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- Tue Nov 03, 2015 10:04 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1595: "30 Days Hath September"
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Re: 1595: "30 Days Hath September"
We get an extra week this year! That's easy to memorize (for the current century) using the following verse: 53 weeks hath 2004, and 2009, and 2015, 2020, 2026, 2032, 2037 and 2043, and 2048 and 2054, and 2060, 2065, 2071, 2076, 2082, 2088 and 2093, and 2099. Please note the beautiful rhyme scheme,...
- Mon Nov 02, 2015 1:26 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
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Re: COULD REDUNDANCY _BE_ ANY MORE ROUNDABOUT?
The door on the far side is open, and says "CHINA POST / 中国邮政 ", and on the near side "TSOP ANIHC / 政邮国中 ", because in Chinese things on the sides of vehicles are written front-to-back. The logo is reversed but the individual glyphs (Chinese and Roman) are not… That's weird. It ...
- Mon Nov 02, 2015 6:34 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
- Replies: 106767
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Re: 1190: "Time"
The sign means: "Store roundabout traffic signs here", but there was an imported ruler-disposing robot that couldn't read protobeanish. The mistake will eventually destroy civilization. By the way, the Wikipedia article on Roundabout is extremely long and detailed, with a cute animated tra...
- Sun Nov 01, 2015 5:00 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
- Replies: 106767
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Re: Time After Time: t-1_0291
ETA by mscha: I don't understand what the camera is doing. (First moving away from the yellow thingies towards nothing, then reversing course.) And the black-and-white camerabeanie doesn't follow the elevator, but keeps filming the burbulent water. That's ominous, as if something more is waiting to...
- Sat Oct 31, 2015 7:12 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
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Re: 1190: "Time"
ggh: Congratulations, New Zealand! SBN: Very cute wolpies. I'm glad you didn't go for the scary Hound of the Baskervilles look with fluorescent fangs and whatnot. The molpiness that wants to be free reminded me of an old limerick by Morris Bishop in the Penguin Book of Limericks , compiled by O. Pa...
- Sat Oct 31, 2015 9:45 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
- Replies: 106767
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Re: 1190: "Time"
The robot ONGs suddenly remind me of the end, sorry, the *nd of when Wallace and Gromit go to the moon. I'll spoiler it if you haven't seen that (in which case, do it now!).
Spoiler:
- Fri Oct 30, 2015 11:28 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1595: "30 Days Hath September"
- Replies: 132
- Views: 25977
Re: 1595: "30 Days Hath September"
When I was a kid in the 1960s and 1970s, Halloween was not a thing in Sweden. All Hallows' Eve, yes, with candles at graveyards, very solemn, but no Halloween stuff. But kids used to dress up like witches on Easter and go around begging for candy or coins. Some years ago, I found an old, Swedish Don...
- Fri Oct 30, 2015 10:41 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
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Re: 1190: "Time"
ED: Nope, it's fyrtiotvå in Swedish, although I admit that is is pronounced as if it were spelled førtitvå. That makes everything kristall klear, ja? For decree: In 1926 a group of explorers, with a base camp at 51° 5′ 24″ N, 0° 6′ 25.2″ E, managed to find an important artefact. The one who made the...
- Fri Oct 30, 2015 7:21 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Førtito is apparently a place in Norway. Ah, yes, there is a Førtito Bar & Bowling in Sarpsborg, Norway. But also, førtito means forty-two in Norwegian , according to Google Translate. So we are both right - the usual outcome in this friendly thread. (Well, Dutch and Norwegian are functionally ...
- Fri Oct 30, 2015 4:35 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
- Replies: 106767
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Decree: Obscure book references. Users browsing this forum: Eoink, førtito , mscha, peregrine_crow, ps.02, slinches, Yahoo [Bot] and 29 guests Hm, could førtito be Dutch for fortytwo, the answer to you-know-what in a certain book hexalogy. (Or pentalogy?) Anyway, whoever put the very long yellow ru...
- Thu Oct 29, 2015 6:38 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
- Replies: 106767
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Hi Link! I think of you when my computer is compiling and I am staring at the screen. It's when the Incredibuild tool displays a set of parallel progress bars with text, so some of them are labelled "link". Very often, I find myself thinking, "Oh look, a new post from Link! No, wait, ...
- Thu Oct 29, 2015 5:46 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
- Replies: 106767
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Thanks for the animations, mscha, I hadn't realized that the Beanies used the rope to pull the elevator closer to the wall. Seems like a dangerous practice. (Well, in comparison with trying to repair a gigantic crumbling dam, maybe not so dangerous.) About the anonymously written web comic at dord.h...
