Shortly after returning to Liminal Space

[bite_the_hand]

Why the fuck are there balls made of feet!? These creepy-ass things are damn weird even for Liminal Space!

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[eldritchwheelies]

I'm pretty sure it's a joke about football but honestly, big mood.

[bite_the_hand]

I don't know what football is, but I'm guessing it's not normally a ball made of feet?

[At least he's really hoping it's not normally a literal ball of feet.]

[eldritchwheelies]

It's normally a game with a ball that you kick.

Foot, meet ball.

[bite_the_hand]

Wait, you mean these things are supposed to be some kind of pun!?

[haveabiscuit]

I believe it's a pun. One can never seem to escape comedians.

[bite_the_hand]

It's a really shitty pun because it's not funny, it's gross. Or are "comedians" supposed to tell jokes this bad?

[haveabiscuit]

Ideally they would tell jokes that are actually funny.

Many people incapable of that fancy themselves comedians all the same.

[bite_the_hand]

I guess if they're set on it the practice will have to make them better eventually. In this case I hope their timing is the first thing to improve. Balls of severed limbs aren't a welcome sight any time, but it's worse after a Jaunt like that.

[haveabiscuit]

Timing is usually the most important aspect of a joke.

Which probably means they'll be the last to grasp it.

[bite_the_hand]

Good point. I hadn't thought of it like that.

[claudiometer]

Strong agree, dude.

Presumably they're here because a rose bowl needs footballs, but strong agree.

[bite_the_hand]

...What do bowls full of roses have to do with balls that you kick? And wouldn't a vase make more sense to hold flowers than a bo-

[There's a short pause as realization finally hits him.]

Wait, are you telling me this entire glitching Liminal Space is one giant, shitty pun!?

[claudiometer]

Most likely. If Emperor Emperor hadn't seen himself out I'd accuse him of presenting this much of a Dad Joke, but the roses make it a little obvious.

The Rose Bowl is a big-deal football game. Oblong football, not round football. [No, she doesn't know why both games are called football.] Comes with a giant parade, and I think the parade is the main reason naming rights for the game haven't been bought out for corporate sponsorship, but that's an unrelated pile of bullshit. The displays in the parade all have to be decorated entirely with flower parts to get in.

[bite_the_hand]

That's stupid. If it's oblong it's not a ball.

[It's not clear whether he missed implication that there's two versions of 'football', or is he's just too frustrated to comment on it at this point.]

[claudiometer]

I didn't name it, dude. Don't ask me.

[bite_the_hand]

But you at least agree it's stupid? It's not just me that thinks that?

[seestheworld]

That's an American thing, right?

[claudiometer]

It is, yeah. I gave Eren the short version.

[seestheworld]

Thought so. It didn't really sound like the other kind.

[claudiometer]

Not so much, no.

There's some bullshit that goes along with it where only certain schools can even get into the game, because college football leans too much into regional grouping for its tournament stuff, but that's really not here or there.

[razorblade_empress]

Because it's a shitty pun and Magician's knowledge of language and communication and shit like that mostly seems to come from Earth popular culture, because her one attempt at getting formal instruction apparently backfired spectacularly.

[bite_the_hand]

Isn't the Magician's idiom supposed to include knowledge or intelligence or something like that? You'd think she'd find a way to communicate that people not from Earth could understand.

[razorblade_empress]

From what she said, she couldn't pass as the same species as her instructor, and got herself and 'basically everyone else' in a lot of trouble.

[bite_the_hand]

Wow, she must be even worse at subtlety than I was when I first got here.

[And this is coming from the guy that accidentally transformed into a Titan on one of his earlier Jaunts.]

[razorblade_empress]

I get the feeling that whatever subtlety she has is... really situational. But she also said this was a long time ago.