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| title = Starwatching<br />
| image = http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/starwatching.png<br />
| titletext = I always figured the word &#39;blog&#39; would sound *less* silly as the years went by.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
This is a play on both Disney's "The Lion King" (in which Simba relates the same opening conversation with his late father, Mufasa, about the great kings of the past looking down from the stars) and [http://www.xkcd.com/239 xkcd #239] in which [http://craphound.com] Cory Doctorow] visits "from the past". The "Cory in cape and goggles" meme has [http://craphound.com/?p=2122 played out in real life] and on Doctorow's [http://craphound.com/walh/ "With A Little Help" book cover]<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:Man: Just look at those stars.<br />
:Man: My father once told me that the great bloggers of the past are up there, watching over us.<br />
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:Man: High above the blogosphere, a gap opens in the tag clouds. Cory Doctorow&#39;s voice booms forth...<br />
:Woman: You need to get out either more or less. I can&#39;t decide.<br />
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<!-- Include any categories below this line. --></div>Freeholdhalhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=428:_Starwatching&diff=39878428: Starwatching2013-06-07T22:07:38Z<p>Freeholdhal: Created page with "{{comic | number = 428 | date = <!-- Click on the "All Comics" button in the sidebar on the left and find this comic in the list. The date is in the rightmost column, ..."</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 428<br />
| date = <!-- Click on the "All Comics" button in the sidebar on the left and find this comic in the list. The date is in the rightmost column, in the form YYYY-MM-DD. Please replace this comment with the date in Mmmm D, YYYY format. --><br />
| title = Starwatching<br />
| image = http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/starwatching.png<br />
| titletext = I always figured the word &#39;blog&#39; would sound *less* silly as the years went by.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
This is a play on both Disney's "The Lion King" (in which Simba relates the same opening conversation with his late father, Mufasa, about the great kings of the past looking down from the stars) and xkcd #239 [http://www.xkcd.com/239 xkcd #239] in which [http://craphound.com] Cory Doctorow] visits "from the past". The "Cory in cape and goggles" meme has [http://craphound.com/?p=2122 played out in real life] and on Doctorow's [http://craphound.com/walh/ "With A Little Help" book cover]<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:Man: Just look at those stars.<br />
:Man: My father once told me that the great bloggers of the past are up there, watching over us.<br />
<br />
:Man: High above the blogosphere, a gap opens in the tag clouds. Cory Doctorow&#39;s voice booms forth...<br />
:Woman: You need to get out either more or less. I can&#39;t decide.<br />
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