https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Boldiski 2026-05-23T22:13:13Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.30.0 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:116:_City&diff=154627 2018-03-21T19:55:01Z

<p>Boldiski: </p> <hr /> <div>It's a long jump, but could it be a reference to [http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/mayhem/chimera.html#1 Whore], a song by a Norwegian death metal band Mayhem? Similarities include the rhythm and the &quot;alliteration&quot; effect. I wouldn't call it, but with the extra hint in the title text it begins to appear probable. Kos [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.11|108.162.219.11]] 15:56, 27 May 2014 (UTC)<br /> :I don't think Randall knows Norwegian Heavy Metal bands. But maybe I'm wrong, wiki says &quot;Mayhem is a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1984 in Oslo&quot;. So the question is: How popular was this band in the US over the last thirty years? --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 21:58, 27 May 2014 (UTC)<br /> ::Popular enough to be easily recognisable by anyone interested in the genre; it even got a major feature in a documentary (Until the Light Takes Us). That said, I understand that black metal itself is too niche to just assume Randall would be into it. Kos [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.11|108.162.219.11]] 08:05, 30 May 2014 (UTC)<br /> The drawing combined with the poem makes me think of Chicago by Carl Sandburg (even though that doesn't have a much alliteration. -Jason [[Special:Contributions/108.162.238.47|108.162.238.47]] 03:56, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br /> :May not have much to do with Carl Sandburg, but the repeated initial letters are C and S. Coincidence? Probably.[[User:Boldiski|Boldiski]] ([[User talk:Boldiski|talk]]) 19:55, 21 March 2018 (UTC)</div>

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