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- Tue Feb 19, 2019 12:46 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2113: "Physics Suppression"
- Replies: 17
- Views: 804
Re: 2113: "Physics Suppression"
Don't ask me about my theory. It did not fall off the back of a truck. I"ll only tell it to the biologists. They don't have souls.
- Mon Feb 04, 2019 10:22 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: Re: 2107: "Launch risk"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1430
Re: 2107: "Launch risk"
Ground Control: Don't get upset Major Tom. I just thought you might be interested in this oddity.
- Tue Jan 22, 2019 12:12 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2101: Technical Analysis
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2855
Re: 2101: Technical Analysis
For a nonmathematical example from 1929 see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eih67rlGNhU
and
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother ... _a_Dime%3F
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eih67rlGNhU
and
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother ... _a_Dime%3F
- Wed Jan 16, 2019 8:23 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2099: "Missal of Silos"
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2695
Re: 2099: "Missal of Silos"
Also, remove Thermonuclear War from the games list.
- Tue Jan 15, 2019 1:47 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2098: "Magnetic Pole"
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2397
Re: 2098: "Magnetic Pole"
Wandering magnetic pole - Lech Walesa on vacation.
- Tue Jan 08, 2019 1:32 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2095: "Marsiforming"
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2842
Re: 2095: "Marsiforming"
Ming the Merciless for President (or head of the EPA).
- Thu Jan 03, 2019 3:48 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2093: "Reminders"
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1623
Re: 2093: "Reminders"
If people require so much effort, they're not worth having as friends.
- Mon Dec 17, 2018 9:57 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2086: "History Department"
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3448
Re: 2086: "History Department"
Historians should fall behind to preserve their mental well being.
As D. P. Leitch wrote in 1968,
Histories of ages past
Unenlightened shadows cast
Down through all eternity
The crying of humanity
Imagine if the historians were up to date.
As D. P. Leitch wrote in 1968,
Histories of ages past
Unenlightened shadows cast
Down through all eternity
The crying of humanity
Imagine if the historians were up to date.
- Wed Dec 12, 2018 11:45 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2084: "FDR"
- Replies: 49
- Views: 6777
Re: 2084: "FDR"
Obviously Randall doesn't listen to conservative talk radio.
- Tue Dec 11, 2018 12:29 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2083: "Laptop Issues"
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4450
Re: 2083: "Laptop Issues"
Tech Support hasn't noticed that the only music videos YouTube plays on the laptop is Sympathy for the Devil.
- Fri Dec 07, 2018 6:39 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2082: "Mercator Projection"
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4274
Re: 2082: "Mercator Projection"
Where will the proposed wall between the US and Mexico actually be?
- Thu Dec 06, 2018 3:17 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2081: Middle Latitudes
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3879
Re: 2081: Middle Latitudes
Clowns to the left of me,
Jokers to the right, here I am,
Stuck in the middle latitudes with you.
Nothing to excess.
Jokers to the right, here I am,
Stuck in the middle latitudes with you.
Nothing to excess.
- Thu Nov 29, 2018 3:52 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2078: "Popper"
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3504
Re: 2078: "Popper"
As Bird said, Popper ooo mow mow..
- Tue Nov 27, 2018 2:18 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2077: "Heist"
- Replies: 40
- Views: 5159
Re: 2077: "Heist"
If he asks for your Social Security number, he's not legit.
- Mon Nov 19, 2018 10:37 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2074: Airplanes and Spaceships
- Replies: 40
- Views: 5489
Re: 2074: Airplanes and Spaceships
There will be passenger spaceships when there are casinos (and hookers) on Mars and Venus.
- Sat Nov 17, 2018 1:56 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2073: "Kilogram"
- Replies: 97
- Views: 12134
Re: 2073: "Kilogram"
Has BHG updated the Wikipedia article?
- Thu Nov 01, 2018 12:26 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2066: "Ballot Selfies"
- Replies: 110
- Views: 14356
Re: 2066: "Ballot Selfies"
If a. person is in the voting booth with the curtain closed, how can anyone tell they are taking a selfie?
- Fri Oct 26, 2018 3:55 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2064: "I'm a Car"
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3857
Re: 2064: "I'm a Car"
The first car to vote was a 1932 Ford coupe in Drag City in 1964. It was very critical of establishment politics and would constantly whine, whine, whine.
- Wed Oct 24, 2018 11:04 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2063: "Carnot Cycle"
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5421
Re: 2063: "Carnot Cycle"
Please delete.
- Wed Oct 24, 2018 11:02 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2063: "Carnot Cycle"
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5421
Re: 2063: "Carnot Cycle"
Print and distribute to your fellow pre-med students.
