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[–] Ypsilenna@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 hours ago

I read the first one as "hippocampus", and had no idea what the second pic had to do with it 😆

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 61 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] BlueLineBae@midwest.social 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My dumbass went "Seahorse... Workbench??".

[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Seahorse - wooden horse... Trojan horse?

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 1 points 7 hours ago

See horse... Saw horse

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Boo! Haha, have my upvote.

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't get it
Care to give me a hint?

[–] Bring_Back_Buggy_Whips@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Seahorse (See horse) Sawhorse

[–] puppycat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i have never heard of a saw horse until now

[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Crazy how different lives can be. Probably one of the first tools that I learned.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

First tool I ever learned about was ronald reagan. Then again, I grew up in the 80s.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why ya gotta go makin' it political?

This is Dad Jokes, not angsty GenX

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

here i fixed it for you: First tool I ever learned about was my dad. Then again, I grew up in a tool shed.

Ooooh, I never would have thought. We do use a horse-related word for the sawhorse in my language, but had never encountered it in English until now.

In my mind, the joke was kind of more abstract:

"the seahorse looks tense now because it's alive", "the wood horse is technically dead so it's no longer tense" (of course, if I think about it more, it makes no sense because the sawhorse is hard and therefore "tense"...)

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

fuck I'm dead

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

I sea what you did there.