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Describe xkcd hereWhat? No, we're not doing another joke.troper@tvtropes:/$ sudo describe xkcd hereOkay.is a. It is a gag-a-day comic and generally does not have a continuing plot line or continuity (though there are occasional short story arcs). Many of the jokes are based on math, physics, science, or, as well as romance and sex.
It utilizes for each and every comic, which contains additional jokes and context.Originally a relatively unknown set of personal sketches and doodles, it grew in popularity in 2006 when other webcomics (such as ) began linking to it. However, it was when Randall posted and said map was subsequently that xkcd's popularity truly erupted.
Since then, it has been among the most well-known of webcomics. Of course, you wouldn't know that just by looking at the comic. The characters are still drawn as very basic stick figures, with no facial features other than hairstyle (which is often used to ).
However, there are three recurring characters who can be recognized by their respective headgear:. 'Black Hat Guy': a badass character with a black pork-pie hat, who in one storyline encountered a woman who and has now become. A beret-clad and, generally thought of as an Existentialist, albeit one with a thing for pastries. A dark-haired woman, referred to in several comics as 'Megan'; she shares many of the same interests with the nondescript and is commonly shown to be in a relationship with him. Was the main character of the. There also seems to be a recurring main character with a distinct personality , but since he looks exactly the same as all the other stick figures without hair or hats, it could be argued that he's just a stock character. He has picked up the Cueball.There are other recurring characters in the same social circle—e.g.
The —but most of them are less distinctive.Has mentioned The wiki has returned the favor, taking many xkcd comics for page images (see for the list), as well as (formerly; may he be mourned) making the image for all pages under the category 'Webcomic' a little picture of Black Hat Guy.xkcd is part of the documentation for goto on the, and was mentioned ◊ note For those curious,Two big occurrences for the comic happened in 2012. The webcomic reached one thousand comics in January; as the above-mentioned main character says, 'Wow—just 24 to go until a big round-number milestone!' Later in June, xkcd added a section called to its website, where Randall tackles hypothetical questions with physics and silly drawings. Has a.Numerologists take note: adding up the numerical values of the title's letters yields a sum of. Coincidence?Completely unrelated, but some fans had the bright idea to in xkcd style.The subcomic, now finished, is so big that it has its own page now.The 'small game' also now has its own page.Tropes appearing in this webcomic.: Used repeatedly, including involving a graph about a decline in a relationship that might be caused by graphing things.:.: Beret Guy does this a lot. Is an example.: whose strips don't really make fun of anything and, in some cases, could actually have been used by the regular cartoonist except for the artwork. It turns into a deconstruction of parody with the author halting his parody because he feels sorry for the writer.
The author also stops a later parody because he respects the writers too much (with the respect transitioning to and then before he finishes.).: cites the 'half-your-age-plus-seven' rule and provides the trope image.:. Guy to Guy: Wow, you suck at math.Guy to Girl: Wow, girls suck at math.:.:.:.: Every single comic has a second punchline if you hover your mouse over the comic for a few seconds.
This is probably one of the most well-known examples of such, in fact (even providing the trope page's image).: and.:.:.: One comic has a father conditioning his daughter's speech centers to shut down when she's upset. To say the least:.:. There's no rule saying a meerkat can't play. Nor anything in any Terms of Service saying that (the ).
You have to be careful when invoking this excuse, since. Note there actually is a rule that covers it, but taking the intentional foul is probably worth getting the animal off the field. Not to mention the. plays it straight, exaggerates it, inverts it and parodies it. Now and then, I announce 'I know you're listening' to empty rooms.
If I'm wrong, nobody knows, and if I'm right, maybe I just freaked the hell out of some secret organization.: Subtly implicit in some, such as.: on the prevalence of dirty words you find when playing family games.: one that activates when you tug on the copy of, though all it does is tell you that.:. The first panel and alt-text of. The very first strip and the line on the very uttermost right of. began and ended with a very small sandcastle.:. The,. Does it count if only one comic.
