I disagree. I think this image is perfect. Anything else would probably be overly wordy.
edited 20th Mar '12 2:18:18 PM by redhed311
Nothing wrong with the current.
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Current image is great.
Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.
If you find a greater image than the current, sure, but it stays otherwise.
The Internet misuses, abuses, and overuses everything.
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Keep Until Better Image Suggested.
Rhetorical, eh? ... Eight!
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Keep Until Better Image Suggested
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
Definitely keep the current image. This is about as succinct as we can make it.
Reaction Image RepositoryThe "played for laughs" angle described in the OP is not true at all, we are the people playing it for laughs. I have no reason to disbelieve that this sign was posted in utter seriousness.
Also: Understatement. Hah!
edited 21st Mar '12 12:02:22 AM by rodneyAnonymous
Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.
Current image is perfect
I see what the OP is getting at, but it's Keep Until Better Image Suggested to me.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
I'd say keep the image, unless you want to move it to Hypocritical Humor.
The picture also fits the real meaning of hypocrisy - claiming a belief while not practicing in it.
This pic is illustrative, won an IP thread, and there's no alternative suggested. I'm voting Keep until better image is suggested and locking.
In uffish thought
Current is great, and not really Hypocritical Humor.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
The current image could technically be shooped or something, but here's one
which is clearly serious.
This is going to be so much fun.
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While I like the current image, that one does evoke a far more serious feeling. If possible, I say replace current image with that.
Hi
I wouldn't necessarily mind to switch the current out for that one.
Also, disregard the clock, I meant to set it on a different thread.
Fan of dark humor, but I like the current more, it is more simple / stark.
Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.
Hi
Anyone else?
I like the current much better than the gravestone one.
edited 16th May '12 10:29:49 AM by David7204
In uffish thought
Still saying that the current is great; I prefer it to the most recent suggestion.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
Hi
Clock's up; locking for inactivity/lack of consensus. No action is to be taken based on this thread.
It seems to more intend to be funny than to illustrate the trope... and being a hypocrite for funny is... well... a different trope altogether: Hypocritical Humor.
Funny pictures work, but if they intend illustrate a serious trope that has a separate trope for Played for Laughs uses, then it illustrates that one, not the intended one.
Evil is my favorite color.