25 Memes That Are Black and White and Read All Over

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Jan 24, 2025 7:00 PM EST

We've all heard the classic joke, "What's black and white and red all over?" The tried and true answer is a newspaper (it works better when it's said out loud and not typed), but when I was a kid, I didn't understand why a heavily injured penguin wouldn't be an acceptable response. There are so many classic jokes that go over less than brilliant children's heads. Take, for instance, the classic, "Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side." For years, I thought the joke was the redundancy and obviousness of his journey, but it turns out it's been about crossing over to the spiritual realm the entire time. Go figure. 

These memes really are black and white and read all over. They are much less colorful than your average meme list, so they really might evoke reading the weekday funny pages of the newspaper.

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  • 01
    Y'all so lucky I don't own a dragon.
    via fortytwoembers

    I would lock myself in a tower and he would be my guard.

  • 02
    sofie ❤❤ @sofiewut I swear nothing in this whole entire world smells better than the person you love anderson >> @xvkingg have you ever walked by a Cinnabon L L
    via @sofiewut & @xvkingg
  • 03
    I need to either dye my hair Get a piercing Or get a tattoo. To, you know— appease the mental breakdown gods.
    via fortytwoembers
  • 04
    162 BORROWER'S CARD School Library TITLE DATE DUE DATE RETURNED Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes a place for that. -John Green IDEAL PRINTED IN U.S.A.
    via fortytwoembers
  • 05
    pokkin Follow If I had to choose a last meal before getting sent to the gallows I would choose all of the worlds suffering so nobody has to hurt anymore reefsharkivist Follow i would choose olive garden endless breadsticks pokkin Oh I love breadsticks changing my answer 31,838 notes D♫
    via pokkin & reefsharkivist
  • 06
    Audrey @yellowstonekell My whole life has felt like i am preparing to be a hot middle aged woman. It is hard to explain
    via @yellowstonekell
  • 07
    a-cute-lil-octopus so apparently when jrr tolkien was a professor on the first day of class he'd wait until his students were in the lecture hall and seated and starting to wonder whether they were all in the wrong room before throwing open the doors at the back of the hall and striding down the aisle reciting the first 50 lines of beowulf in old english so moral of the story if you don't know anything about jrr tolkien aside from lotr you are missing out my friend
    via a-cute-lil-octopus
  • 08
    To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life. -Viggo Mortensen
    via fortytwoembers
  • 09
    Jonathan Edward Durham thisoneØverhere I hope this email finds you on the couch ordering books you don't need while you watch bake off
    via @thisone0verhere
  • 10
    KRANG NELSON @KrangTNelson Following RUNNER: this is called "carbo-loading. we eat lots of heavy food ME: that's great. love it RUNNER: then we go for a nice long run ME: no
    via @KrangTNelson
  • 11
    done healing my inner child. next up is my inner teen. her highness demands a sword.
    via fortytwoembers

    The inner child is easy to placate, the inner adult not so much. 

  • 12
    When you're reading and someone tries to talk to you Jobofben
    via fortytwoembers
  • 13
    @Spacecorgi 2y ago I love that one middle-management orc who kept arguing with Saruman about realistic factory output. 10K 目
    via fortytwoembers
  • 14
    Micro SF/F stories MicroSFF "Sanctuary," the child cried, running into the library. "Nice try," the guard following after sneered, "but only holy places can grant sanctuary." The librarians glanced at each other. A small nod. The head librarian gave the guard a stern look. "Sanctuary granted."
    via MicroSFF
  • 15
    I heard someone refer to a person who likes multiple genres of music as "Polyjamorous" and that is how I'll be identifying from now on.
    via fortytwoembers
  • 16
    He didn't choose the dad life, the dad life chose him B new balance
    via fortytwoembers

    He's about the life. 

  • 17
    Murph & Turf @JamesMurphy The atlanta airport designers were like "and then what if we had them run a 5k" ***
    via @JamesMurphy

    People think the Colorado airport is bad? Try Atlanta, Charlotte, and Dallas.

  • 18
    NATIONAL PARK SERVICE National Park Service ✶ @NatlParkService Take. A. Hike.
    via @NatlParkService
  • 19
    When I begin to think at all, I get into such states of disgust and fury at the way the mob is going on that I choke; and have to go to the British Museum and look at Penguins till I get cool. I find Penguins at present the only comfort in life. One feels everything in the world so sympathetically ridiculous, one can't be angry when one looks at a Penguin. John Ruskin Letter to C. E. Norton 4th November 1860
    via fortytwoembers
  • 20
    martin 4 @unsolvedtwt internet friends are so weird because like i know ur deepest trauma but i've never seen ur legs
    via @unsolvedtwt

    "How tall are you again?"

  • 21
    If we can't go to town like this I don't want you made with mematic Twisted Rebel
    via fortytwoembers
  • 22
    I know how to shuffle music. URTESY PHONE CENTER +0 I don't think you do.
    via fortytwoembers
  • 23
    dajo42 Follow need a polite way to say "im not engaging in a discussion on this topic with you because the conclusions you have reached are based on so many interwoven layers of misconceptions it would be easier to just like, hard reset your whole brain, just start over as a baby and try again"
    via dajo42
  • 24
    Me at 22 deciding to start a job that has absolutely nothing to do with my passions or interests This little maneuver is gonna cost us 51 years
    via fortytwoembers

    This shouldn't have any downsides!

  • 25
    Ariel Elias @Ariel_Comedy Tomatoes are the most patriotic plant. Because botanically, tomatoes are a fruit. But according to an 1893 Watch again Supreme Court ruling, they're a vegetable. And there's nothing more American than a legal decision that disagrees with science.
    via @Ariel_Comedy

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