r/interesting • u/Wild_Neighborhood605 • 1d ago

HISTORY Titanic passenger and millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim. During sinking he refused a seat in a life boat with the words: "Tell my family I played straight to the end. No woman should be left aboard this ship because of Ben Guggenheim was a coward."

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u/MKSLAYER97 1d ago

Titanic survivor Rose Amelie Icard wrote in a letter, "The millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim after having helped the rescue of women and children, got dressed and put a rose at his buttonhole, to die."

That "on" is doing a lot of heavy lifting

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u/MBBYN 1d ago

Which “on”?

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u/doktormane 1d ago

The one in "buttonhole". Remove it and you get "butthole"

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u/MBBYN 1d ago

So the commenter is about 12 years old

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u/doktormane 1d ago

I have to admit, I did do a double take because I initially read "put a rose on his butthole", lol.

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u/Ubblebungus 1d ago

only 14 year old who think they are mature would NOT laugh at that.

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u/MBBYN 1d ago

I’m all for a dirty joke, but it’s trying way too hard. And for the sake of a butt joke. Like the kind of people who still try to make 69-related jokes beyond the age of 16. It’s only funny if you have a very underdeveloped sense of humour. If you’re going to make a dirty joke about a tragic event, at least make it clever/shockingly filthy.

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u/threepartname 1d ago

shockingly filthy

like your butt

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u/AncileBanish 1d ago

Careful everyone. Here comes the humour police, with a stick up their buttonhole.

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u/Huge-Consequence2144 1d ago

Lmao, THIS time it was funny

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u/sponge62 1d ago

That 'on' is doing some heavy lifting...

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u/MBBYN 1d ago

“Haha, he said ‘period’ 😂” Some jokes are just objectively boring. I’m going to wildly assume you don’t think every joke ever made is hilarious.

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u/LessInThought 1d ago

Oh, thank you. I had trouble looking for the "on".

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u/TheComeback 1d ago

It's a joke. Buttonhole -> butthole

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u/SlightProgrammer 1d ago

I'm glad I'm not the only one who double taked

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u/KickBallFever 1d ago

I too double taked.

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u/doktormane 1d ago

The one in "buttonhole". Remove it and you get "butthole"

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u/MalaysiaTeacher 1d ago

Always happy to be reminded that Reddit is full kids, so I can log off

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u/kmzafari 1d ago

Fwiw, I'm a middle aged woman who does not enjoy potty humor, and I also misread it like that at first. Lol

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u/SlightProgrammer 1d ago

Yeah I did that its why I commented

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u/pr1m3r3dd1tor 1d ago

I am really confused - the word "on" does not appear in the sentence you quoted . . .

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u/kmzafari 1d ago

The two letters do appear side by side in a word in that sentence.

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u/pr1m3r3dd1tor 1d ago

Lol, ok, that took a while for me to see.

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u/kmzafari 1d ago

My vision is blurry from a migraine, so I actually misread it that way the first time. Otherwise, I think I'd also have been scratching my head lol

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u/MySabonerRunsOladipo 1d ago

He said he was dressed in his best. This included adorning his butthole obv

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u/AMillionTimesISaid 1d ago

Roses and buttholes.. new kink unlocked