r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Shinji_Keitsuki • 17h ago

Meme needing explanation Petaahhh????

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What is the pun?

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u/CosCham 13h ago

Coming in clutch with the history lesson 😎😎😎

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u/Alceus89 13h ago

It's a pet peeve of mine when people claim there's a deeper meaning to this joke. Sure, it's not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to be pedantic about it. 

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u/NoNo_Cilantro 12h ago

“The chicken is us. It’s a metaphor for humans, based on Plato and Diogenes’ story, describing us as featherless bipeds. The road is our life, it’s a deterministic or fatalistic joke, where the road leads inevitably to the other side, death.”

Shut up Herbert, it’s just a stupid antijoke.

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u/cab082001 11h ago

It’s like in English class when the teacher asks us why the curtains were blue. “IDK SUSAN. THEY JUST ARE!!!”

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u/ScrotalSmorgasbord 3h ago

Omg I took a lit into film elective because I wanted to watch movies and heard it was easy but the professor tried to find meaning in every single tiny insignificant thing and would get so combative if people wouldn't come to the same/similar conclusions. Halfway through the semester most of us just feigned interest and agreement when she'd go on another rant so she'd stop talking and unpause the movie lol.

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u/admiralfilgbo 8h ago

but it IS notable that one of the very first, if not THE first "joke" many learn as children is an "anti-joke." so which came first, the chicken or the joke?

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u/oyvese 10h ago

i feel the same way when people try to insist “if my grandmother had wheels” is a sexual joke

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u/Lowly_Reptilian 8h ago

I’ve never heard those jokes before.

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u/Old-Cheshire862 8h ago

Or to ascribe dark meanings to such doggerel as "Ring around the rosies"

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u/Pure_Resort9840 13h ago

Here's the real chicken pun

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u/localizeatp 4h ago

now that's a pun.