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... is this going to be like [[1190: Time]]? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.63|162.158.74.63]] 04:08, 3 April 2020 (UTC)<br />
: I hope so, otherwise I don't get the joke [[User:Forresthopkinsa|Forresthopkinsa]] ([[User talk:Forresthopkinsa|talk]]) 04:15, 3 April 2020 (UTC)<br />
: The page just went down for me so maybe what we've seen isn't what it's supposed to be? [[User:Avi m|avis_magpie]] ([[User talk:Avi m|talk]]) 04:20, 3 April 2020 (UTC)<br />
Looks like the whole comic was just taken down. [[User:Parzivail|Parzivail]] ([[User talk:Parzivail|talk]]) 04:27, 3 April 2020 (UTC)<br />
: Can confirm - the most recent comic is Pathogen again [[Special:Contributions/162.158.187.207|162.158.187.207]] 04:26, 3 April 2020 (UTC)<br />
It is still up on the mobile website, but only if you directly go to comic page https://m.xkcd.com/2288 [[Special:Contributions/172.69.22.146|172.69.22.146]] 05:10, 3 April 2020 (UTC)<br />
: Perhaps this is a collector's edition because it was only up for a limited amount of time? {{unsigned ip|108.162.219.60|05:12, 3 April 2020}}<br />
:: That was my immediate assumption. The title text says, "I'm sure you can find some suitable worldbuilding material if you scavenge through the archives." And I was viewing the comic by using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine — which, wouldn't you know it, captured the page exactly once before it went down. Between that and the title "Collector's Edition", I can't help thinking that the comic was actually intended to be viewed this way. Though for what reason, and what intended meaning, I couldn't tell you. …And jeez, in the time it took me to type this, the comic is back, but changed! Oy vey. [[User:NoriMori|NoriMori]] ([[User talk:NoriMori|talk]]) 06:42, 3 April 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Maybe it's called collectors edition, because it was only available quite limited and to an unusual time? But that logic doesn't fit with the title text. --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 05:14, 3 April 2020 (UTC)<br />
:I doubt that could be caused by "technical difficulties". [[Special:Contributions/172.69.34.186|172.69.34.186]] 06:14, 3 April 2020 (UTC)<br />
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It looks like it went back up about 5 minutes age. I can't figure out if it's possible to do more than pan right now though. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.120|108.162.215.120]] 06:39, 3 April 2020 (UTC)<br />
:Yeah I see the same thing, looks like they're just testing it live. What a shame :(--[[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.242|108.162.215.242]] 06:47, 3 April 2020 (UTC)<br />
::what makes you assume that this is testing right now? however it doesn't seem to be very interactive apart from panning through it, and that it seems to chagne over time (the moon from [[1300]] wasn't there a few minutes ago, was it? --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 06:49, 3 April 2020 (UTC)<br />
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:It's a giant pan similar to [https://xkcd.com/1110], although it's mostly empty, with some content at [https://xkcd.com/2288/#-361,-161]<br />
. The title reads that you can find world building material, if you scavenge through the archives. I assume, more content will be unlocked as you read through past comics. [[User:Goatfryed|Goatfryed]] ([[User talk:Goatfryed|talk]]) 06:52, 3 April 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Yeah, it definitely changes. The orange swimming pool just showed up now. Also, at the bottom of the page, it says something about "backpack", and what appears to be a reference to some other xkcd comic. For example, "Hint: why waste time say few word when lot word do trick", which I think refers to Up Goer Five. But I have no idea what to do with that info. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.141.190|172.68.141.190]] 06:55, 3 April 2020 (UTC)</div>172.68.141.190https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:369:_Dangers&diff=187824Talk:369: Dangers2020-02-27T09:06:45Z<p>172.68.141.190: </p>
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I seem to be incapable of finding any google search results before 10th of January 2008 featuring the phrase "Died in a blogging accident" that is not relevant to this XKCD comic. Weird.[[Special:Contributions/108.162.208.177|108.162.208.177]] 17:51, 21 July 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Google now has 687000 results for "Died in a blogging accident", "can be found on over 10000 web pages" doesn't reflect that, but I wouldn't know which number to use for an edit :) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.92.9|141.101.92.9]] 00:28, 8 September 2015 (UTC)<br />
