Wednesday, September 18, 2024

WARNING! This post contains scurrilous lies about the great Mark Twain!!


PLEASE NOTE. I have spent the last 2+ hours trying to copy and paste the most bizarre thing that has ever happened to me on the internet (Facebook cracking down on me for spreading poisonous "untruths" about - wait for it - cats). It's not going well, as a huge chunk of text I spent an hour composing has just been deleted by mistake, but I will try (sigh) to reconstruct it.

I love Mark Twain, and I love cats, so putting them together makes for delicious memes that sum up the great man's wit and sensibilities. BUT NO: when I attempted to post a lovely image of his most famous cat quote, along with an image of Twain's fabulous face, a stern notice popped up claiming my Twain meme about cats was FALSE INFORMATION that had been "fact-checked" by a busy bunch of elves in the back room, wielding Sharpies to cross out anything too entertaining or clever. Or Twainish. The man obviously didn't know what he was talking about. All those boys on rafts, painting picket fences - such scurrilous untruths. There were no boys. And as for those jumping frogs - it's a lie! THOSE FROGS NEVER JUMPED, IF IN FACT THERE WERE ANY FROGS TO BEGIN WITH!

I have always thought of myself as an honest person, but I guess I was wrong. I realized just this minute that my entire life has been a tangled web of wicked untruths that may soon affect the entire nation, if not the world. Maybe I should consider running for President.

Below are the posts in inverse order, with the good part at the end. I can't alter the massive size of the images, as the ghost of Facebook haunts my blog and weirds up everything I say or do. (Lord, am I tired.) I can't even get my keyboard to work properly and make typos every three words. But here goes.


Well, this is my last attempt to post my favorite Mark Twain quote about cats. My first three attempts (see blurred image below) labelled me as a purveyor of great untruths as exposed by anonymous "fact-checkers". It's obvious Mark Twain didn't really love cats! He was making the whole thing up, and that is no longer acceptable on Facebook. Posting this image could lose me my Facebook account, I suppose, but at least it would have happened for a worthy cause. So why did they crack down on me so fiercely? It seems that cats have been much maligned in the news lately, between the "childless cat ladies" we keep hearing about, to "they're eating the c**s" (I don't dare spell it out!) Thus, cats are obviously far too controversial to appear in these hallowed halls. (Not to mention Mark Twain, the troublemaker!) If this remains visible, read it fast before it's taken down.

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My first attempt to post a Mark Twain quote about cats landed me in big trouble, with the image blurred out and labelled as "false information" as determined by "independent fact-checkers". This probably won't stay up either. Who knew that Mark Twain didn't really love cats, after all? (If I lose my Facebook account after this transgression, well, so long, it's been good to know you.)

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GENTLE READERS: This image contains a famous Mark Twain quote about cats, namely: "When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction."
I have attempted to post this image three times, and each time a notice has popped up saying it was "FALSE INFORMATION" that had been "checked by independent fact-checkers". Then the image was blurred out as a warning to those who love truth and hate cats (and Mark Twain, I assume). So where is the "false information" that had to be so assiduously "fact-checked"? Why was the image so unspeakable (or at least unacceptable) that it had to be blurred? Is it the word "comrade", which has all sorts of sinister connotations, or perhaps the word "cat"? Twain would find all this side-splitting, I am sure. If I get in trouble with Facebook over this, well, what else is new? You can see the image if you're willing to jump through the hoops provided.
Subversively yours,
Margaret Gunning
May be an image of 1 person and text that says 'When a man loves cats, |am I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction. ~Mark Twain AZQUOTES'
False information. The same information was checked in another post by independent fact-checkers.
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