26 January 2024

For anyone who is not familiar with the premise behind this joke

After years of challenge in the courts, both parents were absolved of the crime, and a coroner found Azaria's death was, in fact, the result of being eaten by a dingo.
How fucking awful. Your baby gets eaten by a wild animal, you get charged with murder, and then your trauma becomes an international joke for years.
- Similar with the woman who spilled McDonald's coffee on her lap and sued. International joke because of McDonald's smear campaign, but it turned out their coffee was legitimately served too hot to cut costs.
- That's the nature of many tragedies I'm afraid. Monty Python and The Holy Grail comes to mind where I recall it opening to the bubonic plague of people being thrown onto a cart with someone screaming "Bring out yer dead!" and the joke is someone tries to 'bring out' someone that's still alive, insisting they'll be dead soon.
  I don't think anyone really ascribes malice to the jokes, it's just a way to cope through dark history.
I first heard it on Seinfeld. It's amazing that it was used so much in pop-culture.
- There's a movie with Sam Neil about this story. We had to watch it in high school, before the Seinfeld episode came out, and we all just about died with the mom yelling about the dingo eating her baby. it wasn't supposed to be funny but it absolutely was.
- I never knew there was an actual story behind the Seinfeld scene.
- I just knew of the band from Buffy.
- every time I think of this story I picture Elaine saying it. "A dingo ate my baby!!"
for people on a PC.
- Thanks! Someone should make a bot to do this. Would be useful...

You know that's a true story? Lady lost a kid. You're about to cross some fuckin' lines.

I fucking love this movie
Is one of them the one the dingo crossed when it ate that baby?
- Yes that's the one.
Suck my unit!
Gotta draw those lines first.
Is this a line from Letterkenny? Because it sounds like a line from Letterkenny. They'd all end up doing really bad Australian accents.
Dan - I understands shes actins like shes fightin' fer her lives, but I still thinks Meryls ates more scenery than any dingos could.
Katy - Meryl is beloved BECAUSE she's like a dingo. You don't get to be that beloved as a woman of age in Hollywood without eating the occasional metaphorical baby.
Dary - I just think she could have gone about it a little better. It's like "did a dingo eat your manners?".
Wayne - Come on now, a lady lost her kid. You're about to cross some fuckin' lines.
Rahld - Ster't!!
- Tropic Thunder
Lady lost a kid
... 40 years ago.
Yea this one is a tough one to upvote.

Oof,too soon Gary...

That's dark

Why do the dingoes get a bigger enclosure?

Funny enough dingos are descendants of domestic dogs, which is itself a touch weird, but also the heelers (aka Australian cattle dogs) are descendants of them. My boy is a heeler/lab mix which I think is maximum silly.

Ive got two Australian cattle dogs. One is a very sweat girl, the other is a fucking crazy but tries his best to be a good boy.
I've got a Chihuahua/heeler