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Thursday, December 29, 2011
[Comic title: Wait Wait; alt text: You can't stab Karl Kasell. He sounds all slow and stentorian, but he moves like a snake.]
Sometimes Randy makes comics that make me think he's just discovered those games you play where everyone makes jokes based on a certain snowclone, except he doesn't have any friends so he just makes a bunch of them himself and then uploads them as a comic. Now, I like those games. They can be quite entertaining and more importantly help to pass the time in a world where everything is tedium--a world where the closest thing I can feel to joy or happiness--indeed, the only thing I can feel at all--is smugness.
The thing is, those things are mostly only funny at the time. There might be one or two that are genuinely funny, but you need to set up the flow of the game first. Most people with good taste simply leave the conversation in the past and move on. But some people--the Randall Munroes of this world--decide that the world needs to hear all of these not-really-that-funny jokes that seemed great at the time, all for the sake of the one or two good ones. But this isn't building up to a punchline. It's setting up the necessary frame of mind so that the punchline is something that you have a distant hope of finding funny. And the best of them--"wait wait, don't speak its name," in my vaunted opinion--isn't really that great.
Does it seem to anyone else that Randy's doing a lot more shotgun humor lately?
150 comments:
- AnonymousDecember 29, 2011 at 10:28 PM
it's because his wife has cancerReplyDelete
god, how can you be so heartless? the man is going through a very trying time in his life and we should not expect him to make funny comics, what do you think he is, a webcomic artist?
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2011 at 12:15 AM
This is just so god-damned unfunny.ReplyDelete
I like how he throws in the meme reference and Lovecraft allusion, just to guarantee that this terrible "comic" is guaranteed strike a chord with at least certain groups of people who will kiss the feet of anyone who so much as acknowledges the existence of things they all like to pretend are more obscure and niche than they actually are.
Also, why not "wait wait don't tase me, bro" or something along those lines. I don't understand why he didn't take similar phrases with a "don't ____ me" format and try to make some funny/ironic headlines out of those, as opposed to just picking out words at random and then trying to wring jokes out of the lame premises that resulted.
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2011 at 12:27 AM
I've heard of Wait Wait! GOOMHR!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2011 at 12:34 AM
randall should consider changing the name of his comic to Wait Wait Don't Read Me or even Wait Wait Don't Laugh at Me, if he wants to go for the whole misunderstood nerd angle while still communicating the unfunniness of his siteReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2011 at 1:11 AM
i think one of my favorite "awful headline" comics is this F ChordsReplyDelete
bonus: it's actually from a couple days after the election
today's xkcd i just went: "yeah, i get it. newspaper headlines will use 'wait wait don't ' if the host of 'wait wait don't tell me' does something. that's how newspapers go. gotcha."
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2011 at 1:47 AM
why can't you guys just give him a break?, No one is forcing you to read his comics, and he's going through a rough time in his life.ReplyDelete
I'll admit this isn't the best of comics, but we can all just cut him some slack -- if a family member of yours suddenly had cancer, I'm sure your coworkers would be sympathetic and not be too harsh on you..
so lets all just keep reading and wish him the best :), he'll get through this rough patch in his life, and he ca nget back to doing what he does best -- making smart, witty comics about math, language, and science!
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2011 at 1:59 AM
1/10, 1:47. The ":)" and "!" in the final paragraph cancelled out the extra mark I gave for the absurdist mention of "coworkers" in the second paragraph. The remaining final mark is for being able to type English while having less ego than ALTF or those two schoolboy linguists in the previous thread (but I repeat myself).ReplyDelete
I think one Randall Munroe has had the last laugh on you haters. Tom Batiuk, artist and writer of long-running strip Funky Winkerbean, just announced that when he retires from the comic next year it will be kept going by a team of Randall and one of Batiuk's cleanup artists. Comic #996 was probably timely in convincing Mr. Batiuk to select the xkcd creator from dozens of writers who'd have jumped at the chance.ReplyDelete
Look for Munroe to recapture some of the geeky high school whimsy of the early Funky Winkerbean without short-changing the serious themes, such as the plight of wounded veterans, cancer, the plight of amputees, incest, cancer, alcoholism, the plight of the hearing impaired, cancer and cancer.
- weaselsoupDecember 30, 2011 at 2:45 AM
I don't understand this comic because I am not american & have never heard of this guy or his show. I barely know what npr is. i am fairly sure I wouldn't laugh at a, i dunno, series of headlines about I'm Sorry i Haven't a Clue on bbc radio 4. 'I'm sorry I haven't a Clue why i got Fired' 'I'm sorry I haven't a cryogenic [sic] time capsule' 'I'm sorry I haven't a plastic bag'. yeah. not funny.ReplyDelete
I posted something on the forum about having a problem with the infantilising of the Megan figure and sexualising of medical treatment in the last comic and a couple of them got angry and one of them asked 'what exactly is your problem with sex anyway?' which I thought was pretty funny. and sadly perceptive. they might not think it's so funny next time a doctor gets caught molesting patients. 'but she wanted it, m'lud.' damn it, I should've said that to them. fucking esprit d'escalier. No that's not a translation test either.
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2011 at 3:01 AM
did Randall actually say that someone in his life had cancer, or is this all speculation in the same vein as the megan/breastmilk business because he keeps making cancer comics?ReplyDelete
- weaselsoupDecember 30, 2011 at 3:06 AM
he did; there is a link at the top of the page on the doctor comic.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2011 at 3:07 AM
To be honest, weaselsoup, half the games on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue achieve about the same level of funny as this strip.ReplyDelete
Anyone hitherto avoiding unnecessary familiarity with this septic isle could do worse than search for the Fry model of bargain-basement Wilde mimickry. He is what every BBC attempt to combine culture and comedy looks like today.
