xkcd

by **quintopia** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 4:33 pm UTC

That's a sweet piece of artwork, Burkitt, but I hate to tell ya: ferries are supposed to have 180 degree rotational symmetry, so they don't have to back into their destination and make everyone exit in reverse.

by **pkuky** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 4:35 pm UTC

shouldn't that be reflective symmetry?

by **kellsbells** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 4:39 pm UTC

mat-tina wrote:It's all Google maps' fault!

Spoiler:
googlemaps.png

I must admit, that was definitely the first thing I thought of when I saw the tiny ferry in that strip. I make xkcd slightly worse... IN MY HEAD!

by **Shakleton** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 9:15 pm UTC

kellsbells wrote:I make xkcd slightly worse... IN MY HEAD!

Hmm, that's an opening!

If you take "That's what SHE said" "except in bed" and "get out of my head, Randall" and are given the opening "I make xkcd slightly worse.... IN MY HEAD!" you get the following dialogue:

1: I make xkcd slightly worse... IN MY HEAD!
2: Get out of my bed, Randall, except that's what SHE said!
1: WTF???

I should really make this my new signature ^^ :mrgreen:

by **quintopia** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 9:52 pm UTC

pkuky wrote:shouldn't that be reflective symmetry?

All boats have bilateral symmetry. Generally only ferries and river-and-lake-canoes-with-seats-removed have rotational symmetry.

by **Cheese** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:00 pm UTC

I've been on plenty of ferries without rotational symmetry - they presumably could move backwards to dock.

by **ConMan** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:00 am UTC

Cheese wrote:I've been on plenty of ferries without rotational symmetry - they presumably could move backwards to dock.

I *think* the ones in Sydney reverse out of the dock, but my memory is hazy. It would probably be safer that way (once you're sure there are no boats there, you've got lots of water to back into, rather than trying to back into a dock). Of course, these are passenger ferries, not car-carrying ones.

by **|Erasmus|** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:38 am UTC

ConMan wrote:
Cheese wrote:I've been on plenty of ferries without rotational symmetry - they presumably could move backwards to dock.

I *think* the ones in Sydney reverse out of the dock, but my memory is hazy. It would probably be safer that way (once you're sure there are no boats there, you've got lots of water to back into, rather than trying to back into a dock). Of course, these are passenger ferries, not car-carrying ones.

they do... we don't really have many passenger ferries.

also, if you are from sydney, you should be posting our meetup thread, not here

.

by **ConMan** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 3:21 am UTC

|Erasmus| wrote:
ConMan wrote:
Cheese wrote:I've been on plenty of ferries without rotational symmetry - they presumably could move backwards to dock.

I *think* the ones in Sydney reverse out of the dock, but my memory is hazy. It would probably be safer that way (once you're sure there are no boats there, you've got lots of water to back into, rather than trying to back into a dock). Of course, these are passenger ferries, not car-carrying ones.

they do... we don't really have many passenger ferries.

also, if you are from sydney, you should be posting our meetup thread, not here .

Hehe, not any more - I'm now in the home of the 3Ps - porno, pyro and politics. I'll keep an eye out for meetups I can get to, though.

by **|Erasmus|** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:50 am UTC

I drove through their the other week. It's basically a giant roundabout.

by **ConMan** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 3:06 pm UTC

|Erasmus| wrote:I drove through their the other week. It's basically a giant roundabout.

That's blatantly false. It's several giant roundabouts, each one bigger than the last. Oh, and we can still use laser pointers without a PhD.

by **lanicita** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:37 pm UTC

mat-tina wrote:It's all Google maps' fault!

That made me laugh SO HARD. Applause!

Okay, I hit random and came up with this.

by **clintonius** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 1:09 am UTC

lanicita wrote:
mat-tina wrote:It's all Google maps' fault!

That made me laugh SO HARD. Applause!

Okay, I hit random and came up with this.

I love the parallel: I read the "heeheeheehaha" in the comic and went "heeheeheehaha." Then I read the alt+text and the "heeheeheehaha" and had my own bout of laughter all over again. Bravo.

by **kanavazk** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 2:15 am UTC

I was going to make a really bad one for Google Maps, but after seeing the ones by mat-tina and Burkitt I decided against it.

by **earl_grey** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:13 am UTC

lanicita wrote:
mat-tina wrote:It's all Google maps' fault!

That made me laugh SO HARD. Applause!

Okay, I hit random and came up with this.

That one is awesome. Great work lanicita.

by **Seremite** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:46 am UTC

I pressed random an came up with this. I hope it hasn't been done yet.

