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Out of Context Comics

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Comic panels taken out of comics so we can make fun of them!! We love the golden age stuff!

Rules:

  1. Comics must come from actual comic books. No AI or Photoshops.

  2. Single panels are preferred.

  3. Comics should be unintentionally funny. Spider-man cracking wise is not what this is about.

  4. Don't be a dick.

  5. I can't believe I've had to add this... NO RACISM.

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It might be hard to tell, but that's Scotty under all that blonde hair.

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[–] ordinarylove@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

as christian hegemony was most often portrayed in legacy American media, they really do have a bunch of nonsense sounding words that are technically blasphemy, it used to be a more common thing to portray before the 00s when they started letting commonly understood swearing on media

  • bejeebus
  • zounds
  • ah geez

please shout more at my comment if you like

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

1751, in Oxford and Cambridge student slang, "a trick, jest, hoax, imposition, deception," a word of unknown origin; it also appeared simultaneously as a transitive verb, "deceive by false pretext." A vogue word of the early 1750s; its origin was a subject of much whimsical speculation even then. "[A]s with other and more recent words of similar introduction, the facts as to its origin appear to have been lost, even before the word became common enough to excite attention" [OED].

THERE is a word very much in vogue with the people of taste and fashion, which, though it has not even the penumbra of a meaning, yet makes up the sum total of the wit, sense, and judgment of the aforesaid people of taste and fashion. This word is HUMBUG. [The Student, vol. II no. 2, 1751]

https://www.etymonline.com/word/humbug

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