- weaselsoupDecember 30, 2011 at 3:11 AM
it is a sad state of affairs, yesReplyDelete
This latest comic was actually a chore to read. All that work, and zero payoff.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2011 at 6:15 AM
HOW DARE YOU CRITICISE RADIO 4!!ReplyDelete
yeah you're just not radio 4's audience why are you even listening to it if you hate it so muchReplyDelete
IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWNReplyDelete
- clevercriticDecember 30, 2011 at 8:26 AM
Summary of nearly all XKCD sucks posts:ReplyDelete
Randy is smug.
XKCD is not funny.
I particularly like the smug accusation in this post since the comic has nothing at all to do with being smug.
This is literally just phrases that begin with the word "don't". Almost anything could exist after the phrase "Wait Wait, don't ____". I hate to be hyperbolic but this is about as lazy as comedy writing gets.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2011 at 9:12 AM
Queue sequence of, "I hate to be hyperbolic but..."ReplyDelete
Let me start: I hate to be hyperbolic but in criticising the kindergartens of both xkcd and xkcdsucks I'm planely intersecting both nappies.
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2011 at 9:14 AM
9:12, surely we have more than one nappy between us here? I don't like the thought of my shit mingling with ALTF's.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2011 at 9:42 AM
WHY ISNT THIS WEBOMIC ABSOLUTELY AMAZING ERRYTIMEReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2011 at 11:26 AM
I BEAT THIS STRAW MAN IT DOES NOT MAKE A SOUND WHYReplyDelete
WAIT WAIT... DON'T MILK ME!ReplyDelete
I liked this one. I like Wait Wait Don't Tell Me and enjoyed seeing it in a comic strip. I liked it so much that I was hoping I could see some comments on it and found this site. I like this site too. It is funny. I like xkcd and enjoy seeing it written about in a blog.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2011 at 12:39 PM
WAIT WAIT...ReplyDelete
@unfortunate name If you like xkcd and like seeing it written about in this blog then that means there's something wrong with you. Also visit the hyphen.ReplyDelete
Well that link failed. The hyphen.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2011 at 2:19 PM
This steaming pile of crap would be tolerable if Randall had done it as a series of headlines for DIFFERENT PEOPLE instead of non-stop Karel Castle. It might even be funny.ReplyDelete
We pity the fool: Mr T's house burns down
Not winning: Charlie Sheen loses celebrity tennis match
Hoping for change: Romney supports confident he can unseat Obama
Thanks Michael. xkcd-sucks hates your link. Maybe you could post it in the text and I can copy and paste it into my browser. My web search for "xkcd the hyphen" has not been fruitful.ReplyDelete
Oh. I am an idiot. I just thought xkcdsucks-sucks was the same blog with a different template.ReplyDelete
Oh, no, it's a different xkcd-sucks. But it's got a hyphen. The original creator left a while ago, but it's still full of valid criticism all the same.ReplyDelete
Michael, your link failed because you didn't include http://ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2011 at 6:19 PM
997 is up for quite a while now, and no signs of wikipedia having been Randallized yet.ReplyDelete
Even the cuddlefish hate it. This is the beginning of the end, folks.
captcha: liess. "liesssss," moan the cuddlefish in their despair.
@Jon Levi So I gathered. By the way: someone in the forums went, "I signed up just to post this gigantic tome that explains the joke." GOLDReplyDelete
"...we should not expect him to make funny comics..."ReplyDelete
Then he needs to quit for the duration of Megan's illness, and if she ups and dies on him, Randall Munroe needs to slowly drink himself to death. Nothing else will do.
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2011 at 10:13 PM
LEAVE RANDALL ALONE!ReplyDelete
- weaselsoupDecember 31, 2011 at 3:29 AM
here is something very lame indeed http://www.explainxkcd.com/ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 31, 2011 at 7:09 PM
I miss xkcdexplained. I really, really do.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 31, 2011 at 10:36 PM
Out of curiosity, what does everyone think the last good xkcd comic was?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 31, 2011 at 11:03 PM
Congratulations, Randy. This was the first xkcd that was so boring and banal that I didn't even finish reading it.ReplyDelete
CAPTCHA: sobster - n. - a sobbing lobster
- AnonymousDecember 31, 2011 at 11:39 PM
@ Anon 10:36ReplyDelete
Specifics differ, but most people agree it went to shit around 400-ish, with the best stuff before 300-350.
- AnonymousJanuary 1, 2012 at 1:02 AM
Cum bono anno MMXII, irrumatoresReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 1, 2012 at 2:25 AM
7:09, the style was predictable: it became obvious what was going to be said and how it was going to be said. Mocking xkcd is righteous entertainment but there is no talent in doing so.ReplyDelete
10:36, 386 was the last good one. Same goes for Intel.
1:02, cum bono te intro.
- AnonymousJanuary 1, 2012 at 2:43 AM
"This Mitchell and Webb Book" did the same joke, but with different people in each headline, and far better jokes.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 1, 2012 at 2:48 AM
I think of Mitchell, Webb, Armstrong and Miller as an annoying university comedy quartet, though the first two are actually sometimes funny.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 1, 2012 at 3:46 AM
Are there any clever black people? I don't mean in the patronising "he invented peanut butter" sense but people who are really smart and black.ReplyDelete
Same question for females in the area of entrepreneurialism. Not whorish "I sold rafia work online and now I have a chain of lingerie shops" or obeisant "I am a career civil servant spokespuppet", but of the likes of anyone from Hewlett and Packard to Dyson.
- AnonymousJanuary 1, 2012 at 6:18 AM
What a miserable little comic. If you didn't see the punchline coming 5 panels away, just kill yourself.
- AnonymousJanuary 1, 2012 at 6:25 AM
^Would've been passable if it wasn't for the last panel.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 1, 2012 at 7:21 AM
Wait, when did this become smbc-sucks?ReplyDelete
Although, yeah, I agree that the last panel (or even the last two or even last three panels) should have been left off. The only case in which you should actually show the outcome is when you're averting the expected (which used to be a pretty common smbc punchline, but I guess Zach felt he was relying on it too much.)
