by zbicyclist

Too Funny?

Mitch4 sends this in: “Two and a half hypotheses:
1) The intended cartoon was indeed pulled by the editors, for being in one or another aspect beyond the limits of acceptable — political or personally impolite etc.
[1.5 Exactly as reported, it was pulled for being “too humorous” — nah, very unlikely, but maybe this was literally what was stated to him though intended to convey #1.]
2) Nothing of the sort happened, and this is just a variation on “the cartoonist took a day off from drawing”.”

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  2. Unknown's avatar

    I found the original:

    Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!

    [If you got that, it way past time to schedule a colonoscopy.]

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  3. Unknown's avatar

    I expect it’s just #2, but I like to believe it’s a reference to Anthropic’s announcement last week that they are going to withhold their latest AI model’s release, because it’s too powerful for general use.

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  4. Unknown's avatar

    I asked the internet to translate Max C’s contribution, since my one Jar of high school Deutsch in 1961-1962 was not up to the task. The result:

    When is the nunstück git and Slotermeyer? Yes! Beiherhund das Or the Pinpperwaldt gersput!

    The internet only got all the words I already knew such as when, is, the, and, and or!

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  5. Unknown's avatar

    The answer to Max’s question: “Why did the calf walk around the cow? To get to the udder side!”
    Before there were Pythons, there was Dogpatch.

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  7. Unknown's avatar

    I like its last line: “no unauthorized happiness will be tolerated.” It sounds like a place where I was once employed.

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  10. Unknown's avatar

    Max #2: there used to be a hook in Google Translate (I think) where if you put that joke in you’d get a ‘[system crashed]’ message.

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