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FaviFake: Per the discussion at the community portal, Blondie and Miss Lenhart are being merged, just like Cutie and Megan

2026-05-09T15:14:32Z

Per the discussion at the community portal, Blondie and Miss Lenhart are being merged, just like Cutie and Megan

Lettherebedarklight: /* Transcript */ add Category:Comics with a Spanish translation

2025-12-15T08:56:44Z

‎Transcript: add Category:Comics with a Spanish translation

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 ==Transcript==
-:[Four people are standing around a table-top crisis planning model. Cueball and Ponytail are wearing police-style hats; Megan holds a clipboard and Blondie has her hands on the table.]
+:[Four people are standing around a table-top crisis planning model. Cueball and Ponytail are wearing police-style hats; Megan holds a clipboard and Miss Lenhart has her hands on the table.]
 :Megan: It's as long as a football field. Runs as fast as a cheetah.
 :Cueball: Weighs as much as a blue whale.
-:Blondie: Can we negotiate with it?
+:Miss Lenhart: Can we negotiate with it?
 :Ponytail: No. It has the intelligence of a two-year-old child.
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 {{comic discussion}}
-[[Category:Comics featuring Blondie]]
+[[Category:Comics featuring Miss Lenhart]]
 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]

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 **There is even an xkcd comic that is referring to this age IQ: [[1364: Like I'm Five]].
-The caption below the panel names the monster the ''Frequently-Made Comparisons Monster'', joking that the monster was created by comparing it to things, and continues the joke by comparing the number of killed people to those that could fill a (sports) stadium (of the order tens of thousands), and the area of devastation to the smallest state in the US {{w|Rhode Island}} (1,214&nbsp;sq&nbsp;mi/3,140&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>) (a state Randall also used for comparison in the What if? [http://what-if.xkcd.com/8/ Everybody Jump]. In another What if? he uses a football stadium filled with ants as a comparison: [https://what-if.xkcd.com/73/ Lethal Neutrinos].)
+The caption below the panel names the monster the ''Frequently-Made Comparisons Monster'', joking that the monster was created by comparing it to things, and continues the joke by comparing the number of killed people to those that could fill a (sports) stadium (of the order tens of thousands), and the area of devastation to the smallest state in the US {{w|Rhode Island}} It is also possible that the monster actually attacked a stadium full of people, and only devastated Rhode Island, similar to the title text.(1,214&nbsp;sq&nbsp;mi/3,140&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>) (a state Randall also used for comparison in the What if? [http://what-if.xkcd.com/8/ Everybody Jump]. In another What if? he uses a football stadium filled with ants as a comparison: [https://what-if.xkcd.com/73/ Lethal Neutrinos].)
 The title text takes the joke one step further by comparing the {{w|nuclear bomb}} used to destroy the monster to {{w|Little Boy|the bomb dropped on Hiroshima}} at the end of the Second World War, i.e. they dropped a relatively small nuclear bomb on it (nuclear weapons have advanced significantly since WWII). Here is an {{w|Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event#Effects of impact|example from Wikipedia}} of such a comparison with the strength of a meteor strike.

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 **Here is an {{w|Marco Polo Park|example from Wikipedia}} where a building is compared to the length of a football field.
 *The monster runs as fast as a cheetah, at least 60 mph or 96 kmh.
-**The {{w|Cheetah}} is famous for being the fastest land animal at full sprint. Like the monster, the cheetah is prone to comparisons: to cars, since 60 mph is a common highway speed limit. Unlike a cheetah, however, the monster's speed is almost certainly thanks to its large stride.
+**The {{w|cheetah}} is famous for being the fastest land animal at full sprint. Like the monster, the cheetah is prone to comparisons: to cars, since 60 mph is a common highway speed limit. Unlike a cheetah, however, the monster's speed is almost certainly thanks to its large stride.
 *The monster is as heavy as a {{w|blue whale}} (about 180 tonnes).
 **Here is an [http://factismals.com/tag/fish/ example] where the weight of a blue whale is used in two different comparison (something heavier and something lighter).

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 *The monster is as heavy as a {{w|blue whale}} (about 180 tonnes).
 **Here is an [http://factismals.com/tag/fish/ example] where the weight of a blue whale is used in two different comparison (something heavier and something lighter).
-*Finally it is stated that it has the intelligence of a two-year-old child. Comparing someones intelligence to a child of a given age is very common.
+*Finally it is stated that it has the intelligence of a two-year-old child. Comparing someone's intelligence to a child of a given age is very common.
 **Here is an [http://www.livescience.com/5613-dogs-smart-2-year-kids.html example] where a dog is compared to a two year old kid.
 **There is even an xkcd comic that is referring to this age IQ: [[1364: Like I'm Five]].