1920: "Emoji Sports"

[PinkShinyRose]

Title text: No horse has yet managed the elusive Quadruple Crown—winning the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, the Belmont Stakes, and the Missouri Horse Hole.

There's a lot of animal abuse in there. But is was still funny .

I'm also curious about what consequence archery would be. Are you firing at satellites? Or from a satellite?

[rhomboidal]

I'm pretty sure at least a quarter of these are already in X Games.

[orthogon]

Snake Shaming made me chuckle; but on reflection it sounds more like some Judeo-Christian ritual than a sport. The leglessness of serpents is itself supposed to be a case of divine snake shaming, isn't it?

[jonhaug]

This comic really stumped me. WTF?
(The http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1920 didn't help much.)

/Jon

[da Doctah]

I'm pretty much emoji-blind (eighty percent of them look alike to me). But I'd still like to see how you'd render my favorite made-up sport: cross-country bowling.

[Soupspoon]

I'm pretty much emoji-blind (eighty percent of them look alike to me). But I'd still like to see how you'd render my favorite made-up sport: cross-country bowling.

(Angry Face) (National Flag of choice) (Bowl of rice/steaming soup/whatever, as prefered)?

[Plasma_Wolf]

This makes me think only of the Face Joey made when he told Chandler and Ross about "Ultimate Fireball". Pause at 2.37

https://youtu.be/fbMl3ZYw8nA

[moody7277]

-The cruelty free version of Tinkerball is, of course, badminton

-The first recorded game of Hell Escape was written in 1320.

Snake Shaming made me chuckle; but on reflection it sounds more like some Judeo-Christian ritual than a sport.

Practiced by some small groups of Pentecostals.

[markfiend]

I wonder if "Snake shaming" is deliberately reminiscent of the Gadsden flag? Randall trolling Trumpistas again?

[rmsgrey]

-The first recorded game of Hell Escape was written in 1320.

Orpheus and Persephone would like a word. Of course, they were playing under an old ruleset, so purists may choose to disregard their games.

[DanD]

"Hell Escape" sounds like sounds like escape rooms as done by the organizers of Spartan races. Or vice-versa.

[wumpus]

The title text seems a bit odd. While plenty of breeders will immediately retire a horse to stud after winning a Kentucky Derby (the recent triple crown winner had already sold stud rights, so the owner had no reason to retire the horse early), you still should put Missouri Horse Hole before the Belmont.

[SCSimmons]

The title text seems a bit odd. While plenty of breeders will immediately retire a horse to stud after winning a Kentucky Derby (the recent triple crown winner had already sold stud rights, so the owner had no reason to retire the horse early), you still should put Missouri Horse Hole before the Belmont.

From the look of the emojis, I don't think any horse could be expected to race again after competing in the Missouri Horse Hole. Or even be retired to stud, for that matter.

[measure]

I'm also curious about what consequence archery would be. Are you firing at satellites? Or from a satellite?

I interpreted Consequence Archery as something like "failure to perform will result in consequences, which may include orbital death ray satellites". Similarly, Consequence Golf.

I like this style of comic, where the humor comes from the unexpected juxtapositions and the images they create. This is one of the best ones since keyboard->leopard and force->horse.

[SuicideJunkie]

I'm pretty much emoji-blind (eighty percent of them look alike to me). But I'd still like to see how you'd render my favorite made-up sport: cross-country bowling.

{bowlingball} {Canadian flag} {ellipsis} {Mexican flag} {pin}{pin}{pin}{pin}

Personally I feel that Alpine bowling packs more entertainment into my limited time.
The Chinese have a great hybrid bowling alley but it is hard to find a time slot to play thanks to all the tourists and the fact there is only one lane available.

[sotanaht]

-The cruelty free version of Tinkerball is, of course, badminton

-The first recorded game of Hell Escape was written in 1320.

Snake Shaming made me chuckle; but on reflection it sounds more like some Judeo-Christian ritual than a sport.

Practiced by some small groups of Pentecostals.

Hell escape only really got good though in 1993

[ericgrau]

Candle eating looks like it could be a real emoji for fancy dinner for two.

[MissLissa]

Horse Hole sounds a lot like Polo to me.

[stilettoblade]

I'm also curious about what consequence archery would be. Are you firing at satellites? Or from a satellite?

I interpreted Consequence Archery as something like "failure to perform will result in consequences, which may include orbital death ray satellites". Similarly, Consequence Golf.

I like this style of comic, where the humor comes from the unexpected juxtapositions and the images they create. This is one of the best ones since keyboard->leopard and force->horse.

I read the Consequence Archery as archery on a space station, so the consequence if you miss is that you'll die from decompression (I think the emojis are astronaut-bow&arrow-satellite), and the Consequence Golf one as golfing with a bomb, so the consequence of a miss or a short drive is being blown up.

[measure]

I read the Consequence Archery as archery on a space station, so the consequence if you miss is that you'll die from decompression (I think the emojis are astronaut-bow&arrow-satellite)...

Yeah, that's more likely to be what RM was going for.

[Mikeski]

I'm pretty much emoji-blind (eighty percent of them look alike to me). But I'd still like to see how you'd render my favorite made-up sport: cross-country bowling.

{bowlingball} {Canadian flag} {ellipsis} {Mexican flag} {pin}{pin}{pin}{pin}

Personally I feel that Alpine bowling packs more entertainment into my limited time.
The Chinese have a great hybrid bowling alley but it is hard to find a time slot to play thanks to all the tourists and the fact there is only one lane available.

Meh, only little kids can play that lane, anyway. It takes years to take down the bumpers...

[Eternal Density]

I don't believe these emoji are truly random, and challenge coders to produce a random emoji chooser.

[chridd]

I don't believe these emoji are truly random, and challenge coders to produce a random emoji chooser.

https://www.xkcd.com/1525/#eyJxIjoiV2hhdCdzIGEgZ29vZCBzcG9ydD8iLCJhIjpbIiYjeDFGNEQ2OyIsIiYjeDI2RjU7Il19

[Eternal Density]

I don't believe these emoji are truly random, and challenge coders to produce a random emoji chooser.

https://www.xkcd.com/1525/#eyJxIjoiV2hhdCdzIGEgZ29vZCBzcG9ydD8iLCJhIjpbIiYjeDFGNEQ2OyIsIiYjeDI2RjU7Il19

Oh, excellent!
Hmm, book sailing, or recycling families... I think the latter is the most extreme sport.