Daily Archives: July 9, 2012

Periodically Randall Munroe will indulge in a brief tangent from his usual stick figure comics in xkcd and indulge in more… esoteric imagery. To be honest, this has happened often enough that it’s almost not worth noting… despite the inventiveness of the latest update (in which each of the 50 U.S. States are replaced with images in the shapes of each state). Okay, I’ll admit that having an elephant and a boat full of tea for Massachusetts is perhaps ironic in this day and age given that the Tea Party is now viewed as a conservative movement (as are elephants) and Massachusetts is anything but… but what led me to comment on today’s update was… something odder. For the life of me, I cannot wrap my mind around why state images for Georgia are found in Missouri… and likewise Missouri in Georgia. I mean, when you get down to it, the states aren’t that similar, especially in comparison to the two squares that are Wyoming and Colorado. But when you consider xkcd is a thinking person’s comic, I suppose that is all the motivation Munroe needed.