Showing posts with label meme of the day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label meme of the day. Show all posts
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Meme of the Day
Today's is a cautionary meme. If Fred is willing to remove his right thumb, then unless you're willing to stage an intervention, Wilma, better do as he says.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Meme of the Day
Today's meme is brought to you by the number "one" and the letter "U." It's also brought by the same teacher who told us in first grade that "ain't, ain't a word." That's ok, because she means well, and this distopian warning of a bleak tomorrow is a valid one.
Go ahead, try the Google search. Note that even "How can I" turns up happier results than "How can U" Maybe it's less about grammar and more about you and I. If you think it's more about you and me, you should know: "You" doesn't fare any better than "U" in Google grammar. Although, "Me" will get you advice for "me and my girlfriend" to quit fighting.
Perhaps better grammar is the answer.
Google doesn't think so. None of the links led me to Strunk and White's or any other usage sites.
As I writer, I have found that it's not the clothes that make the man; it's the grammar. And that's why this meme gets to be my meme of the day.
Now let's eat Blog readers!
Go ahead, try the Google search. Note that even "How can I" turns up happier results than "How can U" Maybe it's less about grammar and more about you and I. If you think it's more about you and me, you should know: "You" doesn't fare any better than "U" in Google grammar. Although, "Me" will get you advice for "me and my girlfriend" to quit fighting.
Perhaps better grammar is the answer.
Google doesn't think so. None of the links led me to Strunk and White's or any other usage sites.
As I writer, I have found that it's not the clothes that make the man; it's the grammar. And that's why this meme gets to be my meme of the day.
Now let's eat Blog readers!
Monday, February 11, 2013
Meme of the Day
This meme has a small target audience: Concordia University Wisconsin.
I graduated from here. This meme helps show curricular focus. The theology department is the Avengers.
When I attended, the communications head was called Ned Flanders. You can see the pecking order. This meme confirms it. It also confirms that Graphic Design hangs its head as high up the food chain as the communications head.
Never mind that I could do better Photoshop editing, and I took Photoshop in a community college. As Iron Man Maschke's smile says: it's all in fun.
Still, things have changed since I graduated. The theology team now allows the Norse god Thor to play a part in the ministry.
Oh, and they also now allow women.
I graduated from here. This meme helps show curricular focus. The theology department is the Avengers.
When I attended, the communications head was called Ned Flanders. You can see the pecking order. This meme confirms it. It also confirms that Graphic Design hangs its head as high up the food chain as the communications head.
Never mind that I could do better Photoshop editing, and I took Photoshop in a community college. As Iron Man Maschke's smile says: it's all in fun.
Still, things have changed since I graduated. The theology team now allows the Norse god Thor to play a part in the ministry.
Oh, and they also now allow women.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Meme of the Day
Memes don't always have to scare you on purpose. Sometimes you're just scrolling through and go, "Oh My!" This is a Perfect Storm Meme. It contains all the elements of meme persuasion:
- Cats
- Cute
- Nerd Cultural Inclusion
- Trendy messaging reference
- Anthropomorphic Animal Torture
My money is on the nerdess.
The proof is in the Frodo. Guy geeks would never think enough about the lexicon to kid-cute the word "Frodo" into a plural. This is how older women pretend they've still got a little girl inside them. Or, yes, how a clever thinking guy geek tries to get his little man inside them. But, what a guy geek wouldn't think of the "es" ending after the "o." All the wanton lust of a male nerd could never think through a complex plural noun. Maybe it's the testosterone, maybe it's just the trouble of adding an extra letter, we couldn't be bothered to think that hard about the language. Bottom line: it's not a guy.
This was obviously created by a woman yearning to let her nerdy-locks down by dressing innocent animals and flexing her whimsical grammar muscle, despite its OCD twitch.
Besides, if a guy did this, the cat would be wearing chain-mail, and a really cool Darklord beast-horn helmet, and maybe, just maybe, wearing a gold ring, forged for the elven lords in a backyard LOTR forge...
Not that I can speak with any authority on the subject.
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Meme of the Day
Have you heard enough from me today? Yah, sorry, now you know how the PirateQueen feels. I was just surfing Facebook. Facebook was kinda cool before everybody started posting their laundry status as news. Luckily that was replaced by pretty pictures and hip slogans created by every graphic design wannabe with a copy of Photoshop and a picture of a cat. We call these internet bumper stickers, "memes," although the official definition of meme is slightly different.
According to Google:
Meme: Noun
In social media, we've taken a word, given it a new meaning and repeated it until our definition caught on as truth. That's an example of "meme." as well as a definition for a social media meme.
In common social media usage, a meme is a clipart poster where the creator tries to shape cultural opinions through a creative usage of image and text. Think Awkward Family Photos meets a bored marketer in a bar, and then hooks up. That's a meme, and if your Facebook page looks like mine, you can't scroll a dead cat without hitting a live one that's part of somebody's meme.
Most are fluffy self affirmation or eye-roling political dogma, but some are either so funny, so horrifying, or so both that the require a second glance.
So, I figure I'll do us both a favor: I'll find the best memes on my page and post them here. You win: you'll never have to check facebook again. I win: just another way I can pretend somebody's reading my blog. Sound fun?
Ok. Today's winner:
If Hitler ever wrote a sequel to "Mien Kampf" This would be it's cover. This is like "Winds of War" meets "Texas Wildcat." Well, maybe a little less Texas in this Wildcat, but equally as idealistic and headstrong, yet yearning to be tamed by the right man. Look at the longing regret in Adolf's eye. Clearly he would change if only...Yah.
I'm glad nobody is trying to scare me into a decision.
What's funny here is—nothing. Nothing's funny. I'm against gun control, but this effort to control me through fear makes me want to jump on the Obama wagon.
How do we keep our gun rights when our banner-men wave Hitler in everyone's face?
According to Google:
Meme: Noun
- An element of a culture or behavior that may be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, esp. imitation.
- An image, video, etc. that is passed electronically from one Internet user to another.
In social media, we've taken a word, given it a new meaning and repeated it until our definition caught on as truth. That's an example of "meme." as well as a definition for a social media meme.
In common social media usage, a meme is a clipart poster where the creator tries to shape cultural opinions through a creative usage of image and text. Think Awkward Family Photos meets a bored marketer in a bar, and then hooks up. That's a meme, and if your Facebook page looks like mine, you can't scroll a dead cat without hitting a live one that's part of somebody's meme.
Most are fluffy self affirmation or eye-roling political dogma, but some are either so funny, so horrifying, or so both that the require a second glance.
So, I figure I'll do us both a favor: I'll find the best memes on my page and post them here. You win: you'll never have to check facebook again. I win: just another way I can pretend somebody's reading my blog. Sound fun?
Ok. Today's winner:
If Hitler ever wrote a sequel to "Mien Kampf" This would be it's cover. This is like "Winds of War" meets "Texas Wildcat." Well, maybe a little less Texas in this Wildcat, but equally as idealistic and headstrong, yet yearning to be tamed by the right man. Look at the longing regret in Adolf's eye. Clearly he would change if only...Yah.
I'm glad nobody is trying to scare me into a decision.
What's funny here is—nothing. Nothing's funny. I'm against gun control, but this effort to control me through fear makes me want to jump on the Obama wagon.
How do we keep our gun rights when our banner-men wave Hitler in everyone's face?
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