Debunking Humor...

[RTM]

 

[Gary C]

 

[Mendel]

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if the aliens come here for the food, why that food?

I found out why:

(Salma Hayek)

 

[Trailspotter]

 

[Ann K]

 

[Mendel]

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[Duke]

 

[Gary C]

 

[Scaramanga]

I like this one I found on Facebook today....

 

[LilWabbit]

 

[Slow Joe]

Source: https://i.imgur.com/YYI0wKn.jpeg

That was brilliant!

 

[Gary C]

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

I'm tired of the modern, creepy Aliens. Where are the seductive Aliens of yesteryear?




Let me tell you about Rochelle. I call her Rochelle. Her real name sounds more like a Tahitian girl's giggle.

I first saw Rochelle's lovely blue-green home in the screens of my surplus F-4A Hyperdrive Lifeboat. That bit of dearly loved and cordially hated equipment is the same one I'd been nursing through the parsecs of empty nothing on and off for years in the Space Force. She'd nursed me through a few tough scrapes too. Once in a while the nothing gets full of nightmare shapes and lightning-flash battles. A guy can get hurt.

So we kind of developed what you'd call a relationship. When she went, the boat that is, I figured it was a good time for me to go too. I call her Miss Agnes, after a long ago teacher, whose hair was the same peculiar shade of grey-green as my boat's hull.

I caught up with Miss Agnes just in time. For her gallant service, she'd been honorably discharged to a wrecker's yard. She was at the front of the line. The one that leads to the place where the white hot proton torches shine like stars. Like the dope I am, I spent my life savings on her. The respectable credits I'd scraped together as a UPSP Class A Navigator. Now, that was what every Earth Lubber like you would call a solid trade. In my uniform, rainbow bright with the medals and ribbons I'd got protecting you comfortable people from the Ravagers, I might have even been able to step into a library reading room without causing too much of a stir.

Now I'm at the other end of that diagram. When I step into the dark-red depths of a spaceman's bar on some dingy outworld, they turn their head and furtively check to see if their credits are still in their pouch. These days, I'm one those busted Space Bums they call a "Sniffer." A freelance Planet Finder to you. And, brother did I find a planet... Want to know the coordinates? I ain't telling.

----"Show me again your Earth biological functions."----

Spoiler: NightCafe

I made her, sometime back, on NightCafe and improved her with Photoshop. I wanted something like a Kelly Freas illustration circa 1965. The short story that goes with her is more 1955 vintage, though.

This is what she looked like when the not so intelligent AI first gave her life.

Kind of horrifying, really.

 

[JMartJr]

Reminds me of the original Star Trek series and the two green women from Orion. And of the story of them sending off some screen test footage of the makeup to be developed (color TV being new-ish then, it sometimes surprised people how colors showed up in the final product as opposed to how they looked to the eye on the set under the lights), and getting it back with the woman not looking green at all, so painting her even greener and sending it off again -- this repeated until somebody figured out that the person developing the film was seeing it, thinking "Holy moley, this woman looks green!" and color-correcting her back to normal flesh tones. So a "We are doing sci-fi stuff, please don't color correct stuff!" note had to be sent, and the Orion women were allowed to be green, as nature and Roddenberry intended.

I've heard the story told about both episodes, and since it is unlikely that it happened twice it makes more sense that it happened while filming the pilot (left) than in Season 3's "Whom Gods Destroy" (right). By THEN the film company ought to have been used to Trek weirdness.

And yes, that IS TV's Batgirl, Yvonne Craig, on the right as Marta the Orion.

 

[FatPhil]

Reminds me of the original Star Trek series and the two green women from Orion. And of the story of them sending off some screen test footage of the makeup to be developed (color TV being new-ish then, it sometimes surprised people how colors showed up in the final product as opposed to how they looked to the eye on the set under the lights), and getting it back with the woman not looking green at all, so painting her even greener and sending it off again -- this repeated until somebody figured out that the person developing the film was seeing it, thinking "Holy moley, this woman looks green!" and color-correcting her back to normal flesh tones. So a "We are doing sci-fi stuff, please don't color correct stuff!" note had to be sent, and the Orion women were allowed to be green, as nature and Roddenberry intended.

These exist for a reason:

But why did I include 2 colorcheckers(sic)(tm) in that screenshot from X-rite's own website (they invented that particular exemplar) - https://www.xrite.com/categories/calibration-profiling/colorchecker-classic-family ? The pixel peepers should work it out very quickly. Heck, I'm partially colourblind, and even I can see it. Doesn't everyone think that the russet tone on the right looks just a bit too .... wait for it ... irony?

 

[Mendel]

But why did I include 2 colorcheckers(sic)(tm) in that screenshot from X-rite's own website (they invented that particular exemplar)

Why don't you tell us? The mini looks slightly more saturated than the mega, but that's about it.

 

[John J.]

I'm tired of the modern, creepy Aliens. Where are the seductive Aliens of yesteryear?

Reminds me of the original Star Trek series and the two green women from Orion.

