Someone explain this "joke" to me

[Davi]

Neil_H said:

blindswelledrat said:

BrabusMog said:

Seeing as you are a random picture poster- a coupld of questions if I may

1)WHy did you post that there?
2)Is it supposed to be funny and if so-what is the joke?
3)Why is the question 'Oh really?' spelled 'O RLY' in it?
4)WHy did you post it there?

Edited by blindswelledrat on Friday 7th August 11:00

I think I can explain here.

You see the Owl is a bird (no really, look it up), and someone has just suggested he takes a flight from ORLY Airport in Paris (maybe he's a French owl, or perhaps was visiting French relatives in Paris, who knows). Obviously he has his own wings so he doesn't need to buy an expensive flight on Air France, so he's quizzically asking "ORLY?". As you can see, he is also amused at the prospect.

I don't know how this is relevant here, I'm still working on that.

as with all things, the original use (4chan IIRC) was probably quite funny in its spontaneity, much like some of our "in" photoshops of members.

Unfortunately that was about 6 years ago.

[Ikemi]

Davi said:

Neil_H said:

blindswelledrat said:

BrabusMog said:

Seeing as you are a random picture poster- a coupld of questions if I may

1)WHy did you post that there?
2)Is it supposed to be funny and if so-what is the joke?
3)Why is the question 'Oh really?' spelled 'O RLY' in it?
4)WHy did you post it there?

Edited by blindswelledrat on Friday 7th August 11:00

I think I can explain here.

You see the Owl is a bird (no really, look it up), and someone has just suggested he takes a flight from ORLY Airport in Paris (maybe he's a French owl, or perhaps was visiting French relatives in Paris, who knows). Obviously he has his own wings so he doesn't need to buy an expensive flight on Air France, so he's quizzically asking "ORLY?". As you can see, he is also amused at the prospect.

I don't know how this is relevant here, I'm still working on that.

as with all things, the original use (4chan IIRC) was probably quite funny in its spontaneity, much like some of our "in" photoshops of members.

Unfortunately that was about 6 years ago.

You mean it's died a death!? Nooooo!

[ShadownINja]

Davi said:

Neil_H said:

blindswelledrat said:

BrabusMog said:

Seeing as you are a random picture poster- a coupld of questions if I may

1)WHy did you post that there?
2)Is it supposed to be funny and if so-what is the joke?
3)Why is the question 'Oh really?' spelled 'O RLY' in it?
4)WHy did you post it there?

Edited by blindswelledrat on Friday 7th August 11:00

I think I can explain here.

You see the Owl is a bird (no really, look it up), and someone has just suggested he takes a flight from ORLY Airport in Paris (maybe he's a French owl, or perhaps was visiting French relatives in Paris, who knows). Obviously he has his own wings so he doesn't need to buy an expensive flight on Air France, so he's quizzically asking "ORLY?". As you can see, he is also amused at the prospect.

I don't know how this is relevant here, I'm still working on that.

as with all things, the original use (4chan IIRC) was probably quite funny in its spontaneity, much like some of our "in" photoshops of members.

Unfortunately that was about 6 years ago.

I don't think that should stop anyone posting up the Vixpy1 vibrator picture if they have it.

[GilbertGrape]

Edited by GilbertGrape on Friday 7th August 12:36

[Oakey]

Davi said:

blindswelledrat said:

Oakey said:

No no, I believe that the person who is using said image to show they've 'pwned' someone is implying they are like Jennings and the 'pwnee/s' are the losers. I'ts not really amusing thoughh, is it.

Jesus. Does thier humour have no bounds?
It was, I believe, by an English poster who posted this. Could it be possible that an English person made a joke about a good american quiz show player?

Sadly whilst your remonstrations are perfectly valid, I think Oakey has hit the nail on the proverbial here. It is on the internet, it has the word PWNED below it, therefore by default it is assumed to be amusing.

I think that as Jennings had a 75 game win streak this could be likened to a 75 kill streak in an online game, where the term owned / pwned originated and therefore the creator of this image is using it to display his winning streak. Am I reading too much into this? It's just a st image which a very rare few may actually understand (if they do at all). I'm sure there could have been far more amusing, simpler ways to convey the creators message.

[Davi]

Oakey said:

I'm sure there could have been far more amusing, simpler ways to convey the creators message.

Chanting "you're shiiiiit and you know you are, you're shiiiiit and you know you are" would be far more amusing, simpler and a better way of conveying the meaning.


Which really does show just how st that pwned image is.

[jshell]

Looked up 'Pwned' on Urban Dictionary and seems to stem from some retard developer of Warcraft or Quake who did hit the wrong key and the rest of the retard population followed. fkin 'tards - they're everywhere.... http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pwn...

[Rude-boy]

10 Pence Short said:

And no, it isn't funny. None of the 'owned' pictures are funny. Neither is the 'Oh really' series or the cat in the ceiling watching the self fulfilling.

Yet for the life of me i can't think why the "Ma bucket" ones raised a smile the first time i saw them

[Davi]

Rude-boy said:

10 Pence Short said:

And no, it isn't funny. None of the 'owned' pictures are funny. Neither is the 'Oh really' series or the cat in the ceiling watching the self fulfilling.

Yet for the life of me i can't think why the "Ma bucket" ones raised a smile the first time i saw them

probably because the expressions on the seal were very human and actually fitted the comments, so the Anthropomorphism worked very well.

[The Riddler]

Not read the whole thread so appologies if its been mentioned.

It looks like the kind of game where you vote people off, kind of like weakest link. Only 1 woman and she has voted herself off?

Maybe

[blindswelledrat]

The Riddler said:

Not read the whole thread so appologies if its been mentioned.

It looks like the kind of game where you vote people off, kind of like weakest link. Only 1 woman and she has voted herself off?

Maybe

THeory already dismissed Im afraid.
That would have almost raised a smile but also made you assume 'fake'.
No- it was just because the man with the big score was good at quizzes thus had apparently "pwned" some people.
Quite why that was posted, the good lord only knows.

[The Riddler]

blindswelledrat said:

The Riddler said:

Not read the whole thread so appologies if its been mentioned.

It looks like the kind of game where you vote people off, kind of like weakest link. Only 1 woman and she has voted herself off?

Maybe

Theory already dismissed Im afraid.
That would have almost raised a smile but also made you assume 'fake'.
No- it was just because the man with the big score was good at quizzes thus had apparently "pwned" some people.
Quite why that was posted, the good lord only knows.

Probably a 12 year old after their first puff of spliff thought it was funny.

I've tried finding the humour in the picture. There appears to be none.

[DrTre]

The intrinsic issue that I have with the picture is that the scale of "ownage" (sic) isn't quantified in the context of the entire gameshow.

For instance, this might be one of those shows where you win an escalating amount of money as a question advances, or one where you win and lose appreciable amounts of money throughout the game as a fundamental part of the "game", thus the 21k is easily attainable, just as -3k is a non issue.

That, for me, is where the joke falls down.

If the picture were to include even written contextualisation describing and quantifying the relationship of the differences in "points" at the stage of the game the picture is taken then it might, might have some sort of humour buried within it.

As it is, whoever produced it is clearly a .