[ SECRET POST #2515 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2515 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[ER]


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[Pacific Rim]


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04.
[Assassin's Creed 2]


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05.
[El Goonish Shive]


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06.
[Trigun]


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[Ellen Muth, Cara Delevingne, Doutzen Kroes, Denise Richards, Billie Piper]


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08.
[Dodgeball]


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[football rps]


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10. http://rs954.pbsrc.com/albums/ae23/fandomsecretsaccount2/Mobile%20Uploads/Peter_zps7113afe9.png~320x480
[Peter is the Wolf; OP requested link for nudity]


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11.
[bandslash]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 017 secrets from Secret Submission Post #359.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: I GET IT

[(Anonymous)]

Not the phrase "Time flies like an arrow" on its own, no. (A time fly isn't a thing that exists, I'm pretty sure.) But paired with the "Fruit flies like a banana", and knowing my father's sense of humor, yes, that is the joke.

The meaning of the words change based on how you read them.

Paraphrased from my textbook:

Time (noun) flies (verb) like an arrow (adv. clause) = Time goes fast

Time (verb) flies (obj.) like an arrow (adv. clause) = Track the time of flies the way you would track the time of an arrow.

Time flies (noun) like (verb) an arrow (obj.) = Insects known as time flies are fond of an arrow.

Re: I GET IT

[(Anonymous)]

Uh, maybe it's your father's idea of a joke, but that's not what the phrase means. It is a play on "flies" but nowhere near as convoluted as your theory. It just twists your expectations because in the first half of the sentence, "flies" is a verb and in the second half, it's a noun. The second half is the punchline.

So... yeah, I'm not sure you actually get it.

Re: I GET IT

[(Anonymous)]

Well, the example I just showed you is out of a book, so it's not like I just made this up.

So... yeah, I think there might be multiple ways to read it!

Re: I GET IT

[(Anonymous)]

And which book would that be? Look, there are multiple ways to read everything, but it doesn't mean that all those ways are equally valid. Your textbook may be pointing out that interpretation as an example of how grammar can alter the meaning of a sentence, but the joke isn't about an imaginary variety of insects known as "time flies". It really isn't.

Re: I GET IT

[(Anonymous)]

I found it funny once it was explained from the angle that imaginary animals called time flies like an arrow. Maybe there's some other joke in those two lines, but they definitely weren't funny to me.

Re: I GET IT

[(Anonymous)]

+1. I'm mystified at this new interpretation of "time flies" as if it were a new subspecies of fly. Instead of, y'know, time flying quickly by. The second sentence is the joke, not the first.