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Showerthoughts

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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.

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...and River Phoenix played young Indian Jones in the third movie.

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[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 151 points 5 months ago (3 children)

That's not a shower thought, that's shower research

[–] GargleBlaster@lemmy.world 57 points 5 months ago

That's the miracle of waterproof phones

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

True, it kind of turned into that.

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

You need to get this reviewed by a company of peers all of whom also need to do this in their showers

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

This shower thought belongs in a museum!

[–] taldennz@lemmy.nz 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Now if the phoenix had a link to someone named Jones we'd really have something here.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

A Phoenix is reborn through fire.

A fire is also known as a blaze.

If you feel the need to "blaze up", one could say you are Jonesing.

We've cracked the code!

[–] Tujio@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There was a dude in Seattle who went by Phoenix Jones. He fashioned himself a masked vigilante, roaming the streets saving people from muggings and assaults.

Turns out he was mostly just picking fights with drunk frat guys. And we're pretty sure he was dealing drugs and using the superhero facade to beat up his competition.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

If that last part is true he's the dumbest drug dealer ever. He was on the news and giving interviews about being a vigilante.

[–] otto@sh.itjust.works 23 points 5 months ago

“We called the dog Indiana!”

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"We named the dog Indiana!"

  • Henry Jones Sr.

    Raiders of the Lost Ark

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Kevin Bacon, River Phoenix, and ???

[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The nerdy girl from Goonies

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Martha Plimpton aka Keith Carradine's kid?

[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah. Looks like her anyway

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Meaning: "son of John"

So "Indiana Jones" can be translated as "River, son of John".

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

River...John...John the Baptist.

Indiana Jones was able to ride the sub because he was granted water powers by God as part of his quest to find the Ark!

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There must be a way of compressing this so that the...

...punchline fits

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago

I really tried! But it turns out I missed a step for him being named after the dog anyway...

[–] CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

"Indiana was the dogs name."

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

In WWE in the early 2010s, there was a mexican wrestler named "Alberto Del Rio" which, if translated, would be "Albert of the river"

One day I started thinking about just how stupid that is. This guy is traveling the country in those days, going to NBA size arenas, and little 5 year old white kids are yelling at him in his native language "OF THE RIVER!!! OF THE RIVER!!!!". Not because the kids are being racist. The kids don't even know it means that. They're yelling it because that's his "name", and his boss is a racist who found it funny.

Then some years pass, find out he beats women, and no longer feel bad for him.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 1 points 5 months ago

"The only water in the forest is the river"