Talk:1322: Winter - Revision history

82.132.236.148 at 18:25, 12 February 2026

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42.book.addict: unsigned ip

2026-02-12T16:27:33Z

unsigned ip

Elizium23: readjust your Beret, please

2026-02-12T16:01:55Z

readjust your Beret, please

146.70.174.163 at 15:45, 12 February 2026

2026-02-12T15:45:23Z

ChristmasGospel: Illusion

2024-11-16T16:19:53Z

Illusion

Trogdor147 at 02:36, 28 November 2023

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172.70.188.25 at 16:33, 15 January 2022

2022-01-15T16:33:09Z

Nitpicking: identity

2021-11-28T16:54:19Z

identity

172.69.22.44 at 03:48, 16 July 2018

2018-07-16T03:48:22Z

108.162.221.93: I'm interested in the possible allusion to Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

2016-04-03T22:07:48Z

I'm interested in the possible allusion to Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

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	:Really? You think that there is no sky at night? And "spacelight" is obviously the sun, which is warm. The moon is not noticeably warm to human senses. {{unsigned ip\|146.70.174.163\|15:45, 12 February 2026 (UTC)}}		:Really? You think that there is no sky at night? And "spacelight" is obviously the sun, which is warm. The moon is not noticeably warm to human senses. {{unsigned ip\|146.70.174.163\|15:45, 12 February 2026 (UTC)}}
	::I recently had a thought experiment: where does the "sky" begin? 100 feet up? Above our heads? If the sky is open air, then the sky begins where the ground ends. I believe that Beret Guy is referring to cold winter air which comprises the sky at most altitudes. If it is daytime in the winter, then the air is cold, water's frozen, but the Sun feels warm. The whole point is the misuse of words, so if you think "spacelight" means a field of stars or the Moon, try to readjust your Beret and think weirder. [[User:Elizium23\|Elizium23]] ([[User talk:Elizium23\|talk]]) 16:01, 12 February 2026 (UTC)		::I recently had a thought experiment: where does the "sky" begin? 100 feet up? Above our heads? If the sky is open air, then the sky begins where the ground ends. I believe that Beret Guy is referring to cold winter air which comprises the sky at most altitudes. If it is daytime in the winter, then the air is cold, water's frozen, but the Sun feels warm. The whole point is the misuse of words, so if you think "spacelight" means a field of stars or the Moon, try to readjust your Beret and think weirder. [[User:Elizium23\|Elizium23]] ([[User talk:Elizium23\|talk]]) 16:01, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
		+	:::It's the 'sort of hemisphere' (of arbitrary/poorly defined radius) that's typically defined from the origin between your eyes and the lower limit that is the wavy disc that passes across the true horizon in any direction you can see, minus your own head itself (and headwear) and any more raised obscurations of that hemisphere (tree branches, the soaring spans of bridges, etc).
		+	:::There may be [[https://wiki.lspace.org/Child%27s_Painting_Land other exceptions] to this lower limit, of course... [[Special:Contributions/82.132.236.148\|82.132.236.148]] 18:25, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

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 :I think the main reason we like to have so many words is so we can belittle people that don't know as many as we do.  The German way is more sensible, if less poetic.  [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.58|108.162.219.58]] 02:27, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
- I feel like he's referencing a song but I can't make the things fit anything. --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.53|108.162.219.53]] 06:05, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
+I feel like he's referencing a song but I can't make the things fit anything. --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.53|108.162.219.53]] 06:05, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
 :I thought this may be a shot at media's coverage of the "polar vortex"[[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.31|108.162.219.31]] 14:44, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
 :Sounds a bit like Let it Snow to me [[Special:Contributions/108.162.218.47|108.162.218.47]] 21:59, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
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 Might "little flappers" refer to fruit bats, instead of birds, since flappy planes is already used for birds?  Most of the replacements so far were logical, and since birds mainly generate lift using Bernoulli's Principle (like planes), wouldn't bats more more accurate when only refering to "flappers"? [[User:Athang|Athang]] ([[User talk:Athang|talk]]) 23:09, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
-:No, I think "little flappers" is definately birds - specifically wrens, sparrows, warblers, etc - all of which are both small and commonly called "songbirds", hence the indication of musical birdsong. {{unsigned ip|108.162.237.46}}
+:No, I think "little flappers" is definately birds - specifically wrens, sparrows, warblers, etc - all of which are both small and commonly called "songbirds", hence the indication of musical birdsong. {{unsigned ip|108.162.237.46|14:27, 29 January 2014 (UTC)}}
 It feels like there is some special significance to the last panel.  Either the birds' chirping indicates offense at being called flappy planes, indicating that somebody does in fact care, or they are continuing to chirp happilly because they don't care.  Or it could just be that Cueball/White Hat sees Beret Guy's point, as seems to be the consensus.  [[User:Sciepsilon|Sciepsilon]] ([[User talk:Sciepsilon|talk]]) 05:39, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
 :I'm pretty sure this isn't a comic about sentient birds.  [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.58|108.162.219.58]] 02:27, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
-Is "spacelight" meant to be "the illumination from space" i.e. "sunlight", or "the lamp in space" i.e. "sun"?   I thought the latter. {{unsigned ip|173.245.49.67}}
+Is "spacelight" meant to be "the illumination from space" i.e. "sunlight", or "the lamp in space" i.e. "sun"?   I thought the latter. {{unsigned ip|173.245.49.67|15:25, 28 January 2014 (UTC)}}
 ::I don't think it matters that much, as long as white hat is warm enough. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.229.86|108.162.229.86]] 19:41, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
 ::Do you get confused when people say "The sun is warm today" ?  This is the same thing.  [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.58|108.162.219.58]]
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 The words "sky" and "spacelight" seem to suggest that it was night. [[User:ChristmasGospel|ChristmasGospel]] ([[User talk:ChristmasGospel|talk]]) 16:19, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
-:Really? You think that there is no sky at night? And "spacelight" is obviously the sun, which is warm. The moon is not noticeably warm to human senses.
+:Really? You think that there is no sky at night? And "spacelight" is obviously the sun, which is warm. The moon is not noticeably warm to human senses. {{unsigned ip|146.70.174.163|15:45, 12 February 2026 (UTC)}}
 ::I recently had a thought experiment: where does the "sky" begin? 100 feet up? Above our heads? If the sky is open air, then the sky begins where the ground ends. I believe that Beret Guy is referring to cold winter *air* which comprises the sky at most altitudes. If it is daytime in the winter, then the air is cold, water's frozen, but the Sun feels warm. The whole point is the misuse of words, so if you think "spacelight" means a field of stars or the Moon, try to readjust your Beret and think weirder. [[User:Elizium23|Elizium23]] ([[User talk:Elizium23|talk]]) 16:01, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

