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[–] db2 39 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Escape goat is probably a Trailer Park Boys reference, some of us just like to deliberately mispronounce things in an ironic manner too.

[–] jaybone 4 points 1 day ago

Getting two birds stoned at once.

[–] Wooki 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Scapegoat

Escape the goat

Rest assured we are trying to escape the goat and minimising the damage to our reputation.

[–] tabular 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] db2 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

That goat crawled through 500 yards of shit and came out clean on the other side

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Literally the etymology though. 'scape instead of escape is the original "mispronunciation" otherwise it's just a straight-forward translation of Azazel, the goat which escaped in Levictus 16.