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Meme Archive 09/2017 (Page 2)
A meme can be a simple as 'a piece of string'
However, memes can be more than an image or a GIF. It can be a quote, or a song. A popular example is "All Star" by Smash Mouth, known for its appearance in "Shrek." There are thousands of people who use this song to make remixes and other spins on it ...
(Sep 5, 2017, Reading Eagle)
Know your meme: The ting goes skrrrr
This interview delivered so many quotables that are perfect meme material, and Twitter has embraced it fully. It's spreading to the real world as well. They're playing the “Mans not hot” freestyle all over – from clubs to department stores – and with ...
(Sep 5, 2017, Citizen)
Vote for your favorite Christie beach meme from this summer
When Gov. Chris Christie was caught sunbathing on a closed beach July 4th weekend, the internet responded with a plethora of memes inserting the picture of Christie in his beach chair into movies, television shows and famous photographs. It started ...
(Sep 5, 2017, NJ.com)
Google Doodle pays animated tribute to Russian singer and the 'Mr. Trololo' meme
And now, Google's new Doodle pays tribute to both the man and the meme. It was four decades ago that the Russian singer Eduard Khil stepped onto a mustard-and-ochre stage, in matching shiny attire, and warbled “trololo” for the camera. And it was about ...
(Sep 5, 2017, Washington Post)
Gemma Collins is the new meme queen
That's because she's the latest celeb to be turned into a meme queen online. Her fan pages have over half a million likes between them and feature clips from appearances on TOWIE, I'm a Celebrity and Big Brother. She first rose to fame on The Only Way ...
(Sep 5, 2017, BBC News)
Eduard Khil: The Soviet Union Pop Star Who Became a Meme
If you haven't seen Eduard Khil in the flesh, you may have seen any number of parody videos acknowledging his internet infamy. Shows like Family Guy and Jimmy Kimmel Live! have referenced Khil's peculiar 1976 performance, where the Russian singer ...
(Sep 5, 2017, Mental Floss)
Game of Thrones' top meme maker is ready for the show's end
Chrys K isn't a household name, but you've probably seen a few of her popular Game of Thrones memes. Chrys, who asked to go by that name for this story, has been making Game of Thrones memes since the show's fourth season. Her posts on Tumblr, ...
(Sep 5, 2017, Polygon)
Irmageddon 2017: The Best Hurricane Irma Memes So Far
Are you ready for Hurricane Irma? Do you have your bottled water, your batteries, your canned goods? Is your car full of gas in case you need to evacuate? Do you have enough booze to last you through the weekend? Then there's only one thing left to do: ...
(Sep 5, 2017, Miami New Times)
Hurricane Irma: All The Memes You Need to See
Of course, these memes are not referencing the damage that Hurricane Irma is predicted to inflict on Florida, but rather the many puns that users online have concocted. Once this connection was made, there was no turning back, and the meme machine has ...
(Sep 5, 2017, Heavy.com)
People will do anything for 10000 likes in this new meme
“10,000 likes” is a highly flexible meme format with two main parts. First, there's a fake Facebook post by a character or celebrity that claims “10,000 likes and I'll do whatever the first comment says” or some variation. Then, the punchline: a ...
(Sep 5, 2017, The Daily Dot)
Maryland football will give away meme T-shirts at its home opener vs. Towson
I respect Maryland for trying to seem up-to-date and trying to do something unique and relatable, but memes are vastly less funny out in the real world compared to the internet. Memes are really just meant to stay online. Once they enter the real world ...
(Sep 5, 2017, The Diamondback)
Ennui Husky will become the 2017 college football season's greatest meme, or I'll die trying
And you might be wondering what the hell is up with this weird dog and his “ugh I shouldn't have eaten all that turkey bacon in the kitchen garbage” grimace. That dog is Jonathan Husky, the mascot of UConn athletics, as he was depicted in 1959. How do ...
(Sep 5, 2017, SB Nation)
Polling guru Nate Silver posts meme featuring Martin Richard's brother to poke Red Sox for sign-stealing
The stathead posted a meme Tuesday intended to make fun of the Red Sox for using an Apple Watch to steal signs against the Yankees. Instead, he wound up debasing the older brother of a Boston Marathon Bombing victim. The image is from Red Sox ...
(Sep 6, 2017, WEEI.com (blog))
Polling guru Nate Silver posts meme with marathon victim to poke fun at Red Sox
The editor-in-chief of the polling website FiveThirtyEight came under fire Tuesday after he posted a meme to Twitter intended to poke fun at the Boston Red Sox using an Apple Watch to steal signals against the Yankees. Instead, the photo, which ended ...
(Sep 6, 2017, WCVB Boston)
So Trump Isn't Putin's Bride? There's a Meme for That
When Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Donald Trump wasn't his bride, was he just being creative or was he actively trolling the U.S. president? Putin's comments, which came in reply to a reporter asking whether he was disappointed with Trump, ...
(Sep 6, 2017, The Moscow Times)
Kejriwal tags Jaitley in a meme, Jaitley files another defamation suit
Arun Jaitley today filed another 10 crore defamation suit against Arvind Kejriwal for tagging him in a series of memes. Jaitley and Kejriwal, friends on Facebook for the last 49 days, are already engaged in multiple verbal and legal tussles. “Tag a ...
(Sep 6, 2017, Firstpost (satire))
Nate Silver apologized for attempted Boston sports tweet meme gone horribly wrong
Silver was attempting to capitalize on the whole “distracted boyfriend” meme craze because beside Brady and Belichick, he labeled a young man looking on as “childlike integrity” standing by watching the first pitch. However, what Silver perhaps didn't ...
(Sep 6, 2017, Awful Announcing)
This Brilliant Hamlet Meme Means That All the Other “Distracted Boyfriend” Memes Can Go Home
The “Distracted Boyfriend” stock photo meme swept the Internet recently, resulting in endless iterations (and a triumphant girl-power ending to the memestory). One artist gave the meme a clever literary twist and it is currently my favorite thing. To ...
(Sep 6, 2017, The Mary Sue)
Meme mayhem: Argument erupts in County Council offices over Facebook post
A Facebook meme sparked a verbal sparring match in the County Council offices on Tuesday night, some council members said. Councilman Jerry Donald (D) posted on Facebook around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday about “the most astonishing” thing since being ...
(Sep 6, 2017, Frederick News Post (subscription))
This Old Meme Has a Whole New Meaning Thanks to the DACA Debate
Back in the Summer of 2016, a new meme popped up on the internet, remixing the classic, cliché "Roses are red, violets are blue" poem. People used it to turn headlines into touching poems — and mostly to make fun of then-presidential candidate Donald ...
(Sep 6, 2017, POPSUGAR)
