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Re: Where did the Smurfs get their hats (2018)

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 11, 2025, 6:13 AM UTC

sbierwagen wrote: post #16

dankwizard wrote: post #14

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Not AI. Indexed in 2020 by the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20201001000000*/https://www.pipe... Why GPT writing sounds like the median lazy blog post of five years ago is left as an exercise for the reader.

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Re: Where did the Smurfs get their hats (2018)

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Post by Cthulhu_ » Thu, Sep 11, 2025, 6:55 AM UTC

pgsandstrom wrote: post #17

dankwizard wrote: post #14

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What, you think the article was written by AI? Why?

It's 2025, you can flip a coin and be correct half the time, and no consequences if you're wrong.

Re: Where did the Smurfs get their hats (2018)

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Post by Vinnl » Thu, Sep 11, 2025, 7:30 AM UTC

ragebol wrote: post #19

kabes wrote: post #18

Dutch catoonist Dirkjan revealed the real answer already years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/dirkjan/s/zszexnXLRu

+1 for Dirkjan, always. Another classic https://dirkjan.nl/cartoon/20231004_3677623503/ And this one always gets me too: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fw... with the "Jesmurfa's witness"

I don't get that first one :(

Re: Where did the Smurfs get their hats (2018)

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Post by Tade0 » Thu, Sep 11, 2025, 8:00 AM UTC

pier25 wrote: post #7

thedailymail wrote: post #4

Or maybe the artist was inspired by the connection of the Phrygian cap with psychedelic "liberty cap" mushrooms (Psilocybe semilanceata), which are distributed widely across Europe and associated with elves, fairies and various other wee folk? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe_semilanceata

I don't know but their houses are definitely amanita muscaria.

Which makes sense as you want your house to be as inedible as possible.

I assume they have some method of keeping snails, woodpeckers and other animals resistant to the poison at bay.

Re: Where did the Smurfs get their hats (2018)

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Post by bzzzt » Thu, Sep 11, 2025, 8:16 AM UTC

Vinnl wrote: post #23

ragebol wrote: post #19

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+1 for Dirkjan, always. Another classic https://dirkjan.nl/cartoon/20231004_3677623503/ And this one always gets me too: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fw... with the "Jesmurfa's witness"

I don't get that first one :(

The smurf's being asked to remove his hat since wearing it in a restaurant is considered impolite. When being pressed the smurf says 'I don't ask you to remove your pants'. When it's revealed the smurfs genitals are under his hat Dirkjan's mate says 'maybe we should let hem keep his hat on'.

Re: Where did the Smurfs get their hats (2018)

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Post by floucky » Thu, Sep 11, 2025, 8:44 AM UTC

The Phrygian cap was also the mascot for the Paris Olympics https://www.olympics.com/fr/olympic-games/paris-2024/mascot

Re: Where did the Smurfs get their hats (2018)

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Post by quietbritishjim » Thu, Sep 11, 2025, 9:12 AM UTC

pgsandstrom wrote: post #17

dankwizard wrote: post #14

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What, you think the article was written by AI? Why?

I guess because it is full of guesswork and devoid of real factual research (at least for the main headline question). But it turns out that bloggers looking for content and lacking any skill are also capable of writing plausible-sounding slop.

Re: Where did the Smurfs get their hats (2018)

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Post by animal531 » Thu, Sep 11, 2025, 9:27 AM UTC

I have bigger questions about their long-johns than the hats.

- Why long pants instead of shorts? It does make them look more dignified, I suppose.

- Why white, you know that's just going to stain the feet something terrible.

Re: Where did the Smurfs get their hats (2018)

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Post by amiga386 » Thu, Sep 11, 2025, 9:44 AM UTC

fvdessen wrote: post #10

This is almost certainly completely wrong, the smurfs get their hat designs from the type of hats that gnomes and dwarves and goblins usually wear in germanic folklore, the most well known of all being the garden dwarves, whose design also inspired the dwarves in snow white. The design of garden dwarves is quite recent and apparently come from miners. The hats were filled with straw to protect the miner's head from t…

But the article does cover that. German gnomes (Kobolde, especially Hödekin) are usually depicted with pointy hats, or at least ones that curl backwards. The smurf hats are clearly wearing Phrygian caps.

Re: Where did the Smurfs get their hats (2018)

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Post by Vinnl » Thu, Sep 11, 2025, 10:06 AM UTC

bzzzt wrote: post #25

Vinnl wrote: post #23

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I don't get that first one :(

The smurf's being asked to remove his hat since wearing it in a restaurant is considered impolite. When being pressed the smurf says 'I don't ask you to remove your pants'. When it's revealed the smurfs genitals are under his hat Dirkjan's mate says 'maybe we should let hem keep his hat on'.

Oh no I meant the Pranfeuri one.

Edit: Typing that out me realise that I could just search for that word. Apparently it's just absurdist: https://www.reddit.com/r/learndutch/comments/17nvt4g/pranfeu...