10:36, the last one that elicited a smile from me is 921.ReplyDelete
cptnoremac, despite the shitty formatting of that one I do kinda of still enjoy it. Thank you for giving me a reason to keep believing in Randall.ReplyDelete
Believing in Randall is like holding a wet dog: It makes you stink, but at least the dog's happy.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 1, 2012 at 10:48 AM
Believing in Randall is like having cancer: it makes you die a little inside, as he milks your life force.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 1, 2012 at 10:50 AM
WAIT WAITReplyDelete
I am calling you out for the word 'snowclone', which you only know because of the Dinosaur Comic featuring it. Get some original language, asshole.ReplyDelete
- weaselsoupJanuary 1, 2012 at 2:35 PM
i dunno, I can believe that Rob reads Language Log.ReplyDelete
there was a Dinosaur Comic featuring the word 'snowclone?' I think I just discovered it on Wikipedia one day when trying to google a specific snowclone.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 1, 2012 at 3:16 PM
Wikipedia is not a source of facts, Rob.ReplyDelete
captcha: regro. But dey like to be called Africar-Americar.
it's a great source of definitionsReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 1, 2012 at 3:31 PM
A definition is a fact about a language.ReplyDelete
there are no facts, only interpretationsReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 1, 2012 at 3:41 PM
You interpret me wrongly; I interpret you wrong.ReplyDelete
captcha: elsichem: oh! but meganradi: oh!
LET'S CALL THE WHOLE THING OFFReplyDelete
- weaselsoupJanuary 1, 2012 at 4:15 PM
I find the "wait wait don't clone me" one bitterly ironic.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 1, 2012 at 4:52 PM
A couple of decades ago people started creating Internet-based diaries, reports, periodicals, etc.ReplyDelete
Then a decade or so ago a new generation of netizens (go go Gadget '90s online vernacular) did the same but instead of using the traditional terms they called their works "blogs".
After not too many weeks I came to understand that "blog" was actually an abbreviation for "amateurish". If it was badly written, badly referenced, badly argued, or merely existing for cheap entertainment, it was a "blog".
If almost every regularly updated feature nowadays on the open Internet is called a blog, it is not because the meaning of "blog" has changed but because the quality of information on the Internet has changed.
way to fight the power, 4:52ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 1, 2012 at 6:14 PM
Thanks, Rob.ReplyDelete
When I say this site is badly written, badly referenced, badly argued, and merely exists for cheap entertainment, you should take it as a compliment. And everyone who angrily criticises it for suffering any of these qualities is merely lactating the hatred which sustains the regulars.
Not so for Randallised monstrosities like the Language Log.
excellent use of 'lactating' alsoReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 1, 2012 at 6:23 PM
I imagine Randall walking around a neonatal unit saying that.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 1, 2012 at 6:30 PM
Is there any evidence Randall isn't just making up the whole cancerfiancee thing? Its following from his gently intimated lactophilia is the culmination of a tragedy rivalling Aristophanes.ReplyDelete
captcha: mazingr! WOULDN'T IT BE QUIRKY TO SAY THAT AFTER EVERY JOKE?
- TheMesosadeJanuary 1, 2012 at 7:28 PM
I pressed random on the xkcd search and was brought this. It made me laugh, before I even looked at the ocmic number.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 1, 2012 at 7:30 PM
Aristophanes wrote comediesReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 1, 2012 at 7:44 PM
Aristophanes wrote comedies parodying tragedy.ReplyDelete
Randall Munroe wrote tragediesReplyDelete
Randall Munroe wrote tragedies parodying comedy.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 1, 2012 at 8:07 PM
Tragedies wrote Randall Munroe.ReplyDelete
(The nipper can scantly draw; I do not imagine he can write.)
- AnonymousJanuary 1, 2012 at 8:14 PM
This is all getting quite intellactual. I offer herewith:ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 1, 2012 at 8:32 PM
I just realized the C in XKCD stands for Cancer. Mind = BlownReplyDelete
Btw I hope you fags have a fucking miserable 2012
New comic: stupid pictoblag stuff. It doesn't have a punchline or say anything worthwhile. I shall proceed to sue Randall for my 15 seconds reading my comic and the 45 seconds I spent complaining about it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 1, 2012 at 11:47 PM
It's 2012!!!
Time for a fresh start for Munroe!
AND!, what better way to get a nice fresh start than to have an EPIC, EPIC comic for number 1000!
... he's going to mess it up ... just watch...
- AnonymousJanuary 2, 2012 at 1:38 AM
How on earth is it pictoblag? It's two stick figures exchanging text.
At best it's a couple of tweets.
- AnonymousJanuary 2, 2012 at 7:15 AM
A pictoblog? Is that like cavepainting for the Internet generation?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 2, 2012 at 8:17 AM
8:32, xkcd = X-rays kill cancerous ducts.ReplyDelete
1000 will be a HAHA I TROL U post acknowleding that his past 600 strips and ancillary publications were unambiguously nonsense and he doesn't even have a girlfriend.
This will be immediately followed by hordes of trolled fans pointing out how clever Randall was to have the whole world fooled.
captcha: intalier: langua Intalier nan exciste mays an paut lo imaiginar, eh?
I think Randall's friends and family would prefer he talk about the Mayans, rather than his non-stop discussions about nipples.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 2, 2012 at 8:37 AM
If only Randall's friends existed, maybe he'd listen to them.ReplyDelete
captcha: viaugg, good taste in footwear is lost. viaxkcd, comedy etc.
- AnonymousJanuary 2, 2012 at 9:44 AM
Not true, his blow up doll of Megan is probably pretty tired it.ReplyDelete
8:17, you just blew my mind.
I am unbearably excited for 1000. I bet it won't even be a comic. Although should we instead be anticipating 1001, since 404 is not actually a comic?
