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[-] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 67 points 1 year ago

In water, Hippopotamus. On land, Rhinoceros.

[-] bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 53 points 1 year ago
[-] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 85 points 1 year ago

A whale, or possibly a bowl of petunias

[-] NotSpez@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

I wish I could understand what went though the bowl of petunias’ mind when it thought ‘not again’ though…

I just read about this! The bowl of petunias was an incarnation of Agrajag. "Not again" referred to being killed by Arthur. Again.

[-] NotSpez@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago
[-] AFLYINTOASTER@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
[-] spauldo@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They're referring to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Specifically, they're talking about a creature (the bowl of petunias created high above the surface of an airless world as a byproduct of a star drive powered by improbability) who has reincarnated many, many times, but in every life is killed by an otherwise inoffensive and constantly bewildered British man.

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