this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2023
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[–] RaincoatsGeorge@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got my username from one of these and have been using it ever since.

[–] IrrationalNumber@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I just had to look it up. It’s somehow the first time I’ve seen this style of memes and it’s cute af

[–] Paleobiology@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can someone explain this to me?

[–] kamiheku@sopuli.xyz 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The "daingert Madelyn" in the last panel is from a CAPTCHA challenge. In case you're not aware, CAPTCHAs used to present squiggly pseudo-words like that for you to decipher. I suppose they still might, but they used to, too.

And the joke is, well, it was always funny when the two words somehow made sense

Edit: And to totally kill the joke, "daingert" kinda looks/sounds like "dangit" in a southern(?) accent if you squint enough

[–] FitchInks@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago

Fun Fact: For a long time reCaptcha was used to digitalise books. One of the words was a know word and used as the test and the other was unkown.

[–] Paleobiology@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago
[–] bear_delune@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

ABSOLUTE CLASSIC!

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