­xkcd thread

I’m almost afraid to know how many of these are actually accurate.

Same.

A spectrum band allotted to a now-defunct satellite telephone service that has been tied up in litigation for twenty years is entirely plausible.

Jarndyce v Jarndyce drones on. The scarecrow of a suit has in course of time become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes without coming to a total disagreement as to all the premises. Scores of persons have found themselves made parties in Jarndyce v Jarndyce without knowing how or why.

Radio (shouting) is the AM band and radio (music) is FM, so those are pretty accurate. The TV channels and 1G/2G cellular bands are close enough. Part of me hopes the death ray band is real.

Nope.

Here you go:

So, a 1920 kHz -Style Death Ray?

Geez, first we lose Mariner 1 because someone mistook an R̄ for an R, and now this.

Is that guy Steve?

The video version:

“People out here catching strays out here catching strays”

Okay I’m having trouble parsing the alt text.

“Catching strays” means getting unintended or unjustified criticism. So dogcatchers catch strays (are unfairly denigrated) for catching stray animals.

Thanks. I did not know that meaning.

Ditto. I was utterly baffled.

Or is that buffaloed? As in the infamous Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo - Wikipedia? :zany_face:

Even now knowing that “catching strays” is an idiom for misdirected criticism, I still think he’s got a missing word error in the text. It ought to read something more like "People out here catching strays are out here catching strays”. I’d also think “there” works better than “here”. I’d rework the whole thing.

Same. Thanks for the translation.

Adding to the chorus.

Seeing as “catching strays” (as in bullets) originated in gangsta culture, I suspect Randall was going for a mock-Ebonics effect.