20 April 2024
20 April 2024
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Ok, I'll be the first: can someone explain this?
The soldiers are roman so it can't be a hapsburg chin joke. The jawbone wielder has a prominent jaw himself, which feels like the set up, but if so I'm missing the punchline.
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It's from the story of Samson in the Bible.
The quote goes something like this:
Then Samson said, “With a donkey’s jawbone I have made donkeys of them. With a donkey’s jawbone I have killed a thousand men.”
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Interestingly enough, donkey jawbones are used as musical percussion instruments in some parts of Latin America.
Link to videos of jawbones being played in 2 different ways inside the article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawbone_%28instrument%29
So either Samson literally slew them, or proverbially slew them by rocking out.
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The soldiers are supposed to be Philistines, technically.
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It's over; He has the high ground!
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Reminded me of this: https://youtu.be/PsWj_RKbkxU?t=275
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