Let's start a meme!
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- peter
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Let's start a meme!
Let's afix KW's place in history by starting a cultural meme that will roll on down through history and across oceans. If we got it right and you guys 'seeded it' in America sooner or later it would 'cross the pond' and I'd pick it up in the UK. could we do that? Any ideas?
[A meme is a word, an idea, a joke whatever - a unit of cultural [?]information that transfers from person to person, spreads, develops, takes on a replicability of it's own volition. Example; the use of the phrase 'the big C' to describe cancer.]
I have an idea for a slot where a meme could be introduced; there seems to me to be no word to describe the act of suruptitiously reading a strangers facebook, twitter or whatever on their computer/tablet/phone screen through the gap between seats on public transport [or just where-ever really]. Come up with a pithy, catchy word [akin to rubbernecking] to describe this and then we unleash it it the States and see how long it takes to become part of the cultural lexicon.
[A meme is a word, an idea, a joke whatever - a unit of cultural [?]information that transfers from person to person, spreads, develops, takes on a replicability of it's own volition. Example; the use of the phrase 'the big C' to describe cancer.]
I have an idea for a slot where a meme could be introduced; there seems to me to be no word to describe the act of suruptitiously reading a strangers facebook, twitter or whatever on their computer/tablet/phone screen through the gap between seats on public transport [or just where-ever really]. Come up with a pithy, catchy word [akin to rubbernecking] to describe this and then we unleash it it the States and see how long it takes to become part of the cultural lexicon.
Your politicians screwed you over and you are suprised by this?
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
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Let's do it!
First idea up:
(Read: I think we all should use an idea I just had yesterday and which happened to be funny to me.)
Using "And now for something completely different..." to make an upward-climb transition:
From conversation that's anything within the spectra of:
pointlessly ridiculous, foolish, crass, harmful.
To conversation that's:
serious, intense, and difficult to broach
Um, next idea!
First idea up:
(Read: I think we all should use an idea I just had yesterday and which happened to be funny to me.)
Using "And now for something completely different..." to make an upward-climb transition:
From conversation that's anything within the spectra of:
pointlessly ridiculous, foolish, crass, harmful.
To conversation that's:
serious, intense, and difficult to broach
Um, next idea!
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Wouldn't that be attributed to Monty Python?Linna Heartlistener wrote:Using "And now for something completely different..." to make an upward-climb transition:
From conversation that's anything within the spectra of:
pointlessly ridiculous, foolish, crass, harmful.
To conversation that's:
serious, intense, and difficult to broach
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Oh yes, it is totally their line.
But in the case of Monte Python, I'm thinking those words were used for going from one zany sketch to another, as a sort of "This is not a transition" transition.
But that's a situation where people wanted to see what hilarity was going to transpire next.
What if people used it to transition to having the difficult conversations people don't want to have?
(This is partly me putting forward an idea I think would never work, because that is funny to me.)
Also, I now go back and note my serious failure to e-listen to Peter. (in this case, to read through one whole post without getting distracted by what I'd already wanted to say.)
I don't have one yet.
But in the case of Monte Python, I'm thinking those words were used for going from one zany sketch to another, as a sort of "This is not a transition" transition.
But that's a situation where people wanted to see what hilarity was going to transpire next.
What if people used it to transition to having the difficult conversations people don't want to have?
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(This is partly me putting forward an idea I think would never work, because that is funny to me.)
Also, I now go back and note my serious failure to e-listen to Peter. (in this case, to read through one whole post without getting distracted by what I'd already wanted to say.)
Okay, now that I actually paid attention to your idea, it sounds fun.peter wrote:I have an idea for a slot where a meme could be introduced; there seems to me to be no word to describe the act of suruptitiously reading a strangers facebook, twitter or whatever on their computer/tablet/phone screen through the gap between seats on public transport [or just where-ever really]. Come up with a pithy, catchy word [akin to rubbernecking] to describe this and then we unleash it it the States and see how long it takes to become part of the cultural lexicon.
I don't have one yet.
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Re: Let's start a meme!
I guess if we want to get something into the cultural lexicon, we ought to really think about, "What is the nature of the thing we're characterizing?"peter wrote:I have an idea for a slot where a meme could be introduced; there seems to me to be no word to describe the act of suruptitiously reading a strangers facebook, twitter or whatever on their computer/tablet/phone screen through the gap between seats on public transport [or just where-ever really].
What is this surrepetitious reading personal electronic social-network-content over shoulders, really?
It's getting information someone hasn't chosen to share... but hasn't taken efforts to conceal.
It's a kind of pointless, <needs a better adjective> curiosity about soemone you're (in many cases) unlikely to help much or engage with.
(in some cases unlikely to see again.)
Does it go so far as to be a violation of privacy that nobody would think of prosecuting nor have sane grounds to? (some things called "violations of privacy" these days are really ...not what I'd call "violations.")
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But nearly all descriptions of 'meme' I have encountered Av include the example of jokes - ie the way the travel, mind to mind, and spread almost with a volition of their own. Surely they have a point of origin - a start at the point they were first written? I agree that to start one is not an easy thing - but not I think impossible. Another example of 'started meme's' might be Obhama's 'yes we can' slogan, or again the 'I [picture of a heart] followed by just about anything you choose [eg cheap wine sold in my shop; I [heart] Pinot Grigio, I [heart] Chardonnay etc....]. The ad men who did this first with 'New York' definitely started a meme.
Well.... it was just a thought anyway
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Well.... it was just a thought anyway
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Your politicians screwed you over and you are suprised by this?
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
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Is this after the fashion of "One does not simply... walk into Mordor."?Avatar wrote:One does not just...start a meme...
(or a different reference?)
...
<googles "one does not simply">
Oh, look - I found the meme, even!
Here it is:
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Let me emphasize... I found that meme!
Even though my google-fu kinda stinks.
Even though sometimes I feel like my googling ability is anti-optimized from the internet searching abilities of an average or below-average person.
So apparently it's really easy to google for memes online, imagine that... I think I was actually looking for "one does not simply... walk into mordor," and instead "one does not simply... make a meme." came up!
I'm so excited... that was so easy to find!
it was like it transferred itself to my brain without me having to input any work or thought or initiative whatsoever... how convenient was that?
Imagine how they transfer!
*snaps her fingers* Just like that!
It's like Search Engine Optimization without highly-paid consultants to figure out how to do it...
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I believe what you are referring to, peter, is known as lurking.
Lurking in a public place, however, I believe is referred to as Creepin.
Creepers lurking, Lurkers creeping... Needs more work...
Btw my daughter and I had a whole conversation yesterday using the Boromir meme. We had so much fun!!![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
Lurking in a public place, however, I believe is referred to as Creepin.
Creepers lurking, Lurkers creeping... Needs more work...
Btw my daughter and I had a whole conversation yesterday using the Boromir meme. We had so much fun!!
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Wait, what two memes did you start, wf?
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btw, was that Samwise in that pictuer with "oh boy oh boy oh boy"?
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btw, was that Samwise in that pictuer with "oh boy oh boy oh boy"?
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I believe this counts as one, apart from the shared drawing of naked giantesses creating international romances.Linna Heartlistener wrote:Wait, what two memes did you start, wf?
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