https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=141.101.99.119&feedformat=atomexplain xkcd - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T12:43:52ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2497:_Logic_Gates&diff=215926Talk:2497: Logic Gates2021-08-03T00:08:42Z<p>141.101.99.119: </p>
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As someone has just Transcripted basically almost all the fine detail I had planned to entable in the Explanation, I shall not now create repetition. Though I had a little more description to the NORXONDOR GOGONAX, in particular, to reference bidirectional (antiparallel) diode pairings (e.g. an LED assembly that glows a different hue depending upon the applied current bias) as probable inspiration, and that latched Flip-Flops surely inspired some part of the Frankensteinian gate-types, too. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.119|141.101.99.119]] 00:08, 3 August 2021 (UTC)</div>141.101.99.119https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2495:_Universal_Seat_Belt&diff=2156942495: Universal Seat Belt2021-07-29T01:35:22Z<p>141.101.99.119: /* Explanation */ I think this covers most things, in broad terms, as a first addition.</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2495<br />
| date = July 29, 2021<br />
| title = Universal Seat Belt<br />
| image = universal_seat_belt.png<br />
| titletext = The plug fits really snugly, so it should be safe in a crash.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by a USB PORT. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
A sequel to [[2493: Dual USB-C]], this comic shows another of Randall's line of "Cursed Connectors." Randall presents the "Universal {{w|Seat belt}}", a pun on the Universal Serial Bus ({{w|USB}}) connector.<br />
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The title text claims that the seat belt is secure in the case of a crash. This is another pun, as seat belts protect passengers in a car crash while USB ports are rated to protect devices in the event of a computer malfunction ("crash").<br />
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A second glimpse of the [2493:_Dual_USB-C recently inaugerated] "Cursed Connectors"<!-- Once it has a category, that link can go here as well/instead-->, this one seems to imply that a Universal Serial Bus-style plug/socket connection is compatible with a 3-point car seat-belt anchoring buckle.<br />
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USB connectors are mostly designed for free insertion and removal. There may be a slight use of internal and external bumps and dimples to provide a tactile indication of being engaged or disengaged, but there are usually no facilities to prevent a connector being easily pulled out of even a port being actively used - the OS can do no more than complain that a device has been removed without first ensuring proper logical unmapping of the resource (which in turn may have to await a current session of data transfer being completed or aborted) or report that a "delayed write" has failed.<br />
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Car seat-buckles, on the other hand, have very definite requirements to not come loose ''unless'' intentionally and mechanically released, in order to keep the passenger safely anchored to the seat.<br />
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One possible use for the USB data connector might be to give a certain degree of 'proof' that the belt is plugged in, although that functionality is fairly well covered by anchor-point sensors that (combined with seat-occupancy sensors that may respond to the weight of a seated person) can trigger dashboard lights and possibly warning sounds in vehicles as necessary to prompt correct usage of restraining belts. It would still require a mechanical gripping/hooking method to make it of any use to be engaged, in the first place.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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{{comic discussion}}</div>141.101.99.119https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1412:_Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles&diff=1676681412: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles2019-01-03T18:32:16Z<p>141.101.99.119: /* Explanation */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1412<br />
| date = August 25, 2014<br />
| title = Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles<br />
| image = teenage_mutant_ninja_turtles.png<br />
| titletext = My upcoming album, 'Linked List', has covers of 'The Purple People Eater', the Ninja Turtles theme, 'Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini', and the Power Rangers theme, with every song played to the tune of the next.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
<br />
{{incomplete | Removed table in explain. Transcript table also removed but needs checking.}}<br />
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This comic is a reference to the recently released {{w|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014 film)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie}}. It is a list of Wikipedia article titles that are in the same syllable-stress pattern as the first line of the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS-qFdw-v_o theme song] of the {{w|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series)|1987 cartoon series}}.<br />
<br />
The list is compiled in alphabetical order from top to bottom, without respect to the left or right column. Some of the items on this list (e.g. ''{{w|Ace Ventura: Pet Detective}}'') are drawn as headlines in the same style as the logo from that series. These articles are not in alphabetical order with the surrounding small face text, but these headlines are in alphabetical order with the other headlines from top to bottom, without respect to the left or right column. Some of these phrases are not actually the titles of Wikipedia articles, but are redirects. For instance, the article on {{w|Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie}} redirects to {{w|Woody Guthrie}}, and {{w|Former Arctic Monkeys members}} redirects to {{w|Andy Nicholson}}.<br />