I'm not sure if this has been said already, but I thought I'd make an out-of-band comment. In 993, "Brand Identity," Randy posits that bland white boxes would stick out really well on store shelves. In Canada we already actually have this (a store brand called President's Choice) and while they stand out from other brands as Randy expects, they're a total pain because you have to squint at the boxes to differentiate between similar products (is this Lemon Chicken or Chicken Chow Mein?)ReplyDelete
As a result, pretty much everyone wishes they'd never switched over to the white boxes.
who even says only 364 daysReplyDelete
"I think Randall's friends and family would prefer he talk about the Mayans, rather than his non-stop discussions about nipples. "ReplyDelete
eventually he'll just start talking about mayan nipples
Samantha that has indeed been said a gorillion times, but since you have a registered blogger account you count for at least 50 Anonymice.ReplyDelete
Also Samantha is awesome so that has to count for something too <3ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 2, 2012 at 4:52 PM
white knighting on my xkcdsucks?ReplyDelete
Is it white knighting if I'm not even pretending that I'm not just trying to get into her trousers*?ReplyDelete
*see, I'm a feminist
Oh, a lesbian feminist. HOW SURPRISING.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 3, 2012 at 3:26 AM
A lesbian feminist and a soulless Chinaman walk into a bar. The lesbian feminist asks, "What'll it be, me old china?"ReplyDelete
"You lacis?" responds the angry Chink.
"Strap-on," contends the aroused lesbian.
And then they had sex right there, much to the chagrin of the barman who had just polished his bar and wouldn't be able to do it again for hours.
I honestly read that as batman the first time.ReplyDelete
Kitten, you're the best at provoking stupid anonymice with only a display-name <3ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 3, 2012 at 6:34 AM
This comment section is full of e-crossdressers and the standard products of a religious upbringing.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 3, 2012 at 8:02 AM
Ravenzomg, you have a very adversarial interpretation of everything. Has this come up in therapy?ReplyDelete
I had to reread the last line of dialogue a few times before I realized it doesn't say "Menage a 3.0".ReplyDelete
It's amusing that Peter Sagal, who is balding, has more hair than almost all xkcd males.ReplyDelete
Captcha: cocur. Glad you agree, Captcha Generator.
fun fact: it's a leap yearReplyDelete
oh wait that's probably irrelevant, i thought it said 364 instead of 354ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 3, 2012 at 6:07 PM
Would you rather be a feminine, bottom gay who happens to be black, Hispanic, and paraplegic, or a woman?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 3, 2012 at 6:40 PM
I am a feminine, bottom gay who happens to be Hispanic. I also have horrible RSI, though I'd probably insult my bedbound but still headstreong MS-suffering father-in-law if I were to call myself paraplegic. My extended family has quite a few Afro-Caribbeans but none of my direct ancestors are negro.ReplyDelete
his dictis (ablative absolute for you linguist wannabes), at least I'm not a woman.
- AnonymousJanuary 3, 2012 at 7:26 PM
I know what the ablative absolute is, niggerdick (or rather, one who rides thereon).ReplyDelete
I translated Virgil Book IV lines 1-67 today, there were many such constructions in that space. So suck a dick or twelve and go back to Dominica.
- Sir PoopsalotJanuary 3, 2012 at 10:36 PM
Randall is late with 999 >.<ReplyDelete
maybe this is the beginning of the end!
... wishful thinking :(
New comic: Not totally terrible, but still quite bad. I just think I'm too tired to care, but what this comic really generated in me was absolute and utter boredom.ReplyDelete
IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWNReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 4, 2012 at 3:27 AM
7:26, "Virgil Book IV".ReplyDelete
Also, semicolon.
You should have kept your hands off your keyboard and left some room for doubt.
999 is very unrealistic. Any potential child of Randy would most likely be killed within a few months by tainted baby formula - Megan's lacteal supply having been depleted by the man himself - And thus would not have the chance to reach a stage of development where he or she may stand, let alone recognize many of the words that Randy uses.ReplyDelete
Oh, well. Next one is the big 'un. Prepare your hyperbole engines and lower the blast shields to protect against the inevitable self-congratulatory mess.
- AnonymousJanuary 4, 2012 at 4:24 AM
FWIW a recent study determined that for 60% of US women who choose to feed breast milk substitute a contributing factor was their partner's lactation fixation. I thought my foot fetish was nearly mainstream but perhaps I've been sidelined by the knock-on effect of xkcd's popularity :'(.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 4, 2012 at 4:54 AM
>implying anyone reads the georgicsReplyDelete
So you seriously believe ambiguity or doubt is introduced as to which book of Vergil's it is? are you that dumb, anon 3:27?
999 wasn't that bad. Wasn't great though.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 4, 2012 at 7:06 AM
Reasons #1-57 are of course "Because I'm Randall Munroe".ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 4, 2012 at 7:39 AM
999 is great (in a pathetically ironic way). I LMFAOd at seeing Randall "I'm a scientist" Munroe admit that his "love of learning and sharing knowledge about the world" comes down to reading stupid trivia off Wikipedia.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 4, 2012 at 7:52 AM
Not that there's anything wrong with browsing random articles on Wikipedia; I do it a lot myself, but I don't try and dress it up as a deep intellectual pursuit. Learning and sharing knowledge can encompass just about anything, but at some point you have to draw a line between learning that's worthwhile and learning that's not. I can learn about the antics of a group of 20-something Italian-Americans on MTV. Is learning something about the details of Snooki's life more impotant than Thomas Paine's biography? Possibly; at least I'm more likely to find an opportunity to share my knowledge about Snooki with other people over the water cooler.ReplyDelete
- weaselsoupJanuary 4, 2012 at 9:39 AM
the Georgics are a/ great & b/ often studied, don't be a twat about this.ReplyDelete
- weaselsoupJanuary 4, 2012 at 9:48 AM
also comic 999 is cool, it has a/ wikipedia b/ 'I'm really clever' - ('my love of learning and sharing knowledge? fuck OFF) and c/ 'look at me, I'm such a kerrraaazy random person, no one should trust ME with kids, I'm too unconventional & young at heart' and d/ the underlying suggestion of 'look at me I have sex lots of sex sex sex sex' and e/ those fucking horrible wheelie chairs with a stick figure floating in the air above themReplyDelete
in other words it has almost everything. number 1000 (or 1001 if he decides that is the special one) will be a chart about how often people google terms like cocksucking narrated by that fucker in the hat with a mouseover text begging the cast of Firefly to pay attention to it.
