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the early bird ate more worms but didn't get to party with his friends last night, soooo
T-Rex: It's hard to come up with new sayings, like "the early bird gets the worm"! I'VE TRIED. But I've noticed they all have one thing in common:
T-Rex: They're all really concise!
T-Rex: So I thought: what if I turned the process around backwards? That way all I need to do is come up with a catchy, concise phrase, and then we can decide on what deep truth it reveals later!
Dromiceiomimus: So what's your phrase?
T-Rex: Oh, I don't know: how about... "TCP/IP doesn't guarantee delivery order?"
Utahraptor: Too boring and way too specific!
T-Rex: Yeah. Yeah, I can see that.
T-Rex: How about "The less-early bird gets fewer worms"?
Utahraptor: Too derivative!
T-Rex: "The late bird may get no worms at all! It depends on worm supply, however as worms may be late too, tardiness can be an advantageous strategy for a given bird."
T-Rex: "Further research and modelling is necessary. For more information, consult the Wikipedia article on 'adaptation'".
Utahraptor: I LOVE IT
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Getting Out of Hand
[[A couple is in bed in the dark, and the guy reaches out from under the covers to do a Wikipedia search about Foreplay.]]
{{title text: Wikipedia's role as brain-extension, while a little troubling, is also really cool.}}
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How To Collapse The American Medical System
Caption: How To Collapse the American Medical System (In Five Easy Steps)
[[Wikipedia Article on Carotenosis]]
Caption: 1. Go to any medically related Wikipedia article.
[[The Wikipedia article editing window, with the edited text "the main way to get Carotenosis is watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."]]
Caption: 2. Vandalize it.
[[Medical students looking at the article confused]]
Student 1: Huh.
Caption: 3. Sit back as thousands of medical students who use Wikipedia as their main source of information lap it up.
[[Medical students distressed and leaving school]]
Student 2: My life is over.
Caption: 4. Horribly ill-informed, those thousands of medical students all fail our, amplifying the already large doctor shortage.
[[Dr. J being asked to be a real doctor]]
Out-of-Panel Person: Dr. J, we need you at the hospital.
Dr. J: You know I'm not a real doctor, right?
Out-of-Panel Person: You're all we have.
Caption: 5. The medical system collapses.
{{Title Text: I may be understating the extent to which Julius Erving has aged, but I have not overstated the vulnerabilities of American Medicine.}}
{{Bottom Text: I hope nobody takes this as some kind of secret message from me to vandalize the article on Carotenosis. If I get my medical degree and there is no medical system I?m gonna be so angry.}}
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You Can Tell
Jeffrey: I've decided that you can tell everything there is to know about someone by their last five Wikipedia searches.
Jeffrey: I'll go first.
Jeffrey: "Chupacabra", "Genocide", "Salt-n-Pepa", "Taco Sauce", and "Extra-Sensory Perception."
Weedmaster P: "Jon Benet Ramsey" "Rap-Rock" "Demons" "Woodchipper" and "Phyliss Diller"
Baby: "Faeries", "Ponies", "Interventions", "Demonic Possessions" an' "Birds!"
Weedmaster P: God what is wrong with me
Tallahassee: I refuse to use Wikipedia on account of it being almost completely useless.
Jeffrey: Well then who searched for "Rapture" and "Uncontainable Pandemic?"
Joanna: [Pentagram]
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Sheldon Comics comic strip from January / 14 / 2007
[[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]]
ARTHUR: Ever notice how much the Japanese love robots? Like, WAY more than other cultures?
SHELDON: It makes sense, if you think about it.
[[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]]
SHELDON: Japan???s Shinto religion allows for natural AND man-made objects to have a spirit. So, where westerners might see a robot as ???unnatural,??? the Japanese see them almost as living things.
[[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]]
SHELDON: Plus, the Japanese have a huge fear of body odors, liquids and smells. So a robot that doesn???t sneeze, sweat or burp is almost the ideal human.
[[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]]
SHELDON: And in a culture with so many rules on politeness, it???s probably comforting to have a robot that follows perfect protocol??? But which won???t judge YOU if you slip up.
[[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]]
SHELDON: And of course there???s the popular cartoon-robot ???Astro Boy,??? which
ARTHUR: ALRIGHT ALREADY! SHEESH!
[[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]]
ARTHUR: If I wanted a long, rambling answer that didn???t really make sense, I???d look it up on Wikipedia.
