# Please decipher this xkcd **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 17, 2010, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-decipher-this-xkcd/539703 "2010-05-17T01:36:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-decipher-this-xkcd/539703/21 "2010-05-18T03:19:41Z")
> [@mr.jp](#): > > I don’t know. They are analysing the humour, like you would read a movie review or similar. Thinking about what could be improved and thoughts about how humor works. It seems far more a waste of time to me, to just write opinions on a message board. (Like I do.) I get analysis and discussion. I don’t get dedicating your life to constant repetition that something sucks, unless it’s an elected official or government program that I’m being forced to fund. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-decipher-this-xkcd/539703/22 "2010-05-18T03:54:36Z")
The carpers are probably just feeling choleric. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-decipher-this-xkcd/539703/23 "2010-05-18T03:58:38Z")
Stop, you’re going to make me bilious. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-decipher-this-xkcd/539703/24 "2010-05-19T00:49:11Z")
I forgot to even search for the obvious: > **[xkcd sucks sucks](http://xkcdsuckssux.blogspot.com/)** > > "a vitriolic and bitter collection of unwarranted nastiness about a vitriolic and bitter collection of unwarranted nastiness about a silly and harmless comic." [http://xkcdsuckssuxsucks.blogspot.com/](http://xkcdsuckssuxsucks.blogspot.com/) > **[xkcd sucks sucks sucks sucks](http://xkcdsuckssuxsuckssux.blogspot.com/)** > > "a vitriolic and bitter collection of unwarranted nastiness about a vitriolic and bitter collection of unwarranted nastiness about a vitriolic and bitter collection of unwarranted nastiness about a vitriolic and bitter collection of unwarranted... That makes me, I don’t know, melancholic, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-decipher-this-xkcd/539703/25 "2010-05-19T22:48:01Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > [xkcd: Prudence](http://xkcd.com/665/) > > I love this strip but this time I just don’t get it. He doesn’t date them but I think this is from last year. Cross between Narnia and SG1. ---
**Author:** ![Noelq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noelq/32/16438_2.png) [@Noelq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noelq)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-decipher-this-xkcd/539703/26 "2010-05-19T22:55:07Z")
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**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-decipher-this-xkcd/539703/27 "2010-05-20T00:13:53Z")
> [@pedescribe](#): > > I don’t get today’s. Any IP address beginning with 192.168 comes from the local network. > **[IP address](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ip_address)** > > An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label such as 192.0.2.1 that is assigned to a device connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication. IP addresses serve two main functions: network interface identification, and location addressing. > Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) was the first standalone specification for the IP address, and has been in use since 1983. IPv4 addresses are defined as a 32-bit number, which became too small to provide... ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-decipher-this-xkcd/539703/28 "2010-05-20T23:25:21Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Any IP address beginning with 192.168 comes from the local network. > [IP address - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ip_address#IPv4_private_addresses) It’s the 21 century version of “The call is coming from\* inside the house\*!” ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-decipher-this-xkcd/539703/29 "2010-05-21T00:23:34Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Any IP address beginning with 192.168 comes from the local network. > [IP address - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ip_address#IPv4_private_addresses) That was Wednesday. 5/17/10 was [Monday](http://xkcd.com/741/). ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-decipher-this-xkcd/539703/30 "2010-05-21T04:15:20Z")
> [@mr.jp](#): > > It wasn’t very well carried out though. Which is more and more often the case. > > [xkcdsucks.blogspot.com/](http://xkcdsucks.blogspot.com/) I don’t get this. He’s making fun of the comic for exactly what it is, a place where you must have an esoteric level of knowledge to get the joke. It would be a like a critic of Star Trek making fun of treking through the stars. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-decipher-this-xkcd/539703/31 "2010-05-21T04:28:06Z")
oops. I didn’t specify that I was referring to the movie. What I mean is, you can make fun of the entire concept for that, if you really hate the franchise. But to make fun of an individual [del]episode[/del] strip for being [del]StarTrek[/del] xkcd seems stupid. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-decipher-this-xkcd/539703.md?page=1)