Then The reference in the latter two are in the Alt-Text. It shows up a fourth time in the alt-text of one of the images in He references it again with and inverts it in the alt text. Tetris in and. In, we learn that trying to install FreeBSD has a chance of stranding one in the middle of the ocean. In we have an ocean somewhere to the right, and there are two stick figures in the middle of it, complaining 'Stupid FreeBSD.' .Which comes up AGAIN as a possible outcome in a 'choose your own adventure' style comic. A very subtle one.
Hat-Guy has a hat under his hat to one-up those who have their own hats. He shows up as a tiny little figure in a by author Zach Weiner. The had the Netherlands taking over the world as a. The showed Mars being turned into 'New Netherlands.' Revealed that the Netherlands will continue to expand, establishing 'Netherlands VI.' .:.
is a cross between this and an inverted: it describes a Saturn V rocket using only the 1000 (ten hundred) most-frequently-used words in the English language. Randall followed this up with 'Thing Explainer', in this style.
The first three panels of are full of these.:.: Pupating Transformers.: Addressed in where a scenario is being observed from the space station.: Very popular, especially in the. In ', an early comic, a heart is inserted into various mathematical formulas ending in question marks. It was captioned 'My normal approach is useless here.'
Five years later in he wrote a strip about a terminally ill woman. The reads, 'My normal approach is useless here, too.' .
Another in to 'Little Bobby Tables' from. And again in. Also, and later,. In the Black Hat Guy sells an office chair on eBay, only for the actual package to arrive at the purchaser's home a bobcat. 251 comics later in one character sets up a script that purchases something random off eBay every day so he can continually receive packages (notice the ). The bobcat gets mentioned yet again in ' ( again). In the very first comic, a boy starts floating around in a barrel.
In the author puts wings on a Ferret hoping he will fly. Eventually, the boy loses the barrel, and 11 comics later, in is rescued by the winged ferret. The punchline for 'Barrel - Part 1' is reused in when you scroll all the way to the right. The man with the loud girlfriend and the elliptical dish from gets a mention in the from. In scientists created fork/spork/spoon hybrids, with disastrous results.
Only two comics later they are mentioned again in. The inane statement in 'You're a kitty!'
Gets a callback in the mouseover for — 'You're a turtle!' . where the water gun appears to be the same one from.
Black Hat Guy's past exploits are brought up in. Electric skateboards are a recurring motif.
So are giant hamster balls. 'Lemme know if you find out why she's ordering all those colored plastic balls.' . In the says, 'And watch out for that guy from ('Hobby'). Zeppelins.:.
As a, he fights in the name of his fair lady in. He measures things by the silhouette which is always before his eyes in.
Oh, hey, speaking of cat captions. I IZ. In the remarks, 'I just caught myself idly trying to work out what that resistor mass would actually be, and realized I had self-nerd-sniped.' .
At one point Munroe produced several strips about boomerang hijinks. Then, we get. A very subtle and easily missed one occurs in the of which references. The comic explains a space rocket with only the 1000 most common words used in English. It includes the phrase 'you will not go to space today' for when something goes wrong.
The blag turned it. In, fake ninjas attack Richard Stallman in his sleep. Later, during, he comes to Mrs. Robert aid. 'Part 5' also sees the return of.
In we see someone, possibly an early Megan, riding an Apatosaur. Then, in we see her again riding an Apatosaur, this time in a daydream. The Tautology Club from ' is referenced in the of. Megan: You know how some people consider 'May you have an interesting life' to be a curse?Cueball: Yeah.Megan: those people.
Wanna have an adventure?.:.:.: Hannelore from can be found.: Actually Submarine Fu: Black Hat Guy recovers his hat from his in by crashing a Russian nuclear submarine through the ice she's skating on.: The dream in starts out as a nightmare, but eventually it gets a. The catapult is still there at the end.: strip plays with the trope. It isn't so much a body as it is evidence of what's left of it.:.: Argues whether or not this should be.: Early on, Beret Guy was more of an existentialist.
