Maybe she's just Canadian.
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I think I first saw this on 4Chan circa like 2005? It lives rent free in my head.
thatsthejoke.jpg
Forsooth! This tapestry hath been altered. My knowledge doth derive from the stitching, as well as having observ'd many such forgeries in mine time.
The Bayeux Tapestry is probably one of the oldest memes (or at least the base for a set of memes) still in use in the digital age. So many earlier others based on wordplay or written text in general are probably incomprehensible now except to specific Tolkienesque ancient language nerds, since modern languages have mutated so much since medieval times, and are therefore lost.
Second place may belong to the Cool S.
eight million, eight thousand, one hundred and thirty-five.
aka 8008135
:-)
I remember a time before emoticons and we'd say stuff like *g* for grin. But I don't use those anymore. And I never adopted emojis. So that narrows down when my brain calcified.
All your base?
My kid definitely uses it.
Actually the oldest I know of might be "23 skidoo" or maybe the word "O.K.", but not sure if those qualify as memes. Although if "6 7" qualifies, then they do too.
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How is babby formed. And pregnate, and all the other weird ass yahoo answer screen caps there were. It was wild
I still use babby daily. Mostly to myself in my head but occasionally in an email.
I have used it in text form so many countless thousands of times and not one person has registered 😞
I had the pleasure of dropping this in a work context not that long ago:
One time I made my husband a valentine's card that said
"Roses are red, violets are blue, all my base are belong to you."
Made me think of XKCD 550:
I imagine that's the moment he proposed, on the spot.
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"Firmly grasp it."
"Pregananant."
I use this with my wife and kids all the time. They don't even get the reference.
That's a common one in our house but we so all get the reference lol
I quote old episodes of SpongeBob at least 3 times a day
Aight. I put on my robe and wizard hat.
I referenced this the other day and got stared at. And they were people my own age 😭
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