Twilight took the briefest peek out the window, at the hordes of monsters surrounding the Golden Oaks Library, then ducked out of sight. She turned back to her five friends. “Girls, we’re definitely outnumbered. Twenty to one.”
Rainbow Dash snorted. “Sounds like pretty bad odds ...” Then she smirked. “... for them.”
“That’s the spirit!” Twilight said. “I think it’s time we give those monsters a taste of the Dewey Classical Decimation System!”
Silence hung in the library, like an overripe fruit.
It was Rainbow who knocked that fruit to the ground. Grabbing Twilight’s shoulders, she said, “You know, we’d better all survive this. Because I am going to kill you for making that pun.”
You know, you wouldn't expect Rainbow to even know the Dewey Decimal system, but what the hay.
If a Roman Legion shows cowardice in the face of the enemy, randomly, 1/10th are put to death. Ponies usually get this wrong and believe that it is 9/10ths. The Master got this right when he decimated the population of the Earth (he killed 1/10th of the population of the Earth for cowing the remaining 9/10th into submission). It seems unlikely that ponies would know about decimation.
Dewey Decimal Classification System is a system for organizing books. It is strange that ponies would know about it. I wonder what-sort-of systems for organizing books ponies would invent.
6839533 The system of organizing books is the Dewey Decimal Classification System.
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Yes, but ¿how did it reach Equestria? ¿How did a human-book-organizing system reach Equestria? ¿Why this particular book-organizing system?
Dang-it, you got me with the same joke AGAIN.
Hooray, I contributed!
(I normally don't do the comment-per-chapter thing, but this certainly merited it. )
YES! YES!