OT: Riddle (pun alert)

Bebercito

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Sep 20, 2021, 12:39:27 PM9/20/21

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Why does COVID-19 spread fast?

spains...@gmail.com

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Sep 20, 2021, 1:19:49 PM9/20/21

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On Monday, September 20, 2021 at 5:39:27 PM UTC+1, Bebercito wrote:
> Why does COVID-19 spread fast?

Because it went viral?

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Bebercito

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Sep 20, 2021, 1:47:53 PM9/20/21

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Le lundi 20 septembre 2021 à 19:19:49 UTC+2, spains...@gmail.com a écrit :
> On Monday, September 20, 2021 at 5:39:27 PM UTC+1, Bebercito wrote:
> > Why does COVID-19 spread fast?
> Because it went viral?

No, but it could've been.

Bebercito

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Sep 21, 2021, 7:34:59 AM9/21/21

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Le lundi 20 septembre 2021 à 18:39:27 UTC+2, Bebercito a écrit :
> Why does COVID-19 spread fast?

The answer is:

"Because people catch it right off the bat".

I coined the riddle yesterday and I'm not sure it really
works for native speakers. (Any feedback is welcome.)

Madhu

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Sep 21, 2021, 7:59:41 AM9/21/21

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* Bebercito <39b41700-059f-4c57...@googlegroups.com> :
Wrote on Tue, 21 Sep 2021 04:34:56 -0700 (PDT):

You need to clue "bat" somehow in the statement of the riddle

spains...@gmail.com

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Sep 21, 2021, 8:28:32 AM9/21/21

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I was going to try "Because it makes people go down ill
fast".

I think many of us have forgotten the "bat" aspect of COVID.
"Right off the bat", is not an everyday phrase (for me). If it
meant anything it would be "directly" or "right from the
horse's mouth".

Peter T. Daniels

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Sep 21, 2021, 11:38:46 AM9/21/21

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On Tuesday, September 21, 2021 at 8:28:32 AM UTC-4, spains...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 21, 2021 at 12:34:59 PM UTC+1, Bebercito wrote:
> > Le lundi 20 septembre 2021 à 18:39:27 UTC+2, Bebercito a écrit :

> > > Why does COVID-19 spread fast?
> > The answer is:
> > "Because people catch it right off the bat".
> > I coined the riddle yesterday and I'm not sure it really
> > works for native speakers. (Any feedback is welcome.)
>
> I was going to try "Because it makes people go down ill
> fast".

A Cockney joke innit.

> I think many of us have forgotten the "bat" aspect of COVID.
> "Right off the bat", is not an everyday phrase (for me). If it
> meant anything it would be "directly" or "right from the
> horse's mouth".

That's what it means in American, too. Did it originate in
cricket or in baseball?

I did not get the Chiroptera reference until Madhu and you
explained it.

Snidely

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Sep 21, 2021, 4:25:14 PM9/21/21

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Peter T. Daniels explained on 9/21/2021 :

I thought the Pholidota were still a current suspect. Harvesting the
critters appears to be done with smoke, cudgels, and boiling alive.

All species count as endangered by both poaching and deforestation.

/dps

--
I have always been glad we weren't killed that night. I do not know
any particular reason, but I have always been glad.
_Roughing It_, Mark Twain

spains...@gmail.com

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Sep 22, 2021, 2:49:15 AM9/22/21

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Or table-tennis. We don't have "paddles" we have bats. Or
"rounders" from which baseball originated.