1 hat + 12 grandfather clocks = Dysentry-proof plan for ultimate success!

Mooglepinoy22

@man in gauze is king ramses II, actually: I imagine you get the point here.
I just did this to fit in.

Zombienator

@man in gauze is king ramses II, actually: The picture is of Zelda from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, she is saying Send help.

The mouse is over the option to Send Link, Link been the default name of the main hero in pretty much all the Legend of Zelda games out.

Emiat

@man in gauze is king ramses II, actually: It's funnilarious because it says "Send link", you know, like an Internet link, but then it's Zelda, so you don't just send a link, you send Link-link, geddit? ...
...
... Oookay, so, that Peach gal, what a cocktease, huh?

Antiterra

@man in gauze is king ramses II, actually: Zelda is the princess from the Zelda games. Link, the hero is always saving her. She says send help, and he hit file and went down to highlight "Send Link...". I guess you would have to play the games or know alot about them to get it.

AngelMayLaugh

I like the 3rd one.

Utmu

I don't quite get the second one. The third is not new, but a funny take on two old jokes. The first is...just the most incredible thing I've seen all summer. Besides MGS4.

man in gauze is king ramses II, silly.

Haha! Send Link. I've gotta show this to my friend.

AngelMayLaugh

The Oregon Trail one is rather awesome.

sir_carrot

Brilliant. All very old, but brilliant.
Much like all of Owen's articles.
(Don't get mad, I only tease out of love.)

TheCleaningGuy

ha, those are pretty funny.

It's been obvious the princess is a tease since the 80's, when will he get a clue?

Sean

This should be a weekly feature! Great finds. I lol'd

CrAzYbRoS

That Oregon Trail pic was floating around 4chan years ago. Still funny though. My preferred strategy was to bring 10000 lbs in bullets and a rifle.

Carnok

I LOVE that Oregon Trail picture.
Food? Clothing?
COWBOY THE FUCK UP!

Insomnia Bob

I love KFC's chicken! Nothin' like the Colonel's Kentucky Fried recipe!

...

Oh, you mean Kotaku's Madden Conference! I'll probably have to pass on that, unfortunately. I've never really liked Madden in the past, & even though I liked this year's version more than others, I just don't see myself getting it.

dawimp523

Personally, I'd love to join the KFC... but I did the stupidest thing last night. My PS3 was making a lot of noise while I was playing Madden, so I decided to flip it vertically to give it some more room to breath. Whaddayaknow-though, it scratched the game to hell, it did. What a fool - even a four year old knows not to do that.

StupidityTries

The Zelda one is wonderful. Thanks for some great coverage today, Owen. Be sure to update us on the mayo gangsta wars tomorrow.

wild homes loves you but chooses darkness!

All of those pictures made me laugh so hard. Thanks for posting them! The www.muahahahahahahahahaha.com website was especially funny ^.^

mfwahwah

@AngelMayLaugh: Having played OoT on the original N64 and then emulated it to play on my computer, I'm honestly ashamed I didn't get that.
@Antiterra:
caketease? :P
@Emiat:
Yeah, I got it :P
@Zombienator:
Haha nice. I read this first, so I was like "Oh, crap" while scrolling up. :P

man in gauze is king ramses II, silly.

The "Send Link" one took me longer than it should have to get the punchline, but once I did, it was *glorious*.

Morithain

Nice. The Send Link one is my favorite. :)

TeamSakuraKC

@Đipic: 4chan is the well from which all memes are drawn, good and bad. It's got a lot of potential for mass retardation, but you've got the monkeys-typewriters scenario going on as well.

onidavin

@Mrobinson587: I'm sorry but 4chan and humor are two things that do not go together unless you're under the age of 13 and have severe ADHD and/or mental disability.

Đipic

Imo, the only way for the oregon trail picture to have been better was if he had some of the clocks harnessed to the front of the wagon.

ANeM

@Moonshadow101: It never got lame, people just got crabby because the Internet is a resounding, myopic chorus.

onidavin

@Mrobinson587: In danger? It's been so obscenely overused that it's already come out the other side and isn't lame anymore.

Moonshadow101

The Cake is a lie is in danger of being overused it's so good... but the Peach one is just great.

Owen-
My feeling is that you should continue to post things like this in the future despite them being from 4chan or being old because there are new people to the blog and internet everyday. And they are still funny.

4chan has such a reputation some people stay shy of it despite it being the source of all humor on the interwebz. Remember though... if you decide to visit, don't ever go to /b/.

Ah crap I broke rules 1 and 2

Mrobinson587

I always though the dude from Zelda was named "Fagballs."

