Re: Capitulation

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Worst pacing, evah.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 11:02 AM
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I am magnanimous in victory.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 11:04 AM
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That's not what your mom said.

(To either 1 or 2, really.)


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 11:05 AM
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That's the one you enjoyed?

Huh.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 11:07 AM
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Sexist.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 11:17 AM
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4 to 3.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 11:23 AM
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I am very disappointed in you.


Posted by: Cosma Shalizi | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 11:29 AM
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3: She told me, "That little bitch wanted it."


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 11:29 AM
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Nosflow appears to be wrong on the internet, but it's no big deal, really.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 11:33 AM
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Cosma, how can I make it up? What if I taught myself R or something, would that help?


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 11:35 AM
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I have like some cognitive failure that prevents me from understanding xkcd ever. What's the "metal rectangle full of lights"? Surely not a computer monitor, aren't computer monitors mostly encased in plastic?


Posted by: jms | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 11:38 AM
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The metal rectangle full of lights is the computer monitor that the guy is pointing to. It's true that monitors are usually plastic. Maybe this is a special one, or maybe Munroe is being careless.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 11:40 AM
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maybe Munroe is being careless.

Surely not!


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 11:41 AM
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10: Teach Munroe how to draw.


Posted by: Cosma Shalizi | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 11:42 AM
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I thought perhaps that it was different from a regular computer monitor, being constituted primarily of metal rather than plastic, and that it was on this difference that the joke turned.


Posted by: jms | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 11:42 AM
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What made you like this xkcd in particular, Ben? It seems to me no better than the average xkcd comic, and worse (i.e., more incomprehensible) than many.


Posted by: jms | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 11:46 AM
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It could be an aluminum-case iMac. It doesn't look like one, but with Munroe, that'd be par for the course.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 11:47 AM
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Nosflow indiscretion error in 16?


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 11:48 AM
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18. I refer you to the named author of the front-page post.


Posted by: jms | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 11:50 AM
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I thought "Neb" was short for Nebuchadnezzar.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 11:51 AM
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17: True!


Posted by: jms | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 11:53 AM
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20: No, he's short 'cause he's got little legs.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 11:53 AM
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I just love stuff that's about perception and action.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 11:53 AM
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Nosflow indiscretion error in 18?



Posted by: Brock Landers | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 11:54 AM
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No, Neb is short for his height.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 11:54 AM
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19: The rules are subtle and arbitrary.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 11:55 AM
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24: And Brock is right! I ban myself.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 11:56 AM
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I thought this was a better-than-average xkcd, although I'm not as opposed to most of them as nosflow is.


Posted by: Brock Landers | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 11:56 AM
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XKCD should do something new. Munroe should continue to draw the strip, but farm the writing out to Chris Muir (or maybe Muir could draw and Munroe could write).


Posted by: Populuxe | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 1:10 PM
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First neb liked New Belgium Brewery. Now he likes xkcd. Pretty soon he's going to start wearing a Park Ranger uniform. I'm sure of it.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 1:36 PM
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I don't like xkcd, I liked this xkcd. And if wearing a Park Ranger uniform works for me as it did for teo, hell yes I'll start wearing one pretty soon.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 1:46 PM
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Related.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 1:50 PM
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Nebuchadnezzar's nickname was "Chad", anyway.


Posted by: Tom Scudder | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 3:24 PM
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I read him more as a "Butch".


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 04- 9-10 3:30 PM
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