Beetle Moses | Bluesky

Transcript

Three panel comic.

Panel 1: Genghis khan is sitting in a throne room. His advisor enters with a fruity drink in hand. The advisor proclaims, “Genghis Khan! I bring a gift from a faraway land!”

Panel 2: he continues, “a ‘strawberry margarita.’” Genghis takes a delicate yet generous sip.

Panel 3: Genghis and his advisor exchange smiles. Genghis says, “yeeooo that’s fire”

    • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      A strawberry margarita is out of place in the 1200s, particularly at the khan’s court. Did Jimmy buffet go back in time to share margaritas with people, and then someone travelled potentially 1000s of kilometres to give one to the khan, and it’s still fresh and frozen?

      So it’s a little bit of absurdism, and you don’t expect the punchline.

        • zikzak025@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I think the punchline is just defied expectations. You’d expect him to not get, it or be confused by something so out of place, but in actuality it’s just that a strawberry margarita is always good no matter what time you’re in. That and maybe his surprisingly modern response.

      • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Technically, only the tequila is completely out of place for the time period.

        There are native European strawberries, and triple sec is a distilled orange brandy, and there were stills in China as early as the year 1200.

        The lime juice comes from South East Asia.

        So yeah, replace the tequila and it could almost exist.

        • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca
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          2 months ago

          While you are technically correct (the best kind of correct), it was quite a while later that all those ingredients were combined in that specific way.

          The sum is greater than the parts, and all that.

    • fdnomad@programming.devEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Beetlemoses comics are a window into your soul. Whether or not a joke is to be found depends on the reader.

      • Mika@piefed.caEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Somehow I don’t like it. Basically we paint the big warmongers of the past as “bro” instead of remembering that those “great people” were just lunatics and murderers that brought death and misery to many.

  • M137@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    This is the first time where “fire” hasn’t made me cringe to the deepest levels of my soul. It’s still bad, but not as bad as I ever expected it to be.