Who would win? (media.mstdn.social)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
 

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Alt Text: A cartoon illustration of three men each carrying different items, a rock, paper, and scissors, meeting at a crossroads. Caption reads "It was the historic, first-time, meeting of Roe, Sham, and Bo."

Who would win?

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[–] 52 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

I first heard the term "Ro sham bo" from South Park where the game was taking turns kicking each other in the nuts and the first one to flinch loses. It wasn't until years later I saw it associated with Rock, Paper, Scissors.

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago

    Rock is on a side road so has to stop.

    Scissors and paper go first, scissors cuts paper, then rock breaks scissors.

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    The one guy just walks around all day carrying a big-ass rock everywhere he goes? I think he could probably take the other two in a fight, then

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Is the Roe Sham Bo bit an American thing?

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  • [–] [B] 12 points 9 months ago

    Rochambeau was a French general for the American revolution. There is no evidence the nick name for rock, paper, scissors has any relationship with the actual man. Janken(rock, paper, scissors) came to America in the 20th century by Japanese immigrants. Roshambo is slang from the West Coast of the US. First evidence of the term was 1936 in Oakland.

    Maybe it was named after the general, maybe it's a coincidence, we don't know.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Whoever goes second would win.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    No one would go. They know who ever goes first loses to their weakness. So they dare not go first, but not going at all is also a lose. Thus a forever stalemate.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    The guy with the big fucking rock is strong, that rock has a lot of inertia, by he gets one shot then he's strong and unarmed

    The guy with the scissors will win, if he survives the first shot with the rock.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    The madman running around with scissors obviously has an intimidation factor here.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Paper guy is the most screwed. He better be a fast runner.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Why does paper beat rock?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Let's assume that they should have colours and that the three colours picture here are the correct ones, then, IMO, Ro should be red and carrying a rock, Sham should be yellow and carrying the scissors, and Bo should be blue and carrying the paper.

    It's not clear who is who here, but they don't fit with my colour-item pairings.

    Reasoning: Sham is vaguely like French "jaune" which is yellow. B and P are related sounds. There's a bit more to it but the rest is mostly obvious.

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