“Facile l’abeille” meme: meaning, origin and rare card

What does the “Facile l’abeille” meme mean?

The meme runs on a very simple wordplay: the French word for ostrich, “autruche”, sounds almost like “une autre ruche”, “another hive”. The line imitates a confident answer given by someone who finds the question childish. It is funny because of the gap between the air of ease and the absurd logic of the reply. Use it to answer a silly question, to launch a dubious pun, or to show off ironically about a riddle nobody expects to be solved.

Where does the “Facile l’abeille” meme come from?

The meme is built on a riddle whose punchline is “l’autruche, car à côté d’une ruche il y a une autre ruche”, the ostrich, because beside one hive there is another hive. It is a classic pun: the bird’s name blends, to the ear, with “une autre ruche”, turning an absurd answer into playground logic. “Facile l’abeille” acts as the triumphant comment on that explanation, as if the riddle held no secret. This mix of schoolyard joke and nonsense travels well as a screenshot or quote, since the punchline lands the instant it is read aloud. The phrase is now reused as is to label any answer that is too obvious or too twisted.

How to use the “Facile l’abeille” meme

• Tell the riddle to friends and wait for the groan at the punchline.
• Reply “facile, l’abeille” to a question whose answer seems ridiculously simple.
• Comment on a pun by quoting the hive explanation.
• Brag ironically about solving a puzzle nobody was working on.

The “Facile l’abeille” card in MyMemeCards

Number	No. 2127
Rarity	Rare
Collection	Memes FR pack
Fame	50/100 · #753 of 3502
Recycle value	10 MemeCoins (30 in Shiny)
Suggested by	@zozo7436

How to get the “Facile l’abeille” card

Every pack holds 5 meme cards, the first 3 of them Common; Facile l’abeille comes out of the Memes FR pack as a rare card. The pack odds say what each rarity weighs.

Your first pack is free and needs no account. After that a new free pack lands every 10 minutes, up to 3 waiting for you. You can also buy the card with MemeCoins on the market, bid for it at auction, or trade it — and a double recycles into 10 MemeCoins.

The reprint of the “Facile l’abeille” card

The “Facile l’abeille” card was reprinted as Epic (No. 5,322). A reprint is the same meme printed again, with a number of its own and a higher rarity than its first printing, which was rare. Its face reads “Reprinted card · Higher rarity”.

Every printing is dealt in the packs of the Memes FR pack, each at its own rarity: the higher it is, the rarer the card is to pull. Copies of the first printing already pulled stay as they are, and any printing counts toward completing a set.

MyMemeCards reprints a meme when it deserves more than the rarity of its first printing, such as a classic that became iconic after it came out: the reprint gives it a place among the most sought-after cards without taking anything from the players who already had it.

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