Four puppies cuddling. Pompey, 1 century CE.

August 13, 2025 - 14:31 UTC

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I thought this was a potato for a second.
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😢😢😢 Poor helpless babies.
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Marble statues do have a hard time fleeing.
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This makes me sad
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Its marble
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It really does look like it could be a really odd shaped potato.
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No I believe that’s a fucked up potato
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That is something depressing that I didn’t need to see.
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Marble saddens you?
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It's a marble sculpture, not a result of the eruption, don't worry! No puppies harmed.
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Potato
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Awww.... 😍
There's NOTHING BETTER than a PUPPY PILE no matter what form they come in. 🥰

HOORAY! For Piles, & PILES of PUPPIES! 🥳
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@deepshrm.bsky.social 🥹
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Is this from the volcano eruption?
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No, just a marble sculpture found there.
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it looked like ginger root at first 😭
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Wow 😨😨😨
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Relieved to hear its marble!
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forbidden bread roll
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Or potato
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I'm sorry, why did you post a picture claiming to be a 2000 year old Roman sculpture when it is clearly just an oddly shaped potato
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Boopppppsssss
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Wonderful art
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Wiw
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Looks like an uncooked bagel or cookie. Let's throw some choco chips or everything seasons on it and oven that bitch. Time to murder some carbs ya'll! Nom!Nom!Nom!
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79 AD
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Such a cute puptato!
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Love this.
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CAVE CANEM (beware of dog)
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Ngl, I thought this was a ball of dough for a minute XD
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Aaaawwww poor babies
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Marble.
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Wonderful
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I initially thought this was a lumpy potato.
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Mom and 3 pups I believe but awww 🥰 melting me!
I adore all pups! Ty for share here! 🙏🌻🕊️👍
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Pompey
Puppy Pie.

What will
They Bake
Of next.
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Really clumped together Pizza Dough
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so this made me think of netsuke and I went on a whole puppy netsuke rabbit hole and i found a cursed site selling modern carvings supposedly of mammoth bones anyway here’s some actual edo and meiji puppies (17th-19th c)
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Delightful little guys!
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(Lower left is piglets - but all still adorable - thank you for your hard work & sharing)
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i can’t believe how many folks thought they were puppy victims of 72 AD
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The volcano turned them into potato bread.

They died in knead.
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Lovely.
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i would be very happy if you could click once and write a comment and tell me your opinion,it's very precious to me...
www.wmwnewsglobal.com
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Someone should bake bread like this💕
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At First glance, thought it was a ginger root
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Wondrous!! Marble?
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The dough needs kneaded once more and rise again.
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@weratedogs.com
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Awww.
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My hungry ass sees pizza dough
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Ok same I thought it was just me 🫣
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Yep
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😢
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Good to know some things are timeless.
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Low-hydration dough more like it
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omg at first i thought this was uncooked bread 😅
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Thanks, no thanks- Kristi Noem killing puppies puts me over my lifetime quota for trauma and puppies. Yes History need to be documented…
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What an odd comment to leave on a public forum.
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bsky.app/profile/screenrant.bsky.social/post/3lwcs27wnff2x
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Sorry she’s ruined marble sculptures for you
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I too go from cute puppies cuddling to assuming Kristi noem will kill them. That’s a totally normal multi-century jump
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What does a statue of puppies from literal centuries ago have to do with Noem???

Take a lap
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so sweet! 😍
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Attn: The sound you hear is my heart cracking open.
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This is gold Kerry Gold. Thanks.
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Oh man. This is hard to describe. I think it makes me sad.
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Marble sculpture.
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Pas une pomme de terre?
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Nah it's a potato
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Outstanding work out of Portsmouth
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What breed are they?
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Ban this fucking AI bullshit
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wat...

Four Little Dogs from the House of the Faun in Pompeii Marble Roman 1st century BCE

Photographed at "Pompeii: The Exhibit" at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle Washington.

This was photographed about 7 years before AI was a thing.

Source: www.flickr.com/photos/mharrsch/17290855516/
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Life is always easier with a source.
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Pompeii.
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Their final embrace...
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Nope, just a sculpture.
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They look like potatoes, baby potatoes
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i thought this was an uncooked pretzel
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Looks like puptatos
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Well that ruined my day
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It’s a statue.
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I thought this was pizza dough
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Puppy pile in Pompeii!
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Puppeii
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I thought it was a potato
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Pompey or Pompeii?
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Thought it was ginger root
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really love how you can tell there was a lot of care carved into this piece. the sleeping expressions are amazing
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That doesn't look legit
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I did a reverse image search out of curiosity and it looks like it's part of an exhibition currently at the St. Louis Science Museum and the artefacts are on loan from the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, Italy
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sailsadjust.wordpress.com/museum-mania/pompeii-the-exhibition/

It seems to be a legit marble sculpture found in a garden in Pompeii!
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Thought at first it was a potato..
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Looks like a potato
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Pompey was a sculptor ? Wow.
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Okay, I just have to lift up this delightful post/thread thread.

Pompeii: city destroyed by Vesuvius, unrelated to the sculpture.

Pompey: a Roman emperor from around the same time as this sculpture.

