I have a feeling it has something to do with context-sensitive grammer (see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-sensitive_grammar">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-sensitive_grammar</a>) and formal languages, and possibly that we (the audience) are the context.<br>
<br>That's my best guess.<br><br>-Bobby<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Fulko Hew <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fulko.hew@gmail.com" target="_blank">fulko.hew@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font face="courier new,monospace"><br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 4:15 PM,  <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arocker@vex.net" target="_blank">arocker@vex.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Did anybody get the joke in Friday's <a href="http://xkcd.com/1090/" target="_blank">http://xkcd.com/1090/</a> xkcd?<br></blockquote></div><div><br>Not sure, but a mouseover revealed the following hidden caption/titlte...<br>


Does it help you? because it didn't help me.<br> <br></div><div><pre><span>[audience looks around]  'What just happened?<span><span></span>'</span> 'T<span><span></span></span>here must be some context we'<span></span>re missing.'</span></pre>


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