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Talk:2688: Bubble Universes

2022-10-21T16:42:33Z

LegionMammal978:

Is this a reference to the money kind of inflation? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.131.6|172.70.131.6]] 16:03, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

no [[Special:Contributions/172.70.114.205|172.70.114.205]] 16:29, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

*pop* [[User:JLZ0kTC5|JLZ0kTC5]] ([[User talk:JLZ0kTC5|talk]]) 16:13, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

I think this comic might be referencing the [[wikipedia:Eternal inflation|eternal inflation]] model: as the universe eternally inflates at an exponential rate, bubbles form where the inflation slows down, creating a disjoint multiverse from these bubbles being unable to interact with each other. In this comic, the process is shown as recursive. [[User:LegionMammal978|LegionMammal978]] ([[User talk:LegionMammal978|talk]]) 16:42, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

Talk:2552: The Last Molecule

2021-12-12T05:32:34Z

LegionMammal978: /* Serious hypothesis for the molecule's structure */

Unsuccessfully tried to search for a match to the image of the chemical compound. Did find this, which is difficult to use on a cellphone: OSRA: Optical Structure Recognition: https://cactus.nci.nih.gov/cgi-bin/osra/index.cgi [[Special:Contributions/172.70.211.172|1 not72.70.211.172]] 07:43, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
:I've tried to search for SMILES of the molecule, but also got nothing: https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/#query=C1(C2CC(CCC)C(CC)C2(CCCC))C%3DCC(C(%3DCCC(%3DC)CC)C(C)C)%3DC1 [[Special:Contributions/162.158.222.137|162.158.222.137]]
::Let's name it Excacidin ;) [[User:256 256.256.256|256.256.256.256]] ([[User talk:256 256.256.256|talk]]) 07:19, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

I truly don't understand the God part of the current explanation. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.110.121|172.68.110.121]] 07:55, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
:There is an article at [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/humans-make-110000th-earths-biomass-180969141/ Smithonian Magazine] that sums it up quite nicely: Of the 550 gigatons of biomass carbon on Earth, animals make up about 2 gigatons, with insects comprising half of that and fish taking up another 0.7 gigatons. Everything else, including mammals, birds, nematodes and mollusks are roughly 0.3 gigatons, with humans weighing in at 0.06 gigatons.
::About half of all known living species on earth are insects. Therefore if there was a god who created all life, it would be reasonable to assume he likes them. [[User:Bischoff|Bischoff]] ([[User talk:Bischoff|talk]]) 08:26, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
::: 1 Ton = 10^3 kg = 1 Mg → 1 gigaton = 1 Pg (note, not pentagram!) --[[User:Slashme|Slashme]] ([[User talk:Slashme|talk]]) 02:27, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Chemistry. I love chemistry :-) There is a concept called "Chemical Space" that I learned about in school. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_space may help, in short: Chemical space is a huge but finite space of all possible atom arrangements in molecules. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.91.106|162.158.91.106]] 07:59, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

I've heard the claim, that we know less about our own ocean floor than we do about the surface of Mars several times before. Is there actually a credible source for this and how do we even quantify how much we know about either area? [[User:Bischoff|Bischoff]] ([[User talk:Bischoff|talk]]) 08:26, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
:This essay might shed some light on the question. [[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/just-how-little-do-we-know-about-the-ocean-floor/ Just How Little Do We Know about the Ocean Floor?]] From a geographical perspective, our maps of the ocean floor are much less detailed than those covering Mars. (5km resolution for ocean floor, 100m resolution for Mars - radar doesn't work underwater). [[Special:Contributions/162.158.107.18|162.158.107.18]] 09:25, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

The current explanation says that there are an infinite number of chemicals. Is that true? Source? Explanation how that is possible?
Obviously the number of possible molecules is huge, but is it actually a literal, mathematical infinite? Given a finite observable universe, with presumably a finite number of atoms in it. There appear to be a finite number of elements which are stable for any appreciable amount of time and capable of forming molecules.
It seems like there might be practical limitations to the size of a molecule, so that you can't keep making bigger and bigger ones just by adding more atoms/subunits?
If you just keep adding carbon atoms to a diamond will you eventually reach a point where forces such as gravitation become a factor and the molecular bonds fail? I can imagine that long chain molecules light years long might reach point where other forces overwhelm the bond strength? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.76|108.162.246.76]] 09:10, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
:For obvious reasons, as long as you limit the number of atoms involved the number of possible "molecules" is - in a mathematical sense - finite. (As there is only a finite number of reasonable stable elements.) But already simple things like polymers can bind millions of atoms in a single molecule. Together with the possible variations intrinsic to such polymers a simple "material" like phenolic resin [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenol_formaldehyde_resin]] is a mixture of more different chemical compounds (in a strict sense) than mankind can ever describe. For all practical application this compexity is not relevant, so no one really cares about.
Additionally there is no clear boundary between typical molecules and other types of condensed matter, like crystals. Same applies to biochemistry. Does chemistry include bio-molecules? If yes, the chemistry guy have to include all the gene sequencing in their to-do list.

"how fast does light travel in one direction?" is not a good example for incompleteness in physics, because this question was settled by Michelson and Morley in the 19th century (answer: it travels with the speed of light)
: It's not clear to me either what was meant here - seems out of place.
:We know how fast light travels when it goes somewhere and comes back – that's ''c'' – but we don't know how fast it goes when only traveling in one direction. For example, light going at ''c''/2 in one direction and returning instantaneously in the other would still match our observations. We also can't reliably synchronize clocks over a distance because we'd either have to do it with a speed-of-light delay, or separate two clocks and find that relativity changed the timings. Of course, Occam's razor indicates that a consistent speed is more likely, but that's not proof. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.126.87|172.70.126.87]] 12:42, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
:Observing two points (nominal source and nominal destination) from a third point perpendicularly off the mid-point between thoss two points, at an arbitrary distance, you ought to see if there's slowness or instaneity involved (at least make a comparison between bidirectional traversal). This does not remove a response bias in the signal from either end as sent towards the recorder at the observation point, but as the stand-off is increased it makes both observation paths nearer and nearer to parallel and so significantly removes the quantifiable initial 'sideways bias' that may exist.
:I leave it as an excercise to the reader to produce the reasons why this might not practically work to quash all such 'inbuilt universal asymmetry', but it's a good start! [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.141|172.70.90.141]] 13:21, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
:I genuinely don't understand the confusion being proposed here; in practice it's trivial to synchronize a single photon emitter with a single photon detector (such as a PMT) and confirm the speed of light across a single path, with no return trip involved. As far as I know there is know precidence in QM to suspect bidirectional travel could be a special case.
:I like Veritasium as much as the next guy, but I don't think that this one is a serious debate like the other examples. If you're going to consider something like this a great unsolved mystery in physics, I'm sure there are countless other questions just like this for almost every topic in physics and not everything can be a great unsolved mystery.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.134.23|172.70.134.23]] 17:37, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

To quote Randall Munroe in https://what-if.xkcd.com/114/, "The whole universe is matter, as far as we can tell. No one is sure why there is more matter than antimatter, since the laws of physics are pretty symmetrical, and there's no reason to expect there to be more of one than the other. Although when it comes down to it, there's no reason to expect anything at all." Antimatter aside, this shows that the laws of the universe are sometimes asymmetrical. I also like the point that "when it comes down to it, there's no reason to expect anything." Why should we expect the speed of light to be symmetrical? There's no real reason to. [[User:Beret|Beret]] ([[User talk:Beret|talk]]) 14:53, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
:On the contrary, without any such thing as the æther (the fundament through which we would be passing) there is no reason to expect the speed of light (in any given frame of reference) to be asymmetrical. Relativistic frame-dragging and other distortions due to (or resulting in!) accelerative forces will act accordingly, but not change ''c'' itself, in proper calculations, as a function to direction. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.12|172.70.86.12]] 16:02, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

::https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_speed_of_light In any case, the point is that there is no reason to expect light speed to be symmetrical, either. Asymmetry in this case is not due to frame dragging, it would be some fundamental feature of photons or the universe. There is currently no experimental way to test this. [[User:Beret|Beret]] ([[User talk:Beret|talk]]) 17:00, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Maybe we can cite one of some famous declarations of physicist saying the physics is almost done [https://nautil.us/blog/the-comforting-certainty-of-unanswered-questions (taken from this site)] :

:The British scientist William Cecil Dampier recalled his apprenticeship at Cambridge in the 1890s: “It seemed as though the main framework had been put together once for all, and that little remained to be done but to measure physical constants to the increased accuracy represented by another decimal place.” British physicist J. J. Thomson: “All that was left was to alter a decimal or two in some physical constant.” American physicist Albert A. Michelson: “Our future discoveries must be looked for in the sixth place of decimals.”
:My physics professor from freshman year: "If you're ever in a room with physicists who say that the physics of Earth are done, and there's nothing else left to calculate, ask them "what about turbulence?". You'll be sure to get some dirty looks."[[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.122|108.162.246.122]] 21:08, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
--[[User:Marceluda|Marceluda]] ([[User talk:Marceluda|talk]]) 15:32, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

I'd argue that fusion on earth is an engineering problem, not a matter of physics completeness (yeah, engineering is just applied physics and math just theoretical physics and biology what happens when you close two physicists in a room for too long, but still). Also, the problem of the symmetry of light speed is, from the present understanding of physics, a matter of metaphysics. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.94.143|172.68.94.143]] 13:42, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
:Having worked in fusion research, I'd say it's still a physics problem because we don't yet know if it's physically possible for a burning plasma to be confined for long enough on a small enough scale to create a viable power plant. It's not necessarily just a question of designing the right machine, if you see what I mean. And if it was, I'd like to think we'd find a few hundred billion of dollars of funding and just get it done. IMO the reason it's not a funding priority is that we can't be sure it would work with _any_ amount of money. That said, while it's potentially a question of great value to humanity, I don't think it's significant in terms of the completeness of physics as a field. --[[User:192·168·0·1|192·168·0·1]] ([[User talk:192·168·0·1|talk]]) 15:18, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
:To rant further about fusion funding, we don't know whether we can win any given war either but that doesn't stop us spending trillions of dollars on them. Maybe if we called fusion research "the war on paying for electricity / wrecking the environment" maybe we'd get it sorted. --[[User:192·168·0·1|192·168·0·1]] ([[User talk:192·168·0·1|talk]]) 15:23, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Regarding the final molecule, using the above mentioned cactus website optical recognition I got: *[C@H](*CC[C@H](C)[C@H](C1CC1C[C@H](CC)CCC)C2[C@H](*)[C@@H]2C)CC3C*(CCC)C(CCC)[C@H]3CCCCC, which isn't recognized as a molecule. Anyone have any better ideas on if there is a similar known molecule? [[User:Stickfigurefan|Stickfigurefan]] ([[User talk:Stickfigurefan|talk]]) 17:16, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Regarding the completeness of chemistry, I see no reason why a DNA molecule can't be longer than observable universe (it definitely wouldn't collapse into black hole ; obviously, tugging on it would break it somewhere). Regarding the completeness of biology, what organism would such molecule encode? While, mathematically speaking, observable universe is finite, I would consider this idea alone to ensure chemistry and biology can't ever be complete. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 23:35, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Should we really use "citation needed" for a quotation, where we might actually want a citation? We're only supposed to use that ironically here. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 17:46, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

== Why citation needed? ==

I saw a citation needed about the Higgs Boson. Is it needed for humor? The higgs boson isn't obvious.--[[Special:Contributions/172.70.34.191|172.70.34.191]] 19:14, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

== Circular reasoning ==

I think something could be added about how determining how "complete" is a discipline already requires a complete knowledge of that discipline, even if we limit this to the inappropriate "number of known entities" approach. Some plausible estimates are naturally possible and a historic example seems to be more in line with the current explanation. A good fit seems to be how in physics the proton, neutron and electron model seemed at some point quite complete and was less crowded than the current one, still not sure how much of this understanding is a myth or how to put it in the explanation, so I prefer to leave it to someone else. For biology Wikipedia has {{w|Biological dark matter}} and the more theoretical {{w|Shadow biosphere}}, in case the number of unstudied multicellular organisms isn't sobering enough. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.98.153|172.70.98.153]] 02:07, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

== Serious hypothesis for the molecule's structure ==

I'm not sure why everyone keeps interpreting the picture as only containing carbon atoms. The leftmost moiety is clearly an ''O''<sup>2</sup>-substituted furanosyl group; exactly which furanose it is is uncertain, since the stereochemistry is not indicated at all. It could be <small>D</small>-ribofuranose, <small>D</small>-arabinofuranose, <small>D</small>-xylofuranose, <small>D</small>-lyxofuranose, or any of their <small>L</small>-enantiomers.

The central ring best matches the pattern of a 1,2,4-triazole, just looking at the bond patterns. It is consistent with how I've seen them in other compounds. Similarly, the rightmost group is clearly the -COOH of a carboxylic acid.

Probably the most ambiguous group is the one second from the right. Based on the bond patterns alone, it would be consistent with an amidine, which is probably the possibility most likely to occur in real compounds. However, ''N''′-monosubstituted amidines seem pretty rare based on a cursory search, and most likely tautomerize quickly into ''N''-monosubstituted amidines. I don't have any other idea of what it could be, though.

I strongly suspect that the furanose is <small>D</small>-ribofuranose. The leftmost three groups can be seen as a modification of [[wikipedia:Adenosine|adenosine]], which is one of the nucleosides found in DNA. In addition, '''the majority of this molecule exactly matches the antiviral drug [[wikipedia:Taribavirin|taribavirin]]''', which is used against hepatitis C and influenza. In fact, the drug may very well have been the inspiration for this molecule. The only two differences are an ''O''<sup>2</sup>-propyl substitution on the ribofuranose, and an ''N''′-(carboxymethyl) substitution on the amidine.

Assuming this interpretation of the molecule's structure is correct, its preferred IUPAC name (PIN) is "[(amino{1-[(2''R'',3''S'',4''R'',6''R'')-4-hydroxy-5-(hydroxymethyl)-3-propoxyoxolan-2-yl]-1''H''-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl}methylidene)amino]acetic acid". [[User:LegionMammal978|LegionMammal978]] ([[User talk:LegionMammal978|talk]]) 05:29, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Talk:2552: The Last Molecule

2021-12-12T05:29:56Z

LegionMammal978: /* Serious hypothesis for the molecule's structure */ new section

Unsuccessfully tried to search for a match to the image of the chemical compound. Did find this, which is difficult to use on a cellphone: OSRA: Optical Structure Recognition: https://cactus.nci.nih.gov/cgi-bin/osra/index.cgi [[Special:Contributions/172.70.211.172|1 not72.70.211.172]] 07:43, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
:I've tried to search for SMILES of the molecule, but also got nothing: https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/#query=C1(C2CC(CCC)C(CC)C2(CCCC))C%3DCC(C(%3DCCC(%3DC)CC)C(C)C)%3DC1 [[Special:Contributions/162.158.222.137|162.158.222.137]]
::Let's name it Excacidin ;) [[User:256 256.256.256|256.256.256.256]] ([[User talk:256 256.256.256|talk]]) 07:19, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

I truly don't understand the God part of the current explanation. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.110.121|172.68.110.121]] 07:55, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
:There is an article at [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/humans-make-110000th-earths-biomass-180969141/ Smithonian Magazine] that sums it up quite nicely: Of the 550 gigatons of biomass carbon on Earth, animals make up about 2 gigatons, with insects comprising half of that and fish taking up another 0.7 gigatons. Everything else, including mammals, birds, nematodes and mollusks are roughly 0.3 gigatons, with humans weighing in at 0.06 gigatons.
::About half of all known living species on earth are insects. Therefore if there was a god who created all life, it would be reasonable to assume he likes them. [[User:Bischoff|Bischoff]] ([[User talk:Bischoff|talk]]) 08:26, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
::: 1 Ton = 10^3 kg = 1 Mg → 1 gigaton = 1 Pg (note, not pentagram!) --[[User:Slashme|Slashme]] ([[User talk:Slashme|talk]]) 02:27, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Chemistry. I love chemistry :-) There is a concept called "Chemical Space" that I learned about in school. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_space may help, in short: Chemical space is a huge but finite space of all possible atom arrangements in molecules. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.91.106|162.158.91.106]] 07:59, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

I've heard the claim, that we know less about our own ocean floor than we do about the surface of Mars several times before. Is there actually a credible source for this and how do we even quantify how much we know about either area? [[User:Bischoff|Bischoff]] ([[User talk:Bischoff|talk]]) 08:26, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
:This essay might shed some light on the question. [[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/just-how-little-do-we-know-about-the-ocean-floor/ Just How Little Do We Know about the Ocean Floor?]] From a geographical perspective, our maps of the ocean floor are much less detailed than those covering Mars. (5km resolution for ocean floor, 100m resolution for Mars - radar doesn't work underwater). [[Special:Contributions/162.158.107.18|162.158.107.18]] 09:25, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

The current explanation says that there are an infinite number of chemicals. Is that true? Source? Explanation how that is possible?
Obviously the number of possible molecules is huge, but is it actually a literal, mathematical infinite? Given a finite observable universe, with presumably a finite number of atoms in it. There appear to be a finite number of elements which are stable for any appreciable amount of time and capable of forming molecules.
It seems like there might be practical limitations to the size of a molecule, so that you can't keep making bigger and bigger ones just by adding more atoms/subunits?
If you just keep adding carbon atoms to a diamond will you eventually reach a point where forces such as gravitation become a factor and the molecular bonds fail? I can imagine that long chain molecules light years long might reach point where other forces overwhelm the bond strength? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.76|108.162.246.76]] 09:10, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
:For obvious reasons, as long as you limit the number of atoms involved the number of possible "molecules" is - in a mathematical sense - finite. (As there is only a finite number of reasonable stable elements.) But already simple things like polymers can bind millions of atoms in a single molecule. Together with the possible variations intrinsic to such polymers a simple "material" like phenolic resin [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenol_formaldehyde_resin]] is a mixture of more different chemical compounds (in a strict sense) than mankind can ever describe. For all practical application this compexity is not relevant, so no one really cares about.
Additionally there is no clear boundary between typical molecules and other types of condensed matter, like crystals. Same applies to biochemistry. Does chemistry include bio-molecules? If yes, the chemistry guy have to include all the gene sequencing in their to-do list.

"how fast does light travel in one direction?" is not a good example for incompleteness in physics, because this question was settled by Michelson and Morley in the 19th century (answer: it travels with the speed of light)
: It's not clear to me either what was meant here - seems out of place.
:We know how fast light travels when it goes somewhere and comes back – that's ''c'' – but we don't know how fast it goes when only traveling in one direction. For example, light going at ''c''/2 in one direction and returning instantaneously in the other would still match our observations. We also can't reliably synchronize clocks over a distance because we'd either have to do it with a speed-of-light delay, or separate two clocks and find that relativity changed the timings. Of course, Occam's razor indicates that a consistent speed is more likely, but that's not proof. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.126.87|172.70.126.87]] 12:42, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
:Observing two points (nominal source and nominal destination) from a third point perpendicularly off the mid-point between thoss two points, at an arbitrary distance, you ought to see if there's slowness or instaneity involved (at least make a comparison between bidirectional traversal). This does not remove a response bias in the signal from either end as sent towards the recorder at the observation point, but as the stand-off is increased it makes both observation paths nearer and nearer to parallel and so significantly removes the quantifiable initial 'sideways bias' that may exist.
:I leave it as an excercise to the reader to produce the reasons why this might not practically work to quash all such 'inbuilt universal asymmetry', but it's a good start! [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.141|172.70.90.141]] 13:21, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
:I genuinely don't understand the confusion being proposed here; in practice it's trivial to synchronize a single photon emitter with a single photon detector (such as a PMT) and confirm the speed of light across a single path, with no return trip involved. As far as I know there is know precidence in QM to suspect bidirectional travel could be a special case.
:I like Veritasium as much as the next guy, but I don't think that this one is a serious debate like the other examples. If you're going to consider something like this a great unsolved mystery in physics, I'm sure there are countless other questions just like this for almost every topic in physics and not everything can be a great unsolved mystery.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.134.23|172.70.134.23]] 17:37, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

To quote Randall Munroe in https://what-if.xkcd.com/114/, "The whole universe is matter, as far as we can tell. No one is sure why there is more matter than antimatter, since the laws of physics are pretty symmetrical, and there's no reason to expect there to be more of one than the other. Although when it comes down to it, there's no reason to expect anything at all." Antimatter aside, this shows that the laws of the universe are sometimes asymmetrical. I also like the point that "when it comes down to it, there's no reason to expect anything." Why should we expect the speed of light to be symmetrical? There's no real reason to. [[User:Beret|Beret]] ([[User talk:Beret|talk]]) 14:53, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
:On the contrary, without any such thing as the æther (the fundament through which we would be passing) there is no reason to expect the speed of light (in any given frame of reference) to be asymmetrical. Relativistic frame-dragging and other distortions due to (or resulting in!) accelerative forces will act accordingly, but not change ''c'' itself, in proper calculations, as a function to direction. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.12|172.70.86.12]] 16:02, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

::https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_speed_of_light In any case, the point is that there is no reason to expect light speed to be symmetrical, either. Asymmetry in this case is not due to frame dragging, it would be some fundamental feature of photons or the universe. There is currently no experimental way to test this. [[User:Beret|Beret]] ([[User talk:Beret|talk]]) 17:00, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Maybe we can cite one of some famous declarations of physicist saying the physics is almost done [https://nautil.us/blog/the-comforting-certainty-of-unanswered-questions (taken from this site)] :

:The British scientist William Cecil Dampier recalled his apprenticeship at Cambridge in the 1890s: “It seemed as though the main framework had been put together once for all, and that little remained to be done but to measure physical constants to the increased accuracy represented by another decimal place.” British physicist J. J. Thomson: “All that was left was to alter a decimal or two in some physical constant.” American physicist Albert A. Michelson: “Our future discoveries must be looked for in the sixth place of decimals.”
:My physics professor from freshman year: "If you're ever in a room with physicists who say that the physics of Earth are done, and there's nothing else left to calculate, ask them "what about turbulence?". You'll be sure to get some dirty looks."[[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.122|108.162.246.122]] 21:08, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
--[[User:Marceluda|Marceluda]] ([[User talk:Marceluda|talk]]) 15:32, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

I'd argue that fusion on earth is an engineering problem, not a matter of physics completeness (yeah, engineering is just applied physics and math just theoretical physics and biology what happens when you close two physicists in a room for too long, but still). Also, the problem of the symmetry of light speed is, from the present understanding of physics, a matter of metaphysics. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.94.143|172.68.94.143]] 13:42, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
:Having worked in fusion research, I'd say it's still a physics problem because we don't yet know if it's physically possible for a burning plasma to be confined for long enough on a small enough scale to create a viable power plant. It's not necessarily just a question of designing the right machine, if you see what I mean. And if it was, I'd like to think we'd find a few hundred billion of dollars of funding and just get it done. IMO the reason it's not a funding priority is that we can't be sure it would work with _any_ amount of money. That said, while it's potentially a question of great value to humanity, I don't think it's significant in terms of the completeness of physics as a field. --[[User:192·168·0·1|192·168·0·1]] ([[User talk:192·168·0·1|talk]]) 15:18, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
:To rant further about fusion funding, we don't know whether we can win any given war either but that doesn't stop us spending trillions of dollars on them. Maybe if we called fusion research "the war on paying for electricity / wrecking the environment" maybe we'd get it sorted. --[[User:192·168·0·1|192·168·0·1]] ([[User talk:192·168·0·1|talk]]) 15:23, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Regarding the final molecule, using the above mentioned cactus website optical recognition I got: *[C@H](*CC[C@H](C)[C@H](C1CC1C[C@H](CC)CCC)C2[C@H](*)[C@@H]2C)CC3C*(CCC)C(CCC)[C@H]3CCCCC, which isn't recognized as a molecule. Anyone have any better ideas on if there is a similar known molecule? [[User:Stickfigurefan|Stickfigurefan]] ([[User talk:Stickfigurefan|talk]]) 17:16, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Regarding the completeness of chemistry, I see no reason why a DNA molecule can't be longer than observable universe (it definitely wouldn't collapse into black hole ; obviously, tugging on it would break it somewhere). Regarding the completeness of biology, what organism would such molecule encode? While, mathematically speaking, observable universe is finite, I would consider this idea alone to ensure chemistry and biology can't ever be complete. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 23:35, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Should we really use "citation needed" for a quotation, where we might actually want a citation? We're only supposed to use that ironically here. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 17:46, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

== Why citation needed? ==

I saw a citation needed about the Higgs Boson. Is it needed for humor? The higgs boson isn't obvious.--[[Special:Contributions/172.70.34.191|172.70.34.191]] 19:14, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

== Circular reasoning ==

I think something could be added about how determining how "complete" is a discipline already requires a complete knowledge of that discipline, even if we limit this to the inappropriate "number of known entities" approach. Some plausible estimates are naturally possible and a historic example seems to be more in line with the current explanation. A good fit seems to be how in physics the proton, neutron and electron model seemed at some point quite complete and was less crowded than the current one, still not sure how much of this understanding is a myth or how to put it in the explanation, so I prefer to leave it to someone else. For biology Wikipedia has {{w|Biological dark matter}} and the more theoretical {{w|Shadow biosphere}}, in case the number of unstudied multicellular organisms isn't sobering enough. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.98.153|172.70.98.153]] 02:07, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

== Serious hypothesis for the molecule's structure ==

I'm not sure why everyone keeps interpreting the picture as only containing carbon atoms. The leftmost moiety is clearly an ''O''<sup>2</sup>-substituted furanosyl group; exactly which furanose it is is uncertain, since the stereochemistry is not indicated at all. It could be <small>D</small>-ribofuranose, <small>D</small>-arabinofuranose, <small>D</small>-xylofuranose, <small>D</small>-lyxofuranose, or any of their <small>L</small>-enantiomers.

The central ring best matches the pattern of a 1,2,4-triazole, just looking at the bond patterns. It is consistent with how I've seen them in other compounds. Similarly, the rightmost group is clearly the -COOH of a carboxylic acid.

Probably the most ambiguous group is the one second from the right. Based on the bond patterns alone, it would be consistent with an amidine, which is probably the possibility most likely to occur in real compounds. However, ''N''′-monosubstituted amidines seem pretty rare based on a cursory search, and most likely tautomerize quickly into ''N''-monosubstituted amidines. I don't have any other idea of what it could be, though.

I strongly suspect that the furanose is <small>D</small>-ribofuranose. The leftmost three groups can be seen as a modification of [[wikipedia:Adenosine|adenosine]], which is one of the nucleosides found in DNA. In addition, '''the majority of this molecule exactly matches the antiviral drug [[wikipedia:Taribavirin|taribavirin]]''', which is used against hepatitis C and influenza. In fact, the drug may very well have been the inspiration for this molecule.

Assuming this interpretation of the molecule's structure is correct, its preferred IUPAC name (PIN) is "[(amino{1-[(2''R'',3''S'',4''R'',6''R'')-4-hydroxy-5-(hydroxymethyl)-3-propoxyoxolan-2-yl]-1''H''-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl}methylidene)amino]acetic acid". [[User:LegionMammal978|LegionMammal978]] ([[User talk:LegionMammal978|talk]]) 05:29, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

915: Connoisseur

2020-10-01T13:21:23Z

LegionMammal978:

{{comic
| number = 915
| date = June 22, 2011
| title = Connoisseur
| image = connoisseur.png
| titletext = Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.
}}

==Explanation==
[[White Hat]] is fond of good {{w|wine}}, and he can probably distinguish slight differences in different types of wine, perhaps being the type that attends {{w|wine tasting}} parties. He doesn't like the cheap wine that Cueball has served for him (implying a cheap wine cannot be a good one, a statement most wine enthusiasts passionately agree with), looking with disgust at the label of the offending bottle.

