And before that it was lines from Monty Python
Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
Not at all! They could be carried!
What? A swallow carrying a coconut?
It could grip it by the husk!
It’s not a question of where it grips it, it’s a simple question of weight ratios!
A five oz bird cannot carry a one pound coconut!
Imo, kind of a shame that Holy Grail dominates the references, with some backup from Life of Brian, and like one line from Meaning of Life. So much good stuff from Flying Circus goes unused.
I know you’re there - lurking under the floorboards with your damsons and your prunes…
The other jokes are ex-jokes. They have shuffled off the mortal coil.
Pushing up daisies. Joined the choir immortal.
spam spam spam spam
spam spam spam spam
GLORIOUS SPAM! WONDERFUL SPAM! MAGICAL SPAM!
spam spam spam spam
Bloody vikings…
A SHRUBBERY!
Ni!
Even after Austin Powers came out it was Monty Python. Or Aqua Teen Hunger Force (specifically the first mooninites episode). Sealab 2021 gets honorable mention.
Yeah, Baby yeah
Oh be-haaave baby
… those were memes. Memes were never invented, they were just identified.
And lines from Chappelle’s show. I’M RICK JAMES BITCH
This was so annoying it broke Dave chappelle
Nah, money and power broke him. He had is crisis of faith, and then went all the way to Africa just to decide he liked being rich as fuck, and then he started acting like a rich fuck.
HHHHWHAT!? YEEEAAAA!
It was never one source, always a combination, but when something quotable came out, it became vocally memed to death for like a whole year.
Waazzzuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup?!
Is niice
My wife!
that escalated fast.
“That’s a man, man!”
“Austin! That’s my mother!”
“Ah… Well, you have to admit she is a bit man-ish.”
This coffee tastes like shit.
It is shit, Austin.
Well, that explains it then, hehnhehn
before that we traded Monty Python scripts on USENET and FTP sites
The only way you could get accepted to my first BBS was by answering “What is the airspeed of a laden swallow?”
What, African or European?
Yup!
Was it called Camelot because it sounds like a silly place.
Groovy baby!
“How DARE you break wind before me!”
“I’m sorry, baby, I didn’t know it was your turn.”
Used to? >.>
MAH WIFE!
Get into mah belly!!
The people I was hanging with online used memes in 1997.
dancingbaby.jpg
the whole point of it was that it was a .gif
YTMND is still going strong.
Any time I have the urge to say how dumb and pointless TikTok is, I flash back to YTMND and YouTube Poops and shut my mouth.
The Algorithm and the app design is more insidious. The older stuff just got annoying and stale after a short while. My brief flirtation with the TikTok app was horrifying simply in how hard it was to get the damned app to turn off. Every direction you swipe and nearly every button you push just takes you to a new video, at least until you get really stubborn about it.
Which one? The one just dancing or the one dancing while pissing.
Mr T ate my balls a whole year before Austin Powers.
So you’re saying Mr T and Austin Powers ate your balls?
Sadly the “ate my balls” webring seems to be no longer in service so I can’t find out :(
As far as I can tell Shanghaiist took over the webring.org domain that formerly hosted it, and then took a big shit on it
That was the LSD. It was just some homeless dude.
Sssssomebody’s smokin! (Or something like that)
Schmoking a pancake.
Bong and a blintz?
A cigar and a waffle?
I’ll have what he’s having a cow, man
He ate my shorts
Alllllllrighty then