<br />
The syllable-stress pattern of this line is long-short-long-short-long-short-long-short, known in poetry as {{w|trochaic tetrameter}}. Randall has previously authored comics dealing with {{w|trochees}}, namely [[856: Trochee Fixation]] and [[1383: Magic Words]].<br />
<br />
A similar idea was performed by {{w|Jimmy Fallon}} in 2001 at a [https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jimmy+fallon+80s+medley concert for New York city] where he demonstrated singing "any 80's song" over the tune of {{w|MC Hammer}}'s song "{{w|U Can't Touch This}}".<br />
<br />
The title text suggests an album of songs (''{{w|The Purple People Eater}}'', the aforementioned ''Ninja Turtles'' theme, ''{{w|Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini}}'' and the ''{{w|Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers}}'' theme), the title or primary refrain of which have a large number of verses in {{w|trochee|trochaic}} {{w|meter (poetry)|meter}}. Randall suggests that these refrains are so interchangeable that the lyrics of each could be sung to the melody of the song following it in the tracklist. Randall would title the album ''{{w|Linked List}}'' as each song would melodically reference the next song. The refrains of the songs, respectively are:<br />
*"One-eyed, one-horned flying purple people eater"<br />
*"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"<br />
*"Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini"<br />
*"Go go Power Rangers"<br />
<br />
==The Wikipedia links==<br />
<br />
There are 6 headlines and 9 other article links in each block next to a headline for a total of 60 wiki links:<br />
<br />
;{{w|Ace Ventura: Pet Detective}}<br />
:{{w|Biggest Loser: Second Chances}}<br />
:{{w|Cayman Island blue iguana}}<br />
:{{w|Central Texas pocket gopher}}<br />
:{{w|Church of Jesus Christ Creator}}<br />
:{{w|Climate change and meat production}}<br />
:{{w|Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon}}<br />
:{{w|Daylight saving time in China}}<br />
:{{w|Denver Airport People Mover}}<br />
:{{w|Easter Island spiny lobster}}<br />
<br />
;{{w|Asian Human Rights Commission}}<br />
<br />
:{{w|Edgar Allan Poe Museum}}<br />
:{{w|Engine failure after take-off}}<br />
:{{w|English as a second language}}<br />
:{{w|Former Arctic Monkeys members}}<br />
:{{w|Fowler's Modern English Usage}}<br />
:{{w|Georgia Game and Fish Department}}<br />
:{{w|Golden-mantled howler monkey}}<br />
:{{w|Greater Cleveland Film Commission}}<br />
:{{w|Hairy flower chafer beetle}}<br />
<br />
;{{w|San Diego City Council}}<br />
<br />
:{{w|Harland David "Colonel" Sanders}}<br />
:{{w|Human Tissue Resource Network}}<br />
:{{w|Klondike-class destroyer tender|Klondike class destroyer tender}}<br />
:{{w|Legal code of North Dakota}}<br />
:{{w|Lesser knapweed flower weevil}}<br />
:{{w|Lockheed Martin Atlas rocket}}<br />
:{{w|Maple syrup urine syndrome}}<br />
:{{w|Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers}}<br />
:{{w|Nablus mask-like facial syndrome}}<br />
<br />
;{{w|Single payer health insurance}}<br />
<br />
:{{w|Neo Geo Pocket Color}}<br />
:{{w|New Year's Eve with Carson Daly}}<br />
:{{w|Newton's second law of motion}}<br />
:{{w|North Korean Workers Party}}<br />
:{{w|Orange County Business Council}}<br />
:{{w|Over/under cable coiling}}<br />
:{{w|Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater}}<br />
:{{w|Places named for Adolf Hitler}}<br />
:{{w|Proton-proton chain reaction}}<br />
<br />
;{{w|Spotted giant flying squirrel}}<br />
<br />
:{{w|Puerto Rican lizard-cuckoo}}<br />
:{{w|Quantum vacuum plasma thruster|Quantuum vacuum plasma thruster}}<ref>See also [[1404: Quantum Vacuum Virtual Plasma]].</ref><br />
:{{w|Rocky Mountain spotted fever}}<br />
:{{w|Royal Flying Doctor Service}}<br />
:{{w|Russian Women's Fascist Movement}}<br />
:{{w|Semi-active laser guidance}}<br />
:{{w|Seven Brides for Seven Brothers}}<br />
:{{w|Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows}}<br />
:{{w|Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon}}<br />
<br />
;{{w|Women science fiction authors}}<br />
<br />
:{{w|Trailing suction hopper dredger}}<br />
:{{w|Vector graphics markup language}}<br />
:{{w|Viti Levu giant pigeon}}<br />
:{{w|Voting rights in Puerto Rico}}<br />
:{{w|William Henry, Duke of Gloucester}}<ref>Gloucester is pronounced /ˈglɒstər/ (gloster).</ref><br />
:{{w|Windows Vista startup process}}<br />
:{{w|Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie}}<br />
:{{w|Yaba monkey tumor virus}}<br />
:{{w|Zack and Miri Make a Porno}}<br />
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===Notes===<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
==Transcript==<br />
<br />
{{incomplete transcript}}<br />
<br />
[Caption above comic:]<br />
:'''WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE TITLES'''<br />
:With the right syllable stress pattern to be sung to the tune of the original ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' theme song<br />
<br />
[Six groups of Wikipedia article titles are written out. Each group contains ten titles. The first title of each group is drawn in the style of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles logo, where the final word of each title is drawn in bulbous green text in the shape of an arch, with the remaining words in white text on a red banner above the green text. The remainder of the titles in each group are arranged as a list in standard font next to the larger titles, alternating from right to left hand side going down the comic.]<br />
<br />
:'''''Ace Ventura: Pet Detective'''''<br />
::''Biggest Loser: Second Chances''<br />
::Cayman Island blue iguana<br />
::Central Texas pocket gopher<br />
::Church of Jesus Christ Creator<br />
::Climate change and meat production<br />
::''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon''<br />
::Daylight saving time in China<br />
::Denver Airport People Mover<br />
