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<div>{{comic<br />
| number =666<br />
| date =November 23, 2009<br />
| title =Silent Hammer<br />
| image =silent_hammer.png<br />
| titletext ='I bet he'll keep quiet for a couple weeks and then-- wait, did you nail a piece of scrap wood to my antique table a moment ago?'<br />
}}<br />
==Explanation==<br />
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A skeptic is someone who doesn't believe in, or at least strongly doubts the possibility of, supernatural occurrences such as poltergeists or aliens. [[Black Hat]] has created a set of tools that work in complete silence so that he can go to his house late at night, do some rearranging of walls and moving of windows, just to screw with him in typical Black Hat fashion.<br />
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The number of this comic (666) is a reference to {{w|The Number Of The Beast}}, or the "devil" number (which skeptics believe to not exist).<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Black Hat is hammering something on a table.]<br />
:Cueball: What-<br />
:Black Hat: Silent hammer. I've made a set of silent tools.<br />
:Cueball: Why?<br />
:Hammer: <small>''woosh woosh woosh''</small><br />
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:Black Hat: Stealth carpentry. Breaking into a house at night and moving windows, adjusting walls, etc.<br />
:[He takes his silent hammer over to a tool bench with other things on it. Two boxes underneath are labeled "Drills" and "Non-Drills."]<br />
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:After a week or so of questioning his own sanity, the owner will stay up to watch the house at night. I'll make scratching noises in the walls, pipe in knockout gas, move him up to his bed, and never bother him again.<br />
:[The events he's describing are shown in two mini-panels below.]<br />
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:Cueball, off-panel: Nice prank, I guess, but what's the point?<br />
:Black Hat: Check out the owner's card, on the table.<br />
:Cueball, off-panel: Chair of the American Skeptics Society? Oh, god.<br />
:Black Hat: Yeah, this doesn't end well for him.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Comics featuring Black Hat]]</div>Vgrhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:456:_Cautionary&diff=50995Talk:456: Cautionary2013-10-22T11:22:21Z<p>Vgr: </p>
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<div>Isn't 'Talk to your kids about...' from a famous Unilever ad? [[Special:Contributions/101.174.52.183|101.174.52.183]] 09:47, 2 June 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Is this Megan? Her hair seems awfully curly and it says she's his cousin. Is there an official transcript? [[User:Theo|Theo]] ([[User talk:Theo|talk]]) 20:46, 14 August 2013 (UTC)<br />
:Official transcripts, if they do exist, do not contain names in general. These names are just an invention by some communities like this wiki. So, if you have a better stick figure which would match her, talk about this.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 21:16, 14 August 2013 (UTC)<br />
::She is clearly not Megan. I propose to call her ''cousin''. [[User:Xhfz|Xhfz]] ([[User talk:Xhfz|talk]]) 22:20, 13 October 2013 (UTC)<br />
::There exists an official transcript for each comic, available to see in the page's source code. According to a comment in [[1037:_Umwelt]], Randall does apparently not type those, but is seemingly done by Davean, his friend maintaining the server. (Note: this is just a guess) [[User:Vgr|Vgr]] ([[User talk:Vgr|talk]]) 11:22, 22 October 2013 (UTC)</div>Vgr