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Expectations Thread Anonymous Tue Mar 10 14:09:47 2015 No.6250540 [Reply] [Original]

It's been a while

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 14:12:06 2015 No.6250547 In b4 corn.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 14:14:00 2015 No.6250555 File: 160 KB, 1008x576, wrong raymond.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 14:14:27 2015 No.6250557 File: 549 KB, 1291x559, 1414079401492.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6250540

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 14:15:02 2015 No.6250561 File: 250 KB, 1008x583, what i read what i expected what i got right raymond.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6250555

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 14:27:31 2015 No.6250589 >>6250547 what's corn?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 14:33:21 2015 No.6250605 >>6250557 wtf they didnt have corn in ancient rome

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 14:33:47 2015 No.6250606 >>6250557 muh maize cross sections

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 14:40:39 2015 No.6250628 >>6250557 ahahahahahah

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 17:20:16 2015 No.6251262 File: 24 KB, 255x232, f7d.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6250557 Holy shit I'm translating that right now for homework in my Latin 5 class. >tfw the aedui can't even bring grain to Caesar >tfw Ariovistus decides to be a pleb

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 17:23:38 2015 No.6251280 >>6250557 >No corn

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 17:32:25 2015 No.6251327 >>6250589 >>6251280 >>6251262 >>6250628 This is the oldest and shittest /lit/ meme certainly interesting as fuck

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 17:51:56 2015 No.6251427 >>6251327 SOMEBODY PLEASE EXPLAIN.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 17:54:50 2015 No.6251444 File: 134 KB, 1008x403, 1423040643529.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 17:55:58 2015 No.6251451 File: 399 KB, 1600x610, 1422845369253.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Tue Mar 10 17:56:08 2015 No.6251453

>>6251427
>corn didn't exist in Caesar's time because people mean Triticum aestivum nowadays, which we only got from North America
>Caeser writes quite a bit about grain in De Bello Gallico when he describes troop logistics
>English translation used "corn"
>confusion ensued
>its now a meme you dip

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 17:56:14 2015 No.6251454 >>6250555 would you recommend it?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 18:05:45 2015 No.6251488 >>6251453 Where did that picture with Nabokov and corn father come from? How is Nabokov related?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 18:07:55 2015 No.6251495 File: 3 KB, 125x50, 1423947529676s.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6250540

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 18:07:57 2015 No.6251496 File: 173 KB, 1480x690, corn.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6251488 he's not, it's just a meme

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 18:10:23 2015 No.6251502 File: 3 KB, 125x64, 1423945648639s.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6250540 lol

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 18:21:38 2015 No.6251548 File: 166 KB, 1010x393, gatsby.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 18:30:57 2015 No.6251589 >>6251495 >>6251502 Oi u cheeky fuqs

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 18:32:02 2015 No.6251595 >>6251453 ty

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 18:32:50 2015 No.6251599 >>6251496 please no, corn father

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 18:55:57 2015 No.6251676 File: 726 KB, 2292x888, Chronicle of Death Foretold.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 18:59:33 2015 No.6251690 >>6251496 please no, corn father

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 18:59:58 2015 No.6251692 File: 1.83 MB, 331x180, big-pile-of-shit-o.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6251439

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 19:02:13 2015 No.6251697 File: 348 KB, 1016x1292, 1406301951837.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 19:26:47 2015 No.6251790 >>6251697 This is great, I'm gonna read it now.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 19:27:36 2015 No.6251793 File: 3.66 MB, 2500x2000, seiobo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 19:30:06 2015 No.6251799 >>6251502 Your picture is the size of my dick mate.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 19:38:32 2015 No.6251822 File: 1013 KB, 1604x720, gysin.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

IQ 95 Tue Mar 10 19:42:58 2015 No.6251837 [DELETED]

>>6251488
It's not related directly to Commentaries on the Gallic War thing. Nabokov once called Faulkner's writing as "corn-cobby chronicles" in reference to one of Faulkner's character's raping someone with a corn-cob.

