Comments on: 4 Internet Memes Guaranteed to Baffle Your Grandparents

By: Cathy b.

Cathy b. — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:32:00 +0000

A meme is a phenomenon. Do dodoot dodoo….

By: Bassman

Bassman — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:01:53 +0000

Want to know about memes? Read ‘The Memme Machine’ by Susan Blackmore.

Alwayz hated that whole LOL thing.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:25:06 +0000

“Wait a second here, what is a meme? Seriously. Today is the first time I have ever encountered that word. I found the below definition on wikipedia, but is that it?

“any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that gets transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.” ? ”

A meme is just what it is… a ‘practice or idea’. For example, if you had a large group of people and they all want to get one thing that’s being handed out, more than likely they’ll do one of the oldest social memes out there and form a line. Forming a line helps put things into order, instead of people clustering around, creating chaos.

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Sat, 24 May 2008 16:59:17 +0000

How to reconcile the ‘Wikipedia was created because of the cognitive surplus’ article that was making the rounds with ‘converting the Bible into LOLcats?’ It boggles the mind.

By: Just Al

Just Al — Sat, 24 May 2008 14:40:12 +0000

By the way, that’s not a walrus, it’s a female elephant seal

By: Tdave

Tdave — Sat, 24 May 2008 06:30:09 +0000

(3rd attempt at making this post)

I’m so limited in internet (and computer) knowledge that I often feel pwn3d.

By: heather

heather — Sat, 24 May 2008 04:58:10 +0000

My personal favorite memes are the “I’m in you x, y-ing your z” that arose from mmorpgs a few years ago. e.g. “I’m in your base, killing your doods!” still cracks me up, especially since I found a pic of that saying as a caption for a picture of the famous Trojan horse,

The dangerous thing about memes is that they have to be pulled off right. someone just can’t sting together a few badly syntaxed words and call it funny (I say that way to often on icanhascheezburger.com, another guilty pleasure of mine)

@Loaki: I was thinking the same thing. The main difference between this version and the cracked version is that this one wasn’t written by guys too cynically egotistical to write anything positive about anything. Still read it, though :)

By: Loaki

Loaki — Sat, 24 May 2008 03:48:49 +0000

Am I the only person who reads both mentalfloss and cracked? I swear I just saw this on cracked. This isn’t the first time it’s happened either. Oh wait, I just looked theirs up…they had 9 memes…so…it’s different…totally different. Click my name if you want to check.

By: Barbwire

Barbwire — Sat, 24 May 2008 02:42:36 +0000

I may not be your grandmother, but I have seven grandchildren, the oldest of whom is 23. And I’m familiar with all these memes.

By: Rami Taibah

Rami Taibah — Sat, 24 May 2008 00:26:58 +0000

Not to nitpick but toward the end of the first paragraph you say “five” memes not “four” as it should :)