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

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‎Transcript

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the "citation needed" joke only works when the statement is obvious, and this isn't obvious to someone who needs the joke explained

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‎Explanation

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Reverted edits by Explain xkcd server admin (talk) to last revision by Jacky720

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Reverted edits by X. K. C. D. (talk) to last revision by Halo422

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 :Black Hat: Thank you for calling the Black Hat Support Line, your first source for Linux support. How may I assist?
 :Phone: Hi. I'm running an Apache server, and the load keeps climbing out of control.
 :Black Hat: Okay. First, click on the Start Menu.
 :Phone: I'm sorry, this is the <u>Linux</u> helpline, right?
 :Black Hat: Of course, sir.
 :Black Hat: If you'll just open the "My Documents" folder-
 :Phone: Just a damn minute. I think you're putting me on.
 :Black Hat: Please bear with me, sir.
 :Black Hat: Now, load up your AOL and go to the Keyword "Linux"-
 :Phone: *click*

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 This strip portrays [[Black Hat]] providing support for {{w|Linux}}, but in fact he provides only annoying and unhelpful advice just for his own personal amusement.
-The support line is clearly for Linux, as stated in the introduction, and the client on the phone clearly has a Linux problem. However, Black Hat is intentionally giving irrelevant{{citation needed}} instructions that refer to the Windows OS (Start Menu, My Documents Folder).
+The support line is clearly for Linux, as stated in the introduction, and the client on the phone clearly has a Linux problem. However, Black Hat is intentionally giving irrelevant instructions that refer to the Windows OS (Start Menu, My Documents Folder).
 Finally, Black Hat asks the client on the phone to "bear with him" and suggests that the client should use a highly obsolete mechanism to look for the answer to his problem, namely AOL keywords. {{w|AOL}} is well known for producing one of the earlier {{w|online communities}} and has since fallen largely out of favor. The client hangs up the phone.

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 This strip portrays [[Black Hat]] providing support for {{w|Linux}}, but in fact he provides only annoying and unhelpful advice just for his own personal amusement.
-The support line is clearly for Linux, as stated in the introduction, and the client on the phone clearly has a Linux problem. However, Black Hat is intentionally giving irrelevant instructions that refer to the Windows OS (Start Menu, My Documents Folder).
+The support line is clearly for Linux, as stated in the introduction, and the client on the phone clearly has a Linux problem. However, Black Hat is intentionally giving irrelevant{{citation needed}} instructions that refer to the Windows OS (Start Menu, My Documents Folder).
 Finally, Black Hat asks the client on the phone to "bear with him" and suggests that the client should use a highly obsolete mechanism to look for the answer to his problem, namely AOL keywords. {{w|AOL}} is well known for producing one of the earlier {{w|online communities}} and has since fallen largely out of favor. The client hangs up the phone.