He then shifted to being a bartender obsessed with bakeries, before finally settling into his self with.: Suggested to make the news more interesting.: Although Death didn't take into account having to play. The white balance, for one.Focus is a bit too close.The chromatic aberration suggests you bought your camera because it had 'the most megapixels'THE CAR IS ON FIRE!Maybe you should use the insurance money to get a new camera.: Parodied.: pretending to be one of the justices, despite all 9 justices present and accounted for.
Goes as far as to claim he's either Justice Alito or Ginsburg.: See Call Back.: (It's not completely their fault; they're re-enacting the plot of.).: A derivative of this trope (with a reference to the CSI ), as seen.: pokes fun at some of the flavors this trope comes in.:.: the WHO got the whole 'cellphones cause cancer' thing backward.: In a parody of in.:. Also found.: Parodied.: xkcd teams up with to show you using the ten hundred words used the most. And there are also crossovers:. with who's more devoted to the whole science thing. : My Deep Impact/Little Prince crossover fanfic has been poorly received by the community.:.: Shown in the strip ', which is the as well.: Played with by.: strip demonstrates how the internet makes you appear smarter.: chart plots out scary names based on how scary the name is, and how scary the thing itself is.
And 'Bomb Calorimeter' are considered this, while 'Soil Liquefaction' and ' are cases of. 'Flesh-Eating Bacteria' is in the corner for.:. It's theoretically habitable. If you ignore the constant, and the fact that it's. 'We're hoping to find biosignatures in the form of screaming.'
.:.: According to the here,. Also,.: In universe.
In an strip, a web site announcing crashes as a result of all the people checking to see if they won.: is about redundancy because redundancy is what the Tautology Club is all about.: Surely has than pretend to be. Meanwhile, wearing a brown coat, 'Name's Captain Reynolds, ma'am.' .ahem. 'Name's Captain Reynolds, ma'am.'
Made by a certain.:.: Invoked but not used. Black Hat Guy: I plead the third.Congresswoman: You mean the fifth.Black Hat Guy: No, the third.Congresswoman.You refuse to quarter troops in your house?Black Hat Guy: I have few principles, but I stick to them.
does not condone his participation in the.: Parodied in ', which uses a style cut scene to show a disease-causing bacterium evolving into a drug-resistant variant.:.: is a to nearly every academic major for training students to have completely useless skills and knowledge. The only one not insulted is engineering. Though physics seems to promise you a -like career, the wiki page for 'Physics Major' redirects to 'Engineer.'
.: Somehow both inverted and played straight in the book Thing Explainer, where everything is explained in — which can be thick enough to obfuscate what it's talking about. Standout examples include the 'Sky Boat with Turning Wings' (helicopter), the 'Shape Checker' that checks whether you have a piece of metal with a certain shape (cylinder lock), the 'Box that Cleans Food Holders' (dishwasher), and the 'Big Tiny Thing Hitter' (Large Hadron Collider). Bobby: Mom, I'm hungry.Mrs.
Roberts: Hush, I'm coding. The establishment doesn't take us seriously. You know who else they didn't take seriously? I'll be like him, but a GOOD guy instead of. In the singer compares choosing an academic major to.: Played for laughs The explicitly states: 'I believe the truth always lies halfway between the most extreme claims.' .: of trying to be 'the of social interaction' is.: upgrading a computer leads to being stranded out in the middle of the ocean.:. Inverted in the: 'Dot Tumblr Dot Com' would not make, due to potential confusion about its website.
The of features a double whammy, part of which is a callback to an earlier strip.: open letter to whatever group or are secretly controlling the U.S. Government telling them to get their shit together, it's embarrassing. Note Referring to the 2013 government shutdown.: 'Iambic Pentameter'.: A week full of them, by the authors of,. Yes, Bill Amend did a guest strip.: With some frequency.
It also appears in the warning at the bottom of each page. is a soft target, but perhaps. Inverted in with a biologist giving a physicist a speech.: Used in the for.:.: to go back and kill Hitler, at his friend's insistence.
