Timewaster du jour: http://www.omnomnomnom.com You may need to reload once or twice to see what's going on.
As with any such project, some iterations are tasteless, so activate mental filter before browsing. But otherwise there is much cleverness. I have been chuckling.
As with any such project, some iterations are tasteless, so activate mental filter before browsing. But otherwise there is much cleverness. I have been chuckling.
FAIaaah ferget it
Mar. 21st, 2008 09:35 pmAn interesting analysis of the "FAIL!" meme, showing up just as it was starting to make me a little cranky.
Explain-a-meme
Sep. 16th, 2006 12:07 pmOK, I can often deduce the source when I see 100 livejournalers all using icons made from the same source material. It is in this way that I learned of the animated film "Rejected", for example, or the TV show "Invader Zim", or know that there was an episode of Buffy where Angel was a muppet. Or that there's a character on Buffy named Angel.
But I am totally lost on the one involving a set of black-and-white posed photographs depicting a man being scared by a sheep-head. Sometimes the icons are animated, showing the man's increasing fear as the sheep-head inches ever closer. Do you know what I'm talking about? What the heck is this from?
But I am totally lost on the one involving a set of black-and-white posed photographs depicting a man being scared by a sheep-head. Sometimes the icons are animated, showing the man's increasing fear as the sheep-head inches ever closer. Do you know what I'm talking about? What the heck is this from?
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Jul. 25th, 2005 12:18 pmAccording to
sunspiral by way of this post by
hrafn, there exists a meme in the northeastern U.S. where motorists put signs saying "Free NP" in their vehicles' windows, in hopes that female drivers will flash their breasts at them. (hrafn's post includes some pictures she snapped of some of these signs seen in the wild.)
It apparently originated from local radio shock-jocks around 10 years ago, and has indeed outlived them (for this was that brief era when, for some reason, there were many more shock-jocks then there are today). What I find most intriguing is that, as of this writing, there are no relevant google hits explaining this phenomenon. Googling for ["free np"] gives some sites about NeoPets, some random commercial-product giveaways, and the number-one hit of another blogger himself asking what the hell this means and noting the lack of google hits. (Fun irony!)
If sunspiral's account is corrent, then it seems that the virulence period for this meme began and ended before the Web took off among the mainstream. For 10 years it has lain dormant, with all carriers of it completely failing to spread it any further, apparently not for lack of trying.
The very notion of a pre-Web meme remaining in stasis for a whole decade is amazing to me, like discovering a stone-age tribe living in isolation.
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It apparently originated from local radio shock-jocks around 10 years ago, and has indeed outlived them (for this was that brief era when, for some reason, there were many more shock-jocks then there are today). What I find most intriguing is that, as of this writing, there are no relevant google hits explaining this phenomenon. Googling for ["free np"] gives some sites about NeoPets, some random commercial-product giveaways, and the number-one hit of another blogger himself asking what the hell this means and noting the lack of google hits. (Fun irony!)
If sunspiral's account is corrent, then it seems that the virulence period for this meme began and ended before the Web took off among the mainstream. For 10 years it has lain dormant, with all carriers of it completely failing to spread it any further, apparently not for lack of trying.
The very notion of a pre-Web meme remaining in stasis for a whole decade is amazing to me, like discovering a stone-age tribe living in isolation.
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Jul. 18th, 2005 10:36 pmAt what point will "the internets" become an ordinary synonym, clear of any intentional irony? (I suppose it will have gobs of unintentional irony if it ever happens...)
I like it right now because it's an easy way to sound nerdcore-hip and take a cheap swipe at the president, all at once. But with every use outside of a political context, it becomes a tiny bit less loaded with anti-W sentiment, I think. It wouldn't surprise me if people have already started using the word with no idea about its origins; they just appreciate that it sounds funny. And it seems a slippery slope from there to some people just using it all the time as a preferred term, but I am no linguist, so that is Mr. Ass talking. bray bray bray
I like it right now because it's an easy way to sound nerdcore-hip and take a cheap swipe at the president, all at once. But with every use outside of a political context, it becomes a tiny bit less loaded with anti-W sentiment, I think. It wouldn't surprise me if people have already started using the word with no idea about its origins; they just appreciate that it sounds funny. And it seems a slippery slope from there to some people just using it all the time as a preferred term, but I am no linguist, so that is Mr. Ass talking. bray bray bray