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If finding parallels is the game, then this Twitter account is the winner.

It's called "True, I Guess..." and it shares — you guessed it — pictures of things that are technically true. It sounds simple, but believe me, just a couple of its tweets can make you question both your existence and the world around you.

Are nightmares dreams? Or free horror movies that you produce, direct, and star in? Do you have a skeleton inside you? Or are you (the brain) inside of a skeleton?

Continue scrolling and you tell me!

A few months ago, my colleague Jonas wrote a piece on a subreddit with the same kind of energy as this Twitter account. Check it out if you haven't already!

Back then, Jonas compared these "obvious" remarks to dad jokes and I gotta say, I probably agree. Dad jokes are simultaneously beloved and maligned, deeply ingrained in the intimacies of family life, and yet universal and public enough to have a cult following.

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Ross Keim
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One of my fav memes was when trump tweeted stop the count, and someone replied a picture of the count going ah-ah-ah

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

By hitting a window with your bare fist in the regular manly fashion of course

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If there's one thing that describes dad jokes, it's wordplay. You know it goes, "Hey, do you know what time my dentist appointment is? Tooth-hurty." "Why do they always build fences around cemeteries? Because people are dying to get in." 

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Stanley Dubinsky, an English professor at the University of South Carolina and the father of two young-adult sons, is a real enthusiast of dad jokes, mostly of the non-pun variety; he likes to deliberately mispronounce words sometimes, just to hear his kids groan and scoff exasperatedly. 

"I take a little bit of perverse pleasure in causing them some embarrassment when I speak," Dubinsky said. "Your kids are embarrassed by you anyway, so the next best thing [to them laughing in earnest at your jokes] is to level with that."

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But Dubinsky is also a linguist and the co-author of the book Understanding Language Through Humor, and as he explains it, there's a particular type of wordplay that gives a joke the dubious distinction of being a dad joke.

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"Most jokes rely on some semantic ambiguity or grammatical ambiguity. The things people call dad jokes are the ones where the ambiguity is crushingly obvious," he explained.

Which is also the case here!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We live in strange times. I was gonna write his profile picture is perfect for this quote, because of the simultaneously smart and goofy face he's making. But then I thought people would think I meant because he's black. That made me a little sad.

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Dodo
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Bible tells you that you can pray anywhere. So, yeah, churches aren't essential.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is like the Miss Universe contest. Lacking participants from the rest of the Universe.

Alex
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pluto may have been disqualified, but they'll still let them compete as long as they call them the plutanian olympic committee.

Mazer
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We are banned from all other planets due to the way we treat this one

Id row
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If the Olympics occur on Mars and no one is there to see it, did it really happen?

Jessie Zhang
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love how they put "disqualified" on top of Pluto's data bar, but it makes me a little sad because Pluto is no longer a planet...

Mariya Stoyanova
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We cannot possibly know that. Are we assuming the Martians are incapable of having their own Olympics?

Kittypanda
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pluto saying disqualified above is kinda sad but also funny at the same time XD

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Victor
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is how we should be thinking about all world problems. Not "If country X is still burning coal, then our country is not going to stop either."

nick slinn
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Earth, f*ck yeah! Comin' again to save the m**********n' day, yeah

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Nicholas McShane
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Countries of the world who win the World Series Baseball would make a similar graph

Radek Suski
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's still better than world championship in a sport only one country is taking serious enough to participate in it. For some reason always organised in the same country

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Nicola Roberts
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If I've learnt nothing in the last 30 years, it's Vulcan has us beat on most things.

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ravina nimje
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They can be picky eaters, like what if they only keep on eating bacon forever. I bet 600 pounds is a small number.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't forget the words that are spelt the same, but pronounced differently. Or the words that are pronounced the same, but spelt differently. Basically, the English language is Sean Bean

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elSti
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

technically untrue. you can be smaller than a whale and bigger than another whale. So the 2nd biggest whale in the universe surely defeats this one as there are for sure no whaleS bigger than it.

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Anthony
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, with a trouser about to take a nose dive to the ground, I'll not bother

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ravina nimje
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

we went from 2019 to 2021 in Just a week or less. Everything feels like yesterday at this point.

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Ross Keim
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe, depends on the age of your followers, I’m sure atleast 1 could make it to 106-110 years old

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