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xkcd goes postal

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Today’s xkcd is even more relevant to my life than it usually is, since I’ve spent a lot of time at the post office lately.

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2 November, 2007 Wil

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14 thoughts on “xkcd goes postal”

  1. Eric in PA says:
    2 November, 2007 at 1:52 pm

    It’s like that scene in True Lies where Ahhhhnold is all doped up on truth serum and explains to the guy exactly how he’s going to kill all of them…
    I’ve had these thoughts myself, so you guys aren’t alone…

  2. bjimba says:
    2 November, 2007 at 2:03 pm

    Wil, if you’re going to post an XKCD, you have to find some way of carrying along the text — that’s usually half the joke.
    For this one, the Alternate Text was:
    “That track (‘Battle Without Honor or Humanity’) — like ‘Ride of the Valkyries’ — improves *any* activity.”

  3. shauna says:
    2 November, 2007 at 2:22 pm

    Wow. You’re just awesome. Very cool.

  4. Insane_in_Huron says:
    2 November, 2007 at 2:46 pm

    That is how I amuse myself while riding the subway, and to some extent when I am taking the train home.

  5. SandieK says:
    2 November, 2007 at 2:51 pm

    Along with my situational awareness thing, I also tend to play out similar scenarios in my head.
    This isnt unusual. On the XKCD group on facebook theres a thread for ‘Worst XKCDism’.
    I just added one more.

  6. kristinalead says:
    2 November, 2007 at 3:29 pm

    So Wil, you’ve been hanging out at the post office a lot lately… how does your mentally choreographed fight-scene go?

  7. vark says:
    2 November, 2007 at 5:24 pm

    I didn’t mind missing PAX because http://vark.blogspot.com/2007/10/this-is-me-with-randall-munroe-xkcd.html

  8. Chris says:
    2 November, 2007 at 6:21 pm

    My copy of “Happiest Days…”finally arrived today, 27 days after you mailed it. It was scanned through Richmond VA on 10/22 and yet took 10 days to travel the next 50 miles to my house. Unfreaking believable. It has to have just been sitting in the post office undelivered. So be careful with that fight scene, you might damage all the copies of your book that are stacking up there 🙂

  9. Damien says:
    3 November, 2007 at 7:05 am

    I’m glad I’m not the only one who really identified with that strip…

  10. Hisham says:
    4 November, 2007 at 6:19 am

    I usually do the same at wedding dinners.

  11. Ghost Girl says:
    4 November, 2007 at 6:41 am

    My husband plots bank robberies (and once, even, the assassination of someone who I won’t mention because I fear the Secret Service knocking on our door!) No wonder that *I* am always plotting out escape routes.

  12. bikermailman says:
    4 November, 2007 at 5:37 pm

    It’s always the clerks that ‘go postal’… I get outside, get fresh air, exercise, does wonders for the attitude!

  13. Rystefn says:
    5 November, 2007 at 1:52 pm

    I sometimes wonder if my own vivid imagination about this sort of thing isn’t the true source of my paranoia…
    Oh well. The one time someone really does whip out a crossbow at Subway will prove to them all that I’m not crazy.

  14. DJC says:
    19 November, 2007 at 10:59 am

    Hey, Wil!
    THIS is how you need to relax!

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