Which is when and where Hitler actually died.:,.: Parodied in in which this scenario goes in a wildly different direction.: Subverted in It starts with a over a chaotic scene, but rather than say something like 'You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation', it says 'You're probably wondering what that sound was. Well, long ago, music was recorded on vinyl discs.'
.: #1110, 'Click and Drag', mentions Icarus. Really, it does. You'll have to look hard, though.: note You'll be moved up from 49 of 7 billion to 31 of 7 billion.: In case of emergency,.:.: Several of the comics, but taken to the extreme with.:.:.: All over the place:. talk to them like a fucking human being.' 'Nah, that's a sucker's game!'
. —I'm your statistically significant other. are you carrying a chin-up bar?' 'I'm not really a not-carrying-a-chin-up-bar person.' .: Spoofed in when the audience complains about the 'blue dot' being an artifact on the photo.: Very easy (As usual, explains how.).: Many of his parodies fit this trope a little closer.:.: Some uses this on a in.:.: Beret Guy is to learn that other people can't tell what atoms are in objects just by looking at them. He wonders, 'How do you tell what things are?'
.:.:. The starts with the trope name, but then. discusses the trope.:.: Black Hat Guy.:.: If all his friends jumped off a bridge it's probably because something bad is happening,.: is an interactive comic where you can move around with a hoverboard. It has all the classic platformer-physics in action.
Also, you can jump arbitrary times in the air.: Played with in.: A not-so-subtle instance in Thing Explainer. In a map of the Earth, Australia is simply labeled 'Big Animals with Pockets.' We did not invent the algorithm. The algorithm consistently finds Jesus.
The algorithm killed Jeeves. Note In context, possibly a reference to the search engine rather than the The algorithm is.
The algorithm is from Jersey. The algorithm constantly finds Jesus.
This is not the algorithm. This is close.
The is as follows: In 2007, some billboards popped up in with those sentences on them, as part of an apparent viral marketing campaign by However, they apparently didn't finish it; the phrases didn't return anything relevant on Google. Randall decided to exploit this by having the many bloggers in his fanbase post the sentences as links to xkcd.com. He added them to the site itself so that the effort wouldn't be misinterpreted as an attempted It worked; if you Google the phrases, the top results are all references to xkcd. 'Perhaps could change your mind?'
It's like something straight out of.: Too many to fully enumerate. Some examples:. from something romantic to the complete opposite. ' segues from a gag to something rather heartbreaking.: A about.: In strip #721, Cueball apologizes to for having given him a hard time when he had trouble understanding three-dimensional space. Playing a four-dimensional game called has made Cueball more sympathetic to Square's situation.: starts out as an attempt to cure cancer, but ends up.: In the xkcd-Verse, computer science is revered as if it were a martial art.
The story arc is a good example. Making a sandwich!.:. Frequently, including. Also, using the LHC to.
Possibly the worst one yet:.: Done in.: Implied by the of which claims that 'Jimmy Hoffa currently heads the Teamsters Union — he just started going by 'James'.' (Jimmy Hoffa's son James P.
Hoffa is the actual current head of the Teamsters Union.).: Most of the names of recurring characters were never clearly stated. Averted with 'Megan'. The alt text of the strip names the Black Hat Guy as 'Hat guy.' . The may be named.: Black Hat Guy. Except the one time his was.: The amateur player in attributes being beaten by a more experienced player to Chess being a badly-designed game.: by the.: Discussed in, leading to an argument about when a new decade actually begins.
Ultimately resolved based on 's.: Velociraptors,.:. God knows how it all fits together, but it sounds great. Examined further in.: The evolved into this.: Invoked, to the dismay of the characters.:. Whatever the rest of was.
Also,. Then we have Start with trying to one-up some christmas light displays on Youtube. End up fighting raptors with lightsabers, Bill Gates killing Santa, and finally cutting down the Yggdrasil as a Christmas tree. And however he lost his.
