196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone sidekickplayah @lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 mo. ago

Two Sentence Rule

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Thats gotta be the worst one i have seen so far wow. Whats the opposite of a punchline?
- I think it's a reference to cyanide smelling like almonds. In particular I remember a Jodi Foster movie The little Girl who lives down the Lane where Jodi poisons a rapist. He says, "It tastes like almonds." as he drinks the tea. Jodi Foster says, "It's the almond extract." knowing it's the cyanide.
  
  So the punchline is setup to be something about poison but gets subverted by the hand grenade.
  
  Theeeere u gooo. And now i look stupid :D Thank you for enlightening us!
  
  Found the clip for anyone interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bds6OYX85gA
  
  Tiny detail, its "the almond cookies"
  
  Oh I got the cyanide reference. Still sucks as a two-sentence horror. Would better suit the plethora of antijoke subs.
- It's an anti-joke. I love it.
  
  For real, this is gold. Read in Norm Macdonald's voice for maximum comedic effect.
  
  Two go through a tunnel. Says the third to the fourth: You, I think we're five. Says the sixth: I don't get it.
- Cyanide smells (and maybe tastes?) like almonds. For people aware of this there is a subversion of expectation. It isn't particularly good joke but taken satirically it's alright.
  
  Smells like bitter almonds, which smell like bleach.
  
  https://youtu.be/WYagO-nup6c?si=WdDJy3PP1yDw8wAl. (I really hope I'm remembering the contents of this video correctly, because if I wasn't, that would be embarrassing, but I don't have the time to check right now)
  
  I have tasted it
  
  it smells like it but it tastes like lye without the sodium taste
  
  What's the purpose of the grenade then? He poisoned her, then blew up with a grenade. Why?
- It's called an anti-joke and I found it funny. It was obviously set up that way by the poster.
  
  Nah turns out its actually a very smart joke, see Blue_Morpho's reply and my follow up.
- hugpoint?
- Reminds me of the worst opening line contest.
  
  https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/
  
  2023s winner:
  
  She was a beautiful woman; more specifically she was the kind of beautiful woman who had an hourlong skincare routine that made her look either ethereal or like a glazed donut, depending on how attracted to her you were.
  
  I unironically like this
- naw this is gold
- How are you on 196 and unfamiliar with shitposts
- It's like the Bulwer-Lytton (writer known for terrible cliche writing, who people intentionally mimic in jest) of two sentence horror.
- I would say the opposite of a punchline is throwing a grenade at a motherfucker
- I genuinely thought it was hilarious. The first sentence is the setup, while the second delivers a misdirection and finishes on an absurd conclusion.
- I call it non-medy
  
  thank you :)
  
  Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  
  non-medy
  
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Why would he slide the pin across the floor? That’s the real horror.
- To advertise to her he's gonna blow himself up. She's already got the cyanide, he's still gotta make a statement
2 second horror is gonna be a gold mine when ai movie generators drop
- Isn't there or wasn't there a TV series based on Two Sentence Horror already?
- Lights Out (2013).
For the people who don't know cyanide supposedly smells or tastes like almonds.
- They smell like bitter almonds, which smell very different than the sweet almonds most people are used to. https://youtu.be/WYagO-nup6c?si=E_O44PHdOrSZanX3
  
  Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  
  https://piped.video/WYagO-nup6c?si=E_O44PHdOrSZanX3
  
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
- I thought it was arsenic.
- HCN smells like ~~burnt~~ almonds. Not sure about the taste.
  
  Edit: bitter, not burnt.
One of the best 2 sentence horror stories i've read
Plot twist, his wife was a creature.
Doesn't arsenic supposedly taste like almond?
- I think it's cyanide but honestly I've never checked.
  
  Actually I have both, let me go check it real quick.
I think it's a reference to cyanide smelling like almonds. In particular I remember a Jodi Foster movie The little Girl who lives down the Lane where Jodi poisons a rapist. He says, "It tastes like almonds." as he drinks the tea. Jodi Foster says, "It's the almond extract." knowing it's the cyanide.

So the punchline is setup to be something about poison but gets subverted by the hand grenade.
- Well, to be precise, certain types of almonds. Actually, the reason those species of almonds taste/smell like cyanide is actually because they contain higher than normal amounts of cyanide, so really, it's cyanide that tastes like cyanide.
- This comment said:
  
  I think it's a reference to cyanide smelling like almonds. In particular I remember a Jodi Foster movie The little Girl who lives down the Lane where Jodi poisons a rapist. He says, "It tastes like almonds." as he drinks the tea. Jodi Foster says, "It's the almond extract." knowing it's the cyanide.
  
  So the punchline is setup to be something about poison but gets subverted by the hand grenade.
Kinda like the end of Psycho II.

"You sure you won't have a sandwich?" SPANG

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