# The SMACKDOWN!!! Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 5, 2017, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smackdown-thread/783807 "2017-04-05T13:58:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 16
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smackdown-thread/783807/16 "2017-04-07T19:59:31Z")
What about the situations where the person lays the smackdown on themselves, then tries to dig out of it, to no avail? Let me present unto the committee the work of **Doorhinge** , taken from the [The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-by-step, Inch-by-inch](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=815247) thread: First there was me: > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/430): > > [Iconic photo of woman deciding between health care and iPhone](https://twitter.com/arctictony/status/839195119857336320) (It’s a reference to the iconic Depression-era photograph of a worried woman in the Dust Bowl) Ann Hedonia then responds: > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/439): > > I would need to buy a new iPhone once a month in order to wastefully spend the money I use for my insurance premiums. And it would need to be a really good iPhone, too-- a 7Plus with lots of memory… (She obviously got the joke). Then, right after, our boy Doorhinge posts the following: > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/441): > > Does that qualify as fake news? The photo doesn’t match the claim. > > _This is_ (Dorothea) _Lange’s most celebrated and iconic portrait of American family life of the thirties and an image that stays in the mind for a great deal of time, such is its power. The subject is Florence Owens Thompson and the name of the photograph is Migrant Mother._ > > [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4ySAzVEDGYI/TtYpMHpncrI/AAAAAAAAO7A/AaAEUu\_VeGU/s640/dorothea+lange+depression+era+photographs+13.jpg](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4ySAzVEDGYI/TtYpMHpncrI/AAAAAAAAO7A/AaAEUu_VeGU/s640/dorothea+lange+depression+era+photographs+13.jpg) > > [The Depression Era Photography of Dorothea Lange ~ Kuriositas](http://www.kuriositas.com/2011/11/depression-era-photography-of-dorothea.html) > > It appears that some asshole on the internet going by the name Tony Haile wants people to believe that the iPHone was available during the 1930’s. The Dope Responds: > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/442): > > It’s a joke. You’re not normal, so I wouldn’t expect you to recognize such humor, but I’m happy to assist. > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/445): > > Completely serious question–are you retarded? > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/446): > > Wow. Just wow. > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/455): > > Pssst, doorhinge a little hint. There is something called [satire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire). You may have heard of it. Also pro-tip: Johnathan swift didn’t actually think cannibalism is a good idea. > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/457): > > Don’t be too hard on him. He thinks the word “irony” is what you use to describe how an iron looks. Even I take a shot: > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/461): > > About 15, 20+ years ago I was talking to somebody on AOL who went through a tornado and they remarked “they said it sounded like a train, but I didn’t hear a single ‘choo-choo’.” (Later, I heard other people say this on those disaster porn shows so it’s apparently a thing). > > Congratulations on beating the choo-choo tornado guy for the dumbest thing ever said to me on the internet. Please, take your response and frame it, displaying it proudly on your wall for you may never attain such heights again. > > Or… at least for the rest of this week. Bad enough, right? But then… _ **Doorhinge doubles-down** _ with the “I got the joke, it was YOU who didn’t get the joke” strategy that was a loser in the fourth grade. > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/465): > > There, there. It’s going to be OK. Tony Haile duped you into thinking that you had discovered an iconic photo of a wanna-be iPhone user, and you couldn’t wait to share your discovery with others. That’s so cute. Better luck next time. The Dope Responds: > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/466): > > So sayeth this Board’s choo-choo tornado guy. 🙂 > > But, really… huh? > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/472): > > It’s a very recognizable photo (hence iconic). Many people understood the poignant juxtaposition of the similarities between a poor 1930’s mother and a 2017 mother. The woman in the photo had sold her tires to pay for food. A modern mother who lives in poverty will have to decide what to sell to pay for health insurance. > > It’s even more ironic since Lange’s photos at the time helped usher in social changes to help the poor get out of their situation and not fall back. Yet here we are nearly 100 years later with similar struggles. Except now people are fighting to ensure she stays poor and falls further into poverty. (That was very patient of you, Filmore. We should all try to do likewise.) > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/473): > > Yes, but its recognition factor is due, in considerable measure, to its historical significance, and dumbfucks like **doorhinge** have no interest in learning from history. > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/476): > > That HAS to be it…not because you’re a drooling cretin, nope, no way, no how. Kindly unplug your keyboard and save the rest of us from your stupidity. Doorhinge Responds: > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/478): > > Hahahaha. Coming from the guy who was so stupid he could only cut and paste someone else’s propaganda, I’m not surprised you’d stoop to ridiculing someone who was trying to describe what it was like to be in a tornado. Haters gotta hate. That’s what people like you do. I respond: > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/479): > > Sure your proper username shouldn’t be “Unhinge”? > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/483): > > Are you sure your proper username shouldn’t be “Crapper with a T”? (Witty retort!) The Board Responds: > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/481): > > So wait. Do I have this right: > > You GOT the original joke, but decided to play it straight - and then, when called on that, thought JohnT was the dummy who didn’t get the joke? > > Walk me through it slowly. I’m as confused by this as by the White House’s position on Obama’s “wiretaps.” > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/482): > > I think you’re burying the lede here, which is that _you learned something_, which many of us didn’t think was possible. If you further confound our expectations by \*retaining \*that information you will be well on your way to becoming a fully functioning human being. > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/487): > > I’m not interested in “burying the lede” with you. Ever. But thanks for asking. > > As to the rest - According to whom? You? According to your standards? Do you have any standards that haven’t been supplied by your favorite political party? > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/491): > > (post shortened) > > Hahahahaha. Another phrase you don’t understand. Is there no limit to your ignorance? > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/485): > > (Post shortened) > > Hahahahaha. Of course you didn’t get the joke. > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/486): > > This is so sad. Another tragic victim of Coprolitic Brain Syndrome - a heartbreaking, overlooked disease. You have my sympathies, and you can take heart in the much-needed attention our current President is bringing to the pitiably afflicted. > > Chin up, buckaroo. Many CBS victims have found rewarding careers in the food service industry. > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/493): > > > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/481): > > > > So wait. Do I have this right: > > > > You GOT the original joke, but decided to play it straight - and then, when called on that, thought JohnT was the dummy who didn’t get the joke? > > > > Walk me through it slowly. I’m as confused by this as by the White House’s position on Obama’s “wiretaps.” > > Couldn’t have been more obvious a joke if she was wearing a nametag that said [“Sophie.”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie's_Choice_(film)) > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/494): > > You’re as confused as I am. I’m going to have to assume that he got the original joke (because, yes, it’s quite obviously a joke. That’s one of the most famous photos in American history) and is just purposely being difficult and is amusing himself and only himself in the process. > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/495): > > A paid Russian troll wouldn’t recognize an iconic American image. Of course, neither would a moron. > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/497): > > Not only would he recognize it, he would know every word to to _The Star Spangled Banner._ > > 😃 > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/505): > > So, one takeaway from the photo flap in this thread is that it’s getting difficult to tell a Russian troll from a stupid American. The Prosecution rests. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smackdown-thread/783807)._