0078 — Finale — Pete's Umbrage
Added 2024-08-16 17:00:07 +0000 UTCMy complete "note dump" on all the planning and unused lines/directions for this arc posts in the Author's and In-Universe tiers at noon today!
The slippery thing about luck is that it's like Shakespeare's Walnut — you can't know the nature of it (say, good or bad) until you have it in context, and even then, depending on how many further contextual parameters you add, the nature of the luck will need reclassification from good to bad, and vice versa.
What do I mean by Shakespeare's Walnut? It's an irresponsible conflation of his "bounded in a nutshell/king of infinite space" concept, with his "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" chestnut. They don't really funge together well — mostly because I just needed the "nut" thing from the first one — and the entire enterprise withstands only the most charitable of scrutiny. But at the heart of this neologism is the postmodernist's plaything that there are no moral absolutes.
Please try using Shakespeare's Walnut in a sentence, in the comments, and I will see if your effort feels right. Many of you are much brighter than me, so I look forward to your constructions.
Comments
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Chris Onstad
2024-09-13 16:43:27 +0000 UTCShakespeare's Walnut is a nut best left uncracked and in the crystal dish Grandma puts out every Christmas. Any nutcrackers inhabiting the scene will inevitably be purely decorative. Do not get yourself scolded by Grandma CPAP grundleslap for breaking seasonal decorations with philosophy.
Brian
2024-09-13 16:38:52 +0000 UTCYou think Shakespeare just fell out of a Walnut tree? No, he exists only in the grundle of all the slaps that came before
Doc G
2024-08-18 23:48:02 +0000 UTCI have, no joke, had someone tell me that they do something very similar to this in business meetings
W
2024-08-18 11:16:26 +0000 UTCO, to be blessed with such intellect, that life within these four walls would be the greatest adventure! But methinks I should pine for laudanum to keep reality at bay.
Brad Matheson
2024-08-16 22:33:28 +0000 UTCI would absolutely put Shakespeare's Walnut up my ass to surprise my wife
Jason Scott
2024-08-16 21:47:21 +0000 UTCRustmouth's strategy for viewing other men legit sounds like a real-life grindset grifter idea
Travis O.
2024-08-16 21:33:54 +0000 UTCCPAP grundleslap was a bit of an attack if I'm being honest
Josh Egbert
2024-08-16 18:47:39 +0000 UTCwater in this pool is so cold it has my sack tighter than shakespeares walnut
Zen Window
2024-08-16 18:44:10 +0000 UTCWill Connie be relieved or jealous that the comic now has a new old man's ass to kiss
Toilet Cobra
2024-08-16 18:29:23 +0000 UTCpeak Achewood; humpin’ in butter mode, all us lucky off-the-wall nuts.
Rob Dalton
2024-08-16 18:26:49 +0000 UTCfuck me if I wouldn't order something called the Ripplin' Raspberry Rib-diplet. Nice to know exactly where I stand, I suppose.
emitydna
2024-08-16 18:17:40 +0000 UTC“Fair or foul the wall-nut doth not choose / ‘til observation keene / collapseth full the waeve-forme”
Ben Sunshine-Hill
2024-08-16 18:04:02 +0000 UTCShould Shakespeare's Walnut in your muffin find, swallow it not lest poison there you find. How did I do? (yes I know I rhymed find twice but for 15 seconds of extemp doggerel I think it's pretty tite)
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
2024-08-16 17:23:07 +0000 UTCWell, it's a less damning tie-in for Applebee's than "Fancy Like"
Matthew Harris
2024-08-16 17:15:21 +0000 UTCI had to check to see if it was parody and I'm sad to report that "Ripplin' Raspberry Rib-diplet" is dangerously close to an actual Applebee's menu item.
denv_eric
2024-08-16 17:12:01 +0000 UTCRay sees another opportunity
Vincent Verweij
2024-08-16 17:11:55 +0000 UTCTone, Ray.
b.zap
2024-08-16 17:10:38 +0000 UTCI started laughing at CPAP grundleslap and didn't stop until long after Ray got his granddad signed.
Josh Egbert
2024-08-16 17:08:47 +0000 UTCRay just call your dad and let him sort Pete out.
Omnithea
2024-08-16 17:08:40 +0000 UTC
