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If finding parallels is the game, then this Twitter account is the winner.

It's called "True, I Guess..." and it shares — you guessed it — pictures of things that are technically true. It sounds simple, but believe me, just a couple of its tweets can make you question both your existence and the world around you.

Are nightmares dreams? Or free horror movies that you produce, direct, and star in? Do you have a skeleton inside you? Or are you (the brain) inside of a skeleton?

Continue scrolling and you tell me!

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    Jo Johannsen
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Respect the teacher for giving extra credit, it was deserved.

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    A few months ago, my colleague Jonas wrote a piece on a subreddit with the same kind of energy as this Twitter account. Check it out if you haven't already!

    Back then, Jonas compared these "obvious" remarks to dad jokes and I gotta say, I probably agree. Dad jokes are simultaneously beloved and maligned, deeply ingrained in the intimacies of family life, and yet universal and public enough to have a cult following.

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    Ross Keim
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One of my fav memes was when trump tweeted stop the count, and someone replied a picture of the count going ah-ah-ah

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    Dina Simoné
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    By hitting a window with your bare fist in the regular manly fashion of course

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    If there's one thing that describes dad jokes, it's wordplay. You know it goes, "Hey, do you know what time my dentist appointment is? Tooth-hurty." "Why do they always build fences around cemeteries? Because people are dying to get in." 

    Stanley Dubinsky, an English professor at the University of South Carolina and the father of two young-adult sons, is a real enthusiast of dad jokes, mostly of the non-pun variety; he likes to deliberately mispronounce words sometimes, just to hear his kids groan and scoff exasperatedly. 

    "I take a little bit of perverse pleasure in causing them some embarrassment when I speak," Dubinsky said. "Your kids are embarrassed by you anyway, so the next best thing [to them laughing in earnest at your jokes] is to level with that."

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    Dina Simoné
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ha! Depends where the cow comes from. A french cow has a meuhd

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    But Dubinsky is also a linguist and the co-author of the book Understanding Language Through Humor, and as he explains it, there's a particular type of wordplay that gives a joke the dubious distinction of being a dad joke.

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    "Most jokes rely on some semantic ambiguity or grammatical ambiguity. The things people call dad jokes are the ones where the ambiguity is crushingly obvious," he explained.

    Which is also the case here!

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    Christopher Walkies
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also, every day is a new day in America. And everywhere else.

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    tiari
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Plus that meme is simply a lie.

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    Eppe
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We live in strange times. I was gonna write his profile picture is perfect for this quote, because of the simultaneously smart and goofy face he's making. But then I thought people would think I meant because he's black. That made me a little sad.

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    Rissie
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But can we discuss that username?

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    Lauren Caswell
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ooh come visit Jack's blowhole in NZ! Lol and don't ask which Jack

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    Dina Simoné
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Uhhhhhhh, I know every phone number too! Need to write that on my resume

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    Dodo
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Bible tells you that you can pray anywhere. So, yeah, churches aren't essential.

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    Sergy Yeltsen
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Has her own built-in flotation devices, too.

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    Green Machine
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They sound like a 'glass if half drowned' kind of person.

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    Rissie
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well. Those questions are rather stoupid.

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    Sue Lynn Chan
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Does anyone have unseen juice?

    Rissie
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes well that whole sick don't eat me joke they've been throwing at us for decades was not appealing to begin with

    A
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That took a dark-yet-accurate turn.

    Glirpy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Siolent Caramel is people!

    Mariya Stoyanova
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Like Donald Duck eating a Thanksgiving turkey

    Elijah Aurora
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    their ripping up their orange friend...

    Tobias the Tiger
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love Caramel M&Ms, but every time I see the packaging I can't help but think of this. At least the orange M&M appears non-sentient, but I don't know if that makes it better...

    Claire Armstrong
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And there is a sweet I will never be trying!

    TimesNewLogan
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So I'm not the only one who was bothered by this? Whenever a customer bought one of these, I'd look at it and say "...they killed Orange!"

    J F
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually, wouldn't the word between them be like a body part or something?

    Zaza
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't get it. There's a pun I missed or an ad I haven't seen maybe? Is this something I missed or am I just dense for not seeing it?

    Merry Nordeen
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The joke is that the two M&M characters are pulling apart an M&M. So the two guys are pulling apart a guy.

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    RandomX123
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Okay, but what about the next question?

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    TheWickedOne
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What about 22nd... don't those count?

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    ravina nimje
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They can be picky eaters, like what if they only keep on eating bacon forever. I bet 600 pounds is a small number.

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    Sue Lynn Chan
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So it's hot outside when you go outside and it's hot?

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    Springy boi
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Captain Jack Harkness (doctor who character)

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    Robert T
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Jeff, Audrey, Brian, Clare, Mike and Cherie. :D

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    Vicky Z
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't ask for more details you don't wanna know

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    Dodo
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My computer won't go without Windows

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    Devil's Advocate
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't forget the words that are spelt the same, but pronounced differently. Or the words that are pronounced the same, but spelt differently. Basically, the English language is Sean Bean

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    elSti
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    technically untrue. you can be smaller than a whale and bigger than another whale. So the 2nd biggest whale in the universe surely defeats this one as there are for sure no whaleS bigger than it.

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    Jon S.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The average human has less than two legs

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    Anthony
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, with a trouser about to take a nose dive to the ground, I'll not bother

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    ravina nimje
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    we went from 2019 to 2021 in Just a week or less. Everything feels like yesterday at this point.

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    Ross Keim
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe, depends on the age of your followers, I’m sure atleast 1 could make it to 106-110 years old

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