::Easter Island spiny lobster<br />
<br />
:'''Asian Human Rights Commission'''<br />
::Edgar Allan Poe Museum<br />
::Engine failure after take-off<br />
::English as a second language<br />
::Former ''Arctic Monkeys'' members<br />
::''Fowler's Modern English Usage''<br />
::Georgia Game and Fish Department<br />
::Golden-mantled howler monkey<br />
::Greater Cleveland Film Commission<br />
::Hairy flower chafer beetle<br />
<br />
:'''San Diego City Council'''<br />
::Harland David "Colonel" Sanders<br />
::Human Tissue Resource Network<br />
::''Klondike''-class destroyer tender<br />
::Legal code of North Dakota<br />
::Lesser knapweed flower weevil<br />
::Lockheed Martin Atlas rocket<br />
::Maple syrup urine syndrome<br />
::''Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers''<br />
::Nablus mask-like facial syndrome<br />
<br />
:'''Single payer health insurance'''<br />
::Neo Geo Pocket Color<br />
::''New Year's Eve with Carson Daly''<br />
::Newton's second law of motion<br />
::North Korean Workers Party<br />
::Orange County Business Council<br />
::Over/under cable coiling<br />
::Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater<br />
::Places named for Adolf Hitler<br />
::Proton-proton chain reaction<br />
<br />
:'''Spotted giant flying squirrel'''<br />
::Puerto Rican lizard-cuckoo<br />
::Quantuum vacuum plasma thruster<br />
::Rocky Mountain spotted fever<br />
::Royal Flying Doctor Service<br />
::Russian Women's Fascist Movement<br />
::Semi-active laser guidance<br />
::''Seven Brides for Seven Brothers''<br />
::''Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows''<br />
::Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon<br />
<br />
:'''Women science fiction authors'''<br />
::Trailing suction hopper dredger<br />
::Vector graphics markup language<br />
::Viti Levu giant pigeon<br />
::Voting rights in Puerto Rico<br />
::William Henry, Duke of Gloucester<br />
::Windows Vista startup process<br />
::Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie<br />
::Yaba monkey tumor virus<br />
::''Zack and Miri Make a Porno''<br />
<br />
==Trivia==<br />
*Randall mistyped the word "album" as "alubm" in the original title text but it was fixed later.<br />
*He did not correct the word Quantum, which is mistyped Quantuum in the comic.<br />
<br />
{{comic discussion}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Comics with color]]<br />
[[Category:Wikipedia]]<br />
[[Category:Language]]<br />
[[Category:Songs]]<br />
[[Category:Daylight saving time]]<br />
[[Category:Climate change]]</div>141.101.99.119https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1412:_Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles&diff=1676671412: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles2019-01-03T18:30:20Z<p>141.101.99.119: Removed transcript table</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1412<br />
| date = August 25, 2014<br />
| title = Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles<br />
| image = teenage_mutant_ninja_turtles.png<br />
| titletext = My upcoming album, 'Linked List', has covers of 'The Purple People Eater', the Ninja Turtles theme, 'Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini', and the Power Rangers theme, with every song played to the tune of the next.<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Explanation==<br />
<br />
{{incomplete | Removed table in explain still need to remove transcript table}}<br />
<br />
This comic is a reference to the recently released {{w|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014 film)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie}}. It is a list of Wikipedia article titles that are in the same syllable-stress pattern as the first line of the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS-qFdw-v_o theme song] of the {{w|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series)|1987 cartoon series}}.<br />
<br />
The list is compiled in alphabetical order from top to bottom, without respect to the left or right column. Some of the items on this list (e.g. ''{{w|Ace Ventura: Pet Detective}}'') are drawn as headlines in the same style as the logo from that series. These articles are not in alphabetical order with the surrounding small face text, but these headlines are in alphabetical order with the other headlines from top to bottom, without respect to the left or right column. Some of these phrases are not actually the titles of Wikipedia articles, but are redirects. For instance, the article on {{w|Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie}} redirects to {{w|Woody Guthrie}}, and {{w|Former Arctic Monkeys members}} redirects to {{w|Andy Nicholson}}.<br />
<br />
The syllable-stress pattern of this line is long-short-long-short-long-short-long-short, known in poetry as {{w|trochaic tetrameter}}. Randall has previously authored comics dealing with {{w|trochees}}, namely [[856: Trochee Fixation]] and [[1383: Magic Words]].<br />
<br />
A similar idea was performed by {{w|Jimmy Fallon}} in 2001 at a [https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jimmy+fallon+80s+medley concert for New York city] where he demonstrated singing "any 80's song" over the tune of {{w|MC Hammer}}'s song "{{w|U Can't Touch This}}".<br />
<br />
The title text suggests an album of songs (''{{w|The Purple People Eater}}'', the aforementioned ''Ninja Turtles'' theme, ''{{w|Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini}}'' and the ''{{w|Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers}}'' theme), the title or primary refrain of which have a large number of verses in {{w|trochee|trochaic}} {{w|meter (poetry)|meter}}. Randall suggests that these refrains are so interchangeable that the lyrics of each could be sung to the melody of the song following it in the tracklist. Randall would title the album ''{{w|Linked List}}'' as each song would melodically reference the next song. The refrains of the songs, respectively are:<br />
*"One-eyed, one-horned flying purple people eater"<br />
*"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"<br />
