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I figured out that there's a clown who crashes his car into a tree because he is drunk, but I don't get the last panel. Why are there suddenly so many bodies?

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[–] [email protected] 340 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Probably one of those acts where they fit a ridiculous number of clowns into one tiny clown car.

[–] [email protected] 240 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yup. It's a classic clown gag. They stuff an unrealistic amount of clowns into those tiny cars for a laugh.

But killing dozens of clowns in a drunk driving accident isn't funny. It's fucking hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 105 points 7 months ago (1 children)

“One clown death is a tragedy, dozens is fucking hilarious.”

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm going to steal this one

[–] Klear 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Just don't get caught while stealing it or it's straight to gulag.

[–] [email protected] 144 points 7 months ago

A clown car is famously a very tiny car with more clowns in it than you would expect to be able to fit.

[–] [email protected] 137 points 7 months ago (4 children)

You're one of the lucky 10000 today

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

How crazy is this thread is for someone to hear about clown cars AND the lucky 10,000 for the first time.

That number must be smaller

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

Randall Munroe calculated that there's every day the lucky 10000 (in the US, 400 thousand globally) who learn something for the first time that is very known.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

You're one of them today. Jk, I don't think it applies specifically to this, this isn't well known.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I feel like the analogy of a clown car is pretty widespread? And the lucky 10,000 is back of the napkin guestimation, I think it's allowed an order of magnitude on either side, and one should not feel bad for being part of it, you're in for learning and learning is (or should be) fun!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

No, I meant that not knowing about the 10K didn't really make him part of the daily 10K

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

its a reference to [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1053:_Ten_Thousand](this xkcd)

[–] [email protected] 98 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 71 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The joke is that clowns would sometimes do a bit at the circus where like a dozen of them would cram into a tiny car. Just google the phrase "clown car" and you should see numerous examples of this.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I hope you don’t shout at real life five year olds

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

Only if they have it coming