• Rhaedas
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    958 months ago

    Not just Millennials. That title set me off as a Gen-X.

    Before the internet the most common quote bomb was any Monty Python line…and to their credit, that is still active and effective.

    • FunkyMonk
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      318 months ago

      my boomer parents could do half the ‘spam spam spam and spam’ routine if anyone said spam.

      • @blazeknave
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        118 months ago

        Yeah, first memes were my boomer uncle emailing my boomer dad video attachments. I remember a parody of the Budweiser wassup thing with orthodox Jews delivering whitefish.

        • @[email protected]
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          38 months ago

          Memes like Kilroy was here and that fancy S everyone drew in grade school were around before the internet.

          Meme theory is actually really interesting. The Internet just supercharged how fast new memes can propagate.

      • @grue
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        48 months ago

        bloody vikings!

        (note: not a boomer)

    • @ProfessorProteus
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      218 months ago

      All my friends can quote Holy Grail but not so much Flying Circus (besides all the most popular lines). Some that I’ll always say to myself like a psychopath:

      “‘Oh, an hoop’”

      “Caribou… gorn”

      “Oh you’re no fun anymore”

    • @[email protected]
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      58 months ago

      My wife had the Holy Grail CD-ROM.

      it was basically just the best quotes you unlocked with puzzles. But it always crashed and locked up at one point so we never finished it.

      Gonna have to find that now.