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Wil Jones
Mar 22, 2017

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Twitter user Lucy Wainwright has discovered something interesting:
I defy you to find a Wile E Coyote gif that isn't a metaphor for Brexit. https://t.co/G1WDTnxhUt— Lucy Wainwright (@Lucy Wainwright) 1490035063
I defy you to find a Wile E Coyote gif that isn't a metaphor for Brexit.
And yes, it really works.
The hapless Looney Tunes star - who is always trying to catch the Road Runner, but just keeps blowing himself up - seems to make a perfect allegory for the triggering of Article 50.
Lucy offered up some more examples.
He's not even actually in this one and it still works. https://t.co/vAxRgrNw0S— Lucy Wainwright (@Lucy Wainwright) 1490035825
And then others got involved
.@Whoozley https://t.co/Z5TCo0mDSA— Peter Ferguson (@Peter Ferguson) 1490036701
And they kept coming.
And coming.
Can we just watch cartoons, and ignore the news for a moment?
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