HI, I'M RANDALL MUNROE, FOUNDER AND CEO OF XKCD. LAST NIGHT, AS I WAS RELAXING IN MY BALL PIT, DEBUGGING THE SUPER SOAKER FIRMWARE I AM DEVELOPING IN PYTHON, YOUR MOM HAPPENED TO PASS BY, LOOKING MYSTERIOUS AND QUIRKY. I CONSIDERED IT A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO INTRODUCE HER TO MY THICK LINE. I SPREAD HER PARALLEL SEGMENTS WITH MY UPPER STICKS, THEN I TAPPED HER INTERSECTION WITH MY THICK LINE, AT FIRST SLOWLY, THEN I ACCELERATED LOGARITHMICALLY UNTIL MY THICK LINE PRODUCED THINNER LINES. OR AT LEAST, THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID. I GUARANTEE IT.
>>16
/prog/ isn't cultured enough to have known that. Seems like xkcd is a good troll, truly worthy of /prog/'s mightiest trolls, and that we have been trolled constantly.
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Anonymous2008-02-02 5:10
WHBT ;_;
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Anonymous2008-02-02 7:09
>>16
No it's not. It doesn't relate at all to that play, apart from the title.
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Anonymous2008-02-02 7:57
The play is about "east vs west," which is a mentality which runs deep in the vi vs emacs wars.