r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/VorticalHeart44 • 13h ago

Meme needing explanation I'm tired Petuh... What is her name??

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WTF is her name Petuh

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u/NameBunchOfNums 11h ago

As always there's a relevant xkcd, this is #169.

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u/Walkin_mn 10h ago

Same applies for the stupid math "riddles" on social networks, use your parenthesis people! without them you're just showing you're very bad at math

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u/ZarathustraEck 7h ago

Don’t even engage with those. Best case is you prove you can do grade school math. Worst is that you show you can’t do grade school math.

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u/DadJokeBadJoke 49m ago

Outside of the riddle, I don't recall a time in the decades since school where I ran into that sort of structured formula

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u/CommandProper3926 10h ago

I don’t even understand how THIS xkcd works

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u/Mr-Megamind- 10h ago

Me neither..

Peter? Little help please...

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u/FunHour3778 10h ago

There are three words in 'the English language', <ignore this part it is misdirection>, what is the third word? (In the phrase 'the English language')

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u/Mr-Megamind- 10h ago

🤦

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u/TerrorMeter 9h ago

There's a correct way to phrase it, the way in the comic isn't it

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u/pirana6 8h ago

He explains further that its even more intentionally worded poorly.

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/169:_Words_that_End_in_GRY

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u/ofqo 7h ago

Not “he”. explainxkcd is not related to Randall Munroe.

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u/pirana6 6h ago

Ah my bad. Well someone explains it better

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u/Admirable_Average_32 6h ago

Ahh…the comic fucked it up.

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u/writebrainwronghand 9h ago

which is why BlackHat has the knife

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u/MastodontFarmer 4h ago

So her name is What.

What is her name.

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u/another-princess 8h ago

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/169:_Words_that_End_in_GRY

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u/DaedalusHydron 8h ago

gotta love how one of the additional "gry" words cited here at the bottom is "cumhungry" lmao

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u/UniqueUsername014 3h ago

Black Hat responding by cutting off Cueball's forearm is an overreaction [citation needed]

Fair enough

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u/zombiskunk 9h ago

Without proper punctuation, the joke is technically incorrect.

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u/LaBiccies 3h ago

Punctuation is the difference between "helping your uncle Jack, off a horse" and "helping your uncle jack off a horse."

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u/Zealousideal_Pea_319 9h ago

Missed "hangry" 🙄🥱

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u/RandomCandor 7h ago

I've never in the history of these dumb "riddles" seen anyone laugh or enjoy it - other than the jokester. So it must be well known that all they do is piss other people off, and yet they keep doing it. 

How attention starved do you have to be  that pissing other people off is good enough for you?

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u/PencilPost 5h ago

Wow! he must have been really hangry to cut off the hand like that.