Talk:177: Alice and Bob

2023-10-29T23:12:53Z

Volemo: Is "barred" used meaning "banned" or is that a typo exposing Randall as a Dvorak typist?

This part: "but everything from the public-key authenticated signatures on the files to the lipstick heart smeared on the disk screamed "Alice." " reminds me of the song Alice by Tom Waits. May or may not be intentional.
[[Special:Contributions/108.162.242.120|108.162.242.120]] 18:10, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

The title text refers to comic 153, the first time Randall claimes to be banned from a conference (others to follow, e.g. comics 463 and 541).
And I don't consider this comic to have a "twist ending" revealing that it's Eve talking. She says that she is commonly being labelled the attacker in the very first panel. --[[User:YMS|YMS]] ([[User talk:YMS|talk]]) 15:37, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Is Danish's name actually Eve? They seem to look the same, and have the same character. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.5|108.162.246.5]] 17:51, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Would that make [[Black Hat|Black Hat]] Bob? And who would be Alice? [[Special:Contributions/173.245.55.76|173.245.55.76]] 02:30, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

None of them because they aren't the same characters! -Pennpenn [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.162|108.162.250.162]] 00:18, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

In addition to the obvious cryptography naming convention, I thought there was a reference to the 1969 movie classic Bob&Carol&Ted&Alice about infidelity and partners swapping. The climax scene has all 4 climb to bed together with Bob and Alice (married, but not to each other) kissing passionately. The movie inspired a genre of sexual comedies, and to this day, calling out a few of the names with a "&" between is used as a euphemism for "too sexually liberal for their own good." [[User:Danshoham|Mountain Hikes]] ([[User talk:Danshoham|talk]]) 16:13, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

;Isn't she Danish?

She looks very similar to the character called [[Danish]] after an enigmatic remark in [[515]]. But here she is called Eve. Shouldn't we rename the character everywhere? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.102.137|162.158.102.137]] 13:39, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

Hmm... the existance of http://aram.xkcd.com/ suggests that Black Hat Guy has the same name as his acknowleged inspiration, so does that make them Aram and Eve ;) ? -- [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.142|141.101.98.142]] 10:07, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

Is "barred" used meaning "banned" or is that a typo exposing Randall as a Dvorak typist? --[[User:Volemo|Volemo]] ([[User talk:Volemo|talk]]) 23:12, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

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Talk:177: Alice and Bob