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	The words "sky" and "spacelight" seem to suggest that it was night. [[User:ChristmasGospel\|ChristmasGospel]] ([[User talk:ChristmasGospel\|talk]]) 16:19, 16 November 2024 (UTC)		The words "sky" and "spacelight" seem to suggest that it was night. [[User:ChristmasGospel\|ChristmasGospel]] ([[User talk:ChristmasGospel\|talk]]) 16:19, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
	:Really? You think that there is no sky at night? And "spacelight" is obviously the sun, which is warm. The moon is not noticeably warm to human senses.		:Really? You think that there is no sky at night? And "spacelight" is obviously the sun, which is warm. The moon is not noticeably warm to human senses.
		+	::I recently had a thought experiment: where does the "sky" begin? 100 feet up? Above our heads? If the sky is open air, then the sky begins where the ground ends. I believe that Beret Guy is referring to cold winter air which comprises the sky at most altitudes. If it is daytime in the winter, then the air is cold, water's frozen, but the Sun feels warm. The whole point is the misuse of words, so if you think "spacelight" means a field of stars or the Moon, try to readjust your Beret and think weirder. [[User:Elizium23\|Elizium23]] ([[User talk:Elizium23\|talk]]) 16:01, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

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	The words "sky" and "spacelight" seem to suggest that it was night. [[User:ChristmasGospel\|ChristmasGospel]] ([[User talk:ChristmasGospel\|talk]]) 16:19, 16 November 2024 (UTC)		The words "sky" and "spacelight" seem to suggest that it was night. [[User:ChristmasGospel\|ChristmasGospel]] ([[User talk:ChristmasGospel\|talk]]) 16:19, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
		+	:Really? You think that there is no sky at night? And "spacelight" is obviously the sun, which is warm. The moon is not noticeably warm to human senses.

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	This comic kinda reminds me of the conlang Toki Pona. [[explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Miscellaneous#Help_with_Creating_a_User_Page\|Trogdor147]] ([[explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Miscellaneous#Help_with_Creating_a_User_Page\|talk]]) 02:36, 28 November 2023 (UTC)		This comic kinda reminds me of the conlang Toki Pona. [[explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Miscellaneous#Help_with_Creating_a_User_Page\|Trogdor147]] ([[explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Miscellaneous#Help_with_Creating_a_User_Page\|talk]]) 02:36, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
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		+	The words "sky" and "spacelight" seem to suggest that it was night. [[User:ChristmasGospel\|ChristmasGospel]] ([[User talk:ChristmasGospel\|talk]]) 16:19, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

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	I believe the Romeo & Juliet quote has been misused. Just as "Wherefore art thou, Romeo?" would be rendered nowadays as "Why did he have to be a Capulet?", so "That which..." is a more poetic way of Romeo pondering the fact that if they'd been, say, Romeo Smith & Juliet Jones instead of a Montague & a Capulet, there wouldn't be the obstacle of their families' vendettas to their love.		I believe the Romeo & Juliet quote has been misused. Just as "Wherefore art thou, Romeo?" would be rendered nowadays as "Why did he have to be a Capulet?", so "That which..." is a more poetic way of Romeo pondering the fact that if they'd been, say, Romeo Smith & Juliet Jones instead of a Montague & a Capulet, there wouldn't be the obstacle of their families' vendettas to their love.
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		+	This comic kinda reminds me of the conlang Toki Pona. [[explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Miscellaneous#Help_with_Creating_a_User_Page\|Trogdor147]] ([[explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Miscellaneous#Help_with_Creating_a_User_Page\|talk]]) 02:36, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

