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minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-21 month 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-squareJasonDJ@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month 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-squareabysmalpoptart@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month 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-squaregon [he]@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoThere’s a famous meme: “Hydrogen Bomb vs Coughing Baby”. The coughing baby has, against all odds, won.
minus-squareFluidBeef@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoBy turning white, by the looks of it.
minus-squareJiral@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoMr Kaufmann has the same skin tone as the baby.
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)
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.
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.
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.