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Leaper Since: May, 2009

Oct 3rd 2010 at 11:31:27 PM •••

A Real Life section? Seriously?

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203.81.166.8 Since: Dec, 1969

Apr 9th 2011 at 1:45:22 AM •••

You can never be too sure...

bobbrom27 Since: Jul, 2011

Oct 16th 2011 at 10:56:13 AM •••

It's a joke seriously do you have no since of humor

Mysterboy1424 Since: Mar, 2021

Apr 11th 2021 at 11:11:39 AM •••

Put Ret-gone in real-life tropes too.

SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)

Mar 23rd 2021 at 10:43:41 AM •••

Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: RetGone vs Unperson vs the Third Option which no longer ever existed, started by dna on Oct 31st 2010 at 11:00:22 PM

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Razor21792 Since: Feb, 2013

Dec 27th 2017 at 6:45:56 PM •••

Should we just give Comic Books its own page at this point? It's gotten pretty extensive.

sdmitch16 sdmitch16 Since: Aug, 2011

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Jun 18th 2012 at 2:34:09 PM •••

The link to the darth wiki leads to the main page.

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Snippyshelf7 Since: May, 2011

Jul 26th 2013 at 1:44:09 PM •••

Its been a year and nobody noticed. Wow.

garrisonskunk Since: Dec, 2009

Jul 19th 2012 at 3:18:57 PM •••

I was wondering if the image should be replaced with this sequence from the webcomic "Housepets!" -

Sabrina knows nothing motivates one to action more than the threat of nonexistence.

Anaheyla Since: Jan, 2001

May 12th 2011 at 2:15:32 PM •••

Removed the Statler And Waldorf stinger because editing is to be discussed.

It was originally

Waldorf: You know who I'd like to Ret-Gone?

Statler: Whoever came up with this show!

Both: Do-ho-ho-ho-hoh!

and I changed it to

Statler: Whoever came up with this meme!

because "this show" makes no sense. So let's come up with something that is acceptably witty and doesn't include vague references to some sort of show.

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TotemicHero Since: Dec, 2009

May 12th 2011 at 3:33:51 PM •••

Posting this as a general response everywhere this comes up:

Here's the deal: "this show" is used because vagueness is the whole point. More specific references could lead to problems due to the Take That! nature of these jokes, and these stingers have already stirred up enough controversy as is.

If you don't think the joke is funny because it's unspecific, that's fine. But the joke being unfunny to one person is not grounds for removal. If you have a better idea (and hopefully far better than "this meme" or "The Muppet Show", because that makes the stingers even more pointless), suggest it.

Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)

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