41: Old Drawing

Explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
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Old Drawing
I don't want to talk about it
Title text: I don't want to talk about it

Explanation

This comic plays off the pun between stump, to confuse someone, and a stump, which is the remnants of a tree that has been cut down.

Transcript

[A tree holding a chainsaw over a recently cut-down tree.]
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.
Cut-down tree: WELL, YOU STUMPED ME...

Trivia

  • Original Randall quote: "I'm on vacation! At home. Fresh drawings when I return!"
  • Original title: "Old Notebook"
  • This is the thirty-sixth comic posted to livejournal. The previous was 33: Self-reference. The next was 35: Sheep


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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)