He also apparently thinks Munroe is a reverse misogynist. There's got to be a proper word for that...
XKCD Explained, One Strip at a Time
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#12This one is much better (and useful): http://www.explainxkcd.com/
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#13I think XKCD is sophomoric, but this is largely just of godawful quality. The blonde girl calls megan’s boyfriend and convinces him to make some delicious nachos. However, he doesn’t know that the blonde girl’s real motive was to kill megan’s wifi signal with the microwave he uses because they were playing a first person shooter video game against each other over the internet, and the blonde girl wanted to kill her.…
Would you prefer something more like http://xkcdexplained.tumblr.com/post/226305334/the-box-on-th... ?
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#14This one is much better (and useful): http://www.explainxkcd.com/
This one explains it, but the one in the posting "explains" it (comments on it, humorously). Both can be enjoyed in their own ways.
Well, now I do feel like I've just killed a frog.
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#15Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog: you understand it better, but the frog dies in the process. Mark Twain
The only valid response: http://xkcdexplained.tumblr.com/post/226264418/a-man-is-alon...
A second valid response would be to correctly attribute the quote to E.B. White: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/E._B._White
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#16I've never seen a website where "next" is to the left, and "previous" is to the right.
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#17I'm glad that Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory is not alone in the world.
(Edit; Also, if you're going to over-explain the joke, at least over-explain the alt text too!)
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#18He also apparently thinks Munroe is a reverse misogynist. There's got to be a proper word for that...
There is also some internal debate about if he is in fact an anti-semite or perhaps just insensitive to cultural issues in general:
http://xkcdexplained.tumblr.com/post/227070875/a-man-wearing... http://xkcdexplained.tumblr.com/post/226266899/the-trick-her...
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#19Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog: you understand it better, but the frog dies in the process. Mark Twain
The only valid response: http://xkcdexplained.tumblr.com/post/226264418/a-man-is-alon...
You should do this one: http://xkcd.com/33/
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#20I've never seen a website where "next" is to the left, and "previous" is to the right.
It's called "tumblr.com" and it's fairly popular.