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m_fA to The Far Side@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 4 days ago

2025-05-19

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m_fA to The Far Side@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 4 days ago
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Harold would have been on his guard, but he thought the old gypsy woman was speaking figuratively.

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  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    This one needs a better caption.

    “Big things are coming your way,” the fortune cookie had read. “Duck!” At the time, Harold laughed.

  • Num10ck@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    so what is the figurative phrase here?

    • Diddlydee@feddit.uk
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      The old gypsy lady literally told him he’d be stepped on by a giant bird or something similar, and he supposed that, being a mystical fortune teller type, there was some layered meaning to that.

  • Cid Vicious@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    Is that big bird? A big big bird?

    • federal reverse@feddit.org
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      Look at the feathers, it’s clearly Big Bird.

      • Cid Vicious@sh.itjust.works
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        I’m having trouble figuring out what figurative phrase he was told.

        • Diddlydee@feddit.uk
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          He was told a literal description of being stepped on by a giant bird and he presumed it wasn’t literal.

        • m_fOPA
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          “A bird will become your most pressing issue”

          • Cid Vicious@sh.itjust.works
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            Maybe “big things are coming your way?”

  • DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works
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    Utterly incomprehensible.

    I love it!

  • fulcrummed@lemmy.world
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    I’ve been thinking and nothing really comes to mind. Maybe a big bird is going to land on him… or he’ll be shat on by a bird. Hit by a bird, a large bird will pass overhead…

    Did she tell him how to get to Sesame Street?!

    I got nothin!!

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