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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Just think.
Right now at your local hardware store are tons of tools you can buy. If you need to cut something, you can buy a saw.
And when you use the saw, the word "saw" is the verb of how you use the noun. So you'd use a saw to saw.
And if you had an instinct to cut a saw in half, you might use a second saw to cut the first saw in half.
But you wouldn't do that. YOU have no desire to do that. But maybe someone else does. And maybe you just happened to bear witness to the cutting of the saw. You will have seen it. And since thats now in past tense, you saw it happen.
In which case you will have saw a saw saw a saw.
Bro doesn't even know about seen 🤣
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I'm probably gonna fuck this up, it's something of an old 'meme', before I was even born in 1982. Anyways, an old riddle I once heard, from a book written before I was born...
Riddle...
Answer...
Yeah, works better verbally LMFAO!
If I, as a child in the 80s had said that to my mom, she would have said "Quit being asinine. That would never work."
Yeah. I suppose it wouldn't.....
And that boys and girls, is how you give a child depression, and a reason to question if talking at all is even worth it.
Hint: No. It's not.
Now there's a woman who never read the Phantom Tollbooth.
My parents gave me the book of riddles. Wish I still had it..
That's the only depression here, that I don't still have the book ☹️
Double edit: I rather liked the book.
I once saw a man in Arkansas, who had a saw which could out saw any saw that it saw saw; the man said, "Have you saw a saw that could out saw the saw you saw in Arkansas? If you have saw a saw that could out saw the saw you saw in Arkansas, show me the saw saw."; when he said that I saw a saw, I said, "Yes I did saw a saw in Arkansas, and what a saw I saw, that saw saw!!"
I was going to say that you're more like The Brain. Then as I increased the font size, I realized your name is Pirky. Not Pinky. So now my reference makes no sense.
"I could have swore i saw a saw saw a saw on the shore."
"...Are you sure?"
"Certain. And i couldn't quite cut time to help curt Tim cut the curtain in tin."
You can be too close to a door to close it.