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Ok, I'll be the first: can someone explain this?
The soldiers are roman so it can't be a hapsburg chin joke. The jawbone wielder has a prominent jaw himself, which feels like the set up, but if so I'm missing the punchline.
It's from the story of Samson in the Bible.
The quote goes something like this:
Then Samson said, “With a donkey’s jawbone I have made donkeys of them. With a donkey’s jawbone I have killed a thousand men.”
Eww, the bible.
Thank you!
Getting past the bible part, it's funny because after losing a few hundred guys they're still approaching a couple at a time, and the one guy is being distracting while trying to coach his buddy like, "we can still take him"
I agree, I think that the gist of the joke is in meaningless coaching. Like, yeah, avoiding an enemie's weapon is something one would never guess to do
Interestingly enough, donkey jawbones are used as musical percussion instruments in some parts of Latin America.
Link to videos of jawbones being played in 2 different ways inside the article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawbone_(instrument)
So either Samson literally slew them, or proverbially slew them by rocking out.
The soldiers are supposed to be Philistines, technically.