Tennis:

by **I Am Raven** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:05 am UTC

That one is so freaking lame it's actually funny! :mrgreen:

by **kanavazk** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 4:19 pm UTC

I got one!

by **Seremite** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:03 pm UTC

Balloon:

: I'm a sad person.; balloon.jpg (16.22 KiB) Viewed 2699 times

by **kanavazk** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:26 pm UTC

Yay! Ideas!

by **Seremite** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 8:06 pm UTC

That one made me laugh.
A lot.

Because I do that sometimes.

by **kanavazk** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:24 pm UTC

Seremite wrote:That one made me laugh.
A lot.

Because I do that sometimes.

Your head explodes spontaneously in resturants?

by **benjhuey** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:25 pm UTC

kanavazk wrote:
Seremite wrote:That one made me laugh.
A lot.

Because I do that sometimes.

Your head explodes spontaneously in resturants?

And it only took fifteen minutes.

by **Seremite** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:38 pm UTC

kanavazk wrote:
Seremite wrote:That one made me laugh.
A lot.

Because I do that sometimes.

Your head explodes spontaneously in resturants?

Yeah, all the time.

by **Burkitt** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:50 pm UTC

: Untitled.jpg (321.2 KiB) Viewed 2386 times

Alt text: "He went back in time and stopped his dad being a loser, then we saved my dad from the WTC!" "You remember my mum died in a blogging accident, right..."

by **Sprocket** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:56 pm UTC

INVEST IN WAR BOOOOOOONDS!!!!!

Shakleton wrote:2: Get out of my bed, Randall, except that's what SHE said!

doing it WRONG!

by **niko7865** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 12:51 am UTC

Okay, you remember
father was that my
in the WTC north
tower, right?

I think something got copied wrong?

by **Burkitt** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:49 am UTC

niko7865 wrote:
Okay, you remember
father was that my
in the WTC north
tower, right?

I think something got copied wrong?

Oops, thankyou. Now corrected.

by **The Scyphozoa** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:37 pm UTC

Burkitt wrote:Alt text: "He went back in time and stopped his dad being a loser, then we saved my dad from the WTC!" "You remember my mum died in a blogging accident, right..."

...........speechless...........

GENIUS!!!

by **Baza210** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:44 pm UTC

Upsilon wrote:Since this is to make xkcd worse...

Brilliant =D

I had an idea of changing the "My Hobby: [jumping in front of policemen's bullets]" one to something along the lines of hiding in airplane overhead baggage compartments and falling on people when they open them after landing.. but it seems to be less of an edit than something not related at all..

by **clintonius** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:37 am UTC

Baza210 wrote:Brilliant =D

I had an idea of changing the "My Hobby: [jumping in front of policemen's bullets]" one to something along the lines of hiding in airplane overhead baggage compartments and falling on people when they open them after landing.. but it seems to be less of an edit than something n~~ot related at all..~~ completely and totally FUCKAWESOME.

fix'd

by **kellsbells** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 2:03 am UTC

Here's what random gave me... I don't think anyone's done it yet, but my apologies if so.

Alt Text: Have you checked them out? Their lyrics reflect the very depths of my soul!

by **ConMan** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 2:08 am UTC

Two for the price of one, thanks to Hamiltonian.

: It's normally so hard to catch these professors out.; hamiltonian_slightly_worse.PNG (44.66 KiB) Viewed 2051 times

: NOTE: Stick figure guy died on the way back to his home planet.; hamiltonian_slightly_worse_2.PNG (9 KiB) Viewed 2040 times

by **kanavazk** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 2:19 am UTC

kellsbells wrote:Here's what random gave me... I don't think anyone's done it yet, but my apologies if so.
Alt Text: Have you checked them out? Their lyrics reflect the very depths of my soul!

It should really just be "Simple Plan", not "A Simple Plan", but whatever. Nobody likes them anyway. Not anymore. Except that guy in my class who said that the vocalist guy sounded good. Hell, I sing better than him.

by **niko7865** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 8:29 am UTC

by **kellsbells** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:09 am UTC

: Alt text: It was really a downer. Want to come over for some hot chocolate?; Bummer.jpg (44.57 KiB) Viewed 1937 times

I'm on YouTube! · by **LordMantir** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:22 pm UTC

Alt text: It all makes sense now. The running, screaming, seeing dad again...

by **mat-tina** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:30 pm UTC

LordMantir wrote:
Alt text: It all makes sense now. The running, screaming, seeing dad again...

You, dear individual, have my respect.

by **Sprocket** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 2:58 pm UTC

LOL! Forget anything else and just say out loud to yourself, calmly and with that pleasant, not overly excited happiness of it all making sense, "Oh. Zombies."

by **kanavazk** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 3:09 pm UTC

I edited two comics, but I'm too lazy to add title-text.

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