HA! HA! Guy

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Now so ancient that its origins are a mystery, the founding-fathers of this historic meme are long ago thought to have left the internets as a result of losing their virginity and/or getting a life. Scientists of the speculative arts have posited that it dates back to 1773AD when enraged colonists helped spark the American Revolution by dumping their British overlords' tea-supply into the Boston harbour. This epic troll became known as the Boston Tea Party. When asked to comment upon the actions of the mob their ringleader John Hancock, who would later go on to invent the signature, stated simply "HA! HA!"

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  The HA! HA! Guy IRL,
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HA! HA! I'm advertising... wait, what?

This is the real origin of HA! HA! Guy... It is generally thought to originate from a period sometime between 1850 and 1900. It advertises Forbes Dry Photographic Plates, a reversed watermark from the scanner stating "Photographic" can be observed across the facial area.

The internets version first appeared on SA in January 1953 from whence it spread to Fark like a fucking Zerg Rush. In a desperate attempt to stop the flood, on the weekend of the 15th of July (a weekend renowned in the annals of mediocrity as "The Grey Wave") moderators encouraged users to post HA! HA! in every thread that they could in the hope of eventually wearing the meme out.

"Backfired" has never been so well defined; to say nothing of overestimating the intelligence of a user-base.

HA! HA! is also lulzworthy for creating a GIGANTIC shitstorm of drama between internet detectives vehemently debating its real origin. The question of whether Forbes Plates were dental plates or photographic plates was apparently such serious business that different camps - naming themselfs "HaHa-ists" - defined themselves as either Dental HaHa-ists or Photographic HaHa-ists.

Some argue that this pyrotechnically pathetic spectacle had more lulz per-square-inch of threadspace than the meme itself; especially given that one can resolve the matter in about two minutes by actually picking up a real fucking book rather than just relying upon fevered combing of TOW and Snopes for your knowledge... you fucking docile cunt.

See also

Wrong location, nigger

• Joseph Ducreux
• HA HA HA, OH WOW

External Links

• HA! HA! Guy at YTMND
• HA! HA! Guy at Macrochan.
• DIY HA! HA!
• The Daily Quaker - HA! HA! Blog (Archive)

HA! HA! Guy is part of a series on The History of The Lulz

[Shut UpSing Me The Song Of My People] In Chronological Order 399BC: First recorded troll-banning 0AD: Knock knock! Who's there? It's Jesus, LOL 571: Birth of Muhahahahahammed 600: Blood orgies 1077: Invention of the meme archive 1100: DEUS VULT! 1337: Start of the Hundred Years War 1492: The Americas are culturally enriched 1573: Tycho doesn't invent the funny webcomic 1605: Guy Fawkes invents terrorism. 1789: The beret is mightier than the crown 1801: Invention of the Triforce 1850: World's first OH EXPLOITABLE image 1865: End of the Nigger Market 1877: Trolling world record broken 1888: First successful mixing of hookers and lulz 1914: World War 1 1927: Teh f1rst sk00l sh00ting 1939: World War 2 1944: The Lollercaust doesn't happen 1945: "Nag? Naga? Well... it's nagonna be there tomorrow that's fore sure." - Harry S Truman 1948: Best Korea is founded (along with Good Korea) 1955: America gets BTFO 1960: Awesomeness of swords discovered 1963: CIA did JFK 1987: First televised An Hero 1993: World Wide Web becomes available, Waco 1999: Counter Strike played IRL 2000: End of teh world due to computer errors. 2001: Bush, Saudis, and Jews do WTC 2004: ED founded 2005: Katrina and 7/7 2007: Cho Seung-Hui becomes the King of School Shooters 2011: Utoya Island Swimming School is opened 2013: ISIS founded 2015: Paris Attacks 2016: Donald Trump is elected president of the United States. (For the lulz.) 2017: Country music is back 2019: First livestreamed kebab removal 2022: The First Machine learning Chatbot just released.

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