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18 September 2007

No Internet for old memes →[More:]Aside from the pun (Go Coen Bros., redeem yourself for Ladykillers!) this is a sort of serious question. Obviously with the internet, most of those memes are still out there, mouldering in disused discussion threads and posts. Every now and then I will stumble across something really old and get a chuckle out of it (Mr. T Ate My Balls, Bert is Evil, etc.*) or across something that makes me glad it is getting flushed down to the bottom of the Tubes.

What are your favorite memes gone by the wayside?

*Why I chuckle at those, I am not entirely sure, but probably because they are both so ludicrous... well, except for the Bert stuff, that could happen.

post by: King of Prontopia at: 12:37 | 23 comments

This is little off track, but one of my benchmarks for if someone has been on the net for awhile is whether the name Craig Shergold rings a bell. . .

Way (a few years) after this one came and went, I got a forwarded email from a new boss, sincerely asking that I participate/contribute. I had to tell him gently. . .

posted by danf 18 September | 12:48

Craig Shergold. Now there's a name I haven't heard for many a year ...

I have had about half-a-dozen encounters with people forwarding the supposed request (well, there was one originally, but most versions you see are modified by someone else). In all but one instance, I have been unable to convince the person that Craig really doesn't want people doing this anymore. Even people who are told his brain cancer was treated successfully still think he wants a world record.

And the hospital spends money to handle the damn mail.

posted by stilicho 18 September | 13:07

I KISS YOU!!!!!

And All Your Base Are Belong To Us. I still see references from time to time, but not nearly as many as there used to be.

posted by sisterhavana 18 September | 13:53

I'm kind of fond of "My ____ is pastede on yay!"

posted by pieisexactlythree 18 September | 13:59

if I looking for frog
him name is hopkin green frog
I lost my frog
329-3228
Love, Terry
P.S. I'll find my frog
Who took my frog
Who found my frog
2012 15th Ave. S

posted by Hugh Janus 18 September | 14:01

Peanut Butter Jelly Time was a favorite among me and my college roommate.

posted by fallenposters 18 September | 14:22

My first meme was the Ooga Chaka dancing baby.

posted by sciurus 18 September | 14:31

Hamster dance.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 18 September | 14:36

I Second on the Hampsters (official incorrect spelling)...

posted by wendell 18 September | 14:39

All Your Base Are Belong To Us.

Obligatory xkcd.

posted by dersins 18 September | 15:04

In Soviet Russia, memes reminisce about you!

posted by mullacc 18 September | 15:11

Memes dissipate? O RLY?

posted by Joe Invisible 18 September | 15:15

I am guilty of still using "someone set up us the bomb" when the moment in the conversation seems right.

posted by King of Prontopia 18 September | 15:16

Hampsterdance was the first I recall. Sadly, the original site has been turned into a ridiculous community site, but the original dance has been preserved elsewhere.

posted by me3dia 18 September | 15:36

Memes dissipate? O RLY?
posted by Joe Invisible 18 September | 15:15

Invisible Joe!

Another one I won't let die (and maybe this is less well known around the filters) is the Desu meme.

posted by pieisexactlythree 18 September | 15:56

Memes dissipate? O RLY?
posted by Joe Invisible 18 September | 15:15

Invisible Joe!

Another one I won't let die (and maybe this is less well known around the filters) is the Desu meme.

posted by pieisexactlythree 18 September | 15:57

I suspect no one but ikkyu will remember this, but "Chip, are you there? It's me, Pup!" still cracks me up.

posted by eamondaly 18 September | 16:05

Here's Peanut Butter Jelly Time at the Air Force Academy.

My son was there and saw this live.

posted by bunnyfire 18 September | 16:12

These memes, they vibrate?

posted by pieisexactlythree 18 September | 16:35

I also remember a guy having a page about what he ate for lunch, every day.

It's commonplace now, but back then it had some irrelevant beauty.

posted by danf 18 September | 16:42

Dancing Baby was the first I remember. Most old memes never die, though - MeFi keeps them alive.

posted by dg 18 September | 17:27

Cows Vs. Lemurs.

posted by Triode 18 September | 18:52

Imagine a Beowolf cluster of these memes.

posted by seanyboy 18 September | 18:54

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