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[-] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 140 points 2 months ago

Leave home to buy some spices, then go to a wrong grocery store and make a mess there breaking everything on the shelves

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 86 points 2 months ago

Don't forget to kidnap a few employees too while you're in the wrong store

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago

And cut out their tongues and get arrested.

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 42 points 2 months ago

You gotta wipe out 90% of that wrong grocery store's employees and patrons through communicable diseases, even the ones in corporate who have no idea who you are or have ever met you.

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[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 35 points 2 months ago
[-] grue@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

WTF now I'm almost pro-Columbus again.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

And the spice isle is twice as long as you think it is, but you keep insisting that it's that length.

[-] booly@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

Leave home with spices on a shopping list, come home with syphilis instead.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 48 points 2 months ago

Hundreds of years from now people will claim that only you knew that your route to the spice store existed while in reality everyone knew that it was too long.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago

"Oh, you're back. Did you bring back the cinnamon and nutmeg?"

"They were definitely out of those spices, but look at all of these severed hands!"

[-] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 9 points 2 months ago

You found some other spice store on the way and convinced yourself it was the spice store you were after

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 7 points 2 months ago

Although the Norwegian couple living above you has been going there for years.

[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 27 points 2 months ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago
[-] match@pawb.social 4 points 2 months ago

best I can do is monkeypox sorry

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

It’s the Nutella of 1492.

[-] bamfic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

And get syphillis in exhange. and lung cancer from the tobacco

[-] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 2 months ago
[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 19 points 2 months ago

"Listen, I'm white. Columbus is associated with settlers and colonialism which the left unfairly demonized so poor Columbus got cancelled! Because I'm white I feel personally attacked because fox news says I should be so I'm celebrating out of spite even though I don't really even know what I'm celebrating! Make America Genocide Again!"

-Some Magoos subconscious probably

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Oh they definitely complain that people don't celebrate Columbus Day anymore like they never did anyway.

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[-] M1nds3nd@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago

Columbus Day could also be celebrated by breaking into someone's house and forcing them to find and bring you money. If they don't bring enough start killing their family.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Or at least just chopping their hands off.

[-] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 17 points 2 months ago

Unironically saw this meme while in line after having just done that.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

You got lost in the spice aisle? Because they generally are straight lines.

[-] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 18 points 2 months ago

Eh, got lost looking for ground ginger. Started in the spice aisle, but they were out, so some directed me to the produce area (apparently didn't realize I didn't want whole ginger). After a bit more wandering, I turned some up in the Asian food section.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think you're celebrating Magellan Day or something. You don't ever get to the Asian food section on Columbus Day if you celebrate it properly.

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 months ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Damn it, every time someone posts a Key and Peele gif, I spend the next hour watching Key and Peele sketches.

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 months ago

Happy to be of assistance.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I said, biiiiiiiitch...

[-] match@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago

i think you celebrate magellan day by getting beat up by a short pinoy king

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I assume you celebrate Cook day by getting killed by Hawaiians.

[-] Slovene@feddit.nl 8 points 2 months ago

All ginger is ground ginger.

[-] match@pawb.social 6 points 2 months ago

what about hydroponic ginger

[-] Slovene@feddit.nl 6 points 2 months ago
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[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 15 points 2 months ago

I used to observe columbus day by having the day off school. Now it's meaningless to me like every other "holiday" I have to work through and get pissed off because I drove all the way to the bank to get change and they're closed.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Do you guys have change for a five?

Sure what do you want?

three ones and the rest quarters

Please fill out this form and I’ll need two forms of ID

this pen isn’t working

Hold on I’ve got some bolt cutters back here somewhere …

[clack]

Hey Mary, this guy needs a pen

I gave the supply cabinet keys to Carl. He’ll be back from lunch any minute now

Hey Carl it’s Mary. We’ve got a gentleman here needs a pen. Are you headed back?

… …. .. …… …

Oh gosh that’s terrible!

.. …. … . …. …..

Okay I’ll let him know. [click] Yeah Hon, Carl should be heading back any minute now. He’s just over at the deli having a sandwich. He was having a bother with his car but he’s got the jumper cables and everything

[ancient clock chimes] [cars pass by outside] [cicadas drone]

Can I get you a coffee or anything, Dear?

No thanks … well sure.

Oh drat! I forgot Mary had that second cup. Here I’ll just make some more.

Say Mary, do you know where the coffee filters are?

Should be right there with the coffee.

Nope, not here. Well we can have Carl pick some up.

[-] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago

While you have COVID so you can side-kill anyone not immune.

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

I'll observe my sister-in-law's birthday, thank you very much.

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Don't mind me I'm just observing ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Completely off-topic: That cartoonist is continuing a tradition that goes all the way back to George Herriman near the beginning of the 20th century. He had an incredible strip called Krazy Kat, but it started out like the Tom Waits sub-strip there, under a strip he ended up abandoning.

I'm betting the cartoonist here knew about that and is continuing the tradition, which is pretty cool.

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

The strip is a tribute to Tony Millionare, which is also where the sub-strip comes from.

Dresden Codak used to be a wonderful webcomic with great surreal humour and some super funky layouts. Then over a decade ago the author started a long, boring and confusing storyline which is apparently still ongoing? Crazy.

Anyway, mostly everything under "One-Offs" in the archive is solid gold and highly recommended. The rest of it... don't bother.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Layers upon layers. Thanks for the info!

[-] bananapinball@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Columbus day? Supposed to watch The Goonies, Gremlins, some Mrs. Doubtfire and little bit of Sorcerer's Stone.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Don't forget Home Alone!

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