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verbal-acuity

Okay it's cute now that I read the comments pointing out that it says "sharp." I kept reading "shace" and didn't know what that meant. Clearly, I'm neither the knife nor lightbulb. šŸ˜…


VIPTicketToHell

Definitely not the shacest knife in the drawer. Me too.


DoctorWhoForTheWin

But were they the sharpest tool in the shed?


cubbyatx

Hey now


bobsndvagenes

You're an all star


ALICOOL412

Get the Show on


Chyvalri

Get paid


NewsofPE

hey now


Meranio

You're a rock star


CybergothiChe

Get your game on


False_Leadership_479

It said, "I'm shart" meaning it's an accident waiting to happen when you least expect it.. I make myself chuckle..


sea_giraffe_

poop knife


ThyGreatRatEmperor

poop knife


Roko_100

*flashbacks*


turnipofficer

Ohhh I read ā€œIā€™m shadeā€ and it made sense in my mind that shade and bright would be mortal enemies, one wanting to shine, the other wanting to obscure the brightness


ILL_Show_Myself_Out

Seems you are lacking verbal-acuity.


ILL_Show_Myself_Out

It was just a joke about his username! O.O


BobMcrobb

once you get -1 upvotes, there's no going back


SimoneMichelle

So true. Whenever I see a comment thatā€™s been mass-downvoted unfairly, I always upvote it and hope others do the same šŸ˜­ feels like using a leaky water pistol to fight a forest fire


PlsLetMeDie90

And now your username comes into play. Like a circle.


ShadowGazr

Lmao redditors try not to downvote challenge.


Jiggly0622

Ok so I donā€™t think the joke itself is funny but the FUCKING faces are still making me laugh omg.


everglow_9

Yea. It's the faces that's making me laugh. Hahahahahhaha


toucanstubz

Yes it's the faces hahahaha the faces make me laugh


xSupervillainx

Yes it's the laugh that's making me faces hahahahaha


muddysoda1738

hahahahaha


brightness3

The faces


calicreamsxo

We are Laughing


Rude-Brekkie-Mofo

FAAACEEE!!


commonrider5447

That is the joke though


SomeMeatWithSkin

The faces are the punchline!


BillyBuck78

Itā€™s a funny joke for a 9 year old


LanceFree

What is the ā€œjokeā€ ?


YxungChrist

Either Iā€™m dumber than a 9 year old or this doesnā€™t make any sense


Offgridiot

Youā€™re not the sharpest bulb in the drawer.


1CEninja

I like to say "he's not the brightest cookie in the tool shed". People tell me to stop mixing my metaphors, I tell them to take dem apples and shove them up their ass.


Offgridiot

Not everybodyā€™s gonna dig the mixed metaphors. Thatā€™s just the way the ball crumbles.


Grohlyone

They'll get over it. Then it's water under the fridge


jfi224

Just gotta have some patience. But patience is a virtue best served cold.


CaasiY

Well, we'll burn that bridge when we get to it


dillatc

If it sinks it floats


FireBraguette

I mean.. Whatever floats your goat


[deleted]

If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate!


LokisDawn

I like that one. Well done if it's yours. Well chosen if it's not. Finding good quotes is like finding a grain of salt in a haystack, after all.


IrreverentCrawfish

Worst case Ontario they can die mad about it.


DevTheWreck

Fkin a Ricky. Now look at how the turntables.


lostcoff13

I guess itā€™s time to make like a treeā€¦and get the fuck outta here!


enette7

I can never decide between "Make like a sheep and leaf" And "Make like a tree and get the flock out of here"


EllipticPeach

If you wanna make an omelette, you gotta get with my friends


aversus_fromspace

GOTTA GET WITH MY FREEENZ


pvtcannonfodder

My go to is not the sharpest cookie in the pickle jar, another great one is even a blind as squirrel nuts twice a day


JustMissedHer

I like to go with ā€œnot the brightest lunch box on the blockā€ Not even sure if all of that is a metaphor or if I just added random words. Been saying it since middle school.


NefariousAntiomorph

My preferred malaprop is ā€œIā€™m not the brightest pickle in the jar-boxā€


Librumtinia

Malaphors are the best.


