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steinrokkan posted:I never even got the "Nobody:" meme format I have always hated that. hate hate hated it. I hated it when I saw people use in on somethingawful in the early 00s. It always just felt like a weird way of shouting to the world that you do something wacky, but it's such a common wacky thing that everyone relates to it, so the nobody: becomes doubly stupid. An accurate Nobody: meme would go: Nobody: Nobody: 
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Nobody: Not a single soul: Credburn: credburn posted:I have always hated that. hate hate hated it. I hated it when I saw people use in on somethingawful in the early 00s.
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May 15, 2023 23:35
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I think we've been over this.
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May 15, 2023 23:48
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Memes are dumb, move on. Don't waste your mental load on trying to understand them.
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May 16, 2023 00:05
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Maybe it's the meme equivalent of a double negative. "Nobody said nothin', but dis guy over heah?" In truth, I assume it evolved from "...said absolutely nobody" which makes sense because you actually have a phrase in there to attribute to "nobody"
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May 16, 2023 12:31
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The POV business is a lot like how "selfie" now just means "a picture of someone", not "a picture of someone which they made, of themself"
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May 16, 2023 13:21
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The idea is that the not "nobody" speaker is responding to something so outrageous that literally no one asked. The "nobody:" is nobody asking.
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Hyperlynx posted:The POV business is a lot like how "selfie" now just means "a picture of someone", not "a picture of someone which they made, of themself" Jesus I'm just now getting to the stage where "selfie" doesn't sound like an incredibly silly word anymore, and now it means something different? I do not do well in today's world of rapidly mutating words and phrases.
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May 16, 2023 15:32
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Precocious does not mean pretentious. Necessarily.
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Grassy Knowles posted:The idea is that the not "nobody" speaker is responding to something so outrageous that literally no one asked. The "nobody:" is nobody asking. But that also scans as nobody not asking anything. You can see the confusion here. I don't necessarily think there's a good way to "correct" the joke format, mind you. It's just that if I tried to invent it myself and explain it, I wouldn't be able to, because it doesn't actually make sense. It mostly works but I'm not really sure why.
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May 16, 2023 19:46
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The whole "nobody" thing is just there because people aren't confident enough to say their wacky stuff without any kind of lead-in.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:The whole "nobody" thing is just there because people aren't confident enough to say their wacky stuff without any kind of lead-in. Ok, but is no one going to talk about how annoying that is?
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Captain Splendid posted:Ok, but is no one going to talk about how annoying that is? It reminds me of a time when you would be made fun of quite harshly in that edgy 00s way if you ever were to post something with Me: (something wacky). It seems so self-indulgent. Like giving yourself a nickname. You gotta earn it, man. You gotta earn the anecdote about your wacky characteristic.
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I can almost comprehend the meme when it's just Nobody: Zany thing But when it's like Nobody: Absolutely nobody: Zany thing That seems like a double negative, equivalent to Somebody: Zany thing
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Doesn't that read like "super, super-duper"? ie reinforcement?
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run on sentience posted:I can almost comprehend the meme when it's just I think the idea was that my complaint was my own issue and nobody else has a problem with it.
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sebmojo posted:Swords don't actually make a metallic sound coming out because that means something is rubbing the edge and making it blunt. As a kid, I was amazed to learn that a lot of old scabbards were made of wood because of this. Well, the stiff ones. Ones made from leather were pretty obvious that they shouldn't be making the shhhhhht noise.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:I just realized we're on page 420 and no one has posted anything about weed. Clones from cuttings.
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What a time to be alive where I just cross the street, hand a guy forty dollars, walk home with a pillowcase full of legal weed, an amount that people have served life sentences for, weed that is 100x better than what they had, and I just shove it all in a pipe like a stoner glutton and chuck half of it in the gutter because who cares, this poo poo is cheaper than its weight in paper towels
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credburn posted:What a time to be alive where I just cross the street, hand a guy forty dollars, walk home with a pillowcase full of legal weed, an amount that people have served life sentences for, weed that is 100x better than what they had, and I just shove it all in a pipe like a stoner glutton and chuck half of it in the gutter because who cares, this poo poo is cheaper than its weight in paper towels Fuckin finally.
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Well blow me up and call me Building 7..... Angelina Jolie is Jon Voight's daughter....
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Ross Dress for Less isn’t a store for exclusively dresses
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Niemat posted:Ross Dress for Less isn’t a store for exclusively dresses Rossdressing is when you always wear a jacket with shoulder pads thrice as wide as your head.
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May 21, 2023 19:09
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showing off my new leather jacket: "rivet! rivet!!"
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Cable Guy posted:Well blow me up and call me Building 7..... Angelina Jolie is Jon Voight's daughter.... He is also hella MAGA now
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Mac Miller is dead and has been for nearly 5 years
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Chef Boyardee was a real guy, an actual chef who founded the brand that still bears his name. Between this and Colonel Sanders, now I'm wondering what other mascots have been real all along. The Quaker Oats guy? Mr. Peanut? The Jolly Green Giant?
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Quaker Oat guy is supposed to be a look alike of the most famous quaker, William Penn
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That Quaker Oats guy really set back Quakerism, people end up thinking they’re like the Amish when really it’s very progressive
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Powered Descent posted:Chef Boyardee was a real guy, an actual chef who founded the brand that still bears his name. Actually he was a fictional character invented by Bram Stoker
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Isn't Spider Man's uncle named Ben?
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Powered Descent posted:Chef Boyardee was a real guy, an actual chef who founded the brand that still bears his name. Paul Newman????
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Powered Descent posted:Chef Boyardee was a real guy, an actual chef who founded the brand that still bears his name. That blew my mind when I finally found it out as an adult, it still makes me laugh every time I think about it because of how they dumbed down the actual name Boiardi because it was too difficult for us Americans
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The tzar is good but beware his evil boyardees!
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Captain Splendid posted:Mac Miller is dead and has been for nearly 5 years Jeez, he was only 26. Died too young If he had lived a few more months he could have joined the 27 club.
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Sauropod means "lizard foot." That's incredibly stupid and not the main notable feature of them at all!
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Gaius Marius posted:Quaker Oat guy is supposed to be a look alike of the most famous quaker, William Penn The guy who founded PENNZOIL? Henchman of Santa posted:Sauropod means "lizard foot." That's incredibly stupid and not the main notable feature of them at all! To me they're just a bunch of good for nothing long necks
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Captain Hygiene posted:That blew my mind when I finally found it out as an adult, it still makes me laugh every time I think about it because of how they dumbed down the actual name Boiardi because it was too difficult for us Americans He just felt very strongly it was important that people could pronounce his name correctly, to him that was more important than the spelling. Anglicizing names when coming here was a really common thing for pretty much all immigrants coming to America in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and it certainly tracks with my Italian-American side*. I think going from Ettore Boiardi to Hector Boy-ar-dee is comparatively minor, relative to what a lot of people coming through Ellis island did. *except for one distant cousin I heard about, she came here in like 1900 and never bothered to learn English. She ended up getting thrown out of the food bank she used to go to because she'd try to grab food for like 5 or 6 people and hoard it and didn't understand the people there telling her why she couldn't do that.
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