• PriorityMotif@lemmy.world
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    A lot of mythology originates from someone’s dad or older brother or uncle messing with them.

    Let’s examine the myth that you’ll find a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. There isn’t an end to a rainbow, someone was messing with a kid and it got passed on. It’s like sending the new kid at work to go down to the basement or go ask for a long weight.

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      When I worked at a pizza place it was the ‘dough patch kit’

      When I worked on airplanes it was exhaust samples and the id-10-t form.

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      In the printing business back in the day, it was a paper stretcher. Or a jar of halftone dots.