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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 (six months ago) link

Ignore narcissists

brimstead, Tuesday, 17 October 2023 18:39 (six 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)

why blame capitalism when you can just blame millennials instead

Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 17 October 2023 21:02 (six 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 (six months ago) link

Netscape 2.0

Preach The Crapen (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 20 October 2023 16:34 (six months ago) link

a libertarian?

Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 21 October 2023 19:45 (six months ago) link

a librarian?

Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Saturday, 21 October 2023 20:50 (six months ago) link

a mosquito?

peace, man, Monday, 23 October 2023 11:36 (six months ago) link

my libido.

assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 23 October 2023 11:57 (six months ago) link

yeah!

Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Monday, 23 October 2023 15:10 (six 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 (six months ago) link

yeah!

hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 October 2023 17:43 (six months ago) link

GOMER PYLE
GOMER PYLE
GOMER PYLE
GOMER PYLE

real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 October 2023 18:05 (six months ago) link

have they tried singing Imagine at Hamas

rob, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 15:09 (six 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 (six months ago) link

king crywank

scanner darkly, Friday, 27 October 2023 03:32 (six 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 (six months ago) link

King Crumsob haha

Preach The Crapen (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 28 October 2023 19:07 (six months ago) link

In the Hole of the Moping Crum

budo jeru, Sunday, 29 October 2023 01:15 (six months ago) link

gah, just mixed up KC and Grieg again, lol

budo jeru, Sunday, 29 October 2023 01:19 (six months ago) link

King Crumsbob (cos he is, by all or many accounts)

dow, Sunday, 29 October 2023 01:23 (six 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 (six months ago) link

(less surprising are the number of truckers who are... _gender non-conforming_)

Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 29 October 2023 13:45 (six months ago) link

king crywank

― scanner darkly

what's with "crywank", anyway? "tearjerker" not a good enough word?

Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 29 October 2023 23:26 (six 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 (six 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 (six months ago) link

Chris Martin side project

real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 03:01 (six months ago) link

Boys Don't Crywank

Breakfast at Tiffani Amber Thiessen's (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 03:31 (six months ago) link

It's My Party And I'll Crywank If I Want To

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 06:40 (six months ago) link

I'm so lonesome I could stop this now

Left, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 08:28 (six months ago) link

Wankin' on Bobo

don't let days go by, Listerine (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 12:18 (six 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 (six months ago) link

Wankin' on Bobo

― 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 (six 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 (six months ago) link

Don't kill us, we'll kill you

Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 20:13 (six 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 (six months ago) link

Pete or Percy B?

The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 21:36 (six months ago) link

pete but I'm illiterate

Left, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 21:40 (six months ago) link

I meant mary though

Left, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 21:41 (six months ago) link

that's what i get for not doing my research lol

also i have no idea when "wank" and "wankstain" are first attested in the english language, i made that up

_is_ pete shelley bisexual? i don't actually care but i'm asking anyway

Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 13:58 (six months ago) link

Yep.

hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 14:06 (six months ago) link

yes I think he even used the word

(as for mary she was passionately in love with the men she was devoted to and very good friends with the women because that's how historical evidence works)

if wankstain was actually coined by one of that crowd it would probably be byron - mary could be gross but that kind of gross seems more in his wheelhouse

Left, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 14:20 (six months ago) link

Byron loved his choirboys.

hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 14:42 (six months ago) link

"the"

close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 16:11 (six months ago) link

what is Sister Rosetta Tharpe singing from 2:25 here? No looking it up, just what do you hear?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkD0hDi9ZIo

the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 18:25 (six months ago) link

this train
don't pull no wiggas
uh uh
this train!

(admittedly, this doesn't make the rhyme work in the end)

"another slice of death, please." (Austin), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 23:58 (six months ago) link


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