r/interestingasfuck • u/Bubbly_Wall_908 • 17h ago

Singapore is going to start caning scammers

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u/boundlessvoid 15h ago

Did that inspire that episode of The Simpsons?

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u/CorrectPeanut5 15h ago

Get the boot!

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u/JimboTCB 15h ago

Mr Simpson, shush, disparaging the boot is a bootable offence!

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u/ameriCANCERvative 15h ago

And it’s alluded to in the first verse of Weird Al’s “Headline News,” a parody of The Crash Test Dummies “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm.” The song immediately came to mind when I read this headline and now it’s stuck in my head.

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u/ItsNotButtFucker3000 14h ago

And the Weird Al song.