# Today's XKCD mouseover **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 25, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd-mouseover/583198 "2011-05-25T20:20:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd-mouseover/583198/21 "2011-05-26T03:39:49Z")
Basically, everything eventually leads to some article or another that begins with a defined term that includes an etymology. The etymology cites a language, and the languages all tend to lead back to the same points. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd-mouseover/583198/22 "2011-05-26T04:51:32Z")
A number of apparently non-philosophical topics that this worked for: Battle of Stalingrad \> World War II \> Participants in World War II \> Nation \> Sovereign state \> State (polity) \> Social sciences \> Scholarly method \> Principle \> Law \> System \> Element (mathematics) \> Mathematics \> Quantity \> Property (philosophy) \> Modern philosophy \> Philosophy Canada \> North America \> North \> Noun \> Linguistics \> Human \> Taxonomy \> Science \> Knowledge \> Fact \> Information \> Finite set \> Mathematics \> Quantity \> Property (philosophy) \> Modern philosophy \> Philosophy Daffy Duck \> Animated cartoon \> Film \> Recording \> Process \> Milk \> Mammary gland \> Organ (anatomy) \> Biology \> Natural science \> Science \> Knowledge \> Fact \> Information \> Finite set \> Mathematics \> Quantity \> Property (philosophy) \> Modern philosophy \> Philosophy The Godfather Part III \> Mob film \> Crime film \> Play (theatre) \> Literature \> Fiction \> Narrative \> Latin \> Italic languages \> Indo-European languages \> Language family \> Language \> Human \> Taxonomy \> Science \> Knowledge \> Fact \> Information \> Finite set \> Mathematics \> Quantity \> Property (philosophy) \> Modern philosophy \> Philosophy Jennifer Aniston \> Rachel Green \> Character (arts) \> Representation (arts) \> Semantics \> Meaning (linguistics) \> Linguistics \> Human \> Taxonomy \> Science \> Knowledge \> Fact \> Information \> Finite set \> Mathematics \> Quantity \> Property (philosophy) \> Modern philosophy \> Philosophy Kangaroo \> Marsupial \> Class (biology) \> Biological classification \> Biologist \> Scientist \> System \> Element (mathematics) \> Mathematics \> Quantity \> Property (philosophy) \> Modern philosophy \> Philosophy 1999 \> Common year starting on Friday \> Calendar \> Organizing \> American and British English spelling differences \> American and British English differences \> American English \> Dialect \> Linguistics \> Human \> Taxonomy \> Science \> Knowledge \> Fact \> Information \> Finite set \> Mathematics \> Quantity \> Property (philosophy) \> Modern philosophy \> Philosophy Pizza Hut \> United States \> Federalism \> Politics \> Group decision making \> Individual \> Person \> Human \> Taxonomy \> Science \> Knowledge \> Fact \> Information \> Finite set \> Mathematics \> Quantity \> Property (philosophy) \> Modern philosophy \> Philosophy Uranium hexafluoride \> Uranium \> Metal \> Chemical element \> Chemical substance \> Chemistry \> Science \> Knowledge \> Fact \> Information \> Finite set \> Mathematics \> Quantity \> Property (philosophy) \> Modern philosophy \> Philosophy What’s surprising is I haven’t encountered a loop - two articles each of which lead to the other. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd-mouseover/583198/23 "2011-05-26T10:56:45Z")
Tried it again, starting from the featured article, and ended up in a quick loop that just led from Continent to Land Mass and back again. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd-mouseover/583198/24 "2011-05-26T11:35:59Z")
Seems like everything doesn’t lead to philosophy: everything leads to property! ---
**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 26, 2011, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd-mouseover/583198/25 "2011-05-26T14:42:57Z")
> [@chrisk](#): > > Tried it again, starting from the featured article, and ended up in a quick loop that just led from Continent to Land Mass and back again. I think you were hitting something in parentheses or written in italics, because neither of those have been edited in the last day, and the progress goes: Continent - Landmass - Land - Earth Science - Science - … - Philosophy ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd-mouseover/583198/26 "2011-05-26T15:46:49Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > I think you were hitting something in parentheses or written in italics, because neither of those have been edited in the last day, and the progress goes: > > Continent - Landmass - Land - Earth Science - Science - … - Philosophy No, I wasn’t hitting anything in parenthesis or italics.. However, I managed to miss the hyperlink for ‘Land’ in Landmass. The link back to Continent is the second non-parenthetical, non-italic link. :smack: Note to self, don’t try to play wikipedia games early in the morning and share your results. (Or buy airplane tickets, but that’s another story.) ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd-mouseover/583198/27 "2011-05-26T15:54:39Z")
Belly button lint to philosophy in 12 links. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd-mouseover/583198/28 "2011-05-26T16:07:27Z")
Wasted Time (song) to Philosophy in 22. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd-mouseover/583198/29 "2011-05-26T16:24:02Z")
And amusingly long one… Bruces’ Philosophers Song -\> Monty Python -\> Surreal Humour -\> Humour -\> Laughter -\> Stress -\> Stress (Mechanics) -\> Continuum Mechanics -\> Mechanics -\> Physics -\> Natural Science -\> Science -\> Knowledge -\> Fact -\> Information -\> Sequence -\> Mathematics -\> Quantity -\> Property (Philosophy) -\> Modern Philosophy -\> Philosophy (Still 20 steps is faster than some.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd-mouseover/583198.md?page=1)