this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2023
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[–] SpacePirate@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

I must have seen/heard this title a hundred times, but only "got it" just now.

[–] FlashZordon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

My daughter absolutely loves this show lmao and it was the first thing I I thought of when I saw this post.

[–] Arrakis@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Donkey Ote. Pronounced "Don Quixote"

[–] Arrakis@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Thank you, I feel like an ass

[–] Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

Then wouldn't it make more sense to call it Shot?

[–] TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Had to Google it. A Spanish novel.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I haven't actually read it either, but it's pretty famous. It's where the idiom "tilting at windmills" comes from.

And the ship from the expanse is a reference to it.

[–] callyral@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago
[–] SquareRouteCanal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

*Oté. Ftfy