r/recontext • • 3d ago

It's been a bestseller for two thousand years!

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u/Casual_user1012 3d ago

I don't get the original context

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u/an-kitten 3d ago

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u/Casual_user1012 3d ago

No I meant the joke with the Irishman

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u/an-kitten 3d ago

Yeah, that's the context. (Being Irish isn't part of the joke.)

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u/RuairiQ 3d ago

Penal colony. Irishmen are known to have enormous penal so the British sent them to Australia.

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u/Casual_user1012 3d ago

Ohhhh, that's actually pretty goddamn funny