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I feel like half of xkcd is just knowledge-one ups on the reader. No fucking clue what ea-nasir is. Google says it's some ancient merchant from Mesopotamia. Not sure how that's humorous but I'm sure there's a niche reason the author is very smart for observing.
In this particular case, the ea-nasir tablet is pretty popular online and you are one of the lucky 10000 (to use one of the better xkcd memes). But I agree that xkcd tends to be really smug, which makes their worse comics really unpalatable. They are not even being particularly smart, they just use strawmen and big words liberally.