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xkcd #2905: Supergroup (imgs.xkcd.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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https://xkcd.com/2905

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I love their cover of 1,200 Balloons, Dalmatians, and Miles.

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[–] [email protected] 132 points 8 months ago (6 children)

For the uninitiated:

  • 21 Pilots
  • 5 Seconds of Summer
  • 4 Non Blondes
  • 2 Live Crew
  • 100 Gecs
  • 3 Doors Down
  • 9 Inch Nails
  • 1 Republic
  • 1 Direction
  • 30 Seconds To Mars
[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (3 children)

So the joke is they added up a list of bands with numbers in their names to get 176? I dunno if it's just me but that seems profoundly, purposely unfunny. But I'm also not smart enough to get most of xkcds jokes so it really is probably just me

[–] [email protected] 55 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Most xkcd's are perfectly fitting for this magazine:

Sensible Chuckle magazine

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

I am entirely fine and on board with sensible chuckle. I would go as so far as to say that sensible chuckle has now taken the place of edgy snicker in my life.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I like the hi res ones he makes where it's like 10 pages long logarithmic maps of the universe. Cool fuckin beans.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I actually like those type best as well

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I'm with you big dog. That shit whack.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Tbf, notice the "#2905". Dude's been cranking these out consistently, 3 times a week, for 18+ years.They can't all be great.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I totally forgot 1000 miles, my brain was stuck on 500 miles (and it’s now stuck in my head)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

It'll be stuck 500 more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah my first thought on that was I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles), but I decided to look up "1000 Miles" just to be safe and said "oh yeah"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Coulda been Blink 358 Pilots…..

Or Sum, Blink 399 ….

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

The other bands rejected the suggestion "Mostly Gecs"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It just doesn't add up!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I've never heard of half of those bands.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Congratulations?

I'm a very uncool 40-something from a different continent than most of them and I've heard of all but 2..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I'm not sure why congratulations are in order. I'm not bragging that I don't know them I just don't know them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

That's what makes you beautiful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I would hope twenty one pilots are in the known pile, I've been a massive fan since Vessel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

5 seconds of summer, nine inch nails, one direction, and 30 seconds to Mars.

That are loads that fit this category but I just don't know all of them. For example I've heard of 99 red balloons but I didn't know that was the name of the band, I thought it was the name of the song.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

other way around homie. nena is the artist. it's a song about nuclear bombs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I've never heard of 4/5 of those bands