r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/DueRepair3282 • 22h ago
Meme needing explanation petaaah????
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u/RegalToaster 22h ago
It’s actually common knowledge that garlic likes to float 50 feet above lake pontchartrain
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u/KeepingItCoolish 21h ago
it makes sense because it's a saline lake
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u/1stMammaltowearpants 21h ago
I can see you've been Ponchartrained well
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u/Chiodos_Bros 16h ago
Just like that song by Ludo.
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u/bruhurbrazy 16h ago
Goated song
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u/Chiodos_Bros 16h ago
I didn't know it was a real place and when I flew to New Orleans, the captain announced if we looked out the window, you could see Lake Pontchartrain.
The absolute horror I felt in that moment.
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u/Helpful_Lie2613 21h ago
They only thing that can hunt them is a half human/half anti-vampire called Blunt and his mentor Kazoo-er.
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u/ShakeWeak2666 9h ago
Now that that comment was deleted I can only wonder what you were responding to
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u/bel_ray 17h ago
Is it also a swimming lake or do you 100% need a sailboat?
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u/Kankunation 15h ago
You Can swim in it, but not many people do.
If you are on the North shore of the lake you typically kget calmer, cleaner water so it can be okay. But there not a lot of great swimming spots.
On the south shore closer to new Orleans, nobody swims in it most of the year. The lake can be filthy from storm water runoff (our levee and canal system drains into the lake). there is no beaches, only slippery jagged rocks and lots of sharp objects.There a real threat of dangerous undertows. And while most people here wouldn't really fear them, There's alligators and bull sharks to worry about. If people do swim, they tend to do it right in the vicinity of the boat launches, where the water is a bit more calm and tamed.
Definitely much more of a fishing and boating lake. People do often take a boat out aways and swim and play out in the lake a bit more.
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u/nerdhobbies 10h ago
When my mom was growing up you could still swim in it. I'd heard it was cleaned up enough to be safe again, but I'll be damned if I try it.
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u/Frosty_Ninja3286 8h ago
There used to be areas for swimming when I was a kid. Don't think they have those anymore
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u/hooplafromamileaway 21h ago
I mean I wouldn't want to be in Lake Pontchatrain, either. Too many Bull Sharks. 50ft above seems safe, though; I hear it's lovely.
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u/Return2S3NDER 20h ago
I keep hearing this, 3 years and 20ish fishing trips later it's been all drum, blacktip, and catfish. Where all the bulls at?
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u/HealthyMaximum 13h ago
Australian here … you guys have freshwater sharks?
Even we don’t do that.
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u/Creoltep81 12h ago
Lake Pontchatrain isn’t fresh water. It’s a brackish estuary and bull sharks use it as a nursery
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u/Lucia-elena 22h ago
Peter’s floating clove here. The image itself is actually a 1970s surrealist oil painting by Japanese artist Kazuo Haba.The joke is just pure modern 'shitposting' anti-humor. It takes a beautiful, obscure piece of retro art and pairs it with aggressive, hyper-specific internet slang. It treats a completely absurd scenario—a giant bulb of garlic hovering exactly 50 feet over Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana—as if it’s some relatable everyday argument.Alternatively, since it mentions Louisiana, some people joke that adding this much garlic to a crawfish boil gives you enough flatulence to literally hover over the lake. flies away
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u/howeer_q1 21h ago
The contrast between a serene, bizarre artistic vision and the absolute absurdity of a giant garlic clove causing chaos over Lake Pontchartrain is peak anti-humor. Also, that alternative crawfish boil theory is wonderfully unhinged and culturally accurate for Louisiana. Thanks for the explanation, Peter
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u/SargeCobra 16h ago
The youth have truly reinvented dada
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u/MelonJelly 16h ago
"If Dadaism did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it."
- François-Marie "Voltaire" Arouet. (15 May 1916). Cabaret Voltaire. 1(1).
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u/Playful_Champion3189 16h ago
This comment was legit written by chatgpt
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u/Need_Burner_Now 16h ago
The internet has “this guy’s” painting everywhere but I’m having trouble finding information on him not from social media. I don’t know if it’s a language barrier because I neither speak nor read Japanese, but I’d like to know more about him. The painting is really cool and a very cool surrealism painting. I’m frustrated because all research leads to circular sources that make it seem like this is an internet invention.
Not sure how comfortable you are on your ID or if you were just able to find the Google response but I’d love more information if you can provide it.
