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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How can you forget the mighty Testicles?!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Didn't he get eaten by sharks?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

“Vehicles”

Is that a modern V or a U?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I prefer the -ophanes like Aristophanes and Cellophanes

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You ought to drop it casually in a quote context: "As the famous philosopher Cellophanes said: Sometimes life spanks you right in the ass"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As the great Cellophanes once said: “I can see clearly now the rain is gone”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I like yours more and I pinky promise to use it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Tell me more about life

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How about the -phones? Like Persephone, Telephone, and Megaphone?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Xylophone would be a great greek name.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I forgot all about instruments! Saxophone too

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget the great warriors Ventricles, Follicles, and Popsicles, and their adorable canine companion, Cuticles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

We will speak no more of the errant and forbidden philosopher, Pedophiles

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Mandibles Undesirables Vestibules

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Dammit, I do this irl, now my joke is going to fall flat as all the dozens of lemmy users seeing this steal my thunder.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

✋ I already say spectacles.