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Old 03-04-2010, 10:23 AM   #1
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could somebody tell me what was that "cobbler hint" you guys read from Boro's post? Beats me.
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I wanted to award full points for the question for the very fact that Batman was defeated by tripping over his own feet and falling from a great height
Could be read as "Likes Batman to fail -> is evil", I suppose - but only if you ignore the context. After all, the same post ends with
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Clearly this student was mocking the failure of the most disturbingly insane villain ever, the Joker, at defeating the Great Bat.
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Old 03-04-2010, 10:31 AM   #2
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Could be read as "Likes Batman to fail -> is evil", I suppose - but only if you ignore the context. After all, the same post ends with
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Clearly this student was mocking the failure of the most disturbingly insane villain ever, the Joker, at defeating the Great Bat.
I read the ending as you did and that's exactly the thing which made me confused. I was afraid there was some intertextual / cultural reference I had totally missed...
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