Ancient Streisand Effect
How the fuck did they wojack the horse lmao
The kids are alright
“You can cut that out, right?”
“We can… But we won’t.”
I’m seeing John Cleese carrying a clipboard, alongside some hapless customer or client or something, in Monty Python’s Flying Circus, but am unable to remember which sketch it was: “Ah! Yes. Can do… but won’t!”
Don’t write that down. Do you hear me?
We hear you loud and clear.
“I am not mad. Do not put it in the papers that I was mad.”
Then King Taejong said “I see you writing something down… are you writing down that I fell off the horse? Why are you still writing? Are you writing this down too? STOP WRITING! Ok fine. Write this down then…” after which he gave many compliments about my thoroughness which I’m too humble to recount.
I guess he didn’t make a habit of reading what they wrote.
Or couldn’t read, and the scribes left it out when reading it out loud
Fast forward to 2024: "“Let me do the dumbest thing I can think of and film it for Tik Tok”
History is written by the historians.
Any further reading on this? I don’t know this story.
The invention of Git
