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Re: Something not right about Captain Ahnee and the Dipwads?
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Date: 
Fri, 3 Nov 2000 19:57:11 GMT
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Snipped back a bit.

In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Doug Dropeskey writes:

In one context, Jar Jar is a member of a fantasy world who happens to talk
silly and act like an idiot (in my opinion--these are subjective
statements)

In another context, Jar Jar is a meme--an idea invented by someone.

While torturing a real Jar Jar would be unconscionable, ridiculing a meme
that someone created to entertain me is another matter.  It sends a simple
message:  don't make more memes like this.  (Of course, the Jar Jar meme may
enter into a symbiotic relationship with the memes that mock it, and thereby
survive.)

Excellent analysis, Damraska...

++Lar



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  Re: Something not right about Captain Ahnee and the Dipwads?
 
In one context, Jar Jar is a member of a fantasy world who happens to talk silly and act like an idiot (in my opinion--these are subjective statements). Within the framework of that reality, he does not deserve pain and suffering heaped upon him for (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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