Friday, April 11, 2008

Birth and Death of a Meme

Earlier this week Flickr added the ability to add video.

This is apparently the end of the world for some people on flickr. These are the people who should not be allowed to have sharp objects, in my esteemed opinion.

Naturally, the Internet agrees and the mocking commenced.

It spread to twitter this morning.

These are just of few of the gems I was able to collect. Thanks to Tweet Scan and the fact that I follow a lot of clever people.

They are not in any sort of chronological order, because sadly, I am not that clever.

	Flickr video STILL supports the Vichy Regime. Merlin Mann
	Flickr video stormed my village. All forced to work in the diamond mines. My son, a child soldier. Wife, I don't know. Fuck you flickr video SeoulBrother
	Flickr video made rockstarmommy stop blogging cazbag
	Flickr video gave the dog chocolate. bucky4eyes
	Flickr video was on the grassy knoll. Merlin Mann
	Flickr video is the heavy chain link lock wrapped tightly through the spokes of my new bicycle. John Moltz
	Flickr Video is sitting in an unmarked van right outside your daughter's high school. Mike Monteiro
	Flickr video fed me spoiled lunch meat AND bad shellfish. Velma Smeddling
	Flickr video invaded Tibet. John Moltz
	Flickr video put baby in the corner Jon Deal
	Flickr video takes that frown and turns it upside down, but then turns it upside down again, back into a frown, and kicks you in the groin John Moltz
	Flickr video is voting for Hillary. Angela
	Flickr video Rick Rolled you. David Herrold
	Flickr video acts like it's never even heard of a courtesy flush. Merlin Mann
	Flickr video keyed your car. Torrie
	My cat coughed up some Flickr video this morning Andrew Crow
	Flickr video voted for the $87 billion before Flickr video voted against it. Mike Carvalho
	Flickr video made sure my kid was sick enough not to go to school, but not sick enough to stop driving me nuts. Alice Bradley
	Flickr video think you look more like your Dad each day Dan Harrelson
	Flickr video pooped his diaper. No, wait...that was my son. Miguelina
	Flickr video told Fox executives to cancel Firefly. Jon Deal
	flickr video made baby jesus cry Ben Fullerton
	If Flickr video wins, the terrorists win. Jon Deal
	GOOD MORNING NERDS! Stoked for the wknd? I was, until Flickr Video told me that, aahh, he's going to need me to come in on Saturday, yeahhh. Ryan MF
	Flickr video does jobs for Tonya Harding Joel Dueck
	flickr video contains partially hydrogenated oil James Britton
	flickr video threw me out of the van and didn't pay me. SeoulBrother
	Flickr video is a skidoo that flips over on the frozen tundra, pinning you under its weight. At night, the ice weasels come. Gord Fynes
	Flickr video took my manhood away! Am now "hung like an elevator button." End Flickr video NOW! Jon Deal
	Flickr video slept with my sister. Schmutzie
	Flickr video dry humped my girlfriend to REO Speedwagon's I Can't Fight This Feeling. mihow
	Flickr video totally trashed your stylin' new tactical Internet pants John Moltz
	Flickr Video founded L. Ron Hubbard on a bet. Remiel
	Flickr video is still cleaning up after the Exxon Valdez incident. Grant Hutchinson
	Flickr video kidnapped Cute Tuesday Boy . . . and Kim Bauer. Rachel S.
	Flickr video slept with your ex, again. Bill DeRouchey
	Flickr video keeps asking me for a quarter when I pass it on the street. What does it think it can buy for 25 cents anyway? Mike McCaffrey
	Flickr video drank your last beer. Merlin Mann
	Flickr video "accidentally" submits your pictures from junior prom to hotornot.com Dan Harrelson
	[the late Charlton Heston] FLICKR VIDEO IS MADE OF PEOPLE! [/the late Charlton Heston] John Moltz
	Flickr video ate my baby. Surgilicious
	And finally, this should be the end of it all:
	Yes, people use humor to cope, but after all that's happened, couldn't we stop with the Flickr video jokes? Some of us aren't ready to laugh Rachel

I know I missed a bunch, but I got tired of cutting and pasting and didn't want to start futzing around with the API. Plus, you know... real life and stuff.

Feel free to email me any you think should be added.

It was fun while it lasted.

Now please stop, and this is why.

Favorite Entries

If you are new around here, the following entries have been reasonably well received. You might want to peruse these.

• From the Office of Mis-directed Email
• Jon’s Report Card circa… A Long Time Ago
• Dear Gratuitously Naked Conversationalist at the Gym:
• A Peek Inside the Writer’s Guild and Producers’ Negotiations
• We Regret the Error
• What I Did There
• Hermaphrodite Administrative Assistants and Receptionists Need Not Apply
• Giving Me an IM Account Was Obviously a Huge Mistake
• Official Ransom Note Typography Vista vs. Mac OS X Shootout
• I Need a Real Hobby
• Beat Down
• Big Fat Lies
• True Love
• Now MY Ovaries Hurt
• Don’t Get Her Started
• Disturbing Trend
• Had to do it
• Mooshy stuff
• Ransom Note Typography End User License Agreement “EULA”
• Diva-licious!
• Just so we’re clear
• PETA may have a point

Holy Crap! Look at all this STUFF down here. It's awesome!

Really, I'm glad you made it down here. Almost no one ever comes down here. I'm like in a freaking dungeon down here. I get lonely. But not you. YOU made it all the way to the end of the page. For this I think I've a little crush on you. I don't know, is "love" to strong a word to use in this situation? Well, if it's not "love," then it's very strong "like." I'm totally in like with you for coming down here. You are awesome. Please love me back! I know, I know, I shouldn't be all needy, it's not attractive at all, but you don't know how it is to be stuck down here. Who scrolls all the way to the end of a page anymore these days? Anyway, thanks for shedding some light down here in the depths. I appreciate it. Shoot me an email and I'll send you a dollar, OK?

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