SHELDON: THAT IS THE MOST HURTFUL THING YOU HAVE EVER SAID.
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Irregular Webcomic! #1066
[[scene: by the office water cooler]] / Shakespeare: I had a cool idea to make Google more fun.
Shakespeare: If you search for information on some topic and there are no hits, it should just invent something!
Shakespeare: String together a semi-random series of words vaguely related to the subject by different authors and pretend it's all true!
Mercutio: You mean like Wikipedia?
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Achewood - February 15, 2007
[[Ray is sitting in front of the computer.]]
Ray: Daaamn, there's no Wikipedia entry for "Ray's urine"! <<TAP>>
Ray: Maybe I can make one...
...been a while since I had a victory with computers...
<<KLACK TAP TIP PING!>>
[[Text shown above Ray typing at the computer.]]
Text: Ray's Urine
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Characteristics
Ray's urine has an inoffensive oder, yet can "cast a pall" over almost any occasion. [1*] According to medical dramas [citation needed] his urine is sterile, but it is not considered a sanitizing agent. It can also aid in but not cure jellyfish stings [[untrue?]].
<<TIP! TAP! TAP! PING!>>
[[Text continues.]]
Text: Trivia
* Although a matter of some dispute, Ray's urine does have a theme song (_Lady_is_a_Tramp_, as performed by _Frank_Sinatra_)
* Ray first urinated on the day he was born.
* Ray was urinating when he heart that _Reagan_ had been shot [he was in the bathroom at a _childrens'_breakfast_restaurant_]
* He does not _audiocast_ (urinate standing up) if company is over.
<<TAPPA TIPPA TAP! TAPPA TIPPA TAP!>>
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Sunday, September 28, 2008
[[Josh and Joel of the web comic HijiNKS Ensue are featured in this strip.]]
Josh: I'm worried about your brain.
Joel: Something... your face.
Josh: Exactly. You need to read more.
Joel: I read all the time.
Josh: Books? Wikipedia and LOLcats are not books.
Joel: Do not want book, kthxbai.
Joel: I swore off reading after the "Hitchhiker's Guide" trilogy. They're the only 5 books I care about.
Josh: That's why I brought you "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" by... wait for it... Douglas Adams!
Josh: It's a British-scifi-comedy-murder mystery about a broke detective, a ghost, time travel, and an alien robot that spans a few billion years.
Joel: Wait. "British", "time travel", "robot", "years". This sounds like Doctor Who.
Josh: Actually Adams created several of the book's characters for Doctor Who in the late 70's. So it's got automatic geek cred.
Joel: That does reek of geek. OK, I'm in. Put on a pot of coffee, fry up some bacon, and refresh my memory... how do you make a book go? [[pokes book]] Book engage! Power on! Do you shake it?
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Questionable Content: New comics every Monday through Friday
{{Number 1254: Does This Look Infected?}}
[[Faye stands behind couch, goggling at the burned holes; Hannelore sits with her hands in her lap, also staring at the couch]]
Faye: What happened to our couch?!
Hannelore: Pintsize oozed some sort of... liquid onto it.
[[Faye closes her eyes and holds her forehead; Hannelore turns to Faye, looking worried]]
Faye: Jesus. Marty's gonna be PISSED.
Hannelore: I'm sorry! I should've stopped him, but I didn't know what it was, and it seems to be highly caustic, and...
Faye: It's okay, it's not your fault. We'll just... throw a blanket over it or something.
[[Faye has hands on hips, looks sternly at Pintsize; Hannelore also looks at Pintsize, holding one arm]]
Faye: And where do you think YOU'RE going?
Pintsize: What do humans typically do when they find themselves leaking an unknown substance from one of their orifices?
[[Faye drops one hand, looks confused; Hannelore makes fists, drops her head and looks away; Pintsize is happy]]
Faye: They... go to the doctor?
Pintsize: NO, they go post pictures of it on the inernet.
Hannelore: Which is why I have to turn the images off when I browse Wikipedia.
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Those Who Forget History
Girl: We don't know what we ate for lunch last week.
Girl: How can we know what happened two hundred years ago?
Cat: Hot dogs?
Girl: History is the lie most convenient for those in power.
[[Cat waves his umbrella.]]
Cat: Why do victors get to write history?
