• Hegar@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    Ok, I’ll be the first: can someone explain this?

    The soldiers are roman so it can’t be a hapsburg chin joke. The jawbone wielder has a prominent jaw himself, which feels like the set up, but if so I’m missing the punchline.

    • ShadyGrove@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      It’s from the story of Samson in the Bible.

      The quote goes something like this:

      Then Samson said, “With a donkey’s jawbone I have made donkeys of them. With a donkey’s jawbone I have killed a thousand men.”