The 2008 XKCD Christmas Special
Narrator: Due to the slowing economy, we could only afford to produce the prime-numbered panels.
Narrator: You should be able to infer the missing parts of the story easily enough.
Narrator: We apologize for the inconvenience.
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[[Girl carrying Christmas lights and guy watching]]
Girl: I'm going to one-up those Christmas light displays on YouTube.
[[Girl thinking]]
Girl: Hmm. Needs more flair. Do you know what happens when you fire sodium pellets into a snowbank?
Guy: No.
Girl: Me neither.
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[[Girl sitting in front of a console]]
Girl: Whoops, one of the Arduino control boards sublimated.
Girl: If only I could make it self-repairing...
[[The next panel is blank]]
Girl: Shit. The system has become sentient.
Guy: Friggin' Python.
System: GRAAARR!
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[[Girl showing laptop to guy]]
Girl: But according to this email forward, Santa is secretly a Muslim!
Guy: It explains everything!
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Girl: Okay, the cloned raptors are hunting the last of the cyborgs. We're safe.
Guy: Are you sure you thought this through?
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[[Two couples appear in this next panel]]
Guy: Are the raptors contained?
Second girl: Sure. Unless they figure out how to build lightsabers.
[[The next panel is blank]]
[[Guy with hat fighting with a raptor using lightsabers]]
Guy: It's all right. I've got her.
[[Lightsaber appears from behind]]
<<Snap-hiss!>>
Guy: ...Clever girl.
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[[Bill Gates is holding a weapon over Santa's body. The two girls are watching]]
Girl: Great. Bill Gates kills Santa.
Bill Gates: I thought it was Stallman with a dyed beard.
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[[Girl and guy with hat are looking at a tree]]
Girl: Where did you get this Christmas tree?
Guy: Nowhere.
Girl: Did you cut down the Yggdrasil?
Guy: ...Maybe.
[[The next panel is blank]]
[[Girl and guy holding hands and looking at reader]]
Narrator: Merry Christmas from XKCD <3
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{{title text: 'How could you possibly think typing 'import skynet' was a good idea?'}}
Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).
We did not invent the algorithm. The algorithm consistently finds Jesus. The algorithm killed Jeeves. The algorithm is banned in China. The algorithm is from Jersey. The algorithm constantly finds Jesus. This is not the algorithm. This is close.