PEWPEWGreenLaser

@Đipic: Maybe your on to something. I am very easily amused. If someone just stares at me I burst out laughing.

AngelMayLaugh

@Mrobinson587:B-b-b-but /b/ is where lulz are generated. : (

@Đipic: 4chan is kinda like ball punching humor to me, Funny as hell at first, then you get tired of it, then funny as hell again after awhile.

Back to topic. I don't get the oregon trail one, is there someting I missed?

AngelMayLaugh

@Carnok: Uh. I think the nice goons at Something Awful would like a word with you. This picture was made for a thread over there a while back. It has no relation to 4chan...

Mink_Car

@onidavin: I've never found anything that has come from there any more than mildly amusing. I'll never understand the meme/lulz mentality. Someone tells you a mildly funny joke or you read a comic in the newspaper and have a chuckle. Then you hear the same joke or read the same comic the next day and maybe you smile. After that it's dead. How people can laugh at the same tired, regurgitated memes (sometimes when they were barely funny in the first place) is far beyond me. I only have to assume the people in question are far too easily amused and/or are not right in the head.

Đipic

Ok, that's the best Oregon Trail fanart picture ever. Not that I think I've seen any, but if there is any, well this one has to be the tops. Unless there's one making fun of families drowning while crossing a river. I'm sure that's a comic somewhere. Has to be.

Salen

@Đipic: I'm not a 4chan-frequenter, but I love seeing the evolution of a meme after the fact (distilled through sites that shield me from the less palatable aspects of /b/). There's some bizarre, clever shit that goes on. Like the "Gentlemen" TF2 sequence described above.

onidavin

@huginn:

"I cast Lvl. 3 Eroticism. You turn into a real beautiful woman."

I love that one.

The second one with "Send Link" reminds me of that shitty Zelda game on the CD-i. "If you don't hear from me in a month, send Link!"

jello44

A little old by internet standards ( a week on reddit.. where you got these from)

But like a robe and a wizard hat, they don't go old. Good stuff Owen.

huginn

@Đipic:

The thing about memes that I enjoy is seeing a familiar thing used in different and unexpected ways. The only thing on 4Chan that ever struck me as funny was the "Gentlemen" thread on /b/; the first picture was a TF2 spy with his mouth stuffed full of cigarettes and the simple caption "Gentlemen." There were soon things like Jesus with his mouth stuffed with crosses saying "Amen" and such, which were funny in that they had a new take on something old. On an unrelated note, I love trying to extract some sort of deep meaning out of 4Chan memes, such as saying that the Gentlemen spy is a satire on how people view smoking; smoke one cigarette in public and people look at you like you've got a thousand of the things stuffed in your mouth; anything about a character is immediately overshadowed by a cigarette in his mouth. It's obviously bullshit, but fun to come up with.

@AngelMayLaugh:
May laugh, indeed. Then again, my take on that would be DevilMightTotallyScrewThePlayerCharacterOverTherebyMakingRoomForTheSequel, but I'm a Diablo fanboy like that. :P

man in gauze is king ramses II, silly.

I imagine the first comic is going to go over like a lead balloon with all the younger gamers who didn't spend way too much time playing Oregon Trail in their middle school libraries because "it's ok, it's educational!"

Nonetheless, his strategy is exceedingly bold indeed. Let's hope it pays off for him.

Calavera302

Oregon Trail... ohhhh, that was, for all purposes, my first video game, way back in second grade. I had the fourth edition, with the awful FMV... how I loved it... Wow, that really takes me back. Thanks for that.

Nekusagi

I actually stumbled upon the send link one earlier and I've stumbled the princess peach one but I love that Oregon trail one

smoke731mcb

@Mooglepinoy22: You died of dysentery!

Chanthas

@ShaggE:

Buy a dog is awesome because Dogs protect you from internet hackers! More Likely.. is simply one of the best.

jello44

@Mink_Car: There is no river you cannot ford with clocks!

dslsd64

@onidavin: Not ALL memes come from 4chan. The best ones come from Something Awful.

Spiffyness

@man in gauze is king ramses II, silly.: Agreed. As incredibly stupid as many memes are, some are just so bizarre that I can't help but love them and follow them as they evolve.

Link Mah Boi, Caturday, NEDM, More Likely Than You Think, Demotivational Posters, and Buy A Dog are just a few of the memes that never cease to crack me up, for reasons that I cannot explain.

