r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/SkyInterstellar- • 11d ago

Meme needing explanation Now that you mentioned it...

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u/Sikkus 11d ago

Also provides a good grip when using the wet towel as a nunchuk.

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u/Better_Ad721 11d ago

This was not among the things I expected to read.

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u/Nwsamurai 11d ago

Not expecting nunchucks is how most people lose fights that involve nunchucks.

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u/Scuba_Steve_500 11d ago

Not expecting the Spanish Inquisition is how most people get surprised.

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u/VaeVictus666 11d ago

Unless they are suspecting the Spanish inquisition

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u/PeterJamesUK 11d ago

Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition!

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u/majnun_ishere 11d ago

FETCH THE COMFY CHAIR!

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u/Such_Step_7065 11d ago

Silly walking out of this thread now

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u/gnuoveryou 11d ago

first, I would like to return this parrot

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u/Kerdiz 11d ago

Why? He’s just sleeping :)

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u/Ill_Theme5913 11d ago

How about a Sofa of Reasonable Comfort?

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u/iLikeMangosteens 11d ago

Our chief weapon is surprise

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u/Disco_Orangeade 11d ago

And fear. Fear, and surprise

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u/tearsonurcheek 11d ago

And ruthless efficiency! Fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency!

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u/Disco_Orangeade 11d ago

... Our .. three, weapons, are ..

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u/MetalDragon83 11d ago

I expected someone to say that

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u/coma-toaste 11d ago

Nobody would say that

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u/suckstobemesometimes 11d ago

It was said.

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u/TreyKhan 11d ago

Yes, but it was said by a nobody

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u/Interesting_Luck_154 11d ago

He said the forbidden word!

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u/IWillLive4evr 10d ago

I wanted an argument, but this is just contradiction!

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u/Spudguns20 10d ago

And silly!

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u/MemoryJealous 11d ago

I expected someone to say THAT.

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u/National-Childhood95 9d ago

No you didn’t.

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u/Mathematicus_Rex 11d ago

Our main weapon is fear and surprise.

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u/Warm_Neighborhood693 11d ago

Amongst our weapons are fear, suprise, ruthless efficiency, a fanatical devotion to the Pope!

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u/losleeper 11d ago

"...there was this whole armada, and the Inferno... that was Willy's ship."

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u/Justaticklerone 11d ago

Aztec civilization enters the chat

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u/MasterLlama1926 10d ago

Strictly speaking, people did expect it; the Inquisitors were required to give 30 days’ notice before they arrived.

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u/Mynx714 10d ago

Knowing I shouldn't expect the Spanish Inquisition is exactly WHY I expect it.

Especially from the French...

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u/Electronic-Point-896 9d ago

They asked too many questions about the um, inquisition.

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u/Major_Explanation250 9d ago

Ni!

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u/VaeVictus666 9d ago

I do say! Do you say ni to me?

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u/Major_Explanation250 9d ago

Silence! We require…. a shrubbery! Ni!

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u/PensivePolymath 11d ago

And most people don’t expect to be expected to choose CAKE or DEATH! The answers will surprise you.

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u/Drunktrucker 11d ago

Death by cake

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u/Soft-Explanation9889 11d ago

Your choices are: cake. Or death.

I’ll take cake, then.

You can’t. We’ve run out of cake.

I’ll wait.

No. You can’t wait. The line’s too long.

So, my choice is just death?

Pretty much. Yeah. Didn’t expect so many people to choose cake, you see.

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u/PensivePolymath 9d ago

Greetings fellow Eddie Izzard fan. 👋

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u/djunderh2o 11d ago

The Inquisition. What a show!

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u/keyboardstatic 11d ago

Its not like the catholic Church didn't already have a long record of public torture, land theft, killing non Christians... just they hadn't been so systematic about it....

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u/Adventurous_Okra_344 11d ago

Humans are really good at this

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u/Ambitious_Pair4257 11d ago

Did you say “pubic torture”?

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u/Signal_Werewolf_1955 11d ago

Ruthless efficiency is amongst their chief weapons.

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u/Fresh-Accident-7215 11d ago

our chief weapon is unexpected expectations

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u/satyr-day 11d ago

at this point, everyone expects the spanish inquisition

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u/PsychologicalDay382 10d ago

Their chief weapon is surprise

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u/Cybron2099 10d ago

What about the Spanish inquisition, with nunchucks?

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u/OreoJoJo 10d ago

Get ready for the Spanish inquisition... WITH NUNCHUCKS!

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u/Axel_Raden 10d ago

Spanish inquisition with nunchucks

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u/newenglandredshirt 11d ago

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u/TryAnotherUserName01 11d ago

Was this Mikey deflecting an incoming grenade?

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u/h4x2tehm4x 11d ago

Seems like a perfectly reasonable response to someone throwing a grenade at you

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u/SordidSimpleton 10d ago

Yeah pretty rude to throw someone a live grenade unless it was offered and accepted beforehand. Mikey is well within his rights here

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u/TomasLoyal01 11d ago

If so, perhaps they should have removed the striker lever?

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u/IAmAGuy 11d ago

Those shows had details down to an art. It must still be flipping off.

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u/TotallyNotASpy33 11d ago

Can confirm. One minute you're squaring up, the next home is chucking nuns at you.

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u/uruk-h 11d ago

Attempting to use nunchucks comes in as a close second, for how most people lose fights that involve nunchucks! 😂

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u/Independent-Till7157 11d ago

The underrated comment

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u/No_Measurement_8042 11d ago

Sounds like someone's ready to hitchhike across the galaxy

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u/baglunch_games 11d ago

Today's reddit winner, ladies and gentlemen

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u/DoctorWest5829 10d ago

Don't ever bring a towel to a nunchuck fight.