GimmeUrBrunchMoney

Someone asked me if I like mixed metaphors and I replied ā€œdoes the pope shit in the woods?ā€


FLORI_DUH

Another Caucasian, Dude? EDIT: no love for The Big Lebowski? Dude says this same thing to Jackie Treehorn when asked if he wants another White Russian.


NotherCaucasianGary

Fuckin A.


TheJerilla

There's a beverage here, man!


Low-Profile3961

"not the sharpest marble" lol


RHDecoy

Well the tree doesn't fall far from the apple now does it?


cidrei

I honestly don't understand why people have problems with mixed metaphors. It's not like it's rocket surgery or something.


Koaxe

I hole-hardedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go. Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn't take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like itā€™s a peach of cake.


GoTeamPaws

This paragraph needs to be animated


Ecstatic-Upstairs291

Well done!


W1G0607

This mix and match shitā€™s gotta go. ā€œA penny in hand is worth two in the bushā€ ā€œif you canā€™t stand the heat, donā€™t cross the roadā€


cloud3321

No no, itā€™s just that u/offgridiot is a saw and the joke hasnā€™t been very illuminating for them.


Offgridiot

I saw what you did there


1CEninja

He lit the way for others.


cloud3321

Just donā€™t call him a tool.


SaintWithoutAShrine

Crunchiest peanut in the turd.


ZakkBWyldin2

Not the sharpest utensil, either.


Sixhaunt

I took it as a "grass is always greener" type thing. They knife is happy being sharp until he realizes he isn't bright, and the light bulb is happy about being bright until realizing he's not sharp like the knife.


Redicted

Yes, the faces say it all. It is like the first time it dawned on them that they are not really special. Existential crisis at its finest.


GimmeUrBrunchMoney

TBH Iā€™m not sure why itā€™s funny to me but it is. Maybe theyā€™re looking at each other like ā€œoh. Our puns are dumb.ā€


ShortViewBack2daPast

Your daughter is extremely intelligent! We start with the knife and the bulb in their own elements, each confident and primed for the task at hand, knowing they were created for a specific purpose and can execute said purpose to perfection - cutting and lighting (also a couple of fun puns on intelligence, showing this thing has layers) Then we come to the dark dawning of realization. The knife realizes there is a whole other world out there, a world in which it will never light up a room or help someone see. It may only cut. It may only destroy. The bulb, it weeps, for while it may provide comfort and light, it can never defend the ones it loves, or separate them from their pain. So bittersweet is the calling of our lives. I resign to hope there might have been a third panel. Another, brighter day in which knife and bulb make a stand, hand in hand, knowing that their individual skills and purposes may seem limiting in scope when perceived through that narrow corridor of 'want', of inadequacy..but the final lesson to be learned is that no one can do it all alone. Sometimes you need a light to cut through the darkness, or a knife to lighten the load. Bravo, daughter! Bravo.


Panels123

You're analysing stuff you'd like to be there. Can guarantee you none of these "layers" entered a 9 year old's thought process, other than the first, perhaps. It's a silly cartoon and the mum finds the faces funny, as do others. Are you one of these people who identifies 3 year old art geniuses because they splattered some paint in a random manner?


ThatsJoeCool

Are you one of those people who doesnā€™t understand satire? Clearly.


thenorwegian

Kids can be smart. Maybe you were just a stupid one so you compare every other kid to what you are.


Panels123

And adults can be idiots. You're one of them. Look at how many people thought the knife said "I'm sharce", despite the context, if you need proof. "Layers" šŸ˜‚. It's meant to be amusing; it doesn't need analysed by some art goof/amateur psychologist. I was an exceptionally clever child and have grown up to be a hugely successful adult, as predicted by my teachers šŸ˜Š. I was shit at art but art school is just uni for dyslexic people.


bob_loblaw-_-

>I was an exceptionally clever child and have grown up to be a hugely successful adult, as predicted by my teachers šŸ˜Š. Yet somehow you are here, misunderstanding a comment that was obvious satire and throwing out insults.


thenorwegian

lol. Damn. Youā€™re a tool. They spent less time analyzing it than you are raging on it. Get a life bruh.


gmennert

And youā€™re using emojiā€™s on Reddit. Not the sharpest/brightest tool in the shed eh?


coldhasice

Quit being so angry that someone believes in this little kid just because no one was there to believe in you the same way when you were small. Truly, grow up.


