You can tell it's an early strip. These days Randall Munroe would never commit the Godwin violation in the central top frame.
The bottle is then riddled, so that the lees settles in the neck of the wine bottle... Manual riddling is still done for Prestige Cuvées in Champagne... mechanised riddling equipment (a gyropalette) is used instead. (Wikipedia)
Monday, March 28, 2011
Shameful!
Someone has taken advantage of the gullibility of the Chinese authorities to pass off an early xkcd comic as a Naxi Dongba manuscript and sell it to the Kunming Museum.
You can tell it's an early strip. These days Randall Munroe would never commit the Godwin violation in the central top frame.
You can tell it's an early strip. These days Randall Munroe would never commit the Godwin violation in the central top frame.
This is a whole new level of link whoring.
ReplyDeleteBut the dude still gets it from the big knife at the end.
ReplyDelete~
Boiling the A (first panel). It's a Sadly hoax.
ReplyDeleteSomeone is worng on the Yak-vellum scroll!
ReplyDelete"Kumning." Heh.
ReplyDeleteLook out for those dogflies! They bite!
ReplyDeletean early xkcd comic
ReplyDeleteCan't be, there's no wry hover text.
Can't you see the sheet behind?
ReplyDeleteGASP!
ReplyDelete*cackle*
ReplyDeleteI'll have a ham on wry, with swiss and spicy mustard, please.
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I think I see Garfield in panel three
ReplyDelete"Dongba." Heh.
ReplyDeleteIs that Binky?
ReplyDeleteYou're all wrong. This is PROOF of ALIEN INVASION!
ReplyDeleteThey were trying to show us the renewable energy sources of sun (via, apparently, anthropomorphic reflectors) and wind (there's a windmill in nearly every frame).
CAN'T YOU SEE IT?!
WV is intle, as in "intle the great wide open, under a sky of blue..."