Tries out for Samuel Beckett Play, is cast as Godot

August 3, 2015 5:38 PM

25 Jokes Only Book Nerds Will Understand. Yes, it's a listsicle. But it's a good listsicle.
posted by orange swan (12 comments total)

The tiny tiny links to the original sources really make this listicle work!
posted by mr_roboto at 5:44 PM on August 3, 2015

can someone please explain the lime one? and the ice one?
i'm just a scientist
edit: oh, it's amy in little women (sez google). but i still don't get it.
posted by andrewcooke at 5:51 PM on August 3, 2015

Argh, this listicle got me all excited thinking the pictures for sad children archive was back up. D:

andrewcooke: I believe the ice one (#18) refers to when, in an attempt to defuse the lynch mob after the man her father is defending in court, Scout brings up the mob leader's legal troubles (in To Kill a Mockingbird).
posted by Quilford at 5:57 PM on August 3, 2015 [1 favorite]

A listsicle is like a popsicle, but instead of paying for it you just toss a teensy light-gray attribution vaguely in the ice-cream truck's direction after you've eaten. Later, when the truck stops coming around because the entire frozen-dessert industry has collapsed, you shrug and say their jingle should've been better optimized for viral sharing
posted by RogerB at 5:58 PM on August 3, 2015 [3 favorites]

In Little Women, there's a passage that relates the tale of how Amy March brings two dozen pickled limes to school as a treat for her friends. One of her classmates (who has been told she won't be getting any limes due to having previously made fun of Amy for her "limeless state") rats her out to the teacher, who has forbidden his students to keep limes in their desks. The teacher then forces Amy to throw the limes out the window and strikes her palm twice with a ruler as well. Amy quits going to that school because of it.
posted by orange swan at 6:00 PM on August 3, 2015 [2 favorites]

I don't get the lime one either
posted by Flashman at 6:00 PM on August 3, 2015

The Murakami one?

Yeah... pretty much. Yeah.
posted by SansPoint at 6:00 PM on August 3, 2015 [1 favorite]

I like Murakami anyway.
posted by SansPoint at 6:00 PM on August 3, 2015 [1 favorite]

Great, now I want pasta, and to whistle.
posted by the uncomplicated soups of my childhood at 6:03 PM on August 3, 2015

"Well That Escalated Quickly" made me LOL
posted by DigDoug at 6:03 PM on August 3, 2015 [2 favorites]

So anyway, Hark A Vagrant and Tom Gauld are pretty great, also some other stuff.
posted by Artw at 6:08 PM on August 3, 2015

The breakdown of Murakami novels omits wells. People spend a lot of time sitting at the bottom of wells in his novels.
posted by misterbee at 6:13 PM on August 3, 2015 [1 favorite]