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Discussion (24) ¬

    • edythemighty's status on Wednesday, 19-Aug-09 04:36:07 UTC - Identi.ca
      August 19, 2009, 5:36 am | #
    • Epic fail [humor]
      August 19, 2009, 5:44 pm | #
  1. danineteen
    August 19, 2009, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    Good one!

  2. Davi
    August 19, 2009, 1:24 am | # | Reply

    Epic Pun.

  3. IR
    August 19, 2009, 1:31 am | # | Reply

    Win. I laughed for ages on this xD

  4. Mike
    August 19, 2009, 2:52 am | # | Reply

    I think something has gone whooshing over my head here. Explanation please?

    • Guib
      August 19, 2009, 3:03 am | # | Reply

      I didn’t catch it right away either, but then I realized that both “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey” are epic poems. The joke is that he failed at identifying an epic.

  5. Reagan
    August 19, 2009, 6:12 am | # | Reply

    Kudos to you and your wit, sir.

  6. speearr
    August 19, 2009, 8:32 am | # | Reply

    Ok I concede, this is one of the only appropriate moments to use that overused phrase!

  7. Benthepedant
    August 19, 2009, 11:50 am | # | Reply

    Recursive Fail in Macro. Telemachus is in both the Iliad and Odyssey.

    • Steve in the Sandbox
      August 20, 2009, 3:08 pm | # | Reply

      Really? He does not appear in this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_characters_in_the_Iliad

    • Seandeezy
      August 21, 2009, 8:21 pm | # | Reply

      Sure, he’s “in” the Iliad, but as a baby, and only for long enough to be placed in front of a plow. He’s featured much more prominently in the Odyssey.

    • P
      February 13, 2010, 12:02 am | # | Reply

      In either alternative it still plays out logically: in this case, as an Epic Fail for the editor (who really ought to know better if s/he is marking).
      You could say it is a universally logical literal literary epic fail.

    • AlsoAnonymous
      August 30, 2011, 5:57 am | # | Reply

      Well, you could cite the definition of “featured” here, because although Telemachus was both important and present in the Iliad, he was not really a “featured character”, and really only had a very minor role.

  8. Don
    August 19, 2009, 2:35 pm | # | Reply

    King of the word games! The alt is particularly peculiar and therefore rUl0rs 😀

  9. Matt
    August 19, 2009, 6:14 pm | # | Reply

    Basketcase already did it. http://www.basketcasecomix.com/?p=827

    • vf
      August 22, 2009, 10:50 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, and I didn’t notice it until he linked to BasketCase in comic 962.

      • Luke
        August 22, 2009, 10:59 am | #

        I hadn’t read basketcase before (aside from a few StumbleUpons), but after following Matt’s link I became an instant fan.

  10. PaulBags
    August 20, 2009, 9:57 am | # | Reply

    Hey just wanted to point out that I often find your website to be down, I don’t know if it’s a bandwidth thing or what but yeah, sites kinda borked.

  11. Gabi
    August 20, 2009, 2:31 pm | # | Reply

    Awesome. Totally aced my Classics exam today so this was very appropriate

  12. Tom
    August 31, 2009, 4:00 pm | # | Reply

    Well put, my friend, well put.

  13. clem
    September 4, 2009, 6:00 pm | # | Reply

    ooohhh hahahahahaha!! got it

  14. Maddie
    September 20, 2009, 9:00 pm | # | Reply

    <3

  15. brett-o-d
    March 18, 2010, 4:59 pm | # | Reply

    Took me a while to get it. This one was much more difficult but very funny when I figured it out.

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