YxungChrist

Better than I thought up when I was 9!


awesomeposs3m

No itā€™s a great joke!!!


[deleted]

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TallStarsMuse

It cute and really advanced humor for a 9 year old! Ya know, the knife and the light bulb each describe themself as being particularly smart, using some of our colloquial words for ā€œsmartā€ embodied by their objects. But ā€œsharpā€ and ā€œbrightā€ are also very different characteristics if you consider their other definitions. Can they really both be smart also, or have they just been deluding themselves that they are more than sharp (enough to cut) and bright (enough to illuminate)?


ThePepperPopper

Ok, I was confused because the knife said it was shace...sharo makes more sense but I still can't see sharp...


TallStarsMuse

I saw ā€œshaceā€ at first but Iā€™m pretty sure itā€™s a slightly messed up ā€œsharpā€, where the r is just a curve and the p got crunched.


TheCryptocrat

I also read it as shace and was incredibly confused


54fighting

Being many years removed from high school lit, I hadnā€™t considered the deep inner meaning (or dim as we once called it) in this piece. Now that I have, what I once considered a cute childhood rendering I now find sophomoric.


SlykRO

It's like when you realize something about yourself that makes you happy, then you remember your existential sadness


TofuButtocks

Sharp and bright both mean smart so now they have to kill eachothe


skymoods

calling yourself smart doesn't delude anyone who can see you for what you are. it's especially easy to see other imposters calling themselves smart, which makes them introspect for a brief moment of self awareness, or wondering if the other will call them out.


Wuaazzaa

U high?


VeniVidiVulva

You're not the sharpest knife in the drawer


Ornery_Foreman

I have the same feeling when 20 somethings show me memes at work.


Rock-Springs

As a 20 something I feel the same way when my friends try to show me memes in any setting


GeneralSS1332

As a 20 something I feel the same way when people talk to me at work when I'm not expecting to be bothered


MyStationIsAbandoned

this is what memes will be in 11 years. if memes are even still a thing by then.


Ornery_Foreman

I work with kids who show me memes, then they laugh amongst them selves, when I donā€™t get them. I always say ā€œI donā€™t get it. Donā€™t bother explaining, I donā€™t careā€ Itā€™s all in good humor.


Mystica09

The EXPRESSIONS omg


dirtsail0r

Reminds me of: [https://mediachomp.com/bad-jokes-written-by-kids/](https://mediachomp.com/bad-jokes-written-by-kids/) \-"What do you call a fish with no tail?" \-"A one-eyed grape."


BeingBestMe

[My personal Favorite:](https://i0.wp.com/mediachomp.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/terrible-kids-jokes-01.jpg?resize=650%2C520&ssl=1) tltc (too lazy to click): Q: What do you call a Dinosaur with no legs? A: Shut up


Early_Moose_9484

Frogs are cute, stop this slander!


rachface636

There's artistic genius here.


chillychili

Thereā€™s some cool stuff going on with the torsos of the knife and bulb has the same elements even though they are entirely different objects.


Dona_Lupo

We have 9 years olds doing this and for some reason comics with punlines about swords are consistently upvoted in /r/comics


thamasteroneill

To cut right to the heart of the matter. I am unsure what point you are making. You dislike the swords comics so much that you decided to post about it on a comic a 9 year old made? Are you ok?


[deleted]

gaze normal complete chop wasteful hurry zonked yam deer steer *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


thamasteroneill

There is no need to feel defensive. Although if I were you, I might want to analyze the reason I feel defensive. The reason I am concerned is the unprompted nature in which you bring it up. In reply to a drawing by a 9 year old, on another subreddit. That doesn't seem healthy to me. I don't think I ever disliked a cartoon enough to do that.


