YOUR BASE are belong to us}} is an internet inspired by a bad translation from ''{{w|Zero Wing}}''.
*''{{w|Escape Velocity Override|EV Override}}'': An {{w|Apple Macintosh}} video game, released in 1998.
*''[http://rephial.org/ Angband]'': A game named after a fictional stronghold created by {{w|J. R. R. Tolkien}}.
*''{{w|GIF}}s'': A image format widely used for transparent or animated images.
*''{{w|Fight Club}}.wmv'': A movie. As feature movies are typically compressed to 700 megabyte, and this folder only contains 570 MB, it must be of low quality or a small screen size.
*''{{w|Elasto Mania}}'': A physics-simulation game that claims to show real physics.
*''{{w|AOL Instant Messenger|AIM}} Direct Connect files'': Files transferred via AOL Instant Messenger.
*''{{w|4chan}]'': An image-board where users can upload pictures anonymously. Randall impulsively saves pictures from there.
*''{{w|ICQ}} logs'': An instant messaging program introduced in 1996. It is no longer commonly used in North America.

'''High school {{w|Zip drive|Zip disk}}''' (94 MB): The most popular form of {{w|superfloppy}}, introduced in 1994 with a capacity of 100 MB.
*''{{w|Korn}} MIDI'': Korn is an American {{w|nu metal}} band formed in 1993. {{w|MIDI}} is a protocol for communication with electronic musical instruments. The result tends to be sounds of low quality.
*''Photos3'': This is a folder of old photos.
**''{{w|Prom}}'': Pictures taken at prom.
*''lovenote.txt'': An old text file of a {{w|love letter}}, probably to a classmate in high school.
*''{{w|Gorillas (video game)|Gorillas}}.bas'': A game written in {{w|BASIC}}, to be run on {{w|QBasic}}, and supplied with MS-DOS .
*''Dream.txt'': Some private dreams.
*''James.txt'': Perhaps [[James]] is a friend of Randall, and the same as the one who came up with [[107|xkcd #107]].
*''{{w|AOL}}'': A early online and internet service, founded in 1985 and popular in the 1990s.
**''{{w|Citadel (software)|Citadel}}'' - A {{w|BBS}} and email platform that was widely used in the 1980s and early '90s.
*''{{w|QBasic}}'': An {{w|Integrated development environment|IDE}} released by {{w|Microsoft}} in 1991, which was used to write and run computer programs in the BASIC language.
*''NYET'': ''NYET'' was a {{w|Tetris}}-like game for MS-DOS, released in 1988.
*''Jokes.txt'': An old text file of jokes.

'''AAAFILES''' (9.4 MB): Some of [[Cueball]]'s oldest documents, likely prefixed with "AAA" to put the folder at the top of an alphabetically-sorted list.

'''TXT''' (850 K): Old text files, which include poetry he didn't remember writing.

==Transcript==

:Megan (on top of stack of files): You OK down there?

:'''Documents''' (47 GB)
::misc.txt
::Video projects
:'''Old desktop''' (12 GB)
::Facebook pics
::Pics from other camera
::Temp
::Misc PDFs
::MP3
:'''Recovered from drive crash''' (4 GB)
::Temp
::Work misc
::Audio books
:'''My Documents''' (570 MB)
::Downloads
::Kazaa shared
::AYB
::EV Override
::Angband
::GIFs
::FIGHT CLUB.wmv
::Elasto Mania
::AIM Direct Connect files
::4chan
::ICQ logs
:'''High school Zip disk''' (94 MB)
::Korn MIDI
::Photos3 (Prom)
::lovenote.txt
::Gorilla.bas
::Dream.txt
::James.txt
::AOL (Citadel)
::QBasic
::NYET
::Jokes.txt
:'''AAAFILES''' (9.4 MB)
:'''TXT''' (850 K)
:Cueball (deep inside the AAAFILES section looking at his txt files): Oh my god. I wrote '''poetry'''.

{{comic discussion}}
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
[[Category:Animorphs]]
[[Category:Comics featuring James]]

1360: Old Files

2014-09-08T18:16:43Z

APerson: /* Explanation */ fixed syntax

{{comic
| number = 1360
| date = April 25, 2014
| title = Old Files
| image = old_files.png
| titletext = Wow, ANIMORPHS-NOVEL.RTF? Just gonna, uh, go through and delete that from all my archives real quick.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Still need work, grammer. Other comics being referenced need to be included.}}
This comic came out the day after [http://news.sky.com/story/1248397/andy-warhol-originals-found-on-floppy-disk Sky News published the story] of original {{w|Andy Warhol}} artwork, created in 1985 on an {{w|Amiga 1000}}, was recovered from recently found floppy disks.