The seems to qualify. 'That seems like an awful lot of hassle when all I wanted was a cool sword.' .: starts with this, and then puts another layer on top.: posits what would happen if mission control acted like indifferent telephone service operators during the Apollo 13 disaster; the operator doesn't care about their emergency, makes snarky comments when they try to explain their plight, and brushes them off in favor of a call from his mother.: Inverted His ice is stolen. And he wakes up in a bathtub full of, rather than the other way 'round.: Xkcd orders expecting the waiter to figure out what quantities of which items to serve in order to reach that number. The joke is that the costs listed on the menu just happen to mean that the waiter is being asked to solve a complex mathematical problem.:. which even combines this with. Expect to burst out laughing several times during Not from the little tidbits in it, but from scrolling through it and finding you're still scrolling but it's not ending!.
That or simply stare in awe with mouth agape while thinking about how long that had to have taken to make. Many pages in the have these, but deserves a special mention, combining this with a constantly returning. : Guest comic by Bill Amend of, an inspiration to all us nerdy-physics-majors-turned-cartoonists, of which there are an oddly large number. The of mentions that is 'the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the WORLD'.: 'That star is Vega. At magnitude 0.03, it's the brightest star I'm currently talking about.' .:.
of predictions for the future, until you get to. may count as both this and: the image on the strip page changes every hour, forming a stop-motion video with narrative when combined on external sites such as. People discussing it on the forums initially assumed it would go on for a few days, it went beyond that. Then it seemed logical that it would conclude at the end of the week, with a punchline on April 1st. When it became clear that the story was of two people building a sandcastle on the beach, the most common prediction was that upon finishing the sandcastle the tide would wash it away and the scene loop to the beginning, forming a metaphor of some sort. Eventually the castle was finished and the tide did wash it away, the scene fading to white.
Only for a brand new scene to start, two people now on a quest to find out how seas and river and everything else works! It went on for over four months, updating each hour, and finally ended on July 26, 2013. 'Time and tide wait for Gnome Ann.' 'The wicked flee when Gnome Ann pursueth.' 'Time ripens all things; Gnome Ann is born wise.' .: Discussed in.: In Randall wants to live on an example map of geography books.: In ', Humpty Dumpty from explains that whatever word he says means whatever he wants it to mean. Alice throws it back at him by using her own personal dictionary to what he said to mean that she can take all of his stuff, including his car.: Black Hat Guy.:.: The for reveals that with the English and Greek alphabets and the Oxford English Dictionary exhausted, and the subsequent storms proving to be uncountably infinite, the NOAA gives up and names all the remaining hurricanes 'Steve'.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: That's no moon - it's a space station.Luke: It's too big to be a space station.Obi-Wan: But it's too small to be a moon.Three hours passObi-Wan: Fine! What if we agree it's not a moon, but we make a new category called 'dwarf moon'?Luke: And what's the cutoff, asshole?! Is this ship a dwarf moon now?Obi-Wan: Screw you.: Referenced.: Demonstrated.: Discussed.:.:. Also:.: ' '.:.: He's an agent for the 'forces working beneath the chaos of life'.: makes fun of the public messages in.:.
Rather blatantly in strips, and. 'I'm sorry if I hurt anthropology-major feelings with alt-text. I meant it as a friendly jibe at a cool field. has two, one as the punchline and one in the. the author drew as a part of a game features chasing a guy on his '.
He commented: 'Why did I draw this?' Oh my. Not just your significant other.:. A lampshade is hung in the alt text. accompanied by a.
What are the thoughts of a about making people fly by blowing air on them while they're holding up a kite? 'I'm not a huge fan.' (The CSI meme version.).: Claimed to happen in the of.:.: Touched on.: Given by the target of a pickup artist in.:. Apparently. lampshades the outdatedness of the trope.:.: Many comics require the reader to know the reference to get the joke.: the forum-produced. Notable is the fact that the spin-off comic has more than three times the number of strips than the original.: shows an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to the trope, with an officer dying the day before his last day on the job, when the department locks retiring officers into a heavily protected room for that day.: The spaceship in looks like a potato with fins.: Black Hat Guy vandals not to mess with his jack-o-lantern.: In one part of Beret Guy rides a torpedo.
