Talk:3172: Fifteen Years

Part of a series:

• https://xkcd.com/1141/
• https://xkcd.com/1928/
• https://xkcd.com/2386/

--Pgn674 (talk) 21:28, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:X Years. 64.201.132.210 22:03, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

"Growing old is a fabulous alternative to death." 85.255.235.101 21:30, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

OH MY GOD THIS IS SO SWEET EEEEEEEEEE. So happy for you Randall! <3 42.book.addict^{Talk to me!} 21:36, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

this made me, too, tear up - Vaedez (talk) 00:22, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

Me too - love it. I do feel old but I'm old now, so it's better cause the alternative... --Kynde (talk) 08:49, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

Growing old ... together. 64.201.132.210 21:59, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

The paragraph about the title text could use a reference to the series of comics of the form "Students graduating this year have never...". I'm not sure how to find them. Barmar (talk) 22:11, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

I added a link to what I think is the right category. It might be a little too broad though. 2601:281:C802:9170:0:0:0:4150 01:53, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

Just. The. Cutest. This is an ideal relationship.--Maxcodes (talk) 22:32, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

I love being reminded I’m (pretty dang sure I’m) going to die alone, yaaaaaay 2600:4040:12A0:E200:D1D1:1F63:C1A:31F2 23:05, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

yay they have survived Mathmaster (talk)

As John Lennon once said, “Grow old along with me.” KelOfTheStars! (talk) 00:19, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

This weekend, as well as today, I've been quite sick. This was a much-needed boost. <3 love ya, Randall. --DollarStoreBa'al^Converse 02:28, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

This might be my favorite xkcd comic of all time. 68.2.204.250 03:02, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

Based on the pattern, the next in the series will be "Eighteen Years" 209.52.88.184 03:23, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

Nah, a +5,+3,+5,+3 seems too basic. Maybe 22 would work, since this is maximum k for which the grid graph P_2 X P_k is a subgraph of the n X n knight graph. Definitely didn't just copy from the oeis. ANYWAYS, by the time they get to 46 we'll have solved it by then... --2.50.0.22 03:39, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

Very happy for Randall here, this is very sweet. Clayel (talk) 03:42, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

Why is my vision getting so blurry? Elektrizikekswerk (talk) 08:29, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

This is such a BEAUTIFUL comic! So happy for the two of them VascoTabasco (talk) 11:44, 25 November 2025 (UTC)Vasco

I come here for a wry smile, not to be made to weep. 31.94.28.99 (talk) 14:49, 25 November 2025 (UTC) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Then smile wryly (wryly? really?!?!) about the symptoms we all are getting ;-) 195.49.224.20 18:06, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

After rereading the series, I wonder what happend with the date they made for the 2024 eclipse. 195.49.224.20 18:06, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

My sister found out she had breast cancer in August so this hit me harder than previous 'installments' have. This is also a type that is resistant to pretty much anything but chemo which she is undergoing now. These give me hope, though, knowing someone else made it through their treatments.