https://xkcd.com/2919/

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First comes blood / Then we perish / Then comes Death in his Eternity Carriage.

  • @enkille
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    269 months ago

    You can’t just toss a “w” in there and pretend you’re not affecting the meter. I mean, obviously you can, but you really shouldn’t.

    • @[email protected]
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      89 months ago

      Maybe it’s just my accent but the way I naturally do 'whaling" doesn’t affect the meter.

      Like, “dubya-atche-ay-el-aye-en-gee”

      I presume you’d do “double-yoo”?

    • @[email protected]
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      59 months ago

      It’s wrong in saying that the last frame is them molting, it’s clearly smiting, like the previous frames are also representing the last word in that frame

    • @[email protected]
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      29 months ago

      Thank you! With xkcd I often think: am I too dumb or is this just not my humour. In this case it’s the latter. So I guess I’m smat after all! S M A T!

  • @[email protected]
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    79 months ago

    I wonder if the last panel is a reference to the Hobbit out of the frying pan and into the fire. Gotta smite those wargs from the trees!

  • @Tag365
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    49 months ago

    Whaling on a tree? That would be incredibly shocking. What trees are even close enough to an ocean to whale catch from?