[tpm] A tad too subtle for me

J. Bobby Lopez jbl at jbldata.com
Sat Aug 4 14:52:51 PDT 2012


I have a feeling it has something to do with context-sensitive grammer (see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-sensitive_grammar) and formal
languages, and possibly that we (the audience) are the context.

That's my best guess.

-Bobby

On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Fulko Hew <fulko.hew at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 4:15 PM, <arocker at vex.net> wrote:
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>> Did anybody get the joke in Friday's http://xkcd.com/1090/ xkcd?
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> Not sure, but a mouseover revealed the following hidden caption/titlte...
> Does it help you? because it didn't help me.
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> [audience looks around]  'What just happened?' 'There must be some context we're missing.'
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