- Wed Oct 28, 2015 4:45 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1595: "30 Days Hath September"
- Replies: 132
- Views: 25977
Re: 1595: "30 Days Hath September"
Excellent idea. Those people in The Long Now Foundation don't really see the big picture. Five-digit years - bah!
- Wed Oct 28, 2015 3:16 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
- Replies: 106767
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Yup, that registered immediately as "what the Time ch*rp!" Indeed. That's unusually RELATED. Maybe it's Down Comer 5. Or Asteroid 4942 Munroe. I was just wondering about the English name for Plockepinn. I noted that Wikipedia writes that one must follow the rules strictly in order to enjo...
- Tue Oct 27, 2015 11:19 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
- Replies: 106767
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Re: 1190: "Time"
... although I think the rythm stutters. "BOOK-mak-ER bi-BI" doesn't sound natural I'd normally pronounce it "BI-bi", so don't see an issue. [...] Jose Well yes, me too. But "BI-bi" is a trochee, so pronouncing it like that would wreck the iambic tetrameter. It would j...
- Mon Oct 26, 2015 9:28 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1595: "30 Days Hath September"
- Replies: 132
- Views: 25977
Re: 1595: "30 Days Hath September"
I think we should do away with months altogether and just use Julian. Today is the 299th day of the year. Yeah, but if we go Julian, we should go all the way. Today is Julian day 2457322 since the epoch start at 12h Jan 1, 4713 BC. What are those things "year" and "month" of whi...
- Mon Oct 26, 2015 9:05 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1595: "30 Days Hath September"
- Replies: 132
- Views: 25977
Re: 1595: "30 Days Hath September"
I am a knuckle counter. We have the poem in a Swedish version, but with three -embers that fit the rhyme, combined with having Swedish words for June and July that very nearly rhyme, I have never found the poem useful. At my job, we once had an important costumer who wanted an assignment done and de...
- Mon Oct 26, 2015 5:08 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
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Re: 1190: "Time"
An evil water spirit with outstretched arms!
What if we tried more glue?
What if we tried more glue?
- Sat Oct 24, 2015 1:19 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
- Replies: 106767
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Re: Time After Time: t-1_0247
The Beanie used speech! Oh, I didn't notice. Sneaky to talk among the ropes. He said: X,c. According to the time wikia, it is believed to mean affirmative/okay. I can't remember if the upperscore above the c means question mark or exklamation mark. So, "okay?" or "okay!", I thin...
- Sat Oct 24, 2015 8:49 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
- Replies: 106767
- Views: 44897833
Re: 1190: "Time"
I had fun with the online password poem generator that DrSamCarter linked to. It took me only a couple of tries to get a poem with coherent meaning: A cabin bookmaker Bibi accepted business guarantee. ... although I think the rythm stutters. "BOOK-mak-ER bi-BI" doesn't sound natural, but m...
- Fri Oct 23, 2015 10:27 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1576: "I Could Care Less"
- Replies: 310
- Views: 47987
Re: 1576: "I Could Care Less"
This stems from people being lazy about conversation, and not paying attention to the word "not" in a sentence. People answer positive and negative questions the same. "Didn't you just do that?" is answered the same as "Did you just do that?", by saying Yes. They mean ...
- Fri Oct 23, 2015 2:54 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
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Re: 1190: "Time"
The anemone played vibraphone.
The electric eel was a conductor.
The electric eel was a conductor.
- Fri Oct 23, 2015 11:12 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
- Replies: 106767
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Apparently someone dropped a cello in the water in the hiddenONGs. I cannot unsee the cello. Not the best underwater instrument. Yeah, I finally got the bass joke, but it took me a while. Another instrument you could play under water is the submarimba. This calls for a jolly sailor song: What shall...
- Fri Oct 23, 2015 4:28 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
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Re: 1190: "Time"
- I think I recognize those two Stoor-hobbits over there, who have just found a golden ring, but I am not sure if I remember their names. Isn't one of them Deagol?
- Deagol shmeagol!
- Yeah, that's right. Thank you.
- Deagol shmeagol!
- Yeah, that's right. Thank you.
- Thu Oct 22, 2015 10:02 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Oh, I do like the word "cromulent". I have seen the episode. Miss Krabappel talks about the Springfield motto: "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man", and remarks: "I hadn't heard the word 'embiggen' before I moved to Springfield". And Miss Hoover replies: "I ...
