Commenters flood post with pop-culture comparisons
2 Sep 19 2:43 PM · 4d ago · 18 comments · 1 source · development 2 of 3
Within hours, replies compare the carved face to Clippy, the Muppets' Sam Eagle, Han Solo, the Dire Straits 'Money for Nothing' figure, and other cartoon characters, turning the archaeological post into a meme thread.
“Ancient Yemeni Muppet technology, while very advanced for its time, was held back by the shortage of people able to lift the stones”
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"It looks like you are going to write on this clay tablet.Would you like help with your stylus?"
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I want this in my entrance hall. Just so everyone who enters our house feels judged as unworthy by the 2000+ years old clay tablet.
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Me looking at my husband when he chews with his mouth open
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Ancient Yemeni Muppet technology, while very advanced for its time, was held back by the shortage of people able to lift the stones en.
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It also can’t believe it’s seeing all this bs everywhere rn
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Reminds me of the Dire Straits Money For Nothing guy...
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Yemeni culture is a very old culture, queen of saba, coffee beans originated there
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Earth, Wind, Fire, Water, and HOLY SH*T - WTAF is that!!!???
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I'm not gonna worry about rippin off the Bauhaus when they were just ripping off ancient Yemenis
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The eyes remind me of the Sumerian Eye Dolls
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This man? He dispenses the STELE Compared to him? You are NOTHING
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They had a lot of squares back then. And also, as we can see, a few rectangles.
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telling my toddler it was an ancient numberblock
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that looks nothing like han solo in the movie
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right next to it is an ancient depiction of the SoyJack and he's round and sad because he knows he's not as cool as this one
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There was so much trade going on there in that time. Was this item made in Yemen or traded there?
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Clippy's great great great... (some time later) ...great great great granddad.
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