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The ultimate guide to xkcd, part 1

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on April 18, 2010
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Life is short, xkcd is long - over 700 strips and counting. What to do?

Fear not - I’ve picked the best ones for you, starting with numbers 1 to 301… the ones that made me laugh out loud and the ones that made me cry. Actually they pretty much all made me laugh out loud, aside from the barrel ones.

The Barrel Strips - remind me of Peter Blegvad’s Leviathan.
xkcd.com/1/
xkcd.com/11/
xkcd.com/22/
xkcd.com/25/
xkcd.com/31/

The Other Strips
xkcd.com/23/ - t-shirts
xkcd.com/33/ - self-reference
xkcd.com/42/ - car insurance
xkcd.com/44/ - love
xkcd.com/45/ - shrodinger’s comic
xkcd.com/46/ - secrets
xkcd.com/56/ - the cure
xkcd.com/57/ - wait for me
xkcd.com/58/ - why do you love me?
xkcd.com/59/ - graduation
xkcd.com/66/ - abusive astronomy
xkcd.com/74/ - su doku
xkcd.com/75/ - curse levels
xkcd.com/77/ - bored with the internet
xkcd.com/79/ - iambic pentameter
xkcd.com/90/ - jacket
xkcd.com/92/ - sunrise
xkcd.com/93/ - jeremy irons
xkcd.com/107/ - snakes on a plane 2
xkcd.com/109/ - spoiler alert!
xkcd.com/114/ - computational linguistics
xkcd.com/120/ - dating service
xkcd.com/122/ - quirky girls
xkcd.com/128/ - dPain over dT
xkcd.com/149/ - Linux sandwich
xkcd.com/150/ - grownups - where it all started when I spotted this strip stuck to a fridge in someone’s Flickr photostream
xkcd.com/175/ - automatic doors
xkcd.com/193/ - perfect sound
xkcd.com/197/ - ninja turtles
xkcd.com/219/ - blanket fort
xkcd.com/231/ - cat proximity
xkcd.com/251/ - cd tray fight
xkcd.com/262/ - cat captions
xkcd.com/270/ - t h white’s merlin
xkcd.com/273/ - the electromagnetic spectrum
xkcd.com/275/ - meet the parents
xkcd.com/283/ - movie pet peeve
xkcd.com/300/ - mildly sleazy uses of Facebook pt14

The moon is a she unless it’s a he

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on June 18, 2009
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It has been suggested that I and a colleague may have now become the Pete and Dud of our office. Tragically I have to admit that Doug probably makes a better Peter Cook than me, although that means he has to go through a couple of bitter divorces and spend his twilight years pretending to be a Swedish fisherman, while I have to develop a club foot and bed a succession of nubile young women. It’s a work in progress.

Anyway, the other day he was on top form. Somehow we were talking about languages which give nouns gender and he said that the moon is not always female - the closer to the equator you get the more likely the moon is to be male. I was amazed by this. “You could write a book about it” he said, generously offering me his idea, “one you get for Christmas with a fake old-style leather cover. Could even be a film. KENNETH BRANAGH is COPERNICUS!”.

Genius, up there with Andy’s “Robert Plant and the Seedlings” line. You read it here first. Hollywood here we come.

LA Story

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on October 9, 2008
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I think I’m the only person I know who likes Los Angeles.

And this cheered me up just now: quotes from the Steve Martin film LA Story.

For example:

Harris: Hello, this is Harris. I’m in right now, so you can talk to me personally. Please start talking at the sound of the beep.
[BEEP]
Sara: Hello?
Harris: Hello.
Sara: Hello?
Harris: Hello.
Sara: Is this a person?
Harris: Yes, it is a person.