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Children born after xkcd first came out are now old enough to have this conversation.
 
Children born after xkcd first came out are now old enough to have this conversation.
 
[[Special:Contributions/173.245.56.183|173.245.56.183]] 19:12, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
 
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I was born after 9/11, yet I am old enough to read this comic.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.104.30|141.101.104.30]]
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Two years from now, people born after the turn of the millennium will start to graduate high school. [[User:International Space Station|International Space Station]] ([[User talk:International Space Station|talk]]) 05:16, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
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I just saw this comic (again) today, and also a highlighted [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blick_von_Williamsburg,_Brooklyn,_auf_Manhattan,_11._September_2001 German wikipedia article] regarding [https://www.lempertz.com/typo3temp/_processed_/csm_Lempertz-1098-156-Photography-Thomas-Hoepker-View-from-Williamsburg-B_f9b5c7e8cf.jpg a photography] of the smoke clouds. The look/stlye of the people in it (their appearing carelessnes was also discussed in the article) made it clear to me again how LONG this was ago. People looked as in "Full house" or "Friends". (Another take - not related to the photopgraphy - is, that the time between the fall of the Berlin wall, and the attack on the WTC was far less than the time since the attack.) --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 09:02, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

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Not wishing to detract from the gravity of the 9/11 events (expounded at very great length), but the first thing we read, "...never found the ghosts head", is perhaps a lighter parody of the kind of endings that accompany "It was a dark and stormy night..." at the start. Usually in a ghost and/or a horror story (headless ghosts aside) it's usually a newly-found corpse whose head is missing. Hence there's strange imagery involved in the concept of a decapitated ghost (as opposed to a ghost of a decapitee). It could have been an interestingly compounded set of tropes, of course, but given its apparent lameness it probably wasn't. 178.99.247.73 17:22, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

They never found any traces of firemen in the ruins of the twin towers did they? No fireproof, extremely hardwearing clothing, nor axes, gas cylinders etc.? Horrific or what?
And the layer at the top of the mounds should have contained some traces of human DNA. Right?
That's more horrific. -- Weatherlawyer (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Using movies as a reference for making people feel old and scared about how fast time flies was used also in http://xkcd.com/891/ --108.162.229.31 12:03, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

Children born after xkcd first came out are now old enough to have this conversation. 173.245.56.183 19:12, 5 May 2015 (UTC)


I was born after 9/11, yet I am old enough to read this comic.141.101.104.30

Two years from now, people born after the turn of the millennium will start to graduate high school. International Space Station (talk) 05:16, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

I just saw this comic (again) today, and also a highlighted German wikipedia article regarding a photography of the smoke clouds. The look/stlye of the people in it (their appearing carelessnes was also discussed in the article) made it clear to me again how LONG this was ago. People looked as in "Full house" or "Friends". (Another take - not related to the photopgraphy - is, that the time between the fall of the Berlin wall, and the attack on the WTC was far less than the time since the attack.) --Lupo (talk) 09:02, 24 January 2020 (UTC)