(A regular one, because they have no ).:, as in with guns, rockets and the like, hoping to destroy that stupid 'skycircle'. The point is that there are too many stars.
It's been freaking me out.:. In, two of the characters create a single unifying standard for the fourteen other (competing) standards. Instead of helping anything, there are now just 15 competing standards. In, Cueball creates tautology club when he finds out it doesn't already exist.:. In where an audience member its use. In beneath Black Hat Guy's tool bench is a box labelled 'drills' and a box labelled.
In '? It's an experimental OS that I. Oh, never mind.' Now try counting the syllables. The in asks, 'When you talk about the job experience you'll give me, why do you pronounce Job with a long 'o'?' This is a reference to the Biblical figure Job, whose story centers on him being tormented with sickness while maintaining his faith in God.: Lampooned with athlete's names; Randall mentions three real names (Margaret Court, a tennis player; Gary Player, a golf player; and Lonzo Ball, a basketball player), and then mentions a few other names like Jake Halfpipe, Dwight Shuttlecock and Kate Dopingscandal. The mentions how Usain Bolt will be superseded in popularity by Derek Legs in the 2090s.:.
Shows a guy deriding a few people playing, telling them it doesn't make them cool. Even though they're having fun. Invoked.:.: about an asteroid heading towards Earth gets sidetracked by reporters asking about what role Social Media has played.: In the strip, the character is having trouble staying awake because of jet lag. That's what it is. He definitely didn't spend half the night reading Wikipedia.: strip, referencing a similar example in.:.:.
As required for any ' computer user, the strip hates Windows, especially Vista. Computational linguists are also targeted occasionally. Chomskyists, generative linguists, and, your days are numbered. While all those are often partially tongue in cheek,. Randall also makes his views on string theory Brains vs string theorists is a very.
for people who endlessly parrot. Fuck, Basically, any field that isn't. He has also, though that's more a grudging rivalry than a belittlement. With some exceptions, like the one against homeopathy, the are usually intended to be in jest. Occasionally the comic doesn't make this entirely clear; notably, the one against anthropology majors was so widely seen as a serious insult to the field that the author later issued an apology for it, as noted above under.
Fuck. Xbox / Playstation fanboys are jerks. Fans will give you a hug, though.' . There's one against Atlas Shrugged. Another one: but I haven't been able to come up with a name dumber than '.'
. ' attacks websites featuring slideshows utilizing the. A truly well-deserved one towards. One towards.:.: Inverted. The is so convincing, it convinces the to let him back into the box.:.: A couple times in. 'Are the raptors contained?' Unless they figure out how to build lightsabers.'
.:.: what she sees in a cloud, but she instead points her cell phone at it and uses Google's image search to identify it. Google says it's a cloud, Cueball is unimpressed.: Cueball and friends try to come up with a word to fill the Kix slogan 'Kid Tested, Mother.' Their failed attempts include 'Selected', 'Perfected', 'Not Notified', 'Watching Helplessly', 'Infected', 'Consumed', and.: addresses the author's theories about the reason for that.:.:.: Just imagine what would ensue if ever reached the folks behind.: Shows what happens when the order of those three laws is messed with in.: drop, actually. From 'Time': 'We need to run.'
.:.: In a girl runs up to a man named Rob and tells him. ' Fine, walk away. I'm gonna go cry into a pint of Ben&Jerry's Brownie Batter(tm) ice cream link, then take out my frustration on a variety of great flash games from PopCap Games(r) link.' sic.: In strip, one of the characters proposes a sleep schedule that allocates 28 hour days, as the other person has a flexible work schedule.
The notes that actually attempting this will cause the individual to go insane.: The 'Get out of my head Randall!' Meme where many of the comics are applicable to the everyday lives of the readers.: The examiner is now questioning.: Possibly the.:. (sort of).: Black Hat Guy acquires a girlfriend in a mini-arc who shares similar interests and is more than a match for him.
