xkcd and the Straight Dope

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It’s almost like today’s cartoon was written about the SDMB. If it isn’t 2/20/08 and you need to tab back, it’s the one titled Duty Calls .

Don’t forget to read the mousover message.

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Well done. But we’re not alone - Wikipedia-geeks can get pretty obsessive, can’t they?

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[QUOTE=Yllaria]
Don’t forget to read the mousover message.
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I never realized there were mouseover messages. Thanks!

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[QUOTE=Turek]
I never realized there were mouseover messages. Thanks!
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Ooh, now you’ll have to go back through the archive!

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Hmm I don’t get the mouseover with Firefox… it’s there with IE though!

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I get the mouseover with Firefox, although the longer ones are truncated.

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Yeah, I dislike having to open up properties to read the full text but I’m not opening a whole nother browser just for one page.

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[QUOTE=LurkMeister]
I get the mouseover with Firefox, although the longer ones are truncated.
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[QUOTE=Inner Stickler]
Ooh, now you’ll have to go back through the archive!
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Ditto. Today will NOT be productive!

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[QUOTE=Yllaria]
If it isn’t 2/20/08 and you need to tab back, it’s the one titled Duty Calls .
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Permanent link to this comic: xkcd: Duty Calls

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Nothing to see here, move along… :smiley:

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[QUOTE=SmartAleq]
Nothing to see here, move along… :smiley:
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Some of them are just like that… a trailed off thought.

Curse you! :smiley:

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Thanks for the tip, gazpacho. I installed Long Titles and it works fine.

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[QUOTE=Yllaria]
It’s almost like today’s cartoon was written about the SDMB. If it isn’t 2/20/08 and you need to tab back, it’s the one titled Duty Calls.
[/QUOTE]

And once again the SDMB’s raging ego rages about our reach into the wider world of the Internet.

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[QUOTE=Justin_Bailey]
And once again the SDMB’s raging ego rages about our reach into the wider world of the Internet.
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Yeah, we’re not even on the map.

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[QUOTE=Aioua]
Yeah, we’re not even on the map.
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I like to think of us as Qwghlm.

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[QUOTE=gazpacho]
Long Titles
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Hey - it looks like this extension also just happened to quadruple the usefulness of mousing over thread titles on this very Dope. Very nice.

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[QUOTE=WordMan]
Well done. But we’re not alone - Wikipedia-geeks can get pretty obsessive, can’t they?
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Them, sir, are fighting words!!!111111

cite?

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[QUOTE=Yllaria]
It’s almost like today’s cartoon was written about the SDMB. If it isn’t 2/20/08 and you need to tab back, it’s the one titled Duty Calls .

Don’t forget to read the mousover message.
[/QUOTE]
A very funny cartoon! :smiley: Thanks.

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[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest]
Them, sir, are fighting words!!!111111

cite?
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Fighting words meaning you are a Wikipedia geek don’t like the phrasing, or meaning that you see a throw-down between Doper’s & WikiHeads sometime down the road? If the former - trust me; if you read any of my music threads, you know I consider geekery to be Og’s calling - I am a card-carrying guitar geek (amongst other topics) and respect top geekery in all fields.

If the latter - I don’t know; are we looking to rumble with the WikiHeads? :smiley: I picture a bunch of librarian types going at each other with slide rules and card catalog drawers - not pretty.