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skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Sorry maybe I’m being thick but I don’t understand the question in any context other than the given answer?

By which I mean the question only makes sense as a question if you already know the punchline, which means the person asking already knew, so formatting the joke as a comment replying to them like that, is fundamentally compromised. It’s like those Facebook boomer joke exam papers where the kid has written “hilarious” answers to questions that obviously have never appeared on any real exam.

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gastroglizzy@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
My read is:

Someone posts an image with pyramids and the caption, “How tf did they build this without any [something]”

Someone takes the image from 1, pastes some Marlboro reds over whatever [something] was there before, presumably to express that cigarettes are a required ritual in the construction trade

Someone makes the camel comment, taking the piss out of 2

Someone screenshots 3 and posts it here
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PixeIOrange@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
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- skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  That’s even more damning then, if the main pop culture connection between pyramids and cigarettes was already Camels
  
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bequirtle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
The joke is

A: making fun of people who think ancient people couldn’t have built the pyramids

B: making fun of cigarettes via the ridiculous implication that they would be necessary for the task

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unmagical@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
The original was the word “airpods,” then the Marlboro one, then the following version: 78c

Then someone posted just the Marlboro edit and another person in know of the camel joke repeated the punchline in the comments.

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HeavenlySpoon@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
These kind of memes honestly feel like Malboro found a way to circumvent advertising rules, so I assume the joke’s on all of us, I guess.

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Sibshops@feddit.cl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Isn’t camels is wrong in the first place? They used water to transport the stones.

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- skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  idk I wasn’t there. Maybe the camels carried their lunch boxes.
  
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  - HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Camel cigarettes
    
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- Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  The water theory is absolutely improbable.
  
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zen@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I mean it’s possible that before the meme creator put the picture of the Marlborough Reds over the screenshot of the post, it said something like “DeWalt” or “Makita”.

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i_need_your_bones@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
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- skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  Howd they do that without malberrow red. That’s a joke wrapped up entirely in that image
  
  It’s not a joke though. There’s no connection whatsoever between Marlboros and any topic even tangentially related to construction or pyramids. It’s a complete non-sequitur. It only makes sense if you’re about to get on as your alt to fake a witty comeback.
  
  In the oncoming climate wars your thick head can help you rise through the ranks of a rag tag resistance group
  
  What was the point of that? You just like being unpleasant to people online? Read Rule 1.
  
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  - boonhet@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Do construction workers not smoke where you come from? Basically all of them do here. It’s free breaks,
    
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  - i_need_your_bones@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Ah sorry was meant as a joke from your original comment. Meant no harm, sorry.
    
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    skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    ok no worries
    
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