Talk:428: Starwatching

An interesting interpretation. I thought Cueball was just referencing The Lion King. 184.41.49.246 00:53, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

My thoughts exactly. "Great kings of the past," "great bloggers of the past"... I don't think there was any intended reference to Christianity. 24.20.112.104 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

I think the word "blog" is more an elision than a portmanteau, since it's not a conflation (e.g. mansplain, muppet, or smog) of two words, here "web" and "log," but rather a shortening (or eliding) of the same. 108.162.219.21 12:55, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

Why is the transcript marked incomplete? Spongebog (talk) 16:26, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

Fixed a typo and grammar for tag cloud. It was a little cumbersome before, but I think I wound up using bigger words. The part about "or less" seems a little clunky also, but not quite sure how to fix it. Vorik111 (talk) 18:22, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

There needs to be a running count somewhere on the wiki of how many times the word blogosphere appears in xkcd and how it tracks over time. If Randall reads the wiki perhaps it will induce a spiteful uptick. AzureArmageddon 07:48, 30 September 2023 (UTC)

There seem to be quite a few comics that involve some variation of the phrase “You need to get out either more or less.” Might be worth starting a category? Or at least add cross references in the Trivia section? Heleatunda (talk) 18:23, 4 January 2026 (UTC)

I suggest you list those comics, here. Had a look myself, after dredging my memory, and I've not actually found any others.

(Trying "get out more" just gets me this and something from 1506: xkcloud that I'm not sure is relevent, and I've not managed to establish any obvious variation with any good matches... But probably just not hit on the various phrase-variations that you've already thought of. Just me not currently being imaginative enough, I'm sure.)

List them here, somewhere under the Community Portal and/or put them in the Trivia and then we can work out what the category name should be to properly encompass them. (You could also probably create the category yourself, but I'd advise a bit of discussion here/in Community Poral, first, to save renaming/marking-for-deletion if there are clear objections to your idea of what it should be...) 92.23.2.208 18:43, 4 January 2026 (UTC)