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> Blurble, Blarble and Blorble
You can’t fool me. Those aren’t social media sites. Those are three of the dwarves that went treasure-hunting with Bilbo Baggins in *The Hobbit*.
@dpnash
I honestly havent heard of those names before.
I was roughly guessing they were some media site I never heard of before.
I dont recall those being the names of the other hobbits.
But my memory with names is pretty bad anyways, so I pretend like I'm reading some more indirect implications I dont understand but am expected to nod and be quiet, and/or not argue with publicly, while my brains screams at the screen, without uttering a sound (if I can keep this thing quiet)
@GreenRoc @eloquence Argh, nothing like having to explain my own jokes. 😞
I’m pretty sure the original poster was riffing off the actual “Bumble” dating/social media site and making up three applications/sites with similar names. In *The Hobbit*, three of the dwarves were Bifur, Bofur, and Bombur, which sounded enough like the three made-up social media sites, at least when said a bit quickly and possibly when slightly drunk, to make a suitable punchline.
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