ShaggE

@ShaggE:

[De]Motivators are just a goldmine if done properly. They don't really get old. But there's a lot of YouTube Poop ones that I like. One of my AIM away messages is "I wonder what's for dinner *vague hand motion towards dinner*"

And of course, when given oral instructions in school to create a graph according to a certain algorithm, the teacher said "Shade in (whatever) red if you got a value over nine thousand" and I said WHAT, NINE THOUSAND? :P Stuff like that is always fun.

man in gauze is king ramses II, actually

Love the Zelda one.

Eltigro

@Nekusagi:
Oregon Trail 4 ftw :D

hrabbit

Lol great find..

Bitten_Dead

Player one kicks fucking ass even here on kotaku~!

masterhobbes

i laughted like 15 straight minutes on the zelda one... i got a huge headache.... but it worth it all the way...and still giggling

Edwinik

New Tab.

[i.ivillage.com]

Spoony Bard

lol great job owen. u jsut brightened my night up

maraxusofk

If you don't hear from me in a month, Send Link.

carbon016

@onidavin: I read somewhere that they ran an actual experiment with monkeys and typewriters. They found that rather than type out random gibberish, the monkeys tended to press one or two keys repeatedly and then rub feces all over the keyboard. So yeah, it's a lot like 4chan, but not quite in the way you meant.

PJ Frost

The Oregon Trail one cracks me up, and I never actually played the game. That man has his priorities in order. And he's standing so proudly!

I just wish it had been a top hat.

Chagrin

And instantrimshot.com comes in handy again!

Habits

I lol'd hard.

Shocky-

dangit. now i want to play Oregon trail again.

kadaj_sama

Whats up with someone already picking the Panthers in the KFC??!!1!! Did you see what Stewart and D'Lo did to the Redskins tonight? Let me have them, please.

BebopBlue

pictures is misspelled in the title bar of Firefox on that one site

FP Bleentastic has cake

@PJ Frost:
they got up to 5 different letters towards the end.
[news.bbc.co.uk]

willyolio

LMAO!! You outdid yourself again Owen! Now off to play some Oregon Trail!

Mike's Stalker

LIES LIES!

ZetaCrossfire

okay Iread the comments, I don't get the oregon trail one and that was one of my first PC games ever.. eh?

aznguyen316

Wow, ballsy move taking only grandfather clocks and a hat. I gotta try that.

FoxyGaz

Holy shit enough with the Portal cake jokes. These are the same motherfuckers that forward Chuck Norris jokes to you at work.

whitey9

@aznguyen316: I'm trying to figure it out too.

jive238

@salthegeek: That's all I would take. If neede, I could make it into clothes ... or grandfather clocks.

The Magnificen7

i would have taken some bacon

salthegeek

Seriously, what more do you need other than 12 grandfather clocks?

remixnzza

...what the, I never though I'd see my friend's art on Kotaku.

Comic

@Spoony Bard:
Meet the new Tab, same as the old Tab...

No, wait... it isn't... Dammit!

BPMΣ

He has a comic at [www.soldoutcomic.com] if you're interested.

Comic

gotta have a hat man, if nothing else.

islandknight

Would be cooler if there was Dwarf Fortress art.

SWATJester

all amusing >^.^<

my buddy actually showed me the link one on friday, he stumbled upon it (literally) while we were in lab.

demonknightinuyasha

@demonknightinuyasha: Did he trip over a piece of paper with the image on it, or on a computer showing the image?

F.Y.I. I got the pun. If he meant to make one.

The Magnificen7

Muahahah indeed. I dig "Send Link".

PsycheE

Shouldn't he have a lot of whiskey?

RedRaptor

@dslsd64: Oxen? Food? Clothing?

Pah, who needs 'em. We got clocks.

Mink_Car

You can never have to many grandfather clocks

Weres my Remake!

Ice-9

Oregon Trail 2 was my favorite game for a long time. If you geeked out on 1, 2 will blow your mind. Extremely immersive.

MeanMillz

The Oregon Trail picture was done by SomethingAwful forums poster Shaezerus. More can be found at [forums.somethingawful.com]

Foozle

Probably a bit late on this, but the Oregon Trail picture was done by Something Awful forums poster Shaezerus. More can be found at [forums.somethingawful.com]

Foozle

@man in gauze is king ramses II, silly.:

Is this a reply chain?

Nice finds though. I remember the good ol' days of spending what little free time we had in class playing that game.. Accidental gunshot wounds killed EVERYONE.

Is it bad if I actually tried that site to see if it worked? x.x

DrSteinman

Why don't we have Oregon Trail HD for download on the PSn and Live yet?

boringjob2

Is it just me....or is that a penis in the Oregon Trail pic?

Reaper6291