Cueball is digging through a pile of old files, which the comic represents as digging with a shovel into the depths of his file-system. These layers are arranged much like geological rock formations where older strata is deeper down than younger layers. The files are in concentric layers because each directory is imbedded in the previous directory. Therefore the "Documents" folder contains an "Old Desktop" which contains a folder with files recovered from an older system, which contains a "My Documents" folder, which contains a folder with files copied from a {{w|Zip Disk}} in high school. The result is that files from high school have survived in his present-day machine. The formats and systems are meant to be analogous to the fossils and artifacts found in lower, older rock layers.

Notice how file-sizes get larger the newer they are. Older systems and smaller files are found in lower layers, as they are hadn't been developed yet; AOL, NYET, Kazaa are older than Facebook, and MP3s. In the days of AOL, 94 MB was reasonable disk space whereas current computers require larger file storage, hence 47 GB. In other words, digital artifacts have the same structural hierarchy as physical, geological ones.

He discovers several files he is embarrassed about, including a poetry file that surprises him, since he does not remember writing poetry, and an "{{w|Animorphs}} Novel" mentioned in the title text, most likely a fan fiction of the Animorphs series, although possibly a copy of one of the original books.

The {{w|Animorphs}} at the title text refers to a fiction series released between 1996 and 2001. This is also content more than ten years old.

See also [[1380: Manual for Civilization]] for other references to Animorphs.

See also [[286: All Your Base]] for other references to AYB.

See also [[512: Alternate Currency]] for references to 4 chan.

See also [[107: Snakes on a Plane! 2]] for references to James.

===Files and Folders===
The folders and files in detail:

'''Documents''' (47 GB): A large folder containing many of [[Cueball]]'s personal files.
*''misc.txt'': A miscellaneous {{w|text file}} of unknown and unknowable content.
*''Video projects'': As video files can take up a lot of space this likely makes up portion of the 47 GB.

'''Old desktop''' (12 GB): A backup from a former computer.
*''{{w|Facebook}} pics'': Pictures that where, or where intended to be added to Facebook.
*''Pics from other camera'': Unknown pictures from a second camera.
*''Temp'': Temporary folders generally contain cashed files and files that are used temporarily to install programs.
*''Misc {{w|Portable Document Format|PDF}}s'': PDFs are often used for documentation, but could be any collection of digitized books or other documents.
*''{{w|MP3}}'': MP3 is a widely-used format for digital audio files.

'''Recovered from drive crash''' (4 GB): When a {{w|Hard disk drive|hard drive}} crashes some or all data may be recovered.
*''Temp'': Temporary files.
*''Work misc'': Unknown work related projects.
*''{{w|Audiobook|Audio books}}'': Recordings books being read out loud.

'''My Documents''' (570 MB): This is a typical folder created by {{w|Microsoft Windows}} for personal documents.
*''Downloads'': A default location for downloaded files in the Windows OS.
*''{{w|Kazaa}} shared'': Kazaa is a defunct peer-to-peer file sharing program. The "shared" folder shared with other members.
*''AYB'': {{w|All your base are belong to us|ALL YOUR BASE are belong to us}} is an internet inspired by a bad translation from ''{{w|Zero Wing}}''.
*''{{w|Escape Velocity Override|EV Override}}'': An {{w|Apple Macintosh}} video game, released in 1998.
*''[http://rephial.org/ Angband]'': A game named after a fictional stronghold created by {{w|J. R. R. Tolkien}}.
*''{{w|GIF}}s'': A image format widely used for transparent or animated images.
*''{{w|Fight Club}}.wmv'': A movie. As feature movies are typically compressed to 700 megabyte, and this folder only contains 570 MB, it must be of low quality or a small screen size.
*''{{w|Elasto Mania}}'': A physics-simulation game that claims to show real physics.
*''{{w|AOL Instant Messenger|AIM}} Direct Connect files'': Files transferred via AOL Instant Messenger.
*''{{w|4chan}]'': An image-board where users can upload pictures anonymously. Randall impulsively saves pictures from there.
*''{{w|ICQ}} logs'': An instant messaging program introduced in 1996. It is no longer commonly used in North America.

