Talk:207: What xkcd Means - Revision history

162.158.159.11 at 14:28, 30 April 2024

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Barmar at 15:44, 29 February 2024

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Certified nqh at 05:53, 2 October 2023

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Beanie: that's a line break?

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that's a line break?

Beanie: users who don't know how to write comments are annoying

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users who don't know how to write comments are annoying

172.68.59.12 at 22:50, 27 May 2019

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	"Using ketchup to cover up stigmata wouldn't be a very good idea, as from afar people would think that you actually are bleeding from your (supposed) stigmata." ...Is the joke not that the ketchup itself is supposed to resemble the bleeding? Why is that not even mentioned as a possibility? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.88\|108.162.237.88]] 18:37, 10 March 2024 (UTC)		"Using ketchup to cover up stigmata wouldn't be a very good idea, as from afar people would think that you actually are bleeding from your (supposed) stigmata." ...Is the joke not that the ketchup itself is supposed to resemble the bleeding? Why is that not even mentioned as a possibility? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.88\|108.162.237.88]] 18:37, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
	:Until [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=207:_What_xkcd_Means&diff=336416&oldid=336328 recently], it didn't say this, leaving the (IMO) more obvious reasoning implied. But someone obviously had the other idea in mind. (I had your thoughts, but didn't get around to making this alternate reading more a secondary possibility again). Maybe I'll go back in and check it. Or feel free to edit it yourself, if you think you can. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.178.184\|172.71.178.184]] 21:01, 10 March 2024 (UTC)		:Until [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=207:_What_xkcd_Means&diff=336416&oldid=336328 recently], it didn't say this, leaving the (IMO) more obvious reasoning implied. But someone obviously had the other idea in mind. (I had your thoughts, but didn't get around to making this alternate reading more a secondary possibility again). Maybe I'll go back in and check it. Or feel free to edit it yourself, if you think you can. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.178.184\|172.71.178.184]] 21:01, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
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		+	The ketchup isn't hiding the stigmata, it's pretending to be the stigmata. The rapid shuffling past is what's hiding the "stigmata". [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.11\|162.158.159.11]] 14:28, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

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 Yo mama &#8801; 1 modulo A(g<sub>64</sub>, g<sub>64</sub>) [[User:Int|unsigned int]] ([[User talk:Int|talk]]) 22:13, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
 I ran into a situation yesterday where the first panel saved me five minutes in traffic. The road I was driving on had two lanes on each side. The left lane was backed up a quarter mile and the right lane was empty, as across the next road, construction trucks blocked the right lane. I drove all the way down the right lane, took a right turn, and then proceeded to execute the maneuver depicted in the comic. Half a dozen other cars caught on and followed. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.169|173.245.52.169]] 21:16, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
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 :That said, post-landline I've also had to go out without my mobile (because I couldn't work out which cushion/whatever it had clearly hidden itself beneath) and then as I was about to leave the venue, where I'd prearranged a meet with someone, have asked the person concerned to "wait half an hour for me to get home, then try to give me a ring... and if I don't call back within five minutes, try once more as I instead specifically listen out upstairs...". Which worked, incidentally, but can't remember offhand if it actually needed that second attempt.
 :And I always interpreted the comic as being someone not ''in the same room'', or at least outside the immediate frame of view, to add yet another reason to be drawn that way. But who knows what exact kind of situation Randall was imagining. (Well, Randall might...) [[Special:Contributions/172.71.178.76|172.71.178.76]] 16:30, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

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	Yo mama ≡ 1 modulo A(g<sub>64</sub>, g<sub>64</sub>) [[User:Int\|unsigned int]] ([[User talk:Int\|talk]]) 22:13, 22 March 2017 (UTC)		Yo mama ≡ 1 modulo A(g<sub>64</sub>, g<sub>64</sub>) [[User:Int\|unsigned int]] ([[User talk:Int\|talk]]) 22:13, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
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		+	"Using ketchup to cover up stigmata wouldn't be a very good idea, as from afar people would think that you actually are bleeding from your (supposed) stigmata." ...Is the joke not that the ketchup itself is supposed to resemble the bleeding? Why is that not even mentioned as a possibility? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.88\|108.162.237.88]] 18:37, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

