Here's the Know Your Meme article to help anyone who doesn't get it, but here at the Althouse blog we enjoyed it in real time on January 28, 2020.Whoa the large boulders are the size of large boulders. What’re the odds? https://t.co/dltvipnRhn
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) June 14, 2023
And I said it in the comments:
This is so squarely in my zone of humor.
I love stuff about size — big and small. I have laughed 10 different times reading and rereading "Large boulder the size of a small boulder."
Just laughed again writing that.
If you ever want to get me to laugh at your jokes, just remember "Large boulder the size of a small boulder." That's my style.And I was just saying yesterday...
As I've said many times on this blog, I love humor that plays with size, and my "big and small" tag is perhaps my favorite....
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I had forgotten about that meme, but I didn’t need to remember it to recognize that “large boulders the size of large boulders” was either a joke or a revision error. It would not have occurred to me to take it as Goldberg apparently did—as a serious intentional description.
I love stuff about size — big and small.
Three words: short-fingered vulgarian.
He's the guy who wrote the book, Liberal Fascism, then decided that it was a "how to."
His mom was a character.
A big brain the size of a little brain.
Hahaha reminds me of the geniuses at Time earlier this week with tweet "How Ukraine's dam collapse could become the country's 'Chernobyl'"
https://twitter.com/AdamasNemesis/status/1668270776997347328?s=20
some of those would make nice landscaping rocks.
I need a truck.
Mitchell Byars twitter has this at the top.
Boulder with an ocean or a big lake in front of the flatirons. Not a new idea. I note he is from Hawaii. Boulder city could be filled in with water. It sits in a big dish. It could be a large reservoir, supplying water for Denverites.
This is joke.
Ann - you blogged about it. But you know this... because you are very clever.
oops - I didnt' read the whole post yet.
How does the odd sentence structure get repeated? Makes it look like a glitch in the matrix...
Hunter Biden's tax payer funded Hooker said...
some of those would make nice landscaping rocks.
I need a truck.
OMG I was thinking same. Trouble with the landscape rocks- they cost almost nothing. It's the shipping that kills you...
I had to pull out the Sportsball Hail-Size chart last night. Golf ball...
A large joke the size of a small joke
With a boulder on his shoulder, Jonah's feelin' kinda older.
I love humor that plays with size, and my "big and small" tag is perhaps my favorite....
Does Meade agree?
He didn't get it. They could put that on his tombstone.
Dwarf shortage.
Dick jokes
She, "Well. How big is it?"
Me, " How big? It doesn't return Disneys phone calls."
Three two letter words for small. Is it in?
There once was a man from Assizes.
With balls of varying sizes.
One was quite small.
Almost no ball at all.
But the other was large and won prizes.
Jonah the Fat Tub of Goo.
They gettin’ stoned in Boulder…
If this political commentary thing doesn't work out, he can always still run for Dog Catcher.
Goldberg is a man with great dogs and rocks in his head.
The ? and the Mysterians of political writing.
Unfortunately, repeating an intentional (or not) joke/meme doesn't make it better, especially distorted the way it is.
Also, do we have to remember every obscure meme, joke, now or are we forever shunned? Should we be cancelled for not knowing it?
In the late 90s Goldberg was the Pop culture guru and "funny guy" at National Review. Which says a lot about national Review.
Personally, I think any boulder large enough to block traffic is "Large". In fact a Boulder is defined as "a large rock, typically one that has been worn smooth by erosion."
So calling something a "small large boulder" = "small, large large Rock"
They were huge! Comment like Trump. Everyone does, some time, some place, eventually. I guess Goldberg is not a fan.
That said, sometimes a large rock, a boulder is a diversitist entity. #BoulderHate
The "Pride" of Goucher College fails again. I wonder if Goldberg's leftist funders okayed this minor literary foray the size of a minor-er foray away from Jonah's primary duty: attacking anyone making the dems look bad.
rehajm: "I had to pull out the Sportsball Hail-Size chart last night. Golf ball..."
The hail in Denver earlier this year helped me get a new roof. So it aint always a bad thing.
Someone should check if there is a coyote under those boulders.
Those aren't boulders. Looks more like rubble or scree, to me.
With a boulder on his shoulder
Feelin’ kinda older
Tweeter knocked the MonkeyMan down
You're big on small jokes. Do spontaneous jokes make you happier than planned jokes? Have you ever smoked after having a good laugh? And finally, do you prefer to laugh at jokes or write jokes?
Jonah Goldberg's views on conservatism and the role of government had a strong influence on my own thinking. I also really enjoyed his sense of humor and his use of pop culture references in his lighter works. He wasn't the new PJ O'Rourke, or anything, but he made a lot of good sense to me, and was fun to read.
Then Goldberg and that whole NRO cabal took a bizarre hard left turn into the rye, with no catcher there to stop them from falling off a cliff. I still have no idea how a funny, conservative pundit can turn into a humorless unconservative scold like that.
Jonah Goldberg didn't get Trump either. Same thing.
A story from my brother-in-law's time as an engineering student at SJSU: Physics teacher is discussing the motion of a simple pendulum, assuming that the string has no mass and the bob is a point mass.
Student: "What if the string has mass?"
Prof. (pompously): "You mean, a massive string."
Student: "Oh, no, just a little one."
TaeJohnDo wins today's internet.
Whoever chose to name it as Boulder knew what they were doing. They perhaps downplayed the size of their boulders, but they were more honest than the founders of Little Rock. There's no such thing as a little rock. Even a pebble if located in your shoe is too much...All in all, I would prefer to die in a boulder avalanche than a mud slide so that's a plus.
Boulder is impregnated with boulders. #PlannedPebblehood
The sound of a big joke not getting a small joke?
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