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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Counterpoint: The punchline is so blindingly obvious that explaining the joke would ruin it

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I'm sort of amused to think they had been calling themselves "Bedbugs" all along, but never really having any direction in life until this very moment. I'm not a great historian, but I seem to recall in some previous post of this ancient comic the word bedbug was in there, somewhere.