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“Well, Captain Grunfield, it says here you were expelled from the belly of a large squid after … ha … after your boat … ha ha … after … ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! …”
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“Well, Captain Grunfield, it says here you were expelled from the belly of a large squid after … ha … after your boat … ha ha … after … ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! …”
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This one confused me so bad so I looked up what other people thought and maybe it’s a pun about him being “cap-sized?”
Makes sense. Thanks, I was confused as well.
Instead of saying the boat capsized, you could also say it turned turtle. I don’t know if this expression is still used today, I remember it from an old song.
Capsized means the boat turned at least on its side (past the point of self-righting). Turtle means it turned completely upside down.
I wonder if Larson knew that same song in 1983, because with the dude’s head poking out like that…maybe it works??
“… after your boat capsized” definitely fits, but the whole squid thing is very distracting. I suppose it’s to provide us a reason for his changed appearance, but it raises far more questions than it answers.
The squid part had me looking for shit based puns but I couldn’t think of one related to a ship going down.