Talk:521: 2008 Christmas Special - Revision history

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	How does [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=521:_2008_Christmas_Special&curid=10638&diff=334151&oldid=332563 this comma make things clearer]? Intruiged to know how it was unclear in perfectly standard list format... (I wouldn't multiply commas unnecessarily. Too easy to confuse clausal-commas with an unnecessary conjunction-comma.) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.118\|162.158.74.118]] 19:46, 3 February 2024 (UTC)		How does [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=521:_2008_Christmas_Special&curid=10638&diff=334151&oldid=332563 this comma make things clearer]? Intruiged to know how it was unclear in perfectly standard list format... (I wouldn't multiply commas unnecessarily. Too easy to confuse clausal-commas with an unnecessary conjunction-comma.) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.118\|162.158.74.118]] 19:46, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

−	one is a prime number and pluto is a planet. 21:55, 18 May 2026 (UTC)	+	one is a prime number and pluto is a planet. {{unsigned ip\|129.222.167.170\|21:55, 18 May 2026 (UTC)}}

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	How does [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=521:_2008_Christmas_Special&curid=10638&diff=334151&oldid=332563 this comma make things clearer]? Intruiged to know how it was unclear in perfectly standard list format... (I wouldn't multiply commas unnecessarily. Too easy to confuse clausal-commas with an unnecessary conjunction-comma.) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.118\|162.158.74.118]] 19:46, 3 February 2024 (UTC)		How does [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=521:_2008_Christmas_Special&curid=10638&diff=334151&oldid=332563 this comma make things clearer]? Intruiged to know how it was unclear in perfectly standard list format... (I wouldn't multiply commas unnecessarily. Too easy to confuse clausal-commas with an unnecessary conjunction-comma.) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.118\|162.158.74.118]] 19:46, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
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		+	one is a prime number and pluto is a planet. 21:55, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

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	You can also substitute Richard Stallman and Bill Gates with Linus Torvalds and Bjarne Stroustrup, respectively, if you like. :P [[Special:Contributions/172.69.42.92\|172.69.42.92]] 19:05, 29 August 2020 (UTC)		You can also substitute Richard Stallman and Bill Gates with Linus Torvalds and Bjarne Stroustrup, respectively, if you like. :P [[Special:Contributions/172.69.42.92\|172.69.42.92]] 19:05, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
	Has anyone filled in the rest of the panels? [[User:Anonymouscript\|Anonymouscript]] ([[User talk:Anonymouscript\|talk]]) 22:14, 6 June 2022 (UTC)		Has anyone filled in the rest of the panels? [[User:Anonymouscript\|Anonymouscript]] ([[User talk:Anonymouscript\|talk]]) 22:14, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
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		+	How does [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=521:_2008_Christmas_Special&curid=10638&diff=334151&oldid=332563 this comma make things clearer]? Intruiged to know how it was unclear in perfectly standard list format... (I wouldn't multiply commas unnecessarily. Too easy to confuse clausal-commas with an unnecessary conjunction-comma.) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.118\|162.158.74.118]] 19:46, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

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 Sublimation is a specific type of vaporization.  I don't think the exact nature of the board's destruction is important to the comic.[[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.171|108.162.216.171]] 18:31, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
 Of all the black panels, i'm most curious about the contents of number 32. It would have made more sense if panel 31 read something like "From all of us to all of you, we wish you..."[[User:Mumiemonstret|Mumiemonstret]] ([[User talk:Mumiemonstret|talk]]) 09:37, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
 Clones (cloned raptors) vs droids (cyborgs), and then victorious clones turning against their masters... Well, this raptors seem to be more independent then altered clones of Jango Fett but may be lightsabers aren't the only SW quote here.

