I wouldn't have known about this if Charles had not linked it.
It's a site, called "(expletive deleted) Yeah, Knitting Alpaca." It's one of those meme things (I know, the cool kids are tired of them now, but I've never aspired to coolness. Heh....I would not be convicted in the Court of Coolness that was on "Regular Show" last night...)
Obviously the person who does them is a knitter, or lives with a knitter, because they tend to fall into the "it's funny, because it's true" category.
(I have narrowed my eyes at a sloppy depiction of knitting in a movie or television show).
But I really liked this one:
Have I ever been there and done that....
Also been there and done that.
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I am obviously missing something.
On the risk of being that annoying humorless person who nags laughing company with questions "why is this funny?" I do ask: what's funny about that?
Bringing same method to a different field: do draftsmen have to laugh when told "find HB pencils where F is stored"? Huh?
Yes, creakypavillion, you are.
This is an example of an Image Macro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_macro)
The picture on the background is a persona (usually a broad caricature) that is speaking the words on the picture, from the point of view implied by the context. In this case, a (somewhat judgmental) alpaca who knits and spins. Imagining these knitting and spinning references being spoken by a supercilious alpaca is, yes, actually funny to me.
The memegenerator is also part of the joke, and it's gone fairly meta at this point, so even employing it is funny. Like Rickrolling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling), which really isn't inherently funny either, it's been done so many times that even employing that mechanism is part of the humor.
Memegenerator links back to the LOLcat phenomenom, so it's even one more step removed from the original joke of "cute cats bad grammar"
I hadn't seen this before, thanks for the link, Fillyjonk. Please forgive me for being pedantic in your blog.
This is one of my favorites:
Top Text: “OMG are you knitting? How do you do that??!!”
Bottom text: “Magic”
Alice,
no, memgenerator is not inherently funny. i can see it might be funny to 5years olds. nor the case of a talking alpaca is necessarily funny, either.
I was asking about actual text that is the line of the joke. you didn't make it any clearer, but Erica did, in her next post -so thanks, Erica, once again.
I think every profession, every avocation, darn near every human endeavor whatsoever, can be memed if you know the material and you have a flair for microstyle (after Christopher Johnson's book of the same name).
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