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0nelinerwordplay · 2 days
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charlesoberonn · 3 months
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prokopetz · 1 year
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wronghands1 · 24 days
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noneorother · 3 months
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The puns are never ending : Aziraphale's miraculous "visable" bullet.
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Aside from this closeup diagram of how to perform the bullet catch being objectively hilarious, it's also got a pretty fascinating *spelling mistake*.
If you look closely at the part of the pamphlet in red, you'll see that the bullet should be hidden in the mouth where it won't be visable. Not "not visible". Not visable. Seems innocuous enough right? But of course, the layers are never ending.
"Visable" is actually a Middle English word, *not* a modern English one. The last time it was used was before the printing press was invented, so pretty old. Here's a little background :
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What's really fascinating though, is that just like the expression "dark horse", the word has two meanings : one is "Capable of good judgement, prudent" the other is "Tractable and docile".
There are also only two examples of the word in context that I can find, and they really should be sending you into orbit :
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The first one is actually from Henry Lovelich's translation of the French epic poem "The Romance of Merlin" also known as the first English treatment of the Arthurian legends. It's modernized as "He was a worthy knight, valiant and visable in every fight." Which uses the "good judgment" meaning and sounds... a lot like Aziraphale in his role of guardian and protector.
Why do we care? They are standing literally in front of Excalibur, Arthur's sword.
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The other one is from "Ipomadon", another middle English epic poem about a hidden identity romance between a beautiful but proud heiress, and her dark knight in disguise. "She was... visable and virtuous, meak and mild, and marvellous." Which clearly uses the "tractable and docile" meaning, but also... kinda sounds like Aziraphale in his damsel in his distress mode, which:
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Ahahahah fuck off. But wait, there's more!
I originally twigged to this error because if you, like me, also happen to speak the language of la plume de ma tante, you know there's a reason why the uses happen in epic poems that originated in France: it's a loan word from old French, and still exists today in modern French, but it doesn't mean tractable and docile...
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For the non-french speaking among you, it's a derivation of the verb "viser" :
Verb 1 To aim 1.To aim, to carefully direct one's gaze or a weapon towards a goal to throw something at it.
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And so, if you happen to be, oh I don't know, a demon and have been alive for thousands of years and can definitely speak all the languages on earth and happen to have participated in the Arthurian age in England, when you read that pamphlet really carefully because someone is making you do a crazy stunt and there's a miracle blocker on, you could *conceivably* have read the instructions as:
"IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT YOU LOVE, DO NOT SHOOT AZIRAPHALE IN THE FACE." ________________________________________________________ Thanks to @thebluestgreen and @embracing-the-ineffable as always.
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endreal · 3 months
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[dripping with muck] "against my better sludgement..."
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oneefin · 1 month
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phoenixyfriend · 1 year
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So Broadway's Aladdin contains a Jewish joke that is actually funny and not offensive and I'm a little surprised nobody laughed.
Jafar: You're the Chosen One! Aladdin: Actually, I think the Chosen People are a few hundred miles west.
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madame-helen · 7 months
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zal-cryptid · 15 days
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if you’ve seen my other questions, this is the last one, I swear.
has krampus ever considered rhyming when he cursed people into his toy hell?
Horrible example; “you got no bitches, and for that, you will end up in stitches!”
Or anything like that at all?
While some degree of wordplay is always present when he curses someone, that's about the extent of it. He sees rhymes and limericks as being too silly.
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shyjusticewarrior · 15 days
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Jason Referencing His Death In His Cover Stories
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charlesoberonn · 10 months
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The Adorable Spider-Nyan
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prokopetz · 11 months
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Recognition of the self through the otter.
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wronghands1 · 10 months
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ladyqueenofwinter · 17 days
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What's the ASOIAF pun that is so. So obvious and painful once you spot it you hate the most? That makes you groan out loud because why? Why, George?
Mine has to be
House (Jof)Frey of the (Lannister) Twins.
As if Walder's gross behavior, the Late Walder nickname, or the Frey soldiers being the last to support Catelyn at the inn against Tyrion wasn't obvious enough to show they'd be problems later. Nooo, gotta foreshadow the Red Wedding and associate them with the Lannisters even in name. Bonus points for ending up related via Genna. It's so bad it hurts.
Anyone else got underrated bad GRRM puns?
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endreal · 3 months
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Are they, you know...
[clicks a button on my phone and bass-boosted Pacific Rim theme starts playing from speakers I've strategically hidden throughout the entire 686km of the Mammoth–Flint Ridge Cave System (longest known cave system in the world)]
...continental drift compatible?
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