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xkcd #3209: Plums (thelemmy.club)
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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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[-] MBM@lemmings.world 6 points 1 day ago

Markdown broke the formatting, here's the proper version:

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

[-] AmidFuror@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

Mbin doesn't require two spaces at the ends of consecutive lines. I was aware that Lemmy might, but I was also prefacing each line with a ">", so I figured that would keep them separate.

[-] MBM@lemmings.world 1 points 1 day ago

Huh. It's impressive how many slightly different markdown versions there are

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