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Panel One: Drawing of a twin prop airplane flying overhead.
“What’s that airplane?”
Panel Two: Drawing of a stick figure wearing an old-style aviator helmet with goggles pushed up, standing in front of the now parked twin prop airplane.
“Holy crap! Is that Amelia Earhart?”
Panel Three: Close up drawing of Amelia Earhart stick figure waving.
“Hello everyone! My flight was a success!”
“But… where were you!?”
Panel Four: Drawing of Amelia Earhart stick figure with her arms at her sides.
“I flew around the world!”
“But you disappeared in 1937!”
Panel Five: Close up drawing of Amelia Earhart stick figure.
“Right, to fly around the world!”
“It’s 2011!”
“The world is big. It’s a long flight.”
Panel Six: Drawing of Amelia Earhart stick figure with her arms at her sides.
“But you… – It’s not… – I–”
“Can I talk to someone smarter?”
Hover text: The Roanoke Lost Colonists founded Roanoke, the Franklin Expedition reached the Pacific in 2009 when the Northwest Passage opened, and Jimmy Hoffa currently heads the Teamsters Union–he just started going by ‘James’.
Comic by xkcd.com. Described by BlindGadget.
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