On the other hand, [[Cueball]] doesn't have a preference; all of them taste the same for him, so presumably he gets the cheaper ones. White Hat tells Cueball that if he just tried some really good wine and paid more attention he would discover a whole new world.

Cueball's answer is the main message of the comic. He says that wine is no different from anything else in this respect, and makes a list starting with the wine but then going past {{w|house music}}, {{w|fonts}}, {{w|ants}}, ending with {{w|Wikipedia:Signatures|Wikipedia signatures}} and {{w|Canadian}} {{w|surrealist}} {{w|porn}}. His point being if you spend enough time focusing on any one subject, then you'll become a snobby '''{{w|connoisseur}}''' on that topic.

White Hat tries to defend wine by saying that some things have more depth than others (wine being among them), but Cueball challenges him on this by choosing something as obscure as 500 pictures of {{w|Joe Biden}}, then {{w|Vice President of the United States}} alongside {{w|Barack Obama}}, eating a sandwich as an example. He claims that if people were locked up in a box with those pictures for a year, they would end up being connoisseurs with the same vehemence regarding the best picture as wine tasters can be about the best wine.

White Hat claims that this is an exaggeration, but Cueball takes this as a challenge so in the last panel, apparently White Hat and Cueball are actually running this experiment to see if they will end up concentrating on slight differences among the pictures of Joe Biden eating a sandwich, just in the same way that White Hat concentrates on slight differences among different kinds of wine. The result of the experiment is clearly going to Cueball's side, the discussion being mainly between the importance of mayo or the light through lettuce from the sandwiches.

This mentality may also be applied to online groups based on any subject (such as television shows, films, and other hobbies and interests), where arguments and vehement, stubborn opinions are common despite the fairly unimportant subject.

The title text presents the same idea in a different wording. The "scale of our brains" refers to a concept similar to Richard Dawkins' {{w|Middle World}}, where things too small (say, smaller than the point of a pin) or too big (bigger than what we can see from a mountaintop) are just out of our comprehension, so the things our brains understand must be neither too small nor too big, i.e. the "middle world".

However, the title text goes further in this idea: When we find things too big (like the distance to the Moon), we shrink it so that it fits into the "middle world" we're used to. Conversely, when we find things too small (say, a mote of dust), we expand it for the same reason. In a quite similar way, if all we have is pictures of Joe Biden eating a sandwich, we "resize" that subject so that we can fill books with the details about the pictures.

==Transcript==
:[White Hat is holding a wine glass down in one hand and holding a bottle of wine up in front of him with the other hand. He is looking at the label and talking with Cueball standing next to him with his own filled wine glass in one hand. He is looking down at the glass.]
:White Hat: How do you stand this cheap wine?
:Cueball: Wine all tastes the same to me.

:[Close-up of White Hat.]
:White Hat: You've just never had ''good'' wine. If you paid more attention, you'd realize there's a whole world here.

:[Close-up on Cueball, who spreads his arms out, resulting in the wine in the glass sloshing so much that part of the wine is above the rim of the glass, some even hanging over the edge and a spray droplet hanging above the sloshing liquid.]
:Cueball: But that's true of ''anything!'' Wine, house music, fonts, ants, Wikipedia signatures, Canadian surrealist porn—
:Cueball: Spend enough time with any of them and you'll become a snobby connoisseur.

:[This panel has no border and is next to but aligned further down than the first three panels. It shows a zoom out of both White Hat and Cueball again. White Hat now has both glass and bottle held down at his side. Cueball holds his glass down, but tilted away from him. A small puddle of wine is on the floor next to Cueball.]
:White Hat: But some things do have more depth than others.
:Cueball: If you locked people in a box for a year with 500 still frames of Joe Biden eating a sandwich, by the end they'd be adamant that some were great and some were terrible.
:White Hat: You're exaggerating.
:Cueball: Oh, really?

:[This panel is below the feet of the two characters from the previous panel. It goes further to the left than those two, and is wider than the previous panels, but it does not go much past the middle, so there is a blank white space to the left of this panel, below the first and most of the second panel. It shows a box, with two star burst on the surface from where two voices emanate from the inside. Over the top left of the panels frame is a small frame with a caption:]
:A year later:
:The voice from left side of the box: Sure, most closed-mouth frames are boring, but in #415, the way the man's jaw frames the mayo on his hand is pure perfection, and—
:The voice from right side of the box: What a surprise- ''you'' praising a mayo frame. Listening to '''you''', I'd think there was nothing else in The Sandwich.
:The voice from right side of the box: Frankly, the light hitting J.B.'s collar through the lettuce would put #242 in my top ten even if he had ''no'' mayo on his hand at ''all''.

==Trivia==
*Specialized interests and the people involved in them are used again, with ants being the subject of [[1610: Fire Ants]], typefaces in [[590: Papyrus]] and [[736: Cemetery]], plastic straws in [[1095: Crazy Straws]] and porn-video quality in [[598: Porn]].
*In [[1534: Beer]], Cueball also argue slight differences in alcohol brands don't make much difference (in 915 "Wine all tastes the same to me."; in 1534, "maybe we should just admit that all beer tastes kind of bad and everyone's just pretending?") and people just pretend due to social pressure.

{{comic discussion}}

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Talk:76: Familiar

2020-09-24T18:37:13Z

LegionMammal978: /* Comic rotation */

What do you reckon is missing from the explanation? ––[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 14:26, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
:I'm running through the first comics and when I feel that something is missing it just gets the incomplete tag. Everyone is welcome to fix and remove this tag. The most worse error here was :) instead of :(.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 15:22, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
::The happy smiley was ''after'' the sentence dryly ''explaining'' the fairly obvious thing that a sad smiley means sadness. It was totally intentional, meant as a joke, funny or not! It could have been ;) though. –[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 07:55, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
:::The title text shows :( not more or less. If you have ideas beyond of this explain it, but do not change the original text.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 20:14, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
::::This is confused. How do you mean, I changed the original text? –[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 09:36, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
:::::Go here: [[http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=76:_Familiar&diff=prev&oldid=43148]], you did change the ":(" to ";)" and a few edits before you did ":)". I just did edit this to the correct sadness symbol. When Randall talks about apples you can't explain bananas.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 10:44, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
::::::I'm removing the sentence. It was just a joke, but it wasn't appreciated. :( ––[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 19:19, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
:::::::What the hell you are doing? We need an explain for the title text, even when it's simple.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 19:32, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
::::::::No. You don't need to explain what a smiley is. Everybody knows. Especially on the internet. There's got to be a limit; we don't, for example, explain the meaning of common english words. –[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 08:18, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
Is this the shortest title text? [[User:Fabian42|Fabian42]] ([[User talk:Fabian42|talk]]) 10:56, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
:If you don't count comics without any title text at all, then yeah, I'm pretty sure it is. [[User:SuperSupermario24|<span style="color: #b000ff;">SuperSupermario24</span>]] 06:32, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

== Comic rotation ==

Anyone else notice the comic is rotated 90 degrees clockwise for them on the xkcd website? I’m using Safari on an iPhone. {{unsigned|172.68.142.209}}
:It's fine in Chrome on Android and Debian. [[User:Fabian42|Fabian42]] ([[User talk:Fabian42|talk]]) 01:13, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
::Exif.Image.Orientation is set to rotate the image. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.238|108.162.219.238]] 21:10, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
::Also rotated in Chrome on Mac as of May 2020
:::As well as for Chrome on PC as of July 2020.[[User:Blueshoes317|Blueshoes317]] ([[User talk:Blueshoes317|talk]]) 16:26, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
:Currently not rotated in Firefox on Debian. [[User:ExcarnateSojourner|ExcarnateSojourner]] ([[User talk:ExcarnateSojourner|talk]]) 02:47, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
::Rotated in Firefox on Ubuntu as of September 2020. [[User:LegionMammal978|LegionMammal978]] ([[User talk:LegionMammal978|talk]]) 18:37, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

Talk:2327: Oily House Index

2020-07-02T01:00:13Z

LegionMammal978:

Dangit Randall, this was my retirement plan & now everybody's gonna want to try it!
[[User:ProphetZarquon|ProphetZarquon]] ([[User talk:ProphetZarquon|talk]]) 00:53, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

=== Maths ===
Can someone figure out where I went wrong here?

>The comic then applies dimensional analysis to this index: dividing $/sqft by $/bbl yields a result whose dimension is a linear measurement, which can be called length. 1 barrel is 5.6 cubic feet. The average price per square foot of a new single-family dwelling in the USA in 2019 was about 119 $/sqft, while the price of oil in mid 2019 was about $60/BBL or $337/cubic foot. Dividing gives 60/337 feet-1 or about 5.61 feet. (This doesn't match the value shown on the chart of around 15, so we have done something wrong here. :))

Thanks. [[User:Stevage|Stevage]] ([[User talk:Stevage|talk]]) 00:54, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

:Since barrels are in the denominator, you have to divide by 5.6 to get the price per cubic foot. [[User:LegionMammal978|LegionMammal978]] ([[User talk:LegionMammal978|talk]]) 01:00, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Talk:2293: RIP John Conway

2020-04-14T01:39:37Z

LegionMammal978:

This is really very impressive. The design of the stick figure to allow it to release a glider that ascends upwards (the "soul" rising to "heaven" or whatever) with the body decaying - that's a hard thing to get right using just the Game of Life rules. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.68.175|172.69.68.175]] 17:49, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
:Although Randall is clever, the Game of Life has been studied for so long that I'm sure this is a well-known animation. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 18:29, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
:: I played with the game a bunch in the past, but I've only done a bit of research after this appeared. I don't immediately find any previous report of this starting arrangement
:: This is unlikely, as the Game of Life has an uncountable number of patterns of this size, some of which are still being discovered. The pattern above is 7 cells wide by 9 cells tall - the number of distinct patterns that can be drawn in that box nears 2 --> 60 --> 1 (2^60). It's most likely that patterns such as this one are commonplace, and Randall just fiddled around until he reached one that he desired. The pattern itself, however, has likely never been discovered before. (As a fun postscript, [http://catagolue.appspot.com/object/xp16_0c2w3vz33032988/b3s23 a notable 8-cell wide, 9-cell tall pattern oscillating at period 16], just slightly larger than the one above, was discovered in February 2020.)[[User:Hdjensofjfnen|Hdjensofjfnen]] ([[User talk:Hdjensofjfnen|talk]]) 21:31, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

was there a placeholder comic posted before the gif went live?

Looks like this is second animated comic in xkcd, besides 1116(though 1190 could be possibly counted together) [[Special:Contributions/172.69.190.16|172.69.190.16]] 19:34, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
:Uh, [[1331: Frequency]] and [[1264: Slideshow]] immediately come to mind, and then I remember about [[961: Eternal Flame]]. There's a lot more than two. [[User:Volleo6144|Volleo6144]] ([[User talk:Volleo6144|talk]]) 19:43, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
::[[:Category:Comics with animation]]; just added it. [[User:Yngvadottir|Yngvadottir]] ([[User talk:Yngvadottir|talk]]) 20:19, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

The explanation says that the simulation is run on an infinite grid, but even when the grid is calculated out beyond the border of the viewable area, bounding errors & boundary formations can occur. I've never seen ''any'' implementation that actually produces an infinite, nor even ''practically'' infinite grid. (In fact, wasn't there a Minecraft mod that runs until it lags out the engine?) Can anybody point me to a truly infinite grid implementation? Conway's ''definitely'' was not infinite, he even commented at length about the boundary formations that show up at the grid edges (which are among the most subjectively beautiful, incidentally). I think the explanation needs correction?
[[User:ProphetZarquon|ProphetZarquon]] ([[User talk:ProphetZarquon|talk]]) 21:59, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
: The explanation is describing Conway's game of life, not any particular implementation IMHO. No change needed IMHOA. Also, the previous post was not signed properly. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.107.167|162.158.107.167]] 21:47, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
::Except many of Conway's observations about the "game" & even ''his initial description'' of it explicitly state & indeed hinge upon the fact that it's not (& thus far ''cannot'' be) implemented as an "infinite" grid. Part of the whole point of his experiment with it & the various demonstrations is to illustrate edge effects resulting from a finite range of calculations. '''It's extremely relevant that it's''' '''''not''''' '''infinite.''' It's actually kinda the whole point of his creating it, much the same way people working with fractals likewise tend to become very interested in bounding errors. The boundaries are where the interesting work is done. Apparently someone agreed with me at least in part, because they edited the wording. Thanks... Brian? I think we should actually '''add''' to the description of the "game" info highlighting the edge effects, because that's the primary focus of the project & its outgrowths in the first place. (We can't adequately simulate infinity & that's a big part of the interest in it.) Also, I frequently have to submit & then refresh & sign afterward because of the device I'm on. In this case I'm glad I did, because I saw your reply & the other new stuff!
::[[User:ProphetZarquon|ProphetZarquon]] ([[User talk:ProphetZarquon|talk]]) 22:17, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
:Golly uses a grid of arbitrary size by default. It can very easily be verified to at least ±2<sup>10000</sup>. (Note that it also includes finite rectangular and toroidal grids.) [[User:LegionMammal978|LegionMammal978]] ([[User talk:LegionMammal978|talk]]) 01:39, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
No computer [Citation Needed] can run an ''actual'' infinite grid, but with some intelligent bounding you can mitigate early signs of problems by maintaining "bubbles" of cells with offsets. You get into problems once you start machine-gunning out gliders (offsets will eventually overflow or awkwardly lose precision, depending on the var-types used; and maintaining a longer and longer bubble, or more and more bubbles just above glider-sized, is probably your other challenge) but it's probably good enough for most purposes. If you somehow have finite patterns that move out in huge (wasteless) cycles from the 'origin' and hold that path until enacting hugely-delayed doglegs (mathematically, it must be a point no further away than can be reasonably enumerated by the bits of information contained within each formation, and significantly less as it'd be a far less efficient count-down cycler than any folded LFSR, but it's ''imaginable'') to meet again at some arbitrary (though deterministic and replicable) distance out in the far far reaches of your abstracted bubble-land then it's possible you could ''pretend'' you have infinite space. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.91.101|162.158.91.101]] 22:26, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

[[User:ProphetZarquon|ProphetZarquon]], do you have a source for your claim that the main point of Conway's creation of Life was to study the edge effects? [https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life The page for Life on its own wiki] describes the Life grid as "infinite" and only mentions edge effects as inaccuracies to be avoided, and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9Plq-D1gEk this Conway interview about Life's creation] doesn't mention edges at all.
[[Special:Contributions/108.162.241.24|108.162.241.24]] 23:34, 13 April 2020‎ (UTC)

Possibly worth noting is the bit of artistry in the rendering. Munroe alters the step period of the iterations so that the deconstruction of the humanoid shape happens more quickly, with the stepping of the glider translating away occurring more slowly. [[User:Fixer|Fixer]] ([[User talk:Fixer|talk]]) 21:52, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

I like the comic very much, and I'm afraid to say I hadn't heard of his death in amongst... well, everything else. RIP.
While I'm here, though, I'm a bit concerned about the current cell generation cycle explanation, as it feels awkward. Currently it is (paraphrased) "live cells survive if just enough neighbours / dead cells come to life with exactly enough neighbours / any other dies or stays dead". I'd prefer something that more delineates it as birth (dead to live, by propogation from the right number of live neighbours), death (live to dead due to ''either'' isolation ''or'' overcrowding) and continuation of state in all other cases. Can't work out a good phrasing yet, but ''may'' try it out later. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.91.101|162.158.91.101]] 22:26, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Talk:2278: Scientific Briefing

2020-03-09T21:01:53Z

LegionMammal978:

Reference to COVID-19?
[[Special:Contributions/172.69.70.173|172.69.70.173]] 20:42, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
:Seems closer to global warming to me. [[User:LegionMammal978|LegionMammal978]] ([[User talk:LegionMammal978|talk]]) 21:01, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

1043: Ablogalypse

2019-11-09T23:44:37Z

LegionMammal978: /* Explanation */

{{comic
| number = 1043
| date = April 16, 2012
| title = Ablogalypse
| image = ablogalypse.png
| titletext = Plus the reaction in the Tumblverse is always 'repeatedly get hit by a dog and fall down the stairs'.
}}

==Explanation==
This comic plays with the [https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=tumblr,blog,wordpress,livejournal Google trends for the terms "blog", "tumblr", "wordpress", and "livejournal"].

*{{w|Blog}}: a website with opinions and comments
*{{w|Tumblr}}: a "micro-blogging" site, which has taken off due to the prevalence of animated gifs and funny photos.
*{{w|WordPress}}: a type of blog software.
*{{w|LiveJournal}}: a sort of personal blog site that hasn't been very popular since 2004-2005. [[Randall]] published [[:Category:Comics posted on livejournal|his first comics]] there.

As you can see in the caption and then the title text, there is no way that newscasters will reference the "Tumblverse" because all the reactions will be filled with animated gifs of a person in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-Zph323Dos a raptor suit falling over] or [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/yes-this-is-dog a dog answering a phone].

This actually came to pass, with the change over occurring between October 30, 2011, and January 10, 2012, as can be seen using the link above. Since January 29, 2019, however, "blog" has been gradually overtaking "tumblr".

==Transcript==
:[A line graph with four lines, each representing 'Google Trends Search Volume' of different search terms over time from prior to 2005 to just after 2012. A blue line represents "blog," which trends gradually but significantly upwards from well before 2005 until it reaches a peak between 2008-2009, and starts to very slowly descend to today. A red line represents "Tumblr", which is at zero until it slowly starts to trend upward in early 2010, and then sharply increases in late 2010 and through 2011 and 2012. As of the date of this comic, 'blog' still beats 'Tumblr' in terms of search volume, but a dotted line projection of the trend shows that on October 12, 2012, the two lines will cross. A yellow line represents 'Wordpress,' which has very low volume until a very small and gradual increase in 2007, which gradually increases to this day but doesn't come close to meeting the volume of either 'blog' or 'Tumblr'. A green line represents 'LiveJournal,' which started out prior to 2005 at around the level 'Wordpress' is at now, but declined through 2005 and 2006 until it has plateaued until virtually nothing.]
:In about six months, the word "Tumblr" will eclipse "blog" in Google popularity.
:I doubt TV anchors will start talking about "reactions in the Tumblverse," but then again, I still can't believe we got them to say "blogosphere."

{{comic discussion}}
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1574: Trouble for Science

2019-07-31T13:38:48Z

LegionMammal978: fixed dead link

{{comic
| number = 1574
| date = September 7, 2015
| title = Trouble for Science
| image = trouble_for_science.png
| titletext = Careful mathematical analysis demonstrates small-scale irregularities in Gaussian distribution
}}

==Explanation==
The comic highlights the fact that several well-publicized scientific critiques have recently been published that raise questions about some commonly accepted scientific methods. For scientists, these critiques serve as reminders of the dangers of overconfidence in any method, hopefully leading those who have naively accepted results to remember that any scientific conclusion is by its very nature tentative and limited by methodological reliability. However, popular press reporting of these papers may lead a general public of modest scientific literacy to the impression that science might be in trouble, as implied by the title. Some of these methodological issues and shortcomings are well known in the scientific community but are – for better or worse – the best toolkit science has at its disposal today. This is however greatly exaggerated by the last (fictional) headline, which suggests that Bunsen burners in fact have a cooling effect, which is of course absolutely ridiculous, but would nevertheless change one more fundamental scientific belief drastically. Additionally, each headline contains irony or a double meaning for comical effect.

The title of five scientific articles are shown:

;Many commercial antibody-based immunoassays are unreliable
This sentence is true. See Kebaneilwe Lebani, [http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:352531 Antibody Discovery for Development of a Serotyping Dengue Virus NS1 Capture Assay], 2014. In this PhD thesis, 11 references are given.

;Problems with the p-value as an indicator of significance
In empirical research, one is usually interested in effects / results / relationships in a population. However, for practical reasons, only smaller subsets of populations are available to the researcher. These are called samples. Usually an effect of interest is tested using a sample. The purpose of hypothesis testing is to determine whether the observed effect (or lack of effect) in a sample is a random artifact of our particular sample, or whether there is a good chance that it also exists in the population.

Generally a null hypothesis states that there is no effect in the population while the alternative hypothesis states that there is an effect.

P-values are used in hypothesis testing. The p-value is the probability of observing an effect / result / relationship in your sample data, given that no such effect / result / relationship exists in the population. It is based on the sample data and the particular statistic (such as sample average, t, or F). A statistic is the result of a calculation based on the sample. A p-value can be calculated for each statistic of interest. Formally, the p-value is the probability of observing a test statistic equal to or greater than the one based on the sample data, given that the null hypothesis is true.

The threshold for p-value cutoff, α, is pre-specified (usually 5% or 1%, which is more conservative). When the p-value is lower to or equal to α, the null hypothesis is rejected in favor of the alternative hypothesis. When it is higher than α, the null hypothesis is retained.

The value used for ''α'' has been proposed by [http://web.lru.dk/sites/lru.dk/files/lru/docs/kap9/kapitel_9_126_On_the_origins.pdf Fisher] and is arbitrary.

The use of p-values as a measure of statistical significance is frequently criticized, for example in [http://web.archive.org/web/20161021014340/http://wiki.bio.dtu.dk/~agpe/papers/pval_notuseful.pdf Hubbard & Lindsay]. Randall has demonstrated this problem in the past in [[882: Significant]].
;Overfeeding of laboratory rodents compromises animal models

[http://tpx.sagepub.com/content/24/6/757.full.pdf Keenan et al.] makes this case. Additionally, the word model takes on two meanings. In one sense, a model can refer to a scientific description that makes sense of a phenomenon; in another sense, model can refer to an individual whose job it is to demonstrate fashions, typically fashionable outfits. Fashion models are notorious for being exceptionally thin, and so overfeeding would compromise their job as a model.

;Replication study fails to reproduce many published results
A [https://explorable.com/replication-study Replication Study] is a study designed to duplicate the results of a previous study by using the same methods for a different set of subjects and experimenters. It aims to recreate the results to gain confidence in the results of the previous study as well as ensuring that the findings of the previous study are transferable to other similar areas of study.

Randall is probably referring to this recent study described in Nature: [http://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-fail-reproducibility-test-1.18248 Over half of psychology studies fail reproducibility test.] It might also be a reference to at least 3 studies mentioned here: http://www.jove.com/blog/2012/05/03/studies-show-only-10-of-published-science-articles-are-reproducible-what-is-happening. There is also irony in the phrasing of the title because in biology replication is a form of reproduction.

Another possible interpretation of this headline is that a replication study, which may have successfully replicated the results of the specific study it was designed for, failed to reproduce the published results of many other unrelated studies. The headline is quite vague as to which results have been considered in this study.

;Controlled trials show Bunsen burners make things colder
The theme of this comic is that commonly accepted scientific methods can be unreliable, and the joke here is that a Bunsen burner, a device intended to heat things, is newly discovered to always cool things instead, which would be absurd.

In theory, yes, putting a Bunsen Burner underneath an object that's already incredibly hot would, slowly, equalize the temperature between the flame and object resulting in cooling. Given that a Bunsen Burner burns between 1000 K and 2000 K, there is probably some methodological error if the testing materials were already much hotter than the flame (more than 2000 Kelvin). It's also possible that if the "controlled trial" involved a Bunsen burner that was not lit, but was turned on to allow gas to flow, it would have a cooling effect as the gas expanded from the line pressure to atmospheric pressure. Another alternative theory is that a cold substance, such as cold water or frigid air, was fed through the burner against a warmer object.

Alternatively, a trial could be set up to test something against a Bunsen burner on the one hand, and an even hotter flame on the other hand. As compared to that hotter flame, the Bunsen burner would not heat up the tested material as much, resulting in something being made "colder" than the alternative.

As in the previous headline, the key to understanding the joke here is to examine the headline's ambiguity, as no clue is given about ''how'' the trials were controlled.

;Careful mathematical analysis demonstrates small-scale irregularities in Gaussian distribution
This is another joke of a premise that is obviously untrue. The {{w|Gaussian function|Gaussian distribution}} is a mathematical construct that is generally known as the bell curve or the Normal distribution. As it is an ideal mathematical construction, by definition, it cannot have any irregularities - similar to how the equation y = 2x + 1 cannot have small-scale irregularities. The joke probably alludes to the fact that many types of observations are frequently initially modeled as a Gaussian distribution, though on careful observation the actual distribution of outcomes will often deviate from a pure Gaussian distribution.

In addition, an experiment to test a Gaussian distribution will have a finite sample size, giving a non-exact Gaussian distribution. A possible paper submitted would conclude that this result is "approximately a normal distribution" with "small-scale irregularities". A news reporter without knowledge of statistics could easily misinterpret that this paper decisively concludes errors in the mathematical definitions (rather than coming from random error inherent in experimenting).

==Transcript==
:[Five panels, each with the top part of a scientific article, where only the title is legible. Below is the list of authors and subheading and text in unreadable wiggles.]

:Many Commercial Antibody-Based Immunoassays Are Unreliable

:Problems With the p-Value as an Indicator of Significance

:Overfeeding of Laboratory Rodents Compromises Animal Models

:Replication Study Fails to Reproduce Many Published Results

:Controlled Trials Show Bunsen Burners Make Things Colder

{{comic discussion}}
[[Category:Science]]
[[Category:Biology]]
[[Category:Chemistry]]
[[Category:Math]]
[[Category:Physics]]
[[Category:Statistics]]

Talk:2145: Heists And Escapes

2019-05-03T22:44:19Z

LegionMammal978:

The real-life battle of Alesia was appparently the opposite of Winterfell, insofar as where the "rattling" happens. [[Special:Contributions/198.41.230.244|198.41.230.244]] 21:37, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
:I think that title text theory it's also a reference to the [[wikipedia:Tommy_Westphall#The_Tommy_Westphall_Universe_Hypothesis|Tommy Westphall universe hypothesis]]. --[[User:Valepert|valepert]] ([[User talk:Valepert|talk]]) 21:48, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure that "Kevin McCallister's Subconscious" is an Inception reference. [[User:LegionMammal978|LegionMammal978]] ([[User talk:LegionMammal978|talk]]) 22:44, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

2091: Million, Billion, Trillion

2019-04-05T23:12:53Z

LegionMammal978: /* Transcript */ use actual data from earlier

{{comic
| number = 2091
| date = December 28, 2018
| title = Million, Billion, Trillion
| image = million_billion_trillion.png
| titletext = You can tell most people don’t really assign an absolute meaning to these numbers because in some places and time periods, “billion” has meant 1,000x what it's meant in others, and a lot of us never even noticed.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|This needs about a thousand years of rewriting, and I assume we'll want to do a chart of X and Y positions as with most chart comics. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
Much like [[558: 1000 Times|comic 558]], this comic addresses the difficulty ordinary people have with large numbers. Though most if not all people intuitively understand the difference between one object and two objects, or one object and ten objects, or even one object and a hundred objects, as numbers increase most people's ability to innately conceive of the numbers being discussed decreases remarkably quickly. When numbers reach the millions and the billions, and especially the trillions, most people don't truly process the numbers at all, and instead conceive of them as some version of a drastically-oversimplified concept such as "very big." Where comparing one to ten is simple, comparing "very big" to a different "very big" can prove extremely challenging, and will certainly require non-intuitive, conscious thinking.