Now that I think of it, /lit/'s memes are quite weird.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 19:44:02 2015 No.6251841 >>6250557 thank you corn father

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 19:47:34 2015 No.6251859 File: 115 KB, 723x734, 1328926843001.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6251801

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 19:49:42 2015 No.6251871 File: 167 KB, 948x580, unbearable.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Corn Father !!uz0+/KObrCh Tue Mar 10 19:51:48 2015 No.6251877 >>6251496 >>6251496 >>6251496 >>6251496 Why is Nabakov in the corn father picture? Why isn't it caesar?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 20:05:31 2015 No.6251942 >>6251877 because caesar isnt the corn father you stupid git

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 20:09:08 2015 No.6251955 >>6251877 Because Nabakov called Faulkner a writer of 'corn cobby tales' so he's kinda related. Only reason its not Faulkner in that regard is because Nabakov is a prosememe

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 20:15:05 2015 No.6251992 >>6251871 "the something something of so and so" titles have got to end

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 20:21:00 2015 No.6252020 >>6251992 >1984 novel >2015 post You're barking up the wrong book.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 20:33:55 2015 No.6252048 File: 2.45 MB, 2504x1201, iliad.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 20:37:20 2015 No.6252063 >>6250605 Corn refers to generic cereal crops. Not the mesoamerican foodstuff.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 20:38:07 2015 No.6252066 >>6251262 tfw I'm translating it in Latin 3

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 20:42:17 2015 No.6252081 >>6250557 What the fuck I read caesars commentaries and it said that it was corn that they kept asking for from the gauls, not fucking grain you dumbass

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 20:44:05 2015 No.6252087 >>6252066 So am I. You using the oxford curriculum? We are just about to switch to Livy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 20:53:37 2015 No.6252115 File: 1.17 MB, 1970x771, mezzanine thing.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 20:57:52 2015 No.6252126 >>6252087 We got some half-decent shit, teacher makes it worth it though. And we're going to some poetry and maybe some Cicero afterwards.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 21:29:46 2015 No.6252252 File: 438 KB, 1903x942, teartroshit.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 11 00:30:03 2015 No.6252711 >>6250557 C O R N M E M E O R N M E M E R N M E M E N M E M E M E M E E M E M E E

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 11 00:35:27 2015 No.6252723 >>6250557 pls no corn papa

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 11 00:43:30 2015 No.6252743 >>6251697 > certainly, socrates, that is so

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 11 00:46:12 2015 No.6252756 >>6251496 'please no, corn father'

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 11 02:58:22 2015 No.6253059 >>6250557 I find this meme a bit corny tbh

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 11 03:25:48 2015 No.6253088 >>6250540 I found GG&S was the opposite of white apologism, it pretty much implied that all non white people were total savages and currently live in abject squalor.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 11 03:44:24 2015 No.6253108 File: 259 KB, 1000x698, 1381094276991.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6251327 >oldest and shittest /lit/ meme

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 11 03:50:03 2015 No.6253119 File: 145 KB, 1000x698, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6253108 I miss the old days

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 11 03:51:38 2015 No.6253120 >>6251451 what?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 11 03:53:23 2015 No.6253123 >>6253119 Maybe we were more naive.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 11 03:58:11 2015 No.6253126 >>6253123 much more endearingly so, given the state of the board these days

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 11 04:13:03 2015 No.6253151 >>6253123 >>6253126 I was the same horrible cunt I was back then as I am now. You little cunts have changed. I wrote moot to get Ayn Rand banned. And he banned her.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 11 07:13:32 2015 No.6253330 Il bumpo.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 11 07:23:38 2015 No.6253345 File: 229 KB, 1008x581, what i read what i expected what i got the white plague.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 11 11:43:51 2015 No.6253849 >>6250557 Pls no grain father

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 11 15:05:11 2015 No.6254388 >>6251801 What painting is the top right?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 11 15:53:00 2015 No.6254575 >>6254388 I forget the name of the painting and the artist, but it's a painting of Ivan the Terrible with his son who he just bludgeoned in a fit of rage.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 11 16:05:57 2015 No.6254634 >>6254388 >>6254575 Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan by Ilya Repin

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