Comment on Flawless Victory

twisted@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• almost1337@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For those of us who still didn’t get it,

    knowyourmeme.com/…/hydrogen-bomb-vs-coughing-baby

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    • abysmalpoptart@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh man, I’m learning German so the joke went over my head completely. In German, Kaufman means something like store clerk or merchant, and the kau is pronounced more like the English word cow.

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    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wow I thought it was supposed to be Andy Kaufman and the joke was that he was still alive and pretending to be the president or something.

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’r get it.

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• gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s a famous meme: “Hydrogen Bomb vs Coughing Baby”. The coughing baby has, against all odds, won.

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  • FluidBeef@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    By turning white, by the looks of it.

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    • Jiral@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Mr Kaufmann the same skin tone as the baby.

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    • lastweakness@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Is there another way to win?

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