'''High school {{w|Zip drive|Zip disk}}''' (94 MB): The most popular form of {{w|superfloppy}}, introduced in 1994 with a capacity of 100 MB.
*''{{w|Korn}} MIDI'': Korn is an American {{w|nu metal}} band formed in 1993. {{w|MIDI}} is a protocol for communication with electronic musical instruments. The result tends to be sounds of low quality.
*''Photos3'': This is a folder of old photos.
**''{{w|Prom}}'': Pictures taken at prom.
*''lovenote.txt'': An old text file of a {{w|love letter}}, probably to a classmate in high school.
*''{{w|Gorillas (video game)|Gorillas}}.bas'': A game written in {{w|BASIC}}, to be run on {{w|QBasic}}, and supplied with MS-DOS .
*''Dream.txt'': Some private dreams.
*''James.txt'': Perhaps [[James]] is a friend of Randall, and the same as the one who came up with [[107|xkcd #107]].
*''{{w|AOL}}'': A early online and internet service, founded in 1985 and popular in the 1990s.
**''{{w|Citadel (software)|Citadel}}'' - A {{w|BBS}} and email platform that was widely used in the 1980s and early '90s.
*''{{w|QBasic}}'': An {{w|Integrated development environment|IDE}} released by {{w|Microsoft}} in 1991, which was used to write and run computer programs in the BASIC language.
*''NYET'': ''NYET'' was a {{w|Tetris}}-like game for MS-DOS, released in 1988.
*''Jokes.txt'': An old text file of jokes.

'''AAAFILES''' (9.4 MB): Some of [[Cueball]]'s oldest documents, likely prefixed with "AAA" to put the folder at the top of an alphabetically-sorted list.

'''TXT''' (850 K): Old text files, which include poetry he didn't remember writing.

==Transcript==

:Megan (on top of stack of files): You OK down there?

:'''Documents''' (47 GB)
::misc.txt
::Video projects
:'''Old desktop''' (12 GB)
::Facebook pics
::Pics from other camera
::Temp
::Misc PDFs
::MP3
:'''Recovered from drive crash''' (4 GB)
::Temp
::Work misc
::Audio books
:'''My Documents''' (570 MB)
::Downloads
::Kazaa shared
::AYB
::EV Override
::Angband
::GIFs
::FIGHT CLUB.wmv
::Elasto Mania
::AIM Direct Connect files
::4chan
::ICQ logs
:'''High school Zip disk''' (94 MB)
::Korn MIDI
::Photos3 (Prom)
::lovenote.txt
::Gorilla.bas
::Dream.txt
::James.txt
::AOL (Citadel)
::QBasic
::NYET
::Jokes.txt
:'''AAAFILES''' (9.4 MB)
:'''TXT''' (850 K)
:Cueball (deep inside the AAAFILES section looking at his txt files): Oh my god. I wrote '''poetry'''.

{{comic discussion}}
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
[[Category:Animorphs]]
[[Category:Comics featuring James]]

1417: Seven

2014-09-05T13:43:28Z

APerson: /* Explanation */ removed a sentence of ?

{{comic
| number = 1417
| date = September 5, 2014
| title = Seven
| image = seven.png
| titletext = The days of the week are Monday, Arctic, Wellsley, Green, Electra, Synergize, and the Seventh Seal.
}}

==Explanation==
In this comic, [[Cueball]] (or perhaps [[Randall]]) says he can't distinguish between sets that have exactly seven objects. This leads him to exchange the items in the sets without noticing, to the point where, when attempting to list a single set, each item mentioned actually belongs to a different set.

This is shown in the comic when Cueball tries to enumerate the seven dwarfs from ''{{w|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs}} (a task some people might find difficult, although they would not just chose words from other sets of seven to fill in the gaps...)

The title text also makes it clear that even a simple set of seven items, like the days of the week, also goes completely wrong.

The comic is a reference to the oldest {{w|Set-theoretic_definition_of_natural_numbers#Oldest_definition|set-theoretic definition of the natural numbers}} in which for each natural number, an equivalence class is defined over all sets which contain the same number of items. As Cueball is known for mathematical thinking he could be presumed to have taken the underlying equivalence relation to heart, and (over)applying it to real life, genuinely judges sets to be identical if they both contain N objects.

The number seven being the number for when sets become indistinguishable is possibly a reference to {{w|Miller's Law}}; however, this refers to elements within the same set becoming indistinguishable, rather than indistinguishability of different sets of the same size.

===Comic List===
For each of the seven lists below, the relevant item's position on its own list of seven is equal to its position on the list in the comic. So, since "phylum" is the second major taxonomic rank, "phylum" is the second item on the list in the comic.