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	You can also substitute Richard Stallman and Bill Gates with Linus Torvalds and Bjarne Stroustrup, respectively, if you like. :P [[Special:Contributions/172.69.42.92\|172.69.42.92]] 19:05, 29 August 2020 (UTC)		You can also substitute Richard Stallman and Bill Gates with Linus Torvalds and Bjarne Stroustrup, respectively, if you like. :P [[Special:Contributions/172.69.42.92\|172.69.42.92]] 19:05, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
		+	Has anyone filled in the rest of the panels? [[User:Anonymouscript\|Anonymouscript]] ([[User talk:Anonymouscript\|talk]]) 22:14, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

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	:There are many guesses like this here but it says "possibly a reference". Nevertheless I'm sure it's easy to find hundreds of other possibilities...--[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 19:13, 14 March 2017 (UTC)		:There are many guesses like this here but it says "possibly a reference". Nevertheless I'm sure it's easy to find hundreds of other possibilities...--[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 19:13, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

−	You can also substitute Richard Stallman and Bill Gates with Linus Torvalds and Bjarne Stroustrup if you like. :P [[Special:Contributions/172.69.42.92\|172.69.42.92]] 19:05, 29 August 2020 (UTC)	+	You can also substitute Richard Stallman and Bill Gates with Linus Torvalds and Bjarne Stroustrup, respectively, if you like. :P [[Special:Contributions/172.69.42.92\|172.69.42.92]] 19:05, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

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	Is "we apologize for the inconvenience" really trying to reference to Hitchhiker's Guide? The quote certainly appears in it, but it's a pretty common statement. [[User:RamenChef\|RamenChef]] ([[User talk:RamenChef\|talk]]) 18:08, 14 March 2017 (UTC)		Is "we apologize for the inconvenience" really trying to reference to Hitchhiker's Guide? The quote certainly appears in it, but it's a pretty common statement. [[User:RamenChef\|RamenChef]] ([[User talk:RamenChef\|talk]]) 18:08, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
	:There are many guesses like this here but it says "possibly a reference". Nevertheless I'm sure it's easy to find hundreds of other possibilities...--[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 19:13, 14 March 2017 (UTC)		:There are many guesses like this here but it says "possibly a reference". Nevertheless I'm sure it's easy to find hundreds of other possibilities...--[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 19:13, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
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		+	You can also substitute Richard Stallman and Bill Gates with Linus Torvalds and Bjarne Stroustrup if you like. :P [[Special:Contributions/172.69.42.92\|172.69.42.92]] 19:05, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

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 : Yeah, right. Living in what was later to be Turkey makes him a muslim. Islam was not even invented yet. [[User:Undee|Undee]] ([[User talk:Undee|talk]]) 11:44, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
 :: Oh snap! xD --[[User:JayRulesXKCD|JayRulesXKCD]] ([[User talk:JayRulesXKCD|talk]]) 17:03, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
-::: Yeah, right. How could anyone doubt that St. Nicholas and Santa Clause are in fact the same person? I mean, they have similar names, outfits and skin colours. Furthermore both aggressively promote annual shopping frenzies in the richest countries and have advertising partnerships with Coca Cola(r).
+::: Yeah, right. How could anyone doubt that St. Nicholas and Santa Clause are in fact the same person? I mean, they have similar names, outfits and skin colours. Furthermore both aggressively promote annual shopping frenzies in the richest countries and have advertising partnerships with Coca Cola(r). {{unsigned ip|141.101.76.58}}
 Of course you have to explain how St Nick who died in 343 CE could have been following a religion whose founder was born in 570 CE.  But you knew that. I also think we can do somewhat better than "somewhere in Italy".  His tomb is at Basilica di San Nicola in Bari, Italy. {{unsigned ip|108.162.237.11}}

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	Is "we apologize for the inconvenience" really trying to reference to Hitchhiker's Guide? The quote certainly appears in it, but it's a pretty common statement. [[User:RamenChef\|RamenChef]] ([[User talk:RamenChef\|talk]]) 18:08, 14 March 2017 (UTC)		Is "we apologize for the inconvenience" really trying to reference to Hitchhiker's Guide? The quote certainly appears in it, but it's a pretty common statement. [[User:RamenChef\|RamenChef]] ([[User talk:RamenChef\|talk]]) 18:08, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
	:There are many guesses like this here but it says "possibly a reference". Nevertheless I'm sure it's easy to find hundreds of other possibilities...--[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 19:13, 14 March 2017 (UTC)		:There are many guesses like this here but it says "possibly a reference". Nevertheless I'm sure it's easy to find hundreds of other possibilities...--[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 19:13, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
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−	Am I the only one who feels that the last panel not having anything is kind of... strange. I kind of caught on to the entire rest of the story but I really want to know what the last panel is. Any thoughts?