Sunday, May 24, 2009
Do you get the joke behind the words in these pictures?
I get the joke behind some of the words, but not all.
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- Gerry Bevers
- Divorced with one son and little hope of falling in love, again, which is fine since my priorities have changed as I have gotten older. Now, the most important thing for me is making sure my 10-year-old son gets a good education and learns all I can teach him about life. Though I still have goals in life, I am past the age of worrying about career. These days I think about having a small, comfortable, easy-to-clean home with a nice, big back yard, a big patio, a basketball goal, and a dog or two. I dream of playing basketball with my son, playing fetch with my dog, and enjoying fresh air while reading a print book or listening to an audio book. Even though I disagree with Korean claims on Dokdo and certain views on history, I think Korea is a great country with great people. I wish there were no Dokdo because it distracts from my studying the Korean language and culture. Anyway, life is too short, and I need to start enjoying what little of it I have left.
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I understand about three-fourth of them. Well, Korean pop culture was never my strong point anyway. I'm gonna talk about some pictures I find particularly amusing.
second one - from a recent popular TV show, "꽃보다 남자". The dog resembles the main character of the show, 구준표.
fourth one - 므흣 means smirking in a creepy way. All the dogs' smile look kinda creepy.
eighteenth one - 오골계 is a kind of Korean chickens with black feather. 오골계+개=오골개.
second from the last - OT is an abbreviation for orientational event for new college students. Some students drink themselves into stuper at this event. (It's kind of like Korean version of Fraternity initiaton ceremony.) The dogs look like college students fallen asleep while drinking, hence 개OT.
last one - The dog's smile resembles that of a Korean pop star, 이효리.
I think the point of humor in most of these pictures come from the ambiguity of the word '개'. It's like 'freaking' or 'heck' in English, it's a rude word but you can just put it in front of any word and emphasize the meaning. And the joke in these pictures is that they interpreted the words literally and actually show us the pictures of real dogs.
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