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I highly doubt the gardening search had anything to do with Spinal Tap. Gardening accidents are common. {{unsigned|Flewk}}<br />
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According to some sleuths on StackExchange, it sadly seems the original "died in a blogging accident" posts no longer exist, as they were posts from a Myspace that is now gone. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.141.190|172.68.141.190]] 09:06, 27 February 2020 (UTC)</div>172.68.141.190https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2271:_Grandpa_Jason_and_Grandpa_Chad&diff=1876622271: Grandpa Jason and Grandpa Chad2020-02-22T19:34:27Z<p>172.68.141.190: </p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2271<br />
| date = February 21, 2020<br />
| title = Grandpa Jason and Grandpa Chad<br />
| image = grandpa_jason_and_grandpa_chad.png<br />
| titletext = The AARP puts the average age of a first-time grandparent close to 50, and the CDC has some data. But I don't have first-parent age distributions for specific names, or generational first-child age correlations, so the dotted line is just a guess. Still, let's be honest: No further research is really *needed.*<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by a GRANDPA NAMED CHAD. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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The comic contains three separate curves, with the x-axis being the date and the y-axis being the frequency of three separate sets of data:<br />
* The number of people in the US with the name "Jason", a {{w|Poisson curve}} that reaches its maximum in 1977, when [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution Jason became the second most common name] and reached the [https://www.everything-birthday.com/name/m/Jason maximum number of babies born with that name]<br />
* The number of people in the US with the name "Chad," a similar curve that reaches its maximum in 1973, when [https://www.everything-birthday.com/name/m/Chad the number of babies named Chad reached ''its'' maximum]<br />
* An estimate of the birth years of people that are becoming grandparents, with its maximum in 1968, 52 years ago. The title text explains this is the age at which, on average, most people become grandparents, citing an [https://www.aarp.org/content/dam/aarp/research/surveys_statistics/life-leisure/2019/aarp-grandparenting-study.doi.10.26419-2Fres.00289.001.pdf AARP study]<br />
The comic exists to show the significant overlap between these names and being a grandparent.<br />
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Jason and {{w|Chad (slang)|Chad}} are names associated with stereotypical young, partying bros who couldn't care less about responsibility, so the idea that statistically some of them are now grandparents, who are stereotyped as being wise and responsible, is weird to say the least. [[2165: Millennials]] is similarly about how a label has outlived the demographic that it was used to describe, while the people described by the label have outgrown the traits that the label entails.<br />
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The title text adds a caveat to the assertion, mentioning the lack of any real evidence for the distribution of ages of Grandparents, but stands firm in the conclusion that this is the final word on the fact that there are many people who are grandparents named Jason and Chad.<br />
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Other possible caveats of the data:<br />
* The Y-axis is in percent of the highest year, not absolute numbers. So while it jokingly implies that, in a few years, all grandparents will be named Jason and Chad, in actuality it will probably be in the order of the hundreds of thousands of people (less than 2% of [https://www.aarp.org/home-family/friends-family/info-2017/record-number-grandparents.html all grandparents]), but still common enough compared to other "ages" to be "the age of Grandpa Jason and Grandpa Chad"<br />
* There are many fewer [https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/C/CH/CHAD/index.html people whose legal name is Chad] than [https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/J/JA/JASON/index.html people who's legal name is Jason], so "Grandpa Jason" will probably be much more common than "Grandpa Chad"<br />
* Since Chad is more often {{w|Chad_(name)|used as a nickname}}, it's harder to quantify exactly how many people of that age go by "Chad", so there is no practical way to know just how much more common "Grandpa Jason" will be than "Grandpa Chad"<br />