The seven "dwarfs" mentioned and their relevant sets of seven are (each item's position in its set is written in brackets before the item):
# Disney's Dwarfs from the movie ''{{w|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs}}''): (1) '''Sneezy''', Dopey, Bashful, Sleepy, Grumpy, Happy and Doc
# Major {{w|taxonomic ranks}}: kingdom, (2) '''phylum''', class, order, family, genus and species
# Continents: Asia, Africa, (3) '''Europe''', North America, South America, Australia and Antarctica
# {{w|Seven deadly sins|Deadly sins}}: lust, gluttony, greed, (4) '''sloth''', wrath, envy and pride
# {{w|Seven-layer dip|Seven Layer Dip (recipe)}}: refried beans, cheese, ground beef, sour cream, (5) '''guacamole''', salsa and chopped black olives/chopped tomatoes/chopped green onions
# Layers of the {{w|OSI model|Open System Interconnection (OSI) data transmission model}}: application, presentation, session, transport, network, (6) '''data link''' and physical
# {{w|Wonders of the World|Wonders of the Ancient World}}: Great Pyramid of Giza, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Lighthouse of Alexandria and (7) '''Colossus of Rhodes'''

===Title Text List===
The title text extends this saying he also does the same with the set of the seven days of the week. However, the lists found so far (here below) does not follow the same pattern as the dwarfs. The item number does not fit with that of our lists. So were no. 4 spectral colour has Green as no. 4 in the list, this is not the case with no. 5 on the list the Pleiades - here Electra is mentioned as no. 2 in {{W|Pleiades_(Greek_mythology)#The_Seven_Sisters|the wikipedia list}}. (However, this could maybe be discussed?) There is, however, reason to belive we do not yet have the complete understanding of the comic.

The sets Cueball's "days of the week" come from are (the relevant items number in the set is written in brackets before the item):
# {{w|Days of the week}}: (1) '''Monday''', Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday
# {{w|Seven_Seas#Modern|The Seven Seas (modern version)}}: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, (4?) '''Arctic''', Mediterranean, Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico.
## This could also be a reference to {{w|Climate zones}}. See [[#Trivia|Trivia]].
# {{w|Seven Sisters (colleges)|Seven Sisters}}, historically women's colleges in U.S.: Mount Holyoke, Vassar, (3) '''Wellesley''', Smith, Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr and Barnard
# Traditional {{w|spectral color}}s: red, orange, yellow, (4) '''green''', blue, indigo and violet
## However {{w|Indigo#Classification_as_a_spectral_color|indigo is stuck in}} by {{w|Isaac Newton}}. See [[#Trivia|Trivia]].
# {{w|Pleiades (mythology)|Pleiades}}, Seven Sisters, nymphs and daughters of Atlas and Pleone in Greek mythology: Maia, (2?) '''Electra''', Taygete, Alcyone, Celaeno, Sterope and Merope
# ''{{w|The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People}}'' by Dr. Stephen R. Covey: Be proactive, Begin with the end in mind, Put first things first, Think win-win, Seek first to understand and then to be understood, (6) '''Synergize''' and Sharpen the saw
# {{w|Seven_Seals|Seals}} in the Book of Revelation in the New Testament: First seal, Second seal, Third seal, Fourth seal, Fifth seal, Sixth seal and (7) '''Seventh seal'''
## Although '''very''' unlikely, ''The Seventh Seal'' could also refer to the 1957 film by Ingmar Bergman. See [[#Trivia|Trivia]].

==Transcript==
: [Megan and Cueball are talking]
: Megan: Can you name all the dwarves from Snow White?
: Cueball: Sure, there's, um...
: Cueball's thoughts: Sneezy, phylum, Europe, sloth, guacamole, data link, Colossus of Rhodes
: Caption: I have this problem where all sets of seven things are indistinguishable to me.