The comic represents this challenge by providing a graph which represents [[Randall]]'s ''intuitive'' conception of the values of various very large numbers, and said conception's misalignment with reality. Though some trends reflect the real value of the numbers on the graph, i.e. 100 million larger than 10 million larger than 1 million and 1 billion larger than 1 million, the curve is far from the linear (exponential on the log-scaled axes) path it should take, with 1 billion being intuitively understood as less than 100 million, based, presumably, on the fact, easily comprehended on an intuitive level, that '''100 is larger than 1''', and therefore the presence of 100 in 100 million places it at a higher value than the 1 in 1 billion would place the latter. In reality, of course, 1 billion is ten times larger than 100 million, but the comic deals not with actual reality, but with the perception of reality of these numbers '''before conscious thought is applied'''.

The most interesting parts of the graph, and the parts where the disconnect between intuition and reality becomes clearest, are the dashed sections labeled with question marks, the one between 100 million and 1 billion, the other between 100 billion and 1 trillion. Here two competing intuitive understandings compete for dominance. On the one hand, the intuitive understanding described above, with 100 trumping 1, would see the curve taking a sharp downturn. On the other hand, the path from 100 million to 1 billion is paved with such numbers as 500 million, 700 million, and 900 million, all of which would theoretically be seen intuitively as larger than 100 million, thanks to the fact that 9 is greater than 7, and 7 greater than 5, and so on, bending the curve up rather than down. These two conflicting intuitions leave Randall with no single intuitive path for the two dashed sections, leading to their dashed and questioned state.

The comic's caption and title highlight another problem surrounding the intuitive grasping of large numbers: the flaws in the English words used for them. For instance, nothing about the word "million" suggests smallness relative to the word "billion" on an intuitive scale. This unintuitive language contributes greatly to the "100 trumps 1" intuitive fallacy described above.

=== Long scale and short scale ===

The title text references a highly relevant disconnect between the {{w|Long_and_short_scales|long and short scales of large numbers}}.

For all English speakers, and for most languages, 1 '''''million''''' constitutes 1,000 thousands, or, less ambiguously, 10^6. However, this is the last of the consensus numbers, and the definition of what should be the "next step" varies depending on how each country's language evolved.
* In many English-speaking countries, 1,000 millions equals 1 billion, or 1000*10^6=10^9; this convention is known as the '''short-scale'''.
* [https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/how-many-is-a-billion/ In historical Britain] and many other countries with a language derived from French or Spanish, the "next step" may be named a thousand million, and 1 billion equals ''1 million'' millions, or 10^6*10^6=10^'''12''', with the base unit changing when you have a unit's worth multiple of the unit; this convention is known as the long-scale. (Note that this is no longer used in Britain since 1974.)
* In European languages where the '''long-scale''' system is used, 10^9 may be named a thousand million, or receive a name with a special suffix: the word milliard (meaning 1,000 million) is used in some form (e.g. milliard in French, Milliarde in German, milliard in Danish, milliárd in Hungarian, etc.), with the word billion defined as 1,000 milliard (or 1,000,000 million). In these languages, a billion never meant 1,000 million as it does in the short-scale system.
* Successive units, such as trillion, increase by the same multiple as one billion divided by one million - by 1,000 in the short-scale system and 1,000,000 in the long-scale system.

In other words, 1 billion objects in a country using the short-scale would be 1,000 million objects in a country using the long-scale; at the "next step", 1 trillion in the short-scale would be named 1 billion in the long-scale, despite the fact that the number of objects has remained the same. This difference between languages using the short-scale and the long-scale often causes confusion when translating articles with large numbers in them, as translators sometimes fail to change between short-scale and long-scale schemes, wrongly translating large numbers to incorrect values.

The fact that such a staggering difference of terminology was able to exist and be almost completely unknown to many supports Randall's point about the failure of human intuition in the discussion of extremely large numbers.

==Transcript==

:[A graph with Y-axis labeled “Perceived size of number” and X-axis labeled “Actual size of number (log scale)”.]
:[The line graph shows points that are labeled with the following numbers from “1 million” to “100 trillion”:]

:['''Points on graph:''']
:{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|1 million
|[''(2, 1.5)'']
|-
|10 million
|[''(3, 3.5)'']
|-
|100 million
|[''(4, 4.8)'']
|-
|1 billion
|[''(5, 2.8)'']
|-
|10 billion
|[''(6, 4.4)'']
|-
|100 billion
|[''(7, 5.3)'']
|-
|1 trillion
|[''(8, 4.3)'']
|-
|10 trillion
|[''(9, 5.1)'']
|-
|100 trillion
|[''(10, 5.6)'']
|}
:[The perceived size increases between most numbers, but decreases between 100 million and 1 billion, and between 100 billion and 1 trillion. The decreases are shown as dashed lines labeled “?”, in contrast to the solid unlabeled lines between the increases. The increases and decreases in perceived size become smaller as the numbers grow in actual size.]
:[Caption below the panel:]
:Talking about large numbers is hard

{{comic discussion}}

[[Category:Line graphs]]

Talk:2126: Google Trends Maps

2019-03-23T20:23:26Z

LegionMammal978:

I'm not quite sure I understand the comic. And no, the irony of saying that on a wiki dedicated to explaining them is not lost on me. Do the maps show which word/phrase is more common in google in each state by comparing only the options to each other or where they actually the top searched words/phrases at some point in time?[[Special:Contributions/162.158.92.34|162.158.92.34]] 10:28, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
:Pretty sure they're all top searched words/phrases in some states at some point in the past. It's just that Randall has merged maps from different time periods. For example in the first map, "heat stroke" and "frostbite" are two real results, but the former is likely a result that appeared in summer, while the latter is likely one that appeared in winter. By merging the two maps you get a map that doesn't make sense, as it looks like they were the top searches in the same time period while in reality they weren't. [[User:Herobrine|Herobrine]] ([[User talk:Herobrine|talk]]) 11:04, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
::I think that Randall is just clarifying that each map may be showing trends for a different time range (otherwise people might try to compare the maps to each other, which isn't the point of the comic). I don't think he's saying that the individual results in each map are from different time ranges. [[User:Hawthorn|Hawthorn]] ([[User talk:Hawthorn|talk]]) 11:30, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
:::Yeah, if the results were from different time periods, you could pretty much manipulate them however you want. It would make it much less interesting. Not that statistician don't already manipulate data in any way possible...[[User:Linker|Linker]] ([[User talk:Linker|talk]]) 16:51, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
From what it looks like, these are year-long averages. [[User:Netherin5|Netherin5]] ([[User talk:Netherin5|talk]]) 12:17, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
:Here's one I just made using an example Randall is given: [https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=frostbite,heat%20stroke Frostbite VS Heatstroke] It does appear to be either using averaging or summing over time to produce a map that is decently similar to Randall's [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.23|108.162.221.23]] 16:03, 21 March 2019 (UTC) Sam
::Randolph's matches the 5 year average exactly[[User:Whereisspike|Whereisspike]] ([[User talk:Whereisspike|talk]]) 21:27, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Here is an example for the Google Trends on the first example. [https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=US&q=frostbite,heat%20stroke] It looks like he picked last 5 years for that one. There should be a table with links to all of them. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.59.142|162.158.59.142]] 17:48, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

For those that find the actual image to be mysteriously missing, that's because the image source URL is https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ad/google_trends_maps.png , and some ad blockers will silently block it because it looks like a path to advertising images. So maybe turn off your adblocker on this site? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.170.64|172.69.170.64]] 22:37, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
: Specifically, uBlock is telling me it matched <tt>ad/google_</tt>. [[User:LegionMammal978|LegionMammal978]] ([[User talk:LegionMammal978|talk]]) 20:23, 23 March 2019 (UTC)

Is it just me, or does the sexting graph look like the midwest is "giving it" to the southeast, with Arkansas and Tennessee playing the naughty bits? I wonder if Randall did this intentionally or if I'm just a perv. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.186.108|162.158.186.108]] 01:37, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
: I'm pretty sure the best answer to the above is the last line of https://xkcd.com/960/ ;) [[Special:Contributions/172.69.50.52|172.69.50.52]] 04:40, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

I feel like "little dog" is most often entered by people searching for unusually small pets, not people wanting to learn about coyotes (which as far as I know are generally just called coyotes). This would still provide an amusing contrast with "big cats" (either the pet or wild versions). --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.106.102|162.158.106.102]] 06:46, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

I've just transcribed the maps by listing which states are in which colour (dammit, I mean "color", I'm trying to use US spellings here). I've left the "incomplete" tag on there, though, because there are things that others might want to review:
* I only did lists for the color(s) with the fewest states, leaving the longest list as "all other states". This makes it less extensive, but potentially less useful (for, say, searching for a state's name).
* I wasn't sure whether or not to list the District of Columbia. I'm not sure whether the maps include it or not, and if it is included, it's not easy to tell whether it's blue or gray. The only case where it definitely looks like it's present (because it's a different color to both Maryland and Virginia) is in the "Donald Trump/What do I do" map, where it seems to be red. However, I'm still not certain; it could just be an artifact of Randall's graphics process. (Compare Massachusetts on the same map, where the bit sticking out... Cape Cod? yeah, that... is clearly gray, unlike the rest of the state.) That said, it may be part of the joke that "What do I do" is a popular search in Washington, DC!
* I'm not American and may have made mistakes in identifying states.
-- [[User:Peregrine|Peregrine]] ([[User talk:Peregrine|talk]]) 09:57, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

My first thought on Mike Pence and Bigfoot was ... wasn't Mike Pence the one who did "Bigfoot Porn"? But no, that turned out to be the Virginia politician Leslie Cockburn. Still, I wonder whether that brought bigfoot to his mind.

[[User:Jensfiederer|Jensfiederer]] ([[User talk:Jensfiederer|talk]]) 16:55, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Talk:2091: Million, Billion, Trillion

2018-12-28T16:24:25Z

LegionMammal978: coordinates

I actually think we have ''too many names'' for large numbers. It's really only necessary to introduce a new name when you reach the ''square'' of the previous name. So, we'd still have tens and hundreds, but there's no need for "one thousand, one hundred" when you can just have "eleven hundred". We'd be better off just naming 10^4, 10^8, 10^16, 10^32, and that's already well beyond anything needed for normal usage, with only a handful of names. None of this "quattuordecillion" stuff that no-one can remember without sitting down and working it out. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.86.64|172.68.86.64]] 05:32, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
: And what you get is a super-weird "double-log" scale! The British (and other nations') usage is correct. Anything above thousand is completely abstract for a human being and intuitively nonlinear (some nations - ancient Greeks and others - go as far as ten thousands, a myriad, but this is it). A thousand squared is already far beyond intuition so it is a good candidate for a new unit representing A BIG NUMBER, plus log scale is a good abstraction allowing for rapid expansion in magnitude. So taking Latin numerals and adding an -illion suffix (except the irregular million) for subsequent powers of 10^6 is a really convenient system. Of course, it goes only as far as ordinary Latin numbers go, then you need to invent something else, but at this point it's only for entertainment. For anything physical you probably would never need a number much larger than a googol. -- [[Special:Contributions/162.158.90.90|162.158.90.90]] 09:26, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

: I think we should refrain from saying one usage is correct over the other - that's just arrogant and mean. That said, the current explanation states that usage is different between American and British English, but my reading on Wikipedia (which is already hyperlinked in the explanation) states that in recent decades Britain has declared their use of short units and therefore British English is now the same as American English. The only regions where it appears there is still usage of the long system is in French and Spanish speaking regions, as well as some special cases around the world. Don't shoot the messenger - I'm just repeating what it states on the Wikipedia page. [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht|talk]]) 10:15, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

:: Rereading the Wikipedia page, it was in 1974 that Britain declared their use of the short scale for large numbers. [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht|talk]]) 10:19, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

::: Actually, Germany also uses the "long" (i.e. natural) scale to this day, and I remember how much trouble I had understanding the American system. As the second comment above states, the long scale is (prefix)-llion = 10^(prefix*6), or (prefix)-lliard''e'' = 10^(prefix*6+3); whereas in the short system, (prefix)-llion = 10^(prefix*3+3), which is rather less obvious, if you have any intuition for numbers (and a little Latin). [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lange_und_kurze_Skala German Wikipedia] tells me that the long scale was invented 1484/1550 by French mathematicians, and the short one in the 17th century in Italy and France by some geniuses that thought when grouping the digits on paper by three instead of six, they should change the group names to make confusion complete. Also, they claim official usage of the short variant is in USA, Brazil, and English-language finance. The names for the systems, however, are from 1975, from yet another French mathematichan, Geneviève Guitel. --[[User:Khms|Khms]] ([[User talk:Khms|talk]]) 10:59, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

::: East Asian languages such as Japanese actually do use the power-4 scale, with the naming being ten, ten x ten = hundred, hundred x hundred = big'ousand, big'ousand x big'ousand = morebiggienoughty, morebiggienoughty x morebiggienoughty = superbiggienoughty, etc.

:::: Crore. Weird word unless you are in or from India. [[User:Snezzy|Snezzy]] ([[User talk:Snezzy|talk]]) 11:48, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

I said this earlier, and I'm going to say it again - the split between use of the short scale and the long scale is NOT a U.S. thing, nor an Atlantic Ocean thing! Just navigate to the hyperlinked page on Wikipedia, and scroll down to the graphic map showing who uses which system to see this very clearly. The majority of the globe uses the short scale except for the following regions: Europe other than Britain, Iran, some countries in Africa, and some countries in Latin America and South America, as well as French speaking regions in otherwise short-scale countries. Notable non-U.S. short-scale countries include Russia and Australia, along with Eastern South America and most of Africa. It's frustrating when people insist on making something about those U.S.A. people that has nothing to do with us. [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht|talk]]) 14:51, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

: Even the line containing the "In Britian" hyperlink does NOT say what the linked page actually states - that Britain uses the short-scale now, although they used the long-scale quite some time ago (before 1974). [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht|talk]]) 14:58, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

The line that includes "Though people in Britain often use the American definition as of the past few decades" is a bit misleading. In fact, the government of Great Britain announced, proclaimed, and declared that they will officially use the short-scale scheme in 1974. If you live there and are still using the long-scale system, then per your countries leadership you are wrong! The short-scale system is YOUR definition, not the American definition. Interestingly, we didn't invent the short-scale system because it was brought to the Americas by Europeans before the United States of America was even founded! We just continued to use it because it's all we knew until Randall came along and pointed out how screwed up the rest of the world is! [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht|talk]]) 15:46, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Long live scientific / exponential notation! 16:19, 28 December 2018 (UTC)~

Set the first tick on the y-axis to have value 0, and set the last tick to have value 5. Then, the y-values of all the y-axis ticks are 0, 1.0053, 1.9973, 3.0127, 3.9947, and 5, approximately as expected. (The x-axis is at y-value -0.9903.) Now, setting the x-axis as the base-10 logarithm, the points' coordinates are as follows: (6, 0.5388); (7, 2.4800); (8, 3.7672); (9, 1.8009); (10, 3.3622); (11, 4.2860); (12, 3.2495); (13, 4.1125); (14, 4.5939). [[User:LegionMammal978|LegionMammal978]] ([[User talk:LegionMammal978|talk]]) 16:24, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

135: Substitute

2018-10-13T23:05:48Z

LegionMammal978: /* Trivia */ correction

{{comic
| number = 135
| date = July 31, 2006
| title = Substitute
| image = substitute.png
| titletext = YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
}}

==Explanation==
This comic refers to the film ''{{w|Jurassic Park (film)|Jurassic Park}}'', a 1993 movie based on the 1990 novel by {{w|Michael Crichton}}. The film centers around a billionaire who bought an island and opened a zoo or theme park for dinosaurs that he has cloned from DNA recovered from blood found in fossilized mosquitoes. After a computer programmer shuts down the security systems to steal embryos for a rival company, several of the creatures, among which are the {{w|Velociraptor}}s subject of this comic, run loose and try to devour every human in the theme park.

Velociraptors (often shortened to "raptors") are a species of relatively small, carnivorous {{w|dinosaur}} that play a central role in the original film, as well as its sequels. In the film, herds of Velociraptors antagonize the main characters at various points, even entering buildings. According to newer researches, the Velociraptors in the film were erroneously based on the {{w|Utahraptor}} species of dinosaur. Unlike the movie, in which they are depicted as having a reptilian skin, both species of dinosaur in reality are theorized to have been feathered. The word "raptor" also refers to modern {{w|Bird of prey|birds of prey}}.

[[Randall]] is asked to substitute for [[Miss Lenhart]] in math class. The first page of the test he devises contains three questions, which have the recurring theme of humans running from said velociraptors. For the answers, see the [[135: Substitute #Trivia|trivia section.]] As Randall says in the comic: "This material is more vital than anything you've ever learned," the joke being that Randall is somehow fearful that such a thing could happen.

Velociraptors, and in particular, the irrational fear of being attacked by them in the modern world, [[:Category:Velociraptors|appear several times]] in [[xkcd]]. This is the second such instance; the first is [[87: Velociraptors]]

In the title text Randall asks the kids whether they find this possibility humorous (and they rightfully should, considering that the chances of such a thing occuring are astronomically low).

==Transcript==
:[In a classroom, the board says "Math" on the top-left corner, and "Mr. Munroe" in the middle. A Cueball portrays Randall, standing in front of it, speaking to the class.]
:Randall: Miss Lenhart couldn't be here today, so she asked me to substitute.
:Randall: I've put out your tests. Please get started.

:[A student in the first row raises the exam paper and says.]
:Student: Mr. Munroe, Miss Lenhart never taught us this.

:Randall: That's because Miss Lenhart doesn't understand how important certain kinds of math are.
:Student: But this just looks--
:Randall: This material is more vital than anything you've ever learned
:Student: But--
:Randall: No buts.

:Randall: This is a matter of life and death.

:[Excerpt from the exam paper.]
:<tt>Name: _________</tt>

:[A stick figure is standing, hands over head. A velociraptor is running towards it.]

:<tt>1. The velociraptor spots you 40 meters away and attacks, accelerating at 4 m/s^2 to its top speed of 25 m/s. When it spots you, you begin to flee, quickly reaching your top speed of 6 m/s. How far can you get before you're caught and devoured?</tt>

:<tt>2. You're at the center of a 20m equilateral triangle with a raptor at each corner. The top raptor has a wounded leg and is limited to a top speed of 10 m/s.</tt>

:[A stick figure is shown in the above situation. The picture has a legend "<tt>(Not to scale)</tt>".]

:<tt>The raptors will run toward you. At what angle should you run to maximize the time you stay alive?</tt>

:<tt>3. Raptors can open doors, but they are slowed by them. Using the floor plan on the next page, plot a route through the building, assuming raptors take 5 minutes to open the first door and halve the time for each subsequent door. Remember, raptors run at 10 m/s and they do not know fear.</tt>

==Trivia==
*Answers to the first two questions can be found in [http://fora.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=120&start=40 this topic] on the forum board.
**The first is 37.3 meters.
**The second is 18.6 degrees to either side of the wounded raptor.

{{comic discussion}}
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[[Category:Comics featuring Randall Munroe]]
[[Category:Comics featuring real people]]
[[Category:Comics with color]]
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1132: Frequentists vs. Bayesians

2018-10-06T17:05:02Z

LegionMammal978: /* Mathematical and scientific details */ clarification

{{comic
| number = 1132
| date = November 9, 2012
| title = Frequentists vs. Bayesians
| image = frequentists_vs_bayesians.png
| titletext = 'Detector! What would the Bayesian statistician say if I asked him whether the--' [roll] 'I AM A NEUTRINO DETECTOR, NOT A LABYRINTH GUARD. SERIOUSLY, DID YOUR BRAIN FALL OUT?' [roll] '... yes.'}}

==Explanation==
This comic is a joke about jumping to conclusions based on a simplistic understanding of probability. The "{{w|base rate fallacy}}" is a mistake where an unlikely explanation is dismissed, even though the alternative is even less likely. In the comic, a device tests for the (highly unlikely) event that the sun has exploded. A degree of random error is introduced, by rolling two {{w|dice}} and lying if the result is double sixes. Double sixes are unlikely (1 in 36, or about 3% likely), so the statistician on the left dismisses it. The statistician on the right has (we assume) correctly reasoned that the sun exploding is ''far more'' unlikely, and so is willing to stake money on his interpretation.

The labels given to the two statisticians, in their panels and in the comic's title, are not particularly fair or accurate, a fact which [[Randall]] has acknowledged:<ref name="munroe-on-gelman">[http://web.archive.org/web/20130117080920/http://andrewgelman.com/2012/11/16808/#comment-109366 Comment by Randall Munroe] to "I don’t like this cartoon", blog post by Andrew Gelman in ''Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science''. Archived Jan 17 2013 by the Wayback Machine.</ref>
<blockquote>I seem to have stepped on a hornet’s nest, though, by adding “Frequentist” and “Bayesian” titles to the panels. This came as a surprise to me, in part because I actually added them as an afterthought, along with the final punchline. … The truth is, I genuinely didn’t realize Frequentists and Bayesians were actual camps of people—all of whom are now emailing me. I thought they were loosely-applied labels—perhaps just labels appropriated by the books I had happened to read recently—for the standard textbook approach we learned in science class versus an approach which more carefully incorporates the ideas of prior probabilities.</blockquote>

The "frequentist" statistician is (mis)applying the common standard of "{{w|P-value|p}}<0.05". In a scientific study, a result is presumed to provide strong evidence if, given that the {{w|null hypothesis}}, a default position that the observations are unrelated (in this case, that the sun has ''not'' gone nova), there is less than a 5% chance that the result was merely random. (The null hypothesis was also referenced in [[892: Null Hypothesis]].)

Since the likelihood of rolling double sixes is below this 5% threshold, the "frequentist" decides (by this rule of thumb) to accept the detector's output as correct. The "Bayesian" statistician has, instead, applied at least a small measure of probabilistic reasoning ({{w|Bayesian inference}}) to determine that the unlikeliness of the detector lying is greatly outweighed by the unlikeliness of the sun exploding. Therefore, he concludes that the sun has ''not'' exploded and the detector is lying.

The line, "Bet you $50 it hasn't", is a reference to the approach of a leading Bayesian scholar, {{w|Bruno de Finetti}}, who made extensive use of bets in his examples and thought experiments. See {{w|Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy)}} for more information on his work. In this case, however, the bet is also a joke because we would all be dead if the sun exploded. If the Bayesian wins the bet, he gets money, and if he loses, they'll both be dead before money can be paid. This underlines the absurdity of the premise and emphasizes the need to consider context when examining probability.

The title text refers to a classic series of logic puzzles known as {{w|Knights and Knaves#Fork in the road|Knights and Knaves}}, where there are two guards in front of two exit doors, one of which is real and the other leads to death. One guard is a liar and the other tells the truth. The visitor doesn't know which is which, and is allowed to ask one question to one guard. The solution is to ask either guard what the other one would say is the real exit, then choose the opposite. Two such guards were featured in the 1986 Jim Henson movie ''{{w|Labyrinth (film)|Labyrinth}}'', hence the mention of "A LABYRINTH GUARD" here. A labyrinth was also mentioned in [[246: Labyrinth Puzzle]].

===Mathematical and scientific details===
As mentioned, this is an instance of the {{w|base rate fallacy}}. If we treat the "truth or lie" setup as simply modelling an inaccurate test, then it is also specifically an illustration of the {{w|false positive paradox}}: A test that is rarely wrong, but which tests for an event that is even rarer, will be more often wrong than right when it says that the event has occurred.

The test in this case is a neutrino detector. It relies on the fact that neutrinos can pass through the earth, so a neutrino detector would detect neutrinos from the sun at all times, day and night. The detector is stated to give false results ("lie") 1/36th of the time.

There is no record of any star ever spontaneously exploding—they always show signs of deterioration long before their explosion—so the probability is near zero. For the sake of a number, though, consider that the sun's estimated lifespan is 10 billion years. Let's say the test is run every hour, twelve hours a day (at night time). This gives us a probability of the Sun exploding at one in 4.38×10<sup>13</sup>. Assuming this detector is otherwise reliable, when the detector reports a solar explosion, there are two possibilities:
# The sun '''has''' exploded (one in 4.38×10<sup>13</sup>) and the detector '''is''' telling the truth (35 in 36). This event has a total probability of about 1/(4.38×10<sup>13</sup>) × 35/36 or about one in 4.50×10<sup>13</sup>.
# The sun '''hasn't''' exploded (4.38×10<sup>13</sup> − 1 in 4.38×10<sup>13</sup>) and the detector '''is not''' telling the truth (1 in 36). This event has a total probability of about (4.38×10<sup>13</sup> − 1) / 4.38×10<sup>13</sup> × 1/36 or about one in 36.

Clearly the sun exploding is not the most likely option. Indeed, Bayes' theorem can be used to find the probability that the Sun has exploded, given a result of "yes" and the prior probability given above:

: <math>
\begin{align}
P(\text{exploded}\,|\,\text{yes})&=\frac{P(\text{yes}\,|\,\text{exploded})P(\text{exploded})}{P(\text{yes})}\\
&=\frac{P(\text{exploded})(1-P(\text{lie}))}{P(\text{exploded})(1-P(\text{lie}))+P(\text{lie})(1-P(\text{exploded}))}\\
&\approx\frac1{1.25226\times10^{12}}
\end{align}
</math>

==Transcript==
:Did the sun just explode? (It's night, so we're not sure)

:[Two statisticians stand alongside an adorable little computer that is suspiciously similar to K-9 that speaks in Westminster typeface.]
:Frequentist Statistician: This neutrino detector measures whether the sun has gone nova.
:Bayesian Statistician: Then, it rolls two dice. If they both come up as six, it lies to us. Otherwise, it tells the truth.
:Frequentist Statistician: Let's try. [to the detector] Detector! Has the sun gone nova?
:Detector: ''roll'' YES.

:Frequentist Statistician:
:Frequentist Statistician: The probability of this result happening by chance is 1/36=0.027. Since p<0.05, I conclude that the sun has exploded.

:Bayesian Statistician:
:Bayesian Statistician: Bet you $50 it hasn't.

==Trivia==
* The Sun will never explode as a supernova, because it does not have enough mass. In addition the sun can’t explode as a nova, because novae only happen in binary systems.
*In the same blog comment as cited above<ref name="munroe-on-gelman"/>, Randall explains that he chose the "sun exploding" scenario as a more clearly absurd example than those usually used:
<blockquote>…I realized that in the common examples used to illustrate this sort of error, like the cancer screening/drug test false positive ones, the correct result is surprising or unintuitive. So I came up with the sun-explosion example, to illustrate a case where naïve application of that significance test can give a result that’s obviously nonsense.</blockquote>
*"Bayesian" statistics is named for Thomas Bayes, who studied conditional probability — the likelihood that one event is true when given information about some other related event. From {{w|Bayes Theorem|Wikipedia}}: "Bayesian interpretation expresses how a subjective degree of belief should rationally change to account for evidence".
* The "frequentist" says that 1/36 = 0.027. It's actually 0.02777…, which should round to 0.028.
* Using neutrino detectors to get an advance warning of a supernova is possible, and the {{w|Supernova Early Warning System}} does just this. The neutrinos arrive ahead of the photons, because they can escape from the core of the star before the supernova explosion reaches the mantle.

