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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to memes@piefed.worldEnglish · 20 days ago

Hwat were the 90s like?

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Hwat were the 90s like?

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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to memes@piefed.worldEnglish · 20 days ago
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    20 days ago

    So, I was thinking that the original joke was in a peanut brittle can, which got me to look it up. This prank has a Wikipedia page! Apparently, the original prank was in a jam jar.

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      That’s how they used to spice it up until the market fell out of the snakes-in-cans business.

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        19 days ago

        How’s the chewing gum/mouse trap game? I assume the click-pen/grill starter gag ate into sale of those too.

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      Man that is a Wikipedia page desperately in need of a video, or at least some images.

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      I don’t remember who had one, my grandma probably, that thing can go in so many places…

      Bzoiiing!!!

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      Lol nobody could come up with a better name than “snake nut can”?

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        it’s a snake. in a nut can. you do better.

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      the snake nut can is one of the only practical jokes ive ever successfully deployed

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        I bet you could successfully deploy a fart machine.

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          18 days ago

          i would never. except for the natural one, that one is deployed always

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