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I understand it's hard to do more than 300 feet on these 90-second rush jobs, but with a smaller ramp I'm worried the gee forces will be too high for me to do any tricks.

Skateboard
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I understand it's hard to do more than 300 feet on these 90-second rush jobs, but with a smaller ramp I'm worried the gee forces will be too high for me to do any tricks.

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Home Improvement or DIY

Window Screen
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Home Improvement or DIY

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Progress on getting shipwrecked sailors to adopt ICMPv6 has been slow.

Ping
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Progress on getting shipwrecked sailors to adopt ICMPv6 has been slow.

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"Measure zero times, cut zero times." --carpenter who has achieved enlightenment and realized the wood is fine where it is

Measure Twice, Cut Once
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"Measure zero times, cut zero times." --carpenter who has achieved enlightenment and realized the wood is fine where it is

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I'm trying to share my footage of the full run to prove it's not tool-assisted, but the uploader has problems with video lengths of more than a decade.

100% All Achievements
https://xkcd.com/3148/

I'm trying to share my footage of the full run to prove it's not tool-assisted, but the uploader has problems with video lengths of more than a decade.

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Every downhill walk is a waterslide that might have been.

Hiking
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Every downhill walk is a waterslide that might have been.

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One perk of being born at 0.88c is that your birthday is over two days long.

Fantastic Four
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One perk of being born at 0.88c is that your birthday is over two days long.

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Some lava around the piercing site is normal, but keep an eye out for spreading earthquakes and eruptive activity that might indicate rifting.

Piercing
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Some lava around the piercing site is normal, but keep an eye out for spreading earthquakes and eruptive activity that might indicate rifting.

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People looking for the gaps in our understanding where the meaning of consciousness or free will might hide often turn to quantum uncertainty or infinite cosmologies, as if we don't have breathtakingly complex emergent phenomena right there in our freezers.

Phase Changes
https://xkcd.com/3144/

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Although now people will realize three-per-em space that all this time I've been using weird medium mathematical space whitespace characters in my hair space hair space hair space speech dot dot dot...

Question Mark
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If you want to see true audacity, do an image search for 'Altoona-style pizza.'

<City>-Style Pizza
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If you want to see true audacity, do an image search for 'Altoona-style pizza.'

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Mantle plumes explain Hawaii, Yellowstone, Iceland, the East African Rift, the Adirondack uplift, the Permian extinction, the decline of Rome, the DB Cooper hijacking, and the balrog in Moria. Those little hills of sand in your yard are caused by antle plumes.

Mantle Model
https://xkcd.com/3141/

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Welcome to the Linguistics Department - It has been [2] [DAYS] since someone noticed that the Biology Department sign has a one-day-long singular/plural disagreement after it resets.

Biology Department
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Welcome to the Linguistics Department - It has been [2] [DAYS] since someone noticed that the Biology Department sign has a one-day-long singular/plural disagreement after it resets.

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The draw-by-repetition rule does a good job of keeping players from sliding a tile back and forth repeatedly, but the tiles definitely introduce some weird en passant and castling edge cases.

Chess Variant
https://xkcd.com/3139/

The draw-by-repetition rule does a good job of keeping players from sliding a tile back and forth repeatedly, but the tiles definitely introduce some weird en passant and castling edge cases.

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A person with two watches is never sure what time it is, especially if I got them one of the watches.

Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure
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A person with two watches is never sure what time it is, especially if I got them one of the watches.

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Another group of mathematicians is working to put an upper bound on the number, although everyone keeps begging them to stop.

Cursed Number
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Another group of mathematicians is working to put an upper bound on the number, although everyone keeps begging them to stop.

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Be careful fighting gravity. If you win, it's a long way down.

Pull
https://xkcd.com/3136/

Be careful fighting gravity. If you win, it's a long way down.

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They're up there with coral islands, lightning, and caterpillars turning into butterflies.

Sea Level
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They're up there with coral islands, lightning, and caterpillars turning into butterflies.

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Wavefunction collapse is only one interpretation. Under some interpretations, graduate students also have souls.

Wavefunction Collapse
https://xkcd.com/3134/

Wavefunction collapse is only one interpretation. Under some interpretations, graduate students also have souls.

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I tried uploading it to a household appliance porn site I found, but apparently their content is limited to only fans.

Dual Roomba
https://xkcd.com/3133/

I tried uploading it to a household appliance porn site I found, but apparently their content is limited to only fans.

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Hey! A bunch of the early Cretaceous fossils on each coast seem to have been plagiarized, too!

Coastline Similarity
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Hey! A bunch of the early Cretaceous fossils on each coast seem to have been plagiarized, too!

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Someday I hope to find a way to mess up a recipe so badly that it draws the attention of the International Air Transport Association, the International Mathematical Olympiad, or the NSA.

Cesium
https://xkcd.com/3131/

Someday I hope to find a way to mess up a recipe so badly that it draws the attention of the International Air Transport Association, the International Mathematical Olympiad, or the NSA.

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I dropped my phone while trying to search, and I tried to unlock it from up here, so can you also search for screen repair places?

Predicament
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I dropped my phone while trying to search, and I tried to unlock it from up here, so can you also search for screen repair places?

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The academic archaeology establishment is suppressing my breakthroughs because of the disruption it would bring to their prepared-core flake-based toolmaking industry.

Archaeology Research
https://xkcd.com/3129/

The academic archaeology establishment is suppressing my breakthroughs because of the disruption it would bring to their prepared-core flake-based toolmaking industry.

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Hey, so did you ever finish your video series about Cassie and the caterpillar morph? I loved the first three, but never ... no, sorry, I get it, this isn't the place. Sorry! Sorry.

Thread Meeting
https://xkcd.com/3128/

Hey, so did you ever finish your video series about Cassie and the caterpillar morph? I loved the first three, but never ... no, sorry, I get it, this isn't the place. Sorry! Sorry.

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Historians: Contemporaneous documentation of the initial events is often sparse, and in fact people often get testy and uncooperative when we urge better documentation for the historical record.

Where Babies Come From
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You say no human would reply to a forum thread about Tom Bombadil by writing and editing hundreds of words of text, complete with formatting, fancy punctuation, and two separate uses of the word 'delve'. Unfortunately for both of us, you are wrong.

Disclaimer
https://xkcd.com/3126/

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Chemistry grad students have been spotted trying to lure campus squirrels into laundry hampers in the hope that it sparks inspiration.

Snake-in-the-Box Problem
https://xkcd.com/3125/

Chemistry grad students have been spotted trying to lure campus squirrels into laundry hampers in the hope that it sparks inspiration.

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We should have you at the gate in just under two hours--two and a half if we get pulled over.

Grounded
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We should have you at the gate in just under two hours--two and a half if we get pulled over.

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Achilles was a mighty warrior, but his Achilles' heel was his heel.

Canon
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Achilles was a mighty warrior, but his Achilles' heel was his heel.

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