- AnonymousJanuary 4, 2012 at 10:44 AM
4:54, nipping at the ankles does not become a neophyte classicist. You learn willingly then the wise man, seeing your potential, seduces you roughly from behind.ReplyDelete
- That's what sheJanuary 4, 2012 at 11:21 AM
Please don't say "nipping"; you'll turn Randy on.ReplyDelete
Captcha: butfa
- AnonymousJanuary 4, 2012 at 3:12 PM
999 - WIKIPEDIA!ReplyDelete
It is a good thing to see Randall admitting that he should never have children, though.ReplyDelete
Somehow I'm worried that 1000 won't be the disappointment we all hope it to be. If it isn't, it would be so disappointing.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 4, 2012 at 5:05 PM
how... ironicReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 4, 2012 at 5:06 PM
5:02 = 5:03 = 5:05 = samefagReplyDelete
I think I'd no longer say xkcd sucks but rather that it cares for its readers. If the latest one had said "Reason #58 why I should never have children: Even if I could get a woman to stay with me long enough to raise children, I'd be deathly afraid they'd inherit my Asperger's and/or my obsessive-compulsive disorder. [alt text: and having one person occupy the bathroom 30 times a day just to wash his hands is enough.]"ReplyDelete
Instead of being amused or admiring his honesty and daring, we'd all just feel bad. So Randall's lightening up a sad world on this one.
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2012 at 9:09 AM
Eugenics is just capitalism without the suffering that those born less able have to endure.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2012 at 9:10 AM
Capitalism requires a large supply of idiots to exploit, so would not support eugenics.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2012 at 9:23 AM
I predict xkcd1000 (or 1001, with a smug remark about 404 missing) will incorporate some form of thanks to his loyal audience combined with a quip on the general if-only-everyone-was-a-slave-to-the-love-of-science-the-world-would-be-great-(kinda-like-China-now-but-who's-watching)-but-it-isn't-so-everything-sucks res rerum.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2012 at 9:25 AM
Consciousness is necessarily a supernatural concept. Discuss.ReplyDelete
- weaselsoupJanuary 5, 2012 at 11:26 AM
also I think for comic 1000 someone should do a guide to xkcd forumites. there's several distinct types on there - the ones who think that mild criticism is blasphemy; the ones that go to a lot of effort to appear sneeringly sarcastic to those they disagree with, but aren't clever enough to pull it off; the mostly harmless sycophants; the dangerous sycophants (usually these are distinguished by having moving gifs as avatars, which is the worst thing in the world today); the 'look at me I'm so random and weird' goomhers; the intellectual snobs who think that the stuff they post is 'academic' and have quotes from other forumites praising them in their signatures...ReplyDelete
the goomher thing has been bothering me a lot recently. it's a similar thing to the morons portrayed in xkcd 807 - it's some idiot who thinks that something they think makes them special, and that therefore a shared thought - especially one shared with an idol - makes them extra special.
It's the kind of person who says 'is it weird that I like hippos AND margarine?' They desperately want the reply 'yes, and it makes you cool and unusual and different'. They want people to think that they don't care about convention - hell they don't even know what's weird or not, that's how wacky and creative they are. If you say 'is it weird that I think...' WE KNOW YOU ALREADY THINK IT IS (even if it isn't even 'weird'. (whatever 'weird' is)) And at the same time they want to assert their difference and specialness and the superiority they think this implies -they like what they like *despite* boring bland society telling them it's strange. They're so misunderstood! And the fact they can't see how this looks to other people is the saddest thing of all.
this is the xkcd audience. It's mostly a disease of young people, to be fair, and many of them will grow out of it and wince if reminded that they once posted 'omg, Randall is so creative and special, and is it weird that I too get obsessed with plastic bags? omg soul mates' but for some reason it's annoyed me enough today that I typed all this out.
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2012 at 11:51 AM
This maybe isn't exactly what you're talking about overall, 11:26, but your second paragraph describes this guy perfectly (from the 997 thread):ReplyDelete
"I've just registered to point out the tiny quote from a character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld in article 4C. I always like coming across evidence that one of the people I like and follow is familiar with the works of another."
What really bugs me is that this guy seems to have missed that xkcd is full of pandering references to nerd culture, and Pratchett is certainly a part of nerd culture.
GOOMH Randall, I feel so validated knowing that you like [stereotypically nerdy interest]. Not everybody does, and I never would've suspected you did too.
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2012 at 12:02 PM
weaselsoup, your first paragraph describes every forum on the Internet. There is nothing new under the Sun (that an Oracle won't predict (and chew up and spit out (there's an example of an annoying in-joke for another elitist group right there (anyone who made a LISP remark at this point would be similarly annoying (goomhAnonymous))))).ReplyDelete
The GOOMH thing isn't that different from any religion or quasi-religion: you're either with Randall or you're against him. All the cool kids on the Internet are socially liberal ("BO is OK as long as you're rich"), fiscally conservative ("oppressing foreigners bad - cheap Chinese electronics good"), atheist ("I refuse to believe God is a pink unicorn therefore there is no God"), science-fans ("science has solved all problems except the ones it's about to solve if only we believe hard enough"), lacking in empathy ("I was born healthy and with high IQ but you're a borderline retarded paraplegic because you're LAZY"), materialistic ("see above") and read xkcd.
As a political commentator noted around 14 years ago, Blair was more Thatcherite than Thatcher; as a recent survey noted, the British people are more Thatcherite than Blair. The same surely applies in the US. xkcd is a Thatcherite's comic: arrogant, technocratic, inhumane and hypocritical. And Munroe, like Thatcher, barely conceals the root of its odious path: the terrible truth that its background is as one of the common folk, no better or (back then, at least) worse than anyone else.
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2012 at 12:26 PM
I just want to say that I went to a £27,000/year independent school on scholarship, I studied Latin and Russian and various European languages. I graduated first class with a BSc in mathematics and later got an MSc.ReplyDelete
I now clean offices for a living.
The moral of the story is that education will not get you anywhere.
