The yogurt from the fridge is very old. So old, in fact, that it may (humorously) predate the switch to the Gregorian calendar in the mid 18th century.
The Author is making a joke about how sometimes things in your fridge are very old.
Don’t worry, the Author didn’t actually discover that having an argument in a cemetery while on your bluetooth-wireless-headset may cause comically misinterpreted situations (situations wherein people think you are arguing with the deceased about something petty, making it look like you do not respect death). He merely took the age-old “is he crazy or on his bluetooth” observation we have all made and added a slight twist in order to produce a joke for his web comic.
Several themes are common across time and locality in the games that young, housebound children play. One of the most pervasive are the “floor avoidance games” in which they pretend the floor is mined, a deep pit full of hazards, or hot lava. Usually this is a thinly veiled excuse to walk around on furniture (frequently circumscribed by elaborate rules) and cause problems for adults. Most people reading the comic will surely identify with this experience, and perhaps remember the unjust punishments meted our by parents who really didn’t want a muddy Trax print on their inherited end table.
Today’s comic looks at this common childhood game through the lens of an adult mind still clinging to its younger days. This selective combination of an older person’s scientific knowledge and a young person’s playfulness creates an image that serves well as a remedy for the reader’s fears and anxiety about the banality of their adult life. It seems to say, “it’s okay to act like a child if that’s your only method of momentarily relieving your inhibitions - just discuss mature subjects while you are doing it in order to assuage your guilt.”
Note: this subject has been discussed before: http://xkcdexplained.com/post/238332962/grownups
The Author finally got around to seeing the film Zombieland, and found himself commiserating with the effeminate male protagonist and his inability to court the movie’s teenage female character. Rather than finishing the movie and watching the male character mature, he instead recreated a version that replaced zombie killing with romantic comedy (a version that he believed would please female viewers).
The phrase “The eagle has left the nest” could apply to either a biologist describing an actual event, or a cliché coded-statement used commonly in action movies to describe something or someone leaving a place.
The Author noticed this slightly ambiguous statement and decided to use his “My Hobby” web comic template to fabricate a joke about it.
Note: People with some forms of Autism, including Asperger Syndrome, have dramatically heightened recall for long-term memory. This ability is believed to be caused by an increase of “white matter” in the brain. It can also increase autoassociative memory activity, causing related memories to be recalled upon hearing or seeing associated words, phrases or objects.
Fact: The Author, much like the reader, has an advanced understanding of all technologies and devices.
Here we see this advanced understanding being used to belittle the opinion of man who has recently purchased a television set. It is assumed that the reader was already aware of this technological discrepancy, and that this comic strip exists solely to validate his life choices.
The author is making the statement that to a man stranded on an island, the ocean may look like a vast nothingness, but in reality there is a lot of shit going on inside of it.
What we have here is a fabricated circuit diagram that is made up of dozens of visual puns. Most of these puns are merely everyday objects that would normally not be seen in such a diagram, causing the reader to think “that would never be there, that does not make sense” and laugh (e.g. a squirrel). There are also many references to the components of a circuit diagram looking like other things, such as freeways and sandals. The remainder of the jokes are references to geek and engineering topics and also two sexual jokes.
The purpose of this comic is to appease the computer and electrical engineering students who have felt their particular geek sub-culture has been left out of the comic strip recently.
A cat cannot ever catch the red, focused dot of a laser pointer, since it is made purely of light. However, according to the Author, in a cat’s dreams it can catch and eat the laser dot. Also, upon eating this light, the cat is given the ability to shoot harmful lasers from its eyes at the owner who previously taunted it.
A common reaction to first the first use of an iPad, the new device from Apple, is that it “feels like the future.” This means that the experience is so novel that one is surprised to see it in reality, rather than their imagination.
The Author would like to remind us that there are other, non-commercial breakthroughs being made as well that also seem futuristic.
That is all.
