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- Sandra: Oh no! I’m way too late!
- Sandra: Phew… did I make it in time?
- Woo: I’m afraid not.
- Woo: The whole strip was already over by the time you showed up.
- Sandra: Darn!
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Sandra: But… I bet that lazy Greenwood Goat didn’t turn up in the comment section, either!
Woo: He did. Just now. And wrote this dialogue between us.
Sandra: *!!!!* What, this dialogue??!
Woo: Yup.
Sandra: Is he still doing it now??
Woo: …Yes.
Sandra: How long is this going to go on for?
Woo: Probably until he gets bored. Or can think of a punchline. Then he’ll finish off with the goat smiley – like so – and then post it.
Sandra: So – maybe I can force his hand! I need to put on horns, a beard, a big cheesy grin, and then jump down to the next line and-!
>:=)>
The title is a clear reference to https://xkcd.com/917/.
Grijan wrote:
So is the description of strip 709.
You could say Novil is running out of ideas, but that would be last strip’s joke and therefore outdated and unfunny.
She should have just called ahead and had the cartoonist delay it an hour or two.
i dunno how somone runs out of ideas with such a great world and wonderful characters.
Heyt, Sandra! At least you made it in time for the punch line! 🙂
Even if there was a call to delay, Woo is a racoon. He would start right on time so that he could pocket the paycheck, possibly Sandra’s as well. He’s like a cat that way.
Why is Woo holding a ceremonial mace? Has he been elevated to a peerage?
@ Sllimkered:
I first thought it’s the scepter of Sandra I, empress and supreme ruler of Northia, but that looked different.
Grijan wrote:
Which in turn, references various stuff; among others, Hofstadter’s tendency to reference: stuff, himself, that tendency, the concept of referencing stuff and, especially, the concept of stuff referencing itself.
from another comic strip I like: SOOOOO META!
http://www.sandraontherocks.com/strips-sotr/sooooo_meta
oledakaajel wrote:
I had to go to explainxkcd/917 and 709
@ Hegel Marx:
Just make political and/or social jokes that offend literally everyone with how much you fail to understand the subject material.
That always works.
All right, Sandra.
You know what will happen when you’re late.
The readers will want to see you in a cute summer dress and matching sandals now.