# ­xkcd thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comic-strips\ **Created:** [May 28, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574 "2020-05-28T00:57:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DrForrester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8edcca/32.png) [@DrForrester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrForrester)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/21 "2020-05-29T23:23:43Z")
I told my boss that I need a new “metric” pH meter for the lab, because we’re working on a project for an international (non-US) customer. She said that if I wrote the request, she’d sign it. Sometimes, it doesn’t matter how many letters you put behind a person’s name. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/22 "2020-05-29T23:29:44Z")
> [@DrForrester](#): > > I told my boss that I need a new “metric” pH meter for the lab, because we’re working on a project for an international (non-US) customer. She said that if I wrote the request, she’d sign it. That’s just mean. Keep up the good work. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/23 "2020-05-30T01:18:54Z")
New strip: [Wrong Times Table](https://xkcd.com/2313/) I’m surprised that table is symetric. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2020, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/24 "2020-05-30T14:04:27Z")
_Of course_ 7\*6 = 42; what else could it possibly be? He’s right about 56, though. What kind of math problem is 8\*7, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/25 "2020-05-30T15:52:16Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > _Of course_ 7\*6 = 42; what else could it possibly be? I thought[li] 42 was seven times nine. [/li][\*] It wasn’t a very Deep Thought. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/26 "2020-05-30T16:20:00Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > _Of course_ 7\*6 = 42; what else could it possibly be? 1. Stranger ---
**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:** [May 30, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/27 "2020-05-30T17:20:57Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > A barn-megaparsec is about 3 cubic centimeters. You must like an awful lot of sugar in your tea. Hang on, a teaspoon is about 5 ml, so 5 cc, and its _raison d’etre_ is measuring sugar into tea. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2020, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/28 "2020-05-30T17:39:36Z")
Yes, and that makes a barn-megaparsec a reasonable unit for tea sugar, like I said. But **Quercus** suggested instead using a barn-gigaparsec, which is wholly unreasonably unless it’s that sickly Southern stuff that needs that much sugar to mask how bad it tastes. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/29 "2020-05-30T17:44:50Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > A barn-megaparsec is about 3 cubic centimeters. You must like an awful lot of sugar in your tea. Do I not understand math? By my calculations, 3cc would be a cube 1.44cm on a side (a little more than .56 inches). That seems a bit large for a standard sugar cube, but some people prefer two anyway. Okay, nm ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/30 "2020-06-01T23:58:24Z")
[Carcinization](https://xkcd.com/2314/) Does this have anything to do with people becoming crabbier as they get older? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/31 "2020-06-02T01:00:54Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > _Of course_ 7\*6 = 42; what else could it possibly be? Well, sure, 7_6=42 looks fine, but he was talking about 6_7=42. Totally different. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/32 "2020-06-04T08:23:29Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Well, sure, 7_6=42 looks fine, but he was talking about 6_7=42. > > Totally different. That’s what I meant by being surprised that table was symetric. New strip: [Eventual Consistency](https://xkcd.com/2315/) ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/33 "2020-06-04T15:26:02Z")
Seems to be channeling Dilbert’s Wally. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/34 "2020-06-05T23:35:04Z")
The math checks out for today’s. It’s kind of weird to think about though. [Hair Growth Rate](https://xkcd.com/2316/) ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2020, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/35 "2020-06-06T14:37:41Z")
I thought this was going to be about people not being able to get haircuts because of the lockdown. I haven’t had one since January. The barbershops opened up about a week ago here, but I figure they’re swamped so am waiting a bit longer. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/36 "2020-06-09T09:04:38Z")
[Pinouts](https://xkcd.com/2317/) ---
**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:** [June 9, 2020, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/37 "2020-06-09T13:39:36Z")
Sort of reminds me of the various iterations of the XKCDphone. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/38 "2020-06-11T11:35:42Z")
[Dynamic Entropy](https://xkcd.com/2318/) I think that means that anything that moves goes to hell in a handbasket. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2020, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/39 "2020-06-11T12:24:18Z")
I figured it’d be the result of dynamical friction (which is a real thing in astronomy). ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/40 "2020-06-11T13:57:13Z")
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