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Joel Yliluoma escribió:
> On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:50:06 -0500, Kyle wrote:
>> Wow, that's allot to do to get the joke.
>>
>> 1) Read the comic, don't understand.
>> 2) Hover to read the ALT text, as Jim pointed out.
>> 3) View properties because ALT text is too damn long.
>> 4) Google basilisk.
>> 5) Read Wikipedia article about basilisk.
>> 6) Make the connections to the comic in my mind.
>> 7) Realize I just wasted a few more minutes of my life
>> figuring out a comic that is not funny.
>
> Steps 4 to 6 can be substituted with general education.
> Basically, if you're of the target group of XKCD, you have likely
> encountered basilisks or creatures derived from basilisks in some
> context -- fantasy books, video games, sci-fi series, Donald Duck.
>
I knew it from a terror book I read probably when I was 10.
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"scott" <sco### [at] laptop com> wrote:
> Someone called "BSLSK05" comes along, and gives a :) which kills the stick
> dude. The last frame shows some reptile at the other computer. If you make
> the connection between the username, killing by staring, and the reptile
> then you "get" the cartoon.
only if you know Harry Potter mythos...
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Joel Yliluoma <bis### [at] ikifi> wrote:
> fantasy books, video games, sci-fi series, Donald Duck.
You forgot role-playing. :)
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- Warp
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On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:52:35 +0100, nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> "scott" <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote:
>> Someone called "BSLSK05" comes along, and gives a :) which kills the
>> stick dude. The last frame shows some reptile at the other computer.
>> If you make the connection between the username, killing by staring,
>> and the reptile then you "get" the cartoon.
>
> only if you know Harry Potter mythos...
Basilisks in literature predate Harry Potter by several millenia.
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FE
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> "scott" <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote:
>> Someone called "BSLSK05" comes along, and gives a :) which kills the stick
>> dude. The last frame shows some reptile at the other computer. If you make
>> the connection between the username, killing by staring, and the reptile
>> then you "get" the cartoon.
>
> only if you know Harry Potter mythos...
>
What does Harry Potter have to do with this?
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"Fredrik Eriksson" <fe79}--at--{yahoo}--dot--{com> wrote:
> Basilisks in literature predate Harry Potter by several millenia.
certainly never been as wildly popular as dragons, centaurs, sphinx, elves or
whatnot because I've never heard of them. Though if they are snakes, Medusa
should be their queen?
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On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:47:03 -0500, Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Warp wrote:
>> > Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> >> Well, I do know what a basilisk is, and by the most amazing
>> >> coincidence, I get the joke now.
>> >
>> > I still don't.
>
>> It's a monster that turns you to stone if you see its face. Like
>> Medeusa.
>
> I know. But I still don't get the *joke* in that strip.
Online is about the safest way to meet something that can turn you into
stone.
Jim
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On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:52:35 -0500, nemesis wrote:
> "scott" <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote:
>> Someone called "BSLSK05" comes along, and gives a :) which kills the
>> stick dude. The last frame shows some reptile at the other computer.
>> If you make the connection between the username, killing by staring,
>> and the reptile then you "get" the cartoon.
>
> only if you know Harry Potter mythos...
The Basilisk isn't unique to Harry Potter. I honestly didn't even get
the HP reference, being an old D&D player myself. Of course, that's not
where it came from either....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilisk
Jim
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On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:17:59 -0500, nemesis wrote:
> because I've never heard of them.
What, just because you've never heard of them, they weren't popular in
literature?
Henry III (Shakespeare) and The Zadig (Voltaire) are just a couple of
places it has appeared.
Jim
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On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:05:41 -0200, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> nemesis escribió:
>> "scott" <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote:
>>> Someone called "BSLSK05" comes along, and gives a :) which kills the
>>> stick dude. The last frame shows some reptile at the other computer.
>>> If you make the connection between the username, killing by staring,
>>> and the reptile then you "get" the cartoon.
>>
>> only if you know Harry Potter mythos...
>>
>>
> What does Harry Potter have to do with this?
It's the most common place people know about the Basilisk from these
days. Just like the most common place people have seen Hugh Laurie is in
House, so when referencing him often people will say "Hugh Laurie - you
know, the guy on House"? It doesn't matter that he's very well known for
UK programmes like Blackadder, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and Jeeves and
Wooster; over here in the US, chances are better that you've heard of
Hosue than the others (though that in and of itself is sad).
Jim
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