Girl: Wikipedia is the uncertainty of knowledge made official.
Cat: Maybe they have special pens.
[[Clouds cover the sky and lightning strikes.]]
Girl: The power of writing history into reality -
Girl: Finally stripped from the victors of the world!
Girl: Given to a couple of guys in I.T.
[[The skies clear.]]
Girl: Drinking instant coffee. Eating lunch at their desks.
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Touhou Nekokayou #80: Catness, final part
[[Marisa is laying on the floor, regaining consciousness as Flandre and Koishi watch her.]]
Marisa: Ughh...
Flandre: Ah, she's waking up!
Koishi: You're getting better, Flan-chan!
[[Marisa is now getting up.]]
Marisa: Uh...? Oh, right, that "Manipulation of Destruction" thing flan's got going on... What's happenin' now?
Koishi: Um, Iku Nagae showed up and now she's trying to beat Tenshi's stone with her sword.
Flandre: But she's trying not to put the sword *in* the stone.
[[Marisa has her broom out now, and Marisa, Flandre and Koishi fly off.]]
Marisa: Yeahhhh, we *really* don't want a repeat of what happened *last* time someone broke a Stone of the Celestials...
Flandre: Really? What happened?
[[Metal Gear Solid 3's game over screen.]]
Text: TIME PARADOX
Text: Continue/Exit
[[Iku and Tenshi are facing off above the trees. Iku has Tenshi's sword; the Stone of the Celestials still hovers around Tenshi.]]
Iku: Looks like we're at a standstill! Ready to give up?
Tenshi: Not even close! You?
[[Iku charges forward at Tenshi, the latter getting knocked upward off the panel.]]
Iku: Nope! I lied!
Iku SFX: <<SPOOOOOOOON!>>
[[Tenshi, confident of herself, floating in front of the moon, Stone of the Celestials at her side.]]
Tenshi: Oof ... Okay, Iku, well played! But now...
[[Sakuya appears, doing the Dio, and Tenshi finds herself cut off and stopped in time.]]
Blue Spell Card: Illusion World 「ZA WARUDO」
[[Sakuya, with red eyes, and looking very annoyed, places knives in spirals around the trapped Tenshi, holding a knife herself.]]
[[Sakuya unfreezes time, still looking very annoyed, and the knifes close in around Tenshi, who is appropriately shocked.]]
Tenshi: I shall ... HOLY CRAP!
[[The knives come together, inflicting punishment upon Tenshi, as Sakuya, still pissed looks on.]]
Sakuya: You aren't going to get off easy this time, Hinanai.
Tenshi: Bwmtgfgbtl vmbndthkdb
SFX: <<SCRUNCHIE>>
[[Sakuya floats of the panel, as Cirno rams into Tenshi's back, the latter still in shock. The knives dissipate.]]
Cirno: Heya! Flan came looking for us and said we could join the fun!
[[Tenshi is smacked around with a giant chunk of ice from Cirno]]
Cirno: CIRNO SMASH PUNY WEAKLING WITH GLACIER!
SFX: <<KACHUNGA>>
Blue Spell Card: Ice Mass 「Great Crusher」
[[Cirno floats off panel as the chunks of the broken apart piece of ice fall to the ground. Flandre appears behind Tenshi, grinning evilly and holding Laevateinn. Tenshi is frozen with shock.]]
Flandre: Hey there!
[[Tenshi desperately fires red laser thingies from her stone at Flandre, who effortlessly dodges the attack.]]
Tenshi: AAAAAAAA!!
Flandre: Y'know, I really can't go all out in combat at all...
[[Flandre swings Laevateinn, leaving bullets in its wake and attacking a mortified Tenshi.]]
Flandre: ...But I can still get back at you for our earlier fight!
Tenshi: ACKPTH!
Blue Spell Card: Taboo 「Laevateinn」
[[Flandre flies off the top of the panel as Marisa shows up looking smug on her broom, holding her mini-hakkero, and Tenshi looks annoyed.]]
Tenshi: I-I'm not done yet!
Marisa: Okay, 'at means I get a turn, ze!
[[Marisa fires her Final Spark, happily, engulfing Tenshi in it. The Stone of the Celestials wasn't hit.]]
Marisa: And I figure, y'know... Why only go halfway!?
