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Hah, this is great. If you don't get the references, it's Hanlon's Razor ("Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity") plus Arth

• nullsense 6y ago
  Does that make it a "quotemanteau"? Wait... Is that a thing? Are there more of these?
  • riffraff 6y ago
    I vote for "quotemanteau" to be officially sanctioned! But I would say the specific case is merely a snowclone[0] of "any sufficiently X is indistinguishable from Y" [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone
    • nullsense 6y ago
      It appears to have the properties of both in this case. That is to say it's a snowclone where the substitutions come from another quote. I guess quotemanteaus are a special kind of unique snowclone. You could take "with great power comes great responsibility" and form the snowclone "with great X comes great Y" and then take the quote "the medium is the message" and use those in your snowclone to make the quotemanteau "with a great medium comes a great message" Hmm... I feel like I should try concoct more of these. They're fun.
• frays 6y ago
  Thank you for the explanation.