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title text: 'Wait, our state has mail voting. The forms are literally on the kitchen table.' 'Not now, I'm busy researching which channels have sharks in them.'

(https://xkcd.com/2361)
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title text: This article is about Eta Carinae, a luminous blue hypergiant with anomalous Fe[ii] emission spectra. For the 1998 Brad Bird film, see The Iron Giant (film).

(https://xkcd.com/2360)
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title text: Both too cautious AND not cautious enough: "I'm skeptical that those are aliens, so I'm going to try pulling off their masks."

(https://xkcd.com/2359)
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title text: The most important attributes of a vector in 3-space are {Location, Location, Location}

(https://xkcd.com/2358)
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title text: Other pollsters complain about declining response rates, but our poll showed that 96% of respondents would be 'somewhat likely' or 'very likely' to agree to answer a series of questions for a survey.

(https://xkcd.com/2357)
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title text: It's rare to get both astronomers and astrologers equally mad at you, but apparently I've messed up both a bunch of star location databases AND the will of the fates.

(https://xkcd.com/2356)
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title text: I admit this is an exaggeration, since I can think of at least three parties I attended while doing my degree, and I'm probably forgetting several more.

(https://xkcd.com/2355)
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title text: It may remain in equilibrium for some time, slowly growing, and then suddenly become significantly redder.

(https://xkcd.com/2354)
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title text: Our flight gathered valuable data on whether a commercial airliner in the eye of a hurricane can do a loop.

(https://xkcd.com/2353)
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title text: We need some grub to munch--I'll go slouch over to the kitchen.

(https://xkcd.com/2352)
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title text: Bugs are spin 1/2 particles, unless it's particularly windy.

(https://xkcd.com/2351)
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title text: When my great grandfather designed the Titanic and it hit an iceberg and sank, he didn't sit around moping. He took those lessons to his next job designing airships, and he made the Hindenburg completely iceberg-proof!

(https://xkcd.com/2350)
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title text: Washington state is seeing great success with reintroducing the Columbia River Basin subpopulation. We cannot allow them to further widen the interstate bun gap.

(https://xkcd.com/2349)
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title text: 'No, my cabbage moths have already started laying eggs in them! Send the trolley into the river!' 'No, the sailing wolf will steal the boat to rescue them!'

(https://xkcd.com/2348)
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title text: Someday ImageMagick will finally break for good and we'll have a long period of scrambling as we try to reassemble civilization from the rubble.

(https://xkcd.com/2347)
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title text: I'm like a vampire, except I'm not crossing that threshold even if you invite me.

(https://xkcd.com/2346)

title text: Congratulations to whoever wished for revenge on a forest near the Tunguska River, a 1980 Chevy Malibu in Peekskill NY, Alabama resident Ann Hodges, every building in Chelyabinsk with glass windows, and the non-avian dinosaurs.

(https://xkcd.com/2345)

title text: There are some papers arguing that there's a volcanic component, but I personally think they're just feeling guilty and trying to cover the trail.

(https://xkcd.com/2344)

title text: Oh no, a musician just burst in through the door confidently twirling a treble clef.

(https://xkcd.com/2343)