Which in turn reminded me of these sort-of women from a cover illustration (Granada/ Grafton publishing, early 80's?) for Brian Aldiss' Hothouse (1962). Not really aliens, they're a type of human descendent. IIRC they are a passable interpretation of characters in the book, complete with blowpipes- the woman at left is holding a dart.

The people of a near-future but virus-transformed Earth in Geoff Ryman's The Child Garden are shades of purple, getting some of their nutrition through photosynthesis (using rhodopsin? can't remember for sure).

Ever since the days of the 30's / 40's pulp magazines, when the aliens came to steal Earth's fairest maidens and their conical brassieres, women / female aliens have had something of a raw deal in SF depictions, particularly paperback cover art. Maybe no more so than some other genre fiction, but it must have reinforced the stereotype of SF readers being male (which was perhaps largely correct in the past).

When I was a kid, I'd spend ages at the SF and fantasy shelves at the local W.H. Smith. There always seemed to be 2 or 3 editions of John Norman's Gor series, often with a woman in chains or on a leash on the cover.
"Hey girls! You'll look great on Counter-Earth, and you won't need to take too many clothes! We'll talk about careers later."

That isn't a traditional figurehead on the front of that boat...

Tastes and tolerances can change over the years.
I understand (my recollection could be wrong) that Norman's publishers encouraged him to change some of the emphases in his later Gor titles, but pre-publication test readings of
Social Worker of Gor, Unreasonable Working Conditions Tribunal of Gor, Al Gore of Gor, and Equal Opportunities Officer of Gor
generated a largely negative response from 13 year old boys in their bedrooms a panel of Gor enthusiasts.

However, the anticipated Women Authority Figures, Professionals and Role Models: Penitent Jell-O Wrestlers of Gor
was heralded as a return to form by the panel, and the publishers accepted that there had been some movement toward greater inclusion of intelligent women.

 

[FatPhil]

Why don't you tell us? The mini looks slightly more saturated than the mega, but that's about it.

You don't need any more clues, as you've worked it out already. I just find it funny that a company selling devices to help photographers achieve consistent colour reproduction have inconsistent colour reproduction in photos of those very devices.

 

[Scaramanga]

However, the anticipated Women Authority Figures, Professionals and Role Models: Penitent Jell-O Wrestlers of Gor
was heralded as a return to form by the panel, and the publishers accepted that there had been some movement toward greater inclusion of intelligent women.

But there are intelligent women in the Gor world. Not every woman in Gor is a 'Kajira' or slave. In fact most of the women in Gor are 'free women'...about 15 times more than there are slaves.

Incidentally, when Star Trek invented the Xindi insectoids....I have a suspicion they were right out of Gor.

 

[John J.]

But there are intelligent women in the Gor world. Not every woman in Gor is a 'Kajira' or slave.

Ah! I never read one- didn't have the courage to incur my Mum's displeasure.

My parents were very good at letting me read pretty much what I wanted to, but a chained curvy lady in a fur bikini might have attracted more parental interest than I would be comfortable with.
I suspect they thought my Harlan Ellisons/ J.G. Ballards etc. etc. were all a bit like Star Trek or Doctor Who novels.

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

https://apnews.com/article/robert-kennedy-rfk-bear-cub-central-park-f7e6cba9aa19dc2066a8d9c543974a97

Claim: This is Real

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once retrieved a bear that was killed by a motorist and left it in New York's Central Park with a bicycle on top, sparking a mystery that consumed the city a decade ago.

Kennedy describes the incident in a video that was posted to social media Sunday, adding it will be included in a forthcoming New Yorker article that he expects to be damaging.

It's the latest bizarre incident in Kennedy's quixotic campaign that has divided his famous family and left Republicans and Democrats alike concerned about his potential impact on the presidential contest. Kennedy has acknowledged a parasite that lodged in his brain and died. He denied eating a dog after a friend shared a photo with Vanity Fair magazine showing Kennedy dramatically preparing to take a bite of a charred animal; Kennedy said it was a goat.

In the video, Kennedy recounts the story to actress Roseanne Barr. He says he was heading to a falconry excursion with friends when a woman driving ahead of him hit and killed the young bear with her vehicle. He says he put it in his own vehicle, intending to skin it and eat the meat, but the day got away from him.

 

[RTM]

The brain worms and the bears, oh my!

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

It's an AP article, but it reads like something from The Onion.

I thought it needed debunking... but I can't, because it's true.

 

[Ann K]

It's an AP article, but it reads like something from The Onion.

I thought it needed debunking... but I can't, because it's true.

Kennedy posed with his hand in the bear's bloody mouth, and even commented on that being the time he probably got the brain worm.

 

[John J.]

But there are intelligent women in the Gor world. Not every woman in Gor is a 'Kajira' or slave.

It's like, "we shouldn't presume that a book's contents are faithfully indicated by the picture on the front"-
-hey, that could be a useful metaphor for other things, it should be a common phrase!

Sometimes titles can be interpreted in other ways too. I have no idea how or why I found these old Mills & Boon covers, but they tickled my juvenile sense of humour, particularly the last.
Mills & Boon were are an imprint which published a large number of romantic novellas, I'd guess new ones every month?
Well-known in the UK, don't know about elsewhere.

