Should I mention that "retrograde wheelbarrow" isn't actually SFW? :-)

[d4b]

Well, that didn't take too long. :-) I just checked, and, sure enough, I'm now at the top of the SERP (organic search engine results page) for "retrograde wheelbarrow". I probably was there earlier this morning, but I didn't check it until now.

The number of results have gone from one to five. First me, of course, then wookie_x, one spammy thing, one

Comments

[bostonsteamer]

Sooo...what IS a retrograde wheelbarrow? I know it's a position, but could you describe or illustrate?

[d4b]

I was wondering when someone was going to come out and actually ask! :-) See: http://syndicated.livejournal.com/xkcd_rss/71705.html?thread=5227801#t5227801

[bostonsteamer]

Wow, that's creative.

And, holy crap the comments on xkcd cartoons get so dumb so fast. No wonder each post has like 1500 comments by the time I see them.

[d4b]

Heh.

But on a somewhat serious note, I'm pretty sure that xkcd intentionally selected a phrase that hadn't yet existed, i.e., people could invent just about any answer with equal chances of being "right". That explanation just seemed the most plausible to me; I'm seeing others pop up, too.