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You are here: Home / Past Elections / Election 2008 / This Was Inevitable

This Was Inevitable

by John Cole|  June 17, 20087:23 pm| 149 Comments

This post is in: Election 2008, Humorous, Blogospheric Navel-Gazing

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It was only a matter of time before this happened:


The Mighty God King sends us this.


The Black Box report represents.


Brad Fox goes old school.


He is the one.


And then you have this.

More as they come in.

*** Update ***

I don’t have the video editing skills myself, but you know what to do. This needs to be modified:

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149Comments

  1. 1.

    Joshua Norton

    June 17, 2008 at 7:33 pm

    Oh, but there’s more. Type Internet Aware Traditions into teh Google and let the good times roll.

  2. 2.

    mightygodking

    June 17, 2008 at 7:34 pm

    this

  3. 3.

    AkaDad

    June 17, 2008 at 7:37 pm

    Internet Tradishuns. I noze them.

  4. 4.

    HumboldtBlue

    June 17, 2008 at 7:42 pm

    Is the traditional internet now threatened because of non-traditional use of the internets by (shhh) teh gays?!!!

    My particular favorite internet tradition is hanging tinsel from my dick when I read right wing sites because the tin foil hat really fits well.

    Also, the internet lights are absolutely beautiful this time of year and just yesterday, I finished my traditional internets wish list for gifts people are going to buy me on internetmas.

    What are your favorite internet traditions?

  5. 5.

    Sage Freehaven

    June 17, 2008 at 7:53 pm

    “Internetmas”. Heehee.

    This needs to become a real (Internet) holiday.

  6. 6.

    Emma Anne

    June 17, 2008 at 8:04 pm

    Spock was so cute with his eye shadow. Who’s that supposed to be two below him?

  7. 7.

    Ted

    June 17, 2008 at 8:08 pm

    Who’s that supposed to be two below him?

    Neo.

  8. 8.

    cleek

    June 17, 2008 at 8:11 pm

    ok… first shot

  9. 9.

    jake

    June 17, 2008 at 8:16 pm

    Being here. Watching this happen. It’s like watching a beautiful, snarky baby being born. Le sniff.

  10. 10.

    Dennis - SGMM

    June 17, 2008 at 8:17 pm

    Shit. When I started on the Internet we had to carry the packets through the snow and only the shamans knew how to grep.

  11. 11.

    mantis

    June 17, 2008 at 8:27 pm

    I love the intertrons, and all the wonderful people who live here. Thank you.

  12. 12.

    Dreggas

    June 17, 2008 at 8:28 pm

    Why in my day we didn’t even have packets unless we arranged the 1’s and 0’s ourselves!

  13. 13.

    Queixada

    June 17, 2008 at 8:29 pm

    Can I has internet tradishuns?

  14. 14.

    AkaDad

    June 17, 2008 at 8:30 pm

    My personal tradition is listening to different music for each blog that I read. For instance, when I read some right wing blogs, I listen to Dueling Banjos.

  15. 15.

    John Cole

    June 17, 2008 at 8:31 pm

    I hope one of you with video editing skills handles the the update to this post.

    What do you listen to when you come here, AKADAD?

  16. 16.

    Paul

    June 17, 2008 at 8:33 pm

    Of course *I* had to make one too:

    Venger–I am aware of all Internet Traditions

  17. 17.

    Zifnab

    June 17, 2008 at 8:33 pm

    ok… first shot

    Win.

    Being here. Watching this happen. It’s like watching a beautiful, snarky baby being born. Le sniff.

    heh. Indeed.

  18. 18.

    rob!

    June 17, 2008 at 8:38 pm

    Hal9000

  19. 19.

    Brian

    June 17, 2008 at 8:45 pm

    I sent you some more of those lolz to your email.

  20. 20.

    Brian

    June 17, 2008 at 8:48 pm

    My email to you bounced. I have done up some lolz about politics and internet traditions but I have no website to put them on. How can I get them to you?

  21. 21.

    Gus

    June 17, 2008 at 8:52 pm

    Nice, cleek. No one can beat the LOLCat, though. That cat brings the cute as well as the snark. Brilliant.

  22. 22.

    AkaDad

    June 17, 2008 at 8:53 pm

    What do you listen to when you come here, AKADAD?

