Noob Alert - Help needed
jezzer:
Quote from: Dakota on 2011 September 24, 02:02:58
Sorry for mentioning that, but I think that baby is so damn ugly...
I've seen it all around over the internet. Why?!?! It is not even CUTE! :D And there are not many ugly baby pictures around - at least I haven't seen many of them.
It's what is known as an "IM-AGE MAC-RO." Not only is there a picture, but there are WORDS that tie in with the image ("image" is another word for "picture") somehow. Try looking at it again, and imagine the baby is saying the words that are on the picture. Now ask yourself if it would be funnier if it was being said by a cute, smiling baby, or if those particular words make more sense being spoken by a SCOWLING (that's another word for MEAN-FACED) baby.
If you still don't get it, try hitting your head against your desk a few times.
Eeyore:
A scowl? Surely that is warrior's visage of bloodlust at the moment of eviscerating an opponent on the end of a poleax ... albeit wearing a fluffy, pink onesie.
Skadi:
With a cute little sheep on it no less.
Taedium Vitae:
Quote from: jeromycraig on 2011 September 24, 02:38:33
It's what is known as an "IM-AGE MAC-RO." Not only is there a picture, but there are WORDS that tie in with the image ("image" is another word for "picture") somehow. [Here, those words are] spoken by a SCOWLING (that's another word for MEAN-FACED) baby.
On behalf of us foreign peasants and non-native English speakers, thank you.
(Though I still didn't understand how a greek prefix became a substantive meaning "place where ceiling cat and basement cat live". But Wikipedia has an explanation: )
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The term "image macro" was first used on the Something Awful forums. The name derived from the fact that the 'macros' were a short bit of text a user could enter that the forum software would automatically parse and expand into the code for a pre-defined image, relating to the computer science topic of a macro, defined as "a rule or pattern that specifies how [who cares]."
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