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Obligatory. [1] [1] https://xkcd.com/1138/ https://xkcd.com/1138/
by riebschlager 10y ago
Obligatory. [1]
[1] https://xkcd.com/1138/ https://xkcd.com/1138/
- ssharp 10y agoThat's not really happening here. As it is now, the upper-mid west through New England is hard to distinguish, but there is a lot of activity in North Carolina, an extremely important State to the Trump campaign.
- kens 10y agoWhy are xkcd mentions on HN always prefixed with Obligatory?
- TeMPOraL 10y agoBecause it's one of the Laws of the Internet that there is a relevant XKCD for every topic. The prefix "obligatory" means "it obviously should be here already, but for some reason it isn't". XKCDs are also sometimes prefixed with "relevant", for obvious reasons.
- TheCoreh 10y ago"Obligatory xkcd reference", based on the idea that there are so many xkcd comics, at least one of them will be relevant to any given thread.
- draugadrotten 10y agohttps://relevantxkcd.appspot.com/ https://relevantxkcd.appspot.com/
- morganvachon 10y agoIt's not so much about HN, it's a meme that's been around nearly as long as xkcd has. I recall seeing "Obligatory xkcd" on Fark.com as far back as 2007 or so. I've also seen it on Reddit and similar forums over the years; hell I've even seen it in Usenet discussions.
- throwanem 10y ago> nearly as long as xkcd has It's been around a lot longer than that; I first saw it in version 3.0.0 of esr's Jargon File, which was released in 1993, and I doubt it was newly added then.
- morganvachon 10y agoWell, I was referring specifically to the use of "obligatory/relevant xkcd", not the use of "obligatory/relevant" period. :-)
- throwanem 10y agoFair. Seems like that's always #927, though, at least around here...
- jeffwass 10y agoPrior to xkcd, I recall seeing Obligatory Simpsons Quotes on either usenet or slashdot back in the late 90's.