France and England — Then vs Now Doge
France and England THEN: ‘I WILL DOMINATE THE WORLD!’ ‘NO, I WILL DOMINATE THE WORLD!’ France and England NOW: arguing about football. The decline of...
Memes
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Shooting the Arrow Through the Axes — Every Odyssey Imagines It Differently
Paul MuadDib: ‘Detail I love in every iteration of The Odyssey is shooting the arrow through the axes. It is such a nebulously described task...
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Jimothy the Raccoon — Modern Cryptid
Goblin Moder: ‘In the days before cameras this would have become a legendary local cryptid. In the 21st century we are calling it Jimothy.’ A...
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Neolithic Artifact — Obvious Then, Mysterious Now
Neolithic Europe, 3200 BC: ‘Look at what I made!’ ‘So obvious you dont even have to tell me.’ Archaeologists today: ‘??? What is this ???’...
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King Minos and Pasiphae — Don’t Do Something Regrettable
King Minos: ‘See you later honey, dont do something regrettable while I am away.’ Pasiphae: ‘…’ The origin of the Minotaur. Classic Greek mythology.
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Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses — Waterhouse
Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses (1891) by John William Waterhouse. Pre-Raphaelite beauty. Circe offers the cup to Odysseus. The Odyssey, immortalized in oil.
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Nolan Should Have Sung the Odyssey — Sarcasm
Jack Grimes: “Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a movie with cameras instead of memorizing the entire...
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Spraying Faeries With Raid — Threads Post
johnnycrass: Faeries are not real but I wish they were so I could spray one with raid. And Harry Houdini to his wife after dinner...
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Ben Affleck as Achilles — Wicked Smaht
My boy Odysseus here, hes wicked smaht. Ben Affleck as Achilles in the AI version of Troy.
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Black Cats vs Orange Cats — Sarah Andersen
For a long time black cats were said to be evil. But now we know that’s not true. Orange cats: ‘Those ones are evil though.’...
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Diane Kruger as Helen of Troy — Troy 2004
Helen of Troy — daughter of Zeus and Leda. The most beautiful woman in the world. The face that launched a thousand ships. Diane Kruger...
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Mentor — The Origin of the Word in the Odyssey
John Coffee Hays: ‘Here is Telemachus’ mentor. He is named, uh, Mentor. BRAVO NOLAN.’ Stone Age Muse: ‘That character is the origin of the word.’...