==References==
<references/>

{{comic discussion}}
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[[Category:Multiple Cueballs]]
[[Category:Statistics]]
[[Category:Physics]]

1132: Frequentists vs. Bayesians

2018-10-06T17:04:15Z

LegionMammal978: /* Mathematical and scientific details */ Added Bayes' theorem calculation

{{comic
| number = 1132
| date = November 9, 2012
| title = Frequentists vs. Bayesians
| image = frequentists_vs_bayesians.png
| titletext = 'Detector! What would the Bayesian statistician say if I asked him whether the--' [roll] 'I AM A NEUTRINO DETECTOR, NOT A LABYRINTH GUARD. SERIOUSLY, DID YOUR BRAIN FALL OUT?' [roll] '... yes.'}}

==Explanation==
This comic is a joke about jumping to conclusions based on a simplistic understanding of probability. The "{{w|base rate fallacy}}" is a mistake where an unlikely explanation is dismissed, even though the alternative is even less likely. In the comic, a device tests for the (highly unlikely) event that the sun has exploded. A degree of random error is introduced, by rolling two {{w|dice}} and lying if the result is double sixes. Double sixes are unlikely (1 in 36, or about 3% likely), so the statistician on the left dismisses it. The statistician on the right has (we assume) correctly reasoned that the sun exploding is ''far more'' unlikely, and so is willing to stake money on his interpretation.

The labels given to the two statisticians, in their panels and in the comic's title, are not particularly fair or accurate, a fact which [[Randall]] has acknowledged:<ref name="munroe-on-gelman">[http://web.archive.org/web/20130117080920/http://andrewgelman.com/2012/11/16808/#comment-109366 Comment by Randall Munroe] to "I don’t like this cartoon", blog post by Andrew Gelman in ''Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science''. Archived Jan 17 2013 by the Wayback Machine.</ref>
<blockquote>I seem to have stepped on a hornet’s nest, though, by adding “Frequentist” and “Bayesian” titles to the panels. This came as a surprise to me, in part because I actually added them as an afterthought, along with the final punchline. … The truth is, I genuinely didn’t realize Frequentists and Bayesians were actual camps of people—all of whom are now emailing me. I thought they were loosely-applied labels—perhaps just labels appropriated by the books I had happened to read recently—for the standard textbook approach we learned in science class versus an approach which more carefully incorporates the ideas of prior probabilities.</blockquote>

The "frequentist" statistician is (mis)applying the common standard of "{{w|P-value|p}}<0.05". In a scientific study, a result is presumed to provide strong evidence if, given that the {{w|null hypothesis}}, a default position that the observations are unrelated (in this case, that the sun has ''not'' gone nova), there is less than a 5% chance that the result was merely random. (The null hypothesis was also referenced in [[892: Null Hypothesis]].)

Since the likelihood of rolling double sixes is below this 5% threshold, the "frequentist" decides (by this rule of thumb) to accept the detector's output as correct. The "Bayesian" statistician has, instead, applied at least a small measure of probabilistic reasoning ({{w|Bayesian inference}}) to determine that the unlikeliness of the detector lying is greatly outweighed by the unlikeliness of the sun exploding. Therefore, he concludes that the sun has ''not'' exploded and the detector is lying.

The line, "Bet you $50 it hasn't", is a reference to the approach of a leading Bayesian scholar, {{w|Bruno de Finetti}}, who made extensive use of bets in his examples and thought experiments. See {{w|Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy)}} for more information on his work. In this case, however, the bet is also a joke because we would all be dead if the sun exploded. If the Bayesian wins the bet, he gets money, and if he loses, they'll both be dead before money can be paid. This underlines the absurdity of the premise and emphasizes the need to consider context when examining probability.

The title text refers to a classic series of logic puzzles known as {{w|Knights and Knaves#Fork in the road|Knights and Knaves}}, where there are two guards in front of two exit doors, one of which is real and the other leads to death. One guard is a liar and the other tells the truth. The visitor doesn't know which is which, and is allowed to ask one question to one guard. The solution is to ask either guard what the other one would say is the real exit, then choose the opposite. Two such guards were featured in the 1986 Jim Henson movie ''{{w|Labyrinth (film)|Labyrinth}}'', hence the mention of "A LABYRINTH GUARD" here. A labyrinth was also mentioned in [[246: Labyrinth Puzzle]].

===Mathematical and scientific details===
As mentioned, this is an instance of the {{w|base rate fallacy}}. If we treat the "truth or lie" setup as simply modelling an inaccurate test, then it is also specifically an illustration of the {{w|false positive paradox}}: A test that is rarely wrong, but which tests for an event that is even rarer, will be more often wrong than right when it says that the event has occurred.

The test in this case is a neutrino detector. It relies on the fact that neutrinos can pass through the earth, so a neutrino detector would detect neutrinos from the sun at all times, day and night. The detector is stated to give false results ("lie") 1/36th of the time.

There is no record of any star ever spontaneously exploding—they always show signs of deterioration long before their explosion—so the probability is near zero. For the sake of a number, though, consider that the sun's estimated lifespan is 10 billion years. Let's say the test is run every hour, twelve hours a day (at night time). This gives us a probability of the Sun exploding at one in 4.38×10<sup>13</sup>. Assuming this detector is otherwise reliable, when the detector reports a solar explosion, there are two possibilities:
# The sun '''has''' exploded (one in 4.38×10<sup>13</sup>) and the detector '''is''' telling the truth (35 in 36). This event has a total probability of about 1/(4.38×10<sup>13</sup>) × 35/36 or about one in 4.50×10<sup>13</sup>.
# The sun '''hasn't''' exploded (4.38×10<sup>13</sup> − 1 in 4.38×10<sup>13</sup>) and the detector '''is not''' telling the truth (1 in 36). This event has a total probability of about (4.38×10<sup>13</sup> − 1) / 4.38×10<sup>13</sup> × 1/36 or about one in 36.

Clearly the sun exploding is not the most likely option. Indeed, Bayes' theorem can be used to find the probability that the Sun has exploded, given a result of "yes":

: <math>
\begin{align}
P(\text{exploded}\,|\,\text{yes})&=\frac{P(\text{yes}\,|\,\text{exploded})P(\text{exploded})}{P(\text{yes})}\\
&=\frac{P(\text{exploded})(1-P(\text{lie}))}{P(\text{exploded})(1-P(\text{lie}))+P(\text{lie})(1-P(\text{exploded}))}\\
&\approx\frac1{1.25226\times10^{12}}
\end{align}
</math>

==Transcript==
:Did the sun just explode? (It's night, so we're not sure)

:[Two statisticians stand alongside an adorable little computer that is suspiciously similar to K-9 that speaks in Westminster typeface.]
:Frequentist Statistician: This neutrino detector measures whether the sun has gone nova.
:Bayesian Statistician: Then, it rolls two dice. If they both come up as six, it lies to us. Otherwise, it tells the truth.
:Frequentist Statistician: Let's try. [to the detector] Detector! Has the sun gone nova?
:Detector: ''roll'' YES.

:Frequentist Statistician:
:Frequentist Statistician: The probability of this result happening by chance is 1/36=0.027. Since p<0.05, I conclude that the sun has exploded.

:Bayesian Statistician:
:Bayesian Statistician: Bet you $50 it hasn't.

==Trivia==
* The Sun will never explode as a supernova, because it does not have enough mass. In addition the sun can’t explode as a nova, because novae only happen in binary systems.
*In the same blog comment as cited above<ref name="munroe-on-gelman"/>, Randall explains that he chose the "sun exploding" scenario as a more clearly absurd example than those usually used:
<blockquote>…I realized that in the common examples used to illustrate this sort of error, like the cancer screening/drug test false positive ones, the correct result is surprising or unintuitive. So I came up with the sun-explosion example, to illustrate a case where naïve application of that significance test can give a result that’s obviously nonsense.</blockquote>
*"Bayesian" statistics is named for Thomas Bayes, who studied conditional probability — the likelihood that one event is true when given information about some other related event. From {{w|Bayes Theorem|Wikipedia}}: "Bayesian interpretation expresses how a subjective degree of belief should rationally change to account for evidence".
* The "frequentist" says that 1/36 = 0.027. It's actually 0.02777…, which should round to 0.028.
* Using neutrino detectors to get an advance warning of a supernova is possible, and the {{w|Supernova Early Warning System}} does just this. The neutrinos arrive ahead of the photons, because they can escape from the core of the star before the supernova explosion reaches the mantle.

==References==
<references/>

{{comic discussion}}
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[[Category:Multiple Cueballs]]
[[Category:Statistics]]
[[Category:Physics]]

887: Future Timeline

2018-03-03T17:57:39Z

LegionMammal978: /* The predictions */

{{comic
| number = 887
| date = April 18, 2011
| title = Future Timeline
| before = [[#Explanation|↓ Skip to explanation ↓]]
| image = future timeline.png
| titletext = Not shown: the approximately 30,000 identical, vaguely hysterical articles titled "WHITE PEOPLE IN [THE US/BRITAIN] TO BECOME MINORITY BY [YEAR]!", which came up for basically any year I put in.
}}

==Explanation==
This comic uses the same strategy as comic [[715: Numbers]], in which [[Randall]] uses Google to search for phrases and then charts the results. This one is charted as a timeline, whereas 715 was charted as line graphs.
It is a list of things predicted or announced by anyone at any time (the ones you see on Google search using "by the year..." or similar statements).

"2101 - War Was Beginning" is a reference to the opening narration of video game ''Zero Wing''; the same narration is famous for the internet meme "{{w|All your base are belong to us}}". As there are not any other out and out references in the comic, and the rest are actually results that you can find using Randall's methods, "War Was Beginning" was probably the only thing he got when he googled 2101 as well.

Certain events in this comic, e.g. "Social Security stops running surplus", are repeated multiple times. Also, certain bizarre events, like "Apocalypse occurs", or "Flying cars reach market", happen before rather plausible things, like "HTML 5 Finished". Certain events, like "Japan is a robot-only country" or "Gillette introduces 14-blade razor" may be related to the recurring theme [[605: Extrapolating]].

The title text is born of a recurring "white people panic" situation; scaremongers will predict white minority in the very near future in order to get the panicked racist people to pay attention to them (without actually using valid or accepted scientific measurements to back up these claims- panicked racist people don't exactly fact-check very much), while level-headed sociologists will usually come up with more distant, if not nonexistent, dates from their extrapolations.

This comic has similar features to [[1413: Suddenly Popular]], [[1093: Forget]], and [[891: Movie Ages]].

===Accuracy===
====2012-2014====
The only predictions for this period that came true are that the world population has surpassed 7 billion. Canada formally withdrew from the Kyoto protocol in December 2011, and its emissions in 2012 were 18% ''above'' 1990 levels (though its population had grown 26% and its GDP had grown 67% in that period). Sadly, homelessness is still a problem in Massachusetts. The prediction about GNU/Linux operating systems remains false; although Android (which is built on the Linux kernel) is currently the most dominant OS, it is not completely GNU/Linux, which remains an extreme minority on consumer devices. And so far as we're aware, the apocalypse has yet to occur.

====2015-2016====
{{w|New Horizons}} made its closest approach to Pluto in July 2015. It was never intended to ''land'' on Pluto, though the comic does not necessarily imply this.

The other 2015 predictions did not come true, though some might claim gender equality was reached.

{{w|Android OS}}' market share was already 84.4% as of the third quarter of 2014, showing that both estimates were overly conservative.<ref>http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp</ref> {{w|Windows Phone}} continued to have less than 30% of {{w|iOS}}' market share.

