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* NotIllegalJustification: The AltText of "[[http://xkcd.com/1357/ Free Speech]]" remarks that citing freedom of expression to defend a statement is the ultimate concession: you're basically admitting that the most compelling thing you have to say in its favor is that it isn't literally illegal to make it.
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* MadnessMakeover: [[https://xkcd.com/2919/ #2919]] depicts Cueball and Megan doing various actions while in a tree. One of those actions ([[BoltOfDivineRetribution smiting people]]) depicts the latter with wild, unkempt hair.
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* AuthorFilibuster: Quite a few on UsefulNotes/{{DRM}}, for example [[http://xkcd.com/488/ here.]] Eventually {{lampshaded}} [[http://xkcd.com/511/ here]] and [[http://xkcd.com/546/ here.]] [[http://xkcd.com/14/ This one]] provides a similar counterpoint, though it's not exactly a lampshade.

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* AuthorFilibuster: Quite a few on UsefulNotes/{{DRM}}, MediaNotes/{{DRM}}, for example [[http://xkcd.com/488/ here.]] Eventually {{lampshaded}} [[http://xkcd.com/511/ here]] and [[http://xkcd.com/546/ here.]] [[http://xkcd.com/14/ This one]] provides a similar counterpoint, though it's not exactly a lampshade.



* GiftOfTheMagiPlot: Inverted with [[http://xkcd.com/506/ 506: Theft of the Magi.]] Black Hat and his girlfriend both sold each others' possessions on the internet (his UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}} and her roomba), using the money to buy themselves gifts (a copy of ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' for Xbox and a roomba dueling harness) that are useless without the item that the other sold off.

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* GiftOfTheMagiPlot: Inverted with [[http://xkcd.com/506/ 506: Theft of the Magi.]] Black Hat and his girlfriend both sold each others' possessions on the internet (his UsefulNotes/{{Xbox Platform/{{Xbox 360}} and her roomba), using the money to buy themselves gifts (a copy of ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' for Xbox and a roomba dueling harness) that are useless without the item that the other sold off.



** While all those are often partially tongue in cheek, UsefulNotes/{{DRM}} [[http://xkcd.com/86/ gets searing loads of venom.]]

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** While all those are often partially tongue in cheek, UsefulNotes/{{DRM}} MediaNotes/{{DRM}} [[http://xkcd.com/86/ gets searing loads of venom.]]
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** [[https://xkcd.com/1933/ "Santa Facts"]] and its AltText mention that Santa's natural diet is actually [[EatTheDog reindeer meat]], and that the milk and cookies are actually integrated to his diet via an aggressive public campaign.

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** [[https://xkcd.com/1933/ "Santa Facts"]] and its AltText mention that Santa's natural diet is actually [[EatTheDog reindeer meat]], meat, and that the milk and cookies are actually integrated to his diet via an aggressive public campaign.
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* ViewerPronunciationConfusion: InUniverse example in "[[https://xkcd.com/2819 Punctuation]]", in which each letter in the word "Tuesday" is explained as being pronounced the same as in another word... which can, in each case, have two different pronunciations, depending on meaning.

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* ViewerPronunciationConfusion: InUniverse example in "[[https://xkcd.com/2819 Punctuation]]", Pronunciation]]", in which each letter in the word "Tuesday" is explained as being pronounced the same as in another word... which can, in each case, have two different pronunciations, depending on meaning.

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