    Heavy Metal

    Because most of you rock my world, and the rest of you make me bang my head.

  23. 23.

    LanceThruster

    June 17, 2008 at 8:55 pm

    I for one would like to welcome our new internet tradition overlords.

  24. 24.

    OriGuy

    June 17, 2008 at 8:57 pm

    When I started on the Internet we had to carry the packets through the snow

    You didn’t use carrier pigeons?

    RFC1149, A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
    This memo describes an experimental method for the encapsulation of IP datagrams in avian carriers. This specification is primarilly useful in Metropolitan Area Networks. This is an experimental, not recommended standard.

  25. 25.

    jake

    June 17, 2008 at 9:03 pm

    rob! thanks for the new screen saver.

  26. 26.

    Dreggas

    June 17, 2008 at 9:05 pm

    Resistance is futile

  27. 27.

    Ron

    June 17, 2008 at 9:07 pm

    I contacted Beard. Is he alive? Think he’ll respond?

  28. 28.

    mark

    June 17, 2008 at 9:07 pm

    cybernetic ghost of christmas past from the future weighs in

  29. 29.

    jake

    June 17, 2008 at 9:08 pm

    Could someone please do something with this?

    I’ve had the fucking song stuck in my head since the first post.

  30. 30.

    slag

    June 17, 2008 at 9:11 pm

    This one’s for you.

  31. 31.

    Steven Taylor

    June 17, 2008 at 9:12 pm

    It seems that Dreggas and I had a similar thought.

  32. 32.

    Dreggas

    June 17, 2008 at 9:13 pm

    jake Says:

    Could someone please do something with this?

    I’ve had the fucking song stuck in my head since the first post.

    It’s Tradition!

  33. 33.

    Dreggas

    June 17, 2008 at 9:14 pm

    Steven Taylor Says:

    It seems that Dreggas and I had a similar thought.

    LOL

  34. 34.

    cleek

    June 17, 2008 at 9:16 pm

    it should go without saying that Chuck Norris is aware of all internet traditions.

  35. 35.

    Ron

    June 17, 2008 at 9:18 pm

    Mark, totally fucking awesome, I’m compiling the really good ones before I run out of bandwidth.

    If you guys want to bug Elton, try this.

  36. 36.

    HumboldtBlue

    June 17, 2008 at 9:23 pm

    Oh Cleek I laughed so loud and hard the cat got scared and scratched me. That’s fucking brilliant.

    Merry Internetmas, Cleek is the InterSanta.

  37. 37.

    DFD

    June 17, 2008 at 9:25 pm

    Has anyone asked Ted Stevens to comment? Someone needs to do a pic with the Tubeman.

  38. 38.

    HumboldtBlue

    June 17, 2008 at 9:28 pm

    DFD Says:

    Has anyone asked Ted Stevens to comment? Someone needs to do a pic with the Tubeman.

    I saw one and now can’t recall who had it … C&L …. Trex … Instaputz … shit can’t recall …

    And this thread will live forever in the hearts of the true internet traditionalists.

  39. 39.

    DFD

    June 17, 2008 at 9:28 pm

    Sonny, I remember when I telecommuted to school with a 2400 baud modem and played Trade Wars by candle light!

  40. 40.

    cleek

    June 17, 2008 at 9:29 pm

    and one more

  41. 41.

    nightjar

    June 17, 2008 at 9:31 pm

    These Bumpkins have it down.

  42. 42.

    slag

    June 17, 2008 at 9:32 pm

    cleek Says:

    it should go without saying that Chuck Norris is aware of all internet traditions.

    Yes. But does Mr. T pity the fool who is not aware of all internet traditions?

  43. 43.

    Rick Taylor

    June 17, 2008 at 9:35 pm

    I know it’s dumb, but I can’t stop laughing.

  44. 44.

    jake

    June 17, 2008 at 9:37 pm

    It’s Tradition!

    Who must raise the family and run the home,
    So Papa’s free to read the dirty books?

    Tradition!

  45. 45.

    rob!

    June 17, 2008 at 9:42 pm

    HYPNOTOAD!

  46. 46.

    slag

    June 17, 2008 at 9:45 pm

    Neo Obama is aware

  47. 47.

