We have the meme conversations around the dinner table (or at least my daughters do). Some I know, some I don't, some are funny, others not in the least (though some of the unfunny ones seem to crack my younger daughter up the most). But the really funny bit is that my other half doesn't get it all. The concept of memes full stop. She's asked a million times "what's a meme?" and every one of us has explained it, but then it comes round again and again. Now the two of them make memes about their mother's incomprehension. I think she's OK with that, but sometimes I worry
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You say that EEG, but I remember in our German class, one of the text books involved a character called "Sabine Fuchs", at which, of course, we all snot-snickered. The teacher had to restore order, as presumably he had to do year in, year out; "All right, all right, we all know what 'Fuchs" means." But of all the names they had available to them, back in the 70s, or even late 60s, when this textbook was published, did it occur to no one involved that the use of this particular surname was going to result in thousands upon thousands of pupil-minutes wasted in putting down outbursts of laughter?
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Originally posted by WOM View PostI have to admit, having two teenagers, I've come to appreciate the sly pervasive humour of memes in dinner table conversation.
Not only that, many people that age have a sense of humour that fascinates me. He's so much more knowing than I was at that age.
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Originally posted by wingco View PostYou say that EEG, but I remember in our German class, one of the text books involved a character called "Sabine Fuchs", at which, of course, we all snot-snickered. The teacher had to restore order, as presumably he had to do year in, year out; "All right, all right, we all know what 'Fuchs" means." But of all the names they had available to them, back in the 70s, or even late 60s, when this textbook was published, did it occur to no one involved that the use of this particular surname was going to result in thousands upon thousands of pupil-minutes wasted in putting down outbursts of laughter?
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- Mar 2008
- 9819
- Tyne 'n' Wear (emphasis on the 'n')
- Dundee Utd, Gladbach, Atleti, Napoli, New Orleans Saints, Elgin City
Years ago we had a degree programme called 'Combined studies' that covered any and every combo of 2 or more subjects and so the assessment boards would last several days, sometimes all week. In the circumstances of a long day in a fairly airless room with a large body of people (every discipline had to be represented) people got a bit light-headed and the slightest funny name could set them off.
I was quite stern in my judgement of colleagues who made no effort to pronounce names from other languages and cultures, or found anything that wasn't Smith and Jones funny but then, late in the day I found myself having to read out 'there are extenuating circumstances for Joke Kok'...
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Originally posted by ad hoc View PostI'll try that
4/20 is some Grateful Dead related dope smoking thing I believe. 69 is a sex position. How they fit together and what the "nice" thing signifies are beyond me
I now realize I clearly don’t frequent this thread and it jumped me in the chat about a week ago.
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