Friend: This one has a cool joke to tell. Want to hear?
Me: Sure okay.
Friend: What can a frozen band-aid be applied on?
Me: This one don't know. Tell me.
Friend: A cold cut. Get it?? hehehe
Me:.... *activates Grim Focus!*
Friend: No wait! it's a joke! please!
I always found that idea to be ridiculous. It seems to me like someone drew those as a joke way back when, or maybe even as something just to open a trainee's mind a bit, and some modern day "expert" historians took it seriously and thought everybody held their swords like that all the time. Kinda like how everybody thought that if a knight fell down he'd just flop around like a turtle on it's back.
Edited by Glurin on January 19, 2018 7:48AM
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster...when you gaze long into the abyss the abyss also gazes into you..."