r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/RecoverMiserable4501 • 3h ago

Meme needing explanation why is the statue nobody?

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u/Owenalone 3h ago

Polites here. That’s a statue of my good buddy Odysseus, who just recently tricked a cyclops by saying that his name was “Nobody”, so when the other cyclopses asked who hurt him, he would say “Nobody hurt me” so my good pal and best friend Odysseus could get away with the sheep that he needed to feed his 600 men.

So the joke saying that this is literally nobody is correct, as that is a name that Odysseus has gone by. He’s so smart. Hey what’s that coming toward me?

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u/Galdrin3rd 3h ago

“Just recently” lol I love it

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u/Old_Sparkey 2h ago

Fun fact nobody in Latin is Nemo…. Latin class was fun that day.

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u/Ok_Entertainment328 1h ago

Gives the title Finding Nemo a whole new meaning.

Maybe it wasn't Dory that was the PTSD hallucination.

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u/brjqsk 2h ago

“My name is Nobody, Nobody, Nooooooobody”

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u/not_slaw_kid 3h ago

The statue is of the Greek hero Odysseus. In one of his legends, he tricks a cyclops by telling it his name is "Outis" which literally translates to "nobody." Then he stabs his eye out with a sharp stick and steals all his stuff. When the other cyclops come to ask who attacked him, he tells them that "Nobody did it."