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“Well, Captain Grunfield, it says here you were expelled from the belly of a large squid after … ha … after your boat … ha ha … after … ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! …”
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“Well, Captain Grunfield, it says here you were expelled from the belly of a large squid after … ha … after your boat … ha ha … after … ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! …”
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This one confused me so bad so I looked up what other people thought and maybe it’s a pun about him being “cap-sized?”
“… after your boat capsized” definitely fits, but the whole squid thing is very distracting. I suppose it’s to provide us a reason for his changed appearance, but it raises far more questions than it answers.
The squid part had me looking for shit based puns but I couldn’t think of one related to a ship going down.
Makes sense. Thanks, I was confused as well.
Instead of saying the boat capsized, you could also say it turned turtle. I don’t know if this expression is still used today, I remember it from an old song.
Capsized means the boat turned at least on its side (past the point of self-righting). Turtle means it turned completely upside down.
I wonder if Larson knew that same song in 1983, because with the dude’s head poking out like that…maybe it works??