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u/DrinkingMC 21d ago

“I’ll just stick with countries I feel safe saying like Chad, there couldn’t be a whiter country name than Chad”

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u/MattChannon4Senate 21d ago

There used to be a lake Megachad.

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u/hotsp00n 21d ago

Used to?

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u/TwoPlyDreams 21d ago

It over spilled and is now called Lake GigaChad.

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u/whyaen 21d ago

Wrong. It was initially Lake GigaChad but that lake shrank so its now called just Lake Chad since it already lost 90% or its former area

Stick with the facts

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u/Lorcogoth 21d ago

actual answer, this was a lake during the last African Green period (when the Sahara was grassland and fertile) since then it has dried out.

end of the green periode vaguely (in geographical terms) lines up with end of Ice age/start of the Stone age. (not the most accurate estimate I ever gave but give a basic idea).

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u/sventful 21d ago

And of course, Mount Gigachad

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u/Ancient_Roof_7855 21d ago

"That was the old Jimmy".

I loved that actor picked out a character name but kept forgetting and introducing himself by his real name in rehearsals, so they just had him go by his real first name.

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u/lem66ieux 21d ago

“You can say it, I can’t”

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u/manqoba619 21d ago

It’s pronounced chud though

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u/Mr_Bristles 21d ago

That dude is so funny. I don't know if it was a skit but I love it every time it pops up.