(re: US House Speaker candidates owning fast food franchises)Doesn't anyone from the former slavery states own 5 guys anymore?
― StanM, Friday, 13 October 2023 00:49 (eleven months ago) link
Not clear what you mean, StanM. Five Guys was, and is, a Virginia creation.
― The Royal House of Hangover (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 13 October 2023 13:32 (eleven months ago) link
it was a bad attempt at a joke about slavery but I stopped myself before posting it in the politics thread
― StanM, Friday, 13 October 2023 15:13 (eleven months ago) link
Okay. My wife and I have a running gag about Five Guys but it is a different vibe.
Do you want five guys?
I could eat five guys.
Sorry, I don't have the appetite for five guys.
Could we maybe just have four guys?
Etc.
It's in poor taste but sometimes it works.
― The Royal House of Hangover (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 13 October 2023 15:44 (eleven months ago) link
Israel to World: "Suck It." [Started by Nitsuh in December 2001, last updated three minutes ago by The Royal House of Hangover (Ye Mad Puffin)] 532 new answersPosts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here [Started by bamcquern in September 2009, last updated fourteen minutes ago by The Royal House of Hangover (Ye Mad Puffin)] 15 new answers
btw, no.
― Mark G, Friday, 13 October 2023 16:00 (eleven months ago) link
Israel in the conference room? I'd like to suck on some of that!
― peace, man, Friday, 13 October 2023 23:35 (eleven months ago) link
so a good insult for when you're with your bros, and maybe one of your bros isn't being the best bro they could be, is making hard eye contact and asking, "bro why are you being such a crotch?"
― the adventures of Yari and ixa. (Austin), Saturday, 14 October 2023 23:51 (eleven months ago) link
I have seen several headlines about Ecuador electing a "millennial banana heir" as president.
My most wholesome thoughts are with the people of the Republic of Ecuador. May they survive and thrive. I wish them peace and prosperity.
That said, my stupid dad-joke pun-brain is going freaking WILD, yo.
Like, is a "millennial banana heir" someone who inherited thousand-year-old bananas? Or merely someone who has inherited bananas that were born around the year 2000?
And... hear me out.. isn't there a common phrase for a republic run by a banana magnate? Maybe, um, could one potentially call it.. a... republic of bananas?
― The Royal House of Hangover (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 16 October 2023 01:22 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UYgORr5Qhg
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 16 October 2023 01:26 (eleven months ago) link
reddit's weather reports suck and the sports is all homers rly
― i'd meet u where u are, but that place really sucks (Hunt3r), Monday, 16 October 2023 21:28 (eleven months ago) link
Ignore narcissists
― brimstead, Tuesday, 17 October 2023 18:39 (eleven months ago) link
And... hear me out.. isn't there a common phrase for a republic run by a banana magnate? Maybe, um, could one potentially call it.. a... republic of bananas?― The Royal House of Hangover (Ye Mad Puffin)
― The Royal House of Hangover (Ye Mad Puffin)
why blame capitalism when you can just blame millennials instead
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 17 October 2023 21:02 (eleven months ago) link
Ok but what is post-Netanyahu?
(That snuffling sound you hear is me trying in vain to stifle stupid dad jokes like netangoogle, netanbing, etc.; shit is serious.)
― The Royal House of Hangover (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 20 October 2023 16:21 (eleven months ago) link
Netscape 2.0
― Preach The Crapen (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 20 October 2023 16:34 (eleven months ago) link
a libertarian?
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 21 October 2023 19:45 (eleven months ago) link
a librarian?
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Saturday, 21 October 2023 20:50 (eleven months ago) link
a mosquito?
― peace, man, Monday, 23 October 2023 11:36 (eleven months ago) link
my libido.
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 23 October 2023 11:57 (eleven months ago) link
yeah!
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Monday, 23 October 2023 15:10 (eleven months ago) link
My tuxedo, an albedo, tiny Speedo, Han shot Greedo
― The Royal House of Hangover (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 23 October 2023 17:42 (eleven months ago) link
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 October 2023 17:43 (eleven months ago) link
GOMER PYLEGOMER PYLEGOMER PYLEGOMER PYLE
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 October 2023 18:05 (eleven months ago) link
have they tried singing Imagine at Hamas
― rob, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 15:09 (eleven months ago) link
just typo'd king crimson as king crumsob and now thinking "welp that's what i have to call them for the rest of time"
― the adventures of Yari and ixa. (Austin), Friday, 27 October 2023 02:57 (eleven months ago) link
king crywank
― scanner darkly, Friday, 27 October 2023 03:32 (eleven months ago) link
it was very tempting to pun something about ears of corn when I found out there's a deaf cornhole competition - but then this turned out to be about mass shooting victims so not the time & place for jokes :-/
― StanM, Saturday, 28 October 2023 18:57 (eleven months ago) link
King Crumsob haha
― Preach The Crapen (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 28 October 2023 19:07 (eleven months ago) link
In the Hole of the Moping Crum
― budo jeru, Sunday, 29 October 2023 01:15 (eleven months ago) link
gah, just mixed up KC and Grieg again, lol
― budo jeru, Sunday, 29 October 2023 01:19 (eleven months ago) link
King Crumsbob (cos he is, by all or many accounts)
― dow, Sunday, 29 October 2023 01:23 (eleven months ago) link
i know that a surprising percentage of trucks are trans, but this is the first time i've seen a _4chan_ trans truck
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 29 October 2023 13:42 (eleven months ago) link
(less surprising are the number of truckers who are... _gender non-conforming_)
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 29 October 2023 13:45 (eleven months ago) link
king crywank― scanner darkly
― scanner darkly
what's with "crywank", anyway? "tearjerker" not a good enough word?
