# Whose at fault for tarnishing Ken Bone's image?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 20, 2016, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-at-fault-for-tarnishing-ken-bones-image/769123 "2016-10-20T12:44:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-at-fault-for-tarnishing-ken-bones-image/769123/21 "2016-10-21T14:05:49Z")

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A fat guy in a red sweater with a disposable camera.

And this is fascinating because…why?

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**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-at-fault-for-tarnishing-ken-bones-image/769123/22 "2016-10-21T14:57:48Z")

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Skipped down the posts to write:

Ken Bone is nowhere near as famous as the aggregated Internet seems to think he is. Dude is not a household name, and not every American human tunes into the Trump-Clinton debates and catches every mini-meme that results.

For the first two weeks I heard about “Ken Bone”, I thought he was some jokey person on Twitter. Never saw the guy until I saw an article about Ken Bone on Cracked (really – he’s worth an entire Cracked article?). Not sure why this all irks, but it does. Get off my lawn, etc.

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**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-at-fault-for-tarnishing-ken-bones-image/769123/23 "2016-10-21T15:00:53Z")

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It’s the name. Ken “Bone”. Huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh…

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**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-at-fault-for-tarnishing-ken-bones-image/769123/24 "2016-10-21T15:03:24Z")

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> [@lost4life](#):
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> I liked the Cracked expose’ [What You Should Know About Ken Bone](http://www.cracked.com/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-ken-bone/).

I swear, I saw this and wondered: _This guy hasn’t been around for decades? What’s up?_

I guess I’m behind the times … “Internet celebrity” doesn’t mean “celebrity” to me. Odd as he looked at the debate (finally got some still shots from that) … with a shave and different clothes, Ken Bone can walk the earth anonymously, I’d bet. No way more than 2 in 10 American adults (call it 18-80) can pick him out of a lineup. For the 18-30 crowd … I dunno, maybe with them it’s 2 in 3 or something.

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