While funny, I think that&#x27;s not the same spirit.  In some sense, the XKCD one is observing &quot;if you ask &#x27;why&#x27; enough times, then the answer is eventually &#x27;philosophy&#x27;&quot;; the fact that these links all lead to &#x27;philosophy&#x27; is, in some sense, a (jointly if not singly) intentional human creation, and it has semantic meaning.<p>The Kruskal count is observing, on the other hand, that &#x27;large&#x27; collections of data (even for values of &#x27;large&#x27; that are quite small, by statistical measures) inevitably include apparently designed, but actually semantically meaningless, coincidences.<p>Hmm, let me try again.  The fact that all Wikipedia articles eventually lead, by transitive linking, to &#x27;philosophy&#x27; means something about philosophy; the fact that all trails from the first 12 words of Alice in Wonderland eventually lead, by letter-counting, to &#x27;sister&#x27; means nothing about sisters.