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Call toll free: 1-555-GEN-ESIS Jesus He Knows Me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35K6vQRt67g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35K6vQRt67g

• mpreda 4y ago
  That's a joke BTW. It's the song "Jesus He Knows Me" by Genesis, about amassing large amounts of money by misleading honest people. At 2:59 in the official video is the quote "You can call my toll free number, 1-555-GEN-ESIS" which I find, as the overall lyrics, great. Well, what has Hacker News become that one has to explain even the jokes..
  • psychstudio 4y ago
    HN doesn't take too kindly to jokes.
    • gpderetta 4y ago
      My experience is that 0 effort reddit style memeing is downvoted, while sarcasm and jokes are rewarded as long at least a minimum effort is shown. I think that most people (me included) just didn't get the joke.
  • smcl 4y ago
    HN is a fickle beast - sometimes jokes are well-received and upvoted, sometimes they’re misunderstood and downvoted, and sometimes they’re understood and downvoted out of spite. It’s hard to read the room sometimes, especially in a text-only medium where despite commenting and interacting a lot, many of us don’t actually really know each other