Not it was on their home page on the website. I haven't been on that website in several years. They used to have it on the home page when I 1st became aware of them in the late 90's.
No, I was not here when the OP made memes based on Babylon Bee. I hadn't even heard of ImgFlip at that time. I 1st saw the Babylon Bee on Facebook. By the time I found out about ImgFlip, everyone knew that the Bee was satire.
I don't remember when I 1st started on ImgFlip but I know the Bee was around before I started here.
"Something something leftist that means next come socialist then Marxism and didcha know Karl Marx hated the Blacks so therefore... something something you communists killed 100 million people so I just skip all that all the way to the end."
That didn't come the Bee, that's history. Marx did hate blacks. He referred to them with the "N" word. But then Marx hated everyone.
Communists did kill over 100 million of their own people.
That's just historical fact.
The Paul is dead thing was started by a DJ in Detroit.
George Harrison was considered the 6th Python. George Harrison, Pink Floyd and Genesis all contributed money to fund Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
The Onion always had the word "satire" on their home page. The Babylon Been didn't do that. No one knew it was parody.
Like I said, they sounded just as crazy and bizarre as the crazy and bizarre stuff the left does and so there was no reason to doubt it.
Also like I said, posted a parody article many times we just had to wait a year, 6 month, a month and I think one time they were ahead of the leftist craziness by a week.
I got burned once on FB. I knew the Bee was parody long before I had ever heard of ImgFlip. If I ever posted anything from the Bee (which I don't remember ever doing) it was to be funny.
I can't tell you about anyone who posted Bee articles as serious journalism when the Bee first started because I wasn't here.
""le sigh* you keep trying to reconfigure my words to suit your bogus narrative."
Hmmm.... There's no meme of a smiling girl so apparently you're being serious. Oh well. Don't care.
Are you trying to beat the Andy Kaufman dead horse?
"but I never really liked Monty Python much"
BLASPHEMY!!!!! HERESY!!!!! "I sentence you to be hung by the neck until you cheer up"
"A bit too pretentious and smug."
It's British and everyone thinks the Brits are pretentious and smug because of their accent but you could not be more wrong.
"but we used to hop around like we were riding an invisible horse when we were in third grade also"
I was 17 when I saw the Holy Grail in the theaters. I wasn't hopping around with an imaginary horse. There's more to Monty Python than just their movies. They had a British comedy show that when I first saw it, it was on PBS in America before the move came out.
"Now I'm sure making a cutout of a Big foot and having it land on a cutout of Queen Elizabeth and making a lame ooh sound is clever, but it's clever for someone in the third grade."
All of the animations that was done for Monty Python was done by Terry Gilliam. The same Terry Gilliam that directed the Oscar winning "The Fisher King"
"'I Am The walrus, koo koo koochoo' was genius and searched cover looking for an invitation to Paul's secret wedding."
Being older than you, there is so much about the Beatles at this time that you don't understand. "I am the Walrus" is a parody. It's not about Paul's wedding, it is a parody about a rumor that Paul had been killed. "I am the Walrus" is just one of many clues the Beatles gave in their albums about Paul's death. Paul didn't die, it was all a joke.
For as crazy as the left is, the Babylon Bee just sounded plausible. The Onion did the same thing when it showed up in the late 90's. The Onion wasn't right or left and parodied both. I haven't looked at the Onion in years so I don't know if they have remained politically neutral or not.
The Daily Show on Comedy Central was politically neutral for the most part. Then flipped and became exclusively leftist.
Anyway. What you are saying is that you're doing an Andy Kaufman bit on all of us. And I'm saying you shouldn't be so exclusive to just yourself. Maybe you wouldn't get so many down votes form other people.
One of my replies to you somewhere, I put text in that reply that defined what an argument was. That was lifted directly from a Monty Python skit. I was hoping someone who had seen the Argument Clinic skit would have picked up on it.
Sometimes I am serious, in fact most of the time but I'm tired of being serious and would much rather just have a good time. And that pretty much the reason I reply to you so much. Most of the other lefties here I have, for the most part given up on. Sometimes I wonder if they are just you under another name just playing more of your jokes.
Anyway. I apologize if I have offended you in any way. I'll just be more mindful of your style of humor.
When the Babylon Bee first showed up they fooled a lot of people. They know how the left thinks and so all they had to do was just embellish the facts to be funny. And just like The Onion, many times their parody turned into reality.
I've never understood 1 specific kind of humor. That is the kind of humor where you're the only one laughing. That's why I never cared for Andy Kaufman. I call that kind of humor, selfish humor.
If something's funny it should be shared. It should be something we can all laugh at. And it seems you have trouble with that kind of humor.
You're kind of humor is more pathetic than anything because you're the only one who laughs.
If you want to be funny try to make more people laugh than just yourself. You can do it because some things make you laugh, you just need to see if you can alter that same humor to make other people laugh.
The truly funny people are those who can make a political joke and make both liberals and conservatives laugh. It's always going to be easier to make a conservative laugh because most of us aren't all uptight and full of hatred.
I'm not that talented. If I'm lucky I might make a conservative laugh.
