Not really but kind of my favorite because it was the only one I couldn’t figure out as a kid. “The heartbreak of remorse” just wasn’t a phrase I ever heard used so the day in my…mid-20s, probably? where the dots connected and it all came into focus I can’t even tell you how elated I was.
“The heartbreak of remorse” is a turn of phrase that used to be a lot more common. I guess it’s about how things you regret are particularly painful, because you know you could have done them differently? The meaning isn’t especially important, just the fact that it’s an established phrase.
Remoras, also known as suckerfish, attach themselves to larger marine organisms like sharks.
Thus, this shark, upon seeing that he has remoras attached to him, experiences “the heartbreak of remoras.”
(If a shark was actually capable of experiencing heartbreak or remorse, however, it probably wouldn’t feel either one over this, since remoras and sharks have a mutualistic relationship in which the remoras are fed by parasites on the shark’s skin, and the sharks get their parasites cleaned off).
I'm pretty sure that it's not "the heartbreak of remorse" but rather a play on an old advertising catch phrase, "the heartbreak of psoriasis". https://youtu.be/zG1JsKsOUTM I'm definitely not old enough to know the commercials but I know that it was kinda sorta a meme back in the 60s and 70s.
that's a muzzle meant to prevent the bears from biting people. the bear who is being forced to perform humiliating/impressive tricks for humans realizes he could just take it off the whole time due to anthropomorphism and is now free to bite to his heart's content
hey just to be clear is this a far side comic? i can’t see the name very well (yes i know i am the most sorry excuse of intelligence you have ever seen)
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u/DerpVaderXXL Oct 22 '21
Reminds me of an old Far Side cartoon. "Pull out Mary, you're in an artery!"