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Pretty, pretty word, and pretty, pretty language!

@Jack Byrnes: that doesn’t even begin to make sense. Why did they even bother releasing it, but for the lulz?

Have you seen this?? Youtube has just started a new closed-captioning service, making readable an approximation of the spoken words in their videos, and hilarity ensues. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztfG_ltWwNw Click the red [CC] box at the bottom when the video begins. I Love This. As this spreads, some gem of mistranslation will appear and go epidemic. I predict screenshots and many forwarded videos. “actually zoom allowing a half, and my mother Meryl Streep.” -Sandra Bullock.

“Ghostcrawler promised me a pony” lately? A mutation of this popped up recently on the Colbert Report: http://www.wow.com/2010/02/26/winter-olympics-2010-ghostcrawler-promised-me-a-moose/ in a story about choosing the Olympic mascot. I’m rendered derp by the signicance, but see it popping up more and more. Warcraft origins, it seems, but I wouldn’t know.

Yeah, I knew this underwear meme would be brief! HA

At 11:20PM, CST, 1/8/2010, I saw it’s reached the front page of MSN.com http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34771723/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/?GT1=43001, though the text of the article is a copypasta of articles already referenced in this thread. The MSN article was posted at 3:25PM CST, 1/8/2010. This impresses the heck out of me. Has anybody attempted the long hunt, tracking back through friends-of-friends on FB to get closer to the origin? Also, saw London posts today.

Kelly, I appreciate your double-agent skullduggery. 4chan wouldn’t do anything as cute or snickery (girls only!) as this, and especially nothing so girly. Logan, I disagree. This certainly is a meme, especially in the way it behaves. It is both a forced meme, and a naturally occuring, organic one. I looked up on my news feed and saw one color post, then another, seemingly by random coincidence, and added my own color post. A real viral, old-fashioned, pre-internet meme works that way. People look...

I’m skeptical that this actually began at Ann Arbor. In published reports, this is only the place where it first appeared on journalistic radar. Though-- Ann Arbor is stereotyped as a liberal lady’s paradise, and could be the home of something like this. The article is as clueless as I am as to the actual origin. It’s appearing across Facebook, now, 12:00AM CST, 1/8/2010, and I am in Oklahoma.

At 2pm CST, I spotted a friend posting “yellow” as her Facebook status. Shortly after, another posted “brown.” They got ponderous congratulating responses from my friends. I added “Mauve,” and got lots of snickering responses. “What the crap?” I scratched my head. http://www.annarbor.com/health/breast-cancer-awareness-campaign-has-ann-arbor-facebook-users-spotting-color-updates/ Ah. THAT the crap. Soon afterwards, everyone was posting colors, some going into detail about frill, decorations, cup size,...