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minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up49·edit-25 days agoFor those of us who still didn’t get it, https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hydrogen-bomb-vs-coughing-baby A meme about unfair battles Oh and wait… it’s President Kaufman (Cough Man, coughing baby all grown up)
minus-squareabysmalpoptart@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·4 days agoOh man, I’m learning German so the joke went over my head completely. In German, Kaufman means something like store clerk or merchant, and the kau is pronounced more like the English word cow.
minus-squareJasonDJ@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days agoWow I thought it was supposed to be Andy Kaufman and the joke was that he was still alive and pretending to be the president or something.
minus-squaregon [he]@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up30arrow-down1·5 days agoThere’s a famous meme: “Hydrogen Bomb vs Coughing Baby”. The coughing baby has, against all odds, won.
minus-squareFluidBeef@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·5 days agoBy turning white, by the looks of it.
minus-squareJiral@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days agoMr Kaufmann has the same skin tone as the baby.
minus-squarexkbx@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·5 days agoThis cuckoo has also flown over my brain nest
I don’t get it.
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For those of us who still didn’t get it,
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hydrogen-bomb-vs-coughing-baby
A meme about unfair battles
Oh and wait… it’s President Kaufman (Cough Man, coughing baby all grown up)
Oh man, I’m learning German so the joke went over my head completely. In German, Kaufman means something like store clerk or merchant, and the kau is pronounced more like the English word cow.
Wow I thought it was supposed to be Andy Kaufman and the joke was that he was still alive and pretending to be the president or something.
I don’r get it.
There’s a famous meme: “Hydrogen Bomb vs Coughing Baby”. The coughing baby has, against all odds, won.
By turning white, by the looks of it.
Is there another way to win?
Mr Kaufmann has the same skin tone as the baby.
This cuckoo has also flown over my brain nest
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