one of those weird joke punchlines that's never going to escape the 20th century is "people used to think you could put razor blades under a little pyramid and it would keep them sharp forever because of Magical Rays or whatever"
this is a thing people actually did. if you ever see an old joke about pyramids and razors, this is what's up. look up "Pyramid Power", it's bananas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_power
@irisjaycomics did it work though?
@irisjaycomics there's a winery kinda near me that has a LOT of pyramids in and around it. Special barrels age inside one of the pyramids. There is also a lunch picnic pyramid. The owner and his son both wear literal rose tinted sunglasses everyday. I have met them multiple times as I work in an adjacent industry. The wine is mostly good, except the Gewurztraminer, which is usually anemic, cowardly, but emblematic of the local style. Which is shit.
@PennyPennyPenny that's WILD. here in seattle we have Pyramid Brewing, which has some model pyramids outside of their brewery, but as far as i know it's more of a cute logo thing than for Mystic Energies
@irisjaycomics Oh yeah, this place is HARDCORE into the pyramids. IMMENSELY hardcore into their pyramids. And a sweat lodge they "totally definitely for real" in cooperation and consultation with the indigenous tribe whose territory they're on. No yurts though.
@irisjaycomics Doesn't actually work, obviously. You have to use a cube.
@irisjaycomics I remember watching the mythbusters episode about this as a kid and, like, what the hell
@irisjaycomics I had some bullshit book when I was a kid, with a title like "amazing stored knowledge" that was like 50% "bullshit you see on Snopes these days" by volume. It messed up my ability to know what was credible for, like, two decades.
I bring this up because it was *remarkably* credulous about fucking pyramid power.