*"Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini"<br />
*"Go go Power Rangers"<br />
<br />
==The Wikipedia links==<br />
<br />
There are 6 headlines and 9 other article links in each block next to a headline for a total of 60 wiki links:<br />
<br />
;{{w|Ace Ventura: Pet Detective}}<br />
:{{w|Biggest Loser: Second Chances}}<br />
:{{w|Cayman Island blue iguana}}<br />
:{{w|Central Texas pocket gopher}}<br />
:{{w|Church of Jesus Christ Creator}}<br />
:{{w|Climate change and meat production}}<br />
:{{w|Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon}}<br />
:{{w|Daylight saving time in China}}<br />
:{{w|Denver Airport People Mover}}<br />
:{{w|Easter Island spiny lobster}}<br />
<br />
;{{w|Asian Human Rights Commission}}<br />
<br />
:{{w|Edgar Allan Poe Museum}}<br />
:{{w|Engine failure after take-off}}<br />
:{{w|English as a second language}}<br />
:{{w|Former Arctic Monkeys members}}<br />
:{{w|Fowler's Modern English Usage}}<br />
:{{w|Georgia Game and Fish Department}}<br />
:{{w|Golden-mantled howler monkey}}<br />
:{{w|Greater Cleveland Film Commission}}<br />
:{{w|Hairy flower chafer beetle}}<br />
<br />
;{{w|San Diego City Council}}<br />
<br />
:{{w|Harland David "Colonel" Sanders}}<br />
:{{w|Human Tissue Resource Network}}<br />
:{{w|Klondike-class destroyer tender|Klondike class destroyer tender}}<br />
:{{w|Legal code of North Dakota}}<br />
:{{w|Lesser knapweed flower weevil}}<br />
:{{w|Lockheed Martin Atlas rocket}}<br />
:{{w|Maple syrup urine syndrome}}<br />
:{{w|Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers}}<br />
:{{w|Nablus mask-like facial syndrome}}<br />
<br />
;{{w|Single payer health insurance}}<br />
<br />
:{{w|Neo Geo Pocket Color}}<br />
:{{w|New Year's Eve with Carson Daly}}<br />
:{{w|Newton's second law of motion}}<br />
:{{w|North Korean Workers Party}}<br />
:{{w|Orange County Business Council}}<br />
:{{w|Over/under cable coiling}}<br />
:{{w|Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater}}<br />
:{{w|Places named for Adolf Hitler}}<br />
:{{w|Proton-proton chain reaction}}<br />
<br />
;{{w|Spotted giant flying squirrel}}<br />
<br />
:{{w|Puerto Rican lizard-cuckoo}}<br />
:{{w|Quantum vacuum plasma thruster|Quantuum vacuum plasma thruster}}<ref>See also [[1404: Quantum Vacuum Virtual Plasma]].</ref><br />
:{{w|Rocky Mountain spotted fever}}<br />
:{{w|Royal Flying Doctor Service}}<br />
:{{w|Russian Women's Fascist Movement}}<br />
:{{w|Semi-active laser guidance}}<br />
:{{w|Seven Brides for Seven Brothers}}<br />
:{{w|Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows}}<br />
:{{w|Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon}}<br />
<br />
;{{w|Women science fiction authors}}<br />
<br />
:{{w|Trailing suction hopper dredger}}<br />
:{{w|Vector graphics markup language}}<br />
:{{w|Viti Levu giant pigeon}}<br />
:{{w|Voting rights in Puerto Rico}}<br />
:{{w|William Henry, Duke of Gloucester}}<ref>Gloucester is pronounced /ˈglɒstər/ (gloster).</ref><br />
:{{w|Windows Vista startup process}}<br />
:{{w|Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie}}<br />
:{{w|Yaba monkey tumor virus}}<br />
:{{w|Zack and Miri Make a Porno}}<br />
<br />
===Notes===<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
==Transcript==<br />
<br />
{{incomplete transcript}}<br />
<br />
[Caption above comic:]<br />
:'''WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE TITLES'''<br />
:With the right syllable stress pattern to be sung to the tune of the original ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' theme song<br />
<br />
[Six groups of Wikipedia article titles are written out. Each group contains ten titles. The first title of each group is drawn in the style of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles logo, where the final word of each title is drawn in bulbous green text in the shape of an arch, with the remaining words in white text on a red banner above the green text. The remainder of the titles in each group are arranged as a list in standard font next to the larger titles, alternating from right to left hand side going down the comic.]<br />
<br />
:'''''Ace Ventura: Pet Detective'''''<br />
::''Biggest Loser: Second Chances''<br />
::Cayman Island blue iguana<br />
::Central Texas pocket gopher<br />
::Church of Jesus Christ Creator<br />
::Climate change and meat production<br />
::''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon''<br />
::Daylight saving time in China<br />
::Denver Airport People Mover<br />
::Easter Island spiny lobster<br />
<br />
:'''Asian Human Rights Commission'''<br />
::Edgar Allan Poe Museum<br />
::Engine failure after take-off<br />
::English as a second language<br />
::Former ''Arctic Monkeys'' members<br />
::''Fowler's Modern English Usage''<br />
::Georgia Game and Fish Department<br />
::Golden-mantled howler monkey<br />
::Greater Cleveland Film Commission<br />
::Hairy flower chafer beetle<br />
<br />
:'''San Diego City Council'''<br />
::Harland David "Colonel" Sanders<br />
::Human Tissue Resource Network<br />
::''Klondike''-class destroyer tender<br />
::Legal code of North Dakota<br />
::Lesser knapweed flower weevil<br />
::Lockheed Martin Atlas rocket<br />
::Maple syrup urine syndrome<br />
::''Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers''<br />
::Nablus mask-like facial syndrome<br />
<br />
:'''Single payer health insurance'''<br />
::Neo Geo Pocket Color<br />
::''New Year's Eve with Carson Daly''<br />
::Newton's second law of motion<br />
::North Korean Workers Party<br />
::Orange County Business Council<br />
::Over/under cable coiling<br />
::Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater<br />
::Places named for Adolf Hitler<br />
::Proton-proton chain reaction<br />
<br />
:'''Spotted giant flying squirrel'''<br />
::Puerto Rican lizard-cuckoo<br />
::Quantuum vacuum plasma thruster<br />
::Rocky Mountain spotted fever<br />
::Royal Flying Doctor Service<br />
::Russian Women's Fascist Movement<br />
::Semi-active laser guidance<br />
