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Lum: Aug 13, 2003

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kite_Eating_Tree

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Digestion of kites
It is unclear quite how the Kite-Eating Tree actually eats the kites, although it makes audible "munching" sounds as it does so. Charlie Brown once said that the sight of a Kite-Eating Tree eating a kite was "the most gruesome thing [he had] ever seen." The sight of a Kite-Eating Tree eating a kite also caused Lucy to scream and fall to the ground. However, in neither incident was it stated that the kite-eating process was completed in only the few seconds during which either character watched the process.

Once, after the tree ate yet another of Charlie Brown's kites, Lucy shouted at it so loudly that it regurgitated not only that kite but also a flood of other people's kites, suggesting that, no matter how many kites the tree holds, it only eats one at a time, saving the rest for future feasts.

Charlie Brown has told Linus that Kite-Eating Trees "eat the paper like it was fried chicken, and spit out the sticks like bones!" Charlie Brown may have, in his frustration, been exaggerating, for no sticks have been seen lying around the Kite-Eating Tree (possibly it moves around so it might be in a different place every time it eats).

Evidently kite-eating trees have physiologies somewhat similar to animals, since Charlie Brown once threatened to kick the Kite-Eating Tree right in the "stomach." However, when he kicked its "stomach", Charlie Brown hurt his foot, remarking that Kite-Eating Trees "have hard stomachs."

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# ¿ May 2, 2024 04:54

Lum: Aug 13, 2003

tonelok posted:

I jokenly called my mom "mommie dearest" not long after that movie came out and gently caress if she didn't go looking for a wire coat hanger.

If only she'd thought of that sooner.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2010 03:52

Lum: Aug 13, 2003

Augmented Dickey posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasani#United_Kingdom

Early advertisements referred to Dasani as "bottled spunk" or featured the tagline "can't live without spunk". These slogans were used seemingly oblivious to the fact that "Spunk" is slang for semen in the UK.[5][6]

The choice of lighting they used for the water bottle in that advert made this all the worse.

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# ¿ Mar 9, 2010 01:30

Lum: Aug 13, 2003

LinuxGirl87 posted:

The only thing funnier that Tonight Show-level "hilarious ads" are the ies who actually think these are anything but intentional.

Pretty sure this one wasn't. The American use of the word spunk is pretty much unknown over here, apart from amongst heavy internet users. It's not a word with two meanings and wouldn't work as a pun, we just don't use it.

I first encountered the American use when someone posted an image a of a 14yr old looking female model, and the name of the site on the watermark was something like Spunky Angels. I thought they were posting the opening image of a CP set.

# ¿ Apr 24, 2010 18:38

Lum: Aug 13, 2003

Web Jew.0 posted:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stories_set_in_a_future_now_past

What a pathetic list.

It doesn't even include George Orwell's 1984.

# ¿ May 7, 2010 18:44

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