Sunday, December 14, 2008  Comic 516: Ho Ho Hoax  remember to
enter the wacky xkcd contest that we have to secretly win! more
like...wood shits!!! haHA! This has been an interesting comic,
because people I talk about xkcd with seem to like it less than
I do, which makes me feel all confused inside. It's not great,
but I get the idea at least, which is that he set up an
elaborate hoax and the woman didn't notice or care. I know, you
are thinking that is obvious, but apparently it is confusing
people. Perhaps the confusion is that people are confusing his
hoax with the possible hoax that originally possibly befell the
Mary Celeste which you can read all about on wikipedia, not that
it's relevant.  Where was I? Oh yes. I was wondering why
explaining the entire hoax so early on is supposed to be subtle.
Because...yeah that's kind of the opposite of subtle. As is
dumping a bunch of mysterious woodchips somewhere. So...maybe it
is a little weird. But I will give him credit for at least
coming up with crazy details