Talk:2549: Edge Cake
The cake being all edges is a reference to everything about her birth being an edge case.
172.70.110.227 03:41, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
- It seems likely that the title of the comic is a related pun: her birthday is an edge case, and so she has an edge cake.162.158.106.221 04:22, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
So is Hairbun officially named Emily now, sort of like how all instances of Megan are Megan even though she's only called that once? I know all the names here are just placeholders of convenience, but even then I've never know what the rules for naming are. Captain Video (talk) 06:11, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
- Well, Megan is referred to multiple times in the xkcds as "Megan", while the one time Hairbun was called Emily, it referred to the real[citation needed] Emily Dickinson. So, probably not. bubblegum-talk|contribs 02:44, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
Edge pieces on cake are often sought after because they hold more frosting, for cakes which are frosted while out of the pan. 172.70.134.23 06:37, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
- I have an impression that Cueball is delighted by having only edge pieces, however some cakes edge pieces may be either sought for or avoided, depending on one's tastes. E.g. tarts have more crispy base cake content and less filling at the edges. One person may go for the filling, another for the crispy base. -- 162.158.102.11 09:50, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
So it seems the events in the comic happened on Apr 1., as the "last month" birthday could be either Feb 28. or 29. -- 162.158.102.11 09:50, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
- Not necessarily. Remember, Emily can have her birthday whenever she wants, so the date this comic is set as is entirely arbitrary. 172.70.178.51 12:26, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
Are there any particular existing arctic international flights that could have been the one Emily was born on? -- 256.256.256.256 15:51, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
- There are a few possibities (at least pre-COVID, and obviously we'd be looking historically in this case anyway) as might be shown here. There's two possible (but neither definite) International Datelines on the comic diagram, in case they help orient which from/to directions might have been diverted further in or out of their own kinks in the flightpath to coincide with 90°N. 172.70.162.77 16:21, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
Expanded copies of this comic have been appearing on other comics, so large that it fills the whole screen for me. Is anyone else having this problem? Sarah the Pie(yes, the food) (talk) 22:24, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
- Someone (check the Recent Changes page, if you want) has been vandalising a lot of things. Currently I see a picture of an amphibious avian creature on this article's top (if I still need to revert it myself, I will do, but I've seen others have already been reverting other recent vandalism, so I may not need to by the time I've checked again). This very clever individual is obiviously mentally superior to us all(!) the way they can edit wiki pages seemingly at will... Impressive, eh? At some point I'm sure we'll get back to normlal, however boring that may be. 172.70.90.67 23:33, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
Not to be too pedantic but isn't rotation a FREQUENCY, not a SPEED? Skulker (talk) 03:19, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
Tempted to add a link in the Trivia section to the Wikipedia or Snopes pages on the SS Warrimoo, a ship that (reportedly) was on the intersection of the Equator and the International Date Line at the stroke of midnight on January 1, 1900, with a number of interesting implications that follow. There's no way to prove that it actually happened, but it's fun to imagine and is somewhat similar to the premise of the comic. --mezimm 108.162.221.15 14:33, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
Many airplanes actually have limitations written into their operating manuals that prohibit flying north of 89 deg. N or south of 89 deg. S, mostly just so that the navigation software doesn't have to deal with the singularity. 172.69.71.187 23:48, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