==The predictions==
{{incomplete|Some predictions of 2017 still need to be checked.}}
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Prediction
! Further Details
! Outcome
|-
| rowspan="4"| 2012
| World population
| Ever since the advent of modern medicine and the more efficient agricultural processes developed since the Industrial Revolution, the human population had been growing at an unprecedented rate. This has caused some people to worry about overpopulation, which would cause a scarcity of resources and overcrowding, and propose various solutions, most of which involve some form of eugenics. 7 billion is a landmark number because it is a multiple of 1 billion.
| Close: Earth reached 7 billion in late 2011.
|-
| Flying cars
| For decades, flying cars have been a staple of futuristic sci-fi and technological predictions. So far very few of these predictions, which to tend to hover around 5–10 years from whatever the current date is, have come true.
| False; still 5-10 years away. You could argue that helicopters count as flying cars.
|-
| Canada cuts greenhouse emissions
| Currently, the Earth is experiencing an unprecedented period of warming we call global warming, caused in part by greenhouse emissions, which are gases that help trap heat in the atmosphere. Countries have repeatedly gotten together and promised to stop emitting greenhouse gases, but so far they have failed to meet their targets.
| False. Canada withdrew from Kyoto treaty in late 2011.
|-
| Apocalypse occurs
| The end of a cycle of the Mayan calendar on December 22, 2012 has been used in popular culture as a basis for predicting the end of the world. Amongst other things, this included the film '2012'. Some people took this rather more seriously, and actually believed that the world would end on this date.
| False.{{Citation needed}}
|-
| rowspan="4"| 2013
| National debt paid off
| For years, the subject of national debt has been a political point of contention, with the Republicans typically favoring paying it all off, and the Democrats more willing to spend to pull the country out of recessions in the economy. Clinton, a Democrat, at one point proposed [http://money.cnn.com/1999/06/28/economy/clinton/ paying off the debt by 2015].
| False.
|-
| Microchipping Americans
| Microchips are small computer chips, typically embedded in pets in case they get lost, that contain information about the pet. Some, more paranoid, people worry about the government microchipping everyone in an effort to monitor their activities.
| False, although [https://www.google.com/search?q=rfid+implants RFID implants] do exist.
|-
| Homelessness ended in MA
| In 2008, the Commission To End Homelessness in Massachusetts, under Governor Deval Patrick, proposed a plan to all but eliminate homelessness over the next five years (hence the 2013 end-date on the comic).
| False.
|-
| Health care reform law repealed
| A health care reform law, popularly known as Obamacare, was signed into law in 2010. Ever since, many Republicans have tried (in vain) to repeal it, disliking the idea that government should provide and require healthcare.
| Too early; almost repealed in 2017.
|-
| rowspan="2"| 2014
| US leaves Afghanistan
| After the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York City on September 11, 2001, the United States invaded Afghanistan, which at the time allegedly hosted the headquarters of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organization behind the attacks. The war has gone on since then, with the public growing increasingly tired of it. Public support now favors a withdrawal, but for military and logistical reasons, the government cannot simply move all the troops currently in Afghanistan home right now. For one, that would cause immediate chaos in the country. Therefore, the government instead promises to eventually withdraw all troops, planning on doing so by the end of 2014.
| False. As of April 2017, 11,000 US troops remain in Afghanistan.
|-
| GNU/Linux dominant OS
| An operating system, or OS, is the software that forms the structure in which applications on you computer function. Some typical OSs include Mac OS X, Windows 10, and Linux. The first two of those three are commercial products, sold as a copy by a company. The last is an open-source OS, one that anyone can download and modify free. Typically, open-source software is used by a small number of socially conscious people.
| False, although Linux-based Android dominated phones since 2011.
|-
| rowspan="3"| 2015
| New Horizon reaches Pluto
| The New Horizon spacecraft is a U.S. space mission designed to go to Pluto and take photographs, collect samples, etc.
| True. [http://pluto.jhuapl.edu It reached Pluto on July 14, 2015].
|-
| Healthcare law causes hyperinflation
| The National Inflation Association warns that the [http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/healthcare-bill-to-cause-us-hyperinflation-by-2015-88711032.html Healthcare Bill to Cause U.S. Hyperinflation By 2015]
| False.
|-
| Millennium development goals achieved
| {{w|Millennium Development Goals}}
| False.
|-
| rowspan="3"| 2016
| Baby boomers begin turning 65
| {{w|Baby boomers}} are individuals conceived in the years following World War Two, roughly defined as those born from 1946-1959. This isn't so much a prediction as basic math; if you were born in 1946, you turned 65 in 2011.
| True.
|-
| Android takes 38%/45% of market share
| {{w|Android (operating system)|Android}} is a popular operating system for smartphones and tablets, created by Google. Market share is the percentage of all devices that use the product, in this case the Android operating system. These entries together are humorous because they cannot both happen at the same time.
| Too late; passed these marks in 2010.
|-
| Windows phone overtakes iOS
| {{w|iOS}} is the operating system used by Apple iPhones. At the time of the comic, Apple's mobile OS is much more popular than Microsoft's. The article Randall found predicts that the tables will turn.
| False.
|-
| rowspan="5"| 2017
| China completes lunar mission
| The {{w|Chinese space program}} has plans for extraterrestrial exploration, including a manned mission to the moon.
| False.
|-
| Social Security stops running surplus
| The first of many predictions about the United States {{w|Social Security (United States)|Social Security}} trust fund program, all predicting its decline due to a variety of factors.
| False
|-
| US budget balanced
| The {{w|United States federal budget}} outlines how much the US government spends on what in a given fiscal year. The budget is not required to be balanced, and so often more money is spent than is earned in revenue, causing the national debt to rise.
| False. Still far negative.
|-
| Newspapers become obsolete and die out
| The increasing popularity of internet media and mobile devices has caused a steady decline in the popularity of print media.
| False.
|-
| Cosmetic surgery doubles
| {{w|Cosmetic Surgery}}
| Probably false. According to the ASPS (American Society of Plastic Surgeons), 1.6 million cosmetic surgeries were performed in 2011, while 1.8 million were performed in 2016, a 12.5% increase over 5 years. For 2017 to hit 3.2 million, there would have to have been a 77.8% increase over 1 year (from 2016 to 2017), a highly implausible figure. However, the ASPS has not yet [as of February 2018] released an estimate on the number of cosmetic surgeries performed in 2017.
|-
| rowspan="2"| 2018
| Social Security stops running surplus
| {{w|Social Security (United States)|Social Security}} again.
|
|-
| Jesus returns to Earth
| A number of Christians have attempted to predict the return of Christ (a.k.a. the second coming, the rapture) using clues from The Bible, even though the Bible itself says that "no man can know the date". Several predicted dates have come and gone.
|Unknown
|-
| rowspan="2"| 2019
| Social Security stops running surplus
| {{w|Social Security (United States)|Social Security}} again.
|
|-
| Every baby has genes mapped at birth
| {{w|Gene Mapping}}
|
|-
| rowspan="3"| 2020
| Solar power becomes cheaper than fossil fuels
| Scientists estimate that more than half of the {{w|fossil fuels}} in existence have already been found and that fossil fuel production will begin to decline due to the scarcity, causing prices to increase. At the same time, improvements in {{w|Solar Power|solar technology}} are causing the prices for solar energy to steadily decrease.
|
|-
| Keyboards and mice become obsolete
| {{w|Computer input device}} are beginning to adopt other methods of input, such as voice commands, touch screens, and eye tracking. While the use of touch screens in particular is gaining widespread use, as of 2014 none has come close to making keyboards and mice obsolete. None of them allows text input as fast as a keyboard, and none is suitable for writing program code.
|
|-
| New Tappan Zee bridge constructed
| A {{w|Tappan_Zee_Bridge#Replacement_bridge|replacement bridge}} was announced in 2008 and is expected to be completed in 2018.
|
|-
| rowspan="4"| 2021
| US debt reaches 97% of GDP
| {{w|US Debt}}
| Too late; reached in 2011.
|-
| US unemployment falls to 2.8%
| {{w|Unemployment in the United States}}
|
|-
| Restored caliphate unifies Middle East
| A {{w|caliphate}} is a form of {{w|Islam|Islamic}} political-religious leadership, centred around a Caliph, or successor to the prophet {{w|Muhammad}}. This may be foreshadowing of the Islamic State of Iraq and greater Syria, which has as its goal the creation of a restored caliphate.
|
|-
| Lake Mead evaporates
| Formed by the {{w|Hoover Dam}} on the {{w|Colorado River}}, {{w|Lake Mead}} is the largest reservoir in the United States (measured by maximum capacity). It hasn't reached its capacity since 1983, due to drought and increased demand for water. This could be linked to {{w|global warming}}.
|
|-
| rowspan="3"| 2022
| Kilimanjaro snow-free
| At 5,895 metres, {{w|Kilimanjaro}} is the highest mountain in {{w|Africa}}, and the highest free-standing mountain in the world. Around 85% of its ice cover disappeared between 1912 and 2011, and it continues to recede.
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| HTML 5 finished
| {{w|HTML 5}}
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| Newspapers become obsolete and die out
| This is the second time this prediction has appeared.
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| rowspan="3"| 2023
| Jesus returns to Earth (again)
| A number of Christians have attempted to predict the return of Christ (a.k.a. the second coming, the rapture) using clues from The Bible, even though the Bible itself says that "no man can know the date". Several predicted dates have come and gone.
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| US debt passes 100% of GDP
| This references the common fear that {{w|US Debt}} will exceed GDP, possibly causing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_bubble economic turmoil].
| Too late; reached in 2012.
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| All unprotected ancient forests gone from Pacific Northwest
| Likely due to a combination of wildfire and {{w|deforestation}}
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| rowspan="5"| 2024
| Atlantis begins to reappear
| {{w|Atlantis}} is the name of a fictional island, which is supposed to have been lost beneath the sea.
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| Orangutans extinct in wild
| {{w|Orangutan|Orangutans}} are a species of great ape, currently classed as an {{w|endangered species}}, and found only in the {{w|Rainforest|rainforests}} of {{w|Borneo}} and {{w|Sumatra}}.
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| China lands men and women on the moon
| The {{w|Chinese space program}} has plans for extraterrestrial exploration, including a manned mission to the moon.
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| NASA sets up permanent moon base
| There has been a lot of hype recently about finally returning to the moon, vis-a-vis Orion.
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| Female professionals pass males in pay
| There are two possible explanations for this entry: Either it's fear-mongering from misogynists or, more probably, an erroneous extrapolation from the current rate at which female incomes are catching up to male incomes.
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| rowspan="4"| 2025
| World population reaches 8 billion
| Given current rates, it seems unlikely it will take this long to hit 8 billion, but advances in birth control options and especially their availability in developing nations may slow the current rate considerably.
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| Two billion people face water shortages
| http://english.pravda.ru/science/earth/28-01-2008/103693-water_crisis-0/
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| 62 MPG cars introduced
| 62 miles per gallon, ~3.8 L/100km. 62 MPG is a very good mileage rate at today's standard, even though [http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5231050&page=1 some cars can be driven carefully so as to attain over 100 MPG].
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| US power fades
| http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-us-power-will-fade-by-2025/
| Hard to know what the precise metric for this would be.
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| rowspan="5"| 2026
| Atlantis emerges completely
| {{w|Atlantis}} is the name of a fictional island, which is supposed to have been lost beneath the sea. It seems that it has taken 2 years for it to emerge completely.
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| Rock Bands die out
| https://bestbands.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/rock-bands-to-die-out-by-2026/
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| US debt paid off
| {{w|US Debt}}
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| Car accidents cease
| Presumably, cars will be fully automated and able to pilot themselves at this point and will have fail-safes that prevent collisions currently attributed to user error. Car accidents will always be possible, however, due to mechanical and electrical failures.
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| West coast falls into ocean
| Most likely due to {{w|San_Andreas_Fault#The_next_.22Big_One.22|a significant seismic event}}
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| rowspan="3"| 2027
| Japan introduces new fastest Maglev train
| Japan's railway systems are famous for their "bullet trains", or {{w|Shinkansen}}.
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| Lyndon Larouche-planned Mars colony is established
| http://totse.mattfast1.com/en/technology/space_astronomy_nasa/moonmars.html
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| Social Security stops running surplus
| {{w|Social Security (United States)|Social Security}} again.
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| rowspan="4"| 2028
| Tobacco outlawed
| Tobacco products (cigarettes and chewing tobacco) have become more and more taboo in modern culture, with most public places and private businesses forbidding their use indoors and near places children congregate.
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| 40% of coral reefs gone
| Many factors have been attributed to the decline of {{w|Coral_reef#Threats|coral reefs}}, including mining, over fishing, and rising ocean tempteratures.
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| US debt paid off
| {{w|US Debt}} [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/business/27view.html It’s 2026, and the Debt Is Due].
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| Social Security stops running surplus
| {{w|Social Security (United States)|Social Security}} again
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| rowspan="4"| 2029
| Social Security trust fund exhausted
| {{w|Social Security (United States)|Social Security}}
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| Computers pass the Turing test
| It is no coincidence that 2029 is the timeline for Terminator Movies.
| Some computers already clear the Turing Test about 30% of the time.
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| Aging reversed
| Manhattan Beach Project to reverse aging by 2029
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| Wikipedia reaches 30 Million articles
|
| As of 00:00, 5 January 2015 (UTC), Wikipedia has over 34 million total articles, if all languages are included. The source being cited may have meant the English language Wikipedia, which has only 5.549 million articles, as of 12 January 2017.
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| rowspan="3"| 2030
| Half of Amazon rain forest lost to logging
| WWF press release - [http://www.worldwildlife.org/press-releases/climate-change-speeds-up-amazon-s-destruction-says-wwf Climate Change Speeds Up Amazon’s Destruction] referring to a report on the [http://assets.panda.org/downloads/amazonas_eng_04_12b_web.pdf Amazon's vicious cycles] (PDF)
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| Cancer deaths double from 2008 levels
| From the [http://www.cancer.org/myacs/newengland/global-cancer-burden-to-double-by-2030 Global Cancer Burden to Nearly Double by 2030] article about the article from page 37 of [http://www.cancer.org/research/cancerfactsfigures/globalcancerfactsfigures/global-facts-figures-2nd-ed Global Cancer Facts & Figures 2nd edition].
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| Arctic ice-free in summer
| http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091015-arctic-ice-free-gone-video-ap.html
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| rowspan="3"| 2031
| Computers controlled by thought
| http://www.gizmag.com/future-mobile-technology/17554/
| As of 2017, this is {{w|Brain–computer interface|already possible}}
|-
| Realtors replaced by technology
| http://agbeat.com/editorials/will-realtors-be-replaced-by-technology-by-the-year-2031/
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| Social Security trust fund exhausted
| http://crfb.org/blogs/cbo-95-percent-confident-social-security-trust-fund-runs-out-25-years
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| rowspan="3"| 2032
| "Big One" hits San Francisco
| http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Quake-scientists-predict-Big-One-likely-by-2032-2653745.php {{w|San Franscisco}} is located on the {{w|San Andreas Fault}}, which is predicted to produce a magnitude 7+ earthquake in the 'near future'. This event is referred to as {{w|San_Andreas_Fault#The_next_.22Big_One.22|"The Big One"}}.
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| US elects first married lesbian President
| http://4chandata.org/g/In-what-major-ways-do-you-think-the-world-of-2032-will-be-different-from-that-of-today-a20155
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| Entire world converted to Christianity
| http://www.goddiscussion.com/38920/christian-domininionsts-to-take-over-the-world-by-2032/
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| rowspan="3"| 2033
| Kilimanjaro ice disappears
| http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/11/02/idUSL2210825
|
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| India becomes superpower
| https://www.facebook.com/pages/India-A-SuperPower-by-2033/151177191568098 ?
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| Europe reaches Mars
| [http://www.spacedaily.com/news/esa-general-03zb.html Specifically, a manned European mission]. ESA's {{w|Mars Express}} probe landed in 2003.
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| rowspan="2"| 2034
| US diabetes cases double, treatment costs triple
| [http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/11/27/us-diabetes-usa-costs-idUSTRE5AQ0C220091127 U.S. diabetes cases to double, costs triple by 2034]
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| US builds autonomous robot army
| The concept of robots built for military service is another common element of science fiction stories. [http://www.aos-inc.com/index.php/medialias/press-releases?id=112 Unmanned Systems] article, about the [http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA522247 2009-2034 Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap] publication ([http://www.amazon.com/2009-Unmanned-Integrated-Aircraft-Technologies-ebook/dp/B0047743A0 details at Amazon])
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| rowspan="3"| 2035
| 80% of America's energy comes from renewable sources
| From fact sheet on Obama's [http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/01/25/fact-sheet-state-union-president-obamas-plan-win-future State of the Union]
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| Himalayan glaciers down 80% in size
| From an IPCC report on [https://web.archive.org/web/20100116132657/http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/ch10s10-6-2.html The Himalayan glaciers] that has been analysed in quite some depth. See for example detailed article on an [http://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2010/02/anatomy-of-ipccs-himalayan-glacier-year-2035-mess/ anatomy of IPCC’s mistake].
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| Arctic sea lane opens
| [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/730ef8fe-27e1-11e0-8abc-00144feab49a.html#axzz3OBgEHYNY Arctic sea lane could open by 2035]
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| rowspan="2"| 2036
| 80% of US has access to high-speed rail
| [http://www.wnyc.org/story/284946-obama-80-percent-of-americans-should-have-access-to-high-speed-rail-by-2036/ Obama: 80 Percent of Americans Should Have Access to High Speed Rail By 2036]
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| Asteroid Apophis misses/hits Earth
| http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/apophis/ http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/apophis/ 99942 Apophis is a near-Earth asteroid that caused a brief period of concern in December 2004 because initial observations indicated a probability of up to 2.7% that it would hit Earth on April 13, 2029.
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| rowspan="2"| 2037
| Arctic ice-free in September
| {{w|Arctic sea ice decline}}
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| Social Security trust fund exhausted
| {{w|Social Security (United States)|Social Security}}
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| rowspan="2"| 2038
| 32-bit timestamps roll over, causing Y2K-level chaos
| 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038, the value of time_t rolls over, that is it will return to zero. time_t is a computing standard measurement of time; it is a count of the number of seconds since 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970. time_t is used by most computer systems to store date and time information. It is recommended that new software should convert to a 64 bit time_t; indeed, most operating systems designed to run on 64-bit hardware already use signed 64-bit time_t integers. This would give an epoch of 15:30:08 UTC on 4 December 292,277,026,596 (292 billion years away). Of course, legacy systems may not be upgradable so action taken now should prevent this becoming a problem closer to 2038...
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| "Big One" hits California
| [http://www.presstelegram.com/technology/20080414/the-big-one-likely-to-hit-by-2038 `The big one' likely to hit by 2038]
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| rowspan="3"| 2039
| US population hits 400 Million
| [http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2008/us400million.aspx U.S. Population Projected to Hit 400 Million in 2039]
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| Severe heat waves become commonplace
| [http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/july/extreme-heat-study-070810.html Heat waves and extremely high temperatures could be commonplace in the U.S. by 2039, Stanford study finds]
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| Scientology becomes majority religion in US
| [http://home.snafu.de/tilman/2039.html Essay: Scientology in the year 2039]
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| rowspan="2"| 2040
| Arctic summers ice-free
| [http://www.livescience.com/9419-arctic-summer-ice-free-2040.html Arctic Summer Could be Ice-Free by 2040]
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| Nanotechnology makes humans immortal
| [http://www.computerworld.com/article/2528330/app-development/nanotech-could-make-humans-immortal-by-2040--futurist-says.html Nanotech could make humans immortal by 2040, futurist says]
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| 2041
| Social Security trust fund exhausted
| {{w|Social Security (United States)|Social Security}}
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| 2043
| World population passes 9 Billion
| {{w|Population growth}}
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| rowspan="2"| 2044
| Mankind genetically engineered to be happy
| Premise of the movie [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1363468/ Zenith] - further details are in the [http://www.filmjournal.com/filmjournal/content_display/esearch/e3i25130cd57f1590bda4527c098ac85b01 film review for Zenith]
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| Childhood obesity reaches 100%
| [http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=11414 100-Percent Childhood Obesity Predicted by 2044]
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| 2045
| Humans and machines merge
| Ray Kurzweil predicts of 'singularity' which will lead to race of super intelligent beings
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| 2046
| World's natural resources depleted
| [http://raphaelvanlaer.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/peak-uncertainty-when-will-we-run-out-of-fossil-fuels/ Peak uncertainty, when will we run out of fossil fuels?]
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| rowspan="3"| 2047
| World ruled by banks and corporations
| [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Future-Schlock-2047-RM-Krakoff-ebook/dp/B0039IT37Q Future Schlock] - the story of a world turned upside down in 2047
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| Tobacco industry fails
| [http://www.news.wisc.edu/16857 Experts: Big Tobacco dead by 2047, possibly sooner]
|
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| US begins using autonomous attack drones
| [http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/22/us-air-force-drones-pilots-afghanistan US Air Force prepares drones to end era of fighter pilots]
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| rowspan="3"| 2048
| Salt-water fish extinct from overfishing
| WWF report on [http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/blue_planet/problems/problems_fishing/ Unsustainable fishing]
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| Unisex bathing suits cover body from shoulder to ankle
| [http://future.wikia.com/wiki/RyansWorld:_Bathing_Suits_of_the_Future RyansWorld: Bathing Suits of the Future]
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| Entire US population overweight
| Article archive - [https://web.archive.org/web/20090321075605/http://thestatsblog.wordpress.com/2008/07/29/scientists-say-thin-people-face-extinction-in-united-states-everyone-will-be-overweight-by-2048-%E2%80%93-and-less-smart Scientists Say Thin People Face Extinction in United States: Everyone Will Be Overweight by 2048 – And Less Smart]
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| rowspan="3"| 2049
| $1.000 computer exceeds computational ability of humanity
| [http://www.americanbar.org/content/newsletter/publications/technology_e_report_home/2007_may_technotes.html TechNotes: Trends in Technology]
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| Singularity occurs
| [http://www.prismdecision.com/the-singularity-is-near The Singularity Is Near]
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| Fishing industry collapses
| This tends to happen when your food-stock is extinct - see WWF report on [http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/blue_planet/problems/problems_fishing/ Unsustainable fishing]
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| rowspan="5"| 2050
| 80% of Earth's population lives in urban centers
| [http://infochangeindia.org/population/books-a-reports/80-of-world-population-will-soon-be-in-urban-areas.html 80% of world population will soon be in urban areas]
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| China controls space
| [https://books.google.com/books?id=op851Uf99LQC&dq=China+controls+space+2050&source=gbs_navlinks_s Space Science & Technology in China: A Roadmap to 2050]
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| Sex with robots possible
| [http://www.livescience.com/1951-forecast-sex-marriage-robots-2050.html Forecast: Sex and Marriage with Robots by 2050]
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| Cars banned from European cities
| [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/8411336/EU-to-ban-cars-from-cities-by-2050.html EU to ban cars from cities by 2050]
|
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| One million species extinct from climate change
| [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/01/0107_040107_extinction.html By 2050 Warming to Doom Million Species, Study Says]
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| 2051
| Atmosphere escapes into space
| [http://www.thehulltruth.com/boating-outdoor-photos/255705-have-you-ever-seen-fallstreak-hole.html Conspiracy theory] relating to {{w|Fallstreak hole}} or hole punch clouds.
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| 2052
| Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security spending exceed total US revenue
| {{w|Social Security (United States)|Social Security}}
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| rowspan="3"| 2053
| US budget balanced
| [http://crfb.org/blogs/omb-releases-long-term-projections-fy2015-budget-proposal OMB releases long-term projections for the FY2015 budget proposal]
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| Majority of Americans in prison
| [http://articles.philly.com/1992-06-14/news/26032105_1_prison-officials-prison-time-prison-commissioners 'Beyond Bricks And Bars' As Jails Overflow, The Lock-'em-up Credo Is Drawing Unlikely Criticism - From Prison Officials Themselves]
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| Cars driven by dogs
|
| This has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWAK0J8Uhzk already occurred] in 2012!
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| 2054
| Hunger becomes unimaginable global problem
| [http://www.albionmonitor.com/0403a/earth2054.html Hunger Could Be 'Unimaginable' Global Problem By 2054]
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| rowspan="3"| 2055
| Atmospheric CO2 doubled
| [http://cmi.princeton.edu/wedges/flash_intro.php Carbon Mitigation Initiative: Stabilization Wedges]
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| Oil runs out
| [http://raphaelvanlaer.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/peak-uncertainty-when-will-we-run-out-of-fossil-fuels/ Peak uncertainty, when will we run out of fossil fuels?]
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| Copper, tin, lead, gold, and nickel all exhausted
| [http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/environment/5-valuable-metals-that-could-vanish-by-2055 5 Valuable Metals That Could Vanish by 2055]
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| rowspan="2"| 2056
| RFID-tagged driverless cars
| [http://www.zdnet.com/article/rfid-tagged-driverless-cars-on-roads-by-2056/ RFID-tagged driverless cars on roads by 2056]
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| Robots given same rights as humans
| [http://www.cc.gatech.edu/news/robots-given-same-rights-humans-2056 Robots Given Same Rights As Humans By 2056]
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| rowspan="2"| 2057
| 150 Japanese settlers on Mars
| [http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/9011051292/will-japan-colonize-mars Will Japan colonize Mars?]
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| Colorado River runs dry
| [http://news.agu.org/press-release/colorado-river-reservoirs-could-bottom-out-from-warming-business-as-usual/ Colorado River Reservoirs Could Bottom Out From Warming]
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| 2058
| Smoking ends in New Zealand
| [http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10698966 Smoking to die out in NZ by 2058]
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| 2059
| Humans have domesticated robots
| [http://diehardempiricist.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/6-may-2011-virtual-necking-demography.html Virtual necking, demography, and robots]
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| rowspan="4"| 2060
| Human race lives in peace
| [http://www.arasfoundation.org/vision.html ARAS vision/mission]
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| Extreme droughts across much of Earth
| [http://wdas.cosmosmagazine.com/news/extreme-drought-across-most-earth-30-years/ Extreme drought across most of Earth by 2060]
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| Global temperature rise reaches 4 °C
| {{w|Avoiding dangerous climate change}}
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| Oil runs out again
| [http://business.financialpost.com/2011/04/01/oil-may-run-out-by-2060-hsbc/?__lsa=98a7-5c61 Oil may run out by 2060: HSBC]
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| 2061
| Halley's comet returns
| Halley's comet returns to the inner solar system (the vicinity of earth and the sun) every 75.3 years. The last time it was near earth was in 1985-1986. When it next returns, its closest approach to the sun will occur on 28 July 2061.<ref name=horizons>[http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi Donald K. Yeomans. "Horizon Online Ephemeris System". California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 8 September 2006.]</ref>
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| rowspan="2"| 2062
| Uganda hosts World Cup
| [http://shillingscents.blogspot.co.nz/2010/07/uganda-to-host-world-cup-in-2062.html Uganda to host world cup in 2062]
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| The Jetsons
| {{w|The Jetsons}} was an animated science fiction sitcom that first aired in 1962. The show was set in the year 2062.
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| rowspan="4"| 2063
| First human clones reach adulthood
| [http://au.ign.com/articles/2004/04/28/the-fall-last-days-of-gaia-diary-2 The Fall - Last Days of Gaia Diary #2]
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| Population of Moon reaches 100,000
| Reading Eagle newspaper article from July 17, 1963 - [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19630717&id=PhgrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=B50FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4055,6599008 Moon Population of 100,000 Is Predicted for 2063] and [http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2008/3/14/air-force-predictions-for-2063-1963.html Air Force Predictions for 2063 (1963)]
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| Population of Mars reaches 10,000
| [http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2008/3/14/air-force-predictions-for-2063-1963.html Air Force Predictions for 2063 (1963)]
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| Spacecraft exceed speed of light
| Physics as currently understood states that it is impossible to exceed the speed of light. A monumental shift in our physics would have had to have occurred for this to come true. This is a reference to the 8th Star Trek feature Film: "Star Trek: First Contact" where Zefram Cochrane performs the first human Warp Flight on April 5, 2063.
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| 2064
| Clean Air Act finishes reducing haze in national parks to natural levels
| [http://www.cleanhouston.org/air/features/hazyfuture.htm State plan guarantees a hazy future for Texas’ wilderness areas]
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| rowspan="2"| 2065
| Last coral reefs die out
| From an [http://www.edgeofexistence.org/coral_reef_conservation/coral_reef_video.php article about a video called Reefs on the Edge] set in 2065 where a 15-year-old girl tells her grandfather's stories of coral reefs, and their demise.
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| Chernobyl cleanup complete
| [http://rt.com/politics/chernobyl-clean-in-55-years-time/ Chernobyl clean in 55 years time?]
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| 2066
| Cyprus achieves its goal
| This is from some [http://www.cyprus-forum.com/cyprus33608-110.html#p665612 forum posts on the decendants of Cypriots] that lends support to the autonomy of Cyprus from Greek or Turkey.
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| rowspan="2"| 2067
| Americans live in domed cities and watch 3D TV
| The article at [http://blogs.lib.unc.edu/ncm/index.php/2013/11/15/artifact-of-the-month-slide-rule-1916/ Artifact of the Month: Slide rule, 1916] includes information from the International Slide Rule Museum that "in 1967, Keuffel & Esser Co. commissioned a study of the future, predicting that Americans in 2067 would live in domed cities and watch 3D television."
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| Redheads go extinct
| [http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/genetic/redhead-extinction.htm Are redheads going extinct?]
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| rowspan="3"| 2068
| Ozone hole over Antarctic finishes recovering
| [http://www.theozonehole.com/recovery.htm NASA Study Finds Clock Ticking Slower On Ozone Hole Recovery]
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| Lord Jesus rules the Earth from Throne in Jerusalem.
| [http://myth-one.com/chapter_8.htm The Resurrections -- What Really Happens]
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| Entire world population gay due to chemicals in the water
| [http://thedailybanter.com/2013/01/alex-jones-the-government-is-trying-to-make-more-gay-people/ Alex Jones talks about chemicals that make people gay]
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| 2069
| Public masturbation legalized
| [http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/UnNews:It's_still_not_okay_to_Pull_Your_Penis_out_in_Public It's still not okay to Pull Your Penis out in Public]
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| rowspan="3"| 2070
| World population peaks
| [http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1108-global-population-to-peak-in-2070.html Global population to peak in 2070]
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| City-scale flooding disasters
| [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/3317033/City-scale-flooding-disasters-predicted-by-2070.html City-scale flooding disasters predicted by 2070]
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| 60% of world's energy comes from renewable sources
| [http://www.ssisolarenergy.com/solar-alternative-energy/ What Is Alternative Energy All About?]
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| rowspan="2"| 2071
| Europe's temperatures rise by 3 °C
| [http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/en/topics/climate-energy/climate-change-adaptation/adaptation-tools/project-catalog/peseta-projection-of-economic-impacts-of-climate Projection of Economic impacts of climate change in Sectors of the European Union based on bottom-up Analysis]
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| World summer temperatures rise by 5 °C
| [http://www.climateadaptation.eu/denmark/climate-change/ See "Air temperature changes in the 21st century"]
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| 2072
| US retirement age is set to 75
| [http://money.usnews.com/money/retirement/articles/2012/06/11/how-high-will-the-retirement-age-go Up to 70-80 years]
|
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| 2073
| Oceans do not rise one foot
| [http://www.skepticalscience.com/sea-level-rise-predictions.htm More like 2 feet]
|
|-
| rowspan="2"| 2074
| Number of 100-year-olds reaches one million
| [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8848188.html UK to have 1 million centenarians by 2074]
|
|-
| Supertyphoons hit Japan
| [http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/08/national/super-typhoons-in-store-as-seas-warm/ Super typhoons in store as seas warm]
|
|-
| 2075
| US retirement age set to 69
| [http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Latest-News-Wires/2010/1112/Retirement-age-at-69-Deficit-plan-hits-Social-Security Retirement age at 69? Deficit plan hits Social Security]
|
|-
| rowspan="2"| 2076
| Average scientific paper has more than 24 authors
| [https://doclib.uhasselt.be/dspace/bitstream/1942/871/1/yitzhaki373.PDF Multiple Authorship in Biochemistry and Other Fields] (PDF)
|
|-
| Social Security trust fund exhausted
| {{w|Social Security (United States)|Social Security}}
|
|-
| 2078
| Newspapers become obsolete and die out
| The same prediction was made for 2017 and 2022. Even when most prognosticators agree that something will happen, there can still be much disagreement about ''when'' it will happen.
|
|-
| rowspan="4"| 2079
| US debt reaches 716% of GDP
| {{w|US Debt}}
|
|-
| Lodgepole pines disappear from Northwest
| [http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2011/feb/climate-change-causing-demise-lodgepole-pine-western-north-america Climate change causing demise of lodgepole pine in western North America]
|
|-
| Floods commonplace
| [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090108101627.htm Floods To Become Commonplace By 2080]
|
|-
| Religion marginalized
| http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11347073
|
|-
| rowspan="2"| 2080
| Federal spending reaches 70% of GDP
| [http://crfb.org/sites/default/files/our_debt_problems_are_far_from_solved_updated_2.pdf Our debt problems are far from solved] (PDF)
|
|-
| UK population doubles
| [http://forums.canadiancontent.net/international-politics/69603-britains-population-hit-110-million.html Britain's population to hit 110 million]
|
|-
| 2082
| World population declines to one billion
| [http://www.paulchefurka.ca/Population.html Population: The Elephant in the Room]
|
|-
| 2084
| Robot policemen introduced
| [http://www.thetechherald.com/articles/Robotic-cops-set-to-stamp-out-crime-by-2084 Robotic cops set to stamp out crime by 2084]
|
|-
| 2085
| US deficit reaches 62% of GDP
| [http://moneybob.com/2010/06/28/paul-krugman-throws-in-towel-says-were-headed-for-another-depression/ Paul Krugman Throws In Towel, Says We’re Headed For Another Depression]
|
|-
| 2088
| Japan becomes all-robot country
| [http://www.theretributioners.tv/erics-blog/2009/11/25/-japan-to-become-all-robot-country-by-2088.html Japan To Become All Robot Country By 2088]
|
|-
| 2089
| World halts fossil fuel use
| {{w|Fossil Fuels}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2"| 2090
| Global warming hits 7 °C
| [http://www.reportingclimatescience.com/news-stories/article/models-warn-of-7c-dangerous-climate-change-by-2090.html Models warn of 7C dangerous climate change by 2090]. Climate change, especially global warming, is a [[:Category:Climate change|recurring theme]] in xkcd.
|
|-
| Global warming hits 4 °C
| Summarized [http://www.global-warming-forecasts.com/2090-climate-change-global-warming-2090.php here]. In reference to Andy Bowers, “Analysis: Scientists say global warming could affect California's drinking water supply,” NPR All Things Considered, June 22, 2001
|
|-
| rowspan="11"| 2100
| Global warming around 5-7 °C
| [http://grist.org/article/bau-fd/ Hadley Center study warns of ‘catastrophic’ 5-7°C warming by 2100 on current emissions path]
|
|-
| Sea levels have risen by a meter or more
| {{w|Future sea level}}
|
|-
| Joshua trees nearly extinct
| [http://news.discovery.com/earth/joshua-trees-climate-change-110325.htm Joshua Trees Nearly Wiped Out by 2100?]
|
|-
| Earth's climate resembles that of the Cretaceous
| [http://www.pnas.org/content/107/2/576 Atmospheric CO2 concentrations during ancient greenhouse climates were similar to those predicted for A.D. 2100]
|
|-
| Germany tropical
| [http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/climate-change-predictions-a-tropical-germany-by-2100-a-463378.html Climate Change Predictions: A Tropical Germany by 2100?]
|
|-
| Emperor penguins extinct
| [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7851276.stm Emperor penguins face extinction]
|
|-
| Arctic permafrost thaws
| [http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/surface-permafrost-could/ Surface Permafrost Could Disappear by 2100]
|
|-
| Rising seas flood coastal cities
| [http://uanews.org/story/rising-seas-will-affect-major-us-coastal-cities-2100 Rising Seas Will Affect Major U.S. Coastal Cities by 2100]
|
|-
| Rain forests mostly gone due to climatic shifts
| [http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/08/06/890970/-Massive-Loss-of-Rainforest-Species-by-2100-eKos-Earthship-Friday Massive Loss of Rainforest Species by 2100]
|
|-
| All coral reefs gone
| [http://planetsave.com/2010/10/15/coral-reefs-gone-by-2100/ Coral Reefs Gone by 2100?]
|
|-
| Gillette introduces 14-bladed razor
| Each iteration of the Gillette line of safety razors has one more blade than the previous one. MadTV has also [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FAP8o5ZEo0 parodied] this. Over five years before MadTV did so, the Australian comedy group the D-Generation parodied the first two-bladed razor as the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YleuLyCUx28 Gillette 3000] with 16 blades.
|
|-
| 2101
| WAR WAS BEGINNING
| References {{w|Zero Wing}}, a 1989 Japanese computer game set in 2101, famous for poorly translated English and the source for "{{w|All your base are belong to us}}".
|
|}
<references/>

==Transcript==
:<big>'''THE FUTURE'''</big>
:'''According to Google search results'''
:Events for each year determined by the first page of Google search results for the phrases:
::{|
|-
|<small>"By <year>"</small>
|<small>"In year"</small>
|-
|<small>"By the year <year>"</small>
|<small>"In the year <year>"</small>
|-
|<small>"Will * by the year <year>"</small>
|<small>"Will * in the year <year>"</small>
|-
|<small>"In <year>, * will"</small>
|<small>"By <year>, * will"</small>
|}

:{|
|-
|rowspan="4" width="50px" valign="top"|2012
|World population reaches 7 billion
|-
|Flying cars reach market
|-
|Canada cuts greenhouse emissions to 6% below 1990 levels as per Kyoto
|-
|Apocalypse occurs
|-
|rowspan="4" valign="top"|2013
|National debt paid off through President Clinton's plans
|-
|Microchipping of all Americans begins
|-
|Homelessness ended in Massachusetts
|-
|Health care reform law repealed
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2014
|US leaves Afghanistan
|-
|GNU/Linux becomes dominant OS
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2015
|New Horizons reaches Pluto
|-
|Health care law causes hyperinflation
|-
|192 UN member nations achieve millennium development goals:
*Extreme poverty and hunger eradicated
*Universal primary education implemented
*Women empowered, gender equality reached
*Environmental stability ensured
|-
|rowspan="4" valign="top"|2016
|Baby boomers begin turning 65
|-
|Android takes 38% of the smartphone market
|-
|Android takes 45% of the smartphone market
|-
|Windows Phone overtakes iOS in smartphones
|-
|rowspan="5" valign="top"|2017
|China completes unmanned Lunar sample-return mission
|-
|Social Security stops running surplus
|-
|US budget balanced
|-
|Newspapers become obsolete and die out
|-
|Cosmetic surgery doubles
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2018
|Social Security stops running surplus
|-
|Jesus returns to Earth
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2019
|Social Security stops running surplus
|-
|Every baby has genes mapped at birth
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2020
|Solar power becomes cheaper than fossil fuels
|-
|Keyboards and mice become obsolete
|-
|New Tappan Zee bridge constructed
|-
|rowspan="4" valign="top"|2021
|US debt reaches 97% of GDP
|-
|US unemployment falls to 2.8%
|-
|Restored caliphate unifies Middle East
|-
|Lake Mead evaporates
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2022
|Kilimanjaro snow-free
|-
|HTML 5 finished
|-
|Newspapers become obsolete and die out
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2023
|Jesus returns to Earth (again)
|-
|US debt passes 100% of GDP
|-
|All unprotected ancient forests gone from Pacific Northwest
|-
|rowspan="5" valign="top"|2024
|Atlantis begins to reappear
|-
|Orangutans extinct in wild
|-
|China lands men and women on the moon
|-
|NASA sets up permanent moon base
|-
|Female professionals pass males in pay
|-
|rowspan="4" valign="top"|2025
|World population reaches 8 billion
|-
|Two billion people face water shortages
|-
|62 MPG cars introduced
|-
|US power fades
|-
|rowspan="5" valign="top"|2026
|Atlantis emerges completely
|-
|Rock Bands die out
|-
|US debt paid off
|-
|Car accidents cease
|-
|West coast falls into ocean
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2027
|Japan introduces new fastest Maglev train
|-
|Lyndon Larouche-planned Mars colony is established
|-
|Social Security stops running surplus
|-
|rowspan="4" valign="top"|2028
|Tobacco outlawed
|-
|40% of coral reefs gone
|-
|US debt paid off
|-
|Social Security stops running surplus
|-
|rowspan="4" valign="top"|2029
|Social Security trust fund exhausted
|-
|Computers pass the Turing test
|-
|Aging reversed
|-
|Wikipedia reaches 30 Million articles
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2030
|Half of Amazon rain forest lost to logging
|-
|Cancer deaths double from 2008 levels
|-
|Arctic ice-free in summer
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2031
|Computers controlled by thought
|-
|Realtors replaced by technology
|-
|Social Security trust fund exhausted
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2032
|"Big One" hits San Francisco
|-
|US elects first married lesbian President
|-
|Entire world converted to Christianity
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2033
|Kilimanjaro ice disappears
|-
|India becomes superpower
|-
|Europe reaches Mars
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2034
|US diabetes cases double, treatment costs triple
|-
|US builds autonomous robot army
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2035
|80% of America's energy comes from renewable sources
|-
|Himalayan glaciers down 80% in size
|-
|Arctic sea lane opens
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2036
|80% of US has access to high-speed rail
|-
|Asteroid Apophis misses/hits Earth
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2037
|Arctic ice-free in September
|-
|Social Security trust fund exhausted
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2038
|32-bit timestamps roll over, causing Y2K-level chaos
|-
|"Big One" hits California
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2039
|US population hits 400 Million
|-
|Severe heat waves become commonplace
|-
|Scientology becomes majority religion in US
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2040
|Arctic summers ice-free
|-
|Nanotechnology makes humans immortal
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2041
|Social Security trust fund exhausted
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2042
|
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2043
|World population passes 9 Billion
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2044
|Mankind genetically engineered to be happy
|-
|Childhood obesity reaches 100%
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2045
|Humans and machines merge
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2046
|World's natural resources depleted
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2047
|World ruled by banks and corporations
|-
|Tobacco industry fails
|-
|US begins using autonomous attack drones
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2048
|Salt-water fish extinct from overfishing
|-
|Unisex bathing suits cover body from shoulder to ankle
|-
|Entire US population overweight
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2049
|$1.000 computer exceeds computational ability of humanity
|-
|Singularity occurs
|-
|Fishing industry collapses
|-
|rowspan="5" valign="top"|2050
|80% of Earth's population lives in urban centers
|-
|China controls space
|-
|Sex with robots possible
|-
|Cars banned from European cities
|-
|One million species extinct from climate change
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2051
|Atmosphere escapes into space
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2052
|Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security spending exceed total US revenue
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2053
|US budget balanced
|-
|Majority of Americans in prison
|-
|Cars driven by dogs
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2054
|Hunger becomes unimaginable global problem
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2055
|Atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> doubled
|-
|Oil runs out
|-
|Copper, tin, lead, gold, and nickel all exhausted
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2056
|RFID-tagged driverless cars
|-
|Robots given same rights as humans
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2057
|150 Japanese settlers on Mars
|-
|Colorado River runs dry
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2058
|Smoking ends in New Zealand
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2059
|Humans have domesticated robots
|-
|rowspan="4" valign="top"|2060
|Human race lives in peace
|-
|Extreme droughts across much of Earth
|-
|Global temperature rise reaches 4 °C
|-
|Oil runs out again
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2061
|Halley's comet returns
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2062
|Uganda hosts World Cup
|-
|The Jetsons
|-
|rowspan="4" valign="top"|2063
|First human clones reach adulthood
|-
|Population of Moon reaches 100,000
|-
|Population of Mars reaches 10,000
|-
|Spacecraft exceed speed of light
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2064
|Clean Air Act finishes reducing haze in national parks to natural levels
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2065
|Last coral reefs die out
|-
|Chernobyl cleanup complete
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2066
|Cyprus achieves its goal
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2067
|Americans live in domed cities and watch 3D TV
|-
|Redheads go extinct
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2068
|Ozone hole over Antarctic finishes recovering
|-
|Lord Jesus rules Earth from throne in Jerusalem
|-
|Entire world population gay due to chemicals in the water
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2069
|Public masturbation legalized
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2070
|World population peaks
|-
|City-scale flooding disasters
|-
|60% of world's energy comes from renewable sources
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2071
|Europe's temperatures rise by 3 °C
|-
|World summer temperatures rise by 5 °C
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2072
|US retirement age is set to 75
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2073
|Oceans do not rise one foot
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2074
|Number of 100-year-olds reaches one million
|-
|Supertyphoons hit Japan
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2075
|US retirement age set to 69
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2076
|Average scientific paper has more than 24 authors
|-
|Social Security trust fund exhausted
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2077
|
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2078
|Newspapers become obsolete and die out
|-
|rowspan="4" valign="top"|2079
|US debt reaches 716% of GDP
|-
|Lodgepole pines disappear from Northwest
|-
|Floods commonplace
|-
|Religion marginalized
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2080
|Federal spending reaches 70% of GDP
|-
|UK population doubles
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2081
|
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2082
|World population declines to one billion
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2083
|
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2084
|Robot policemen introduced
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2085
|US deficit reaches 62% of GDP
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2086
|
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2087
|
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2088
|Japan becomes all-robot country
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2089
|World halts fossil fuel use
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2090
|Global warming hits 7 °C
|-
|Global warming hits 4 °C
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2091
|
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2092
|
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2093
|
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2094
|
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2095
|
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2096
|
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2097
|
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2098
|
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2099
|
|-
|rowspan="11" valign="top"|2100
|Global warming around 5-7 °C
|-
|Sea levels have risen by a meter or more
|-
|Joshua trees nearly extinct
|-
|Earth's climate resembles that of the Cretaceous
|-
|Germany tropical
|-
|Emperor penguins extinct
|-
|Arctic permafrost thaws
|-
|Rising seas flood coastal cities
|-
|Rain forests mostly gone due to climatic shifts
|-
|All coral reefs gone
|-
|Gillette introduces 14-bladed razor
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2101
|WAR WAS BEGINNING
|}

