KillHour posted:

The word "Etymology" comes from the latin word for "poo poo I just made up 30 seconds ago."

KillHour posted:

Neither is sarcasm.

Rolo posted:

Thread title.

Metal Geir Skogul posted:

Thread title

DavidAlltheTime posted:

Shart is when you make a pretty poo

Metal Geir Skogul posted:

You loving goons

syscall girl posted:

There is a cop around here whose first name is Shadow.

Every time I see him I want to ask him if he's watching American Gods.

He's a nice guy, but then I'm white. Never seen him be rude to a minority though either.

Mister Mind posted:

In this country we call them washcloths.

bongwizzard posted:

I bought a fishing rod from a guy up that way and he was nice enough to tell me the names of some good fishing spots. An hour later I am looking at a map and like nothing makes any sense.

Randaconda posted:

Is it the snozberries being a cock head joke?

BioEnchanted posted:

Not something I figured out per se, but something I wasn't old enough to appreciate - I'm noticing a lot of metajokes in Rocko's Modern LIfe that I missed watching as a kid ("I think I've got some candy offscreen!"), so I'm happy to be revisiting it. It's still pretty funny and the satire has aged fairly well considering it all relies on making fun of a Capitalist Wasteland by taking things to their extremes, but in ways that work almost better now with how much worse lobbyists are. Rocko's second episode involves a Megamall built in the middle of a national park, which says a lot about how much pull the Conglom-O must have in O-Town.

Also some of the jokes have a lot of layers, like the hedge in Ed is Dead - initially you see scarring on it in a set of distinct shapes, and think that will come back later, then Rocko towards the end sees it reading "Kill Ed". Then the next time he looks during Bev's explanation it looks like it says "Squinky", then "Kilroy" - there was never a pattern at all, the viewer, and Rocko, were tricked into thinking that there would be one so saw one where none were.

It's a really clever show now that I'm old enough to appreciate it.

Doctor Bishop posted:

The phrase isn't "imminentize the eschaton", but "immanentize the eschaton". Good job, English. You've japed me again with your stupid unstressed vowels. All things considered, I frankly prefer my original interpretation.

purple death ray posted:

Garsin, bring me more o that there fillit minion

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

I have tickets to the Del Mar music festival in a couple weeks that I mostly bought because Cake is gonna be there and they've been my second favorite band for the last fifteen years (first favorite I guess technically since Page isn't in BNL anymore). Found out a couple days ago I probably won't actually get to see them because the two artists my boyfriend wants to see are back to back, on the same stage, while Cake is gonna be on a different stage and quite neatly occupying the same timeslot as inconveniently as possible

This post doesn't really have anything to do with anything aside from my general frustration at KABOO's scheduling and desire to vent

e: new page, nailed it

Aphrodite posted:

None of this is etymology.

pik_d posted:

The thing about venomous snakes having triangular heads, it just dawned on me that their head shape is due to them being venomous. The extra space is where their venom glands are. Correlation is causation in this case.

pik_d posted:

Must have not leveled up enough to upgrade their venom glands to the larger capacity

Leavemywife posted:

I'm pretty sure most kids do know Santa doesn't exist when they hit about third grade, but keep it going because their parents do, and it's fun. There's nothing wrong with adding some magic to the season; it's silly fun, and anyone who doesn't get that is a sad person, who had sad parents that didn't get it, either.

Ferrule posted:

Says the poster with an avatar of a sex offender.

Aleph Null posted:

Are you trolling? You have to be trolling.

That day you finally figure it out, you're like, "wait, mom and dad make sure I go to bed early, but I hear them staying up much later" or "why do rich kids get better presents from Santa" or "we don't even have a chimney so that makes no sense" or "that note is in my mom's handwriting" is like the first time you really understand critical thinking, the first time you feel like really understanding the world around you can pay off.
Or you have your own investigation. You pretend to sleep and then sneakily watch what happens from the shadows confirming your suspicions. That thrill of discovery is unprecedented.
Then you go along with it for another year or two because, hey, extra gifts. But still.

Edit:
Debunking Santa in your own time leads to questioning religious leaders and looking for original sources to verify health benefit claims of unregulated substances.

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Apparently, when most peopke hear “DDR” they think of a popular dancing game and not the German Democratic Republic.

Jerry Cotton posted:

Never try to grab a falling knife.

Jerry Cotton posted:

Why not, are you afraid of splinters?

Fatty Crabcakes posted:

Aww. man. I was gonna make a splinters joke

Jerry Cotton posted:

*deeply inhales Finnishly*

Jerry Cotton posted:

Patrick Spens posted:

Ok, but I've got one of those on my desk from lunch, and am rubbing it against my hand right now. Somehow blood is not coming out.