• dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It’s like clapping. It hasn’t stopped. It’s just the time between stanzas has been increasing.

  • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.caBanned
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    The song has only been sung once, en canon around the world by different people. It is still in progress and will indeed never end.

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        Even so, it was transmitted electronically out into the universe.

        The ripples of the song will not fade until the universe does.

  • railway692@piefed.zip
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    When one person stops singing, the curse is passed to someone else, somewhere else in the world.

    We just won’t realize until after the nuclear war, when there’s only two people left, passing the song back and forth until they are finally, mercifully taken by the radiation poisoning.