“Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture?”
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#2This is the kind of deep investigation of a super specific issue I always enjoy reading. This is what I thought the internet would be, 20 years ago.
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#3Yule. For Yuletide
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#4The answer is one of the top comments:
> Yellow. Looks like a squiggle of yellow oil paint squeezing out of a short, fat tube.
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#5We've all been trolled by a toy artist...
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#6The answer is one of the top comments: > Yellow. Looks like a squiggle of yellow oil paint squeezing out of a short, fat tube.
Possible, but there's ample evidence around the Yxa (Swedish name for axe) theory. Even use in a similar context: https://i.stack.imgur.com/LNTu2.jpg https://i.stack.imgur.com/xzaQ9.jpg And it matches the "U" for "U-Boat", which apparently would be more common in Swedish (Ubåt) to refer to a submarine. It does require you believe whoever made the ball mixed Swedish and English, which seems possible given that it is a Chinese knockoff of a Hedstrom product.
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#7Yule. For Yuletide
That's what I came to guess too.
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#8This is the kind of deep investigation of a super specific issue I always enjoy reading. This is what I thought the internet would be, 20 years ago.
You were right!
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#9This is the kind of deep investigation of a super specific issue I always enjoy reading. This is what I thought the internet would be, 20 years ago.
Pretty sure we had stuff like that in 1997!
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#10You look at the axe and wonder: "why?" :)