- Thu Oct 22, 2015 9:35 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Oh, the Jabberwocky was burbling? And burble is a real verb? Ah yes, I just looked it up, and it can mean "to make a sound like water flowing". Then water is burbulent! (As is the Jabberwock. I mean was. RIP.) And this is ironic: "to burble" can also mean, "to talk fast abou...
- Thu Oct 22, 2015 9:02 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Ah. The construction "<some word> shm-<some word>" is an American idiom, I think, possibly originating in Yiddish. Although HES is British, I believe. Anyway: when someone claims something, using <some word>, and you disagree, distrust, or think it is irrelevant, you can reply with "<...
- Thu Oct 22, 2015 6:24 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Burbulent? No, that must be bermulent water. In the black-and-white frame, I mean. The hiddenONG water looks more like ordinary schmurbulence. (Hope you are impressed by my fluid dynamics knowledge.)
- Wed Oct 21, 2015 3:16 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
- Replies: 106767
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Re: FIVE GOLD RINGS
I still think that in reality, water coming through a hole in a dam wouldn't have such perfect shape; there would be some droplets, smaller streams spraying in other directions, bubbles, water vapor... Indeed. A rough, irregular hole such as a breach would produce turbulent, not laminar, flow. But ...
- Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:31 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Thanks for the height estimate, mrob. So, the breach is at most about 30 metres below the Atlantic surface? That doesn't seem too bad. Lucky that there was an elevator at the right position. I predict dialogue: Short-Beanie: Squiggle, squiggle, curl. Translation: We can fix this; we just need someon...
- Tue Oct 20, 2015 7:17 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Good question. Pretending to be Randall must be heresy, for which the punishment is continued red-hairiness. How about we speculate about what Randall's current superpowers are. But isn't there already an OtherThread for that? Ch*rp, my decreeing power fails me. How about this: calculate the height ...
- Tue Oct 20, 2015 6:04 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
- Replies: 106767
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Re: 1190: "Time"
xkcd-related SMBC-comic: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3900
- Mon Oct 19, 2015 6:25 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1591: "Bell's Theorem"
- Replies: 46
- Views: 9789
Re: 1591: "Bell's Theorem"
But how could he know that the two dead men were brothers, if he didn't know them? He must have been lying about that - so he was the murderer!
(Sorry, I have been watching Columbo reruns.)
(Sorry, I have been watching Columbo reruns.)
- Mon Oct 19, 2015 5:52 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1592: "Overthinking"
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6041
Re: 1592: "Overthinking"
I'm not dead! I'm getting better! I don't want to go on the cart!keithl wrote:Studies say all sorts of things about people, because there are all sorts of people, and no study looks at every one of them - but most pretend to. The average person has one ovary, one testicle, and is 93% dead.
- Mon Oct 19, 2015 5:25 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Shouldn't there be a sign: "In case of earthquake, do not use elevator".
- Sun Oct 18, 2015 6:56 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1591: "Bell's Theorem"
- Replies: 46
- Views: 9789
Re: 1591: "Bell's Theorem"
cellocgw wrote:So does this corollary violate the Recognition Law? You know, " Dunno who he was, but his face rings a Bell"
//ducks and runs
That's Pavlov.
- Sun Oct 18, 2015 1:49 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
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Re: 1190: "Time"
ggh wrote:Rosetta should get off her butt, eh?
- "Verily, I shall indeed endeavor to get off my
ETA:
ggh wrote:and the Americans may not know what I'm talking about, but Yay! On to the semi-finals!
Congratulations! (Cricket? Rugby? Conkers?)
- Sun Oct 18, 2015 11:53 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Working as a berm guard. Going on down, down. Fixing this is too hard. But Rosetta did frown. Working as a berm guard. Going on down, down. Fixing this is too hard. But Rosetta did frown. Five o'clock in the morning, And the berm is giving way. Lord I am so tired, But it's time to run away. Working ...
- Sat Oct 17, 2015 5:52 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
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Re: 1190: "Time"
It's a fish! It's a squid! No, it's Aquaman! He has come to prevent the apocalypse! Or maybe it is just turbulence. The two stories vaguely remind me of a nonsense song we used to sing in Swedish, in mock English, in mock Norwegian and in mock Russian. Here is the mock English version: In Middle Oce...
- Fri Oct 16, 2015 3:30 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
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Re: 1190: "Time"
I wonder if the tank scene is apocalypse-causing. Well, I am not the first. But it must take at least some centuries for the Mediterranean (Ha! I finally learned to spell it!) to dry out, so it seems the tank story will be very, very, very long? Or maybe it ends with a quite unexpected apocalypse. R...