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TranscriptThree panel comic.

Panel 1: Genghis khan is sitting in a throne room. His advisor enters with a fruity drink in hand. The advisor proclaims, “Genghis Khan! I bring a gift from a faraway land!”

Panel 2: he continues, “a ‘strawberry margarita.’” Genghis takes a delicate yet generous sip.

Panel 3: Genghis and his advisor exchange smiles. Genghis says, “yeeooo that’s fire”

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[–] 29 points 1 month ago

“Now bring in my 500 wives”

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    [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Homeboy should have waited til Ogedei was in charge to give that gift

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Frame 4 is a reaction video.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    This is the first time where "fire" hasn't made me cringe to the deepest levels of my soul. It's still bad, but not as bad as I ever expected it to be.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Dumbass. It's liquid not fire.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    A strawberry margarita is out of place in the 1200s, particularly at the khan's court. Did Jimmy buffet go back in time to share margaritas with people, and then someone travelled potentially 1000s of kilometres to give one to the khan, and it's still fresh and frozen?

    So it's a little bit of absurdism, and you don't expect the punchline.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Technically, only the tequila is completely out of place for the time period.

    There are native European strawberries, and triple sec is a distilled orange brandy, and there were stills in China as early as the year 1200.

    The lime juice comes from South East Asia.

    So yeah, replace the tequila and it could almost exist.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    So the punchline is the second frame, and the last one is a hat on a hat?

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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    I think the punchline is just subverted expectations. You'd expect him not to get it, be confused by something so out of place, or overreact with amazement over something so commonplace to us. But in actuality, it's just that a strawberry margarita is always good no matter what time you're in, along with his surprisingly muted and modern response.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    It is funny to imagine Genghis Khan both drinking a margarita and responding like a bro.

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