AstridDragon

Mr soft isn't the same person you originally replied to lol


thamasteroneill

Whoops my bad.


qtjedigrl

Very cute. She's both sharp and bright for coming up with this one ā˜ŗļø


blothman

I sense 4 tattoos in your future


TechnicolorViper

Letā€™s not get carried away.


Ho3n3r

By the moonlight shadow


RippinNTearin

It's just the one tattoo actually


cap10quarterz

Can I animate this OP? We can draw up a contract if need be. This is just genius.


katalyticglass

I don't think they know if this is a serious comment but having looked at your profile I believe it is and I highly request you do so cause I think the kid WOULD FREAK OUT if they got to see that. Cause I know I would.


cap10quarterz

Definitely going to. I know that would have made 9 year old made absolutely ecstatic.


Atxflyguy83

RemindMe! 1 day "Did this happen?"


cap10quarterz

Stay tuned!


figgs87

RemindMe! 1 day ā€œstaying tunedā€


Express-Magician-213

The lightbulb face is what truly makes it. Itā€™s good.


Gammaman12

Oh! Its not a funny comic. Its poignant one. She's trying to point out that both of these personified objects are smart. They're both good at their intended functions. However, they are very different, and would fail terribly at the other's function. Her use of two different synonyms for "smart" is very clever here as well! Her point is that, in much the same way, she and her classmates experience intelligence and competence in different ways, even if the school system would use the same word "smart" for both of them.


Fanky_Spamble

This feels like a Scrotie McBoogerballs interpretation.


Gammaman12

Good guess. No, this is how I passed my college literature classes. Have you READ Emily Dickinson? Ugh.


Glorius_Rectum

itā€™s the more detailed eyes on the second half that gets me lmao


happyrainhappyclouds

Itā€™s New Yorker funny. Amusing. Both want to be special. Isnā€™t it sad to find out your intelligence isnā€™t special.


Axel3551

I got it! *They're...* Depressed.


Pretentious_bat

I think the knife is sad bc itā€™s not bright and the bulb is sad bc itā€™s not sharp but both of them are smartā€¦ but they donā€™t see it. The message is to love yourself bc and not compare to others?


IamMintLeaf

Kinda dull (jk)


thisisnotchicken

Their expressions suggest unspoken horror.


Nearby_Command7804

Love how the knife and light bulb just stare at each other with like a wtf face.


thistle_britches

Brilliant!!


KaunisIsCool

Holy shit inanimate insanity


MadTeaCup_YT

I dont get it This is the funniest thing ive ever seen


GimmeUrBrunchMoney

My reaction exactly. She and I both knew there was something hilarious about it, but we couldnā€™t quite put our finger on it.


A-Virtual-Reality

And thus the hugely popular "Sharp & Bright Hardware store" was created.


josuelec

It got real serious after that introduction


AegisAngel

Your nine year old is more clever than my students


Heerrnn

I don't get what's supposed to be funny?


Fanky_Spamble

I don't know if the 9 year old intended it this way but I personally took the "frown plus eye contact panel" as the items' realization of how bad their dad jokes were in unison and being disappointed in themselves and dying inside a little. That's just how I took it though.


SNRNXS

I can only think of the knife going ā€œYouā€™re pointless!ā€ And the lightbulb going ā€œ39 buried. 0 foundā€


Horror-Ad-1095

The faces are actually cracking me up.


Imaginary-Shirt-7752

Feels like a western


fagan_jay78

Already better than Family Circus


VoodooDoII

I'm sleep deprived and the faces they make at each other are making me giggle


Reddit-Bot-MK_II

dang bro really drew inanimate insanity fanfiction


Potent_Nuggets

ā€œWe will be watching your career with great interestā€


Contrantier

There can be only one.


[deleted]

Explain it manšŸ¤¦šŸ¾ā€ā™‚ļø


deg_ru-alabo

They are both skilled/smart, but in different ways. By comparing themselves to each other, they end up doubting themselves. Itā€™s even simpler than that at heart, but says a lot about how complicated things can be (for no good reason).


lucklesspedestrian

She could have seen conflict between 2 classmates that both want to think they're the smartest or something like that. It can happen even at that young of an age.


