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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Wait what.. that makes no sense. I haven't seen this movie; was it a satire or like a fourth wall break or some sort of a joke?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 hours ago

Wow, and here I thought the writer of that book, Homer Simpson, didn't exist!!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago

I’m also in possession of original hand-written letters by Jesus Christ himself, inside the original envelope complete with the “par avion” stamp that my neighbour gifted me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago

What’s that about ?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Glasses make you more clever. This is why I wear a higher prescription than I actually need.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

It's okay because when your friend decides to give you a makeover so you can be "hot" they just need to take your glasses off after they fix your hair. It's fine really. No issues at all. Why did you have them on in the first place?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Left end of the bell curve: wow signed first edition of the Illiad is so rare

Middle of the bell curve: haha she's stupid because Homer is from ancient Greece

Right end of the bell curve: wow signed first edition of the Illiad is so rare

(The Illiad as a modern translated work can have multiple editions from an author)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

She obviously meant the first edition Penguin classics paperback.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Actual Right End: that's not what you'd refer to as a first edition of The Illiad, unless you're an idiot

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You say, as you spell 'The Illiad' in English, the earliest instance of which was translated in the 1600s.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago

Nice self report

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Further right of the bell curve than you just to win the silly semantics game you're playing: if you're calling it "The Illiad" and not "Ἰλιάς" you are defacto referring to the book titled "The Illiad" which is the English translation which indeed had a much more recent publication date than the original work.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I can get you a signed edition of the Bible right now as long as you don’t care which company printed it or who signs it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

buy bible, sign out myself, eBay, profit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Or which edition it is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

op said first edition, not signed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

I can do a first edition of the Bible. No guarantees on which edition though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Ok, pick a scroll any scroll

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

They just a word

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago

Alexander Pope.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Do not steal

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

Actual bell curve: a eugenics source book also the basis for Idiocracy so you decide I guess.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Jesus actually wrote a book! I got it, he signed it. His cursive is really becoming

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What's like the coolest, most impressive literary book you can think of? But it has to be something most idiots will recognize.

I don't know, The Iliad?

Awesome. I need a rare book for this screenplay I'm writing. "First edition, signed copy..."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

every copy can be a signed copy, just get a pen

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

This is an AI style blunder.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

That's nothin', can't beat my signed first draft of the Mahabharata, before it was ever even sent to an editor!

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago

To my darling Candy.

All characters portrayed within this book are fictitious and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

Homer.

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