Although some of us might not be fans of the genre, the newest Mills & Boon series will be must-reads for many Metabunkers:

 

[Dan Burt]

Although some of us might not be fans of the genre, the newest Mills & Boon series will be must-reads for many Metabunkers:

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Hahahahaha...Funniest thing I've seen in a long, long time.

 

[FatPhil]

The brain worms and the bears, oh my!

And a whole lot more, according to this/last week's /Last Week Tonight with John Oliver/ (S11E19), which devoted its main segment to the chappy. Alas, because it takes time to research and produce those segments, the bear doesn't feature - I'm sure it will in the live bit at the start next week, but his anti-vax lies and subsequent lies about not being anti-vax definitely do. Of course, to those of us who watch youtube channels like /Debunk the Funk/, this isn't news, I notice RFK's fizzog in 4 of the front page of video thumbnails presently, and know he's mentioned in some where he doesn't headline.

 

[FatPhil]

Kennedy posed with his hand in the bear's bloody mouth, and even commented on that being the time he probably got the brain worm.

In which case, this becomes more on point:

 

[JMartJr]

Saw this on FB today, might be useful to those of you who engage in disputation on more confrontational sites...

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

It's easier to get Flat Earthers to say that Mark Twain said, "It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled," than it is to convince them that he didn't.

 

[JMartJr]

It's easier to get Flat Earthers to say that Mark Twain said, "It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled," than it is to convince them that he didn't.

"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to mis-attribute this quote to Voltaire."

 

[FatPhil]

It's easier to get Flat Earthers to say that Mark Twain said, "It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled," than it is to convince them that he didn't.

It's certainly not a quote, but he did express the sentiment:

In December 1906 Mark Twain dictated remarks for his autobiography which was being published in installments in "The North American Review". Twain's comments included the following statement which semantically aligns with the saying under investigation although it is distinct:[3]

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!

-- https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/12/23/fooled/
[3] is: 1907 January 4, The North American Review, Volume 184, Chapters From My Autobiography—IX by Mark Twain, (Dictated December 2, 1906) Start Page 1, Quote Page 12, The North American Review Publishing Company, New York. (Google Books Full View) https://books.google.com/books?id=Q6c2AQAAMAAJ&q="believe+a+lie"#v=snippet&

Jonathan Swift, in another nice mangleable quote, gives a simple example of why the above aphorism does hold true - the bunk getting inside people's heads first. His original was "Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceiv'd, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect", but it's now probably best known in a more flowery presentation of just the first half: "A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on". If anyone's interested, the story of that one can be found here: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/

 

[Mendel]

"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to mis-attribute this quote to Voltaire."

 

[FatPhil]

Is the forum s/w even more exclusionary than normal, or have you just bumdialled?

What I see is:

And my normal trick for working out what's hidden in a post, replying to it, shows this:

 

[FatPhil]

Is the forum s/w even more exclusionary than normal, or have you just bumdialled?

What I see is:

And my normal trick for working out what's hidden in a post, replying to it, shows this:

Oh - joke. Sorry.

 

[FatPhil]

Why don't you tell us?

Because sometimes jokes are better left subtle?

 

[John J.]

Ah, if we're in quote territory:

"You do have an impressive number of citations in peer-reviewed journals, Professor Kaku - may I call you Michio?
-but frankly, a disappointing number of "thumbs up" on Reddit. We're looking for the best here at Skinwalker Ranch."

 

[NorCal Dave]

It's like, "we shouldn't presume that a book's contents are faithfully indicated by the picture on the front"-
-hey, that could be a useful metaphor for other things, it should be a common phrase!

Sometimes titles can be interpreted in other ways too. I have no idea how or why I found these old Mills & Boon covers, but they tickled my juvenile sense of humour, particularly the last.
Mills & Boon were are an imprint which published a large number of romantic novellas, I'd guess new ones every month?
Well-known in the UK, don't know about elsewhere.

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Although some of us might not be fans of the genre, the newest Mills & Boon series will be must-reads for many Metabunkers:

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What a post @John J. !

Bush Doctor?!! Grace Before Meat?!! Good Lord, the double entendres are endless. I'm headed to Burningman later this month and our camp has a Wheel 'O Swag. People spin the wheel and see what they're asked to do for a trinket. One option is "Read Porn", which involves the participant reading a few paragraphs of assorted naughty material through a megaphone to the passer byers on the street. IF only we had a copy of Bush Doctor. And don't tell me it's about some actual Dr. working out in the remote hinterlands.

Then that's followed up with Landru. Rex Landru. With some hottie! Who knew? He's just not our admin, he's a first class PLAYYYER!

 

[Gary C]

Next up from Dan Brown: The Nabisco Code

 

[RTM]

Next up from Dan Brown: The Nabisco Code

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To quote Ralph Wiggum: "It's funny, just not ha-ha funny"
https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/...d-the-ark-of-the-covenant-in-radio-appearance