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Posted on April 23, 2010 at 1:39 PM • 18 Comments

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Eric S • April 23, 2010 2:27 PM

Don’t forget this one:

http://xkcd.com/327/

🙂

Billy • April 23, 2010 2:33 PM

How long will it be until airlines charge per occupied cubic centimetre of bodily orifice? Would that stil be called a carryon?

Bob • April 23, 2010 3:29 PM

Billy, some are encouraging everyone to hit the bathroom prior to boarding.

mcb • April 23, 2010 3:59 PM

In No.2 I like the bags of Red Star brand chips, take-out coffees, and Aeron chairs (knock-offs, no doubt).

Andrew • April 23, 2010 4:16 PM

I want a laptop with additional USB connectors behind the screen. (SCADA remote control of national power grid not included.)

Zith • April 23, 2010 8:58 PM

@Eric S:
I much prefer the more recent 651. http://xkcd.com/651/

Nick P • April 23, 2010 10:24 PM

@ Zith

That’s how Bruce stays hydrated on the go.

Rich Wilson • April 23, 2010 11:12 PM

At least on Delta, the gate agent appears to have the discretion to charge a higher price for checked luggage
http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/04/mailbag/nicely-priced-parts-ridiculously-priced-tickets-roots-of-cycling_112835

Clive Robinson • April 24, 2010 12:21 AM

@ Eric S, Zith,

I’m beginning to think we should stop typing in the first part of the XKCD URL and just the number 😉

There is an old joke about it,

A young soldier fresh out of basic training spends his first night in a new barracks.

After lights out one of the older soldiers calls out 347, and is promptly followed by hearty laughter, then another soldier calls out 27, followed by more laughter and this goes on for about an hour.

The next morning the young soldier asks one of the older soldiers what was happening. and was told “Oh just swapping jokes”. With a puzzled look the young soldier says “What’s funny about numbers?” To which the other soldier replied, “Ahh you don’t know, well you see there’s only so many jokes, and we tell them so often it saves time to just give them numbers.”

The older soldier moves off leaving the young soldier with a very perplexed look.

That night after lights out the other soldiers start calling out numbers and get laughs so the young soldier decides to have a go and calls out 57, but there is no laughter, just silence till another soldier calls out 43 which gets a lot of laughs. So the young soldier tries again with “347” again no laughs until after another soldier calls out a number.

The following morning the young soldier goes to the old soldier who told him about the numbered jokes the day before, and asks “Why didn’t anybody laugh when I called out a joke number last night?”, the older soldier looks at him compassionately and puts his arm around the young soldiers shoulder and says ,”Well I’m sorry to say it son, but it’s the way you tell them”.

Clive Robinson • April 24, 2010 12:29 AM

@ mcb,

“In No.2 I like the bags of Red Star brand chips, take-out coffees, and Aeron chairs (knock-offs, no doubt)”

You missed the most important (to the Chinese economy) rip off of them all the “Iplod” (or is that Taiwanese economy 😉

alreadyonthelist • April 25, 2010 1:51 PM

I wish someone would hack me out of the database I’m in.

Grymoire • April 25, 2010 7:03 PM

@Eric

You forgot the variation of the joke.

While watching the older soldier performing, he noticed that one of the new solders was laughing longer than the rest.

“Why is he still laughing?” asked the young soldier.

“First time he heard it,” said the older soldier.