Pompey (POM’-pē): my wonderful friend who passed recently; I appreciate the sweet reminder of her.
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She was beeeaaauuutiful. Thank you for the funny post. I'm so sorry for your loss.
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*general, not emperor.
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Pompey is also a colloquial term for Portsmouth in the UK.
Hence, a couple of other posts in this thread.
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Wow, that is wonderful!
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I wish I was one of those puppies
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Your. Replies.
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WOW!
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Wow. Very cool.
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It’s a sculpture.

Sure the puppies are dead, but maybe not by volcano!
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Beautiful!
Imagine you having this artefact at home.
In your bookcase/rarities cabinet.
Well, something to dream about tonight.
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It's a very emotional object. Such beautiful work x
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Are you sure those aren’t duck billed platypus puppies?
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Platapups
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I thought this was ginger, so I suppose I won’t be exploring a career as an archeologist anytime soon.
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Checked the replies just to see if I was the only one who saw ginger. 🫚
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🥰
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These look like pigs to me
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I'm glad I read the caption. My immediate thought was that this was a void casting that is sometimes done through the ash.
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It looks like they are made of cookie dough & I wanna eat them
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That's one fucked up looking potato
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@moudhy.bsky.social
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Thought it was a potato.
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You say potahto I say potato
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At first I thought it was a biscuit. Then I thought that biscuit looks like puppies
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They needed timeline cleanses, too! 😏
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First century BC*

www.flickr.com/photos/mharrsch/17290855516/in/photostream/
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they're sleeping
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I wonder what the original colors were?
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I thought this was a potato.
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After 2,000 yrs we've descended into MAGAs searching for immigrant crime,voter fraud and waste
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An extremely unnecessary reply
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what is wrong with you
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1) think about why you did this

2) think about ways you can not do this in the future
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Please, for the love of God, get a life
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Deep nation-wide hatred for Trump.
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I hope it's not AI
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They were probably so scared.
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it's a marble sculpture
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Extracting marble is really painful I've heard
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its a carving of puppies playing that someone made, not like the actual remains of the puppies after the eruption (dont worry i thought that too at first XD)
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What does CE mean? I'm only used to BC and AD.
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Common Era, same as AD.
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A "social media" posting of its time 😀
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Visited Pompeii as a 12 yo kid when we were living in Milan. It was, of ALL the places we saw while living in Italy, the MOST impactful on me. To this day I remember everything about that visit. Venice = stinks like sewage, Pisa = too tall for me (used to be able to go to the top), Pompeii = WOW!
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That is beautiful. I have never seen that before. Thank you.
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Really didn't need to think about cute puppies dying horribly, thanks.
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Then why are you?
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Theyre so cute im gonna throw up
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A dog, also from Pompeii 🙂
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Oh, gawd! I don't care about humans, but puppies??? 😭
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It's a sculpture.
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Wow, I was so lucky in 1972 that my mother & a friend took us on a private tour of the excavations. At 13, I found it just so beautiful and amazing. Living in Italy that summer was spectacular. Thus is my first time seeing this artifact!!
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and this how life can end so quickly. the light the sound from an unknown source to t the, hty emy have thought is was alightning storm coming. they died instantly.
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It's a sculpture found there, not a void vast.
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Pup-n-fresh dough dogs.
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That’s so cool. I love artifacts from Pompeii
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i thought it was ginger for a sec
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Do we know what the status was for dogs? Were they sacrificed, pets, or food?
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I'd like to know too. Anyone with information please post!🐕🐶🐾
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😊😊😊😊
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Looks like puppy piles are the same whereever/whenever.
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So it’s not an AI potato?
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I thought this was just a potato
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Pompeii. Four puppies clinging to each other as they die in excruciating pain. Terrifying.
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OK, ok. I love animals. This looks a LOT like a pyroclastic cast.
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Statue. Marble.
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Dogs are marble.
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Wow
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Fake
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I thought it was a potato. 🤨
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@gothtatertot.bsky.social
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I thought it was a magical potato, but that's pretty cute and good also.
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This is probably because I work at a grocery store rn but I thought this was a potato at first 😭
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Spent the last days snuggled up and eepy.
A nice but tragic way to go
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It’s sculpture.
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Pompey[sic]

The place is Pompeii. The dogs are marble, not pyroclastic casts.
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Appreciate the clarification! Having been to Pompeii, I was wracking my brain re: the people in pyroclastic casts and thinking “i don’t remember any of them looking quite this detailed. How strange.”
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Omg thank you for the clarification I was stressing 😂
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And, here was me thinking that's a rather odd-looking
jerusalem artichoke. 🤷 😉
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Oh, jeez, thanks for clarifying. For a second, I thought the history books were going to have to be rewritten.

Pompey The Puppy Slayer just doesn't have the same panache.
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Nonono you see, they were Pompey’s puppies.

You know, Pomppies.
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Ok, cool. For a minute I thought the later. Whew!
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👍👍👍
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I mean it COULD have come from Portsmouth...
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I am so glad to hear that! I was wondering.
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Oh thank God
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Eesh! Thanks for clarifying!
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I cannot stop giggling
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Thank the gods
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I thought it was Portsmouth they were going on about for a moment there. I was blaming AI because I don't think they have volcanos in Portsmouth.
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Thank you. I was already worrying if I can like it or just be sad.
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Wow!
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Hmm, & I was going to guess 'jacket potato'.😳
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Pompei
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i thought this was some weird potato at first
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The best thing about puppies is that they're kinda just weird potatoes 💖
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My sour dough!
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I thought u carved this from a potato lol
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