Blue Spell Card: Magicannon 「Final Spark」
SFX: <<THOOOM>>
[[Marisa flies off panel as Tenshi looks after her, biting her tongue in anger, as Koishi, hidden by her Subconsciousness Barrier, approaches from behind.]]
Tenshi: Grr...
[[Koishi happily unleashes a barrage of hearts everywhere, pummeling Tenshi.]]
Blue Spell Card: Instinct 「Release of the Id」
Koishi: Whee!
Tenshi: AGGHH!
[[Koishi floats off panel as Tenshi snaps in anger and an annoyed looking Reimu appears.]]
Tenshi: Right! That's it!
Reimu: Guess I got here just in time, then.
[[Tenshi releases her anger in a giant red beam attack, which Reimu dodges, still annoyed.]]
Red Spell Card: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody of All Humankind]
Tenshi: HRAAAAAHHHH!!
[[Tenshi is embarrassed as she faces a barrage of o-fuda cards from Reimu and her Yin-yang Orbs.]]
Blue Spell Card: Hax Sign 「Fantasy Heaven」
Text: ......
[[Iku, slightly annoyed and holding the Stone of the Celestials looks at Tenshi, who is crying. They both are back in heaven.]]
Narration box: Tenshi was returned to the heavens.
Iku: Have you learned your lesson?
Tenshi: No...
Iku: .....
[[Remilia and Flandre are back at the SDM, Remilia wondering what's going on and Flandre happy as can be.]]
Narration box: Flandre was returned to the Scarlet Devil Mansion.
Remilia: Say, Flan, when Eirin came by to drop off Patchy's medicine (and my hemoglobin patches), why did she seem interested in borrowing you?
Flandre: I couldn't possibly say!
[[Sanae, scared, and Suwako, annoyed, peek out of the Moriya Shrine.]]
Narration box: Destroying the catness spell had unsealed the Moriya Shrine.
Sanae: Is it safe to come out now!?
Suwako: Is this kind of thing going to happen *every* time that celestial acts up!?
[[Orin, Koishi and Utsuho are in the Underground, Koishi looking worried, Utsuho scared and Orin annoyed. Orin is carting some orange pill jars in her cart.]]
Narration box: Orin, Koishi, and Utsuho finished their medicine-deliveries to the underground.
Rin: Seriously, what *were* you thinking!?
Utsuho: Unyu?
Koishi: That, basically.
[[Yukari is pouting in front of an angry Ran and an amused Chen, as the trio stands by a tree.]]
Narration box: Yukari stopped fooling around. ... For now.
Yukari: Hmph!
Ran: Okay, I mean seriously, stop sulking about the fact that the incident was *resolved.*
Yukari SFX: <<Acting like this just to amuse Chen>>
Chen SFX: <<Hee Hee>>
[[Alice, Reimu and Marisa are enjoying tea in front of the Hakurei Shrine. Suika is sleeping off to the side.]]
Narration box: The shrine's crew went back to normal.
Reimu: So, another incident nicely resolved.
Alice: Guess you don't have any excuses to act silly now, huh, Marisa?
Marisa: Yeah, what am I gonna do for the rest of spring?
[[Cirno is talking to Aya, who seems to not buy the story entirely. Midori and Mika are lost and meet the two. Midori looks somewhat embarrassed.]]
Narration box: Aya got a scoop...of a sort.
Cirno: And then finally the shrine maiden went "BZOOOOOOMMMM!" and then--
Aya: This is sounding less and less like you personally solved this incident yourself.
Mika: Hi, um, we got lost again...
[[A cat-eared Sakuya, veins popping, Patchouli, excited, and Remilia, matter-of-factly, are in Voile. Sakuya is surrounded by a magic circle.]]
Narration box: Patchouli got a chance to examine the catness-effect.
Remilia: Patchy, what does the magic circle say about her catness-level?
Patchouli: IT'S OVER NINETYYYYYY!!!
[[The geyser.]]
Narration box: And finally, at the geysers...
SFX: <<Rumble RUMBLE>>
[[The geyser discharges, spewing ... someone off the panel.]]
SFX: <<SHOOOOOM>>
???: WAUGH!
