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XKCD Invited To New Yorker "Cartoon-Off"
UnknowingFool writes "Farley Katz, who draws for New Yorker magazine, ran into xkcd.com's Randall Munroe in a grocery store. He challenged Munroe to a cartoon-off — each cartoonist to produce drawings about the Internet as envisioned by the elderly, String Theory, 1999, and one's favorite animal eating one's favorite food. In the ensuing short interview, Munroe describes XKCD as 'a webcomic about stick figures who do math, play with staple guns, mess around on the Internet, and have lots of sex. It's about three-fourths autobiographical.'"
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Thank you Capt. Obvious! It's not as funny if you have to call attention to the joke.
I appreciate that. Being merely Sergeant Obvious was really getting old. Nothing but work, work, work.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Einstein
I don't know what's scarier, that Katz's cow drawing has too many nipples - or that I noticed the discrepancy...
"Katz was the clear winner. favourite food/animal did not deliver, as did most of Munroe's others. The only lame one of Katz was the 1999 BC. Somewhat off topic, though it gets points for originality."
I agree completely!
("Postin' 'me too' like some brain-dead AOLer")
I understand it's a joke, but it seems out of place. The kind of geekyness portrayed in xkcd and its forums isn't the stereotypical slashdot, basement-dwelling kind.
Yeah. Would you choose a neurosurgeon who pokes around people's brains in his spare time? I wouldn't.
AHAHAAHA LOL NOEW I GETTIT!!!!
I hope you get eaten by a Grue, repeatedly.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
No, I'm thinking he's done with the staple guns, now that all the XKCD fangirls are lining up to blow him.
Oh, yeah, it's not easy to pad these out to 120 characters.
I sincerely hope the expression "Pulled a Palin" becomes part of the vernacular.
Mod my comments down. It'll be fun.
I take it Monroe doesn't like staple guns.
Munroe was the clear winner. 1999 *BC* was just dumb, as were most of Katz's others. The only lame one of Munroe's was the strange skateboard thing. Somewhat off topic, though it gets points for originality.
Speak for your self, I thought the pulled-a-Palin jab was plain hilarious.
There were two drawings showing the internet as envisioned by the elderly.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
(-1 " as useless as .jpegs to Hellen Keller.")
What's the deal with the pig at the complaint department saying "I wish I were taller"?
#DeleteChrome
Captain Cliche here. Can I have my insult back?
No, it means that Munroe is actually a stick figure!
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We sincerely appreciate you translating that joke for us. None of us here, I'm certain, would've gotten it if it were not for your blinding insight.
On behalf of the Slashdot community, thank you for sharing your wisdom and erudition with us.
Yeah. That's the one. It was hilarious!
This guy's the limit!
If you factor something's popularity into its worth, you're doing it wrong.
Unless you're measuring the worth of a social networking site, of course.
I maintain that CmdrTaco overpaid.
"There are no facts, only interpretations." --Friedrich Nietzsche.
LOL! Oh come now maxune. You don't think XKCD's nerdy stick figure girls are sexy?
Pretty simple......show both comics to 10 random people on the street......which do you think will get the most laughs?
FAIL! You didn't specify which street. I call Infinite Loop, Cupertino.
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Agreed. I actually really like Robin Williams a lot... but only when he's acting in dramatic roles. He was great in One Hour Photo, for example. He really is able to make me feel depressed or sad quite well.
Whenever he tries to be funny, I really think he's trying too hard, and I actually feel sorry for him. ...!
Come to think of it... he's really good at making me feel depressed or sad no matter what he's trying to do.
Katz used a GameShark to change which comics to draw. The fourth comic originally was supposed to be on animals and the early years of Bauhaus. Matz waited until Munroe had drawn his thing and than manipulated the address so the topic now was favourite foods. Clearly cheating.
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
FYI thats funny because we've seen the fan girls.
Hang on, did I just offer to make some guy on the internet horny for $5? I feel so... dirty.
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I'll go a month ago. Oh wait...
You want "Closed timelike curve" - its about 3 blocks south of "infinite loop."
In a survey of 100 programmers, 111111 thought that duck-typing was a good idea.