| ▲ | mk_stjames a day ago |
| What, not a fan of 'Cow tools'? [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tools |
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| ▲ | Nition a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| In a way Cow Tools was too simple rather than too hard, so people thought there must be more to it. I don't think the joke itself is a bad idea. I remember The Simpsons doing the room full of monkeys on typewriters where one comes up with "it was the best of times, it was the blurst of times" which in a way is a similar joke, right? i.e. Not a good result, but funny because it's still much more than you'd ever expect in reality. |
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| ▲ | firesteelrain 18 hours ago | parent [-] | | Simpsons joke has a reference. It’s not a Simpsons original. It is the infinite monkey theorem from the late 19th and early 20th century. | | |
| ▲ | hamburglar 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The joke was a reference to that pop culture idea which pointed out that if the infinite monkeys thing is real, there should also necessarily be products that are very close to great works but not quite right. | |
| ▲ | oneeyedpigeon 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | That's the context of the joke, but it's not the source of the humour. |
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| ▲ | The_President 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Or Rattlesnake Training? https://www.pinterest.com/pin/460000549435346228/ |
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| ▲ | WalterBright a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I didn't get that one, either. |
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| ▲ | busyant 18 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I'm curious if you understand this joke (https://i.imgur.com/II5W6Pl.png). I think it's similar to the Cow Tools panel. Specifically, the Far Side panel plays on the idea of the fact that cows would have a cow-centric view of the world and would likely develop tools that were alien to us. The other part of the 'joke' is that cows don't build tools (afaik). edit: I think the "3rd" part of the joke is that the tools look like shit, which is what you'd expect from even the most talented cows. The humor of the space alien joke is similar in that it's pointing out the difficulty that everyone has in understanding how others (other people, other species, etc.) view and describe the world. | | | |
| ▲ | sitharus a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Nobody did | | |
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