• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 days ago

      No worries! Sometimes memes seem like they might have some more subtle joke to them, but no, in this case it’s just being silly.

        • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works
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          4 days ago

          a cigar is just a cigar

          I have never heard this saying before, what the fuck could a cigar be? Did someone think it was a worm? a stick? a bomb??

          • 1ostA5tro6yne@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            4 days ago

            it’s a reference to a (possibly apocryphal? i’m not very well educated) anecdote about sigmund freud. freud had a hypothesis that basically any phallic object in a dream represents an actual phallus because supposedly basically everything in the human psyche is connected to sex. someone pointed out his fondness of cigars and he replied with the quote, “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”