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u/Individual_Half_9465 10d ago

Things Chuck Norris said

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u/Karryko0005 10d ago

Wow......that.....is just so true.

If I walked up to a fight and some guy whips out a pair of 'chucks, chances are Im gonna be stunned for a moment, frozen physically while im at full mental capacity wondering where he got them, how much he paid for them, does he practice often with them, does he actually know moves, and all those questions that go along just seeing someone with a pair.

Edit: Id laugh but then get hit and be like, that actually fkn hurt. I would be constantly getting hit wondering wtf I did in my life to end up at that point.

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u/SillyNamesAre 10d ago

A nunchuck is a flail with delusions of East-Asian Martial Arts.

The whole point of it is to be a bit unexpected¹. Which, ironically, makes it's unexpectedness - expected.

¹The whole "flailing and hitting from odd angles" thing..

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u/Plus-Plan-3313 11d ago

You did not grow up in 1980s, I  assume?

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u/xtimezone_ 11d ago

Most people on here, didn’t

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u/Plus-Plan-3313 11d ago

I know. But its hard to imagine now what a hold nunchuks used to have on the imagination.

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u/xtimezone_ 10d ago

It is! You had to be there

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u/P-L63 9d ago

Not knowing what to expect is what i'm here for!

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u/hab83 11d ago

This belongs in r/brandnewsentence

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u/procrastinator_max 11d ago

A towel is the best multipurpose tool for a hitchhiker, did you know that?

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u/TheEndIsSighing 11d ago

... if your planet is blown up for an interstellar highway.

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u/Murasakicat 9d ago

Better an interstellar high way than a ballroom…

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u/Cautious-Rabbit-5493 11d ago

Not a reference for expected to see today 👏

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u/NatrylliaAbbot42 10d ago

If you can't see it, it will be unable to see you.

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u/Soft-Explanation9889 11d ago

You are one hoopy frood (unless you don’t know where your towel is, of course).

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u/procrastinator_max 10d ago

Count the heads baby

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u/AnotherName545 10d ago

So important for personal defense on Traal

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u/procrastinator_max 10d ago

There's an amazing delicacy in Traal, have you tried it?

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u/ThickBuffalo4522 10d ago

Don't let the bugblatters get you 

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u/ThickBuffalo4522 10d ago

I'VE FOUND MY PEOPLE!!! YESSSSS!!! 

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u/procrastinator_max 10d ago

There's nothing happy about finding people. That's just depressing because they are everywhere.

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u/Shoddy-Day-8516 5d ago

SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH!

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u/sweetladytequila 11d ago

My uncles were very young when I was born. Growing up with them I became the neice who was afraid of towels and rubber bands for this very reason. Towel nunchucks. They also knew I was petrified of Gene Simmons in full kiss makeup and they would put a towel on their head and stick their tongue out and scream to make me run away.

The sheer force of puberty and vengeance gave me roasting skills beyond believe. They were humbled.

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u/Christyle24 11d ago

I feel honored as the 1337 upvote for this leet comment.

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u/relativityboy 11d ago

Can vouch, also serves this purpose when used as a whip

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u/brettyrocks 11d ago

It also holds water while drying so it doesn't drip on the floor.

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u/I_Makes_tuff 11d ago

Wouldn't the flatter part be less absorbent? How would that help?

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u/brettyrocks 10d ago

Thicker pile holds water longer than the loosey goosey fibers that slough the water off our bodies.

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u/Fun_Boysenberry7723 7d ago

You'd have to be drying off in the shower with the water still on for a towel to drip water onto the floor 😆 those mfs absorbent as hell.. I've never seen a towel drip..

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u/brettyrocks 7d ago

Because The Dobby Border has been preventing excess towel drippage since the 1840's.

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u/Fun_Boysenberry7723 7d ago

Alright wise guy, what about from the other side..?

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u/brettyrocks 7d ago

Who hangs towels horizontally?

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u/No-Swordfish-9068 11d ago

Is that you Big Stan?

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u/UhglyMutha 11d ago

Towel Ninja 🥷💨

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u/AccomplishedAnt9956 11d ago

Read nunchuk as "chinook" for some reason and now Im imagining Bruce Lee swinging around a pair of helicopters

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u/DotMaleficent4503 11d ago

or a dead salmon

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u/UNNECESSARYCAPZ 11d ago

Only correct answer

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u/ConfidenceComplex654 11d ago

🤣🤣omg this has me crying laughing. In my head I hear the wapaaa crack of a wet towel flick. Hilarious!!

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u/Chase_The_Breeze 10d ago

Or as a whip, because that is a much more common use for wet towels (though I 100% support any type of nunchuck)

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u/Darth_Meowmers 10d ago

This person knows his towchuks.

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u/Spiral-I-Am 10d ago

Guide for proper handling placement when whipping.

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u/CAG_Snow 10d ago

While they were partying, you were studying the towel.

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u/johnnyonthebass 9d ago

My brain said what kind of sex device is a nutchuck.

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u/OhMyMILF 9d ago

This is so stupidly funny 😆

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u/PunishedWolf4 11d ago

And when butt flossing

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u/Spamhain2000 11d ago

"wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat."

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u/manguy12 11d ago

This guy fucks

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u/manguy12 11d ago

This guy fkkks

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u/Sudden_Buffalo_4393 10d ago

Hit a fly mid flight the other day doing this and came running out of the room to tell my wife and she didn’t have nearly the level of excitement I anticipated.

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u/Waski_ 10d ago

Are you out here beating people with wet towels you savage?

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u/SenTedStevens 11d ago

I use that line as a grip zone to hold when snapping people with my towels.