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The first Pern novel was published in 1968. Twitter was founded in 2006. At no point during either of those intervals would this joke have been funny. But then, played-out jokes about played-out novels and social media are pretty much par for the XKCD course these days.
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2652 Self-deprecation can't last forever; at some point you have to actually be good at your job
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2651 It's hard to be as smart as Randall, because you become aware of so many conflicting threats and demands you have to keep in bala...
In middle school there was a kid who read these books. I remember he was reading "All the Weyrs of Pern." We teased him because Weyrs sounded like such a funny term: "The Wires of Pern" we would say. Now I realize it's a sci-fi classic, and I've read much worse books than him.
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