{{comic discussion}}

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1957: 2018 CVE List

2018-02-21T15:23:39Z

LegionMammal978: "Mischevious" is nonstandard, but still a valid spelling; moved title text marker ''a la'' 1942

{{comic
| number = 1957
| date = February 19, 2018
| title = 2018 CVE List
| image = 2018_cve_list.png
| titletext = CVE-2018-?????: It turns out Bruce Schneier is just two mischevious kids in a trenchcoat.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Created by HACKING THIS WIKI VIA THE EDIT BOX - The explanation looks like a list. Explain the comic and put the security vulnerabilities in a table. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}

{{w|Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures|CVE}} (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) is a standardized format for assigning an identity to a cybersecurity vulnerability (similar to the way that astronomical bodies are assigned unique identifiers by committees). Giving vulnerabilities a unique identifier makes them easier to talk about and helps in keeping track of the progress made toward resolving them. The typical format of a CVE identifier is '''CVE-[YEAR]-[NUMBER]'''. For example, the CVE identifier for 2017's widespread {{w|Meltdown (security vulnerability)|Meltdown vulnerability}} is [https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5754 CVE-2017-5754]. CVEs also contain a short description of the issue.

In this comic (released in February 2018), Randall presents a number of spurious predicted CVEs for later in 2018. Each CVE identifier is given as "CVE-2018-?????", reflecting the fact that they have not yet happened so we don't know exactly what their CVE identifier will be.

==Table of possible CVE==
{|class="wikitable"
! style="width: 30%;" | Security Vulnerability
! style="width: 70%;" | Notes
|-
|Apple products crash when displaying certain {{w|Telugu language|Telugu}} or Bengali letter combinations.
|This refers to a real vulnerability in iOS and MacOS publicized a few days before the comic released <ref>https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/15/iphone-text-bomb-ios-mac-crash-apple/</ref>, as well as past similar iOS vulnerabilities<ref>https://thenextweb.com/apps/2017/01/18/iphone-ipad-apple-text-ios-bug/</ref><ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/01/18/apple-text-bomb-can-crash-iphones-single-message/</ref>.
|-
|An attacker can use a timing attack to extploit [''sic''] a race condition in {{w|Garbage collection (computer science)|garbage collection}} to extract a limited number of bits from the Wikipedia article on Claude Shannon.
|Timing Attack to exploit a race condition in garbage collection refers to Meltdown and Spectre CPU flaws that can be exploited in cloud server like the ones in Wikipedia. {{w|Claude Shannon}} was an early and highly influential information scientist whose work underlies compression, encryption, security, and the theory behind how information is encoded into binary digits - hence the pertinence of extracting just some of the bits from his Wikipedia entry. This is a silly security problem since all the bits of the article are publicly available.
|-
|At the cafe on Third Street, the Post-it note with the WiFi password is visible from the sidewalk.
|Cafés usually offer free WiFi service to patrons, as a business strategy to encourage said patrons to remain in the building and buy more coffee. Some use a password, so that only patrons can use the WiFi. Since anybody could go in the cafe to read the post-it, and then use the network from nearby, the ability to read it from outside is at most a trivial problem. For systems that are supposed to be secure, writing passwords in a visible place is a major security flaw. For instance, following the [[wikipedia:2018 Hawaii false missile alert|2018 Hawaii false missile alert]] the agency received criticism for a press photo showing a password written on a sticky note attached to a monitor.<ref>http://uk.businessinsider.com/hawaii-emergency-agency-password-discovered-in-photo-sparks-security-criticism-2018-1?r=US&IR=T</ref>
|-
|A remote attacker can inject arbitrary text into public-facing pages via the comments box.
|Describes a common feature on news sites or social media sites like Facebook. The possibility for users to "inject" text into the page is by design. This is a humorous reference to the relatively common security vulnerability "[[Wikipedia:Cross-site_scripting|persistent cross-site scripting]]", where input provided by the user is displayed to other users in a dangerous fashion that allows attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or Javascript code into e.g. a comment section.
|-
|MySQL server 5.5.45 secretly runs two parallel databases for people who say "S-Q-L" and "sequel."
|Some people pronounce "{{w|SQL}}" like "sequel", after SQL's predecessor "SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language)". The standard for SQL suggests that it should be pronounced as separate letters; however, the author of SQL pronounces it "sequel", so the debate is persisting (with even more justification than arguments about how to pronounce "GIF"). MySQL is an open-source relational database management system, the latest generally available version (at the time of writing) is MySQL 5.7.
|-
|A flaw in some x86 CPUs could allow a root user to de-escalate to normal account privileges.
|{{w|Privilege escalation}} refers to any illegitimate means of giving a system user greater access than they are supposed to have, and most hackers will seek to achieve this if they can. The most highly-sought privilege is that of the root user, which allows complete access to an entire system.

This CVE, however, presents the reverse situation; that a flaw can allow a root user to ''de-escalate'', the exact opposite of what a hacker would want to achieve.{{Citation needed}} (In any case, the root user can always de-escalate manually if they so choose, as they have complete control).
|-
|Apple products catch fire when displaying emoji with diacritics.
|Diacritics are the accents found on letters in some languages (eg. č, ģ ķ, ļ, ņ, š, ž). These would not be found on emojis. It is also a reference to a common problem of modern gadgets catching fire (usually related to flaws in Lithium-Ion batteries).
|-
|An oversight in the rules allows a dog to join a basketball team.
|This likely refers to the movie {{w|Air Bud}}; about a dog playing basketball. This has been a common theme in xkcd comics, see [[115: Meerkat]], [[1439: Rack Unit]], [[1819: Sweet 16]], [[1552: Rulebook]]
|-
|Haskell isn't side-effect-free after all; the effects are all just concentrated in this one. computer [''sic''] in Missouri that no one's checked on in a while.
|{{w|Haskell (programming language)|Haskell}} is a functional programming language, functional programming is characterized by using functions that don't have side effects (can't change things which would be accessible in other parts of the program), as in [[1312: Haskell]]. The joke here is discovering that indeed it does have side-effects, but for some unknown (and highly absurd) reason they only manifest on a specific computer in a nondescript location, but no one has noticed.
|-
|Nobody really knows how hypervisors work.
|[[wikipedia:Hypervisor|"Hypervisors"]] are a tool for computer virtualization. Virtualization is complex to implement, as it requires a computer to completely simulate a computer, with its own unique hardware and software. Many IT professionals and businesses rely heavily on various forms of virtualization, but the individual employees would be hard-pressed to explain how it works. Programs running on other virtual computers, or on the real computer may be able to access information on a virtual computer in ways which would not be possible with a real computer. Therefore understanding how the hypervisor works is important to assessing security of a virtual server.
Meltdown and Spectre are related to this.
|-
|Critical: Under Linux 3.14.8 on System/390 in a UTC+14 time zone, a local user could potentially use a buffer overflow to change another user's default system clock from 12-hour to 24-hour.
|This joke is about arcane systems that are running Linux in exceedingly rare situations, such that reproducing the error would be incredibly difficult or inconvenient, and would only affect a very tiny user base (if any at all). {{w|IBM System/390 ES/9000 Enterprise Systems Architecture ESA family|System/390}} is an IBM mainframe introduced almost 30 years before this comic, which has a version of Linux. UTC+14 is a time zone used only on some islands in the Pacific Ocean, i.e., [[Wikipedia:Line_Islands|the Line Islands]], and is also the earliest time zone on earth. The joke continues by stating that even if all of these absurd conditions were met, the resulting vulnerability would still be relatively benign: simply changing a user's preferred clock display format. Other xkcd comics make references to such obscure computer-time issues relating to time zones and time conversions, and how many programmers find these issues frustrating or even traumatizing.
|-
|x86 has way too many instructions.
|The x86 architecture (used in many Intel and AMD processors) is very complicated. Processors typically implement such a complex architecture using programs (microcode) run on a set of hidden, proprietary processors. The details of these hidden machines and errors in the microcode can result in security vulnerabilities, for example meltdown, where the physical machine does not match the conceptual machine.
More complicated instruction set is more complex to implement, . The x86 architecture is considered "CISC" (a "{{w|Complex instruction set computer}}"), having many instructions originally provided to make programming by a human simpler; other examples include the 68000 series used in the first {{w|Apple Inc.|Apple}} {{w|Macintosh}}. In the 1980s, this design philosophy was countered by the "RISC" ("{{w|Reduced instruction set computer}}") design movement - based on the observation that computer programs were increasingly generated by compilers (which only used a few instructions) rather than directly by people, and that the chip area dedicated to extra instructions could be better dedicated to, for example, cache. Examples of RISC style designs include {{w|SPARC}}, {{w|MIPS}}, {{w|PowerPC}} (used by Apple in later Macintoshes) and the {{w|ARM architecture|ARM}} chips common in mobile phones. At the time, there was considerable discussion about the merits of each approach (with the Mac and PC being on different sides, at one time; owners of other competing systems such as the Archimedes and Amiga had similar arguments on usenet in the early 1990s); this "issue" may be posted by someone who still recalls these debates. Technically, the extra instructions do slightly complicate the task of validating correct chip behaviour and complicate the tool chains that manage software, which could be seen as a minor security risk; however, the 64-bit architecture introduced by {{w|AMD}} and since adopted by {{w|Intel}} does rationalise things somewhat, and all recent x86 chips break down instructions into RISC-like micro-operations, so the complication from a hardware perspective is localised. Recent security issues such as the speculative cache load issue in Meltdown and Spectre depend more on details of implementation rather than instruction set, and have been exhibited both by x86 (CISC) and ARM (RISC) processors.
|-
|NumPy 1.8.0 can factor primes in ''O''(log ''n'') time and must be quietly deprecated before anyone notices.
|NumPy is the fundamental package for scientific computing with the programming language Python. ''O''(log ''n'') is [[wikipedia:Big_O_notation#Infinite_asymptotics|Big O notation]] meaning that the time it takes for a computer algorithm to run is in the order of log ''n'', for an input of size ''n''. ''O''(log ''n'') is very fast and is more usual for a search algorithm. Prime factorization currently is ''O''(''2''<sup>''n''</sup>n)). If something can find the prime factors of a number this quickly, especially a [[wikipedia:semiprime|semiprime]] with two large factors, there are attacks to break many crypto functions used in internet security. However, prime numbers have only a single factor, and "factoring primes" quickly is a simpler problem, that of [[wikipedia:Primality test|proving that a number is in fact a prime]].
|-
|Apple products grant remote access if you send them words that break the "I before E" rule.
|Another joke on the first CVE and [[wikipedia:I before E except after C|a common English writing rule of thumb]], which fails almost as often as it succeeds. Possibly a jab at Apple's image, portraying their software as unable to handle improper grammar or spelling.
|-
|Skylake x86 chips can be pried from their sockets using certain flathead screwdrivers.
|Skylake x86 chips are a line of microprocessors made by Intel. Some processors are soldered directly to a system board or daughter board, while others are attached to boards that plug into the system board by means of a socket (pins or connectors that make physical contact with receptacles or connectors on a system board). Some sockets, especially older ones, require force to insert or remove and often require the use of a flat blade screwdriver or a specialized tool to remove, but most modern ones use ZIF (Zero Insertion Force) techniques, often involving a lever or similar to tighten or loosen the friction/tightness of the contacts. No screwdriver is needed in this case. Yes, you can forcefully remove any processor from its socket with a screwdriver.{{Citation needed}} There are many reports from people not using common sense.
|-
|Apparently Linus Torvalds can be bribed pretty easily.
|{{w|Linus Torvalds}} is the benevolent dictator of the Linux kernel codebase. Normally it is hard to make changes because he has the last word and because the kernel is replicated in all Linux installations. Linus made the news in January 2018 when, having looked at one of Intel's proposed fixes for the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, he declared "the patches are COMPLETE AND UTTER GARBAGE"<ref>https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/22/linus-torvalds-declares-intel-fix-for-meltdown-spectre-complete-and-utter-garbage/</ref>. Presumably it may be found that he may be successfully bribed to be less blunt and/or less critical of vulnerability fixes that are complete and/or utter garbage. If this were the case, this would be a severe critical vulnerability to all Linux servers and machines.
|-
|An attacker can execute malicious code on their own machine and no one can stop them.
|The point of an attack is to make someone else's machine perform actions against the owner's will. Anyone can make their own machine execute any code{{Citation needed}} if they have root access and the necessary tools, but this would usually not be described as an attack except in the case of a locked-down appliance, such as a video game console, a John Deere tractor, or pay TV decoder.
|-
|Apple products execute any code printed over a photo of a dog with a saddle and a baby riding it.
|This could refer to a CVE vulnerability of JPG files where javascript embedded within the image file is executed by some application, only this time the code is visible on the image instead of invisibly encoded within the image file, however such code is only executed if the image contains a photo of a baby in a saddle riding a dog. It's unclear whether the photo would be a digital photo, a printed photo (i.e. as taken using the digital camera), or maybe both. This "bug" would not only require the device to figure out specifically what the photo contains image-wise, something that's REALLY HARD for computers to do reliably, it would also require OCR (Optical Character Recognition) type code to convert the text superimposed on the photo into executable code. In other words, it's hard to believe in 2018 that such a bug could exist. Maybe in the future when such things are more routine...? As an example, OCR used to be hard to do reliably and now it's a lot more routine and built into a lot of devices.
|-
|Under rare circumstances, a flaw in some versions of Windows could allow Flash to be installed.
|Flash has been an integral browser plugin for decades but has fallen out of favor in the 2010s, and eventually discontinued because of its notoriously abysmal security record. All security experts advise against install. Preventing installation of flash would make systems more secure, however most versions of Windows do not prevent flash installation.
The joke here relates to the difficulty with keeping Flash up to date or even installed properly to begin with. A common user experience which is the subject of numerous jokes and memes is the constant nagging notification to install or update Flash in order for web pages to display properly. Many IT professionals will bemoan the trouble that Flash has given them in the workplace due to these notifications and problems related to them.
|-
|Turns out the cloud is just other people's computers.
|This refers to a computer meme where replace "cloud" with "other people's computers" must be used in all marketing presentation to CEOs and non-computer literate persons to evaluate the security impact of using "Cloud services". Part of the humor here is that "the cloud", in actuality, is simply a term for hosted services, i.e., computers being run by other people (typically businesses that specialize in this type of "Platform As A Service" or "PAAS" service model). Calling "the cloud" as "other people's computers" is, at its core, entirely accurate, though it takes away the business jargon and simplifies the situation in such a way that it might cast doubt on the security, reliability, and general effectiveness of using "cloud" solutions.
|-
|A flaw in Mitre's CVE database allows arbitrary code insertion.[[779|[~~CLICK HERE FOR CHEAP VIAGRA~~]]]
|Mitre's CVE database is the database where all CVE are stored. This log message forms the punchline of the comic, as it implies that all of the exaggerated error messages above might have been inserted by hackers exploiting the vulnerability. To pour salt in the wound, they then included in a typical spam link purporting to offer cheap viagra.
|-
|It turns out Bruce Schneier is just two mischevious kids in a trenchcoat.
|Appears in the title text. {{w|Bruce Schneier}} is security researcher and blogger. The "two kids in a trenchcoat" is a reference to the {{tvtropes|TotemPoleTrench|Totem Pole Trench}} trope. Shortly before this comic was posted, a [https://rare.us/rare-humor/two-kids-dressed-as-a-tall-man-to-get-into-black-panther-is-caught-on-video story went viral] in which two kids were photographed attempting this for real to get into a screening of ''Black Panther''.
|}

== References ==
<references/>

==Transcript==
:[A heading is centered above a list of 21 vulnerabilities]
:<big>Leaked list of major 2018 security vulnerabilities </big>

:CVE-2018-????? Apple products crash when displaying certain Telugu or Bengali letter combinations.
:CVE-2018-????? An attacker can use a timing attack to extploit a race condition in garbage collection to extract a limited number of bits from the Wikipedia article on Claude Shannon.
:CVE-2018-????? At the cafe on Third Street, the Post-it note with the WiFi password is visible from the sidewalk.
:CVE-2018-????? A remote attacker can inject arbitrary text into public-facing pages via the comments box.
:CVE-2018-????? MySQL server 5.5.45 secretly runs two parallel databases for people who say "S-Q-L" and "sequel."
:CVE-2018-????? A flaw in some x86 CPUs could allow a root user to de-escalate to normal account privileges.
:CVE-2018-????? Apple products catch fire when displaying emoji with diacritics.
:CVE-2018-????? An oversight in the rules allows a dog to join a basketball team.
:CVE-2018-????? Haskell isn't side-effect-free after all; the effects are all just concentrated in this one. computer in Missouri that no one's checked on in a while.
:CVE-2018-????? Nobody really knows how hypervisors work.
:CVE-2018-????? Critical: Under Linux 3.14.8 on System/390 in a UTC+14 time zone, a local user could potentially use a buffer overflow to change another user's default system clock from 12-hour to 24-hour.
:CVE-2018-????? x86 has way too many instructions.
:CVE-2018-????? NumPy 1.8.0 can factor primes in ''O''(log ''n'') time and must be quietly deprecated before anyone notices.
:CVE-2018-????? Apple products grant remote access if you send them words that break the "I before E" rule.
:CVE-2018-????? Skylake x86 chips can be pried from their sockets using certain flathead screwdrivers.
:CVE-2018-????? Apparently Linus Torvalds can be bribed pretty easily.
:CVE-2018-????? An attacker can execute malicious code on their own machine and no one can stop them.
:CVE-2018-????? Apple products execute any code printed over a photo of a dog with a saddle and a baby riding it.
:CVE-2018-????? Under rare circumstances, a flaw in some versions of Windows could allow Flash to be installed.
:CVE-2018-????? Turns out the cloud is just other people's computers.
:CVE-2018-????? A flaw in Mitre's CVE database allows arbitrary code insertion.<span style="color:blue">[~~Click here for cheap viagra~~]</span>

==Trivia==

Randall has previously referenced diacritics in [[1647: Diacritics]].

Bruce Schneier was previously mentioned in the title texts of [[748: Worst-Case Scenario]] and [[1039: RuBisCO]].

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1957: 2018 CVE List

2018-02-19T16:01:10Z

LegionMammal978: some changes to descriptions

{{comic
| number = 1957
| date = February 19, 2018
| title = 2018 CVE List
| image = 2018_cve_list.png
| titletext = CVE-2018-?????: It turns out Bruce Schneier is just two mischevious kids in a trenchcoat.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Created by HACKING THIS WIKI VIA THE EDIT BOX - The explanation looks like a list. Explain the comic and put the security vulnerabilities in a table. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}

{{w|Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures|CVE}} (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) is a standardized format for assigning an identity to a cybersecurity vulnerability (similar to the way that astronomical bodies are assigned unique identifiers by committees). Giving vulnerabilities a unique identifier makes them easier to talk about and helps in keeping track of the progress made toward resolving them. The typical format of a CVE identifier is '''CVE-[YEAR]-[NUMBER]'''. For example, the CVE identifier for 2017's widespread {{w|Meltdown (security vulnerability|Meltdown vulnerability}} is [https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5754 CVE-2017-5754]. CVEs also contain a short description of the issue.

In this comic (released in February 2018), Randall presents a number of spurious predicted CVEs for later in 2018. Each CVE identifier is given as "CVE-2018-?????", reflecting the fact that they have not yet happened so we don't know exactly what their CVE identifier will be.

{|class="wikitable"
! style="width: 30%;" | Security Vulnerability
! style="width: 70%;" | Notes
|-
|Apple products crash when displaying certain Telugu or Bengali letter combinations.
|This refers to a real vulnerability in iOS and MacOS publicized a few days before the comic released <ref>https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/15/iphone-text-bomb-ios-mac-crash-apple/</ref>.
|-
|An attacker can use a timing attack to extploit [''sic''] a race condition in garbage collection to extract a limited number of bits from the Wikipedia article on Claude Shannon.
|Timing Attack to exploit a race condition in garbage collection refers to Meltdown and Spectre CPU flaws that can be exploited in cloud server like the ones in Wikipedia. {{w|Claude Shannon}} was an early and highly influential information scientist whose work underlies compression, encryption, security, and the theory behind how information is encoded into binary digits - hence the pertinence of extracting just some of the bits from his Wikipedia entry.
|-
|At the cafe on Third Street, the Post-it note with the WiFi password is visible from the sidewalk.
|Writing passwords in a visible place is a major security flaw. For instance, following the [[wikipedia:2018 Hawaii false missile alert|2018 Hawaii false missile alert]] the agency received criticism for a press photo showing a password written on a sticky note attached to a monitor.<ref>http://uk.businessinsider.com/hawaii-emergency-agency-password-discovered-in-photo-sparks-security-criticism-2018-1?r=US&IR=T</ref> However, if a cafe posts their wifi password for customers, this suggests that it's ''supposed'' to be public knowledge. In this case, having it visible through the window as well presents only a very minor reduction in security.
|-
|A remote attacker can inject arbitrary text into public-facing pages via the comments box.
|Describes a common feature on news sites or social media sites like Facebook. The possibility for users to "inject" text into the page is by design. This is a humorous reference to the relatively common security vulnerability "[[Wikipedia:Cross-site_scripting|persistent cross-site scripting]]", where input provided by the user is displayed to other users in a dangerous fashion that allows attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or Javascript code into e.g. a comment section. It might also be a humorous reference to the events before, during and after the 2016 US Presidential elections where Internet Research Agency employees based remotely in St. Petersburg, Russia, but disguised as US citizens, "injected" arbitrary text in the form of political propaganda into comments on multiple web sites, according to an indictment returned by a federal grand jury on February 16, 2018.
|-
|MySQL server 5.5.45 secretly runs two parallel databases for people who say "S-Q-L" and "sequel."
|Some people pronounce "SQL" like "sequel", after SQL's predecessor "SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language)". The standard for SQL suggests that it should be pronounced as separate letters; however, the author of SQL pronounces it "sequel", so the debate is persisting (with even more justification than arguments about how to pronounce "GIF"). MySQL is an open-source relational database management system, the latest GA version (at the time of writing) is MySQL 5.7.
|-
|A flaw in some x86 CPUs could allow a root user to de-escalate to normal account privileges.
|{{w|Privilege escalation}} refers to any illegitimate means of giving a system user greater privilege than they are supposed to have, and most hackers will seek to achieve this if they can. The most highly-sought privilege is that of the root user, which allows complete access to an entire system.