- weaselsoupJanuary 5, 2012 at 2:08 PM
' your first paragraph describes every forum on the Internet. ' fair point, yeah. xkcd seems to concentrate it a bit, but maybe I just want to hate them more because as you say, the comic itself embodies all that shit and celebrates it and validates it (and likes to pretend it doesn't) so it's to blame.ReplyDelete
goomh 12:26 I had a scholarship & did latin & russian at school too. omg. wonder what people on xkcd would think about them letting you into a maths degree with all that liberal humanities nonsense on your CV.
Wait, new prediction! Comic 1000 will be a clip show.ReplyDelete
Or if not that, then it will be heavily self-referential, and look back nostalgically on the last 998 comics.
Captcha: toldi. I toldi you.
I believe that comic 1000 will hardly acknowledge the other 998 comics, if at all. Just another boring comic.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2012 at 6:21 PM
you know it would be funny if Randall didn't particularly see 1000 as significant and comic 1000 was just your typical crock of shitReplyDelete
Well, he hasn't noted past successes, except by being slightly shittier than usual.ReplyDelete
some meta comment/argument from a dipshit-character about how it's actually comic 8ReplyDelete
anything better and i will be pleasantly surprised.
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2012 at 8:54 PM
OMG GUYZ IT'S THAT MOMENT OF TRUTHINESS APPROACHINGReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2012 at 9:00 PM
OMG GUYZ HE'S LATE WHAT AN ASSHOLEReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 6, 2012 at 2:50 AM
Michael@7:37, you're doing it wrong.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 6, 2012 at 2:55 AM
Worst 1000th comic ever.ReplyDelete
Not even a funny lookback. Just "hey, look at all these CRAZY stick-figures I've drawn over the years" and then a LOLSOFUNNY-nerd joke.
Anyone want to bet against me that is is going to be a poster?
- Charles Augustus FortescueJanuary 6, 2012 at 5:31 AM
Are there exactly 1000 figures making up the number 1000, do we know?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 8, 2012 at 8:04 AM
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Installing your own trim, moulding and baseboard is one of the most profitable do-it-yourself home-improvement ventures you can take on because it lets you save so much cash. Winter is the time we Canadians are most likely to tackle trim installation and, with the right preparation, you'll enjoy creative control and satisfaction of the sort that money can't buy. Whatever your motivation, here are some tricks that make all the difference.
Mark all cuts with a knife
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Place a piece of trim in position where you want it to go, then use the tip of the blade to make a mark. When it comes time to cut your trim, shine a strong light on the wood and sneak up to the knife mark with several shallow cuts until you're right on the waste side of the line.
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Zero Defex had a song called Schwinehundt Doggen aka Swine Hunt Doggen, aka Sine Hunt Dogen. You can listen to a sample of it on the CD Baby page I've linked to. The song is 34 seconds long but the sample they give you is like 30 seconds, so you don't miss much. But you do miss Jimi Imij shouting "Achtung!" at the beginning, which is what I think of every time I see that word written on something here in Germany.
Today is my last talk here, in Berlin, by the wall, where I'm 5 foot 2 inches tall. And if anyone gets that reference...
I had the great honor to be introduced to Kaz Tanahashi by my friend Regina Obendorfer of Dogen Sangha Frankfurt. That's a photo of us on Regina's porch on the bottom of this page. The photo on the top is off a postcard I bought in Frankfurt that I thought was really funny.
I got no time to write today. But I've been trying to update this page every three days or so. So this is it.
I've been thinking of trying to write about a phenomenon I've noticed on this tour. It's that when I talk, people seem to come expecting me to sell them my religion. It's always exciting when someone does that. They make beautiful promises of what will happen if you accept their belief system. You can argue about it with them and watch them defend it. You can think about whether they might be right or not. I used to have lots of fun doing that kind of stuff.
But that's not what I do. I wouldn't say I don't care whether or not the people who come see me talk go out and start practicing zazen. It would be nice for them and for me if they did. But I don't want to waste my time, effort and energy trying to convince anyone to do it. It's none of my business, really.
Obviously I have yet to come up with a way to articulate what it is I want to say about this. Maybe one of these days I will.
Also, a lot of people I meet on the road want me to become their master. Like that dog in the old Bugs Bunny cartoons who follows Bugs around saying, "Will you be my master?" If anyone knows which cartoon that was, let me know.
Anyhow, I always tell them that if they lived near me they'd ultimately be terribly disappointed in me. Disappointment is a necessary part of this game.
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Feeling better and getting ready for a day trip.
Sorry I have been negligent with the writing. I have been fighting symptoms since New Years! I have not been sick enough to 'skip' work, but I have slept through a few weekends and I've been through 3 big boxes of tissues and one bottle each of DayQuil and NyQuil. My favorite weekend was when I did not get out of my pj's for 2 days.
So finally I feel fine, with only a mild sniffle, and now my hubby is talking about his cold.
Today we are going on a wild mystery tour, of sorts. We are taking the kids to the Children's Museum of Minnesota. How brave we are. A 2 year old and a 3 year old that have been shut up in the house for a month of cold weather out and set free. Makes me think of what it was like to let the pony or the calves out of the barn on a frisky day.
If we survive, it will be back home in the early afternoon for a long nap.
Our hardest decision of the spring is in the works. What to do about health insurance when my husband becomes eligible for Medi....whatever. Supplemental plans are a mystery to me. Glad that he is retired and has hours and hours to do research. I am thinking of all the money we will save when I go from family insurance to single, but now I am thinking it will all go to the supplementals.
My mother will be 97 in February. I think I went for 30 years with talking to her on the phone once every 2 weeks. We are now on the 7pm every night plan. It is a miracle to have a Mom when I am 60, so just enjoying every conversation, which is nearly always the same. What we had for dinner, the weather, and who she saw during the day. I know that when she says, "talk to you tomorrow", there will be a day when that will not be.
