Ahoy Polloi

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Ahoy Polloi
a cornucopia full of feeling horns
German humorous blog
operator unknown
items 1760 cartoons, 32 cartoons from the previous blog in the archive, some news related to the blog (as of April 2020)
On-line since 2006
https://ahoipolloi.blogger.de/

Ahoi Polloi is a humorous German-language blog that was founded in March 2005. Since November 2010 there has also been a Twitter account for the blog . The operator of “Ahoi Polloi” is unknown. The blog specializes in drawn caricatures and cartoons as well as pictures with funny sayings.

Surname

The name Ahoi Polloi comes from the ancient Greek οἱ πολλοί (hoi polloi), which means something like the bulk or the large crowd. In original texts it is used pejoratively for the common people as opposed to the rich and powerful. For example, the usage did not refer to individual groups of people, but generalized all to a homogeneous set. The term has outlasted this meaning in English-language literature.

The first word of the name Ahoy is a common greeting to call a ship , but it is also used as a carnival call in some areas of Germany.

content

On the blog, on which new cartoons have only very rarely been posted since the end of 2018, you will mainly find hand-drawn and scanned picture jokes, each on two Moleskine notebook pages, which evaluate political opinions, for example the tendency of seniors to vote for the CDU or current political ones Caricature locations. Many of the cartoons are puns or malicious glee. The drawings themselves have a simple style, the people are only shown schematically, the writing in the pictures is also handwritten. Especially in the early years, some messages appeared on the blog, for example mentions on the Spreeblick. There is also an archive that contains the posts from the previous blog that has already been deleted and can no longer be found. These 32 picture jokes were all the first to be posted on the current blog in 2006.

There is also a comment section for each cartoon that registered users can use to make ironic or funny comments.

The presentation of the homepage itself is just as humorous, the blog describes itself as “a cornucopia full of feeling horns” (sic!). Drawings by hoi polloi have been published by Spreeblick , Spiegel Online , ZEITMagazin and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , among others .

On the Twitter page, where jokes are still uploaded daily (as of 2020), you can find commented headlines and photographs from the media world. Likewise, a comic strip in the style of the blog posts is regularly uploaded there, which comments on a current situation in a funny way and is entitled "Right & Wrong".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Definition of HOI POLLOI. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Johannes Schmitz: fools calls and their story: Alaaf! Helau! Ahoy! In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( Online [accessed April 6, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Jörg Wittkewitz: Preferred Blog: Ahoi Polloi , netzpiloten.de, 23 September 2010
  4. ↑ Julia Abel, Christian Klein: Comics and Graphic Novels: An Introduction . Springer-Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-476-05443-2 ( google.com [accessed April 13, 2020]).
  5. ↑ ahoi polloi --- a cornucopia full of feeling horns: (1756). Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
  6. ↑ ahoi polloi --- a cornucopia full of feeling horns: (1113). Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
  7. ↑ ahoy polloi --- a cornucopia full of feeling horns: (625). Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
  8. ↑ ahoy polloi --- a cornucopia full of feeling horns: (1751). Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
  9. ↑ https://ahoipolloi.blogger.de/stories/1067299/
  10. ↑ https://ahoipolloi.blogger.de/?day=20060310
  11. ↑ http://www.spreeblick.com/blog/2008/03/07/ahoi-polloi-07-ja/
  12. ↑ Webcartoon: Fatigue State. In: Spiegel Online . October 14, 2008, accessed May 16, 2020 .
  13. ↑ https://blog.zeit.de/zeitmagazin/2011/03/07/ahoi-polloi-2/
  14. ↑ Ahoy Polloi: Because you have been naughty and naughty all year round, Knecht Hoiprecht will give you presents at the end of the year: From now on there will be another picture every week, the little moral rebuke that you urgently need. In the political section of the FAS. In: @ahoi_polloi. Twitter, December 8, 2019, accessed April 13, 2020 .