Text: Continued in Touhou 12i: Redefined Fantastic Object
{{Characters: Marisa Kirisame, Flandre Scarlet, Koishi Komeiji, Tenshi Hinanai, Iku Nagae, Sakuya Izayoi, Cirno, Reimu Hakurei, Remilia Scarlet, Sanae Kotiya, Suwako Moriya, Rin Kaenbyou, Utsuho Reiuzi, Yukari Yakumo, Ran Yakumo, Chen, Alice Margatroid, Suika Ibuki, Aya Shameimaru, Midori Inaba, Mika Sayomi Inaba, Patchouli Knowledge
Story begins here, and self-evidently ends here!
Flandre got her "manipulation of destruction" power in A Different Story of an Eastern Wonderland, chapter 3, which was also just released.
I have made my decision, and that decision is that this storyline should end on an awesome note. Therefore, the "playable characters" have all used some of their most awesome attacks on Tenshi. With Cirno, I got lucky, since she's got some fairly snazzy moves in Touhou 12.3; now, if only I knew what they actually looked like.
I was undecided, for Flandre's attack, whether to spell it "Lavatein," the way most fan-translations of EoSD go, or "Levatein," the way it's pronounced in Taboo Tears You Up ... though it's still spelled "Raymond Luxury Yach-t." I eventually decided on the way Wikipedia spelled it, which is pretty much both ways.
Koishi, though ... well, she doesn't really have whole lot of spell cards that can easily be replicated in create.swf, so I went with one that could!
Fantasy Heaven really is a "hax sign" in Touhou 12.3, considering it deals 14000 points of damage.
Man ... you know, in the ending-sequence, I introduced a bunch of ... well, plot hooks, really! (Also, I need to find some kind of end-point other than the Moriya Shrine next time ... it's just that I couldn't resist using the epic night-backgrounds KirbyM made ...) I also tried to resolve any leftover plot points. I think I did a pretty good job at that ...
And I still had to use photoshop for Midori because there's no alternative to giving her a bow!}}
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B&B - The Perils Of Knowledge
Bridget: Jeez, It's really coming down out there!
Bridget: Hey Dad, what exactly is the difference between a cyclone, hurricane, and typhoon?
Dad: I believe the answer is, look it up yourself.
Bridget: Hmm, according to wikipedia, typhoons and hurricanes are specific types of cyclones.
Bridget: Everything I know is a lie!
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Quirk's Evil Little Webcomic
[[Comupter screen showing web site statistics for comic server]]
Pink: Anything fun in the server logs?
Blue: Yeah. It looks like there's a link to the comic from Wikipedia.
Pink: Really? In what context?
Blue: It's a page on comics that link to or mention Wikipedia.
Pink: You're not going to do a comic about that, are you?
Blue: Of course! What could possibly go wrong?
[[Inset of a smaller version of the strip, with an even smaller version inset within it, repeating until it is too small to read.]]
{{The original comic linked to from Wikipedia is this early one from June, 2006. The Wikipedia page linking to it is this one about Wikipedia in Webcomics. Uttering the phrase "What could possibly go wrong" is universally recognized as a Bad Idea. Recursion without termination is far from the worst possible answer.}}
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#291; In which Notability is determined
[[Several villagers, led by JIMBO, are appealing to someone.]]
JIMBO: Please! Help! Barbarians have attacked our village! Our sons have been lost to their swords, our daughters to their lusts...
JIMBO: They march after us even now! You must help us!
[[We see that JIMBO is appealing to THE STEVE]]
THE STEVE: Barbarians? That's just nonsense!
THE STEVE: That's an unsourced statement. You'll have to add some citations.
JIMBO: My child died in my arms!
THE STEVE: According to whom? The New York Times? Didn't think so!
{{Caption: When Wikipedia rules the world}}
THE STEVE: Come back when something in print agrees with you. Words on paper are always true.
GUIDO: Hey, this dude wants to put pictures of his wanger into the article about genitals. We're fine with that, right?
{{header: revert at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: 'the most comprehensive encyclopaedia ever will surely need six different close-ups from various angles'}}
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#8 WikiPolitics
WOULDN'T IT BE COOL IF GOVERNMENT WERE RUN LIKE WIKIPEDIA?
EVERYONE CONTRIBUTES TO IT EQUALLY AND IT'S ALL SELF-CORRECTING AND TRANSPARENT.
ACTUALLY, WIKIPEDIA IS RUN BY A SMALL, LARGELY ANONYMOUS GROUP WHO PULL ALL THE STRINGS AND ARE ANSWERABLE TO NO ONE.
OH, SO... MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
RIGHT.
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