840: Serious
Serious |
Title text: Not to be confused with Serious PuTTY, the Windows terminal client where everything is in Impact. |
Explanation
This comic is a play on words with the child's putty known as "Silly Putty", which is "silly" because it likes to be played with[citation needed]. Whereas Serious Putty does not even like to be touched.
As it says in the title text PuTTY is a Windows Terminal client. Impact is a font that is distributed with Windows that is used in the vast majority of "meme" image macros, such as lolcat pictures.
Transcript
- [Cueball is standing next to a table. There is a can on the table.]
- [The label on the can reads, "Serious Putty".]
- [Cueball is looking at the table again.]
- [He reaches out to touch the can. The can speaks.]
- Can: Don't touch me.
Trivia
- This is the shortest comic explanation on explainxkcd, as of writing this. This still holds as of 10/22/2022, ignoring the 268 bytes this trivia section occupies.
Discussion
A full four pounds of silly putty becomes pretty serious when it falls on your head. Just sayin' Davidy²²[talk] 09:57, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
This comic has been out for six years now and still nobody has actually implemented Silly PuTTY, c'mon guys... 141.101.98.18 22:57, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
- Any recent version of PuTTY can function as Serious PuTTY. You just have to enable the option “Allow selection of variable-pitch fonts”. TisTheAlmondTavern 15:00, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
- Notwithstanding, considerable respect will go to whosoever produces a version of PuTTY where this is the default case 162.158.154.115 15:00, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
Silly Putty got its name partly because it is made of silicones, which were new materials in the 1950s when this stuff was first sold. 108.162.242.117 19:28, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
This is the smallest explanation for any comic... EVER!
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