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	"how could he get someone outside the house to call it" Some of us still have land lines (and far more did when the comic was written). You can also use email or online messaging. [[User:Barmar\|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar\|talk]]) 15:44, 29 February 2024 (UTC)		"how could he get someone outside the house to call it" Some of us still have land lines (and far more did when the comic was written). You can also use email or online messaging. [[User:Barmar\|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar\|talk]]) 15:44, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
		+	:Generally, if you have a landline to talk to someone outside your house, you can do the "call your own (mobile/cell) phone from your (landline) one" without even needing anybody else. (As long as you can remember/look up your own number! That'd might be a necessity, 'cos I can still remember other peoples' phone numbers ''from decades ago'', that no longer apply, but still struggle to remember my own without always initially self-doubting if it starts "0754... or "0745...".)
		+	:That said, post-landline I've also had to go out without my mobile (because I couldn't work out which cushion/whatever it had clearly hidden itself beneath) and then as I was about to leave the venue, where I'd prearranged a meet with someone, have asked the person concerned to "wait half an hour for me to get home, then try to give me a ring... and if I don't call back within five minutes, try once more as I instead specifically listen out upstairs...". Which worked, incidentally, but can't remember offhand if it actually needed that second attempt.
		+	:And I always interpreted the comic as being someone not ''in the same room'', or at least outside the immediate frame of view, to add yet another reason to be drawn that way. But who knows what exact kind of situation Randall was imagining. (Well, Randall might...) [[Special:Contributions/172.71.178.76\|172.71.178.76]] 16:30, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

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	Left turn on red is also legal. But the basic rule is that the turn can't require crossing any traffic lanes, so you can only do it when turning from one one-way road to another. So it's not useful for the maneuver in the comic, because you can't make a U-turn on the second road. [[User:Barmar\|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar\|talk]]) 15:38, 29 February 2024 (UTC)		Left turn on red is also legal. But the basic rule is that the turn can't require crossing any traffic lanes, so you can only do it when turning from one one-way road to another. So it's not useful for the maneuver in the comic, because you can't make a U-turn on the second road. [[User:Barmar\|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar\|talk]]) 15:38, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
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		+	"how could he get someone outside the house to call it" Some of us still have land lines (and far more did when the comic was written). You can also use email or online messaging. [[User:Barmar\|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar\|talk]]) 15:44, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

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	Xylophone kicking contest delayed, x-rays knitting crumbles Denmark, xenon kangaroos can't derive, xylocarp kiwi creates dimension, xebec krypton concedes durian [[User:Certified_nqh\|Me]]<sup>[[[285: Wikipedian Protester\|''citation needed'']]][[Category:Pages using the "citation needed" template]]</sup> 05:53, 2 October 2023 (UTC)		Xylophone kicking contest delayed, x-rays knitting crumbles Denmark, xenon kangaroos can't derive, xylocarp kiwi creates dimension, xebec krypton concedes durian [[User:Certified_nqh\|Me]]<sup>[[[285: Wikipedian Protester\|''citation needed'']]][[Category:Pages using the "citation needed" template]]</sup> 05:53, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
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		+	Left turn on red is also legal. But the basic rule is that the turn can't require crossing any traffic lanes, so you can only do it when turning from one one-way road to another. So it's not useful for the maneuver in the comic, because you can't make a U-turn on the second road. [[User:Barmar\|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar\|talk]]) 15:38, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

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	Maybe it's about his ex Casey D.		Maybe it's about his ex Casey D.
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		+	Xylophone kicking contest delayed, x-rays knitting crumbles Denmark, xenon kangaroos can't derive, xylocarp kiwi creates dimension, xebec krypton concedes durian [[User:Certified_nqh\|Me]]<sup>[[[285: Wikipedian Protester\|''citation needed'']]][[Category:Pages using the "citation needed" template]]</sup> 05:53, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

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 I do the last panel ALL THE FRIGGIN' TIME. [[User:Alpha|Alpha]] ([[User talk:Alpha|talk]]) 20:07, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
-:Graham's Number has not had that title for several years now.... See here: http://googology.wikia.com/wiki/Graham's_number
+:Graham's Number has not had that title for several years now.... See here: http://googology.wikia.com/wiki/Graham's_number XKCD also means getting addicted to webcomics because they are too funny --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.175|108.162.237.175]] 21:57, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
 A question, what is meant with "(In fact, A(g64, g64) is less than g65)"? Is g65 more than g64? Is it much more? Is A(g64, g64 "insanely large" compared to what you would expect or not? [[User:Maplestrip|Maplestrip]] ([[User talk:Maplestrip|talk]]) 13:05, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

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	I ran into a situation yesterday where the first panel saved me five minutes in traffic. The road I was driving on had two lanes on each side. The left lane was backed up a quarter mile and the right lane was empty, as across the next road, construction trucks blocked the right lane. I drove all the way down the right lane, took a right turn, and then proceeded to execute the maneuver depicted in the comic. Half a dozen other cars caught on and followed. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.169\|173.245.52.169]] 21:16, 23 February 2018 (UTC)		I ran into a situation yesterday where the first panel saved me five minutes in traffic. The road I was driving on had two lanes on each side. The left lane was backed up a quarter mile and the right lane was empty, as across the next road, construction trucks blocked the right lane. I drove all the way down the right lane, took a right turn, and then proceeded to execute the maneuver depicted in the comic. Half a dozen other cars caught on and followed. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.169\|173.245.52.169]] 21:16, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
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		+	Maybe it's about his ex Casey D.