Punchline to an old off-color joke:
You’re thor? I’m tho thor I can hardly pith.
Of course, in addition to having a mighty thor hand, he’s
holding a lightning bolt, as does the Mighty Thor.
Yeah, this is really an Oy. I’m also trying hard to suppress (not very well) that part of me that wants to quibble about Thor not hurling lightning bolts.
So he’s whining about having hurt his hand on it because it’s sharp, yet he’s picking it up again with both hands and playing with it to set up a bad joke. And he’s waving it around in the air as if he just don’t care (if it breaks).
Did he confuse Thor with Zeus, and think Thor was the one who uses a lightning bolt as a weapon?
” that part of me that wants to quibble about Thor not hurling lightning bolts.”
Well, SOMEBODY didn’t see the last Thor movie…
On an episode of “King of the Hill,” Hank was putting in a new driveway and had to break up the old one. Whenever Bill wielded the sledgehammer and announced “I … AM … THOR!”, I expected Dale to make an Icy-Hot joke.
According to Roman syncretism, Thor hurls lightning bolts. Thor was equated with Jupiter, specifically because both of them controlled lightning.
The Romans named their days “dies Solis”, “dies Lunae”, “dies Martis”, “dies Mercurii”, “dies Iovis”, “dies Veneris”, and “dies Saturnae”, after the seven classical planets, and their associated gods — the Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn. Those names are reflected in modern Spanish, French, and Italian. However, when they went to the Germanic tribes, they associated them with the Sun, Moon, Tiew, Woden, Thor, Freya, and Saturn, leading eventually to Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. The association from Solis to Sun, Lunae to moon, and Saturnae to Saturn is direct, but the other four days involve syncretic analogy. Tiew/Tyr, as the god of law and justice, was associated directly with war and Mars; Woden/Odin was associated with Mercury, because they are both psychopomps, leading the souls of the dead to the afterlife (even if Odin was really only taking a subset of them as far as Valhalla, and Mercury took basically all of the souls to Hades), and also because they were both in charge of formalized ritual magic; Thor was associated with Jupiter, because they both threw lightning bolts; and, in my opinion, the only really obvious one, Freya was associated with Venus, because they are both goddesses of sex, love, beauty, and fertility.
So I consider the analogy good for the pun.
He isn’t “Thor”. He’s “Mighty Thor”. That’s a tie to the Marvel character, not the original or Roman versions.
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Punchline to an old off-color joke:
You’re thor? I’m tho thor I can hardly pith.
Of course, in addition to having a mighty thor hand, he’s
holding a lightning bolt, as does the Mighty Thor.
Yeah, this is really an Oy. I’m also trying hard to suppress (not very well) that part of me that wants to quibble about Thor not hurling lightning bolts.
So he’s whining about having hurt his hand on it because it’s sharp, yet he’s picking it up again with both hands and playing with it to set up a bad joke. And he’s waving it around in the air as if he just don’t care (if it breaks).
Did he confuse Thor with Zeus, and think Thor was the one who uses a lightning bolt as a weapon?
” that part of me that wants to quibble about Thor not hurling lightning bolts.”
Well, SOMEBODY didn’t see the last Thor movie…
On an episode of “King of the Hill,” Hank was putting in a new driveway and had to break up the old one. Whenever Bill wielded the sledgehammer and announced “I … AM … THOR!”, I expected Dale to make an Icy-Hot joke.
According to Roman syncretism, Thor hurls lightning bolts. Thor was equated with Jupiter, specifically because both of them controlled lightning.
The Romans named their days “dies Solis”, “dies Lunae”, “dies Martis”, “dies Mercurii”, “dies Iovis”, “dies Veneris”, and “dies Saturnae”, after the seven classical planets, and their associated gods — the Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn. Those names are reflected in modern Spanish, French, and Italian. However, when they went to the Germanic tribes, they associated them with the Sun, Moon, Tiew, Woden, Thor, Freya, and Saturn, leading eventually to Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. The association from Solis to Sun, Lunae to moon, and Saturnae to Saturn is direct, but the other four days involve syncretic analogy. Tiew/Tyr, as the god of law and justice, was associated directly with war and Mars; Woden/Odin was associated with Mercury, because they are both psychopomps, leading the souls of the dead to the afterlife (even if Odin was really only taking a subset of them as far as Valhalla, and Mercury took basically all of the souls to Hades), and also because they were both in charge of formalized ritual magic; Thor was associated with Jupiter, because they both threw lightning bolts; and, in my opinion, the only really obvious one, Freya was associated with Venus, because they are both goddesses of sex, love, beauty, and fertility.
So I consider the analogy good for the pun.
He isn’t “Thor”. He’s “Mighty Thor”. That’s a tie to the Marvel character, not the original or Roman versions.
Like I said, good enough for the pun.
Very Loki humor.
Take some athpirin.
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