::''Seven Brides for Seven Brothers''<br />
::''Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows''<br />
::Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon<br />
<br />
:'''Women science fiction authors'''<br />
::Trailing suction hopper dredger<br />
::Vector graphics markup language<br />
::Viti Levu giant pigeon<br />
::Voting rights in Puerto Rico<br />
::William Henry, Duke of Gloucester<br />
::Windows Vista startup process<br />
::Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie<br />
::Yaba monkey tumor virus<br />
::''Zack and Miri Make a Porno''<br />
<br />
==Trivia==<br />
*Randall mistyped the word "album" as "alubm" in the original title text but it was fixed later.<br />
*He did not correct the word Quantum, which is mistyped Quantuum in the comic.<br />
<br />
{{comic discussion}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Comics with color]]<br />
[[Category:Wikipedia]]<br />
[[Category:Language]]<br />
[[Category:Songs]]<br />
[[Category:Daylight saving time]]<br />
[[Category:Climate change]]</div>141.101.99.119https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1124:_Law_of_Drama&diff=1424921124: Law of Drama2017-07-11T11:18:10Z<p>141.101.99.119: Attempted to explain title text</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1124<br />
| date = October 22, 2012<br />
| title = Law of Drama<br />
| image = law of drama.png<br />
| titletext = 'Drama' is just 'people being upset,' when someone says they're always surrounded by drama and they just ignore it, it starts to make sense that their strategy might be backfiring.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Title text lacks explanation.}}<br />
The comic comments on how often people who label themselves as an innocent party in a debate are often far from it. Essentially, [[Randall]] seems to be graphically stating that people who claim to want to avoid drama are invariably associated with it. Since [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/552:_Correlation correlation does not imply causation], it might be a leap — at least scientifically speaking — to actually surmise that they're the cause of it.<br />
The title text suggests that the person's attitude towards drama is wrong. Supposing that "'Drama' is just 'people being upset'", then ignoring drama is a very bad way to deal with it. By ignoring people's problems, you certainly won't be able to help them, and are at risk of causing further problems through ignorance.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[A Cartesian graph labelled 'How often someone declares that they hate "drama" and always avoid it' on the x axis and 'Rate at which they create drama' labelled on the y axis. The graph is a slightly exponential curve sloping upwards.]<br />
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[[Category:Psychology]]</div>141.101.99.119https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1809:_xkcd_Phone_5&diff=1368941809: xkcd Phone 52017-03-10T17:02:08Z<p>141.101.99.119: /* Explanation */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1809<br />
| date = March 10, 2017<br />
| title = xkcd Phone 5<br />
| image = xkcd_phone_5.png<br />
| titletext = The phone will be collected by the toll operators and mailed back to you within 4-6 weeks.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Needs a lot more}}<br />
This is the fifth entry in the ongoing [[:Category:xkcd Phones|xkcd Phone series]], and once again, the comic plays with many standard tech buzzwords to create a phone that sounds impressive but would actually be very impractical, especially with the front camera which would prevent it from going into a pocket. The previous comic in the series [[1707: xkcd Phone 4]] was released almost 8 months before this one.<br />
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===Table of features===<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
!Feature<br />
!Explanation<br />
|-<br />
|'''Bluetooth speaker'''<br />
| This is the only potentially useful feature of this phone as while a {{w|bluetooth}} speaker built in to the device would be no more useful for playing music from it than any other speaker it would enable other devices to play through your phone.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Stained-glass display'''<br />
| Prevents seeing certain colors by tinting the display. {{w|Stained glass}} has traditionally been used for decorative windows in buildings.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Gallium chassis remains solid up to 85&deg;F'''<br />
| Many high-end electronic devices have chassis made of alloys of light metals such as magnesium or titanium. Besides being lightweight and of superior quality and durability than ordinary sheet steel or cheap plastic, these are often perceived as bragging points by the users, boasting about 'rare' metal chassis.<br />
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{{w|Gallium}} is a not-so-well known metal that has a very low melting point of 85&nbsp;°F (or 29.7&nbsp;°C), being one of only four metals (the other being mercury, rubidium and caesium) that are liquid near room temperature. Its melting point is lower than a healthy person's body temperature. Having a gallium smartphone chassis would be therefore very impractical because it will melt in user's bare hand and would require using some kind of insulating gloves. Besides it would have to be stored in a cool place and the internal electronics should have really good cooling, otherwise either the external or internal heat would melt the chassis.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Soundproof'''<br />
| Presumably this means that speakers and microphone may not work.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Can feel pain'''<br />
| This could mean either the phone feels pain inflicted upon it or feels the user's pain. Which meaning may become apparent when the chassis melts on contact with exposed skin and the phone is left with open wounds.<br />
|-<br />
|'''E-Z Pass partnership'''<br />
