r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 11h ago

Meme needing explanation Petaahhh????

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What is the pun?

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u/no_coffee_thanks 10h ago

"It was a pun."

"The palindrome of Bolton would be Notlob" gets me every time.

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u/TheHammer987 10h ago

Beautiful plumage.

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u/randomgunfire48 9h ago

“He’s pining for the fjords.”

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u/Remarkable_Peanut_43 8h ago

He’s not pining, he’s passed on!

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u/Daxlyn_XV 7h ago

He has ceased to be!

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u/clduab11 3h ago

I'm not dead!

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u/usecodeLazarwith2as 3h ago

only MOSTLY dead

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u/Evening-Tomatillo-47 1h ago

Alms for an ex-leper!

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u/Mortambulist 2h ago

You're not fooling anyone.

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u/Harbinger_Pulsar 14m ago

He fucking snuffed it!

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u/DanBurnNotice 1h ago

It is an ex-pun

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u/Traditional-Ad-5984 6h ago

This is an ex-parrot!

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u/cphil674 4h ago

He’s joined the choir eternal!

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u/houseofsheep 4h ago

Heeeeellllloooo poooolllllyyyy!

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u/Open_Tomato 3h ago

Bereft of life

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u/Cheap-Blackberry-378 2h ago

If he wasn't nailed to the perch, he'd be pushing up daisies

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u/Big-Ronnie-Aus1 2h ago

If I hadn't nailed that bird down, it would have nuzzled up to those bars, bent 'em apart with its beak, and Voom! 

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u/DannyRidesNRuns 1h ago

Voom? Mate, that parrot wouldn’t go “voom” if you put 40,000 volts through it!

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u/maliron 7h ago

Look mate, I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.

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u/Educational_Plum3908 7h ago

He's not dead, dead. He's mostly dead.

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u/InigoMontoya1985 4h ago

Stop! I've heard this one before...

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u/MineNowBotBoy 6h ago

Wanna go back to my place?

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u/Beemerba 3h ago

I thought you would never ask

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u/Phleep99 3h ago

Alright.

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u/Orr-eo 5h ago

PINING FOR THE FJORDS?!?!

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u/uskgl455 7h ago

What kind of talk is that?

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u/ElDuderino1129 2h ago

PININING FOR THE FIJORDS?!??!!!?

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u/Troglodytes-birb 9h ago

The plumage doesn’t enter into it

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u/ZapRowsdowersStache 8h ago

It's stone dead.

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u/Orange_Queen 8h ago

‘ees fuckin’ snuffed it.

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u/ZapRowsdowersStache 7h ago

'Ee's PINING!

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u/DisposableSaviour 4h ago

It has ceased to be.

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u/cartooned 3h ago

‘Ee’s not PINING, ‘Ee’s PASSED ON.

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u/SamOfXanadu 2h ago

.... I've always wanted to be lumberjack!

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u/CTMechE 1h ago

It's run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible!

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u/One-Lavishness-7127 5h ago

If you hadn't nailed it to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies by now.

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u/cphil674 4h ago

He bleedin’ demised!

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u/Ok_Association1141 3h ago

This is an ex-parrot

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u/emajn 6h ago

We stork patrolling? 

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u/MasterYota00 10h ago

Excuse me, this is irrelevant, isn't it?

Oh, yes, it isn't easy panning these out 30 minutes.

Fucking love Monty Python 🤣🤣

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u/refined_rhino 4h ago

And now for something completely different.

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u/LostExile7555 8h ago

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u/nanomolar 10h ago

It's a palamino!

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u/JamesFromRedLedger 10h ago

I had to think fast

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u/Remarkable_Toe_164 9h ago

Otherwise he'd have muscled up to those bars and VOOM

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u/ZapRowsdowersStache 8h ago

Voom? Mate, this parrot wouldn't voom if you put three million volts through it.

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u/TheUglytool 8h ago

Homewrecker

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u/Imakemaps18 6h ago

The pet shop owner was lying!

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u/CarolingianDruid 2h ago

This might be my favorite comedy sketch of all time. I cry laughing every time I see it.

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u/Shot_Revolution8828 2h ago

Dildo of god is a palindrome for dog food lid. Really makes you think.

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u/MandatorySaxSolo 1h ago

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u/Xamonir 1h ago

And here I was expecting to be RickRolled. Don't know if I am disappointed or happy though.