Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

Re:Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay onli... by tlrobinson on Thursday January 14, 2021 @12:53AM (#25772633)

Hah, this is great. If you don't get the references, it's Hanlon's Razor ("Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity") plus Arthur C. Clarke's "3rd law" ("Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.")

Apparently it's called Grey's Law: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Grey%27s%20L...

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Re:Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay onli... by nullsense on Thursday January 14, 2021 @02:57AM (#25773469)

Does that make it a "quotemanteau"?

Wait... Is that a thing? Are there more of these?

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Re:Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay onli... by riffraff on Thursday January 14, 2021 @03:32AM (#25773712)

I vote for "quotemanteau" to be officially sanctioned! But I would say the specific case is merely a snowclone[0] of "any sufficiently X is indistinguishable from Y"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone

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Re:Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay onli... by nullsense on Thursday January 14, 2021 @05:05AM (#25774497)

It appears to have the properties of both in this case.

That is to say it's a snowclone where the substitutions come from another quote.

I guess quotemanteaus are a special kind of unique snowclone.

You could take "with great power comes great responsibility" and form the snowclone "with great X comes great Y" and then take the quote "the medium is the message" and use those in your snowclone to make the quotemanteau "with a great medium comes a great message"

Hmm... I feel like I should try concoct more of these. They're fun.

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Re:Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay onli... by frays on Sunday January 17, 2021 @03:26AM (#25809141)

Thank you for the explanation.

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