[2013-Sep-10] Wine cooler

[Epoch Four]

What're they going to do, p-- OH MY GOD THERE'S A GIANT SPIDER AT MY FRONT DOOR

[Wat]

What're they going to do, p-- OH MY GOD THERE'S A GIANT SPIDER AT MY FRONT DOOR

I can't stop thinking what that cut-off "p" was going to spell.

I have to know.

[Epoch Four]

I will never tell.

My masters forbid it.

[Liriodendron_fagotti]

He's learned his lesson.

[Oldrac the Chitinous]

SPIDER

SPIDER

Crazy kerning!

[PandolfoMalatesta]

Okay so I know that the discussion about the actual comic ended a ridiculously long time ago but nobody actually adequately explained the joke, so here I am.

In America, particularly on college campuses, there is a practice known as "icing", or sometimes "bros icing bros" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icing_(drinking_game)). In this practice, a male (usually of the athletic, polo-shirt-wearing variety) will present one of his fellows (or cause one of his fellows to be presented with) a wine cooler - in this context, meaning a lightly alcoholic, usually fruit-flavored beverage such as Smirnoff Ice (http://smirnofficeflavors.com/), from which the practice gets its name. The recipient of said cooler must then get down on bended knee and drink it rapidly before his brethren, only rising when the bottle is empty and the bond of fellowship and trust between them is so strengthened.

The humor here stems from the ludicrous idea of such venerable statesmen as Washington and Hamilton taking part in said rituals, as implied when viewing Washington's words through a modern lens.

[DonRetrasado]

Mystery solved!