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Love Alcoholic Jokes

This meme features a menacing, surreal glowing yellow skeleton demon with glowing red eyes, spiked shoulder armor, and a chained winged creature accessory, set against a dark neon blue spooky forest background. The text is split across the top and bottom of the image: the top text reads 'ALCOHOLICS DON'T RUN IN MY FAMILY', and the bottom text reads 'THEY DRIVE'. The joke relies on a pun of the common idiom 'something runs in the family', which refers to a trait that is common or inherited among family members. The meme twists the idiom by using the literal meaning of 'run' (moving on foot) to set up the punchline, which implies that alcoholic members of the speaker's family do not run, but instead drive while intoxicated, making for a darkly humorous joke about drunk driving.
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ALCOHOLICS DON'T RUN IN MY FAMILY
THEY DRIVE

Overview

This meme features a menacing, surreal glowing yellow skeleton demon with glowing red eyes, spiked shoulder armor, and a chained winged creature accessory, set against a dark neon blue spooky forest background. The text is split across the top and bottom of the image: the top text reads 'ALCOHOLICS DON'T RUN IN MY FAMILY', and the bottom text reads 'THEY DRIVE'. The joke relies on a pun of the common idiom 'something runs in the family', which refers to a trait that is common or inherited among family members. The meme twists the idiom by using the literal meaning of 'run' (moving on foot) to set up the punchline, which implies that alcoholic members of the speaker's family do not run, but instead drive while intoxicated, making for a darkly humorous joke about drunk driving.

Origin notes

This meme originates from Reddit, shared in meme-focused subreddits with the original poster title 'Love alcoholic jokes'. It uses a popular pre-existing edgy, surreal demon skeleton visual template commonly used for dark humor memes, with custom text added to create the alcoholic pun joke.

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