This CVE, however, presents the reverse situation; that a flaw can allow a root user to ''de-escalate'', the exact opposite of what a hacker would want to achieve. (In any case, the root user can always de-escalate manually if they so choose, as they have complete control).
|-
|Apple products catch fire when displaying emoji with diacritics.
|Diacritics are the accents found on letters in some languages (eg. č, ģ ķ, ļ, ņ, š, ž). These would not be found on emojis. It is also a reference to a common problem of modern gadgets catching fire (usually related to flaws in Lithium-Ion batteries).
|-
|An oversight in the rules allows a dog to join a basketball team.
|This likely refers to the movie {{w|Air Bud}}. It is a movie about a dog playing basketball. This has been a common theme in xkcd comics, see [[115: Meerkat]], [[1439: Rack Unit]], [[1819: Sweet 16]], [[1552: Rulebook]]
|-
|Haskell isn't side-effect-free after all; the effects are all just concentrated in this one. computer [''sic''] in Missouri that no one's checked on in a while.
|Haskell is a functional programming language, functional programming is characterized by using functions that don't have side effects in other parts of the program. The joke here is discovering that indeed it does have side-effects, but for some unknown (and highly absurd) reason they only manifest on a specific computer in a nondescript location, but no one has noticed.
|-
|Nobody really knows how hypervisors work.
|[[wikipedia:Hypervisor|"Hypervisors"]] are a tool for computer virtualization. Virtualization is an extremely complex topic, as it requires a computer to completely emulate a different computer with its own unique hardware and software. Many IT professionals and businesses rely heavily on various forms of virtualization, but the individual employees would be hard-pressed to explain how it works. Meltdown and Specter are related to this.
|-
|Critical: Under Linux 3.14.8 on System/390 in a UTC+14 time zone, a local user could potentially use a buffer overflow to change another user's default system clock from 12-hour to 24-hour.
|This joke is about arcane systems that are running Linux in exceedingly unique situations, such that reproducing the error would be incredibly difficult or inconvenient, and would only affect a very tiny user base (if any at all). Other xkcd comics make references to such obscure computer-time issues relating to time zones and time conversions, and how many programmers find these issues frustrating or even traumatizing. UTC+14 is a time zone used only on some islands in the Pacific Ocean, i.e., [[Wikipedia:Line_Islands|the Line Islands]], and is also the earliest time zone on earth. The joke continues by stating that even if all of these absurd conditions were met, the resulting vulnerability would still be relatively benign: simply changing a user's preferred clock display format.
|-
|x86 has way too many instructions.
|The x86 architecture is considered "CISC" (a "complex instruction set computer"), having many instructions originally provided to make programming by a human simpler; other examples include the 68000 series used in the first Apple Mac. In the 1980s, this design philosophy was countered by the "RISC" ("reduced instruction set computer") design movement exemplified by SPARC, MIPS, PowerPC (previously used by Apple) and the ARM chips common in mobile phones - based on the observation that computer programs were increasingly generated by compilers (which only used a few instructions) rather than directly by people, and that the chip area dedicated to extra instructions could be better dedicated to, for example, cache. At the time, there was an internet war about the merits of each approach (with the Mac and PC being on different sides, at one time; owners of other competing systems such as the Archimedes and Amiga had similar arguments on usenet in the early 1990s); this "issue" may be posted by someone who still recalls these debates. Technically, the extra instructions do slightly complicate the task of validating correct chip behaviour and complicate the tool chains that manage software, which could be seen as a minor security risk; however, the 64-bit architecture introduced by AMD and since adopted by Intel does rationalise things somewhat, and all recent x86 chips break down instructions into RISC-like micro-operations, so the complication from a hardware perspective is localised. Recent security issues such as the speculative cache load issue in Meltdown and Spectre depend more on details of implementation rather than instruction set, and have been exhibited both by x86 (CISC) and ARM (RISC) processors.
|-
|NumPy 1.8.0 can factor primes in ''O''(log ''n'') time and must be quietly deprecated before anyone notices.
|NumPy is the fundamental package for scientific computing with Python. If something can find the prime factors of a number this quickly, especially a [[wikipedia:semiprime|semiprime]] with two large factors, there are attacks to break many crypto functions used in internet security. However, prime numbers have only a single factor, and "factoring primes" quickly is a simpler problem, that of [[wikipedia:Primality test|proving that a number is in fact a prime]].
|-
|Apple products grant remote access if you send them words that break the "I before E" rule.
|Another joke on the first CVE and a common English writing rule of thumb, which fails almost as often as it succeeds. Possibly a jab at Apple's image, portraying their software as unable to handle improper grammar or spelling.
|-
|Skylake x86 chips can be pried from their sockets using certain flathead screwdrivers.
|Skylake x86 chips are a line of microprocessors made by Intel. Yes, you can forcefully remove any processor from its socket with a screwdriver. There are many reports from people not using common sense.
|-
|Apparently Linus Torvalds can be bribed pretty easily.
|Linus Torvalds is the benevolent dictator of the Linux kernel codebase. Normally it is hard to pass a change because he has the last word about what merge to the code base because that code is replicated in all Linux installations, but apparently he is easy to bribe, which would be a severe critical vulnerability to all Linux servers and machines.
|-
|An attacker can execute malicious code on their own machine and no one can stop them.
|The point of an attack is to make someone else's machine perform actions against the owner's will. Anyone can make their own machine execute any code, but this would usually not be described as an attack except in the case of a locked-down appliance, such as a video game console or pay TV decoder.
|-
|Apple products execute any code printed over a photo of a dog with a saddle and a baby riding it.
|This could refer to a CVE vulnerability of JPG files where javascript embedded within the image file is executed by some application, only this time is in a printed photo instead of encoded into the image itself.
|-
|Under rare circumstances, a flaw in some versions of Windows could allow Flash to be installed.
|Flash was discontinued because of its notoriously abysmal security record. All security experts advise against install. The joke here relates to the perceived difficulty with keeping Flash up to date or even installed properly to begin with. A common user experience which is the subject of numerous jokes and memes is the constant nagging notification to install or update Flash in order for web pages to display properly. While anecdotal, many IT professionals will bemoan the trouble that Flash has given them in the workplace due to these notifications and problems related to them.
|-
|Turns out the cloud is just other people's computers.
|This refers to a computer meme where replace "cloud" with "other people's computers" must be used in all marketing presentation to CEOs and not computer literate persons to evaluate the security impact of using "Cloud services". Part of the humor here is that "the cloud", in actuality, it simply a term for hosted services, i.e., computers being run by other people (typically businesses that specialize in this type of "Platform As A Service" or "PAAS" service model). Calling "the cloud" as "other people's computers" is, at its core, entirely accurate, though it takes away the business jargon and simplifies the situation in such a way that it might cast doubt on the security, reliability, and general effectiveness of using "cloud" solutions.
|-
|A flaw in Mitre's CVE database allows arbitrary code insertion.[[285|[~~CLICK HERE FOR CHEAP VIAGRA~~]]]
|Mitre's CVE database is the database where all CVE are stored. This is a joke relating to the 4<sup>th</sup> CVE in this list, pointing out that the CVE site is also vulnerable.
|-
|It turns out Bruce Schneier is just two mischevious kids in a trenchcoat.
|Appears in the title text. Bruce Schneier is security researcher and blogger. He was mentioned in the title texts of [[748: Worst-Case Scenario]] and [[1039: RuBisCO]]. The "two kids in a trenchcoat" is a reference to the Totem Pole Trench trope.<ref>[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TotemPoleTrench TV Tropes:Totem Pole Trench trope]</ref>
|}

== References ==
<references/>

==Transcript==
LEAKED LIST OF MAJOR 2018 SECURITY VULNERABILITIES

CVE-2018-????? Apple products crash when displaying certain Telugu or Bengali letter combinations.

CVE-2018-????? An attacker can use a timing attack to extploit a race condition in garbage collection to extract a limited number of bits from the Wikipedia article on Claude Shannon.

CVE-2018-????? At the cafe on Third Street, the Post-it note with the WiFi password is visible from the sidewalk.

CVE-2018-????? A remote attacker can inject arbitrary text into public-facing pages via the comments box.

CVE-2018-????? MySQL server 5.5.45 secretly runs two parallel databases for people who say "S-Q-L" and "sequel."

CVE-2018-????? A flaw in some x86 CPUs could allow a root user to de-escalate to normal account privileges.

CVE-2018-????? Apple products catch fire when displaying emoji with diacritics.

CVE-2018-????? An oversight in the rules allows a dog to join a basketball team.

CUE-2018-????? Haskell isn't side-effect-free after all; the effects are all just concentrated in this one. computer in Missouri that no one's checked on in a while.

CVE-2018-????? Nobody really knows how hypervisors work.

CVE-2018-????? Critical: Under Linux 3.14.8 on System/390 in a UTC+14 time zone, a local user could potentially use a buffer overflow to change another user's default system clock from 12-hour to 24-hour.

CVE-2018-????? x86 has way too many instructions.

CVE-2018-????? NumPy 1.8.0 can factor primes in ''O''(log ''n'') time and must be quietly deprecated before anyone notices.

CVE-2018-????? Apple products grant remote access if you send them words that break the "I before E" rule.

CVE-2018-????? Skylake x86 chips can be pried from their sockets using certain flathead screwdrivers.

CVE-2018-????? Apparently Linus Torvalds can be bribed pretty easily.

CVE-2018-????? An attacker can execute malicious code on their own machine and no one can stop them.

CVE-2018-????? Apple products execute any code printed over a photo of a dog with a saddle and a baby riding it.

CVE-2018-????? Under rare circumstances, a flaw in some versions of Windows could allow Flash to be installed.

CVE-2018-????? Turns out the cloud is just other people's computers.

CVE-2018-????? A flaw in Mitre's CVE database allows arbitrary code insertion.<span style="color:blue">[~~CLICK HERE FOR CHEAP VIAGRA~~]</span>

{{comic discussion}}

1942: Memorable Quotes

2018-01-15T20:17:34Z

LegionMammal978: some reformatting/quote fixing

{{comic
| number = 1942
| date = January 15, 2018
| title = Memorable Quotes
| image = memorable_quotes.png
| titletext = "Since there's no ending quote mark, everything after this is part of my quote. —Randall Munroe
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Finish adding the explanations for all quotes, and make sure none of the explanations are pithy or self-evident.}}
This comic "helpfully" provides random quotes to be used by anyone as {{w|blurb}}s, online reviews, motivational quotes or similar short bits of text. Either the webcomic xkcd or its creator Randall Munroe may be quoted using any of the provided lines, as stated at the top of the comic.

In particular, their "usefulness" lies in the fact that almost any of them can be applied to almost any situation. This is achieved by making each quote not really about anything in particular, aside from the fact that they are quotes. This is in contrast to typical quotes, which are never quite this aware that they will be quoted, but this is to be expected when the lines here were made solely for being quoted.

These self-aware quotes are, on a meta level, jokes about quotations generally. Most of Randall's quotes either sabotage the quoting work, reference some aspect of quotes as used in practice, or both---and it can be both when the aspects referenced are about twisting people's words to look like they agree with you.

==Table==
{| border =1 width=100% cellpadding=5 class="wikitable"
! Quote !! Explanation
|-
|''"I disagree strongly with whatever work this quote is attached to."''
|It is possible to quote someone who disagrees strongly with you in a way that looks like they do.
|-
|''"This quote was taken out of context."''
|It is just as possible to take a quote out of context to make your argument look good.
|-
|''"This quote is often falsely attributed to Mark Twain."''
|Many quotes are misquoted as being said by famous people (such as Mark Twain, Dr. Seuss, or Albert Einstein). If this quote was attributed to Mark Twain, however, it would be immediately clear that either it wasn't said by him, or he was lying at the time.
|-
|''"I'm being quoted to introduce something, but I have no idea what it is and certainly don't endorse it."''
|This is likely the case for many famous, widely admired people who are often quoted for all sorts of arguments, even diametrically opposed ones.
|-
|''"This quote is very memorable."''
|One hopes this to be the case, but this quote is very forgettable because of its blandness and because of the fact that it's found in a list of far more interesting quotes.
|-
|''"I wrote this book, and the person quoting me here is taking credit for it."''
|The quote is sabotaging the work that uses it.
|-
|''"This entire thing is the quote, not just the part in quote marks." [Quote marks, brackets, and editor's note are all in the original. —Ed.]''
|The quote itself is referencing how sometimes quotes include mistakes or typographical oddities that may make the reader worry a mistake has been made by the quoting author. An editor's note can be included to assure the original was like that.
|-
|''"Websites that collect quotes are full of mistakes and never check original sources."''
|Websites that collect quotes are infamous for not checking sources. This has been parodied in many ways.
|-
|''"This quote will be the only part of this presentation you remember."''
|Randall asserts that the presentation this quote is found in will be very forgettable, making it likely that a lot of people will listen closer to prove the quote wrong.
|-
|''"Oooh, look at me, I looked up a quote!"''
|Quotes are used to add weight, wit, or authority to a work. If your quote doesn't quite manage this, however, then the inclusion of the quote might just look like you're trying to impress people.
|-
|''"If you're doing a text search in this document for the word 'butts,' the good news is that it's here, but the bad news is that it only appears in this unrelated quote."''
|This would probably occur if you decided to follow Randall's advice and include this quote in your work.
|-
|''"Wait, what if these quote marks are inside out, so everything in the rest of the document is the quotation and ''this'' part isn't? ''Duuuuude.''"''
|
|-
|''"The editors of ''Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'' are a bunch of cowards who don't have the guts to print this."''
|The author of this quote is apparently making a desperate attempt to get a quote published by challenging the editors of ''Bartlett's Familiar Quotations''.
|-
|''"This quote only looks profound when it's in a script font over a sunset."''
|Inspirational quotes are often set in a fancy font above a picture of a sunset, mountain range, beach, etc. to make them look more profound. This quote suggests that, without such formatting, it looks boring and average.
|-
|''"I don't do a lot of public speaking, so I looked up a memorable quote to start my speech, and this is what I found. OK, you're staring at me blankly, but this whole thing is a quote. I know that sounds confusing, but... you know what, never mind."''
|
|-
|''"Sent from my iPhone"''
|This is the default email signature on an iPhone. Quoting this would lead the reader to think that you typed the rest of the work on your phone.
|-
|''"Since there's no ending quote mark, everything after this is part of my quote. —Randall Munroe''
|Appears in the title text. Randall Munroe is saying that because there's no ending quotation mark, the rest of the book this quote is in is part of Randall's quote, including, weirdly, the piece of text after what the quote should be specifying that Randall has also said his name.
|}

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Needs some formatting}}
Looking for a quote for something?
Here are some for general use.

They can be attributed to xkcd or Randall Munroe as needed.

*"I disagree strongly with whatever work this quote is attached to."
*"This quote was taken out of context."
*"This quote is often falsely attributed to Mark Twain."
*"I'm being quoted to introduce something, but I have no idea what it is and certainly don't endorse it."
*"This quote is very memorable."
*"I wrote this book, and the person quoting me here is taking credit for it."
*"This entire thing is the quote, not just the part in quote marks." [quote marks, brackets, and editor's note are all in the original. -ED.]
*"Websites that collect quotes are full of mistakes and never check original sources."
*"This quote will be the only part of this presentation you remember."
*"Oooh, look at me, I looked up a quote!"
*"If you're doing a text search in this document for the word 'butts,' the good news is that it's here, but the bad news is that it only appears in this unrelated quote."
*"Wait, what if these quote marks are inside out, so everything in the rest of the document is the quotation and ''this'' part isn't? ''Duuuuude."
*"The editors of ''Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'' are a bunch of cowards who don't have the guts to print this."
*"This quote only looks profound when it's in a script font over a sunset."
*"I don't do a lot of public speaking, so I looked up a memorable quote to start my speech, and this is what I found. OK, you're staring at me blankly, but this whole thing is a quote. I know that sounds confusing, but... You know what, never mind!"
*"Sent from my iPhone."
{{comic discussion}}

394: Kilobyte

2017-10-12T11:17:47Z

LegionMammal978: /* Explanation */

{{comic
| number = 394
| date = March 10, 2008
| title = Kilobyte
| image = kilobyte.png
| titletext = I would take 'kibibyte' more seriously if it didn't sound so much like 'Kibbles N Bits'.
}}

==Explanation==
This comic pokes fun at the confusion over the definition of a kilobyte. Some interpret the prefix literally, meaning a kilobyte is 1000 bytes. Others, however, usually define it as 2<sup>10</sup> = 1024 bytes, because it is computationally easier to deal with.

The first row of the table is simply mocking this discrepancy.

The second row is Randall's interpretation on how {{w|Stan Kelly-Bootle}} would approach this problem. Kelly-Bootle is known for writing ''The Computer Contradictionary'' which satirizes the jargon and language of the computer industry. Kelly-Bootle was likely motivated to write this work after working for several years at IBM, a company infamous for its excessive use of acronyms in the work place. Averaging the two definitions together to get 1012 bytes is simply a humorous approach that Kelly-Bootle would likely have taken ("''Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.''" — Stan Kelly-Bootle). The serendipitous fact that the initials of Kelly-Bootle's name are "KB," the same letters used to abbreviate the word "kilobyte," adds a layer of plausibility to the joke.

The {{w|Imaginary number|imaginary}} kilobyte simply plays on the fact that complex analysis is required in quantum computing in relation to quantum mechanics. The imaginary number is represented as ''i'' and has a value of the square root of -1. This is a pun on the fact that KiB is used for the "binary kilobyte" (occasionally "{{w|Binary prefix|kibibyte}}") which is standardized at 1024 bytes.

The Intel kilobyte mocks the Pentium floating point unit which, in 1994, became notorious for having a {{w|Pentium FDIV bug|major flaw}} in its floating point division algorithm that gave slightly erroneous results. (For the non-computer folk, a floating point number is a real number like 4.0 or -13.387.)

The smaller, drivemaker's kilobyte mocks a business model for handling higher prices that keeps prices constant but reduces quantity. The food industry has been notorious for decreasing quantity of food and keeping prices the same instead of increasing prices and keeping quantity the same. Randall is suggesting that if the computer industry tried to do this with hard drives, it could have humorous results such as smaller number of bytes in a kilobyte. In reality, hard drive capacity is specified in 10<sup>3</sup> byte (kB) units, while the content you put on it (programs etc.) is specified in 2<sup>10</sup> (KiB) units. Formatting the drive, i.e. making it usable for storage, further decreases the available space. Thus a 250 GB drive might be reported to have a capacity of only 232 GB (really GiB) by the operating system. This discrepancy increases with increasing drive size. The trend humorously suggested in the comic, however, would make the drivemaker's kilobyte 1024 bytes in 1979, 1000 bytes in 1985, {{#expr:8940-4*{{#time:Y}}}} bytes currently, and 0 bytes in 2235!

The baker's kilobyte is a play on the {{w|Dozen#Baking|baker's dozen}}, which is 13 instead of 12. A baker's byte with 9 bits to the byte would result in a total of 9216 bits in a 1024 byte kilobyte. Converting this into "normal" bytes (with 8 bits), we divide 9216 bits by 8 bits per byte to get 1152 8-bit bytes to the baker's kilobyte.

At the title text [[Randall]] mentions the definition {{w|kibibyte}}, which is defined more precisely. The binary prefix kibi means 1024, a portmanteau of the words kilo and binary. But he doesn't like the word because it sounds like the dog food {{w|Kibbles 'n Bits}}.

==Transcript==
:There's been a lot of confusion over 1024 vs 1000,
:kbyte vs kbit, and the capitalization for each.
:Here, at last, is a single, definitive standard:
:[table of various kinds of kilobytes]
:{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="wikitable" style="width: 50%; text-align: left;"
|-
|SYMBOL
|NAME
|SIZE
|NOTES
|-
|kB
|Kilobyte
|1024 bytes OR 1000 bytes
|1000 bytes during leap years, 1024 otherwise
|-
|KB
|Kelly-Bootle standard unit
|1012 bytes
|compromise between 1000 and 1024 bytes
|-
|KiB
|Imaginary kilobyte
|1024 √-1 bytes
|used in quantum computing
|-
|kb
|Intel kilobyte
|1023.937528 bytes
|calculated on Pentium F.P.U.
|-
|Kb
|Drivemaker's kilobyte
|currently 908 bytes
|shrinks by 4 bytes each year for marketing reasons
|-
|KBa
|Baker's kilobyte
|1152 bytes
|9 bits to the byte since you're such a good customer
|}

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

394: Kilobyte

2017-10-12T11:17:12Z

LegionMammal978: a small thing

{{comic
| number = 394
| date = March 10, 2008
| title = Kilobyte
| image = kilobyte.png
| titletext = I would take 'kibibyte' more seriously if it didn't sound so much like 'Kibbles N Bits'.
}}

==Explanation==
This comic pokes fun at the confusion over the definition of a kilobyte. Some interpret the prefix literally, meaning a kilobyte is 1000 bytes. Others, however, usually define it as 2<sup>10</sup> = 1024 bytes, because it is computationally easier to deal with.

The first row of the table is simply mocking this discrepancy.

The second row is Randall's interpretation on how {{w|Stan Kelly-Bootle}} would approach this problem. Kelly-Bootle is known for writing ''The Computer Contradictionary'' which satirizes the jargon and language of the computer industry. Kelly-Bootle was likely motivated to write this work after working for several years at IBM, a company infamous for its excessive use of acronyms in the work place. Averaging the two definitions together to get 1012 bytes is simply a humorous approach that Kelly-Bootle would likely have taken ("''Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.''" — Stan Kelly-Bootle). The serendipitous fact that the initials of Kelly-Bootle's name are "KB," the same letters used to abbreviate the word "kilobyte," adds a layer of plausibility to the joke.

The {{w|Imaginary number|imaginary}} kilobyte simply plays on the fact that complex analysis is required in quantum computing in relation to quantum mechanics. The imaginary number is represented as ''i'' and has a value of the square root of -1. This is a pun on the fact that KiB is used for the "binary kilobyte" (occasionally "{{w|Binary prefix|kibibyte}}") which is standardized at 1024 bytes.

The Intel kilobyte mocks the Pentium floating point unit which, in 1994, became notorious for having a {{w|Pentium FDIV bug|major flaw}} in its floating point division algorithm that gave slightly erroneous results. (For the non-computer folk, a floating point number is a real number like 4.0 or -13.387.)

The smaller, drivemaker's kilobyte mocks a business model for handling higher prices that keeps prices constant but reduces quantity. The food industry has been notorious for decreasing quantity of food and keeping prices the same instead of increasing prices and keeping quantity the same. Randall is suggesting that if the computer industry tried to do this with hard drives, it could have humorous results such as smaller number of bytes in a kilobyte. In reality, hard drive capacity is specified in 10<sup>3</sup> byte (kB) units, while the content you put on it (programs etc.) is specified in 2<sup>10</sup> (KiB) units. Formatting the drive, i.e. making it usable for storage, further decreases the available space. Thus a 250 GB drive might be reported to have a capacity of only 232 GB (really GiB) by the operating system. This discrepancy increases with increasing drive size. The trend humorously suggested in the comic, however, would make the drivemaker's kilobyte 1024 bytes in 1979, 1000 bytes in 1985, {{#expr:8940-4*{{#time:Y}}}} bytes currently, and 0 bytes in 2235!

1024: 1979
1000: 1985
872: 2017

The baker's kilobyte is a play on the {{w|Dozen#Baking|baker's dozen}}, which is 13 instead of 12. A baker's byte with 9 bits to the byte would result in a total of 9216 bits in a 1024 byte kilobyte. Converting this into "normal" bytes (with 8 bits), we divide 9216 bits by 8 bits per byte to get 1152 8-bit bytes to the baker's kilobyte.

At the title text [[Randall]] mentions the definition {{w|kibibyte}}, which is defined more precisely. The binary prefix kibi means 1024, a portmanteau of the words kilo and binary. But he doesn't like the word because it sounds like the dog food {{w|Kibbles 'n Bits}}.

==Transcript==
:There's been a lot of confusion over 1024 vs 1000,
:kbyte vs kbit, and the capitalization for each.
:Here, at last, is a single, definitive standard:
:[table of various kinds of kilobytes]
:{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="wikitable" style="width: 50%; text-align: left;"
|-
|SYMBOL
|NAME
|SIZE
|NOTES
|-
|kB
|Kilobyte
|1024 bytes OR 1000 bytes
|1000 bytes during leap years, 1024 otherwise
|-
|KB
|Kelly-Bootle standard unit
|1012 bytes
|compromise between 1000 and 1024 bytes
|-
|KiB
|Imaginary kilobyte
|1024 √-1 bytes
|used in quantum computing
|-
|kb
|Intel kilobyte
|1023.937528 bytes
|calculated on Pentium F.P.U.
|-
|Kb
|Drivemaker's kilobyte
|currently 908 bytes
|shrinks by 4 bytes each year for marketing reasons
|-
|KBa
|Baker's kilobyte
|1152 bytes
|9 bits to the byte since you're such a good customer
|}

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

1865: Wifi vs Cellular

2017-07-20T01:02:52Z

LegionMammal978:

{{comic
| number = 1865
| date = July 19, 2017
| title = Wifi vs Cellular
| image = wifi_vs_cellular.png
| titletext = According to the cable company reps who keep calling me, it's because I haven't upgraded to the XTREME GIGABAND PANAMAX FLAVOR-BLASTED PRO PACKAGE WITH HBO, which is only $5 more per month for the first 6 months and five billion dollars per month after that.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|First version... Links to X-finity and blast? Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}

In this comic [[Randall]] remarks on how recent changes in {{w|Wi-Fi}} and {{w|Cellular network|Cellular data}} reliability have impacted his behavior. Wi-Fi technology has had several advantages over cellular data transmission due to Wi-Fi antennas' more ubiquitous distribution and ability to focus on high data transmission rates instead of broad signal coverage. However, as Wi-Fi has become more popular it is increasingly common to encounter Wi-Fi networks using outdated hardware, poorly organized or overburdened networks, and competition for bandwidth with other Wi-Fi devices. Meanwhile due to continued commercial investment in upgrading and expanding cellular networks and the more frequent consumer replacement of cellular handsets, the reliability of cellular data has continued to increase.

Randall notes that prior to 2015 he found that he could improve his internet connection by connecting to a Wi-Fi network instead of using cellular data. After 2015 however, he finds that in many cases he is able to get a stronger connection by disengaging his Wi-Fi connection and getting his data over a cellular connection.

Anything larger than a few kilobytes would previously require someone to switch off network data and connect to a wireless network. However, for a couple of years, cellular networks' data transmission rates have often become more reliable (albeit usually costlier for larger amount of data usage) while home Wi-Fi has remained fairly constant, meaning the cellular network is often the best choice to download a file.

Randall says it is ''weird from a networking point of view'', but in fact modern {{w|LTE (telecommunication)|LTE}} connections via the cellular network are faster ({{w|List_of_LTE_networks#USA, US Territories, Canada & Bolivia (FCC band plan)|up to 300 Mbit/s}}) than the common used Wi-Fi standards like 802.11b/g and 802.11n ({{w|IEEE_802.11#Protocol|54-150 Mbit/s}}). Faster Wi-Fi standards do exist but they are very rarely supported.

In the title text Randall takes a moment to rail against the often misleading promotional rates offered by cable internet providers. Such providers often attempt to up-sell consumer on internet packages with additional features. Here Randall juxtaposes several descriptors that might feature in a cable ad with several that refer to other things entirely. Xtreme Gigaband is a plausible internet package name, but might also be a reference to {{w|Comcast|Comcast's}} often derided "{{w|Xfinity}}" promotions. And while {{w|Panamax}} sounds like it may be a film term, it is actually a ship classification that denotes the maximum size ship that can safely pass through the {{w|Panama canal}}. (This could also be referencing the title text of [[1632: Palindrome]].) Flavor-Blasted is a food term often used in hyperbolic television food ad, but also could be a reference to Comcast Cable's "Blast!" internet packages. Pricing mentioned in title text is exaggerated with only $5 more during first six months, but costing 5 billion after, which is a reference to how service providers would often advertise a lower temporary price, while if you read the fine print the plan is much more costly once the limited time offer runs out, and {{w|discounting}} is simply used for marketing purposes. What's worse, these discounted periods (typically six months) often come with a much longer contract (typically two years) which imposes cancelation fees.

