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!

Comments

[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.

[claudiometer]

Strong agree, dude.

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

[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?

[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.

[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.

[seestheworld]

That's an American thing, right?

[claudiometer]

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

[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.]

[seestheworld]

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

[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.

[claudiometer]

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

[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.

[seestheworld]

Sounds very... needlessly complicated.

[haveabiscuit]

Ideally they would tell jokes that are actually funny.

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

[claudiometer]

It is, kinda. Might've worked out better before air travel let things get really national, but... it's kind of a mess. I know enough to know it's a mess and that's about it.

[seestheworld]

You know better than me, at least. We've got the X-League and... that's pretty much all I can remember about American football in Japan.

[claudiometer]

Can't say I'm surprised it didn't catch on.

And no, I don't know why we call it football when hardly anyone kicks the damn thing.

[seestheworld]

...Did they used to kick the thing more, maybe?

[claudiometer]

I don't think so. It's always been a little closer to rugby than soccer. Now with 3000 percent more concussion disorders, and all that.