==Trivia==
*Arctic (no. 2 on the title text list) could also be a reference to {{w|Climate zones}}: '''Arctic''', North Temperate, Northern Subtropical, Tropical, Southern Subtropical, South Temperate and Antarctic.
** There are however usually only five mentioned acording to the {{w|Köppen climate classification}}. They are: Tropical, Dry, Temperate, Continental and Polar climate.
*Concerning the seven colour of the spectrum (no. 4 on the title text list) {{w|Indigo#Classification_as_a_spectral_color|indigo is stuck in}} by {{w|Isaac Newton}} to add up to the seven notes in the {{w|Scale_(music)#Western_music|Western musical scale}}
** It should be noted that {{w|Indigo#Classification as a spectral color|Newton probably meant}} the colours {{w|cyan}} and {{w|blue}} as we think of it today, rather than blue and {{w|indigo}}.
** Also note that in a {{w|rainbow}} you usually {{w|Rainbow#Number_of_colours_in_spectrum_or_rainbow|cannot distinguish more than six colours}} with cyan melting in with green and blue and the same for indigo with blue and violet.
** These are also the traditional seven artists' pigments, {{w|Roy_G._Biv|with the accompanying mnemonic "Roy G. Biv"}}. Indigo dye is a widely known and readily available colouring agent. The ongoing ubiquity of the ''pigment'' (think denim) gives it a unique prominence in spite of its uncertain status as a spectral colour.
*Although '''very''' unlikely, ''The Seventh Seal'' (no. 7 on the title text list) could also refer to the 1957 film by Ingmar Bergman.
**This was Bergman's seventh film with an English title beginning with the letter ‘S’ (ignoring articles). ''A Ship Bound for India'', ''Summer Interlude'', ''Secrets of Women'', ''Summer with Monika'', ''Sawdust and Tinsel'', ''Smiles of a Summer Night'', '''''The Seventh Seal'''''.
**Similary ''The Seventh Seal'' is also the seventh Bergman film whose Swedish title starts with ‘S’, although the list has some different members. ''Skepp till Indialand'', ''Sånt händer inte här'', ''Sommarlek'', ''Sommaren med Monika'', ''Sommarnattens leende'', ''Sista paret ut'', '''''Det sjunde inseglet'''''.
**''The Seventh Seal'' was also one of seven Bergman films submitted by Sweden for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film during the 1950s and 1960s. '''The Seventh Seal''', ''The Magician'', ''The Virgin Spring'', ''Through a Glass Darkly'', ''The Silence'', ''Persona'', ''Shame''.

{{comic discussion}}

1417: Seven

2014-09-05T13:39:49Z

APerson: /* Comic List */ more grammar

{{comic
| number = 1417
| date = September 5, 2014
| title = Seven
| image = seven.png
| titletext = The days of the week are Monday, Arctic, Wellsley, Green, Electra, Synergize, and the Seventh Seal.
}}

==Explanation==
In this comic, [[Cueball]] (or perhaps [[Randall]]) says he can't distinguish between sets that have exactly seven objects. This leads him to exchange the items in the sets without noticing, to the point where, when attempting to list a single set, each item mentioned actually belongs to a different set.

This is shown in the comic when Cueball tries to enumerate the seven dwarfs from ''{{w|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs}} (a task some people might find difficult, although they would not just chose words from other sets of seven to fill in the gaps...)

The title text also makes it clear that even a simple set of seven items, like the days of the week, also goes completely wrong.

The comic is a reference to the oldest {{w|Set-theoretic_definition_of_natural_numbers#Oldest_definition|set-theoretic definition of the natural numbers}} in which for each natural number, an equivalence class is defined over all sets which contain the same number of items. As Cueball is known for mathematical thinking he could be presumed to have taken the underlying equivalence relation to heart, and (over)applying it to real life, genuinely judges sets to be identical if they both contain N objects.

Seven has culturally been regarded as a holy number, which contributes to the large number of familiar sets of seven that make this comic possible. This is probably the reason why Randall chose that number for the comic.

The number seven being the number for when sets become indistinguishable is possibly a reference to {{w|Miller's Law}}; however, this refers to elements within the same set becoming indistinguishable, rather than indistinguishability of different sets of the same size.

===Comic List===
For each of the seven lists below, the relevant item's position on its own list of seven is equal to its position on the list in the comic. So, since "phylum" is the second major taxonomic rank, "phylum" is the second item on the list in the comic.

The seven "dwarfs" mentioned and their relevant sets of seven are (each item's position in its set is written in brackets before the item):
# Disney's Dwarfs from the movie ''{{w|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs}}''): (1) '''Sneezy''', Dopey, Bashful, Sleepy, Grumpy, Happy and Doc
# Major {{w|taxonomic ranks}}: kingdom, (2) '''phylum''', class, order, family, genus and species
# Continents: Asia, Africa, (3) '''Europe''', North America, South America, Australia and Antarctica
# {{w|Seven deadly sins|Deadly sins}}: lust, gluttony, greed, (4) '''sloth''', wrath, envy and pride
# {{w|Seven-layer dip|Seven Layer Dip (recipe)}}: refried beans, cheese, ground beef, sour cream, (5) '''guacamole''', salsa and chopped black olives/chopped tomatoes/chopped green onions
# Layers of the {{w|OSI model|Open System Interconnection (OSI) data transmission model}}: application, presentation, session, transport, network, (6) '''data link''' and physical
# {{w|Wonders of the World|Wonders of the Ancient World}}: Great Pyramid of Giza, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Lighthouse of Alexandria and (7) '''Colossus of Rhodes'''

