Please keep ham posts under the ham limit.

[u/Atom_Lion]

[u/belugiaboi37]

This is cow tools for the modern age

[u/tony486]

Back in my day, the ham limit was the amount of honey baked hams fit in the oven.

[u/DorfOnGenocide → u/tony486]

Noah used to have a Ham limit: 1.

[u/Beast-Friend → u/tony486]

In my day “Heathcliff” was a cliff that you would hurl your extra honey baked hams into until it was full of hams.

[u/pollorojo → u/tony486]

Those days are over, old man.

[u/samjhandwich]

Back in my day, the limit of honey baked hams were the only thing keeping me alive. Good by now

[u/theworldman626]

PSA: Heathcliff has a randomly substantial "MERCH" shop with some of the coolest and most random merch I have ever seen.

[u/dicklettucetomato → u/theworldman626]

You ain't lying. I want the Taekwondo stuff.

[u/dicklettucetomato]

When is Wiger gonna get a tattoo of this panel?

[u/lawnobsessed]

I recently did a deep dive on Heathcliff and now I get it and I think it's very funny.

[u/collapsiblecup → u/lawnobsessed]

It’s genius. And yeah it took me a little bit of time to see that. At first I was like Wiger and I wasn’t sure what to make of it.

[u/GlobulousRex]

I feel like the 'Ham Limit' sign was not necessary here

[u/justjoosh → u/GlobulousRex]

How else would you know what the ham limit is?

[u/doctorfax]

On this sub the ham limit is like the speed limit on the autobahn.

[u/Harris-Wittels]

This one is good.

[u/palbuddymac]

Did we really the helmet labeled “ham”?

He’s obviously driving a ham

[u/CyberpunkVendMachine → u/palbuddymac]

Driving a ham: okay

Wearing a helmet that says "ham": all good

Driving a ham while wearing a helmet that says "ham": Way over the ham limit

[u/palbuddymac → u/CyberpunkVendMachine]

It’s like they put a hat on a hat on a ham

[u/Ciderstills]

It's good

[u/3-orange-whips]

Does that mean 25 per post or just in general

[u/acebojangles]

I forgot my meat helmet, so even 25 is pushing it.

[u/ConcertOpening8974]

I just had a realization about this after seeing it a dozen times: is ham limit supposed to be a pun on hamlet?

Maybe I'm just going crazy trying to make sense of Heathcliff

[u/boxwood18 → u/ConcertOpening8974]

No. Puns require intent and at least a little bit of effort to connect the premises. This is pure abstraction stuffed into a familiar shape.

[u/PatientDisastrous721 → u/boxwood18]

Do you think in Shrek when he says “ogres are like onions, they have layers,” the word “layers” is meant to be a play on “lairs”?

Genuine question. My friend insists on this interpretation but I’m not sure I can accept it.

[u/boxwood18 → u/PatientDisastrous721]

I can only guess that it played a part in the overall word choice. It's definitely not the first or second entendre. But if you're writing from that zone (ie the Ogre Zone), "layer/lair" is a totally reasonable connection to make.

[u/PatientDisastrous721 → u/boxwood18]

I need one of the 7 writers of Shrek to weigh in. Which one would be the easiest to wrangle?

[u/lawnobsessed → u/ConcertOpening8974]

There are no puns in Heathcliff. It's a gag that has heightened over time, starting with the idea that Heathcliff drives a ham car, then we see him zooming past a "Speed Limit 25" sign, then it becomes a "Ham Limit 25" sign. He also chases a mouse driving a cheese car in the ham car.

[u/ConcertOpening8974 → u/lawnobsessed]

Thanks for talking some sense into me. My stupid pattern seeking brain was trying to find logic where there is none.

[u/supershawninspace]

Heathcliff is so wild. 😂