Pages Tagged “memes”
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- Yeah, I suppose it could be both…
…or a plea for donations.
- “Pumkin” Seeds
A labeling error put me in mind of the educational videos my son’s been viewing, and the “No, I don’t want that!” meme.
- Pop Stars as Fish
Ace of Bass, Death Crab for Cutie, Sushi and the Banshees, and other band/singer names adapted to life under the sea.
- Lesser Plays
As a spinoff of the “lesser books” meme on Twitter (taking a classic book title and making it mundane, trivial, or otherwise lesser), someone started in on “lesser plays.” I came up with a few: Less Miserable (admittedly this one’s a gimme) Spring Just-a-few-more-minutes-before-I-wake-up. The Importance of being Ernie. Eleven Mildly-Annoyed Guys The Prince and […]
- Great Quotes With “Dear”
Here are some of my contributions to today’s Twitter meme, #greatquoteswithdear. You can probably figure out how the game works…
- Star Wars Band Names
Take the name of a real band and alter it to make it a Star Wars reference.
- One Letter Off Movies
Another Twitter meme: come up with movie titles just one letter off from the original, tagged #oneletteroffmovies. I posted these on my other account on Friday. New Dork Stories Annie Get Your Gum Fight Clue There should be an Oz sequel called All About Ev. Reaching a bit, but Key D’argo (Farscape) Ok, I keep […]
- Sci-Fi Remakes
There was a meme running through Twitter today to come up with movie titles for #scifiremakes. Here are my contributions. Shaka Sulu Schindler’s Arcology Obi-Wan Hur Droids on the Side Shuttlecraft 54, Where Are You?
- Name That Flu!
Some ideas for the #namethatflu event on Twitter (on the idea that swineflu isn’t quite right, but H1N1 is too clinical). Total Flunacy OMGWTFBBFlu!! (Though I have to admit #hamthrax is a good one) Looks like Hamthrax has been chosen by the Masters of the Fluniverse
- Tracing the Premio Dardo
I did some research on the blogging award Premio Dardo (Dart Award), seeking its origins and the ways the meme mutated as it was passed along.
- Personality “Type”
I tried out the Typealizer, which purports to analyze the text of a blog and determine the author’s personality type. Interestingly enough, it came up with different results depending on which of my blogs I pointed it to. LiveJournal: ESTP – The Doers K-Squared Ramblings: ESTJ – The Guardians (technically this one’s a group blog, […]
- There’s a convention for everything
Here’s a weird one. it turns out that ROFLCon, dedicated to all those Internet fads, was held at MIT this past weekend.
- Shuffling across the memetic landscape
Two months later, 12,500 pages mention Apple’s “Do not eat iPod shuffle” joke. Ironically, one page that doesn’t mention it is the one that started it all. Apple has removed the footnote from its iPod shuffle product page. Sure, the comparison to a pack of gum is still there, but I guess enough people thought […]
- Secret Origin of the Pastede-on Hed
I more-or-less randomly wondered about the origin of the phrase, “My hed iz pastede on yay!” and did a quick google search (the phrase + “origin”). This led me to the Google Meme Observatory, which I am hereby posting so that I can come back and look at it when I have time to, y’know, […]