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− | {{comic
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− | | number = 18
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− | | date = October 10, 2005
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− | | title = Snapple
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− | | before = <big><big><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=Monday%27s%20drawing%3A%20Snapple Original title</span>]: '''Monday's drawing: Snapple'''</big></big>
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− | | image = snapple.jpg
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− | | titletext = Sn = tin
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− | ==Explanation==
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− | This was the seventeenth comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[17: What If]], and the next one was [[19: George Clinton]].
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− | {{w|Snapple}} is a brand of beverages that mostly sells bottled juices and teas. Its name is based on a carbonated apple juice the company once produced ("snappy apple"). In this comic, [[Cueball]] hands another Cueball-like guy an apple calling it a "Snapple". When the guy bites into it, his teeth are blocked by the apple's metallic surface because Cueball has infused the apple with tin. {{w|Tin}} is a metallic element whose abbreviation on the periodic table is "Sn" (as the Latin word for tin is "stannum"). Thus, the "tin apple" could be referred to as a "Sn-apple". The fourth panel is a silent wide shot, perhaps suggesting the joke was met with silence as a weak joke. As a meta-joke, the final panel might jokingly suggest that the silence is because those unfamiliar with the periodic table of elements don't get the joke. According to the caption at the top, [[James Zetlen]] presumably once made a joke to [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] similar to the one in the comic.
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− | The title text continues the trend in early xkcd comics of explaining the joke rather than expanding on it.
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− | ==Transcript==
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− | :[Above the frames:]
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− | :This one is entirely James' fault.
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− | :[Two Cueball-like guys are standing and talking.]
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− | :Cueball: Here, take a bite of this Snapple.
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− | :Friend: food!
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− | :[Cueball's friend takes a bite.]
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− | :Friend: Ow! What is this?
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− | :''Clink''
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− | :[The panel switches to Cueball.]
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− | :Cueball: It's an apple infused with tin.
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− | :[Beat panel. A wide shot of the two.]
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− | :[Same scene, except the panel is lightly shaded and there is a box above saying:]
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− | :Those of you who know your periodic table should be laughing right about now.
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− | ==Trivia==
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− | This is the first xkcd comic featuring [[James Zetlen]].
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− | {{comic discussion}}
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− | [[Category:Posted on LiveJournal| 17]]
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− | [[Category:First day on xkcd.com]]
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− | [[Category:Checkered paper]]
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− | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
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− | [[Category:Comics featuring James Zetlen]]
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− | [[Category:Multiple Cueballs]]
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− | [[Category:Food]]
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− | [[Category:Comics with lowercase text]]
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