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The title text ends with the text "No further research is really *needed,*" referencing [[2268: Further Research is Needed]]. This is also a joke in itself. The emphasis on *needed* is an admission that although more research is *possible*, it would be rather pointless.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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A progression chart covering the period of years between 1950 to 1995. One line which is dotted begins low at the start, climbs, then steeply declines. Two solid lines begin in the early 1960s, rise almost concurrently, however one declines steadily while the other has a curve almost before the end of the chart. The lines show the following data: <br />
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Birth years of people becoming grandparents this year (United States, very rough estimate) <br />
A dotted line which begins at 1950, rises to its peak at 1970, then steeply declines to zero by the late '70s.<br />
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Birth years of people named "Jason" and "Chad" (Social Security data)<br />
Chad: A solid line beginning at 1962, rises to its peak by 1975, then drops through the '80s and '90s. Jason crosses underneath it in 1985, but then re-crosses it in 1993.<br />
Jason: A solid line beginning at 1963, rises to its peak between 1977-80, then declines, dropping beneath Chad around 1985 but climbing above it again in 1993.<br />
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Fun fact: We have now entered the era of "Grandpa Jason" and "Grandpa Chad."<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Charts]]</div>172.68.141.190https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=30:_Donner&diff=14332630: Donner2017-07-30T14:27:15Z<p>172.68.141.190: /* Explanation */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 30<br />
| date = November 7, 2005<br />
| title = Donner<br />
| image = donner.jpg<br />
| titletext = Some people haven't heard of the Donner Party. They were pioneers who got stranded and likely resorted to cannibalism.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
In the early days of [[xkcd]] (and days when Wikipedia was not quite in the mainstream consciousness), [[Randall]] didn't trust people to (warning,<br />
TV tropes link) [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ViewersAreMorons understand his comics or his references], and often explained the joke in the title text.<br />
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As the title text says, the {{w|Donner party}} was a group of pioneers who set out west along a new route that was supposed to be easier to travel, but ultimately proved slow and treacherous. They became trapped in the Sierra Nevada mountains and many died. Low on food, it is believed that many of the pioneers resorted to cannibalism, eating the bodies of party members who had already died. <br />
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In this comic, three ''Donner party'' members arrive at Joe's restaurant, where they have ordered a table for four, as given by the fact that the ''{{w|Maître d'hôtel|maître d'}}'' knows they are the ''Donner party'' and calls for a party of four. The three declines the table since they are already full. This suggests that they just have eaten the, unknown to us, fourth member of their party after they placed the order for a table at the restaurant, but before they strolled over to it anyway. <br />
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Of course, since they are not in a survival situation in this strip, cannibalism would be completely unnecessary.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Three people stand outside a restaurant; Megan, a man with some hair and another shorter person, probably a woman. There is a sign above the door and a menu next to it. Outside the door, there's a ''maître d''' with a cap behind a lectern. There is sign on the lectern.]<br />
:''maître d''': Donner, party of four?<br />
:Man: Actually, never mind.<br />
:Megan: We're full.<br />
:Sign over door: Joe's<br />
:Menu: Menu<br />
:Sign on lectern: Eat <u>in</u><br />
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== Trivia ==<br />
*This was the 29th comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]].<br />
**The previous was [[27: Meat Cereals]].<br />
**The next was [[34: Flowers]].<br />
*Original title: "Monday's Drawing - Donner"<br />
*There were no original [[Randall]] quote for this comic.<br />
*This comic was posted on [[xkcd]] when the web site opened on Sunday the 1st of January 2006.<br />
**It was posted along [[:Category:First day on xkcd|with all 41 comics]] posted before that on LiveJournal as well as a few others.<br />
**The latter explaining why the numbers of these 41 LiveJournal comics ranges from 1-44.<br />
*One of the original drawings drawn on [[:Category:Checkered paper|checkered paper]].<br />
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[[Category:Comics posted on livejournal| 29]]<br />
[[Category:First day on xkcd]]<br />
[[Category:Checkered paper]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]<br />
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