Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Public urination, and unlawful possession of a cured vehicle

In my last post, "Gary Lachman spreads dangerous misinformation about Pepe the Frog!", I defend Pepe against Lachman's libelous charge that "in his first appearance he is urinating in public." Then, in an added note to "Dinosaur of the month, dinosaur of the year," I discussed a Facebook comment thread which rhymes Suchus (Greek name of the Egyptian god Sobek) with tuchus (Yiddish for buttocks) and also includes a rhyme that requires the word gharial to be pronounced as Gary L. I noted that, coincidentally, my Pepe post features "a book by a Gary L." and "the tuchus of a semiaquatic herptile who is closely associated with an ancient Egyptian god."

The god I meant was Kek; see "The Truth About Pepe the Frog and the Cult of Kek" for a quick rundown. This got me thinking about Top Kek, which evolved from Top Lel, which I think somehow evolved from that guy with the Top Gun baseball cap, and I ended up on Know Your Meme trying to trace that particular development.


The Top Gun cap, and its Top Lel and Top Kek variants, became memes in 2013, well before Trump's political career began. Trump would later become associated both with Kek (via Pepe) and with the baseball-cap-with-business-wear fashion statement.


While at KYM, I ran across this meme, which piqued my curiosity:


"Unlawful possession of a cured vehicle"? What, like this?


Oi, mate, you got a loicense for that hot dog car?

I searched for "unlawful possession of a cured vehicle" and got a Reddit thread as the first result. The original post associates the "Man arrested for everything" meme with some Disney character I'd never heard of. The first reply to the first comment brings up, of all things, public urination:


I tracked down the original "Man arrested for everything" article, and there's no cured vehicle. The text is in two columns. The left column shows the beginning of this sentence:

Unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, theft, possession of stolen property, city traffic warrants, possession of marijuana, warrant for nonpayment of child support, two warrants for possession of a controlled substance, warrant for probation violation, 1500 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

The right column shows the end of this sentence:

A woman said an unknown person took the faceplate from her stereo and her purse from her unsecured vehicle.

No comments:

Public urination, and unlawful possession of a cured vehicle

In my last post, " Gary Lachman spreads dangerous misinformation about Pepe the Frog! ", I defend Pepe against Lachman's libel...