[sh3rl0ck]

Is it weird that I now know exactly which xkcd it will be just with conversational context?

Granted I'm a bit of a Randall Munroe content addict, but it's become second nature now.

[improbableinf]

So you are not the part of a lucky 10,000 today…

[messe]

You're not alone. At this point I'm starting to recognise some by number as well.

[amenhotep]

A newly convicted criminal arrived in prison, and on the first night he was puzzled to hear his fellow inmates yelling numbers to each other. "36!" one would yell, and the rest would chuckle. "19!" went another, to uproarious laughter. "50," remarked a third wryly, which provoked groans and ironic cheers. Eventually his cellmate sat up and cried out "114" and it brought the house down.

In a lull, he asked his cellmate what on earth was going on? The cellmate explained that most of them had been in prison so long that they already knew all the jokes, so to save time they just referred to them by number. "Oh," says the man, "that makes sense. Can I try?"

His cellmate encouraged him to go ahead, so he stood up and went to the bars and shouted as loud as he could "95!"

Absolutely no reaction. His cellmate looked at him and shook his head. "You didn't tell it right."

[ojo-rojo]

Ha, you made me think of casually referring to xkcd's by number just as we did with RFC's back in the day. "I don't know, the socket states seem to follow RFC 793, but remember it's a 1918 address on the southside of the NAT."

I gonna keep a look out for doing this with xkcd's now :)

[jll29]

Communicating the number of XKCD comics, especially in binary, is a very efficient and energy-preserving way to get a laugh.

A: 10000011101 !

B: ACK. LOL !

[pylotlight]

I feel like the same top 5~ are often repeated so it becomes easy to guess.

[OJFord]

I know exactly what you mean. It broke my workflow too.

[Marciplan]

I think, in the spirit of the xkcd, you were supposed to pretend you have never heard of it