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I've been in a bummed out mood all night, but then I remembered that XKCD puts out a new comic on late Thursday nights. I read it. I like this one a lot.
If any of you don't know what I'm talking about- here it is. XKCDPosts: 980 | Registered: Aug 2005
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Yeah, they put one out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. It's just that none of those days are this day unfortunately, except for Friday.
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Ah, but actuaries use applied math. My dad is a theoretical mathematician. I bet he'd love that one. Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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Are you familiar with the joke where a double entendre is created after the fact by saying "that's what she said!"
A bad example: Regarding some homework, one friend says to the other, "I can't believe how hard it is." Response: "That's what she said!" ("shooter" hands optional)
The strip is about the misapplication of this joke. It's about people who try to use jokes they don't understand.
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I liked the previous one much better, though. That was hilarious! I think I need to forward it to my physics professor.
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No, I think the useful bit of information that I needed was the use of "that's what she said." I didn't get those comics either, back when they were new.
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Yeah, today's(friday's) I think is undoubtedly the worst strip of XKCD in history... Some of the red spider ones are pretty bad... but yeah.
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Rivka, bluntly, why do you think it's dumb? Seems to me it's a fairly humorous examination of something that's dumb, as opposed to a dumb comic in and of itself.
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I like the "that's what she said" comics. I think you have to be in a certain demographic, though - you've got to have friends who say the phrase, either ironically or straight.
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quote:Originally posted by Jhai: I like the "that's what she said" comics. I think you have to be in a certain demographic, though - you've got to have friends who say the phrase, either ironically or straight.
Agreed.
My friends and I will say that and "your mom" occasionally. Though, for us, the goal is for it to make as little sense as possible in a sexual context. In fact, what made the second one silverdragon linked so funny for me is the fact that we've had that nearly exact same interaction take place at least a couple of times. It can be a great way to break the tension in a particularly heated discussion. Sometimes.
"So's your face" can be fun, too.
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I'm with rollainm and Jhai. I particularly liked the second one sylvrdragon linked because of the incorporation of "your mom" jokes, which my friends and I use relatively regularly. Or at least used to.
That's what she said has become much more popular in our conversation since The Office came around. And so far hasn't gotten old at all.
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My friends and I say it also, but... It just doesn't even strike me as humorous this time. The first one or two times he did it i might have cracked a smile... but this time I was just confused and thought it was "dumb," in rivka's words.
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I have seen some dumb ones.....but usually I find them pretty cool, and sometimes completely hilarious.
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quote:Originally posted by EmpSquared: Seems to me it's a fairly humorous examination of something that's dumb, as opposed to a dumb comic in and of itself.
You are entitled to your opinion. Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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Usually when I don't get an XKCD I go to the thread discussion in the official forum, where someone will have posted a link to something relevant. (I didn't get todays until I
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I have an Erdos number of 7 (confirmed). It might be as low as 4 but I have to check that by hand.
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quote:Originally posted by FlyingCow: Really? What were you in?
I supose it really isn't that curious that you are more interested in Pixiest's filmography than my scientific publications.
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FlyingCow: I was in a coupla amateur productions with a guy who had a single line in Pass The Ammo with Bill Paxton who was in Apollo 13 with Kevin Bacon.
I'm no one famous.
Rabbit: People can wrap their heads around stage and theatre better than they can around math. It's more accessible. Plus people know who Bill Paxton is and they probably don't know any of your associated mathematicians.
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I'm stunned. I shouldn't be stunned by the things mathematicians will do, having roomed with a scary mathematician for three years in college, but I am.
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