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This is a single-panel crude humor meme. The upper section contains a four-line dialogue joke between the Christian God and Noah referencing the biblical story of Noah's Ark. The lower section features a classic painted illustration of a long-bearded old man in biblical-style robes, standing against a rocky landscape with open hands outstretched and looking upward, appearing to react to the conversation. The joke hinges on the double meaning of the vulgar term 'fucking': when God says 'build a big fucking boat', Noah interprets the word either as an intensifier meaning 'extremely large', or as a descriptor for the boat's intended purpose for sexual intercourse. God pauses before answering 'Both', the punchline that confirms both interpretations apply, matching the original post title.
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God: Build a big fucking boat
Noah: Do you mean a very large boat or a boat made for fucking.
God: *pauses*
God: Both

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Both is good

Overview

This is a single-panel crude humor meme. The upper section contains a four-line dialogue joke between the Christian God and Noah referencing the biblical story of Noah's Ark. The lower section features a classic painted illustration of a long-bearded old man in biblical-style robes, standing against a rocky landscape with open hands outstretched and looking upward, appearing to react to the conversation. The joke hinges on the double meaning of the vulgar term 'fucking': when God says 'build a big fucking boat', Noah interprets the word either as an intensifier meaning 'extremely large', or as a descriptor for the boat's intended purpose for sexual intercourse. God pauses before answering 'Both', the punchline that confirms both interpretations apply, matching the original post title.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from the RSS feed of the Reddit r/Meme subreddit, posted under the original title 'Both is good'. It is a remixed work that adds humorous vulgar dialogue over a pre-existing public-domain style religious illustration of a biblical prophet, as part of the popular 'Both is good' meme trend that plays on unexpected double meanings in dialogue.

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