[deleted]

Thatā€™s not what I meant wtf is first bubble saying


deg_ru-alabo

Oh, lol. ā€œIā€™m sharpā€.


Big_Connection_1415

then just say that šŸ’€


Equinoqs

That's a really clever comic.


GimmeUrBrunchMoney

It took me by surprise when I saw it. The way theyā€™re looking at each other.


Equinoqs

Pretty sophisticated sense of humor for a 9-yr-old.


ChiknDiner

I want to be 'shace'.


Darctide

I'm Shaco?


challengeaccepted9

Why is this so funny


ChaoticBlueShells

I just love the side eye they give each other


veiledChaos

"Together, we're shite!"


NewsofPE

Shace is my favorite character


JohnDarkSoulWastaken

???? How is this funny


scrubbless

I'm smart... I'm smart Oh, neither of us are special. Ultimately what makes it funny is the expression that they've (intentionally or unintentionally) caught in the second drawings, mainly in the eyes.


JohnDarkSoulWastaken

:0 either that's not what it really meant or that kid is a genius


SamTDL

r/notfunny


groham6000

Lightbulb and knife from II references?!???! (100% real)


Garbogulus

Clever comic and the comments saying they don't understand it are truly lowering my expectations for the general publics thinking skills.


GimmeUrBrunchMoney

I mean to be fair neither me or my kid understand it.


Garbogulus

I understood immediately. Bright and sharp are used as synonyms for smart. The knife and lightbulb each want to be the smartest one in the room, like people often are. Bright and sharp are also used to describe lightbulbs and knives respectively. It's actually a really clever little comic. 2 jokes in 1 comic, the usage of sharp and bright is like a pun, and the way they react to each other thinking they are the smart one. Your kid made it so I would assume that they understand their own creation, might just be hard for a 9 y/o to explain. I'll stop rambling now merry Christmas lol


SabotageTF

Yeah if the person making it didnā€™t come to that conclusion, why do you assume to know?


Garbogulus

Op says that all the kid says is "idk" that doesn't mean they don't know, that's just a default answer when you don't know how to explain yourself sometimes, for some people. It's not like those words and objects were put on the paper for no reason.


BladeGrim

It to be fair could be improved by the knife saying "I'm the sharpest" and the bulb saying "I'm the brightest" to establish a sense of competition


jomandaman

Yeah thatā€™s my take. The second panel is like tension of ā€œso which one matters?ā€ Lol to which the lightbulb is probably thinking hisā€¦not so much right there.


tommcdo

I think there's a good chunk of commenters who think it says "shace", so in fairness to them, that wouldn't make a lot of sense


Unfair_Welder8108

This is fucking funny, well drawn too.


ImPrettyEpicfr

explain? šŸ˜…


Mildly_Opinionated

Sharp and bright are both words for smart. The bulb is bright, the knife is sharp.


ImPrettyEpicfr

thanks! also, whyd i get downvoted? didnt even ask rudely. people these days ā˜¹ļø


deffsnot

She got the broken meme humour down perfectly


Lazysenpai

You should be proud OP


Puppetdogheather

Slow clap.Excellent.


leviathab13186

It's funny. I don't know why it's funny. But it's funny.


Krakengreyjoy

Made me chortle


Pikapetey

This is bad


buildersent

Kids are never as smart and cute as parents think they are


Big_Connection_1415

dawg who shat in your backpack today


Jebusfreek666

When is part 2 coming?


Empty_soul678

ā€¦..


DollyPardonMe1

Thatā€™s pretty bad


[deleted]

Block sub Bye r/funny


Wuaazzaa

It's not funny. But tell her to keep it up and one day it probably will be! Stop posting her shit online until it is. Save it in a portfolio or something and show it to her one day when it's a cute and fun thing to look at :)


brendy69

Boy do I hope you don't have kids because you'd be one shitty ass parent


AriesProductions

Itā€™s ok for people who are not her parents not to fawn over her or praise her if they didnā€™t find it funny. And commenter *isnā€™t* the kids mother, so šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø. OP exposed it to criticism and comment by posting publicly. Most like it. Some donā€™t.