When xkcd reminds you of pweb

[Jayelle]

This thread was bound to happen sooner or later.
today's:


and, of course, the classic:

[Syphon the Sun]

Don't forget this one:


ROLLOVER TEXT: Bean actually sabotaged it just to give Dink the excuse to make that joke.

[eriador]

xkcd.... I'd swear Randall Munroe is thinking the same thoughts as me.

[Jebus]

You can't just not provide the roll-over text, guys.

[Syphon the Sun]

I can't do roll-over text when I link it, for some reason. Anyway, I added it under the strip.

[Dr. Mobius]

Anyone have a set of twins we could get to film this? Make it into an animated gif.

[eriador]

I have the twins... but they wouldn't do it.

[Eddie Pinz]

This thread was bound to happen sooner or later.

and, of course, the classic:

Rollover text:
Cue angry letters from all seven fans of Xenocide.

It's nice to know that I'm one of seven.

[Wind Swept]

I immediately thought of Pweb when I saw the newest one.

[Jebus]

f*** PWeb, let's just make this an xkcd thread to brighten up everyones' day.


Scroll over text: "YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY?"




Scroll over text: "And the whole setup is just a trap to capture escaping logicians. None of the doors actually lead out."




Scroll over text: "IT'S ALL REAL"

[Wind Swept]

As long as Jebus is taking credit for the derailment...


Scroll over text: "How could you choose avoiding a little pain over understanding a magic lightning machine?"


Scroll over text: "A tribute to Buttercup Festival."


Scroll over text: "Apple uses automated schnapps IVs."


Scroll over text: "We once tried playing blindfold chess on the Aerosmith ride at Disney World."


Scroll over text: "You can search it if you want, but you may want to skip the memories of your mom."


Scroll over text: "Viruses so far have been really disappointing on the 'disable the internet' front, and time is running out. When Linux/Mac win in a decade or so the game will be over."


Scroll over text: "Movies that I know word-for-word, part one."


Scroll over text: "Opening dialogue by Scott."

[zeroguy]

f*** PWeb, let's just make this an xkcd thread to brighten up everyones' day.

I sometimes want to send people links to all the good xkcd. But then I realized there's already a collection of all the good ones. It's called xkcd.com.

[Jebus]

Scroll over text: "And now I might never get to again."

[starlooker]

^ That's actually one of my favorites. As is the following:



(Scroll over text: Opening dialogue by Scott.)

I can't find my actual favorite in the search. Damnit, this means I shall have to go through all the comics one by one until I find it. Pity.

[starlooker]

Okay, here's my actual favorite:



Scroll over: Why can't you have normal existential angst like all the other boys?

[Eddie Pinz]

Jebus, you got one of my faves.


Scroll over: I hope no automatic door I know read this, I would be so embarrassed.


Scroll over: She's gonna feel like a jerk when she realizes that it was actually Under Pressure.


Scroll over: It's possible. Better to be on the safe side.


Scroll over: There was no-alt text until you moused over.


Scroll over: Hey, I don't make the rules. It's in the book.

I'm probably going to end up posting them all because I'm bored in work.

Edit: Because URL does not equal image.

[starlooker]

Okay, what's sad is that even without the images (they didn't show when I first looked at the above post), I knew exactly which comics most of those scroll overs were from.

[mazer]

my all time favorite




my second favorite




I actually have only seen a few of these. so these are my favorites so far

[Mich]

I think that Jeremy Irons one is my all-time favorite. Or maybe Zeppelin!. But you guys have those already. Curses!

[Wind Swept]

Scroll over text: "When I look into your eyes, I see JPEG artifacts. I can tell by the pixels that we're wrong for each other."

[Jayelle]

I totally use the "if you die in Canada, you die in real life" line. I apply it other things.

Paul and I have been doing alot of "Don't you get it? We're having a baby in REAL LIFE!" Since it most of our name-thinking sessions degrade into the funniest name we can think of.

[Wind Swept]

"The worst part is when sidewalk cracks are out-of-sync with your natural stride."

[Jebus]

xkcd makes me wish I knew stuff about math and science.

[eriador]

f*** PWeb, let's just make this an xkcd thread to brighten up everyones' day.

I sometimes want to send people links to all the good xkcd. But then I realized there's already a collection of all the good ones. It's called xkcd.com.

Amen! If I take part, I'm gonna be posting just about every comic.

xkcd makes me wish I knew stuff about math and science.[\quote]

Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday I spend about an hour on Wikipedia learning about math and/or science.

[jotabe]

Don't worry Jeebs! I feel i am qualified to explain almost all the physics-nerdy stuff...
of course, this is only really funny when you are a nerd yourself.
(you should have thought about it when you asked to have amazing looks and an oversized member lol).

Edit: for some reason i feel terribly identified with the whole "This is important! Someone is wrong in the internet!"

[eriador]

Oooooh! Jota, will you help me too? Wikipedia only goes so far.

[zeroguy]

Interestingly, today's reminds me of pweb more than anything else.



"We are sexy, sexy Von Neumann machines."

And since people are apparently wondering at the meaning behind these, a Von Neumann (pronounced noy-man, I believe) machine would just be a machine implementing the Von Neumann architecture, the high-level architectural model shared by pretty much all modern day computers. The model treats data and processor instructions as equivalent things, which allows programs to create other programs (e.g. compilers). Thus, the reference to the comic. Not quite a perfect metaphor, as Von Neumann machines don't make copies of other Von Neumann machines, but it works well enough.

Also, while two of my favorites are mentioned above (Zeppelin and "YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY?"), I'm surprised this one hasn't been brought up:



"I'm just trying to explain, please don't be jealous! Man, why are all my relationships ruined by early 90's rappers?"

By the way, using the OhNoRobot search is helpful for finding comics you're looking for.

[Eddie Pinz]

zero,

That would be one of my faves. But I disagree with it because Vanilla Ice can always make me smile.

[powerfulcheese04]

Yeah, I would put vanilla ice between "people who can always make me smile" and "people who show me new things to love about the world."

(Vanilla Ice is actually really scary! He's rather violent and nasty... I watched clips from his season of the Surreal Life.)

[Slim]

Exploits of a Mom

"Her daughter is named Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory."

[starlooker]

Scroll over: Sometimes an impulsive 2:00 AM cross-country trip is the only solution.

[Boothby]

Oh, God...what's WRONG with me!?!

I actually found that "DROP TABLE" strip quite funny!

(It's like when my daughter was having trouble learning about torque in her physics class, I told her to "Take a moment and figure it out...")

I'm sick. I'm very, very sick.

[jotabe]

Yeah... in a way, it makes me miss the languages where, to start a new sentence, you actually have to start a new line

[Wind Swept]

I need one of these. Right now. To destroy my roommate's life:


"And sometimes I use it to retaliate against the guy upstairs with the loud girlfriend and the elliptical dish."

[Dr. Mobius]

It's not xkcd, but this is related I think.



And Winslow made me realize the cat macro one hasn't been posted here yet.


"Hey, at least I ran out of staples."