    Gus

    June 17, 2008 at 9:53 pm

    If this clown had any shame, he’d never darken the intertubes again. Sigh, I can always dream.

  48. 48.

    AkaDad

    June 17, 2008 at 9:55 pm

    This is a pretty good one.

  49. 49.

    jake

    June 17, 2008 at 9:57 pm

    Best I could do with the tools at hand.

  50. 50.

    Gus

    June 17, 2008 at 9:57 pm

    AkaDad, that is a good one…fucker.

  51. 51.

    nightjar

    June 17, 2008 at 9:57 pm

    jake Says:

    Could someone please do something with this?

    I’ve had the fucking song stuck in my head since the first post

    Here ya go Jake. Maybe this’ll work.

  52. 52.

    Rome Again

    June 17, 2008 at 10:03 pm

    slag Says:

    This one’s for you.

    Slag, I LOVE that NeObama (#1) WOW!

    ;)

    I can’t believe, I finally find the opportunity to show off some graphics skills and I’m WITHOUT a graphics program on a new computer JEEEEZ!

    I’ll catch the next idiot I guess, there’s gotta be more where this one came from.

  53. 53.

    Perry Como

    June 17, 2008 at 10:06 pm

    My internet traditions, you know them?

  54. 54.

    RoonieRoo

    June 17, 2008 at 10:07 pm

    I remember when I telecommuted to school with a 2400 baud modem and played Trade Wars by candle light!

    Luxury! We ‘ad to go down into mine to dig out the ore with our bare ‘ands and smelt it into the copper wire that we wove into patch cables to connect the tubes we made out of broken glass that we dug out of trash ‘eaps so we could play Space War using an old Smith-Corona typewriter as a ‘ardcopy terminal!

    Candlelight…hmph!

  55. 55.

    jake

    June 17, 2008 at 10:14 pm

    I hereby pronounce this thread 31 flavors of l’awesome.

    Except for AkaDad at 9:55.

    Bastard.

  56. 56.

    DFD

    June 17, 2008 at 10:15 pm

    I remember my first LAN was a complicated series of empty Manwich cans and packing twine.

  57. 57.

    Luce Imaginary

    June 17, 2008 at 10:19 pm

    aware

  58. 58.

    West Virginia Rebel

    June 17, 2008 at 10:20 pm

    OK, well, here’s the link, anyway.

  59. 59.

    wasabi gasp

    June 17, 2008 at 10:22 pm

    Here’s another.

  60. 60.

    West Virginia Rebel

    June 17, 2008 at 10:22 pm

    In my day we used smoke signals…

  61. 61.

    slag

    June 17, 2008 at 10:23 pm

    Slag, I LOVE that NeObama (#1) WOW!

    Much obliged. He is definitely aware.

  62. 62.

    gbear

    June 17, 2008 at 10:23 pm

    Tradition, Tradition! Tradition!
    Tradition, Tradition! Tradition!

    Who, day and night, must scramble for some meaning,
    Feed the unwashed masses, say his daily peace?
    And who has the right, as master of the nets,
    To have the final comment plz?

    Internet, Internet! Tradition!
    Internet, Internet! Tradition!

  63. 63.

    AkaDad

    June 17, 2008 at 10:24 pm

    John McCain: Not Aware Of Internet Traditions

  64. 64.

    AkaDad

    June 17, 2008 at 10:33 pm

    fucker

    Bastard

    :-)

  65. 65.

    jnfr

    June 17, 2008 at 10:48 pm

    Does anyone know if that “vanderleun” is Gerard Van der Leun?

  66. 66.

    Emma Anne

    June 17, 2008 at 10:51 pm

    OK, here’s my attempt:

    Xena, Warrior Princess

  67. 67.

    Punchy

    June 17, 2008 at 10:57 pm

    Coming up with something snarky w/r/t these in7ern3t tradishans is just a bitch pain in the ass.

  68. 68.

    wasabi gasp

    June 17, 2008 at 10:58 pm

    The Audacity of Awareness

  69. 69.

    Dreggas

    June 17, 2008 at 11:02 pm

    Another original Dreggas masterpiece

  70. 70.

    Chet Scoville

    June 17, 2008 at 11:04 pm

    The ultimate guide to all internet traditions.

