But glue was invented from tree bark like 200,000 years ago wasn’t it? These gentlemen appear to be Jacobian…
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First… It’s Jacobean. This is Lemmy, when in doubt always go bean.
This is indeed a portrait of Johannes Elmer, the inventor of modern glue, circa 1618. The text is whimsical, but in reality things were not well at home for Mr. Elmer as his wealthy dutchess wife had died at the ripe age of 24 and her family always thought Elmer a “dipshit”. He quickly became a pauper and resorted to barbecuing his own horse for sustenance. Unfortunately the remote digital thermometer had not been invented yet and he left his horsey on the barby for far too long whilst mulling wine in his cellar. The sonofabitch melted into a gooey mess that was damn near impossible to clean. He had found many of his fliers he had posted about town advertising his available courtship had fallen down due to low quality tree bark glue, and took to posting them with his melted horse adhesive. However it wasn’t until he offered to try fixing a wealthy merchant’s wagon wheel that had broken after running over a large boned child, that it became suggested that he start marketing his horse-based glue, and thus was born the Elmer’s empire. The wagon wheel, interestingly enough, is still preserved in the Elmer’s museum to this day.
This is amazing.
Wow. And here I was thinking Elmer’s glue was named after the Borden cartoon cow. It’s nice knowing you can learn history like this from Lemmy comments.
You seem pretty confident, so I’m gonna go ahead and internalize it as factual.
If it’s not true there’s no way the story’s better. It’s also pretty low stakes to be wrong about. I’m going to join you.
I like to do this on Facebook and let it influence my national election vote.
The writing feels so close to Shitty_Morph from Reddit I was prepping myself to hear about The Undertaker and Mankind about halfway through.
Wife must have taken a liking to the horse d
Lol.
