xkcd #3209: Plums

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My icebox plum trap easily captured William Carlos Williams. It took much less work than the infinite looping network of diverging paths I had to build in that yellow wood to ensnare Robert Frost.

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Bubs@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Def a more niche reference I feel:

This is a reference to the William Carlos Williams poem This Is Just to Say, in which the narrator is apologizing for eating the plums in the icebox. In this comic, the joke is that Cueball, learning that the person out of view has left themselves some plums in the refrigerator for tomorrow, cannot resist eating them as a reference to the poem.

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- finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  His characters have names? TIL.
  
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  - SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    It’s rather the ExplainXKCD lore. Recurring-looking characters have been assigned names, even though they clearly denote different people in the comic. (Although Black Hat is always up to some antics.)
    
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  - Bubs@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yeah lol.
    
    Cueball, beret guy, white and black hat, ponytail, Megan are a few I can remember
    
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  - Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I believe most don’t officially
    
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