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| date      = January 1, 2006
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| date      = September 30, 2005
 
| title    = Canyon
 
| title    = Canyon
 
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Man 2: It's the least boring answer imaginable.
 
Man 2: It's the least boring answer imaginable.
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== Trivia ==
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* Original [[Randall]] quote: "I'm not sure where they are, but they should be more excited! I would be."
  
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

Revision as of 19:26, 16 August 2012

Canyon
They're standing at the lip of the canyon, which isn't clear at all.
Title text: They're standing at the lip of the canyon, which isn't clear at all.

Explanation

This is one of the early comics which explores a theme xkcd returns to often: the wonder around us, if we would just look. Here, Cueball replies that "now" is the least boring time it could be, as they stand on an alien world over an amazing landscape. How could you want it to be any time but now?

Transcript

[Two men are standing at some kind of cliff edge]

Man 1: What time is it?

Man 2: Now.

[Full scene is revealed: the men are standing at the edge of a huge canyon in a rocky, barren landscape. A pock-marked moon and a ringed planet are visible in the burgundy-coloured sky]

Man 1: That's a pretty boring answer.

Man 2: Is not.

Man 2: It's the least boring answer imaginable.

Trivia

  • Original Randall quote: "I'm not sure where they are, but they should be more excited! I would be."