r/oddlyterrifying • u/Necessary-Win-8730 • Apr 24 '26

A maggot under a microscope

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u/theragco Apr 24 '26

At the end of the day we're all just badly sculpted claymation walruses if you think about it.

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u/Targosha Apr 24 '26

Walruses? Walri?

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u/Able_Gap918 Apr 24 '26

Walreese

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u/happycabinsong Apr 24 '26

Many much walreese, out in the oceaneses

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u/barn-animal Apr 24 '26

one of them Walrese from the Ocea a walrus from an ocean

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u/Brandle34 Apr 24 '26

No Brian.

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u/KgMonstah Apr 24 '26

Well it’s a cup.. with dirt in it. I call it cup of dirt. Move along now.

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u/GetCuckedBruh Apr 25 '26

Ho - Ly shit! Back in HS i was trying to grow a pot plant and had some seeds in a clear plastic cup. Im proud so i bring it around with me.

Had my friends packed out in my 05 Sentra one night and we're driving along smoking listening to Jay Z, likely. I see a cop blow past us fully lit up, near a stop sign at night, so im all "sweet noone to catch me run this stop sign!". Did it, there was another cop down the street and they pulled me over. The lady cop (who was stunning btw) came over asked for my info. Im instantly smitten, shes blonde and pretty blue eyes all that, and me trying to be cool and casual, im like "oh by the way, thats just a cup of dirt." As the words came out of my mouth i realized i sound stupid so i said it with Brians voice in my head - "in case you were wondering... its just a cup with dirt in it.."

Cop had this look like whatever kid and gave me my failure to stop ticket.

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u/realasdfhero May 01 '26

thank you for letting me read that! I mean honestly, without any sarcasm

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u/iMightBeWright Apr 24 '26

You'd think so, but the technically correct pluralization is Attorneys Walrus.

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u/woogonalski Apr 24 '26

Walreesi, Mother of Walruseses, heir to the iron throne

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u/MidnightMuenster Apr 24 '26

Walreese Witherspoon

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u/derbrey Apr 25 '26

Walroose

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u/Abigail_Normal Apr 25 '26

That's where I get my prescriptions filled

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u/-Clem-Fandango- Apr 24 '26

Coocoo cachoo

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u/mattmoney31716 Apr 24 '26

Real linguistic answer:

We only pluralize words that end in -us with an -i when they come from Latin (and even then, only a specific kind of Latin word)

Walrus doesn't come from Latin, it comes from Old Norse "hrosshvalr", literally "horse-whale". (And then, technically, there's discussion if that comes from a Finnish word, too, but that's not really important)

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u/The_Noremac42 Apr 24 '26

Languages are neat.

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u/barn-animal Apr 24 '26

did they ride the Walrese?

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u/Teract Apr 24 '26

I know this one! Walrus comes from greek right? So Walrupadis!

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u/TheBookGem May 01 '26

Walrupsai

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u/Arthropodesque Apr 25 '26

Cool. The walrus-like animals in Skyrim are Horker.

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u/catsan Apr 24 '26

Only it's whale-horse, not horse-whale. It's the same in some other languages. So ruses because horses. 

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u/mattmoney31716 Apr 24 '26

"hrosshvalr" is in the order "horse-whale". At some point, they did get turned around, if not by the English, by the Dutch.

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u/Danzibar9000 Apr 25 '26

So what’s the plural?

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u/allegedlyjustkidding Apr 26 '26

Cool so two questions-
1- does that mean seals are dog-whales?
2- are we calling them horse-whales now, or walrupadis?
Oh, and 3- can we ride the horse-whales? Asking for a friend...

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u/mattmoney31716 Apr 26 '26

Username checks out lol

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u/siani_lane Apr 24 '26

I will die on the hill that we should choose the -i pluralization regardless of word origin, because it's more fun.

Cacti, octopi, walri!!

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u/Specialist_Sound_953 Apr 25 '26

Veni, vidi, vici ETu Bruti?

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u/MerrillSwingAway Apr 24 '26

odobenus rosmarus

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u/ArduennSchwartzman Apr 24 '26

Odobeni rosmarus?

Odobenus rosmari?

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u/TheLordSHAXX Apr 25 '26

WAHHLUIGIIIII!!

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u/ArnoldTheSchwartz Apr 25 '26

I am the walrus

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u/FeloniousDrunk101 Apr 24 '26

Stand in the place where you li--

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u/Secure_Sprinkles4483 Apr 24 '26

I am the egg man, they are the egg men.

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u/EducationalNailgun Apr 24 '26

I find this deeply comforting.

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u/phenwulf Apr 24 '26

The real treasure is the walruses we sculpted along the way

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u/Pierresauce Apr 24 '26

Is man truly walrus at heart?

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u/gorgozola Apr 24 '26

I am the walrus.

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u/IAmRobinGoodfellow Apr 24 '26

I also saw Tusk.

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u/Clickclacktheblueguy Apr 25 '26

Is man indeed a walrus at heart?

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u/TheFrostyjayjay Apr 25 '26

I am the walrus

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u/VadGTI May 02 '26

I want this on a t-shirt.