Source: https://xkcd.com/2839/
Explain XKCD: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2839
Title text: My first words were 'These were my first words; what were yours?'
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Reads comic.
Goes back to count how many words are in the comic.
Who learns twelve before one through eleven?
That’s my favorite part of this joke.
The first few updates must have been riveting 😂.
Twist: he knows more than 12 words, he just didn’t learn the right number
Yeah, I immediately thought of that scene in the West Wing.
President Josiah Bartlet : Sweden has a 100% literacy rate, Leo. 100%! How do they do that?
Leo McGarry : Well, maybe they don’t and they also can’t count
Actually, I’ve always had a rather extensive vocabulary, not to mention a phenomenal grasp of grammar and a superlative command of syntax. I simply chose not to employ them.
For the uninitiated, uh huh had only ever said uh huh throughout the movie till he drops this.
THESE WORDS ARE ACCEPTED.
Is that a stormlight archive reference?
It’d be so much weirder if it wasn’t.
Used every word he had to make that sentence
There are now two ____.
of them
wuggles
Didnt’ forget this time!
Hopefully I did that correctly
How do you count to twelve without knowing the other numbers?
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Child1? You start numbering at 1? You monster!
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Better not ask what happened to child0
I let my children pick their own 96-bit number and just hope there’s no collisions.
I just name my children using GUIDs. To keep things simple I normally call them by the first 32 bits, but when they’re getting into trouble I use all 128.
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