===Title Text List===
The title text extends this saying he also does the same with the set of the seven days of the week. However, the lists found so far (here below) does not follow the same pattern as the dwarfs. The item number does not fit with that of our lists. So were no. 4 spectral colour has Green as no. 4 in the list, this is not the case with no. 5 on the list the Pleiades - here Electra is mentioned as no. 2 in {{W|Pleiades_(Greek_mythology)#The_Seven_Sisters|the wikipedia list}}. (However, this could maybe be discussed?) There is, however, reason to belive we do not yet have the complete understanding of the comic.

The sets Cueball's "days of the week" come from are (the relevant items number in the set is written in brackets before the item):
# {{w|Days of the week}}: (1) '''Monday''', Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday
# {{w|Seven_Seas#Modern|The Seven Seas (modern version)}}: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, (4?) '''Arctic''', Mediterranean, Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico.
## This could also be a reference to {{w|Climate zones}}. See [[#Trivia|Trivia]].
# {{w|Seven Sisters (colleges)|Seven Sisters}}, historically women's colleges in U.S.: Mount Holyoke, Vassar, (3) '''Wellesley''', Smith, Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr and Barnard
# Traditional {{w|spectral color}}s: red, orange, yellow, (4) '''green''', blue, indigo and violet
## However {{w|Indigo#Classification_as_a_spectral_color|indigo is stuck in}} by {{w|Isaac Newton}}. See [[#Trivia|Trivia]].
# {{w|Pleiades (mythology)|Pleiades}}, Seven Sisters, nymphs and daughters of Atlas and Pleone in Greek mythology: Maia, (2?) '''Electra''', Taygete, Alcyone, Celaeno, Sterope and Merope
# ''{{w|The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People}}'' by Dr. Stephen R. Covey: Be proactive, Begin with the end in mind, Put first things first, Think win-win, Seek first to understand and then to be understood, (6) '''Synergize''' and Sharpen the saw
# {{w|Seven_Seals|Seals}} in the Book of Revelation in the New Testament: First seal, Second seal, Third seal, Fourth seal, Fifth seal, Sixth seal and (7) '''Seventh seal'''
## Although '''very''' unlikely, ''The Seventh Seal'' could also refer to the 1957 film by Ingmar Bergman. See [[#Trivia|Trivia]].

==Transcript==
: [Megan and Cueball are talking]
: Megan: Can you name all the dwarves from Snow White?
: Cueball: Sure, there's, um...
: Cueball's thoughts: Sneezy, phylum, Europe, sloth, guacamole, data link, Colossus of Rhodes
: Caption: I have this problem where all sets of seven things are indistinguishable to me.

==Trivia==
*Arctic (no. 2 on the title text list) could also be a reference to {{w|Climate zones}}: '''Arctic''', North Temperate, Northern Subtropical, Tropical, Southern Subtropical, South Temperate and Antarctic.
** There are however usually only five mentioned acording to the {{w|Köppen climate classification}}. They are: Tropical, Dry, Temperate, Continental and Polar climate.
*Concerning the seven colour of the spectrum (no. 4 on the title text list) {{w|Indigo#Classification_as_a_spectral_color|indigo is stuck in}} by {{w|Isaac Newton}} to add up to the seven notes in the {{w|Scale_(music)#Western_music|Western musical scale}}
** It should be noted that {{w|Indigo#Classification as a spectral color|Newton probably meant}} the colours {{w|cyan}} and {{w|blue}} as we think of it today, rather than blue and {{w|indigo}}.
** Also note that in a {{w|rainbow}} you usually {{w|Rainbow#Number_of_colours_in_spectrum_or_rainbow|cannot distinguish more than six colours}} with cyan melting in with green and blue and the same for indigo with blue and violet.
** These are also the traditional seven artists' pigments, {{w|Roy_G._Biv|with the accompanying mnemonic "Roy G. Biv"}}. Indigo dye is a widely known and readily available colouring agent. The ongoing ubiquity of the ''pigment'' (think denim) gives it a unique prominence in spite of its uncertain status as a spectral colour.
*Although '''very''' unlikely, ''The Seventh Seal'' (no. 7 on the title text list) could also refer to the 1957 film by Ingmar Bergman.
**This was Bergman's seventh film with an English title beginning with the letter ‘S’ (ignoring articles). ''A Ship Bound for India'', ''Summer Interlude'', ''Secrets of Women'', ''Summer with Monika'', ''Sawdust and Tinsel'', ''Smiles of a Summer Night'', '''''The Seventh Seal'''''.
**Similary ''The Seventh Seal'' is also the seventh Bergman film whose Swedish title starts with ‘S’, although the list has some different members. ''Skepp till Indialand'', ''Sånt händer inte här'', ''Sommarlek'', ''Sommaren med Monika'', ''Sommarnattens leende'', ''Sista paret ut'', '''''Det sjunde inseglet'''''.
**''The Seventh Seal'' was also one of seven Bergman films submitted by Sweden for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film during the 1950s and 1960s. '''The Seventh Seal''', ''The Magician'', ''The Virgin Spring'', ''Through a Glass Darkly'', ''The Silence'', ''Persona'', ''Shame''.

