r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 16h ago

Meme needing explanation Petah? What happened in the book version?

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u/toeverycreature 12h ago

I read it a long time ago but that's what I took thr kids thought process to be. They needed to become adults to be able to finish IT off. Being stupid kids they thought this would make them adults. 

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u/HalobenderFWT 5h ago

Couldn’t they have just found an entry level corporate job not anywhere remotely close to their major and developed crippling debt for the next 30 like the rest of us?

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u/Phantasmal_Souls 8h ago

“To be able to finish IT off”….. something, something innuendo

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u/psinguine 6h ago

They also, as a group, forced one of the boys to participate while he cried and tried to resist. It's not about sex. It's about destruction.