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Beetle Moses | Bluesky
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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”
“Now bring in my 500 wives”
Homeboy should have waited til Ogedei was in charge to give that gift
All warm and melted and shit
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.
Fire ass comment
SUPER lit, fam, f'r'eal yo on gott like actually
Would have been funnier if he said something like Yöü because it could have been his name
Frame 4 is a reaction video.
What is the joke here?
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.
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.
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.
So the punchline is the second frame, and the last one is a hat on a hat?
I think the punchline is just subverted expectations. You'd expect him not to get it, be confused by something so out of place, or overreact with amazement over something so commonplace to us. But in actuality, it's just that a strawberry margarita is always good no matter what time you're in, along with his surprisingly muted and modern response.
I mean, expecting a punch line is the mistake. Obviously, it's a margarita line.
It is funny to imagine Genghis Khan both drinking a margarita and responding like a bro.
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.
They may have been lunatics but they're dead and they can't stop us from laughing at them.
Beetlemoses comics are a window into your soul. Whether or not a joke is to be found depends on the reader.
It's absurdism. Just not the funny kind. Well... Unless you're high, I guess.