someguy3@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoForest Gump thought "life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get" because he was illiterate and couldn't read the little card.message-squaremessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareForest Gump thought "life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get" because he was illiterate and couldn't read the little card.someguy3@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square38fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresomeguy3@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months ago… So you’re upset that I said card instead of map? Really? Whatever. Round here it’s a little card.
minus-squarezelifcam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-26 months agoNo. I’m saying this is a joke, not a shower thought. It’s an old joke that’s been around in various forms for decades. Your version written out just makes less sense the more I looked at it. Decided to apply a bit a pressure because of lack of originality. Carry on.
minus-squaresomeguy3@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-26 months agoI guarantee you 100% it’s a showerthought.
minus-squareZorque@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoWasn’t the part with him telling other people that set in the 80s or 90s?
minus-squarezelifcam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-26 months agoYou need to rethink that. Yes, but that has nothing to do with his mom telling it to him as a child. Which is why he tells it to other people later in his life.
… So you’re upset that I said card instead of map? Really? Whatever. Round here it’s a little card.
No. I’m saying this is a joke, not a shower thought. It’s an old joke that’s been around in various forms for decades.
Your version written out just makes less sense the more I looked at it. Decided to apply a bit a pressure because of lack of originality. Carry on.
I guarantee you 100% it’s a showerthought.
I said Good Day Sir!
Wasn’t the part with him telling other people that set in the 80s or 90s?
You need to rethink that. Yes, but that has nothing to do with his mom telling it to him as a child. Which is why he tells it to other people later in his life.