Pushing it off the pedestal...

[bcholmes]

Sigh. Today's XKCD is just plain wrong.

Canada is "non-US" and there's no hockey on the graph.

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[(Anonymous)]

No cricket, either. Here it's either footie (not soccer, which I suspect is what he's referring to as "football") season, or cricket season.

Ah well. Randall's got a pretty good hit rate with his strips; I suppose an occasional turkey's allowable. :-7

[bcholmes]

He has occasional strips that aren't funny -- that's understandable. This is (I think) the first time I've seen him sacrifice factual correctness in the service of making a joke.