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If a leaf leaves leaves, why doesn't a calf calve calves?

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[–] Quicky 17 points 1 week ago

Because cows calve calves

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

A leaf doesn't leave leaves, so the initial premise is wrong.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How does a leaf leaves leaves? What am I missing here?

[–] INeedMana 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

~~There's a bunch of leaves. Wind blows. One leaf gets blown away. It leaves the leaves~~

Haiku version:
There’s a bunch of leaves
Wind blows. One gets blown away
It leaves the leaves

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Thank you and nice haiku

[–] Szyler 0 points 1 week ago

It's a showerthought about the English spellings being fucked.

You read read as read, and not as read.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

And yet the woodchuck still chucks wood...

[–] not_woody_shaw 4 points 1 week ago

Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo... I'm not sure how many I'm supposed to write, did I do enough yet?

[–] INeedMana 2 points 1 week ago

Because no no no

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

A tree leaves leaves like a cow calves calves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Because that's how you wash your Reaver Speer.