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xkcd #3209: Plums

Title text:

My icebox plum trap easily captured William Carlos Williams. It took much less work than the infinite looping network of diverging paths I had to build in that yellow wood to ensnare Robert Frost.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3209/

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[–] Bubs@lemmy.zip 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Def a more niche reference I feel:

This is a reference to the William Carlos Williams poem This Is Just to Say, in which the narrator is apologizing for eating the plums in the icebox. In this comic, the joke is that Cueball, learning that the person out of view has left themselves some plums in the refrigerator for tomorrow, cannot resist eating them as a reference to the poem.

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

His characters have names? TIL.

[–] Bubs@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago

Yeah lol.

Cueball, beret guy, white and black hat, ponytail, Megan are a few I can remember