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RealChickenManny

@realchickenmanny

Favorite word is tangentially! If you ask me what my favorite word is I'm going to put you on my wall of fools who asked me what my favorite word is.

i love the phrase "which could mean nothing" i think its my favorite thing to come out of the internet ever i love saying it. it could mean nothing but we all know better. we know the truth.

"Who's on first" is a famous mid 20th century comedy routine by Abbot and Costello. The skit is based on mutual misunderstandings between the two comedians as they discuss a fictional baseball team composed of players with strange names.

For example, the first baseman (a defensive position in baseball for the player who stands on and near the first base in an attempt to get any batters out by catching the baseball and stepping on first base before the batter can reach it, or throwing the ball to other players on their team so they can tag out players), is named "Who."

The statement "Who is on first" (stating the player named 'Who' is the first baseman) is identical to the question "Who's on first?" (asking the name of the first baseman). The skit is based on this type of non-comprehension.

In the above image, a player named "Hu" (which is pronounced the same as the English word "Who") is positioned at a base.

If people in the early twenty-first century are familiar with Abbot and Costello, they would be familiar with the "Who's on First" skit, which is freely available for viewing in the early twenty-first century and often parodied.

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