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- Tue Oct 10, 2023 11:00 pm
- Forum: xkcd
- Topic: 2839: "Language Acquisition"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12089
Re: 2839: "Language Acquisition"
Took me two... er three tries to get the correct number. Since then I have been wondering what the newest word was. I am torn between "twelve" and "today".
- Tue Oct 10, 2023 3:03 am
- Forum: xkcd
- Topic: 2837: "Odyssey"
- Replies: 1
- Views: 11915
Re: 2837: "Odyssey"
Why do people translate The Odyssey first and then do The Illiad?
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 12:25 am
- Forum: xkcd
- Topic: 2834: "Book Podcasts"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 13336
Re: 2834: "Book Podcasts"
I still think of audiobooks as Books on Tape.
Don't miss those horrid cassettes at all.
Don't miss those horrid cassettes at all.
- Sat Sep 23, 2023 1:35 pm
- Forum: xkcd
- Topic: 2832: "Urban Planning Opinion Progression"
- Replies: 9
- Views: 16762
Re: 2832: "Urban Planning Opinion Progression"
Snow Crash has the best name* for the lead character. Ever.
The whole harpoon thing was cool too.
* Hiro Protagonist.
The whole harpoon thing was cool too.
* Hiro Protagonist.
- Sun Sep 17, 2023 2:57 pm
- Forum: xkcd
- Topic: 2829: "Iceberg Efficiency"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 24518
Re: 2829: "Iceberg Efficiency"
I have always enjoyed Black Hat's "out there" schemes. I rarely know if he is doing it to be evil or to be weird.
- Wed Sep 06, 2023 1:02 am
- Forum: xkcd
- Topic: 2821: "Path Minimization"
- Replies: 1
- Views: 20850
Re: 2821: "Path Minimization"
Oh, it is a drowning swimmer.
Now it makes some sort of sense.
Hey, why cannot Ponytail save the swimmer. Cueball can look after the stand for her.
Now it makes some sort of sense.
Hey, why cannot Ponytail save the swimmer. Cueball can look after the stand for her.
- Wed Sep 06, 2023 12:58 am
- Forum: xkcd
- Topic: 2824: "Abstract Pickup"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 20920
Re: 2824: "Abstract Pickup"
I have had to become an Escape Artist because of conversations with or about Abstract Artist(s)
I have had conversations with Abstracted Artists.
I have had conversations with Abstracted Artists.
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 1:43 am
- Forum: xkcd
- Topic: 2810: "How to Coil a Cable"
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7914
Re: 2810: "How to Coil a Cable"
I preferred the movie "How to Foil a Cabal". Oddly there was an A/V tech, a rock climber, and a sailor. Plus one weirdo who may have been a topologist in her spare time.
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 1:39 am
- Forum: xkcd
- Topic: 2809: "Moon"
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7907
Re: 2809: "Moon"
I just want to say that I have seen the "man in the moon" twice, the same number of times I have seen the "rabbit".
- Tue Jul 25, 2023 8:01 pm
- Forum: xkcd
- Topic: 2806: "Anti-Vaxxers"
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7221
Re: 2806: "Anti-Vaxxers"
Vaccine beats Virus, Virus beats Rock, Rock crushes Glasses.
- Tue Jul 25, 2023 2:15 am
- Forum: xkcd
- Topic: 2805: "Global Atmospheric Circulation"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7189
Re: 2805: "Global Atmospheric Circulation"
I wonder about how long Beret Guy has lived across all the strips he's been in. ... There was the one where he hid / waited in a time capsule in order to travel into the future and thus convince people to kill Hitler. Overshot by a few decades but figured if Hitler was dead all was good. Plus he st...
- Wed Jul 19, 2023 1:57 pm
- Forum: xkcd
- Topic: 2803: "Geohydrotypography"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 386
Re: 2803: "Geohydrotypography"
I am curious about the type of ink we would need to use. It would need to float and couldn't be water soluble, yet it would need to allow the water to soak through so as to be evaporated. It would also need to be non toxic.
- Tue Jul 11, 2023 4:14 am
- Forum: xkcd
- Topic: 2799: "Frankenstein Claim Permutations"
- Replies: 6
- Views: 525
Re: 2799: "Frankenstein Claim Permutations"
So ... Mary Shelly was Polish? Makes sense then, she would know about the Golem.
- Thu Jul 06, 2023 2:47 am
- Forum: xkcd
- Topic: 2798: "Room Temperature"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 403
- Wed Jun 28, 2023 7:19 pm
- Forum: xkcd
- Topic: 2794: "Alphabet Notes"
- Replies: 8
- Views: 655
Re: 2794: "Alphabet Notes"
Ghoti is pronounced fish. Or is it the other way around? I can rarely remember.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti
- Wed Jun 28, 2023 3:20 am
- Forum: xkcd
- Topic: 2794: "Alphabet Notes"
- Replies: 8
- Views: 655
Re: 2794: "Alphabet Notes"
I figure the Alphabet should be organized by popularity, the most used letters are in the beginning and the least used at the end. Each language could have their own order.
Why is K in the first half when it is used far less than U?
Why is K in the first half when it is used far less than U?
- Sat Jun 24, 2023 7:45 pm
- Forum: xkcd
- Topic: 2793: "Garden Path Sentence"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 292
Re: 2793: "Garden Path Sentence"
All I know and care about is that the bird landed safely after a brief encounter with the judge.
- Sat Jun 10, 2023 2:03 pm
- Forum: xkcd
- Topic: 2787: "Iceberg"
- Replies: 1
- Views: 277
Re: 2787: "Iceberg"
What if the Titanic was powered by Dark Energy?
- Thu Jun 08, 2023 2:34 am
- Forum: xkcd
- Topic: 2786: "UFO Evidence"
- Replies: 1
- Views: 266
Re: 2786: "UFO Evidence"
Not at all defa-vu.
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/settled_2x.png
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/settled_2x.png
- Sun Jun 04, 2023 6:47 pm
- Forum: xkcd
- Topic: 2784: "Drainage Basins"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 372
Re: 2784: "Drainage Basins"
Turning into a puddle of water as a Power... hmmm. Not sure if that is one I would ever use.
- Tue May 23, 2023 8:34 pm
- Forum: xkcd
- Topic: 2779: "Exoplanet High-5"
- Replies: 1
- Views: 295
Re: 2779: "Exoplanet High-5"
New party game: I can start an interplanetary war in n years.
I only said it was a new game, not a good game.
I only said it was a new game, not a good game.
- Fri May 12, 2023 8:42 pm
- Forum: xkcd
- Topic: 2775: "Siphon"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 312
Re: 2775: "Siphon"
Thank goodness for that. Bugged the hell out of me how it took me so much longer to carry something heavy up two flights of stairs.heavier objects now always fall faster than lighter ones.
- Wed Apr 26, 2023 4:07 pm
- Forum: xkcd
- Topic: 2767: "Recipe Relativity"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 303
Re: 2767: "Recipe Relativity"
I think it is Randall who accelerated to 94% of the speed of light.
- Fri Mar 24, 2023 11:46 pm
- Forum: xkcd
- Topic: 2753: "Air Handler"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 284
Re: 2753: "Air Handler"
My hair is hair coloured.
- Tue Mar 21, 2023 4:26 am
- Forum: xkcd
- Topic: 2751: "March Madness"
- Replies: 1
- Views: 203
Re: 2751: "March Madness"
Obviously 50 Mounted Cannon versus a Funeral