In ancient Greek they put coins into the mouth of dead people to pay the ferryman for a trip over the Styx to the underworld. (I think it was bronze coins, correct me pls if I'm wrong.)

So yes it must be dead in the first place.

candyman337@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Right but opossums are known to play dead, so they're saying that it could have been playing and they just made it choke to death on a penny

Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 1y

Yes, that is what I was saying

ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 44 pts · 1y (7 replies)

I much enjoyed part 2 and hope that opossum stumbles into godhood

fishos@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 1y (4 replies)

It goes to 9. The next one isn't titled like it continues, but it does. Keep clicking.

EDIT: 8 to 9. There are 10 comics, but numbered it goes to "9" in the title.

kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 1y (2 replies)

10, actually. 1-9 and an intermission with a different title.

fossilesque@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 1y

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fishos@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

I meant 9 as what the last one is titled. But I get your point

bss03@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 1y

5 is frames from a chill, slice-of-life animated feature: "4 heads are better than 1".

hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Spoiler: It doesn't like to be licked.

BlueLagoon@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 1y

bss03@infosec.pub · 31 pts · 1y (4 replies)

I don't know why, but this made me audibly giggle. I'm not sure if it's Charon's confusion in the penultimate panel, or the possum's gleeful/eager expression in the ultimate one.

21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com · 10 pts · 1y

Last line gets me

RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Who wrote this?? Nobody says "penultimate"!

Edit: yeah, sorry, this was just a line from a TV show. It was stupid.

bss03@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 1y

I wrote this. I so rarely get to use the word "penultimate"; I wanted to. It was especially cool to be able to pair it to "ultimate" meaning "last" instead of (the more colloquial) "greatest".

my_hat_stinks@programming.dev · 1 pts · 1y

Penultimate isn't that uncommon? Just because you don't personally hear it in your day-to-day life doesn't mean other people don't use it.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=penultimate%2Csecond+last%2Csecond+to+last%2Cnext+to+last&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3

BreadOven@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 1y (6 replies)

But what if your country doesn't have pennies?

AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Then it shouldn't have opossums.

BreadOven@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

But Canada.

Hupf@feddit.org · 12 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Do you take card?

BreadOven@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y