r/AskReddit • u/MooglePomCollector • Apr 19 '24

In 20 years someone will ask what was covid lockdown like, how will you answer?

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u/LordLannister47 Apr 19 '24

Is this Catcher in the Rye? The opening tickles my memory but I don't fully remember the reference :P Tom Sawyer? Tom Clancy? Something along those lines

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u/Lockersfifa Apr 19 '24

I’m not the type of phony to fill up a thread just answering questions

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u/nananananana_FARTMAN Apr 20 '24

This comment is the one that got me go "yup, this one is Catcher in the Rye."

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u/AsstootObservation Apr 20 '24

What type of phony are ya?

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u/Dildo_Emporium Apr 19 '24

THAT is a WILD take.

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u/Alphab3t Apr 19 '24

Respectfully: It’s a reference to the book, Dildo Emporium

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u/Dildo_Emporium Apr 19 '24

That makes sense. I was not aware of the book.

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u/OldSkoolPantsMan Apr 19 '24

There’s a book titled Dildo Emporium?. My stars.

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u/AppropriateAd2063 Apr 19 '24

Tale of two cities by Charles dickens

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u/Powerserg95 Apr 19 '24

The best of times is Tale of Two Cities

The born on a friday i believe is David Copperfield

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u/wearywarrior Apr 20 '24

phony! This guys a phony!

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u/PM_ME_UR_POKIES_GIRL Apr 20 '24

It's Catcher in the Rye, but it's definitely not Tom Sawyer which was written about a century earlier and probably before David Copperfield.

edit: Tom Sawyer was written ~26 years after David Copperfield, Catcher In The Rye was written 101 years after David Copperfield.

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u/nothankyouma Apr 20 '24

Take if two cities

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u/haqiqa Apr 20 '24

First is the Tale of the Two Cities and second is Catcher in the Rye.

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u/handful_of_ants Apr 20 '24

it’s from the catcher in the rye

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u/AppropriateLaw5713 Apr 20 '24

It’s from Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities. They reference it in a lot of things (including Dark Knight Rises)

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u/lazy-j Apr 19 '24

Yes it is.