|{{w|E-Z Pass}} is an account you put money into and you put a transmitter in your windshield so when you go through a toll booth you don't have to stop and pay by hand. However, this proposition is absurd, because you would lose the phone and still have to stop to pay the toll. The title text says that the phone will be returned to you after 4–6 weeks, which slightly mitigates the first problem, but you would still lose the phone for a month.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Foldable (once)'''<br />
|Presumably you can "fold" it by snapping it in half but you can only do his once because the phone wont work otherwise. It may refer to the fact that a later version of iPhone had a weak spot that lead it to easily folding and breaking. The "(once)" part may refer to a joke by Jeff Dunham on his Meet Melvin act, where he asks the puppet if it can stop a speeding bullet, to which the puppet says "Once".<br />
|-<br />
|'''Screen transfers images to skin'''<br />
| This could either mean the image displayed on the screen or potentially whatever the stained glass image itself is.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Retina storage'''<br />
| This is a play on the name of Apple's prized "{{w|Retina Display}}". The joke may be in reference to Apple's possession of a trademark for the word "retina" in regards to computer equipment, which is made to seem absurd by the unusual use. It is not made clear whose retinas are meant to be stored. Could also be a reference to retinally implanted computers.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Background task automatically catches and eats Pokémon'''<br />
| Likely reference to {{w|Pokémon Go}}, an augmented reality game where the goal to go to specific locations and play a mini-game in order to catch virtual creatures called pokemon. This phone apparently does it automatically, which is considered cheating. However, it also eats them, which is something that is not part of the game and wouldn't be desirable.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Supercuts partnership'''<br />
| {{w|Supercuts}} is an American hair salon chain that provides hair cuts and styling. The implication here is that the user can get a haircut by sticking their hair in the charging slot.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Squelch knob'''<br />
|{{w|Squelch}} is a feature of two-way radios (CB, ham, etc) which quiets background noise when no signal is present. For a smartphone, perhaps this knob could control the "signal-to-noise" ratio of your Facebook feed or other social media platforms. It also takes the place of the headphone jack.<br />
|-<br />
|'''IBM buckling-spring Home button'''<br />
|IBM {{w|Buckling spring|buckling-spring}} keyboards are favorites of geeks for the feeling of quality and auditory feedback (keys click loudly) they provide. The iPhone's Home button provides little to no such satisfaction when pressed.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Cot-caught merger switch'''<br />
| This is a reference to the {{w|cot–caught merger}}, a linguistic change happening among English speakers, particularly in some parts of North America and the British Isles, which causes caught (previously pronounced "kawt") to be pronounced the same as cot (pronounced "kot").<br />
|-<br />
|'''60x optical zoom camera'''<br />
|A powerful {{w|zoom lens|optical zoom}} is usually a desirable feature for cameras. However, as shown in the comic, it results in very bulky lens. For that reason, such lens are rarely used in smartphones, though there are some devices like the {{w|Samsung Galaxy Camera}} that have a similar design.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Loran navigation'''<br />
| {{w|LORAN}} (Long Range Navigation) was a precursor to modern {{W|Global Positioning System|GPS}} navigation, using land-based transmitters. Once developed for sea shipping, it is accurate to about 300 meters. The joke, of course, is that all modern smartphones have integrated GPS navigation which is far more accurate and available in more areas.<br />
|-<br />
|'''28-factor authentication'''<br />
| An {{w|Authentication#Factors and identity|authentication factor}} is a way of proving one's identity. There are [http://www.nikacp.com/images/10.1.1.200.3888.pdf 3 generally recognized forms]: something you know, something you have, and something you are. It can be a password, a fingerprint, a physical key, etc.... Secure applications may include two or more factors, a common example is the "PIN and chip" system used with credit cards, where you need both the card and secret code to authorize a transaction. Many online services now provide two-factor authentication to protect against password-based attacks. 28-factor authentication would likely be very secure in theory but also so impractical that it would be unusable.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Hook shot'''<br />
| The ''{{w|The Legend of Zelda|Legend of Zelda}}'' weapon/tool, used to bring items to {{w|Link (The Legend of Zelda)|Link}} or bring Link closer to a goal.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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The slogan "We're trying to catch up to Apple but refuse to skip numbers" is likely a reference to Samsung releasing the Note 7 after the Note 5, with no Note 6 in between, in an attempt to catch up to Apple's numbering, which was already to the iPhone 7, and when other companies have done similarly.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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:[An image of a smartphone featuring large camera lens is shown. Clockwise from the top the labels read:]<br />
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:Bluetooth speaker<br />
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:Stained-glass display<br />
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:Gallium chassis remains solid up to 85&deg;F<br />
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:Soundproof<br />
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:Can feel pain<br />