==Transcript==
:[A graph with two curves that cross each other. The two areas beneath the curve at the top, and down to either the X-axis or the other curve are shaded with vertical gray lines. The Y-axis has no label, but represents reliability, the X-axis is a timeline, with labels indicating years beneath the axis, without any ticks. The two curves are labeled with text interrupting the curves, in the second case using two lines for the text. In the left shaded area there is a label inside and the right shaded area the label is beneath the curves with an arrow pointing to the area. All this text and the arrow is gray. Above the curves there is a caption also in gray font:]
:<font color="gray">To get something to load on my phone, sometimes I have to...</font>

:Label left area: <font color="gray">...Connect to WiFi</font>
:Label right area: <font color="gray">...Turn off WiFi</font>

:Label curve one: Home WiFi reliability
:Label curve two: Cellular data reliability

:Year labels: 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020

:[Caption below the panel:]
:It seems weird from a networking point of view, but sometime in the last few years this flipped for me.

{{comic discussion}}

[[Category:Line graphs]]
[[Category:Timelines]]

472: House of Pancakes

2017-07-02T20:47:28Z

LegionMammal978: As in comic title, for consistency. Haven't replaced the explanation text with blue, but feel free to revert if you find good reason to.

{{comic
| number = 472
| date = September 5, 2008
| title = <span style="color:blue">House</span> of Pancakes
| image = house_of_pancakes.png
| titletext = Fuck it, I'm just going to Waffle House.
}}

==Explanation==
[[Randall]] is parodying Mark Z. Danielewski's epistolary novel ''{{w|House of Leaves}}'' by renaming it ''House of Pancakes'' (after the American fast food franchise {{w|International House of Pancakes}}). ''House of Leaves'' has an unconventional page layout and style, including the colouring of every instance of the word "house" in blue, as is done on the menu. It includes footnotes within footnotes like Randall did here.

In ''House of Leaves'', protagonist Johnny Truant (whose meta-narration is marked by Courier font as mimicked in the comic) discovers a book called ''The Navidson Record'' (represented here by the pancake menu), which in turn details a film of the same name, which in turn details a horror story of a family living in a sentient house. Truant, who is clearly intelligent and cultured, probes deeper into notating ''The Navidson Record''—and into insomnia—until ''The Navidson Record'' consumes his mind horrifically, the same way the film in the novel consumed the author of ''The Navidson Record'', the same way the house in the novel consumed part of the family.

''House of Leaves'' lends itself to many interpretations, but has been called a "satire of academic criticism," which makes this comic essentially a satire of a satire. Since part of the appeal of ''House of Leaves'' is that it takes itself extremely seriously with its intricacy, multitude of both real and made-up references to academic and popular culture, and layered emotional conflict, Randall's reduction of the ''House of Leaves'' to the (International) House of Pancakes cuts a humorous edge to a dark story. The tone of the comic parodies the tone of ''House of Leaves'': lonely, fear-inducing, and increasingly insane, but using pancakes instead of darkness.

Additionally, the mysterious "Mohawk Girl" referred to in the comic may be a nod to the ''House of Leaves'' character Delial.

The word "house" is in blue in every instance, which is a stylistic attribute of Mark Z. Danielewski's novel. Every Minotaur reference is marked out in red ink, and every use of "house" or a foreign language's equivalent, such as 'haus' and 'maison' is in blue. This is not a reference to hyperlinks. It is often thought that the house is printed in blue because houses have 'blueprints'.

The censored portion of the Big Steak Omelette is "...fresh green peppers, onions, mushrooms,...", per IHOP's website for the Big Steak Omelette: "Tender and tasty strips of steak, hash browns, fresh green peppers, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes and Cheddar cheese." Also, Omelette is misspelled but that's probably just a typo.

The title text refers to the {{w|Waffle House}}, another US restaurant chain. The joke is that the protagonist has decided that maybe all this angst isn't worth it and he'll just go to a different restaurant.

==Transcript==
:[All instances of the word "<span style = "color:blue">House</span>" are in blue.]
:[Every day a new city, a new IHOP. And yet every night the dreams get worse. I ply the highways, a nervous eye on the rear-view mirror, the back seat piled with stolen menus. Their doors are opened 24 hours, but forever closed to my soul. This is what my life has become. This is my hell.]
:[Sidenote left: International] House of Pancakes
:[Scribbled-out sidenote right: BLOGSPOT] Strawberry Banana Pancakes Four pancakes filled with sliced fresh banana and crowned with cool strawberry topping, more [17] bananas and [23] whipped topping.
::[17] Driven by a nameless fear, a whisper in the dark behind me, I flee ahead of I know not what. Whenver I turn, there's nobody behind me. And yet someone is clearly stealing the ketchup. WHY? (The footnote is covered in fingerprints.)
::[23] My life is feeding, fleeing, fighting, and forgetting. (The above note is sandwiched in sideways in between the Stuffed French Toast and Ham and Egg Melt.)
:[Rooty Jr. A kids only [19] version of our house signature Rooty Tooty. One scrambled egg, one strip of bacon, one pork sausage link and one fruit-topped buttermilk pancake.]
::[19] The decision not to hyphenate "kids only" is likely connected to the omission of the serial comma. I wonder if the author is British. I wonder if he sleeps at night. (The following passages are have a red substance underneath them, probably ketchup.)
:[Rise 'N Shine Two eggs, toast and hash browns served with your choice [21] of two strips of bacon or two pork sausage links.]
::[21] (illegible) rent a storage unit. Sleep there. Fill it with pancakes. Leave. Stuffed French Toast Cinnamon raisin French [18] toast stuffed with sweet cream cheese filling, topped with cool strawberry or your choice of fruit compote and whipped topping.
:::[18] Nightmares again. I wake up covered in sweat, and what appears to be a thin sheen of maple syrup (Handwritten, underlined) WHO IS MOHAWK GIRL?
:[Slanted 90 degrees left] Ham & Egg Melt Grilled sourdough bread stuffed with ham, scrambled eggs, Swiss and American cheeses. [20] (At normal orientation)
::[20] Ordered this in at an IHOP in Rochester, New York. There was blood on the floor. Some of it was mine. (Comic strip) Enough with your pancakes. Enough with your GOD DAMN pancakes. The Big Steak Omlette Tender strips of steak, hash browns, (redacted) tomatoes and Cheddar cheese. Served [22] with house salsa.
:::[22] Woke up in Las Vegas. They're closing the Star Trek Experience today. The IHOP up the strip had pancake platters named after various states. None of them sounded like home.

{{comic discussion}}

[[Category:Comics with color]]
[[Category:Star Trek]]
[[Category:Fiction]]
[[Category:Food]]

1350: Lorenz/Images

2016-12-05T01:35:55Z

LegionMammal978: added permalinks, removed obsolete syntax section

{{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.

==Images==
*'''Please update number below''' if you add more images:
*On 2016-12-04 three more images were added to make it '''152 images''' here below
**The three images were found by a scraper.

{| style="text-align:center"
| [[File:lorenz - computer.png]]
| [[File:lorenz - debate laptop.png]]
| [[File:lorenz - debate 1.png]]
| [[File:lorenz - debate 2.png]]
| [[File:lorenz - debate 5.png]]
| [[File:lorenz - debate 4.png]]
| [[File:lorenz - debate 3.png]]
| [[File:lorenz - visit.png]]
|-
| ([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:be7a3304-b685-11e3-8001-94de80a03a29 Permalink])
| ([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:5f99d6e0-baeb-11e3-8002-002590d77bdd Permalink])
| ([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:5f99d6e0-baeb-11e3-8002-002590d77bdd Permalink])
| ([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:0f8627f6-bb01-11e3-8002-002590d77bdd Permalink])
| ([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:46037e6a-bc36-11e3-8002-002590d77bdd Permalink])
| ([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:78540d38-bcc4-11e3-801c-002590d77bdd Permalink])
| ([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:461366c2-bc36-11e3-8002-002590d77bdd Permalink])
| ([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:9e39e8d4-ba98-11e3-8008-002590d77bdd Permalink])
|-
| [[File:lorenz - laptop 1.png]]
| [[File:lorenz - laptop 2.png]]
| [[File:lorenz - laptop 3.png]]
| [[File:lorenz - laptop 4.png]]
| [[File:lorenz - laptop 5.png]]
| [[File:lorenz - laptop 6.png]]
| [[File:lorenz - laptop 7.png]]
| [[File:lorenz - laptop 8.png]]
|-
| ([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:00ac9f74-b9a0-11e3-81f8-94de80a03a39 Permalink])
| ([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:00ac9f74-b9a0-11e3-81f8-94de80a03a39 Permalink])
| ([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:2980a790-b9c0-11e3-8006-002590d77bdd Permalink])
| ([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:2980a790-b9c0-11e3-8006-002590d77bdd Permalink])
| ([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:2980a790-b9c0-11e3-8006-002590d77bdd Permalink])
| ([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:2980a790-b9c0-11e3-8006-002590d77bdd Permalink])
| ([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:43b0c0b0-b9d8-11e3-800b-002590d77bdd Permalink])
| ([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:43b0c0b0-b9d8-11e3-800b-002590d77bdd Permalink])
|-
| [[File:lorenz - laptop 9.png]]
| [[File:lorenz - laptop 10.png]]
| [[File:lorenz - laptop 11.png]]
| [[File:lorenz - shark zero.png]]
| [[File:lorenz - shark one.png]]
| [[File:lorenz - sharks.png]]
| [[File:lorenz - squids.png]]
| [[File:lorenz - blood.png]]
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| [[File:lorenz - pikachu ink cloud.png]]
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| ([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:3def084a-ba4f-11e3-8037-002590d77bdd Permalink])
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| [[File:lorenz - pikachu radicality.png]]
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| [[File:lorenz - pikachu not very effective.png]]
| [[File:lorenz - pikachu um.png]]
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| [[File:lorenz - pikachu end 2.png]]
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| [[File:lorenz - pikachu super effective.png]]
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LegionMammal978:

1350: Lorenz/Images

2016-12-04T15:13:07Z

LegionMammal978: 3 more

File:lorenz - thinking 3.png

2016-12-04T15:10:02Z

LegionMammal978: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/a1-2014/a1BZk0aYhzeAUOCveszd0w.png

== Summary ==
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/a1-2014/a1BZk0aYhzeAUOCveszd0w.png
== Licensing ==
{{XKCD file}}

File:lorenz - walk 11.png

2016-12-04T15:08:27Z

LegionMammal978: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/a1-2014/EWfveQLm9fIRQn2B0XKjNA.png

== Summary ==
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/a1-2014/EWfveQLm9fIRQn2B0XKjNA.png
== Licensing ==
{{XKCD file}}

File:lorenz - aaa 3.png

2016-12-04T15:06:09Z

LegionMammal978: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/a1-2014/EzK9UKmxr9bsvDVtkvvD1Q.png

== Summary ==
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/a1-2014/EzK9UKmxr9bsvDVtkvvD1Q.png
== Licensing ==
{{XKCD file}}

File:lorenz - wake up 11.png

2016-12-04T15:02:48Z

LegionMammal978: added link

From Comic #1350. You can see it here: http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:536abeba-bbdc-11e3-8034-002590d77bdd, image at http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/a1-2014/fOipS1wCzWxFOSJSoGYCXg.png

File:lorenz - rocket 25.png

2016-12-04T15:00:48Z

LegionMammal978: added link

== Summary ==
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/a1-2014/VgSdMz8OAHQ8w5Ee432f5Q.png
== Licensing ==
{{XKCD file}}

File:lorenz - boomerang 10.png

2016-12-04T14:59:57Z

LegionMammal978: added link

Boomerang the other way back; http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/a1-2014/VRBnBom8dGhCruWdzOlA3A.png

File:lorenz - boomerang accident 2.png

2016-12-04T14:57:22Z

LegionMammal978: added link

== Summary ==
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/a1-2014/3mC1dSYhu_mSyGDJ2_YB2w.png
== Licensing ==
{{XKCD file}}

File:lorenz - boomerang accident.png

2016-12-04T14:56:05Z

LegionMammal978: added link

== Summary ==
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/a1-2014/sRSD6AsvFsGFC2OaYxeO0Q.png
== Licensing ==
{{XKCD file}}

File:lorenz - boomerang 11.png

2016-12-04T14:54:18Z

LegionMammal978: added link

Knit Cap Girl puts down boomerang and walks away; http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/a1-2014/LO4TlNnQZm3kwC8CjnYDbg.png

File:lorenz - walking 2.png

2016-12-04T14:41:29Z

LegionMammal978: added link

== Summary ==
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/a1-2014/Lq_WH5UoirY8ZNqEY4E3dw.png
== Licensing ==
{{XKCD file}}

Talk:1350: Lorenz/Images

2016-12-04T13:27:20Z

LegionMammal978:

I added this "comic discussion" to note new missing pictures - not all can add them but someone can if they get a permalink [[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 21:33, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

I have tried to sort the images so what happens above is referenced below not vice versa. Of course I have only my own idea of the order from when I went through all possible outcome on the first of April. New pictures should be possible to insert where they "belong" [[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 21:33, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Here are two more with falling in the hole. Maybe the black is identical to the one from the rocket sequence? But either it should be both places or I vote for it to be moved to the awake scene as this makes much sense...:
http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:81fbe7ee-baa2-11e3-8012-002590d77bdd [[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 21:40, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Hairy's bed is empty:
http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:6427a624-ba05-11e3-8017-002590d77bdd [[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 21:49, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Both politicians talk with lines above their heads and movement of head lines. Also there are two spoken lines in one frame which has been said did not happen in the explanation talk page...
http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:51b19470-bb16-11e3-8004-002590d77bdd [[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 21:54, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Pikachu uses Graph Theory
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/a1-2014/FFHFi6j24sHub3Il_ALA5A.png {{unsigned ip|108.162.221.34}}
:I have added the above and another one with the boomerang, where it flies the other way (back over his head, and then back the other way). That is in the record with 77 panels. The other one is in one if the Pokémon records.[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 15:24, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Testing the record I came up with these on the way to that:
*http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:ee2d713a-b9d5-11e3-8008-002590d77bdd - your still dreaming (try yourself)
*http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:194bcea2-baa3-11e3-8015-002590d77bdd - after throwing a lot - there is a branch, you can try yourself
*http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:08896f1c-bade-11e3-8001-94de80a03a29 - here a new image I knew was missing - putting down boomerang - I have included it, the 145th image
[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 22:14, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

I have now put all images from the list (11/4 146 images) in under the themes section under the explain. If you find more please consider also to include them there as well [[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 02:53, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
:Since then three more has been added and also added to the table. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 18:06, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

I have gone through this comic SO MANY TIMES and even I can't find all the endings. Thanks for putting this up so I can at least get a sneak peek. -- [[User:JayRulesXKCD]] ([[User talk:JayRulesXKCD|talk]]) 9:28, 12 September 2016
:Yeah, I've written a bot to fill the transcript page, but the problem is that I have to re-capitalize ''every single panel of every single path''... [[User:LegionMammal978|LegionMammal978]] ([[User talk:LegionMammal978|talk]]) 13:27, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

1017: Backward in Time

2016-08-27T00:13:45Z

LegionMammal978:

{{comic
| number = 1017
| date = February 15, 2012
| title = Backward in Time
| image = backward_in_time.png
| titletext = People tell me I have too much time on my hands, but really the problem is that there's too much time, PERIOD.
}}

==Explanation==
[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Ak43bGxHGI1adDMtOHVWVXZrYzhKd2VtbFJJMmJPTEE&single=true&gid=1&output=html Here's the spreadsheet] which [[Randall]] used to calculate the times and dates for the comic. It also has a lot of other percentages and dates, so take a look if you are interested.

[[Cueball]]/Randall creates this formula which helps him wait for long stretches of time which goes increasingly faster into the past as more time goes by, which gives him the effect of looking like the time goes by quickly. Which assists in the waiting process.

As far as the actual math is concerned, the formula is an {{w|exponential function}} (i.e. the variable appears in the exponent). The effect that the function grows faster and faster as p grows, is due to T(p) being exponential. More precisely, when you repeatedly add some constant to the exponent, you will repeatedly multiply some (other) constant with the value of the function. Compare how "slow" a value grows by adding even high values (1, 1001, 2001, 3001, 4001, 5001…) and how fast it grows by multiplying even low values (1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000…)

Now, the function has to be adjusted so that, as Randall put it, "the time spent in each part of the past is loosely proportional to how well I know it." The most important adjustment is putting p to the power of three. That lowers the amount added to the exponent for low values (0.1³=0.001, 0.2³=0.008, i.e. only 7/1000 have been added for 10% workflow) and increases the amount for high values (0.8³=0.512, 0.9³=0.729, i.e. more than 1/5 has been added for 10% workflow). That means the recent past will pass even slower and the historic past even faster than it already does by choosing an exponential function.
The remaining adjustments are technical. The coefficient in front of p³ adjusts the constant by which the result will be multiplied while adding some constant to p, while it also roughly ensures that p=1 yields the lifetime of the universe. The 3 added to the product in the exponent further adjusts the actual values of the power without touching the slope (the multiplicative constant). In the parentheses, e³ is subtracted to put the time to 0 when p=0. Otherwise the function would start approx. 20 yrs and 1 month ago. For bigger p, this offset does not matter much. Imagine subtracting 20 yrs from the lifetime of the universe!

Finally, the result is subtracted from the current date for aesthetical reasons. The formula could tell you "20 yrs ago", or it could read "February 1992". Randall decided the latter would be better.

[[940|(Also, the workout website, Fitocracy has been mentioned previously in xkcd.)]]

Note that as of the time that this page was last cached, the comic was uploaded at {{#expr:100*sqrt((ln(({{#time:U}}-1329195600)/31536000+e^3)-3)/20.3444)}}% progress.

==Transcript==
:When I have a boring task to get through — a three-hour lecture, a giant file download, or a long term point goal in fitocracy — I use this formula to convert the percentage completed (p) into a date:

:T=(Current Date) - (e^(20.3444*p^3+3) - e^3) years

:When the task is 0% done, it gives today's date, and as I make progress, I move further and further back in time

:(inverse given in lighter colors)
:Inverse: p = sqrt((ln(T+e^3)-3)/20.3444)

:[Line Graph explaining the correlation between completion percentages and temporal deltas.
:0% = now (Date of comic is 2012-02-14T00:00-0500, approx. 1329195600 UNIX)
:10% = September 2011
:20% = 2008
:30% = 1997
:40% = 1958
:50% = 1776
:60% = 405 AD
:70% = 22,000 years ago
:80% = 671,000 years ago
:90% = 55 million years ago
:100% = 13.8 billion years ago
:]

:It moves slowly through the first few years, then steadily accelerates. I tuned the formula so the time spent in each part of the past is loosely proportional to how well I know it. This means I hit familiar landmarks with each bit of progress, giving me a satisfying sense of movement.

:[The following are panels detailing completion percentages, correlated time periods, and notable events from this time period.]

:7.308% December 18, 2011
:Around this time:
:Kim Jong-Il dies. US leaves Iraq.

:31.12% February 1995
:Around this time:
:Windows 95 debuts. OJ found not guilty.

:47.91% 1844
:Around this time:
:Rubber vulcanized, bicycle invented, wrench patented.

:70.33% 24,000 years ago
:Around this time:
:Caves painted, ceramic art made. Neanderthals extinct.

:90.42% 68 million years ago
:Around this time:
:First flowering plants. Chicxulub impact kills off most dinosaurs.

:100% 13.76 billion years ago
:Around this time:
:Universe begins. First stars ignite.

:Download complete.

:[Cueball watches a download progress on a laptop in amazement and happiness. Megan stands nearby and looks at Cueball with a bemused posture.]
:Cueball: Swoosh! Watching all that time blur past is such a rush!
:Megan: So... you've tried to make an extreme sport out of.. ''waiting''.
:Cueball: ''Swoosh!''

{{comic discussion}}

[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
[[Category:Charts]]
[[Category:Timelines]]
[[Category:Math]]

1350: Lorenz/Transcript

2016-08-11T11:00:41Z

LegionMammal978: /* So you're still refusing to use Facebook? */

__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:
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'''Knit Cap Girl''':

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==Transcript==
'''Knit Cap Girl''':<br>[Typing on the laptop and thinking.]<br>([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])
:[A green dinosaur appears]
'''Dinosaur''':
<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 will not submit to peer pressure... Wait I should tweet that, hold on.=====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:49aad068-b9d9-11e3-800e-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Zooming in on the dinosaur's head]
'''Dinosaur''':
<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 should I MySpace this?======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:3b4e57de-ba1e-11e3-8019-002590d77bdd Permalink])
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
======Tweet. Ironic, because I am in fact a bird. Or is it the other way around?======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:15cd0206-ba07-11e3-8018-002590d77bdd Permalink])
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
======Wait a second. I don't have a phone!======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:f0681688-b9f5-11e3-800f-002590d77bdd Permalink])
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
======I can't reach the 3 key and the Shift key at the same time.======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:ba92df54-b9da-11e3-8011-002590d77bdd Permalink])
</div>
</div>
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
=====I can only stand so many motivational and cat pics, man!=====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:4d167904-b9cb-11e3-8008-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Zooming in on the dinosaur's head]
'''Dinosaur''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
======Go analog, dog======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:0ef55296-b9e2-11e3-8002-002590d77bdd Permalink])
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
======Memes are becoming memes themselves======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:039574c2-ba22-11e3-801a-002590d77bdd Permalink])
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
======And judging from their profile pictures, Facebook causes the newly married to turn into infants======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:b51e0bdc-ba0e-11e3-8018-002590d77bdd Permalink])
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
======They make me so hungry.======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:ba0e52f4-ba05-11e3-8017-002590d77bdd Permalink])
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
=====That's right, kids! Now you can have your very own Facebook page!=====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:413e685c-b9e0-11e3-8001-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Zooming in on the dinosaur's head]
'''Dinosaur''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
======Narcissism has never been this easy! Back in my day, we had to maually brag about every minor event in our life all over town!======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:7c9012e2-b9f5-11e3-800c-002590d77bdd Permalink])
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
======It makes all your in-person social interactions more awkward!======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:43a4705e-ba22-11e3-801a-002590d77bdd Permalink])
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
======Become a retro hipster before everyone else by adopting the most mainstream fad!======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:3eda98ec-b9ef-11e3-8003-002590d77bdd Permalink])
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
======Now let's take this crossover to the next level!======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:a18985fa-ba28-11e3-8025-002590d77bdd Permalink])
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
=====I am Facebooksaurus!=====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:d8fb1a84-b9d4-11e3-8008-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[Zooming in on the dinosaur's head]
'''Dinosaur''':
<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 will swallow your personal data!======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:fe72267a-ba21-11e3-801a-002590d77bdd Permalink])
</div>
</div>
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======...of genus ''Socialnetworkus''.======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:f70fae72-b9f2-11e3-800a-002590d77bdd Permalink])
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
======I fear the existential ambiguity of irreconcilable proclivities in prepetuity!======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:75cba2a0-b9f0-11e3-8009-002590d77bdd Permalink])
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
======And I am two social outlets from being a hipster.======
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:4b97d44c-ba11-11e3-8018-002590d77bdd Permalink])
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====Wanna build a snowman?====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:63eb16be-b9b0-11e3-8004-002590d77bdd Permalink])
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<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:'''
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<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…
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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 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>
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<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…
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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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.)
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<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.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%"> Suggest a line…
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"></div>
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
======Maybe we tried guessing the root password too many times======
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([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>
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<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.)
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<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.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%"> Suggest a line…
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"></div>
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
======OK , maybe sudo teleport * `random-GPS was the wrong thing to type======
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([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>
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<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.)
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<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.)
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<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>
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<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.)
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<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.)
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<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.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%"> Suggest a line…
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====My keyboard has to support SSH over USB?====
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===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.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Come check out my neighbour's ball pit. It's full of balls.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Oh, didn't I tell you? I got their database password years ago
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Do you think they'll care that the coffee machine doesn't work?
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===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 - [http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:87adb65e-baa2-11e3-8012-002590d77bdd Permalink])
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1350: Lorenz/Transcript

2016-08-11T02:14:13Z

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==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!}}

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'''Knit Cap Girl''':

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==Transcript==
'''Knit Cap Girl''':<br>[Typing on the laptop and thinking.]<br>([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:be7a3304-b685-11e3-8001-94de80a03a29 permalink])
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===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''':
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====So you're still refusing to use Facebook?====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:dcfb0896-b9bc-11e3-8002-002590d77bdd Permalink])
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<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])
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====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])
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====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''':
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=====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:'''
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======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.)
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<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.)
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<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.)
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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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======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.)
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======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''':
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<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.)
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<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.)
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<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.)
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<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.)
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======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.)
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<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.)
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<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.)
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<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…
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<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">
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======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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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.)
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</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.)
</div>
</div>
<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.)
</div>
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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.)
</div>
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">

======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.)
</div>
</div>
<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.)
</div>
</div>
<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.)
</div>
</div>
<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.)
</div>
</div>
<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.)
</div>
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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.)
</div>
</div>
<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.)
</div>
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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.)
</div>
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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.)
</div>
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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.)
</div>
</div>
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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''':
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<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''':
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<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:'''
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<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.)
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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''':
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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''':
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=====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''':
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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''':
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<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''':
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<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''':
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<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.)
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<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.)
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<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 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!
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([http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:aea948da-b9fe-11e3-8016-002590d77bdd Permalink])
:[They walk on both speaking]
'''Hairy''':
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<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 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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======Where'd the bridge go?======
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([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''':
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<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%">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''':

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<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%">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%">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''':
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<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''':
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<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%">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''':
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<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
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:[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%">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 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''':
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<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''':
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<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''':
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<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''':
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<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''':
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<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 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''':
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<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...
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Yeah, who did you think gave them a balrog?
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">One does not simple "give" a balrog.
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<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>
<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>
<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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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
=====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''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
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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''':
<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 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]
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
'''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''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<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>
<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.)
</div>
</div>
<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]
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
'''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''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">

<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>

<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]
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
'''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>
</div>
<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''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<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.)
</div>
</div>
<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>
<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.)
</div>
</div>
<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>
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Die you monster.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
([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>
<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>
<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''':

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

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

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

<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Take this house, a mere fraction of existence, crushed beneath me
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
([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]
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
'''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.)
</div>
</div>
</div>
<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.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
([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]
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
'''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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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">

=====I need a hand!=====
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([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:1475bf18-b9d2-11e3-8005-002590d77bdd Permalink])
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
=====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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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">

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

====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''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
=====But how many bathrooms?=====
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([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:b30f9824-b9af-11e3-8004-002590d77bdd Permalink])
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
=====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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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
=====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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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">

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

====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''':
<div style="border-left: medium solid #000000; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 0.1em">
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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.
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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])
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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.]
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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.]
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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.)
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<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])
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'''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.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%"> Suggest a line…
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======Maybe we tried guessing the root password too many times======
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([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])
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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%"> 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.
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'''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.)
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<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])
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:[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.)
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%"> Suggest a line…
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======OK , maybe sudo teleport * `random-GPS was the wrong thing to type======
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([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])
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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%"> 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.
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:[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.)
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<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])
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:[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.)
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<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.)
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======Which version of BSD where you using?======
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([http://www.xkcd.com/1350/#p:932bb4a0-ba2e-11e3-8031-002590d77bdd Permalink])
'''Hairy''':
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<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])
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:[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>
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<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])
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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.)
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<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.)
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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.)
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<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.]
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<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)
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:[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.)
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<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)
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:[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.)
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====My keyboard has to support SSH over USB?====
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===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])
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Come check out my neighbour's ball pit. It's full of balls.
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">Oh, didn't I tell you? I got their database password years ago
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===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 - [http://xkcd.com/1350/#p:87adb65e-baa2-11e3-8012-002590d77bdd Permalink])
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