About

Priority Peter is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photograph of a teenage boy holding a calculator surrounded by several young women wearing bathing suits. The captions typically consist of puns involving mathematical jargons and suggestive double entendres, some of which are set up so the last word in the top caption rhymes with the last word in the bottom caption.

Origin

The photograph (shown below, left) was originally submitted to the /r/pics^[1] subreddit by Redditor ti84power on November 7th, 2011. Titled "TI84 + like a boss," the post received over 27,500 up votes and 1,300 comments prior to being archived. Since then, the image has been re-submitted to the /r/funny^[3] subreddit on two separate occasions in March and September 2012, the latter of which accumulated over 12,000 up votes and 600 comments within two days. On September 11th, 2012, the first captioned instance based on the photograph was submitted to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[2] subreddit, featuring the caption “Sorry, ladies… when the calculator’s clickin’ / there can be no dickin’” (shown below, right).

Spread

That same day, various compilations of notable examples from the series were highlighted on the Internet humor sites Pop Hangover^[7], The FW^[8], BuzzFeed^[4] and UpRoxx^[11] among others. On the following day of September 12th, additional compilations were posted on the Internet humor sites Barnorama^[9] and FunnyJunk^[10] while a Facebook^[6] page was launched for the “Priority Peter” advice animal series. As of September 12th, 2012, the “Priority Peter” Quickmeme^[5] page has accumulated over 1,200 submissions.

Various Examples

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