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[–] [email protected] 79 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

The original, unmodified text, for those who care:

The horngus of a dongfish, which is attached by a scungle to a kind of dillsack (the nutte sac).^[420]^

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

This cannot be real

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Horngus of a Dongfish is something different. What is the abomination in the picture?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Really not that much different, to be honest

[–] [email protected] 91 points 3 months ago (4 children)

This is also fake. Those are all incorrect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

This is a joke

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

We just haven't found the real one yet.

It's prophetic

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Please don't take this from me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Be better about recognizing obviously fake shit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Be better at having a sense of humor, chum.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

The current Wikipedia entry doesn't even have the same picture (text checks out though).