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Messages on the P圜on-Organizers mailing list show that this joke was intended to get Randall to come to P圜on: (The links will only work if you're subscribed to the mailing list.) Red Spiders'.' They also said they instructed their volunteers to refuse admission to him and 'any stick figures who may attempt to register, particularly if they are wearing hats.' In response to this comic, P圜on organizers jokingly announced that Randall Munroe was banned from P圜on 2009 due to 'last year's disgraceful keynote, 'Web Spiders vs. 'Linux (or BSD :) would.' looks mismatched 'Linux (or BSD :)) would.' looks mismatched and weird Conferences I'm banned from: Siggraph Eurocrypt Defcon Pycon International Astronomical Union Canadian Paleontology Conference Every American Furry Convention American Baking Society Asian Dolphin-Training Conference TED P圜on response Randall: It's an honor to speak to you, some of the brightest innovators from so many fields, about a problem in desperate need of your attention: Randall: How DO you end parenthetical statements with emoticons? I can't figure out a good way. International Marine Animal Trainers' Association Congress, federal agencies, and international regulatory authorities There are many Furry Conventions in America (see the Wikipedia page for more details), but to be banned from all of them would probably require action by the Furry Convention Leadership Roundtable, the coordinating body for furry conventions.ĪBA represents the interests of bakers before the U.S. The main goal of the CPC and its predecessors has been to provide a relatively small, informal forum for presentation and discussion of current paleontological research The IAU's mission is to promote and safeguard the science of astronomy in all its aspects through international cooperation Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive TechniquesĪnnual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques Here is a list of the conferences from which Randall has been banned according to this comic. The P圜on organizers made a response to this comic - see below under P圜on response.Ĭonferences where Randall is banned from The first to do so was 153: Cryptography. This was so far the sixth of eight comics to directly mention conference bans. Getting banned from attending a conference is a recurring theme on xkcd, and even in real life, Randall sometimes has bad ideas for conference topics, such as presumably not speaking for the entire conference. Depending on Randall's behavior, such an action could generate a lot of drama and, presumably, lead to convention bans. It can be inferred from 629: Skins, that Randall was banned from North American furry conventions due to being a 'Skin', which is a furry whose fursona prefers going around disguised as a human. A common representative of the genre runs 'Yo mama so fat, scientists have declared her the 10th planet.' Those kind of jokes are a recurring theme on xkcd. The title text about Randall's ban from the IAU conference is a reference to the popular maternal insults called 'yo momma' jokes. On the list are other conferences from all sorts of fields, including every American furry convention. In the last panel, the TED conference is another item to add to his list of conferences from which he has been banned. This question is of little practical consequence, although it received a lot of attention after publication of the comic.

#DEFCON CONVENTION GIF HOW TO#

Randall's presentation, however, reduces the purpose of the conference to absurdity: The topic he wishes to point out to his listeners, is that of how to put an emoticon at the end of a parenthetical statement.

Every talk has a length of at most 20 minutes and is supposed to be as captivating as possible. The conference is regarded as a forum for digerati.

The illustrious list of former presenters includes amongst others Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Larry Page, Richard Dawkins and Gordon Brown. The comics shows Randall as a presenter at the highly prestigious TED conference, a symposium about technology, entertainment and design. Title text: The IAU ban came after the 'redefinition of the 'planet' to include the IAU president's mom' incident.

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