Word’s Worth: Forget-meme-not
November 18th, 2009 by Jason Kimble in Food and Drink, News, PoliticsHere’s the thing about languages that aren’t dead: They grow and evolve (Sorry, Latin — have a neat summer!), most notably by adapting to their contexts. These days, obviously, that context involves the Internet and its trends and memes. Keep that in mind as I point out this headline about the Country Music Awards:
I expect the headline writer hadn’t intended my first thought would be that I had no idea this…
…was a country song. Also: Why focus on duties, when noms are so tasty? In any case, the online trend-scape is clearly a treacherous thing. There can often be unintended, if completely adorable, side effects to carelessness.
There are plenty of companies who are not only trying to avoid those side effects, but are looking to hook into a trend. It took me a while to realize that’s what happened when Mountain Dew suddenly dropped most of its vowels:
Then I found Mountain Dew’s Twitter account and all was made clear. Mountain Dew is trendy! It texts and tweets, and it doesn’t have time for all this extra vowel crap! Mtn Dew is teh kewl FTW. Next week, I predict more ahead-of-the-trend awesome. Maybe they can have an “All your base are belong to us” commercial. Fresh!
So it doesn’t always work, but sometimes the real world and the Internet collide to form a perfect meme-storm. Such is surely the case with one of the big names of the Birther movement. You know Birthers: Those people who want to save us all from our imminent takeover by the menacing superpower that is Kenya? Leading her mob in its cries for President Obama’s “real” birth certificate is Orly Taitz. And, really, I just can’t think of anything more perfect than having O RLY as the face of the movement:
So, yes, CMAs, sometimes the wild memes are dangerous and horrible. But for all their dangers, sometimes there’s a quiet perfection to it all.
November 18th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Judge Land and now judge Carter, smack down the crazies (case dismissed), poor little Birthers.
Not even “Fake News” Bill O’Reilly believes the crazies, how funny.
http://belowthebeltway.com/2009/10/29/bill-oreilly-slams-orly-taitz/
And honestly who in their right mind would listen to Pat, he is another loser.
To all the birthers in La, La Land, it is on you to prove to all of us that your assertion is true (TOUGH WHEN YOU KEEP LOSING CASES), if there are people who were there and support your position then show us the video (everyone has a price), either put up or frankly shut-up. I heard Orly Taitz, is selling a tape (I think it’s called “Money, Lies and Video tape”). She is from Orange County, CA, now I know what the mean when they say “behind the Orange Curtain”, when they talk about Orange County, the captial of Conspiracy Theories. You know Obama has a passport, he travel abroad before he was a Senator, but I guess they were in on it.
In my opinion the Republican Party has been taken over the most extreme religious right (people who love to push their beliefs on others while trying to take away the rights of those they just hate) and that’s who they need to extract from their party if they real want to win. Good Luck, because as they said in WACO, “We Ain’t Coming Out”.
I heard that she now wants to investigate the “Republican 2009 Summer of Love” list: Assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Stanford (SC), Board of Ed Chair, and Kristin Maguire AKA Bridget Keeney (SC).