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minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up51·edit-22 months 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-up9·2 months 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-up4·2 months 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-up31arrow-down1·2 months agoThere’s a famous meme: “Hydrogen Bomb vs Coughing Baby”. The coughing baby has, against all odds, won.
minus-squareFluidBeef@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·2 months agoBy turning white, by the looks of it.
minus-squareJiral@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoMr Kaufmann has the same skin tone as the baby.
minus-squarexkbx@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·2 months 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.
Mr Kaufmann has the same skin tone as the baby.
Is there another way to win?
This cuckoo has also flown over my brain nest
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