  71. 71.

    Jess

    June 17, 2008 at 11:11 pm

    You’re a bunch of loser geeks who need to get a life. I worship you all.

  72. 72.

    Kevin K.

    June 17, 2008 at 11:15 pm

    You can try these out for size.

  73. 73.

    Ninerdave

    June 17, 2008 at 11:24 pm

    You were missing an O Rly owl on ytmnd.

    I fixed that here.

    (complete w/meme soundtrack)

  74. 74.

    PanAmerican

    June 17, 2008 at 11:24 pm

    Mr. Nobody

    The bitter spiral gets tighter and tighter.

  75. 75.

    Jess

    June 17, 2008 at 11:24 pm

    Slightly OT, but equally hillarious: Introducing John McC*nt.

  76. 76.

    rob!

    June 17, 2008 at 11:33 pm

    Mr. Nobody

    wow, i’ve never been to Riverdaughter…that is some big time, it’s-all-about-me craziness they got goin’ on over there.

  77. 77.

    The Other Steve

    June 17, 2008 at 11:40 pm

    John McCain has some major Democratic backers.

    Like Philip “Icky” Frye, former gubernatorial candidate of West Virginia.

  78. 78.

    Ninerdave

    June 17, 2008 at 11:42 pm

    One more…of a more topical nature

  79. 79.

    John S.

    June 17, 2008 at 11:43 pm

    rob!-

    Did you see our favorite lunatic p.luk being quoted over there (with commendation)?

    plukasiak, on June 17th, 2008 at 1:34 pm Said:
    off topic, but…
    Just got mail from the Obama campaign. So I wrote a check for $100, tore it in half, and am sending it along with this message…

    Dear Senator Obama
    On behalf of my friends in Florida, please find half a check for $100. Since your campaign saiid their votes should only count as half votes, I figure you’ll know what to do with half a check.
    But, in case you need a hint – the RBC corruptly ensured your nomination while violating the DNC charter “sunshine” povisiions for meetings. In that spirit, you can take my half-check, and put it ‘where the sun don’t shine’.

    This is a person who has simply snapped. Sad, really.

  80. 80.

    handy

    June 17, 2008 at 11:49 pm

    Shorter riverdaughter:

    “Whaaaa!!!!!!!!!! Creative class stolz mah bukkit!”

  81. 81.

    gbear

    June 17, 2008 at 11:50 pm

    Agreed. Wow. Cry me a river in Iowa. I want to be on Riverdaughter’s shit list

  82. 82.

    John Cole

    June 18, 2008 at 12:06 am

    Lukasiak has always been kind of nuts, and was definitely always a dick. He is actually one of about 5 people who have been banned here since 2002. I let him back, but I banned him for a few weeks.

  83. 83.

    sidereal

    June 18, 2008 at 12:14 am

    The Ted Stevens entry is here . And is classic.

  84. 84.

    sidereal

    June 18, 2008 at 12:36 am

    Didn’t someone recommend a yoda submission? I can’t find that comment now.

    Well here’s to you, missing commenter.

  85. 85.

    GrandCamel

    June 18, 2008 at 12:47 am

    I just stopped by to say that this is a brilliant new meme and I really hope it takes off.

  86. 86.

    Chet Scoville

    June 18, 2008 at 12:49 am

    My noodly contribution.

  87. 87.

    Nombrilisme Vide

    June 18, 2008 at 12:54 am

    My own “contribution”:

    Je suis AWARE de toutes traditions de l’Internet

    (Context for anglophones: Jean-Claude Van Damme: Aware. It… defies explanation, and may not be able to cross the language barrier. But hey, we’re talkin’ ALL Internet traditions…)

  88. 88.

    rawshark

    June 18, 2008 at 1:00 am

    Best I could do was use the line in a comment on a non political blog. Sorry. I doubt if anyone there will even know what it means.

  89. 89.

    Nombrilisme Vide

    June 18, 2008 at 1:07 am

    Someone with mad Photoshop skills should do up a Total Internet Awareness chart.

  90. 90.

    Richard Paul

    June 18, 2008 at 1:11 am

    Wasn’t he asking for video?

  91. 91.

