Blue Lightning

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Joined Sep 07, 2009 at 03:37AM EDT


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its mah birthday!

Yo redspear, I’m real happy for you and I’m gonna let you finish, but my birthday was the best birthday this week! LOL, jk. Happy B-day.

Kanye Interrupts... authentic or astroturfed?

LOL, a friend of mine expressed a similiar sentiment about the event being staged. Paraphrasing what he said: "Taylor Swift comes off as a poor wronged sweetheart, Beyonce comes off as a Diva-with-a-heart-of-gold for sacrficing her time to let Taylor Swift finish, and Kanye gets to push his “edgy” image." Kanye may be in the news more, but I think Taylor Swift’s next album will do pretty good sales.

Deadpool

Maybe there could be a seperate catagory for failed memes? Like things that had the makings of a meme, but didn’t take off, or burned out before spreading out enough to reach full-fledged memedom? For example, there are a few Advice Dog spinoffs that seemed to be doomed to the deadpool more because the market was already too saturated with Advice Dog spinoffs than that “meme” itself was flawed. Stupid stuff would still be deadpooled, but I think that documenting why and how things fail to become a...

I like cheese

I’m having a little difficutly researching this…Searching for “I like cheese” turns up quite a few examples of people just declaring thier affinity for the stuff, plus it’s a phrase that could be used by cheesemakers to promote their product. I was kind of hoping that by puting this thread here, maybe some meme researchers would have had come across the “I like cheese” threadkill phenomenon, but perhaps it wasn’t as widespread as I thought. I’m going to ask a few friends to be on the look out for some...

I like cheese

I’ve seen this used on several message boards to derail overdone threads. Like when a newbie starts a thread on a topic that’s been done to death, an older poster would reply “I like cheese” (sometimes including an image of cheese) to derail the thread before it devolves into the same old tired discussion/flamewar. There’s an Urban Dictionary entry for this phrase: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=I%20Like%20Cheese I’m not sure of the origin of this, but does seem meme-like to me. ...

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