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Social networking sites provide a variety of tools to help you manage your privacy, your interactions, and your content. Leveraging these tools is a critical first step in having a safer online experience, but these tools alone will not keep you safer. Here are other questions to consider before choosing which social site you want to use, and what information you want to share with whom.
How viewable do you want your profile and pages to be?
The more personally identifying the information the more selective you may want to be about whom sees it. Additionally, consider how others may view or judge your information. For example, could the information be detrimental to you in some way in the future, and are you willing to take that chance?
Information that can be detrimental to you when being evaluated for a job, insurance, loans etc. include exposing your political views or sexual orientation; sharing information about illnesses you have (like being on a walk for breast cancer survivors, or being on a soccer team for diabetics); using profanity or poor grammar; talking about clubbing and drinking a lot, complaining about your work environment (or past environment), sharing photos where questionable judgment is shown; exposing how many children you have - or if you are trying to have children; and so on.
Explore a social site before using it. Does it offer the level of control, protection, and overall experience that is right for you?
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Is anyone monitoring the service? Look to see how well the service polices abusive interactions or inappropriate content and how to report these. If you can't figure out how to get to a live human on the other end of your complaint, pick a different service.
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With friends it's about quality, not quantity. You are picky about selecting friends among those you meet; use the same principle online. Check out their pages - do you have any common friends? Are they someone you'd hang out with? If a hiring manager looked at their page would it reflect badly on you?
Keep an eye on what others share about you. Whether they are sharing comments, photos or other information, ask your friends not to post information about you that you don't want shared. Ask friends to remove information you don't want disclosed.
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Johannesburg. South African Airways (SAA) today revealed the fully branded aircraft that will fly Team South Africa and officials to the London 2012 Olympic Games on 19 July 2012. The spectacular design painted on the aircraft was created by Adri le Roux, a first year design student at Stellenbosch University.
The long haul Airbus A340-300 is set to cause a splash at international airports with its bold and colourful images of South African swimmers, runners, soccer players and other sports stars.
"As South Africa's national airline, we are proud and happy to be able to support our athletes in this manner," said SAA CEO Siza Mzimela "And just as our ground crews, pilots, and cabin staff are geared to give their very best to the Olympic participants and to all of our passengers at all times, we look forward to South Africa's athletes achieving personal peak performances in London."
SAA issued a public competition challenging South African youth of ages 13-21 to design an iconic visual which captures the spirit of South Africa. The judging criteria included creative flair and an eye for design. Furthermore, the simplicity and longevity of the design was considered, with the third and final criteria being how the design compliments SAA's internationally recognised branding.
The design of the aircraft is colourful and vibrant and uses the colours of the South African flag to create brush strokes covering the plane. The sportsmen and women in the stroke illustrate the speed and excellence with which the SA Olympic team performs on the field.
"This design is vibrant and reflects the true spirit of South Africa. We believe that it echoes the passion, commitment and hard work that Team South Africa embraces when they are in the field", says SAA CEO, Siza Mzimela.
As an official air transportation partner to the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC), SAA will fly athletes and officials to London for the Olympics, which takes place from 27 July 2012 to 12 August 2012. SAA will also fly athletes and participants to the Paralympics, scheduled for 29 August 2012 to 9 September 2012.
Adjudication of the competition to design the Olympic aircraft's special livery was conducted by a panel of technical, arts, and design professionals. On the panel were South Africa's National Herald Mr. Themba Mabaso, SAA Technical Senior Engineering Analyst: Mr. JJ Pretorius, Vega School of Arts lecturer Mr. Matthew Partridge, and Mr. Steve Knapp, Art Director at Brand Activation. The results were audited by Ernst and Young, SAA's auditing firm.
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Kholat Syakhl is a mountain in the Ural range in Russia. The name is from the language of the local Mansi tribes, and means "Mountain of the Dead."
In early 1959, a group of 9 young men & women set out to ski-trek through the area. It was winter, but all were experienced, well-trained winter skiers. They carried plenty of supplies. All were students, or recent graduates, of Ural State Technical University. The leader of the group was 23 year-old Igor Dyatlov.
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They carried cameras and diaries, which were eventually recovered. The pictures showed routine events in the trek, and were helpful afterward in trying to reconstruct times... up to a point.
They left Vizhai on January 27, 1959, and their pictures suggest the trip went well. They show a group clowning around and enjoying themselves.
On January 31 they climbed into a highland area, and near a clump of trees cached surplus food & equipment for the return leg of their trip.
On February 2 they began hiking through a mountain pass. Their original plan was to get through the area and camp on the opposite side that night, but snow had started to fall. With the visibility worse they headed west by mistake, going upwards on Kholat Syakhl.
They realized the mistake quickly, but by then darkness had started to set in. They decided to make camp in a clearing there, and cross the pass in the morning. They set up camp at around 5:00 p.m., had dinner, and were settled down for the night by 9:00. By all indications it was a fairly typical evening.
Setting up camp.
Dyatlov was planning to send a telegraph home when they returned to Vizhai, on February 12. When it didn't arrive there was little initial reaction, as treks of this sort were known to last a few extra days. But by February 20 enough people were concerned that the first search parties went out. Eventually the police were brought in, and used helicopters to search the area.
On February 26, searchers found their tent on the slopes of Kholat Syakhl. It was badly damaged, and curiously had been cut through from within. The entrance was still clasped closed from the inside.
Outside the ruined tent were footprints heading for the forest. Following them, searchers found the first 2 frozen bodies. Both were under a large tree, near the remains of a fire. They were men, both barefoot and wearing only underwear. Branches of the tree were broken off, and the mens' hands and feet were injured, suggesting they'd tried to climb it.
Three other bodies eventually turned up, spread out between the tent and the tree, in positions suggesting they were returning to the tent when they died. One was Dyatlov, clutching a large tree branch in one hand.
It had been -22°F (-30° C) that night, with blowing snow. Yet, something had happened that drove experienced skiers frantically out, nearly naked, into temperatures that they knew would be fatal in a short time. All were found to have died of hypothermia. Only one body had any sign of injury, a small, non-fatal, skull fracture.
