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periwinkle
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 6:49 pm Post subject: What's up w/the communist avatar/pic? |
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Why do so many posters have this pic attached to their signature?
I figured it was somthing that got started in the current events forum, and since I don't browse that forum, I'm not in on the joke. So what's it about? |
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JongnoGuru

Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep
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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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Do NOT tell her! She'll get it eventually and she'll want it that way. |
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Rteacher

Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA
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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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In case you haven't noticed, atheism has become more fashionable than ever on these forums. All those communist dudes pictured were big atheists, and some of them harshly persecuted and/or killed those who professed belief in a personal God. (So far, the anti-God posters here usually just employ insults and occasional threats via PM to stop posting anything that suggests that there's a God...)
Especially in this rather dangerous time to be living on the Korean peninsula, people should try to find the deeper meaning of our existence in this world... |
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Imbroglio

Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: Behind the wheel of a large automobile
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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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I can't believe you did that rteach. Shame.  |
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Rteacher

Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA
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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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Well, there's practically no limit to how low I'll go ... What's he talkin' bout? |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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periwinkle
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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I didn't read the atheism thread, so that explains why I'm out of the loop~ and here I was starting to think there were a bunch of communists on this board My avatar's a bit pagan, if you come to think of it  |
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gang ah jee

Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: city of paper
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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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OK, I'll sincerepost this one.
I first used the communist party picture as my signature/avatar. I cut it out of some desktop wallpaper I found on another site:
Initially, I had a line of text underneath saying 'join the party, comrade'. Communist party, geddit? Then I got bored with it and changed the line to put this pic in your sig if u r down with communism ok. Some (usually teenaged) internet users do similar things on britney spears forums or wherever. Then some people who are apparently 'down with communism' put the pic in their sig. There you go.
There. The joke is no longer funny. I hope you're satisfied.
p.s. periwinkle, you should read the atheism thread! |
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Gardimus

Joined: 23 Feb 2006 Location: Formerly Ontario, Canada
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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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Its from a t-shirt on threadless.com
I'm assuming people just like it. |
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Rteacher

Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA
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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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Actually, I have sort of a checkered commie background. My grandfather (from Armenia...) used to regularly attend party meetings while a factory worker in Massachusetts. And, I vaguely recall joining fellow imprisoned anti-Viet Nam war demonstrators in Miami Beach in a rousing version of the "Internationale" circa 1972. (They tried to get us to leave the jail, but we refused to go until our over-hyped "revolutionary leaders" were released first...) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internationale |
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Porter_Goss

Joined: 26 Mar 2006 Location: The Wrong Side of Right
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Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:31 am Post subject: |
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gang ah jee wrote: |
p.s. periwinkle, you should read the atheism thread! |
Bugebus! It's turning into a religion. |
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Zyzyfer

Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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gang ah jee wrote: |
OK, I'll sincerepost this one.
I first used the communist party picture as my signature/avatar. I cut it out of some desktop wallpaper I found on another site:
Initially, I had a line of text underneath saying 'join the party, comrade'. Communist party, geddit? Then I got bored with it and changed the line to put this pic in your sig if u r down with communism ok. Some (usually teenaged) internet users do similar things on britney spears forums or wherever. Then some people who are apparently 'down with communism' put the pic in their sig. There you go.
There. The joke is no longer funny. I hope you're satisfied.
p.s. periwinkle, you should read the atheism thread! |
d00d u so noe dat iz not wut happened |
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