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Explain Like I'm Five

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Can someone explain this PBF comic to me? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 10 months ago by hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/explainlikeimfive@lemmy.world
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I figured out that there's a clown who crashes his car into a tree because he is drunk, but I don't get the last panel. Why are there suddenly so many bodies?

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[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 133 points 10 months ago (4 children)

You're one of the lucky 10000 today

[–] ieightpi@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

How crazy is this thread is for someone to hear about clown cars AND the lucky 10,000 for the first time.

That number must be smaller

[–] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

[–] Caboose12000@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

what are the lucky 10000?

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 16 points 10 months ago

Randall Munroe calculated that there's every day the lucky 10000 (in the US, 400 thousand globally) who learn something for the first time that is very known.

[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

its a reference to [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1053:_Ten_Thousand](this xkcd)

[–] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You're one of them today. Jk, I don't think it applies specifically to this, this isn't well known.

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I feel like the analogy of a clown car is pretty widespread? And the lucky 10,000 is back of the napkin guestimation, I think it's allowed an order of magnitude on either side, and one should not feel bad for being part of it, you're in for learning and learning is (or should be) fun!

[–] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

No, I meant that not knowing about the 10K didn't really make him part of the daily 10K