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{{quote|I'm [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|STARBUCK!]], goddammit!

That is the worst [[Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)|Dirk Benedict]] costume I've ever seen. }}

* [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8VBxSmHMS1w/ThkdL7mRwbI/AAAAAAAAPXE/Oumc5W6d-H0/s1600/redact.jpg There's a Post Secret about someone whose mother bought them a Post Secret book, but blacked out all the "inappropriate" parts.]

* [[The Onion]] uses this trope in probably over half their work, especially their [http://www.youtube.com/show/intheknow "In The Know"] and [http://www.youtube.com/show/todaynow "Today Now!"] segments.

* 4Chan's [[Tabletop Games|Traditional Games]] board had a thread whose original post was [[Damsel in Distress|a hot naked woman chained to a rock with a dragon approaching]], with no text. The following posts were all about what type of rock it was, whether they could determine the area from the flowers nearby, whether the dragon could fly with its displayed wingspan, and so on, while largely ignoring the naked woman. Largel

{{quote|'''[http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/9434393/#9434575 9434575]''': Her vagina is leaking. I think she might have a medical condition.}}

* The ''[[Bastard Operator From Hell]]'' does this on a regular basis. One particularly funny (and long) example is the first half of [https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/25/bofh_2019_episode_10/ "Judge us not by the size of our database, but the size of our augmented reality"]: saying cloud computing is risky because of wind shear, global warming, and "the ozone layer thing"; complaining about rusty blockchains; claiming they already have Big Data because the converted everything from 8 bits to 16 bits; and this gem:

{{quote|"What about nanotechnology?" [the Boss] asks, moving on.