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Replaces words found from XKCD's comic to make reading the news more fun.Replaces words found from XKCD's comics to make reading the news more fun.

Check out and contribute to the git repo here: https://github.com/rhyneav/xkcd-substitution

View more on my website here: https://vlaservi.ch/

Words being replaced:
- witnesses: these dudes I know
- allegedly: kinda probably
- new study: Tumblr post
- rebuild: avenge
- space: spaaace
- google glass: virtual boy
- smartphone: pokedex
- electric: atomic
- senator: elf-lord
- car: cat
- election: eating contest
- congressional leader: river spirit
- homeland security: homestar runner
- could not be reached for comment: is guilty and everyone knows it
- debate: dance-off
- self driving: uncontrollably swerving
- poll: psychic reading
- candidate: airbender
- drone: dog
- vows to: probably won't
- at large: very large
- second-degree: friggin awful
- third-degree: friggin awful
- an unknown number: like hundreds
- front runner: blade runner
- global: spherical
- years: minutes
- minutes: years
- no indication: lots of signs
- urged restraint by: drunkenly egged on
- horsepower: tons of horsemeat
- gaffe: magic spell
- ancient: haunted
- star-studded: blood-soaked
- remains to be seen: will never be known
- silver bullet: ways to kill werewolves
- subway system: tunnels I found
- surprising: surprising (but not to me)
- war of words: interplanetary war
- tension: sexual tension
- cautiously optimistic: delusional
- doctor who: the big bang theory
- win votes: find pokemon
- behind the headlines: beyond the grave
- email: poem
- facebook post: poem
- tweet: poem
- facebook ceo: this guy
- latest: final
- disrupt: destroy
- meeting: menage a trois
- scientists: channing tatum and his friends
- you won't believe: I'm really sad about