"His exact words were, 'Please, I don't want to be humiliated for centuries to come'"
"His exact words were, 'Please, I don't want to be humiliated for centuries to come'"
Ancient Streisand Effect
97The OG
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I guess he didn't make a habit of reading what they wrote.
50Or couldn't read, and the scribes left it out when reading it out loud
44I hope they put like a big asterisk next to it. What happens when the main guy is on vacation and there’s a scribe from out of town filling in for a few days. He gets like half way through the sentence while he’s reading out loud and then he’s like “oh…”
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How the fuck did they wojack the horse lmao
50The kids are alright
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"You can cut that out, right?"
"We can.... But we won't."
45I'm seeing John Cleese carrying a clipboard, alongside some hapless customer or client or something, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, but am unable to remember which sketch it was: "Ah! Yes. Can do... but won't!"
5ETA: Looks to be from season 2, episode 2, The Spanish Inquisition.
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It looks like you could wind that hat up with the little lever on the side, and then it would spin with the tassels flying outward.
22History is written by the historians.
18This meme is top shelf.
13Then King Taejong said "I see you writing something down... are you writing down that I fell off the horse? Why are you still writing? Are you writing this down too? STOP WRITING! Ok fine. Write this down then..." after which he gave many compliments about my thoroughness which I'm too humble to recount.
10Fast forward to 2024: ""Let me do the dumbest thing I can think of and film it for Tik Tok"
9Like those podcasts where someone bloops and the host says - "It's okay, we'll fix it in post [production]... just kidding, we don't do any post".
5Cambyses II, in the afterlife: "shit happens, bro"
4Could have been improved by the left one being a crying soyjak, and the right one being a chad.
4Should have just sung a Beatles song all the way through.
4Don't write that down. Do you hear me?
We hear you loud and clear.
3Any further reading on this? I don't know this story.
3Wow. One of the comments on that post makes me wonder if it wasn't the historians themselves recording their identity as historians, when in fact they sound more like the royal press pool or even paparazzi; one "historian" only went with the king on a hunt by using a disguise. Kind of like how in a hundred years we will have a bunch of blog posts misidentified as journalism (burn).
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It's not the gaff, but the cover up.
2The King Taejong effect, if you will
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wise
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