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About

Gru's Plan is an exploitable four-panel comic series featuring the Despicable Me protagonist Gru using a presentation board. Edits of the comic typically feature an unexpected third presentation page, followed by a panel of Gru looking back at the board in confusion.

Origin

On July 9th, 2010 the film Despicable Me was released in theaters. In the film, the character Gru presents a plan to steal the moon in front of a man on a television screen and discovers a drawing of him sitting on the toilet hidden within his presentation pages.

Spread

On March 11th, 2018 Reddit user very_niceu [3] uploaded a Nazi parody of the comic to /r/dankmemes, gathering upwards of 21,000 upvotes within 24 hours (shown below, left). Meanwhile, user charizard77 [4] posted a edit about daylight savings time sleep schedules to /r/memes gathering more than 4,600 upvotes in the same timeframe (show below, center).

Early life

Little is known about Blackbeard's early life. It is commonly believed that at the time of his death he was between 35 and 40 years old and thus born in about 1680. In contemporary records his name is most often given as Blackbeard, Edward Thatch or Edward Teach; the latter is most often used.

New Providence

With its history of colonialism, trade and piracy, the West Indies was the setting for many 17th- and 18th-century maritime incidents.

Legacy

Lieutenant Maynard remained at Ocracoke for several more days, making repairs and burying the dead. Teach's loot—sugar, cocoa, indigo and cotton—found "in pirate sloops and ashore in a tent where the sloops lay", was sold at auction along with sugar and cotton found in Tobias Knight's barn, for £2,238.

Modern view

We normally think about pirates as sort of blood-lusting, that they want to slash somebody to pieces.