Burma Shave
I read the xkcd comic strip, I receive it through my rss reader, ever sinceI think my friend JP wrote something about it. Now, I’ll admit that sometimes I just don’t get it. Sometimes I think it’s because I’m too dumb, too old, or too tired. Often it’s none of those but more a factor of culture clash – I might live in geek-dom but not in the USofA-dom.
So, anyway I just had to show this one, as it left me totally in that grey, blank place described above. So I hit google and found out about Burma Shave on wikipedia, then hit google image search for some examples.
See original comic at xkcd site here.
What’s really clever about this is the alt text that pops up if you hover over the image – which is why I took a screen dump f it rather than just show the original comic without it.
“If long tool tips / cut off for you / then upgrade from / Firefox 2 / Burma Shave”
Smart, very smart.
So, being in the mood I tweeted this – you need to read from the bottom up:
some days I read
it takes forever
xkcd
is just so clever
Burma Shave
Dave
