# Well played, xkcd **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 14, 2015, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-played-xkcd/709834 "2015-01-14T18:05:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-played-xkcd/709834/1 "2015-01-14T18:05:41Z")
I know xkcd’s geek cred is already pretty secure but [today’s](http://xkcd.com/1473/) effort was a cut above, I thought. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-played-xkcd/709834/2 "2015-01-14T18:12:31Z")
I’m uncertain on this one, just on principle. Besides, you changed the outcome of the comic when you observed it. ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-played-xkcd/709834/3 "2015-01-14T18:31:26Z")
Well, that’s just your opALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-TOAD ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-played-xkcd/709834/4 "2015-01-14T18:56:55Z")
So I’m driving down the road with Heisenberg and I say “Hey, look, we’re heading due east at 50 mph!” and he says “Great, now we’re lost.” ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-played-xkcd/709834/5 "2015-01-14T19:04:54Z")
_:golf clap:_ Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-played-xkcd/709834/6 "2015-01-14T19:11:37Z")
Similarly, Schrodinger is pulled over by a cop, who looks in the trunk and says, “Do you know you have a dead cat in your trunk?” Schrodinger replies, “Well, I know _now_!” ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-played-xkcd/709834/7 "2015-01-14T19:13:44Z")
I don’t know, it got a chuckle out of me, but given XKCD’s readership, it’s not all that obscure. The one I laughed most at recently was the gut macrofauna one. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-played-xkcd/709834/8 "2015-01-14T19:18:46Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I don’t know, it got a chuckle out of me, but given XKCD’s readership, it’s not all that obscure. > > The one I laughed most at recently was the gut macrofauna one. [Link](http://xkcd.com/1471/) Good mouse-over for that one too. ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-played-xkcd/709834/9 "2015-01-14T19:21:41Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I don’t know, it got a chuckle out of me, but given XKCD’s readership, it’s not all that obscure. > > The one I laughed most at recently was the gut macrofauna one. Unfortunately, I missed the joke at first because I was thinking of it as an obscure computer or GPS bug rather than a physics joke. Had I been prompted to think physics, I’d have got it right away, but I don’t always catch their computer jokes. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2015, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-played-xkcd/709834/10 "2015-01-14T19:22:35Z")
> [@Greg\_Charles](#): > > [Link](http://xkcd.com/1471/) > > Good mouse-over for that one too. I dunno, an There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly reference would have been funnier than a suppository joke, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-played-xkcd/709834/11 "2015-01-14T21:47:11Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > I dunno, an There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly reference would have been funnier than a suppository joke, IMO. It’s not a suppository you’re swallowing. More like a ‘used suppository’. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2015, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-played-xkcd/709834/12 "2015-01-14T21:57:35Z")
The other, less pleasant, option mentioned in the alt text is a suppository. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-played-xkcd/709834/13 "2015-01-14T22:51:16Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > The other, less pleasant, option mentioned in the alt text is a suppository. I assumed the comic’s alt-text was referring to fecal micro-fauna transplantation. Perhaps a suppository can be used, but I thought capsules or enemas were mainly used. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2015, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-played-xkcd/709834/14 "2015-01-15T01:58:31Z")
To paraphrase the alt text: ‘We have to get a wolf into your digestive system, there’s two options, swallow it, or one that’s less pleasant.’ How is that not suggesting shoving a wolf up the patient’s ass? ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2015, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-played-xkcd/709834/15 "2015-01-15T02:05:14Z")
Today’s got an audible laugh out of me, which is rare. Not that I don’t like them - I usually do. I just hardly ever laugh out loud.