Re: [9front] Re: proposal: raze fortunes

[hiro <23hiro@gmail.com>]

i'm not even part of this thread so i don't think it's so troll.

On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 6:29 AM Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 08:24:49PM -0700, Anthony Martin wrote:
> > This is what Kurt wants to raze - a woolly twist on a
> > famous Groucho Marx quote:
> >
> > "Who are you going to believe? Me or that lying sheep?" -- Jim McKie
>
> I can tell you just pasted it into a bad search engine, and got a bunch
> of pretty close results, but the famous "lying eyes" quote isn't the
> source of this punchline.  That joke doesn't even make any sense with
> the words "that lying sheep" substituted for "your lying eyes".  What
> the hell "wooly twist" is being accomplished here?  No.  I'm not
> surprised that humor is a foreign subject to you, but put a little more
> effort into maligning me in the future.  I prefer attacks upon me to
>
> In actual fact,  That line is the punchline to a joke about a farmer
> hiring a a guy who claims he can talk to animals.  The farmer is
> suspicious of this claim, but needs the help.  Comedy comes in threes,
> so the worker accurately reports conversations with a cow and a chicken.
> Each paints a picture of the farmer living an isolated widower life.
> Then, realizing the implications of this ability, the farmer hurries to
> impugn the reliability of the sheep, despite moments prior disbelieving
> anyone could talk to animals.
>
> He was worried the sheep would report being raped.  ha ha ha, I guess,
> back in the day someone thought this shit was funny.
>
> > My heavens! I almost fell over, clutching my pearls.
> >
> > Stop trying to erase humour because it offends your
> > professional, managerial sentiments and clashes with
> > your bourgeois identity politics.
>
> Yeah, normally I'd be right there with you, but this joke is being used
> to attack some rando I don't know, isn't anything to do with 9front,
> and, the worst crime of all, isn't a particularly funny joke.
>
> I only explicitly mentioned it to highlight other idiotic attempts to
> bowdlerize fortunes, which focus on getting rid of four-letter words
> without actually understanding any of the contents of the file.  On
> brand and in character for the actors in question!  In this case, really
> just more pre-9front detritus.
>
> > Are you talking about the violent thrashes of the dying
> > beast that is U.S. imperialism via NATO and its proxies
> > in Ukraine, occupied Palestine, occupied Taiwan, etc.?
>
> No, I'm talking about Nazis.  US imperialism is pretty great.
>
> > No other threat comes to mind.
>
> Nor much else, judging by this email!
>
> > Silly me. I'm postin-in-a-troll-thread.jpg
>
> all threads are troll threads if you're brave enough
>
> khm