Tag Internet memes
Wherezda Meebulls?
More proof that the Internet has destroyed my mind: I simply could not stop laughing at these.
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It’s Like They Read My Mind, Or My Blog
The Washington Post has this grab-bag of op-eds from a variety of commentators ranging from Elizabeth Warren to Turd Blossom to Ed Begley Jr.. The theme of the collection is “!2 Things The World Should Toss Out”, and several of them are about topics near and dear to my heart such as lawns, Internet memes, and bullshit political journalism.
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Sing Along With Mitch-ski!
Yes, I, too, have been lured in by the siren song of The Trololololo Guy. But for me it’s not the weird cadaver-like visage of the creepy Russian lip-sync singer, or his astonishing helmet-hair, or the late-1970s video production values…it’s that damned song! It’s an unstoppable earworm that keeps playing in my head over and over and over, and every time I run into another mashup of it I have to stop and listen to the whole thing.
Well, at least NOW I can sing along thanks to this captioned version on YouTube. I’d hate to think I was singing “trolololololo” when I was supposed to be singing “ya ya ya ya yeh aaaaaaaaaaaaaaiieeeeeeeeee!”
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Isn’t This Meme Over Yet?
Yep, dental floss that tastes like bacon.
Oh, boy.
All Your Base Are Belong To Bacon.
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Enough With The Bacon, Please.
What’s the trendy new drink that’s packing them into the bars in Greenwich Village?
The Bacon-Maple Old Fashioned, made with bacon-infused bourbon and Grade B maple syrup.
I think we’ve gone far enough now. Please, make it stop.
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Arr
I’m sure I don’t have to remind you what day it is today.
(Can you believe that this is the sixth year in a row?)
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Baa Humbug!
Unless you were living under a rock or otherwise detached from the media universe yesterday, you undoubtedly heard the story about thousands of people in Japan being duped into buying sheep after being told they were poodles.
Well, guess what. It’s bullshit. This Japanese blogger carefully dissects the entire story (via) to explain that whoever originally reported the story (apparently the Australian version of MSNBC) misunderstood some remarks made on a talk show made by an actress.
As the blogger explains, she didn’t say she HAD a sheep, she said she’d heard a STORY about someone else who had one…in other words, the good old fashioned Urban Legend. The blogger then traces the story itself back to an earlier source — another Japanese blogger with a post from February of 2006, who also basically tells the same story as a FOAF-style story.
She then points out that the place where the scam is supposed to have occurred is Japan’s leading sheep-raising area, making it highly unlikely that people would not recognize sheep there. Also, she notes the total lack of coverage of the story in the Japanese media, indicating that they would be all over this story themselves with their own unique brand of “weird news” coverage had it actually occurred.
You gotta love the Internet — less than 24 hours from “breaking news” to “urban legend”!