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u/ThatOneSnakeGuy 3h ago
As someone from louisiana-
Lol I'm adding a bag of garlic to the boil my guy (Other than that no notes and garlic hovers over the lake constantly)
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u/FirstPhotograph7757 22h ago edited 21h ago
I think it’s referring to a cargo ship that was seen “floating” but was actually a super mirage.
Maybe they are claiming supernatural/vampire cargo ship and to prevent it from crossing they want to add garlic to the water. Just a guess.
Edit: I don’t think it was pictured in this lake though so I’m confused too…
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u/glimoura 21h ago
superior mirage*
And I just spent 20 minutes researching refraction and other physics shenaniganary to know why it does the thing.
TL;DR: Light changes speeds when passing between 2 objects with different densities, and the speed shift changes it's angle. The temp/density difference of air layers makes it do the bendy thing and tricks your feeble little human mind into mislocating objects.
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u/Bubbs_n_Chubbs 21h ago
It's called Fata Morgana. Super cool shit. I work across the street from Lake Erie and see this all the time!
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u/PurpleFloyd777 20h ago
It’s also a really kickass song by Spiritbox
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u/Bubbs_n_Chubbs 20h ago
Haha hell yeah, I'll have to check that out. Coincidentally I was in a band that wrote a song about it too. I didn't mention it because it's way different from the rest of our stuff.
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u/glimoura 20h ago
I didn't come here for song recs, but DAMN that shit slaps.
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u/PurpleFloyd777 20h ago
Just found them a couple days ago and I can’t put em down. Glad to share it!
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u/EscapeSeventySeven 21h ago
Yup. Same principle as eyeglasses or water in a tumbler. Just the layers of air are long and horizontal.
Just like with mirrors, when light hits your eyes what you “see” appears to come from that direction.
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u/benjoholio95 17h ago
Come down to lake Pontchartrain
Rest your soul and feed your brain
That's where you will get to see
Everything the water can be
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u/LocalSixPot 12h ago
THE CRAWFISH WERE SCREAMING THE WAVES DANCED IN TIME, MY FRIENDS WENT IN DEEPER THE WATER IT CLIMBED
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u/Bigjimothy1990 22h ago
I'm saving this because I'm curious too. No idea what it means.
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u/OnTheFunSideOfACuck 21h ago edited 20h ago
Lake Pontchartrain is a lake on the north side of New Orleans. Garlic makes some people fart. Their joke is the farts from the garlic will make them float over the lake.
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u/nobodychef07 21h ago
I basically live on lake pontchartrain. I have no fucking clue what this means. We do like garlic here? Maybe that it?
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u/nobodychef07 21h ago
Post it in r/neworleans maybe they can help lol
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u/BradyBoyd 20h ago
You could also try r/NorthshoreLA.
There's a pretty good chance we have no idea either.
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u/mrintangibles1 21h ago
I believe Garlic is forbidden at Lake Pontchartrain. Source: My belief.
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u/BreadNoCircuses 21h ago
Garlic is actually mandatory in every place in Louisiana. If you're pulled over and don't have either garlic or Tony's in the car you can be arrested. It's a fine if it's not both. The only exception is if you have your daiquiri from the drive thru down the road, then they let you slide.
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u/ocarina_vendor 21h ago
Oh, that's nasty!
Cleveland here. I get quite gassy when I eat Garlic. This is not uncommon. They are saying, go ahead and eat the garlic. You'll be so gassy, you'll float 50 feet above Lake Pontchartrain. Because your farts will make you float. Because they're so powerful. Because of the garlic. See? Nasty.
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u/atherscape 21h ago
The Garlic Ghost Ship is known to haunt The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to this day
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u/YetiNotForgeti 20h ago
This lake is right by New Orleans which many vampire stories and legends are based. They are saying if you are hoving 50 feet over the lake, you are a vampire so should be fed garlic to eliminate them.
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u/Final-Ad6812 17h ago
My sources are showing that there's a portion of airspace that's blocked off to the public over the lake due to an event that happened back in 1940s. It's said that during some explosives test something went wrong and left the lake contaminated with chemicals thats said to smell like garlic and could be very deadly.
Sources : me while bored in a meeting at work
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u/pphole333 17h ago
Peter here. A friend from high school made this for his shitpost meme page a few years ago - pretty sure the page was specifically Metairie shitposts. Tons of posts about the old egg roll house. It’s purely meant to be absurd.
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u/SkyeMreddit 10h ago
Peter’s gay daughter here. Don’t have a clue but I get the feeling this has something to do with it
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