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2021-07-04 // day precision

Professional idiots and playful group-expert titles

Posted by Dan Cary

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*they’re
SpongeBob holds a “Professional idiot” card in response to criticism that people wasting time on work-related meme pages are idiots.
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A SpongeBob “professional idiot” meme embraces spending time on a work-related meme page. The caption and replies layer deliberate or corrected grammar mistakes with jokes about journeyman and expert titles. Original wording is preserved rather than silently repaired. SOURCE DISCUSSION — transcribed original comments 2021-07-04 — Jason Lent: Ahem, I prefer “Expert Idiot”. 2021-07-04 — Jonathan Berry: *their 2021-07-04 — Dan Cary — reply in Jason Lent’s thread: Jason Lent unfortunately I can’t bestow titles on myself, I’ve tried. 2021-07-04 — Dan Cary — reply in Jonathan Berry’s thread: Jonathan Berry *their’re 2021-07-04 — Timothy Wilhelm: Idiot journeyman Coverage: All 5 displayed comment/reply records visible; no comment attachments observed. Thread grouping follows source thread-root links; unknown immediate reply parents are not inferred. Dates preserve the displayed day, with timezone unknown. The heading, alt text and opening historical explanation are AI-assisted editorial interpretation. The original caption, preserved image renditions and transcribed discussion are source material. Public images are metadata-stripped display derivatives of Facebook-served files; the original upload files and edit history were not established.

Topics: Early Years, July 2021, meta-memes, group-experts, community-culture, early-years