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| date      = November 23, 2005
 
| date      = November 23, 2005
 
| title    = Old Drawing
 
| title    = Old Drawing
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| before    = <big><big><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/#:~:text=Wednesday%27s%20Drawing%20%2D%20Old%20Notebook Original title</span>]: '''Wednesday's Drawing - Old Notebook'''</big></big>
 
| image    = unspeakable_pun.jpg
 
| image    = unspeakable_pun.jpg
| titletext = I don't want to talk about it
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| titletext = I don't want to talk about it<br><br><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/#:~:text=Wednesday%27s%20Drawing%20%2D%20Old%20Notebook Original caption</span>]: I'm on vacation! At home. Fresh drawings when I return!
 
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==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
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This was the thirty-sixth comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[33: Self-reference]], and the next one was [[35: Sheep]].
  
This comic plays off the pun between [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stumped stumped], meaning confused or at a loss, and {{w|Tree stump|a stump}}, which is the remnants of a tree that has been cut down. Anyone snooping into his journal would be punished by such a terrible pun. The pun is so terrible that even [[Randall]] does not want to talk about it, according to the title text.
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This comic plays off the pun between [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stumped stumped], meaning confused or at a loss, and a {{w|Tree stump|tree stump}}, which is the remnants of a tree that has been cut down. Anyone snooping into his journal would be punished by such a terrible pun.
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In the title text, [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] says the pun is so terrible he doesn't even want to talk about it.
  
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
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:I found this in one of my high-school notebooks. I think I drew it just to take revenge on people snooping through my stuff.
 
:I found this in one of my high-school notebooks. I think I drew it just to take revenge on people snooping through my stuff.
 
:Tree stump: Well, you stumped me...
 
:Tree stump: Well, you stumped me...
 
==Trivia==
 
* This was the thirty-sixth comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[33: Self-reference]], and the next one was [[35: Sheep]].
 
* Original title: "Wednesday's Drawing - Old Notebook".
 
* Original [[Randall]] quote: "I'm on vacation! At home. Fresh drawings when I return!"
 
* This comic was posted on [[xkcd]] when the web site opened on Sunday the 1st of January 2006.
 
** It was posted along [[:Category:First day on xkcd|with all 41 comics]] posted before that on LiveJournal as well as a few others.
 
** The latter explaining why the numbers of these 41 LiveJournal comics ranges from 1-44.
 
  
 
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{{comic discussion}}

Revision as of 11:04, 18 August 2023

Old Drawing
Original title: Wednesday's Drawing - Old Notebook
I don't want to talk about itOriginal caption: I'm on vacation! At home. Fresh drawings when I return!
Title text: I don't want to talk about it

Original caption: I'm on vacation! At home. Fresh drawings when I return!

Explanation

This was the thirty-sixth comic originally posted to LiveJournal. The previous one was 33: Self-reference, and the next one was 35: Sheep.

This comic plays off the pun between stumped, meaning confused or at a loss, and a tree stump, which is the remnants of a tree that has been cut down. Anyone snooping into his journal would be punished by such a terrible pun.

In the title text, Randall says the pun is so terrible he doesn't even want to talk about it.

Transcript

[A tree holding a chainsaw over a recently cut-down tree. The first text is in a frame at the top of the panel.]
I found this in one of my high-school notebooks. I think I drew it just to take revenge on people snooping through my stuff.
Tree stump: Well, you stumped me...


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Discussion

I used to frighten people going through my stuff with occasional pictures of Cthulhu standing on a pentagram with the norse runes for "all hail the destroyer of souls" around it, just to make their day a little weirder. -- Gigahertz (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Why is the pun so terribly punishing? (no pun intended) Benjaminikuta (talk) 07:31, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

I personally think that the comic means that the cut down tree is both a stump, and confused, no pun intended.

stump stump... argh An user who has no account yet (talk) 02:21, 12 September 2023 (UTC)