{{comic discussion}}

1417: Seven

2014-09-05T13:38:48Z

APerson: /* Explanation */ grammar

{{comic
| number = 1417
| date = September 5, 2014
| title = Seven
| image = seven.png
| titletext = The days of the week are Monday, Arctic, Wellsley, Green, Electra, Synergize, and the Seventh Seal.
}}

==Explanation==
In this comic, [[Cueball]] (or perhaps [[Randall]]) says he can't distinguish between sets that have exactly seven objects. This leads him to exchange the items in the sets without noticing, to the point where, when attempting to list a single set, each item mentioned actually belongs to a different set.

This is shown in the comic when Cueball tries to enumerate the seven dwarfs from ''{{w|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs}} (a task some people might find difficult, although they would not just chose words from other sets of seven to fill in the gaps...)

The title text also makes it clear that even a simple set of seven items, like the days of the week, also goes completely wrong.

The comic is a reference to the oldest {{w|Set-theoretic_definition_of_natural_numbers#Oldest_definition|set-theoretic definition of the natural numbers}} in which for each natural number, an equivalence class is defined over all sets which contain the same number of items. As Cueball is known for mathematical thinking he could be presumed to have taken the underlying equivalence relation to heart, and (over)applying it to real life, genuinely judges sets to be identical if they both contain N objects.

Seven has culturally been regarded as a holy number, which contributes to the large number of familiar sets of seven that make this comic possible. This is probably the reason why Randall chose that number for the comic.

The number seven being the number for when sets become indistinguishable is possibly a reference to {{w|Miller's Law}}; however, this refers to elements within the same set becoming indistinguishable, rather than indistinguishability of different sets of the same size.

===Comic List===
For each of the seven lists below, the relevant item's position on its own list of seven is equal to its position on the list in the comic. So, since "phylum" is the second major taxonomic rank, "phylum" is the second item on the list in the comic.

The seven "dwarfs" mentioned and their relevant set of seven are (the relevant items number in the set is written in brackets before the item):
# Disney's Dwarfs from the movie ''{{w|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs}}''): (1) '''Sneezy''', Dopey, Bashful, Sleepy, Grumpy, Happy and Doc
# Major {{w|taxonomic ranks}}: kingdom, (2) '''phylum''', class, order, family, genus and species
# Continents: Asia, Africa, (3) '''Europe''', North America, South America, Australia and Antarctica
# {{w|Seven deadly sins|Deadly sins}}: lust, gluttony, greed, (4) '''sloth''', wrath, envy and pride
# {{w|Seven-layer dip|Seven Layer Dip (recipe)}}: refried beans, cheese, ground beef, sour cream, (5) '''guacamole''', salsa and chopped black olives/chopped tomatoes/chopped green onions
# Layers of the {{w|OSI model|Open System Interconnection (OSI) data transmission model}}: application, presentation, session, transport, network, (6) '''data link''' and physical
# {{w|Wonders of the World|Wonders of the Ancient World}}: Great Pyramid of Giza, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Lighthouse of Alexandria and (7) '''Colossus of Rhodes'''

===Title Text List===
The title text extends this saying he also does the same with the set of the seven days of the week. However, the lists found so far (here below) does not follow the same pattern as the dwarfs. The item number does not fit with that of our lists. So were no. 4 spectral colour has Green as no. 4 in the list, this is not the case with no. 5 on the list the Pleiades - here Electra is mentioned as no. 2 in {{W|Pleiades_(Greek_mythology)#The_Seven_Sisters|the wikipedia list}}. (However, this could maybe be discussed?) There is, however, reason to belive we do not yet have the complete understanding of the comic.

