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I figured out that there's a clown who crashes his car into a tree because he is drunk, but I don't get the last panel. Why are there suddenly so many bodies?

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[-] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 341 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Probably one of those acts where they fit a ridiculous number of clowns into one tiny clown car.

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 241 points 2 years ago

Yup. It's a classic clown gag. They stuff an unrealistic amount of clowns into those tiny cars for a laugh.

But killing dozens of clowns in a drunk driving accident isn't funny. It's fucking hilarious.

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 105 points 2 years ago

“One clown death is a tragedy, dozens is fucking hilarious.”

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[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I'm going to steal this one

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Just don't get caught while stealing it or it's straight to gulag.

[-] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 144 points 2 years ago

A clown car is famously a very tiny car with more clowns in it than you would expect to be able to fit.

[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 137 points 2 years ago

You're one of the lucky 10000 today

[-] PlasticPigeon@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

Literally learnt about the lucky 10000 yesterday on here! So that was a 10000 moment for this fella over here as well! :-)

#10000ception ;-)

[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago

I'd like it to be the lucky 400 thousand but I guess it's not that snappy

[-] PlasticPigeon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

The 10 000 is a reference to the original post, will have to find it. Saw it on here yesterday perhaps. :-)

[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

My link has the comic

[-] xorollo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

What group am I in if I am part of two independent lucky 10k events in a single day?

[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

(Odds of being in one)² = (1/10000)² = 1⁄100000000?

[-] ieightpi@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

How crazy is this thread is for someone to hear about clown cars AND the lucky 10,000 for the first time.

That number must be smaller

[-] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago
[-] PlasticPigeon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

This comment is blank in the @voyagerapp but when opened in a browser, not logged in, it shows a video player with no video to play?

Anybody else experiencing this? :-/

[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Yup same here

[-] aeharding@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

OP uploaded an iOS incompatible/malformed video.

[-] toybastard@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

It's Captain America saying "I understood that reference"

[-] PlasticPigeon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you cap! Now you can fly away!

[-] heyfrancis@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Gif is playing fine on my phone via vger.app

[-] Caboose12000@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago
[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago

Randall Munroe calculated that there's every day the lucky 10000 (in the US, 400 thousand globally) who learn something for the first time that is very known.

[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

its a reference to [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1053:_Ten_Thousand](this xkcd)

[-] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You're one of them today. Jk, I don't think it applies specifically to this, this isn't well known.

[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I feel like the analogy of a clown car is pretty widespread? And the lucky 10,000 is back of the napkin guestimation, I think it's allowed an order of magnitude on either side, and one should not feel bad for being part of it, you're in for learning and learning is (or should be) fun!

[-] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

No, I meant that not knowing about the 10K didn't really make him part of the daily 10K

[-] Lupo@lemmy.world 98 points 2 years ago
[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 70 points 2 years ago

The joke is that clowns would sometimes do a bit at the circus where like a dozen of them would cram into a tiny car. Just google the phrase "clown car" and you should see numerous examples of this.

[-] GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network 18 points 2 years ago
[-] jopepa@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I hope you don’t shout at real life five year olds

[-] GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network 21 points 2 years ago

Only if they have it coming

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