Beetle Moses | Bluesky

Transcript

Three panel comic.

Panel 1: Genghis khan is sitting in a throne room. His advisor enters with a fruity drink in hand. The advisor proclaims, “Genghis Khan! I bring a gift from a faraway land!”

Panel 2: he continues, “a ‘strawberry margarita.’” Genghis takes a delicate yet generous sip.

Panel 3: Genghis and his advisor exchange smiles. Genghis says, “yeeooo that’s fire”

  • M137@lemmy.today
    7·
    5 days ago

    This is the first time where “fire” hasn’t made me cringe to the deepest levels of my soul. It’s still bad, but not as bad as I ever expected it to be.

    • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca
      55·
      5 days ago

      A strawberry margarita is out of place in the 1200s, particularly at the khan’s court. Did Jimmy buffet go back in time to share margaritas with people, and then someone travelled potentially 1000s of kilometres to give one to the khan, and it’s still fresh and frozen?

      So it’s a little bit of absurdism, and you don’t expect the punchline.

      • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        5 days ago

        Technically, only the tequila is completely out of place for the time period.

        There are native European strawberries, and triple sec is a distilled orange brandy, and there were stills in China as early as the year 1200.

        The lime juice comes from South East Asia.

        So yeah, replace the tequila and it could almost exist.

        • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca
          10·
          5 days ago

          While you are technically correct (the best kind of correct), it was quite a while later that all those ingredients were combined in that specific way.

          The sum is greater than the parts, and all that.

        • zikzak025@lemmy.worldEnglish
          22·
          5 days ago

          I think the punchline is just subverted expectations. You’d expect him not to get it, be confused by something so out of place, or overreact with amazement over something so commonplace to us. But in actuality, it’s just that a strawberry margarita is always good no matter what time you’re in, along with his surprisingly muted and modern response.

      • Mika@piefed.caEnglish
        3·
        4 days ago

        Somehow I don’t like it. Basically we paint the big warmongers of the past as “bro” instead of remembering that those “great people” were just lunatics and murderers that brought death and misery to many.

    • fdnomad@programming.devEnglish
      14·
      5 days ago

      Beetlemoses comics are a window into your soul. Whether or not a joke is to be found depends on the reader.