Have you guys seen any lines that'd be funny out of context from whatever book they're from? Not hilarious or intentionally funny, but things that just give you a small chuckle
Stuff like,
Thus we can say that we owe our reason, like our language, to intercourse with other men.
-Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies
Or,
Much of the carrying−trade of England, even, was then done in Dutch bottoms.
-Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
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“We had lain thus in bed, chatting and napping at short
intervals, and Queequeg now and the affectionately throwing 
his brown 
tattooed 
legs over mine, and then drawing 
them back”
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I guess that's why they call it Moby Peepee
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Goddarned "Moby Peepee" FRICK
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Apparently Mutt’s law was already a thing in the 1850s.
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Queequeg was a pacific islander. Jewish lives matter has rotted you're brain
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Yes, he was a Maori, however
Is not only about blacks.
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I don't think that was unintentional
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It’s still funny
out of context, especially for people who only know Moby Peepee by name, or just think 
about the big whale. I wonder 
what the 1850s audience thought 
of those chapters.
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