The remaining 4 frozen bodies weren't found until the spring thaw, on May 4. They were in a stream bed a few hundred feet from the tree.
The autopsies of the last 4 added to the mystery. They were wearing more clothes than those found under the tree, but not nearly enough to handle the temperatures (most of the heavy clothing had been left in the remains of the tent). Only one had died of exposure. The other 3 from severe trauma: 1 had massive skull damage, the other 2 had suffered serious chest cavity injuries and broken ribs. One woman had her tongue completely torn out. None of the bodies had any signs of external wounds, and there was no superficial soft tissue damage. This suggested massive, sudden pressure to the affected areas (such as seen in high-speed car accidents).
Based on the amount of food in their stomachs, all had died 6-8 hours after their last meal (between 6:00-7:00 p.m. from the diaries).
All their clothing, and the tent, had varying levels of radiation on them (higher than the area's natural background).
So what happened?
The best that investigators in 1959, and again during a 2nd review of records in the 1990's, came up with is that a "compelling unknown force" occurred between 11:00 and midnight that night.
Something that made 9 highly-experienced winter skiers so desperate to get out of their tent that they cut through it from inside rather than unclasp the entrance, then ran into the freezing night wearing far less than they knew would be needed to survive the weather outside.
From the footprints they ran in all directions initially, then regrouped and built a fire under the tree. At that point they tried to share clothing for warmth (based on what different bodies were wearing). They were only 1500 feet from the tent and all of their supplies, but, because of whatever had happened, didn't want to go back.
At some point 2 of them died of exposure, which is likely when Dyatlov and 2 others headed back to the tent. They never made it.
In the next few hours the remaining 4 left the fire, and decided that heading farther into the forest was safer than going back to their supplies and the tent. During the night they reached a frozen stream bed, where something caused serious bodily injuries to 3 of them.
And the "compelling force?"
There were suspicions that local Mansi tribes had attacked the group, but no other footprints (human or animal), or even evidence of a struggle, were ever found. There was no evidence of gun or knife wounds. In addition, all their food and other supplies were untouched. Tribesmen would likely have taken anything of use. Animals, such as bears, would have eaten the exposed food in the tent (not to mention the bodies).
Some suggest they were startled by an avalanche, but there was no evidence of one, even minor, in the area.
Another theory (and still the most persistent) is that they were accidental victims of a Soviet secret weapons test in the area, though again, no evidence to confirm this has ever come to light, even with files re-opened in the 1990's.
Inevitably, UFO's are blamed. A group of hikers 32 miles south of Kholat Syakhl that night had reported seeing "orange spheres" in the sky. Similar sightings were also reported by a meteorological station in the area, before the disappearance of the hikers was known. But this is hardly enough to draw conclusions from. I, personally, am very skeptical of paranormal claims, UFO's, etc. And don't even get me started on cryptids.
The bottom line is that the "compelling unknown force" was known only to 9 people, and none came home to tell the tale.
After the incident the area was closed off for 3 years. Today it's named Dyatlov Pass, in memory of the group. Nothing unusual has happened there again.
Something took the lives of 9 young men and women 52 years ago today. It remains a complete mystery. And likely always will be.


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While talking to a Canadian friend, I said "It's gone five" (meaning "it's after five o'clock" but with definite connotations, depending on context, of "it's later than I thought" or "we're going to be late" or "we're late"). She said that without very strong contextual clues this would be incomprehensible in N. America. Any comments?Robert describes the situation well. One issue that's not clear is what the 's stands for. You almost always hear it with the 's contracted: it's gone five rather than it has gone five or it is gone five. (See this post for further discussion of it's gone in BrE and AmE.) So, which is it, is or has? Either, it seems. Perhaps BrE speakers out there can enlighten us as to whether they can see any difference in meaning or dialect in the following examples (I searched for the past tense because it was easier):
It was gone four o'clock by the time we left the restaurant so whatever the hell we were talking about it must have been good. (from 'Star Blog')(For what it's worth, London-born Better Half thinks the was gone version sounds 'just wrong', but concedes that it might set up things a bit differently in a narrative.)
With that cheeky grin she wished me a happy birthday (it had gone 12 o'clock by now) and that was it, and pardon the pun but for me it was a 'perfect day'. (from kirstymaccoll.com)
BrE speakers can also use gone for peoples' ages (with mostly the same connotations as Robert gave for the time-telling gone), i.e. He's gone 60 ('he's over sixty already'). Algeo's British or American English? counts both of these uses of gone as prepositions. If it's a preposition, then you'd use it with a form of the verb to be, but if it's a past-participle form of the verb to go, then you'd generally use it with a form of to have. Of course, the preposition is historically the same word as the participle, but it's drifted away from it to a different (more grammatical/functional) part-of-speech--that is to say, it has undergone grammaticali{s/z}ation.
Another BrE-particular temporal gone is the use of gone as a post-nominal (i.e. after the noun) modifier that means 'ago', as in this example from kultureflash (London):
With Batman a decade gone, Spiderman and Daredevil hits, and Ang Lee's Hulk promising to smash, it's a KA-POW comic book dreamworld just now.You might hear this in AmE, but then the gone would almost certainly mean 'dead', and it would be found in newspaper memorials (advertisements placed by mourners to remember their dead) and the like (e.g. a decade gone, but not forgotten).
Another use that I believe is mostly BrE (having a hard time confirming its dialect, but I'm pretty sure I'm right about this) is post-nominal gone to mean 'pregnant', as in this travel(l)ing-while-pregnant story from The Times:
Four months gone, over the sickness and constantly hungry, I was delighted to find that they had one restaurant serving European and Egyptian specialities and another specialising in modern Indian which satisfied my cravings for spicy food and yoghurt.I used this on occasion while pregnant, but it always seemed to me to have an unpleasant connotation that I couldn't quite put my finger on. It reminded me of (BrE) up the duff, in that it sounded to me like pregnancy was somehow foisted upon me and that it was not a socially acceptable state to be in. I would love to hear from folks who use X months gone more naturally than I do on whether it has those connotations for you. So...comment away!