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:E-Z Pass partnership: phone can be dropped into coin basket to pay tolls<br />
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:Foldable (once)<br />
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:Screen transfers images to skin<br />
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:Retina storage<br />
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:Background task automatically catches and eats Pokemon<br />
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:Supercuts partnership: trims hair fed into charging port<br />
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:Squeltch knob<br />
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:IBM buckling-spring Home button<br />
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:Cot-caught merger switch<br />
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:60x optical zoom camera<br />
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:Loran navigation<br />
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:28-factor authentication<br />
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:Hook shot<br />
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:[Below the phone:]<br />
:Introducing<br />
:<big><big>The XKCD Phone 5</big></big><br />
:We're trying to catch up to Apple but refuse to skip numbers<sup>®</sup>™<br />
{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:xkcd Phones]]</div>141.101.99.119https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1786:_Trash&diff=1338071786: Trash2017-01-17T18:22:25Z<p>141.101.99.119: Make object agree with subject</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1786<br />
| date = January 16, 2017<br />
| title = Trash<br />
| image = trash.png<br />
| titletext = Plus, time's all weird in there, so most of it probably broke down and decomposed hundreds of years ago. Which reminds me, I've been meaning to get in touch with Yucca Mountain to see if they're interested in a partnership.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Does it need more on the title text regarding nuclear waste.}}<br />
[[Black Hat]] is, once again, thoroughly confusing [[Cueball]], (like for instance in [[908: The Cloud]] and others). This time, when inquired about a chute protruding from his wardrobe, Black Hat explains that it is a {{w|Chute_(gravity)#Building_chute|garbage chute}} into another dimension. Apparently these kinds of portals appear on about half of all the furniture that Black Hat buys, and he is kinda annoyed about it. (This sounds more like something [[Beret Guy]] would encounter, although he would for sure have reacted very differently than Black Hat). It would be interesting to know whether all the portals lead into the same alternative world/dimension, but it seems Black Hat is not interested in visiting these worlds, but is just annoyed about his broken furniture. <br />
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Cueball assumes that this is a reference to ''{{w|The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe}}'' the first book in {{w|The Chronicles of Narnia}} by {{w|C. S. Lewis}}. In the books the characters use different portals to get into {{w|Narnia}}. In the first book the children find the portal inside an old wardrobe, and they use it at least three times to travel into Narnia. The Narnia books are for children and Narnia is a magical world so Cueball is appalled to learn that Black Hat dumps his trash there.<br />
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Black Hat confirms that it is Narnia, and explains how this is a great time-saver for him, as he can easily get rid of his trash. But as it seems he never enters this portal himself, it could be a portal into any of the many different worlds in different dimensions that are mentioned in the Narnia books. Only three of them are ever visited though, but in the book {{w|The Magician's Nephew}} (a prequel to the first book), it is revealed that there is a way-station in between all these different worlds, a forest with many lakes where each lake leads into a different world. This forest was referenced in [[1352: Cosmologist on a Tire Swing]]. A discussion of problems with this comic vs. Narnia chronology is discussed in the [[#Trivia|trivia section]].<br />
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If it is Narnia, then the huge cat he refers to is {{w|Aslan}}, a Magical lion that represents God in Narnia. In his Lion form he sometimes walks around in Narnia and he watches over Narnia, but not all the time. It is revealed in the last book that he is also the guardian of the other worlds, where he has different names and take on different appearances, so he is actually a representation of God, but always a benevolent God.<br />
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Aslan, or any other large cat or inhabitants of such a different world, would probably be really upset that someone is throwing their trash there. He would probably try to stop this by any means necessary, even if that means coming up through a trash chute into another dimension. But, because lions are a type of cat (feline), apparently he can be repelled with an ordinary spray bottle, usually used on small house cats. It would be unlikely to work on a lion, especially if the lion was a representation of God, the same God as in Black Hat's world.<br />
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In the title text the fact that time passes much faster in Narnia than on Earth is mentioned. (Time does not pass at a constant rate compared to Earth time.) This could also be the case even if Black Hat's world would be a different one than Narnia. So everything that is actually pushed to the other side of the portal would be disposed of very efficiently as within just a few Earth minutes, the trash could completely decompose. This would then explain how Black Hat can keep pushing more stuff into the other world. Anything getting over the border will vanish before he comes with his next trash bag. <br />
