• tinsukE@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Standing legs? Man stands on his own 2. King sits on the 4 of his throne. Beggar sits on the floor?

    • Skua@kbin.earth
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      14 hours ago

      I think it’s close to this, but it’s shoes. Four horseshoes for the king on his horse, two shoes on the ordinary man’s feet, and the beggar barefoot

          • Javi@feddit.uk
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            11 hours ago

            It’s a little known fact that the number following a monarchs name, is actually the number of shoes they wear…

            Honestly, if it wasn’t for all of the royal inbreeding, we probably would have run into a scenario where we have two George IV’s or something like that, so thank god they kept it in the respective families all these years.