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Transcript[Nancy sees a sign posted on a bank window which reads: Visit our loan department]

[Nancy stands before a bank clerk]

Nancy: I’d like to borrow two dollars

Clerk: For what?

[Nancy speaking to the clerk]

Nancy: The circus is in town

Clerk: It is?

[Nancy and the clerk sit in a crowd at the circus enjoying ice cream while they watch the show. It’s loss. The comic was loss all along.]

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Just kidding, it’s also loss.

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[–] roux2scour@jlai.lu 140 points 1 month ago (2 children)

HOW DID I NOT SEE IT IN 3 SEC ?

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 152 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We've found a rare modern loss that lasts until the punchline

I'm genuinely speechless

[–] Epzillon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

This. Very good mashup nonetheless. Truly a timeless classic.

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 55 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks, that was the goal here.

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh, my bad. Not as OC. I was trying to disguise it like a normal comic, hence the transcript and “source” link.

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh, i didnt saw that... sorry for that.

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

You’re good dude. I didn’t mean to imply it was my OC

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 90 points 1 month ago
[–] digger@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 month ago

I'm... not even mad. Well done.

[–] WagnasT@piefed.world 36 points 1 month ago

Well played

[–] deacon@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

Fresh take. Very nice.

[–] rem26_art@fedia.io 32 points 1 month ago

boy is this a good one

[–] menjoo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 month ago

Motherfucker! How am I still falling for this?

[–] LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 month ago

Gotdamn you crazy sonofabitch you got me good. Holy shit.

[–] bran_buckler@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hope that’s not the main event!

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 month ago

That would be a total loss

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ernie Bushmiller would be SO confused by this if he went to the future and saw it.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Can I get a brief rundown of the meme? This has all gone over my head and a quick google search isn't really giving me a good explanation.

[–] LostCarcosan@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The meme is called Loss. There was a webcomic of... Questionable quality that was generally supposed to be humorous. At a certain point the author's wife had a miscarriage and he made a webcomic that portrays him entering the hospital, speaking to a receptionist, speaking to a doctor then walking in to find his wife in the bed in the last panel. It has been memed since then, and abstracted to various shapes ( | || || |_ ) following the general visual lines present in the original comic

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In addition to the below, here's a visual explanation:

The author made an edit years later acknowledging its meme status:

It should really have been titled "Gain" rather than "Found", but whatever.

[–] jcampenish@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Meme must be loaded with preservatives because it never expires

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

If You replace the characters with Rick Astley, the meme will be immortal.

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day 4 points 1 month ago

The circus clown started sobbing uncontrollably, "You don't understand, I am LOSS"

[–] gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 month ago
[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago

Bravo. Brav-o.

[–] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago
[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Very nice source. Thanks for citing it and giving the author credit

[–] Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you're not aware, this is a combination of a Nancy comic and a ctrl alt del comic, combined into a new joke by an unknown author. It's a meme at this point, not a comic, so it's unreasonable to expect attribution to be there for both known authors (but reasonable to ask in a non-sarcastic manner)

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh I'm well aware. I just wanted to get more people to see the other loss in the Source spoiler

[–] Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Ah right, that's my bad then

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago
[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't get it. What's going on in the last panel?

[–] bran_buckler@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

That’s from a web comic this comic in particular went viral as a meme. It’s called Loss and now that you’ve seen it, you’ll see it everywhere. Sometimes it’s just represented with lines or dots.

Check out the Wikipedia article on it, the meme section will show you how you might encounter it.

[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So are we to believe the banker gave her the loan, bought her ice cream, and is now charging her interest on the $2?

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nah once the banker knew the circus was in town and she was excited to see it, he just had to promise her ice cream to get her in the van.

[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

Wow! And here I thought my comment was cynical!

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago
[–] socsa@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago

I'm not even mad

[–] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Jesus sacramentado