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🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦@ttrpg.network to Dad Jokes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago

Please don't murder me. I didn't write this!

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Please don't murder me. I didn't write this!

🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦@ttrpg.network to Dad Jokes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago
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  • TheRealLinga@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    Can someone explain this?

    • Dwemthy (he/him)@lemdro.id
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      8 months ago

      Minute, pronounced like “my newt”, means tiny

      • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Oh damn that is funny.

      • 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦@ttrpg.networkOP
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        I’m personally working on a really lazy pun around “Minutemen”.

    • bstix@feddit.dk
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      8 months ago

      My Newt = Minute

      Minute is a synonym for small.

      • snooggums@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        It took a minute to sound out minute.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Its a play on words. The lizard is a newt, and it’s his. But it’s also tiny, which is what the word “minute” means. Pronounced “My noot”.

      In time, minute (pronounced “min-it”) is derived from this word to mean a tiny amount of time. Or 60 seconds. Thats why it has the same spelling.

      Language is weird.

      • tate@lemmy.sdf.org
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        8 months ago

        Odd side fact here: newts are not lizards.

        • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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          8 months ago

          Wait…what are they?

          • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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            8 months ago

            Amphibians, they’re salamanders

            • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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              8 months ago

              Neat!

              • GreenAppleTree@lemmy.world
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                8 months ago

                My, neat!

      • odium@programming.dev
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        I pronounce the time one min-ut, not min-it.

        • towerful@programming.dev
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          It’s all from Latin mintus Vs minuta.
          https://www.etymonline.com/word/minute

          My-noot for small.
          Min-ut for time.

    • Xyphius@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      My Newt = Minute (Not the time, but pronounced the same as “my newt” ), meaning tiny.

    • dditty@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      My newt is pronounced minute

  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Wow, that took me a long time. I need to go to bed early tonight.

  • 𝕊𝕞𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕞 𝕎𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕔@lemmy.world
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    Before the picture loaded I thought you meant that you didn’t write the title of the post, which technically correct since the title was typed, not written.

    • 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦@ttrpg.networkOP
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      No, I just didn’t want to get hunted down and killed for the worst Dad joke in history. 🤣

      • Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        You probably didn’t realize where you were. You’re going to be CELEBRATED for the BEST dad joke in history.

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