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<p>Owenversteeg: add rob's other username</p> <hr /> <div>{{Infobox character<br /> | image = Rob.png<br /> | caption = A close-up of Rob from [[782: Desecration]]<br /> | first_appearance = [[276: Fixed Width]]<br /> }}<br /> '''Rob''' is a stick figure in xkcd. Rob has no identifying features and appears as a generic [[stick figure]], visually indistinguishable from [[Cueball]]. He is one of the few of [[Randall]]'s characters to be given a name. Rob is specifically named in [[276: Fixed Width]], [[632: Suspicion]], [[647: Scary]], [[716: Time Machine]], [[782: Desecration]], [[838: Incident]], [[1102: Fastest-Growing]] and [[1168: tar]]. In [[276: Fixed Width]] his screen name appears as &quot;rob&quot;, and in [[838: Incident]] his username appears as &quot;robm&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Relationships==<br /> Rob had a relationship with a woman known as &lt;emily&gt; on IM. This ended tragically in [[276: Fixed Width]] when he told her the relationship was only for sex while he wasn't really paying attention to what he was writing; he just wanted their chat responses to line up nicely on the screen. Two years later, in 2009, he had a relationship of a few months with what ended up to be a spam bot. He discovered this when he asked the bot to pass a {{w|Turing test}}. This happened in [[632: Suspicion]].<br /> <br /> In [[647: Scary]] we find that he has a nephew born after September 11, 2001, but by 2009 he was old enough to have discussions with Rob about it.<br /> <br /> {{navbox-characters}}</div>

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