Randall Munroe: Pole Vault xkcd.com/2955 — Subium • Bluesky web client

Well, NOW it's a flat Earth

Title text: "Ugh, and we JUST went through this yesterday with javelin." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/2955#Transcript

I KNEW it!

Your mother tried to tell you that certain sports are dangerous, but you didn't listen!

Reminds me of: Interviewer: "Are you a pole vaulter?" Interviewee: "No. I'm a German."

You missed the second half of the punchline - "but how did you know my name is Walter?!"

D'oh!

Ha! Just listened to that album this week. Always wanted to see a staged musical of it.

Haha I wish that was me.

This is why they banned Lawn Darts, you know.

For just a moment, I was trying to figure out what had happened to that particular sperm, and why we were looking at it with such detail.

Time to get the pump back up again...

I saw a man at the track meet carrying a long stick. I said, are you a pole vaulter? He said no, I'm German, but how did you know my name is Walter?

Fierljep

So it IS hollow

Almost happened to me once.

That ain't good. 😕

DAMMIT, RANDALL WE TALKED ABOUT THIS.

Didn't understand the ending till I looked at the non-thumbnail image and realised it definitely wasn't a sperm.

Someone's been watching the olympic trials. 😁

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