The sets Cueball's "days of the week" come from are (the relevant items number in the set is written in brackets before the item):
# {{w|Days of the week}}: (1) '''Monday''', Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday
# {{w|Seven_Seas#Modern|The Seven Seas (modern version)}}: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, (4?) '''Arctic''', Mediterranean, Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico.
## This could also be a reference to {{w|Climate zones}}. See [[#Trivia|Trivia]].
# {{w|Seven Sisters (colleges)|Seven Sisters}}, historically women's colleges in U.S.: Mount Holyoke, Vassar, (3) '''Wellesley''', Smith, Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr and Barnard
# Traditional {{w|spectral color}}s: red, orange, yellow, (4) '''green''', blue, indigo and violet
## However {{w|Indigo#Classification_as_a_spectral_color|indigo is stuck in}} by {{w|Isaac Newton}}. See [[#Trivia|Trivia]].
# {{w|Pleiades (mythology)|Pleiades}}, Seven Sisters, nymphs and daughters of Atlas and Pleone in Greek mythology: Maia, (2?) '''Electra''', Taygete, Alcyone, Celaeno, Sterope and Merope
# ''{{w|The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People}}'' by Dr. Stephen R. Covey: Be proactive, Begin with the end in mind, Put first things first, Think win-win, Seek first to understand and then to be understood, (6) '''Synergize''' and Sharpen the saw
# {{w|Seven_Seals|Seals}} in the Book of Revelation in the New Testament: First seal, Second seal, Third seal, Fourth seal, Fifth seal, Sixth seal and (7) '''Seventh seal'''
## Although '''very''' unlikely, ''The Seventh Seal'' could also refer to the 1957 film by Ingmar Bergman. See [[#Trivia|Trivia]].

==Transcript==
: [Megan and Cueball are talking]
: Megan: Can you name all the dwarves from Snow White?
: Cueball: Sure, there's, um...
: Cueball's thoughts: Sneezy, phylum, Europe, sloth, guacamole, data link, Colossus of Rhodes
: Caption: I have this problem where all sets of seven things are indistinguishable to me.

==Trivia==
*Arctic (no. 2 on the title text list) could also be a reference to {{w|Climate zones}}: '''Arctic''', North Temperate, Northern Subtropical, Tropical, Southern Subtropical, South Temperate and Antarctic.
** There are however usually only five mentioned acording to the {{w|Köppen climate classification}}. They are: Tropical, Dry, Temperate, Continental and Polar climate.
*Concerning the seven colour of the spectrum (no. 4 on the title text list) {{w|Indigo#Classification_as_a_spectral_color|indigo is stuck in}} by {{w|Isaac Newton}} to add up to the seven notes in the {{w|Scale_(music)#Western_music|Western musical scale}}
** It should be noted that {{w|Indigo#Classification as a spectral color|Newton probably meant}} the colours {{w|cyan}} and {{w|blue}} as we think of it today, rather than blue and {{w|indigo}}.
** Also note that in a {{w|rainbow}} you usually {{w|Rainbow#Number_of_colours_in_spectrum_or_rainbow|cannot distinguish more than six colours}} with cyan melting in with green and blue and the same for indigo with blue and violet.
** These are also the traditional seven artists' pigments, {{w|Roy_G._Biv|with the accompanying mnemonic "Roy G. Biv"}}. Indigo dye is a widely known and readily available colouring agent. The ongoing ubiquity of the ''pigment'' (think denim) gives it a unique prominence in spite of its uncertain status as a spectral colour.
*Although '''very''' unlikely, ''The Seventh Seal'' (no. 7 on the title text list) could also refer to the 1957 film by Ingmar Bergman.
**This was Bergman's seventh film with an English title beginning with the letter ‘S’ (ignoring articles). ''A Ship Bound for India'', ''Summer Interlude'', ''Secrets of Women'', ''Summer with Monika'', ''Sawdust and Tinsel'', ''Smiles of a Summer Night'', '''''The Seventh Seal'''''.
**Similary ''The Seventh Seal'' is also the seventh Bergman film whose Swedish title starts with ‘S’, although the list has some different members. ''Skepp till Indialand'', ''Sånt händer inte här'', ''Sommarlek'', ''Sommaren med Monika'', ''Sommarnattens leende'', ''Sista paret ut'', '''''Det sjunde inseglet'''''.
**''The Seventh Seal'' was also one of seven Bergman films submitted by Sweden for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film during the 1950s and 1960s. '''The Seventh Seal''', ''The Magician'', ''The Virgin Spring'', ''Through a Glass Darkly'', ''The Silence'', ''Persona'', ''Shame''.

{{comic discussion}}

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2014-02-11T23:57:16Z

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