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# but
what is the correct interpretation of the image, as my old semiotics lecturer might ask?
(I helped save b3ta! blind pew 'bandwagonesque', Sun 13 Feb 2005, 2:26, archived)
# I think the kitten's been bumming the duck
cause of the subject... and cause it seems to be trying to intimidate it
(I helped save b3ta! abandonnship, Sun 13 Feb 2005, 2:30, archived)
# no well you see
the suggestion is that the source image had a correct interpretation before any photoshoppery was done to it, something along the lines of "kittens and ducklings should be friends", but it may equally have been "you have to be this tall to ride the duck rollercoaster at my theme park young man"
(I helped save b3ta! blind pew 'bandwagonesque', Sun 13 Feb 2005, 2:34, archived)
[challenge entry]
I think the kitten has already ridden the "duck rollercoaster".
(I helped save b3ta! biovalve skewing the demographic on cold-call surveys, Sun 13 Feb 2005, 2:40, archived)
# not possible
it's for ducks of a certain size only
(I helped save b3ta! blind pew 'bandwagonesque', Sun 13 Feb 2005, 2:42, archived)
# HA!
(I helped save b3ta! abandonnship, Sun 13 Feb 2005, 2:42, archived)
# I like the roller coaster theorey
Wherever it came from is what it means, I know, but I do like the idea that the duck is threatening the kitten (even though thats not what I was saying earlier)
fuck, I don't know.
(I helped save b3ta! abandonnship, Sun 13 Feb 2005, 2:42, archived)
# well
we have to accept that the image may not actually hold any meaning of and by itself, just the meaning we place upon it

i'll get my coat
(I helped save b3ta! blind pew 'bandwagonesque', Sun 13 Feb 2005, 2:44, archived)
# well,
does anything have any meaning?
maybe nothing means anything, and in an attempt to understand what's happening we assign a meaning to everything, even though it's all meaningless
(I helped save b3ta! abandonnship, Sun 13 Feb 2005, 2:50, archived)
# stop it
or we'll start talking about signs and signifiers and become post-structuralists

as the guy from Snap says:

"and you don't want that"

(I helped save b3ta! blind pew 'bandwagonesque', Sun 13 Feb 2005, 2:54, archived)
# ok
I don't know what a post-structuralist is, but I'll pretend I do*



*may not happen
(I helped save b3ta! abandonnship, Sun 13 Feb 2005, 2:59, archived)