She comes up again, but slightly more rarely than he does.:.:. Interestingly, in the 'archive' page, all comics after that strip are displayed Right-to-Left.:.:.: There's about. Predictably, someone on the internet like that. And some managed.: The basis of.:. The tendency of such plates to be owned by pretentious rich jerks is parodied, and. One guy tries to fool people by getting a vanity plate consisting of thinking he can commit crimes with impunity as no one will be able to correctly record his plate number. This backfires on him in that he's the only one with a license plate like this, so the cops can find him easily; and the suggests his girlfriend gets a similar plate so that she can commit crimes that he'll get blamed for.:.
One of the biggest practitioners. The strip often bases comics on obscure math, physics, or computer jokes. This has gotten less common over time, and the forums are very useful. You may need to be knowledgeable in several possibly obscure or complicated fields to completely get some of the earlier ones. For example, computer programing, meteorology, cosmic rays, and tao philosophy.
Another example: Hand to an electronics technician, and just sit back and watch the laughter.: E.g. 'I know that no matter where I go or who I build a life with, I will never have with anyone what I had with you.:.:, where all Etymology-Man could do was to the people fighting the should have summoned instead.: Done via.:.: comic points this out, specifically with regards to zombie movies that start in labs. But.: Wikipedia articles are frequently defaced whenever a relevant topic is mentioned, as.:. shows the danger of falling into these.
comic describes the trope perfectly. one mentions a path in the.: In strip, the 'Wish Bureau' keeps an ongoing log of Black Hat's clever attempts to get extra wishes, including wishing for 'a universe which is an exact replica of this one sans rules against meta-wishes.' .: The women usually play the more sensible part in the comic.:.: Done in.: In general, the frequent invocations of interesting bits of science.
In particular, and make the point that it's a big world full of fun and wonder.: makes fun of Einstein's (or whoever's) famous quote. It continues past World War IV though XIV, and tells us the exact kind of weapons used in those wars.:. Interrupted due to (or maybe the guy's just snarking back). Parodied, where they didn't leave a message on voicemail. (Rather hard to do on a rotary phone.). has two variants that also parody the trope, one for using Maxthon Cloud Browser and another for using Netscape Navigator.
Maxthon: Maxthon? Hey, 2005 called. Didn't say anything. All I could hear was sobbing.Netscape: Netscape Navigator?
Hey, the nineties called - drunk, as usual. I hung up without saying anything.:.:. Illustrated in Note that X and Z are the top two. collects a whole list of these.
The lampshades the comic title using this trope.:. produces such a conversation from 500 years ago. combine this with modern slang (and other anachronisms) to make fun of period pieces.: Happens.: Zombie wants brains after explaining how are true science. Person: Try the physics lab next door.Zombie Feynman: I said BRAINS.
All they've got are.:. Played with frequently. The trope is also used. Subverted Is in the and. defaces websites of people who tell these jokes to her daughter. and. in the pile of comparisons.
She weighs 200 kgs, (220 with cheap jewelery and 223 with cheap jewelery and makeup).: Due to the popularity of xkcd, it's common to click on links and watch counts skyrocket. This is more apparent on 'What if?' , which has at least one outside link and a couple of PDFs per post. One of the most common comments in any of them is 'xkcd army reporting in!' .: The beret guy appears on a nameless game show based on the classic two-goats-and-a-car problem and Instead of going for the car, he takes the goat and says he has an overgrown yard.
“Morning Swim in the Arroyo Seco”16 x 12 inchesoil on canvasSOLDDucks gently paddle in the pond beneath Pasadena’s Colorado Street Bridge a scene of rural tranquility in the heart of Pasadena’s Arroyo Seco. Readers of this blog will remember the great duck adventure a few years back, as we watched a mother lead her ducklings up the flood control channel to the safety of the pond – including scaling a 45 degree incline covered with moss. But all the ducklings made it eventually, safe from hawks and owls. Perhaps some of these paddlers are those little ducks, all grown up with families of their own.Sold at the Art for the Animals show at Gale’s Restaurant in Pasadena this past week, benefitting the Pasadena Humane Society and SPCA.
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