It's not actually an acronym. It's just a word with no phonetic pronunciation -- a treasured and carefully-guarded point in the space of four-character strings.
No one should never explain a joke; the explanation destroys the humor. Nevertheless, it turns out that there is a whole website - a wiki - devoted to explaining xkcd. On the main page, they say, "We have an explanation for all 1595 xkcd comics, and only 23 (1%) are incomplete. Help us finish them!" Here's the page explaining the one about E to the pi minus pi:
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XKCD?
http://xkcd.com/1580/
http://xkcd.com/1570/
What does XKCD stand for?
It's not actually an acronym. It's just a word with no phonetic pronunciation -- a treasured and carefully-guarded point in the space of four-character strings.
Anything else ya wanna know?
http://xkcd.com/197/
http://xkcd.com/301/
HAHA
JK I don't get it.
http://xkcd.com/202/
I don't get a lot of them. but I like the ones I do get.
I don't get this one:
http://xkcd.com/217
Maybe somebody who is good at math can explain it.
No one should never explain a joke; the explanation destroys the humor. Nevertheless, it turns out that there is a whole website - a wiki - devoted to explaining xkcd. On the main page, they say, "We have an explanation for all 1595 xkcd comics, and only 23 (1%) are incomplete. Help us finish them!" Here's the page explaining the one about E to the pi minus pi:
http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/217:_e_to_the_pi_Minus_pi
Here's today's, which I like a lot:
http://xkcd.com/1596/
Dad and I have this exact conversation quite frequently, leaving out the parts about the rocket launch.
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