• ShadyGrove@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    It’s from the story of Samson in the Bible.

    The quote goes something like this:

    Then Samson said, “With a donkey’s jawbone I have made donkeys of them. With a donkey’s jawbone I have killed a thousand men.”

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        7 months ago

        Getting past the bible part, it’s funny because after losing a few hundred guys they’re still approaching a couple at a time, and the one guy is being distracting while trying to coach his buddy like, “we can still take him”

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          I agree, I think that the gist of the joke is in meaningless coaching. Like, yeah, avoiding an enemie’s weapon is something one would never guess to do

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      Interestingly enough, donkey jawbones are used as musical percussion instruments in some parts of Latin America.

      Link to videos of jawbones being played in 2 different ways inside the article:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawbone_(instrument)

      So either Samson literally slew them, or proverbially slew them by rocking out.