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What kind of Tim Horton's doesn't sell donuts?

Also, if it's in Lower Canada, then it would also serve poutine.

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1. I once had the situation displayed in the comic while sitting in my living room, except it was a beeping. Investigation eventually determined it was an alarm clock in the second floor apartment of a neighbour across the street*. 2. My next door neighbour installed a natural gas connection a year ...

Time for an ol' RG roundup... What did Beyonce do to earn a bye to the third round? Please direct all questions about "What did Beyoncé do to earn..." to Mr. Kanye West, Los Angeles, CA.... Yes, but is that BBC "The Doctor" or Voyager "The Doctor"? I think he made it am...

I figure if you want to test an actual placebo-effect blocker, you give one group placebos, the other gets the blocker, and you tell both groups they got a real medicine for whatever condition you want to measure. More specifically, you tell them that the first pill (the placebo) sometimes results ...

[Envelope - no, it's a pun on "Phillips"] [Kodiac - you could make an xkcd 181 type chart out of Allen/Hex key/wrench related terms] [Eutychus - my observations match yours re: flat heads all the way across.] Lol, Randall does such a good job making you think he has an international view, ...

It's entertaining that so many people are pointing out the ones that Randall missed as though he'd update the comic to add it; though he has done that previously with the "map of the internet" (albeit not due to user comments but a changing situation). The idea that he might do so, however...

jimmosk wrote:But... isn't that an endoplanet astronomer?

No. "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to look at every problem as though it were a nail." Encountering a screw and recognizing it as a nail does not turn your hammer into a screwdriver.

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FFS, everybody is missing the most Oh me yarm thing about this comic, perhaps because the answer was so relatively benign: when someone says "Ugh, TMI," the last thing you want to do is ask them WTF prompted them to say that. isn't TMI more specifically used not for the amount of informati...

I found the "CoHoBaSt" especially funny due to it being similar to a password creation technique Bruce Schneier described in his bl o ag: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/03/choosing_secure_1.html You mean where Schneier references it as the "XKCD scheme"? And links t...

I see colours, arranged in minuscule clusters of red, green, and blue. My brain interprets these, depending on intensity, as either 'black' or 'white'.

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"Nearly 4.5 billion years ago, the Earth had liquid water" ... "but all the crust older than 3.5 billion years has been recycled into the mantle by subduction." Anyone else feel the bit about the water and the "but" add unnecessary confusion to this one? Am I missing s...

Um, I only read the first and last (i.e. 13th) pages of this discussion, but has nobody noticed the javascript file that immediately follows the image link in the source? My browser isn't parsing it nicely so neither can I. <img src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/time.png" title="Wait f...

Well, there's always the Bobcats.

Alternately, OSX Mittens.

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I've got a copy, but you revived a thread that's so old that I'm still subscribed to it. I hate it when people do that.

May you be forever pongless.

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Look at me, I think I'm clever reviving a thread so old RealGrouchy still has notifications for it because I don't realize that Sudoku can use any digits, characters, or figures, not just whole numbers. Look up the etymology of "binary", and you will find, in some language or another, the...

No, back in the day you had to dial up to get the RSS feed on the teletype, and it would print out on ticker tape in morse code.

FFS, RSS isn't prehistoric, look it up. Here, even: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

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Or people could just not have such large and obtrusive sigs...

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I haven't been in here for a while. Pity, because there were some VERY good very slightly worses. I see that and raise you: http://forums.xkcd.com/download/file.php?id=12086 Sup dawg, I heard you like memes so I put another meme in your meme in your comic... Except the "liek" in the origin...

Gordon wrote:Everyone good?

Well, nobody's posted otherwise, so they must be good.

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I have this little trick where I can make people's posts disappear.

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A bunch of men in a field do incredible things with sheep.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1904373

And no, it's not what you think.

Spoiler:

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Cell phone takes a lot longer to read (dig out of pocket, possibly flip open) than a watch, and very rarely is the outside screen (or screen, on a bar-type or smartphone) permanently backlit, which takes another tap or two. Reading a watch - even in the dark - is very fast and easy to do covertly. ...

for those of you who don't know, goofus and gallant are charecters used by highlights magazine to illustrate correct behavior in a not so subtle way. http://weblogs.variety.com/theknife/images/2007/06/24/goofusgallant_oct1980_hrsm_2.jpg I was recently surfing the tubes and found this (not work safe...

lesliesage wrote:Here's Maddow's piece on it. Or for a faster visual, just go to 3:30 where she shows a clip from The Office.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nAZb-WrMJI

Heh, I like the (likely unintentional) reference to "wobbly bridge" around the minute mark.

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Science. Sure. Say, where can you place a pre-order for those love-bots they are obviously developing? :P It's delayed because they had to build a bigger scanner to fit your mom. BOOYAH! "For science"? I thought it was "For tradition" or something. Science and tradition are alwa...

Reading the comments on that page really make me appreciate the level of coherence we have on these forums.

The original is here, where it is clear that the exponent of e is i*pi.

If anything, the person who created the image (which Failblog posted, possibly failingly) failed.

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My astrologer told me you'd say that, Az.

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I suggest you re-submit it, but that the only comic displayed is comic 137

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Heh, I saw the post above that said "too bad I'm a day late" and totally took a double take.

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ShutupshutupshutUUUUPP!!!! Gaaa!

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Oh dear.

the is-is epidemic

Immunize yourself.

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my webcam has a weird glare that I do not understand. Oh well. the source of glare is almost always from the opposite side of the frame. In this case, your ceiling fixture. Oh, it seems this post is from a couple weeks ago. Well, anyway: to that other person from a few pages back: The camera angle ...

I was going to say the same thing, but now I can just come to this thread and click on the link in your post.

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It's a rerun of the video with the guy in the t-rex suit scaring the shit out of a kid in a museum hallway.

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Spoiler alert: Bill O'Reilly is a fucking asshole. And what part of this is new? In fact, this has just denigrated into the same old boring flamewar. I'd lock this thread, but I think I'll just ignore it and let you people all get angry over the same things you've all gotten angry at each other ove...

It's censorship!!! Terrism!

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what about changing "racist" to "doubleplusungood" and "racism" to "eastasian propaganda"? If there's anything we've learend on the endless flamewars, it's that you can't change racists. Can we keep most of the awesomification permanently? Or at least the Rec...

What makes you think I would bother to answer that question honestly?

Sincerely,

Mr. Happybear

Heh, you guys don't have access to edit everybody's posts, so you can't see what people are trying to say.

*I delight in the sound of my own voice*

Edit: tee hee. That's a good one.

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It's like Mad Libs, escept instead of blanks there are other words.

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