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 29 October 2023 23:26 (eleven months ago) link
borrowed from the “Artists You've Written Off/Pointedly Ignored because of their name” thread
― scanner darkly, Monday, 30 October 2023 16:45 (eleven months ago) link
ain't going to that thread but i do hope there is a band called the crywankers now
― BEWARE! SPOOKY! BOO! (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 02:27 (eleven months ago) link
Chris Martin side project
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 03:01 (eleven months ago) link
Boys Don't Crywank
― Breakfast at Tiffani Amber Thiessen's (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 03:31 (eleven months ago) link
It's My Party And I'll Crywank If I Want To
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 06:40 (eleven months ago) link
I'm so lonesome I could stop this now
― Left, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 08:28 (eleven months ago) link
https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/35/590x/secondary/The-original-Cry-video-806579.jpg?r=1686998680160
― soref, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 08:47 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.kuntandthegang.co.uk/images/shop/a1244984697_16.jpg https://www.kuntandthegang.co.uk/images/shop/a0802444472_16.jpg https://www.kuntandthegang.co.uk/images/shop/a2132824978_16.jpg
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 12:14 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3BzzNUyBRE
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 12:17 (eleven months ago) link
Wankin' on Bobo
― don't let days go by, Listerine (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 12:18 (eleven months ago) link
ha if hunt3r wont go the thread, then the thread-- oh no!
― BEWARE! SPOOKY! BOO! (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 14:06 (eleven months ago) link
― don't let days go by, Listerine (Ye Mad Puffin)
everybody remembers the album as being called "The Clones of Dr. Wankenstein", but all the copies of the album clearly say "The Clones of Dr. Wankenstain". This is an example of the "Mandela Effect", which has in turn led to widespread conspiracy theories about alternate timelines.
To me, though, it's all about the pronunciation of "Wankenstain" on the iconic title track:
We love to wank you, Wankenstain! Your wank is the best!Take my body, give it the mind to wank with the rest.
It's spelled "Wankenstain", but it's prounced "stein", not "stain".
That's not to say that we're not in some fucked-up alternate timeline, or that there might not be some timeline where it's spelled "Wankenstein". I've always thought of it as "Wankenstain". I mean, there's a pun there, right? That's the whole point.
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 15:22 (eleven months ago) link
Further notes:
Various online sources give the lyrics to the second line as "Wank my body and give it the mind...", however, the official lyrics, as found in the 1996 Parliament/Wankadelic box set "Give Up the Wank: Tear the Roof off the Wanker" confirm that the lyrics do in fact go "Take my body, give it the mind...". Another argument against the so-called "Mandela Effect" is that we sometimes _misremember things_. If our memories were to be trusted, the lyrics to all of Parliament/Wankadelic's songs would just be a load of wanks.
It's also of note that Parliament's use of "Wankenstain" to refer to the doctor accords with the terminology used by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's classic novel _Wankenstein_ - and note here that Shelley _does_ refer to the novel as "Wankenstein" and not "Wankenstain", another probably reason for the confusion. The "Wankenstain" pun just wouldn't have worked in Shelley's day - although "wank" to refer to masturbation was well-attested by this point, the use of "wankstain" to refer to the discharge produced by masturbation had not come into widespread use yet.
Shelley, it is often noted by pedants, used the term "Wankenstein" exclusively to refer to Doctor Victor von Wankenstein. However, it is equally incorrect to refer to "Wankenstein's Monster". It is hardly credible to refer what Shelley consistently refers to as "the Creature" as a "monster" - based on context clues within Shelley's original novel, it is unlikely to be more than nine inches - hardly what I would call "monstrous" proportions! Why, I've taken...
Ahem.
In any event, understanding of Shelley's work has perhaps suffered a little bit from later adaptations, adaptations which significantly alter her source material. In particular, the visual appearance of the creature in James Whale's iconic 1931 film bears no resemblance whatsoever to the creature in Shelley's book. In addition, the behavior of Whale's creature is entirely different. While in Whale's movie, the creature makes no more than guttural outbursts, in the original novel, the creature is intelligent and articulate. I'm certainly sympathetic to the transmasculine contemporary reading of "Wankenstein", but it's not one that's necessarily reflective of Shelley herself.
Indeed, "Wankenstein" is one of those works of art which has engendered (no pun intended) both transmasculine _and_ transfeminine readings. Unlike with other works to garner such interpretations such as "The Addams Family" and "The Legend of Zelda", transmasculine and transfeminine meanings accrue to different versions of the work. The transmasculine reading primarily takes as its source material the film by James Whale, a cisgender homosexual man. In contrast, the transfeminine reading, as expressed in the seminal "trans studies" essay "My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage" (take a shot), takes as its origin the original novel written by Mary Shelley, a cisgender heterosexual woman (making allowances for the fact that both "cisgender" and "heterosexual" are anachronistic terms when applied to Shelley's era.)
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 16:09 (eleven months ago) link
Don't kill us, we'll kill you
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 20:13 (eleven months ago) link
this is another anachronism but I'm pretty sure shelley was "bi" by today's standards (presumably still "cis" although the book does give me pause)
― Left, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 20:45 (eleven months ago) link
Pete or Percy B?
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 21:36 (eleven months ago) link
pete but I'm illiterate
― Left, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 21:40 (eleven months ago) link