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In the title text {{w|Yucca Mountain}} is mentioned. This is a reference to {{w|Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository}}, a proposed nuclear waste repository that has been abandoned at present time. Black Hat wants to contact those that wish to make such a repository and let them dispose of their radioactive waste through his "magical" portal, likely to make a profit for himself. If throwing trash into Narnia is terrible, what then about radioactive waste... Of course in Earth time it would then soon have decayed to back ground levels... This is thus another jab at all the worlds environmental problems, in relation to all the comics about [[:Category:Climate change|climate change]]! This comic could be a take on humans {{w|Marine_debris|dumping waste}} in the "endless" oceans, more specifically {{w|Ocean disposal of radioactive waste}}. This was done excessively in the past but is now banned since Earths oceans are not endless. <br />
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The title text copies the idea behind the {{w|Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal}} comic from <br />
[http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3513 October 15 2014]. The button at the bottom of the comic shows a sad {{w|Mr. Tumnus}}, the {{w|faun}} {{w|Lucy Pevensie|Lucy}} meets on her first visit to Narnia, rather than an angry Aslan as in this comic.<br />
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The portal to Narnia was previously featured in [[665: Prudence]] and [[969: Delta-P]], and the different passage of time was mentioned in [[821: Five-Minute Comics: Part 3]]).<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Cueball looking at garbage chute attached to wardrobe. A Black Hat answers him from off panel.]<br />
:Cueball: What's this thing on your wardrobe?<br />
:Black Hat (off-panel): Garbage chute.<br />
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:[In a frame-less panel Cueball has turned away from the wardrobe (now off-panel) and he walks towards Black Hat.]<br />
:Cueball: Into a wardrobe? <br />
:Black hat: There's some sort of portal to a magical land in there. Half the furniture I get has them-it's kinda a pain.<br />
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:[Cueball stops walking closer to Black Hat.]<br />
:Cueball: You dump your trash in ''Narnia''? <br />
:Black Hat: Yeah, it's a real time-saver. <br />
:Black Hat: There's a huge cat in there, but I have a spray bottle I use when he tries to come up through the chute.<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
*If one cares about the rules of the Narnia continuity...<br />
**This comic would either have to be set during the books, because in the last book Narnia ceases to exist. <br />
**Or if this comic is set in the present, then this could be explained by letting the portal be into any of the other worlds mentioned in Narnia.<br />
***This other world could either also have Aslan, or just another big cat.<br />
*The wardrobe in the first book only worked sometimes, and after the first book it could never be used again. <br />
**Had this been such a wardrobe then it would just fill with trash, so this could not be that wardrobe. <br />
**But even if it was always open, then it doesn't actually suck anything in so it's not clear how the trash would get over to the other side.<br />
***Black Hat could push down on it and press some of it over the border to the other portal. <br />
***That would solve this problem as mentioned in the title text due to the faster passage of time in Narnia.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Animals]]</div>141.101.99.119https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=573:_Parental_Trolling&diff=80731573: Parental Trolling2014-12-14T18:42:36Z<p>141.101.99.119: /* Explanation */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 573<br />
| date = April 24, 2009<br />
| title = Parental Trolling<br />
| image = parental trolling.png<br />
| titletext = They'll pick music and culture that they know annoys you. Building in behavioral easter eggs is a fair retaliation!<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
Set in the future, a daughter approaches her father playing a music video of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up". The daughter insults her father's generation's versions of playing pranks, specifically {{w|Rickrolling}}. The daughter refers to this as "trolling" (also in the title), which is popular jargon for trying to disrupt a person or community via an action to elicit an emotional response. The humour is in that the dad reveals he has 'trolled' his daughter, thus eliciting an emotional response which perfectly displays his prank.<br />
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In this comic, the girl holds an ultra-thin tablet, a futuristic technology when released, a year before the release of the iPad. It also shows a curved computer monitor, which seems to float above the desk.<br />
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The title text refers to the conflict between teenagers and adults over music and culture, with teenagers often listening to music such as dubstep which annoys their parents. 'Easter egg' is a term used to describe a hidden inside joke or feature inside software. Here, the daughter is the software.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:The Future<br />
:[Cueball is sitting at a futuristic desktop computer, and a girl is standing behind him with a portable ultra-thin screen.]<br />
:Girl: Hey dad, look at this old music video.<br />
:Video: We're no strangers to love...<br />
:Cueball: Wow, you got me.<br />
:Girl: Did your generation really use this to troll people? SO lame. Your generation sucked at pranks.<br />
:Cueball: Did we? I once raised a kid with conditioning so her speech centers shut down when she was upset.<br />
:Girl: What? No, you couldn't have bleegle warble yargle arrgh!<br />
:Cueball: Teehee.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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