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

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[–] enkille@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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"?

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago
[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

That's what makes it alarming

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

E-F-I-L-I-N-G

E-filing? 🤨

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 months ago

If you have to do your taxes, you might as well do them while sitting in a tree

[–] randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 5 points 6 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

[–] neo@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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!

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

S M A T!

It's S M R T, dumbass.

.../s in case that wasn't clear

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 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@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Need to take a tree on the whaling ship

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world -3 points 6 months ago

Worst XKCD I've ever seen.