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17062846

Anonymous Fri Dec 18 16:42:49 2020 No.17062846 [Reply] [Original]

why were those grapes so wrathful

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 18 16:43:13 2020 No.17062849 they failed to catch the fox

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 18 17:30:02 2020 No.17063249 File: 244 KB, 1600x1045, 96555645463.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] ^shrug^

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 18 21:03:22 2020 No.17064599 >>17062846 They were angsty for not being wine yet.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 18 21:07:16 2020 No.17064614 >>17062846 It’s actually the Grapes of Roth (as in, Philip Roth).

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 18 22:56:00 2020 No.17065089 >>17062846 It's a biblical allusion. You've read the Bible, right?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 18 22:57:14 2020 No.17065091 >>17064614 if this were true, there'd be a hell of a lot more masturbation involved

>>	Pop-pop !!sKhVd0ugY0U Fri Dec 18 23:32:19 2020 No.17065247 >>17062846 Because they were youthful, as they grow older they'll learn to 'whine'.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 18 23:54:47 2020 No.17065367 >>17062846 I preferred his later work, The Lemons of Envy and Cucumbers of Lust

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 18 23:57:54 2020 No.17065384 >>17065089 It's actually an allusion to a song which is alluding to a medieval Christian motif which is alluding to the bible.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 18 23:59:07 2020 No.17065391 >>17065367 For me it's the Potatoes of Sloth.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 19 01:41:11 2020 No.17065962 >>17065391 The penultimate Watermelons of Contentment did it for me. Really weighty subject matter.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 19 02:30:06 2020 No.17066126 >>17062846 They wanted to be stomped by a barefoot woman

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 19 05:16:42 2020 No.17066732 >>17066126 Don't we all brother.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 19 05:49:05 2020 No.17066887 >thread based and r e d p l i e d

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 19 05:55:23 2020 No.17066917 File: 28 KB, 329x500, 41le8ej-fiL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17062846 Why is the new world so brave?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 19 06:02:52 2020 No.17066945 >>17066917 The old world (Eurasiafrica) was full of whimps, but luckily they new world is a lot less cowardly.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 19 06:10:04 2020 No.17066979 >>17062846 askb the bible dufde idk lmoaa

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 19 08:07:17 2020 No.17067421 >>17062846 Exploitation born of economic inequality. Simple as.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 19 08:17:52 2020 No.17067464 Because they didn't want to be eaten by poor Okies

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 19 13:57:45 2020 No.17069387 The Colour Out of Space The Colour Out of Space [Spoiler] Pretty sure no human can see this color. Maybe it was an alien in a comet [spoiler/]

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 19 15:46:54 2020 No.17070069 they were sowed with blood