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I almost went with "Cue strong opinions about adding sugar to bathtubs."
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http://what-if.xkcd.com/80/
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"Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV
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You forgot to quote from the article...
ALT text: "So the world currently has about a 200,000,000,000:1 oil reserve:human virus ratio. I'm sure this number has some economic significance."
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"Blame Dave-he's the one that asked."
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"Citation: Go and look at the sea. It's big."
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"You should wash that spoon before you use it again."
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http://what-if.xkcd.com/81/
"Definitely Never Do This"
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Shepherd Wrote:http://what-if.xkcd.com/81/
"Definitely Never Do This" "Goodnight, Moon."
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("We're in the northern hemisphere")
I just love that text.
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"He gave my scarecrow friend a prestigious degree that turned out to be TOTALLY USELESS for finding a job!"
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For the rest of this article I'm just going to call the comet "Kevin".
( what-if.xkcd.com/82 because yuku's link-snatching again.)
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>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI
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"Hot" "Boring" "Evil" "Wet" "Covered in Robots"
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"Launched by New York at LA, as I'm sure happens now and then."
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"There's a chance I'll at some point crash a spacecraft into you."
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
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" I mean, you come up with a bunch of numbers, but imagination turns them into a sandbox."
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"Red Giant Gravel." Now that's a term I did not expect to come across.
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I'm just wondering how many kids out there are wondering what Daft Punk has to do with Kanye West... and subsequently have their minds blown after they do a little research.
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"Red Giant Gravel." Now that's a term I did not expect to come across.
No, but it sounds like a great band name.
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Citation: This really boring dream I had once.
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>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI
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"Legs per cat: 10"
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I personally lost it at the stuff within footnote #5! 
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"When we get to the Sahara desert, I recommend not using a brush."
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It would also promptly and violently collapse into a black hole.
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"then over the course of this maneuver you would be statistically likely to hit a hole-in-one ... at every golf course in the world."
Really, what might draw me most about these XKCD What If's is the constant exaggeration to silier and silier premises just to get something more practical.
For a given value of 'practical.'
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