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Why Can’t I Hold All These Limes? is an image macro series featuring a man attempting to carry several limes in his hands while they appear to be falling from his grasp. Derivatives often feature other characters failing to secure a variety of objects.
Origin
The image of the man holding the limes comes from a photo of a display ad for George clothing, perhaps from a Walmart.
George is the name of a clothing brand name owned by the British supermarket ASDA (ASquith DAiries), who are owned by Wal-Mart. The reason he is holding limes is to look friendly and also because ASDA has the colour green traditionally. 1
The first image macros are suspected to have come from 4chan, but there are no archived threads to confirm this.
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The image macro with the overlaid text “Why can’t I hold all these limes?” was posted to Funny Junk 2 on July 24th, 2010. A Green Oval thread 3 in the Anime / Mango board was created on August 25th, and featured several limes guy derivatives. A Yahoo! Answers question 4 was created on September 2nd, 2010. A Reddit thread 1 was posted on November 13th, 2010 with a photo of the display ad.
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1 Reddit – Meet George, the man who will never be able to hold all those limes :( / 11/13/2010
2 Funny Junk – Why can’t I hold all these limes? / 7/24/2010
3 Green Oval – Why can’t I hold all these shells?! / 8/25/2010
4 Yahoo Answers – Why can’t I hold all these limes? / 9/2/2010