3098: Trojan Horse

Trojan Horse

|< < Prev #3098 (June 4, 2025)

Title text: Ultimately, history would imperfectly record the story of the Foal of Troy.

|< < Prev Random Explanation

Explanation

This explanation is incomplete: This page was created recently. Don't remove this notice too soon. If you can fix this issue, edit the page!

The horse had sex.

Transcript

This transcript is incomplete: Don't remove this notice too soon. If you can fix this issue, edit the page!

  Add comment        Create topic (use sparingly)       Refresh 

Discussion

i want the second revision of this page to be framed on my wall somewhere 2601:647:8500:1E09:D00F:A8A5:D9DB:2886 03:13, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

This version? :-D --Kynde (talk) 12:38, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

I wonder if it's worth mentioning that days prior, Ukraine pulled off a massive real life Trojan Horse type attack with disguised shipping containers and drones to destroy Russia's bomber fleets. 2A00:23C5:186:6501:C5ED:C715:4B8E:A315 06:11, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

xkcd doesn't really reference current events unless it's science related or a massive deal 2601:647:8500:1E09:EF7:48CC:294B:D785 06:13, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

this page might be too wordy tbh 2601:647:8500:1E09:EF7:48CC:294B:D785 06:13, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

Might!?82.13.184.33 08:59, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

One person's "trim" is another's "missing a lot of vital and interesting subtext". And even if I thought I fully understood the comic on first glance, others may have intuited some meaning that I missed, just as they could seemingly be unaware of what I thought was important to describe.

The fight between loquacious verbosity and laconic simplicity is rarely clear-cut, but I'd err on there being too much ('obvious' bits can be skimmed) rather than too little (unanswered questions, or even unasked questions...). Even that 'sweet spot' of "slightly too much, but at least it isn't less" is arguable, of course. 82.132.234.190 13:59, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

There's verbosity, and then there's an entirely tangential essay on the history of the horse.82.13.184.33 14:10, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

I'm with 82.132.234.190. Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it. Or more trim: better to be looking at it than looking for it. In other news I'm glad the site is back, I couldn't reach it at all yesterday and I had started mourning. --DW 2607:FB91:1B37:9970:5459:BE42:2A5B:3D54 14:49, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

But they were all of them deceived, for another horse was made … — SapphireHarmony 16:08 5 June 2025 (UTC)
        Add comment