Monks did most of the writing and artwork.
Monks main diet was brassicas.
They grew their own food.
Do the math, it's wish fulfillment
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Brassica, it is ALWAY brassica.
Mate, when a full monastery is blowing the covers off every night to the sound of foghorns i care little for correct plurality
I read their response not as "The correct plural is brassica", but as "Friggin' everything is a brassica cultivar".
If you didn't know: cabbage, kale, broccoli, kohlrabi, brussels sprouts, collard greens and cauliflower are all selectively bred cultivars of the same species.
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I think you're really on to something here, if you don't work in history or something, you should run this by a historian or scholar and see what they think
Explains the rabbits as well! You come up with this on your own?!
Monty Python makes so much more sense now
This makes so much sense, is there any evidence? I don't want to spread the rumor as a fun fact unless there's something behind it. Very fun idea!
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The ones with the rabbits are pretty messed up as well!
Ahhh...this explains the rabbit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
The snails also explain an odd event in Runescape while doing the Temple Trekking minigame. Now that I think it, Runescape also has a historically accurate fascination with Brassicas like Cabbages, which would correlate with a historically accurate aversion to snails.
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That's the kind of thing I doodle in my notepad when I'm bored during a call.
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The exact same thing will happen hundreds of years from now with amogus memes and ~~:.|:;~~
Is there a god damn font character for loss??
Took me a bit to work it out but it's :.|:; with a strike through. Bloody genius haha
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I saw this years ago and I still think it was primitive office humor. Snails ate delicious plants and there were probably monks waging a war against them. The incredulity of fighting so hard against an enemy so weak was funny.
This seems like a plausible explanation, but I'd maybe expect to see a few giant slugs and caterpillars - these are at least as damaging to crops as snails.
Im betting they got all done up in their armor and went to fight in muddy battlefields, and when they were not fighting the enemy they were dealing with snails crawling inside the armor and being all slimy and disgusting crawling between the knights legs and the armor.
The Snail Wars lore has been lost to time
Our DNA never forgets. That's why to this day, every human has an innate and irrepressible fear of snails. It's true.
Well, in France people eat them... It could still be related though...
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A few hundred years from now, historians are going to be equally confused by the horse-sized duck images ...
And why there are so many pictures of bananas next to things.
"We hypothesize that the bananas of the 21st century were a different type, one that grew in a wider range of climates. We're not certain why this breed seem to have randomly fallen from the trees so often, but perhaps it helps explain all these other drawings of inattentive humans slipping on random banana peels as well. ... "
... Actually the lore behind banana peel gags is more interesting than you think. They were a super cheap snack in Victorian London and the bananas they had were the gros Michel cultivar which had really thick slippery peels and a lack of general cuture of actually throwing garbage in the bin meant that a lot of them rotted on the street so early comedy stage acts started using them as a gag because slipping on them was a common sometimes life threatening hazard.
But because art borrows from art the banana peel gag outlasted the cultural problem that sparked it by over a century.
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There was this thing going around my work where people would caption a nuke explosion with a mention of a certain guy using the microwave again. There was an incident with a break room microwave. Now imagine if that survives and a thousand years passes.
We believe the one called Gary was a deity of all things nuclear to these people.
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Not friends of the gentle racing snails? How sad...
Imagine future civilization digging out some of today's memes...
Well, do you see any giant snails around? No? Then thank those knights
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Ye olde memes.
Honestly, it would be amazing if the answer was that large mollusks actually existed and were poorly documented.
And just like... Disintegrated instead of fossilizing
I'm not an expert by ANY means, but I think there needs to be strict conditions to make fossils. I think most bones just eventually turn to dust
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Because they probably had a great sense of humour, comedy clubs and memes back then too, but hey let's ignore that for just a moment to imagine how hardcore a knight you would have to be to fight off Cthulhu snails
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Did they also take that challenge with the immortal snail?
Plot twist: its actually the same person making the snail memes today, yet to be caught and looking for new ways to stay one step ahead of the snail
one step ahead of the snail
I dare say it shouldn't be very hard to stay one step ahead of a snail.
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I think we know the real answer.
Humanity was ruled by giant snails and their hyper intelligent queen, and it was only through the bravery of these fine knights were our shackles cast off and the mollusk menace thrown down.
And, in great effort to hide our collective shame, all knowledge about this was intentionally purged, Save for a few manuscripts who managed to be overlooked or were kept in hiding, so hints of humanities true history would be known.
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Oh dear. I read that as ‘fisting’ at first.
I picked the wrong day to give up sniffing glue.
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"And if you join our ranks today, they never will!"
-Me, while extending my hand out in invitation for YOU READING THIS to join the...
Associated
Society of
Snail
Hunters and
Ancient
Truth
Seekers
...yes, I know. Yes, we're technically the "A.S.S.H.A.T.S."... Yes very funny, okay, have your moment... It's a secret society okay, so it doesn't actually even come up, nobody will know, it's fine.... IT'S FINE.
It's fun to draw. Mine were cowboys fighting snails.
I mean, I would guess dragons were a thing because of dinosaur skulls being found a long time ago. There were also giant dinosaur mollusk shells, so maybe this is the equivalent?
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