- Tue Oct 23, 2018 6:23 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2062: "Barnard's Star"
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3872
Re: 2062: "Barnard's Star"
Barnard's Star wishes everyone a Happy Mole Day from 6:02 AM to 6:02 PM on 10/23. Avogadro - he's got your number.
- Mon Oct 22, 2018 6:05 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2062: "Barnard's Star"
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3872
Re: 2062: "Barnard's Star"
"Hello, young'un! You're getting big." - Barnard's Star
- Wed Oct 17, 2018 11:23 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2060: "Hygrometer"
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4824
Re: 2060: "Hygrometer"
"My I interest you in this book of poetry in Iambic Pentameter?"
Iambic - therefore I write - inexpensively.
Iambic - therefore I write - inexpensively.
- Sat Oct 13, 2018 2:44 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2058: "Rock Wall"
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5626
Re: 2058: "Rock Wall"
"Mantle? Bah! Lava tubes!" - O. Lidenbrock and J. Verne.
- Sat Sep 29, 2018 4:10 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2052: "Stanislav Petrov Day"
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3556
Re: 2052: "Stanislav Petrov Day"
The TV film "The Day After" was first shown Nov. 20, 1983. Were the two films "inspired" by President Ronald Reagan?
- Fri Sep 28, 2018 9:49 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2052: "Stanislav Petrov Day"
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3556
Re: 2052: "Stanislav Petrov Day"
The film "War Games" was released in 1983.
- Wed Sep 26, 2018 5:37 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2051: "Bad Opinions"
- Replies: 46
- Views: 7519
Re: 2051: "Bad Opinions"
Hint: The opinion is political and angers both Rush Limbaugh and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
- Mon Sep 24, 2018 4:36 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2050: "6/6 Time"
- Replies: 73
- Views: 9208
Re: 2050: "6/6 Time"
And the lyrics would be "Time is not on my side".
- Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:12 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2047: "Beverages"
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3678
Re: 2047: "Beverages"
Theme song for this comic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbpcTwwtW3M
- Sat Sep 15, 2018 4:12 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2046: "Trum-"
- Replies: 38
- Views: 6099
Re: 2046: "Trum-"
"(It's right up there with 2001-2008, when people used to talk about the top two spots in the US being held by Bush and Dick.)"
Some leftist socialist progressives who take a knee during the playing of the National Anthem, say that the spots were held by two Dicks.
Some leftist socialist progressives who take a knee during the playing of the National Anthem, say that the spots were held by two Dicks.
- Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:07 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2045: "Social Media Announcement"
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4967
Re: 2045: "Social Media Announcement"
This illustrates the need for a WGAF.
- Mon Sep 10, 2018 4:36 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2044: "Sandboxing Cycle"
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4578
Re: 2044: "Sandboxing Cycle"
The sandboxing cycle requires an initiator and maintainer. This is known as the military-industrial complex.
- Sat Sep 01, 2018 3:04 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2040: Sibling-in-law
- Replies: 52
- Views: 8701
Re: 2040: Sibling-in-law
There's a problem when your family tree is a dowel.
- Thu Aug 30, 2018 12:10 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2039: "Begging the Question"
- Replies: 145
- Views: 18994
Re: 2039: "Begging the Question"
Try "That food made me sick."
- Fri Aug 17, 2018 8:00 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2034: "Equations"
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6273
Re: 2034: "Equations"
The chemistry equations author was pre-med until he/she wrote the equation.
- Sat Aug 11, 2018 12:22 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2031: "Pie Charts"
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4081
Re: 2031: "Pie Charts"
What's This Foolishness? Reca!culate the percentages.
- Wed Aug 08, 2018 5:42 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2030: "Voting Software"
- Replies: 45
- Views: 11472
Re: 2030: "Voting Software"
Many blame faulty voting software for the election of President Maurice Povich.
- Mon Aug 06, 2018 11:15 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2029: "Disaster Movie"
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3852
Re: 2029: "Disaster Movie"
The actress to play the head of the Institute will be either Meryl Streep or Stormy Daniels.
- Mon Jul 30, 2018 11:34 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2026: Heat Index
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4097
Re: 2026: Heat Index
TV (totally vapid) personalities use the heat index to scare viewers. "The heat index will be life threateningly high tomorrow. I'll tell you how high when I give the weather forecast later."
- Fri Jul 27, 2018 11:49 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 2025: "Peer Review"
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3507
Re: 2025: "Peer Review"
People wondered why Economics Journal had a membership in the KGB Poison of the Month Club.