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	I'm way, way late, but isn't that [[Knit Cap]] that [[Beret Guy]] is talking to? [[User:Nitpicking\|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking\|talk]]) 16:54, 28 November 2021 (UTC)		I'm way, way late, but isn't that [[Knit Cap]] that [[Beret Guy]] is talking to? [[User:Nitpicking\|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking\|talk]]) 16:54, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
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		+	I believe the Romeo & Juliet quote has been misused. Just as "Wherefore art thou, Romeo?" would be rendered nowadays as "Why did he have to be a Capulet?", so "That which..." is a more poetic way of Romeo pondering the fact that if they'd been, say, Romeo Smith & Juliet Jones instead of a Montague & a Capulet, there wouldn't be the obstacle of their families' vendettas to their love.

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	It shares a similar setting as the Frost poem & you could consider "cold weather" a common theme. But tone & central theme have little overlap by my reading. And lots of stories have that common setting/theme: from "The Giver" to that Jack London novella about the guy who's freezing to death -- to name 2 from among the several we read in 8th grade.		It shares a similar setting as the Frost poem & you could consider "cold weather" a common theme. But tone & central theme have little overlap by my reading. And lots of stories have that common setting/theme: from "The Giver" to that Jack London novella about the guy who's freezing to death -- to name 2 from among the several we read in 8th grade.
	The prior art this strip reminds me of more would probably be the song "what a wonderful world" --[[Special:Contributions/172.69.22.44\|172.69.22.44]] 03:48, 16 July 2018 (UTC)		The prior art this strip reminds me of more would probably be the song "what a wonderful world" --[[Special:Contributions/172.69.22.44\|172.69.22.44]] 03:48, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
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		+	I'm way, way late, but isn't that [[Knit Cap]] that [[Beret Guy]] is talking to? [[User:Nitpicking\|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking\|talk]]) 16:54, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

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	So this could be off-base, but in terms of themes, images, and cadence, the comic (a four-part discussion of journey through the winter woods) seems to allude to the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost, a four-part discussion of a journey through the winter woods. Especially because the second line of the final stanza of the poem starts with an abrupt "But I have..." and the second panel of the comic starts with an abrupt "But I have..." It's where my brain wants to go, and Frost is a topic that he seems to know well enough, at least the more famous poems (https://xkcd.com/312/). Thoughts, an avenue to consider? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.93\|108.162.221.93]] 22:07, 3 April 2016 (UTC)		So this could be off-base, but in terms of themes, images, and cadence, the comic (a four-part discussion of journey through the winter woods) seems to allude to the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost, a four-part discussion of a journey through the winter woods. Especially because the second line of the final stanza of the poem starts with an abrupt "But I have..." and the second panel of the comic starts with an abrupt "But I have..." It's where my brain wants to go, and Frost is a topic that he seems to know well enough, at least the more famous poems (https://xkcd.com/312/). Thoughts, an avenue to consider? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.93\|108.162.221.93]] 22:07, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
		+	It shares a similar setting as the Frost poem & you could consider "cold weather" a common theme. But tone & central theme have little overlap by my reading. And lots of stories have that common setting/theme: from "The Giver" to that Jack London novella about the guy who's freezing to death -- to name 2 from among the several we read in 8th grade.
		+	The prior art this strip reminds me of more would probably be the song "what a wonderful world" --[[Special:Contributions/172.69.22.44\|172.69.22.44]] 03:48, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

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	And here I am in 2016, somehow having missed this comic. And I wonder if this was part of the impetus for [[Thing Explainer]]. [[User:Trlkly\|Trlkly]] ([[User talk:Trlkly\|talk]]) 01:16, 27 January 2016 (UTC)		And here I am in 2016, somehow having missed this comic. And I wonder if this was part of the impetus for [[Thing Explainer]]. [[User:Trlkly\|Trlkly]] ([[User talk:Trlkly\|talk]]) 01:16, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
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		+	So this could be off-base, but in terms of themes, images, and cadence, the comic (a four-part discussion of journey through the winter woods) seems to allude to the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost, a four-part discussion of a journey through the winter woods. Especially because the second line of the final stanza of the poem starts with an abrupt "But I have..." and the second panel of the comic starts with an abrupt "But I have..." It's where my brain wants to go, and Frost is a topic that he seems to know well enough, at least the more famous poems (https://xkcd.com/312/). Thoughts, an avenue to consider? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.93\|108.162.221.93]] 22:07, 3 April 2016 (UTC)