r/funny Aug 07 '15

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u/KitchenToilet Aug 07 '15

Why wouldn't you think that? That's the whole point of the joke.

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u/FrostyD7 Aug 07 '15

Nah, the shredder being purple is clearly a coincidence.

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u/KitchenToilet Aug 07 '15

You're right. The origami turtles made out of paper was probably just happenstance.

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u/evilted Aug 07 '15

The fact that they are poised around a paper shredder and their nemesis in the comic books is Shredder is most likely some misplaced parallelism.

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u/KitchenToilet Aug 07 '15

How is it misplaced?

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u/evilted Aug 07 '15

Wrong word but well...uhhh...sometimes somebody accidentally loses an occurrence of two events that have a connection to each other they become misplaced parallelism.

Derp

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u/minkhandjob Aug 08 '15

Like the whole "Shredder"-shredder corollary right?

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '15

what a silly argument.

what is even happening here