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My dad once had the opposite conversation with his teacher, where he asked if the two continents had ever been connected and his teacher scoffed at him because continental drift wasn't widely-known yet. --[[Special:Contributions/2603:800C:500:18B3:38A0:233D:17B2:D289|2603:800C:500:18B3:38A0:233D:17B2:D289]] 16:05, 24 August 2025 (UTC)
 
My dad once had the opposite conversation with his teacher, where he asked if the two continents had ever been connected and his teacher scoffed at him because continental drift wasn't widely-known yet. --[[Special:Contributions/2603:800C:500:18B3:38A0:233D:17B2:D289|2603:800C:500:18B3:38A0:233D:17B2:D289]] 16:05, 24 August 2025 (UTC)
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Is the title also a pun on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosine_similarity--[[Special:Contributions/159.196.168.240|159.196.168.240]] 02:03, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

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Lol what SectorCorruptor (talk) 16:20, 22 August 2025 (UTC)

Lol what --DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 17:30, 22 August 2025 (UTC)
Lol what Broseph (talk) 18:13, 22 August 2025 (UTC)
Lol what Caliban (talk) 18:52, 22 August 2025 (UTC)
Lol what 24.54.131.250 19:24, 22 August 2025 (UTC)
Lol what 2001:67C:2564:A301:C26:D05F:D5AA:CA02 21:46, 22 August 2025 (UTC)
Lol what Aprilfoolsupdate!(talk) 08:16, 24 August 2025 (UTC)

^^^Plagerism at work^^^ These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For (talk) 02:18, 24 August 2025 (UTC)

npcs raeb 14:29, 23 August 2025 (UTC)

Plagiarism might refer to the designer of one of the coastlinescopying the design of the other one (a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy). 147.234.73.125 22:56, 22 August 2025 (UTC)

I'm the comic "Coastline similarity" is likely a roof on "Cosine Similarity" which is used in software industry to measure how close two images are. This method is also used to detect plagiarism. 108.76.190.132 (talk) 23:00, 22 August 2025 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

F***ing vandals. Best of luck, I'm gonna bunker down until this blows over. 207.195.86.18 01:47, 24 August 2025 (UTC)

EDIT: To the dumbs*** who apparently doesn't know how curse words are used: referring to "f***ing X" is a way of expressing HATRED towards X, not love.

I mean to play devils advocate you did pick the single most versatile word in the English lexicon. Capable of not only being a noun, a verb and an adjective, but also an adverb and probably more too. How are we to know without cultural context clues? (Signed a coitus looter)

My dad once had the opposite conversation with his teacher, where he asked if the two continents had ever been connected and his teacher scoffed at him because continental drift wasn't widely-known yet. --2603:800C:500:18B3:38A0:233D:17B2:D289 16:05, 24 August 2025 (UTC)

Is the title also a pun on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosine_similarity--159.196.168.240 02:03, 25 August 2025 (UTC)