• Nightwatch Admin@feddit.nl
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    20 days ago

    I’m not quite the brightest bulb in the package, can someone please explain? Does it have anything to do with the missing “of” in “4 out 5 dentists”?

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      20 days ago

      I think that might be a sincere mistake? I’ve only seen, I don’t know, 3-5 examples of this comic, but its humor seems to be predicated on a. Cozy close friends feeling (i.e., comfy rather than funny) and/or b. “light” humor (something you might chuckle at a sibling or good friend saying, rather than something you’d go to a professional comedian to hear).

      I might be entirely wrong, but that’s the vibe I got.

    • MrSebSin@sh.itjust.worksOPM
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      20 days ago

      Bloody hell, not sure how I missed that typo :(

      The 4 out of 5 dentists is a reference to commercials back in the day that had this weird tagline. I always found it weird and pretty sure it was created by a marketing company.