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

[Dave Woodman <dave@naffnet.org.uk>]

Perhaps it's a multi-troll thread, and not a uni-troll...

Dave.

On 26/07/2024 08:45, hiro wrote:
> 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