Gollum, Precious Image Lost On Facebook User (PHOTO)

This image -- which makes us snort with inappropriate laughter every time we see it -- has been around for a while. But like any meme, it always bubbles back up when a new group of people discover it.

When the photo, along with the accompanying excerpted exchange in the comments, popped up in our Facebook news feed yesterday, we had to share it.

Usually the first rule of comedy is if you have to explain the joke, it's not funny. But this seems to be the one human being on the planet who sees things the other way.

Apparently, a great deal of merriment can be derived out of understanding exactly what a joke means.

Comments

[Todd Sullivan]

10:50 AM on 10/10/2011

didn't get the joke either until it was explained. ah well, it is funny.

[blizzard man robot voice]

04:45 PM on 10/09/2011

The commenters who don't get it are AOL news readers.

[Pennsylvanianne]

05:19 PM on 10/09/2011

"My Precioussssss ...." LOL!

[Alessandro Ambrossio]

03:05 PM on 10/09/2011

OMG, hilarious.

[Krootie]

09:00 AM on 10/09/2011

Oh, the “One Ring”. Totally forgot. He needs to go to the Undercity (in World of Warcraft). I fished it up in the sewers a couple years ago and placed it in the Auction House. Made a nice tidy some of 87 Gold.

[blizzard man robot voice]

04:43 PM on 10/09/2011

Nice.

[kareemachan]

11:39 AM on 10/10/2011

Meh.

[spinner49]

07:25 AM on 10/09/2011

Some people laugh three times at a joke: Once when they hear it, once when it's explained to them, and once when they understand it!

[Clozure]

06:28 AM on 10/09/2011

Ok. That is funny.

[Comeplayinmyreality]

12:21 AM on 10/09/2011

its never funny having to explain a joke, :( but it is funny watching someone finally getting it. This one still makes me chuckle. :D

[Sol76]

11:24 PM on 10/08/2011

How thick do you have to be to not get it?

[readsnewspapers]

02:01 PM on 10/09/2011

Not thick at all. Just didn't see either movie so the picture, here, and any explanation is lost.

[ebanks84]

01:11 PM on 10/10/2011

Thank you. F&F.

[bluecar]

11:01 PM on 10/08/2011

The pic made me giggle. Some of the comments in this thread made me worry.

[michelleobamaok]

06:28 PM on 10/08/2011

"PHOTO: Facebook User Doesn't Get Why This Is Funny"

Because it's a picture of Dick Cheney looking in on the "little people" as a child?

[VitriolAndAngst]

05:29 PM on 10/08/2011

This makes no sense at all -- Gollum has NOTHING to hang onto and he isn't that tall...

[Certified Jatt]

12:58 PM on 10/09/2011

You're forgetting that the bus is substantially lower than its normal height given the extra load it's carrying.

[Rwhite]

03:49 PM on 10/10/2011

Funny. Mean but funny.

[Francois Bergeron]

04:22 PM on 10/08/2011

That's pretty smart.
And very funny.

[Jenn2]

02:56 PM on 10/08/2011

I've seen LOTR way too many times (thanks hubby) and even though I haven't seen Precious, I knew who Gabby was, I thought it was hilarious.

[nitwitsRus]

11:25 AM on 10/08/2011

because LAST time i tooks THAT road it weren't gravel?

[gemzenith]

10:14 AM on 10/08/2011

I haven't seen either movie but hears enough about both to get it,duh.