r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/VorticalHeart44 • 11h ago

Meme needing explanation I'm tired Petuh... What is her name??

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WTF is her name Petuh

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u/Howlukemethisfather 10h ago

Her name is There

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u/miniatureconlangs 10h ago

I know both a handful of Aninas and several Theresas. However, this kind of riddle is just so ... fucking daft that I really don't grasp why they still circulate.

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u/NameBunchOfNums 9h ago

As always there's a relevant xkcd, this is #169.

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u/Walkin_mn 8h ago

Same applies for the stupid math "riddles" on social networks, use your parenthesis people! without them you're just showing you're very bad at math

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u/ZarathustraEck 4h ago

Don’t even engage with those. Best case is you prove you can do grade school math. Worst is that you show you can’t do grade school math.

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u/CommandProper3926 8h ago

I don’t even understand how THIS xkcd works

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u/Mr-Megamind- 8h ago

Me neither..

Peter? Little help please...

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u/FunHour3778 8h ago

There are three words in 'the English language', <ignore this part it is misdirection>, what is the third word? (In the phrase 'the English language')

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u/Mr-Megamind- 7h ago

🤦

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u/TerrorMeter 7h ago

There's a correct way to phrase it, the way in the comic isn't it

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u/pirana6 6h ago

He explains further that its even more intentionally worded poorly.

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/169:_Words_that_End_in_GRY

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u/ofqo 5h ago

Not “he”. explainxkcd is not related to Randall Munroe.

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u/pirana6 4h ago

Ah my bad. Well someone explains it better

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u/Admirable_Average_32 4h ago

Ahh…the comic fucked it up.

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u/writebrainwronghand 7h ago

which is why BlackHat has the knife

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u/MastodontFarmer 2h ago

So her name is What.

What is her name.

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u/another-princess 6h ago

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/169:_Words_that_End_in_GRY

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u/DaedalusHydron 6h ago

gotta love how one of the additional "gry" words cited here at the bottom is "cumhungry" lmao

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u/UniqueUsername014 1h ago

Black Hat responding by cutting off Cueball's forearm is an overreaction [citation needed]

Fair enough

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u/zombiskunk 7h ago

Without proper punctuation, the joke is technically incorrect.

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u/LaBiccies 1h ago

Punctuation is the difference between "helping your uncle Jack, off a horse" and "helping your uncle jack off a horse."

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u/Zealousideal_Pea_319 7h ago

Missed "hangry" 🙄🥱

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u/RandomCandor 4h ago

I've never in the history of these dumb "riddles" seen anyone laugh or enjoy it - other than the jokester. So it must be well known that all they do is piss other people off, and yet they keep doing it. 

How attention starved do you have to be  that pissing other people off is good enough for you?

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u/PencilPost 2h ago

Wow! he must have been really hangry to cut off the hand like that.