    JenJen

    June 18, 2008 at 1:58 am

    Me no likey this internet meme. :-)

  92. 92.

    hysperia

    June 18, 2008 at 3:19 am

    Best night of internet tradition I’ve had.

    I think this is vanderleun:

    http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/fish_barrel_bang/fast_food.php

  93. 93.

    Anne

    June 18, 2008 at 3:28 am

    Somebody tell Weezer, quick….

  94. 94.

    srv

    June 18, 2008 at 3:31 am

    My submissions

    Al

    Starchild

    All these traditions

  95. 95.

    Down and Out of Sài Gòn

    June 18, 2008 at 3:40 am

    Someone wanted a robot voice for the meme.

  96. 96.

    Conservatively Liberal

    June 18, 2008 at 5:04 am

    Didn’t someone recommend a yoda submission? I can’t find that comment now.

    Well here’s to you, missing commenter.

    Yup, and now you have Yoda giving out the sage advice for all to heed. ;)

    Kewl!

  97. 97.

    Stoic

    June 18, 2008 at 5:20 am

    That’s just plain mean. Ha-ha!

  98. 98.

    SGEW

    June 18, 2008 at 5:30 am

    Wow. Internet meme travel fast.

    It’s like watching your baby get sick from some nasty virus, and then seeing your neighbors drop dead in their driveway the next day.

    Fun.

  99. 99.

    Conservatively Liberal

    June 18, 2008 at 5:59 am

    Here is a GLaDOS version of it. My daughter saw the fun and decided to jump in on it.

  100. 100.

    Warren Terra

    June 18, 2008 at 6:27 am

    Y’know, the rickrolling was clever the first time, and who could have guessed it would only get more clever the next two times? Thanks for playing, Chet Scoville and Richard Paul.

    I think my favorite so far is the church notice board, from Cleek early on. Wasabi Gasp’s silkscreen is also pretty good.

  101. 101.

    cleek

    June 18, 2008 at 6:36 am

    i pinched off a quick one before work…

  102. 102.

    MR Bill

    June 18, 2008 at 7:28 am

    My own “contribution”:

    Je suis AWARE de toutes traditions de l’Internet

    (Context for anglophones: Jean-Claude Van Damme: Aware. It… defies explanation, and may not be able to cross the language barrier. But hey, we’re talkin’ ALL Internet traditions…)

    Was that Van Damme or Earnest P. Worrell?

  103. 103.

    javaphil

    June 18, 2008 at 7:32 am

    And another one.

  104. 104.

    b. hussein canuckistani

    June 18, 2008 at 7:43 am

    We ‘ad to go down into mine to dig out the ore with our bare ‘ands and smelt it into the copper wire that we wove into patch cables to connect the tubes we made out of broken glass that we dug out of trash ‘eaps so we could play Space War using an old Smith-Corona typewriter as a ‘ardcopy terminal!

    Candlelight…hmph!

    I kept a 68000 motherboard in a shoebox in the middle of the road.

  105. 105.

    cleek

    June 18, 2008 at 8:17 am

    OT: this s awsm. Big John!

  106. 106.

    Gus

    June 18, 2008 at 8:27 am

    Does anyone know if that “vanderleun” is Gerard Van der Leun?

    I assumed it was, but I guess you can’t be sure. Anything that takes that pompous prick down a peg makes me happy.

  107. 107.

    Dennis - SGMM

    June 18, 2008 at 8:28 am

    Lukasiak has always been kind of nuts, and was definitely always a dick. He is actually one of about 5 people who have been banned here since 2002. I let him back, but I banned him for a few weeks.

    Yes, but he’s become a god to those whose monitors are adrip with spittle.

  108. 108.

    Grand Moff Texan

    June 18, 2008 at 8:32 am

    Since your campaign saiid their votes should only count as half votes, I figure you’ll know what to do with half a check.
    But, in case you need a hint – the RBC corruptly ensured your nomination while violating the DNC charter “sunshine” povisiions for meetings.

    Behold, the trembling fingers of a drama queen.

    Lukasiak made more sense when he was arguing for police powers to torture people with tasers.
    .

  109. 109.

    Grand Moff Texan

    June 18, 2008 at 8:34 am

    Does anyone know if that “vanderleun” is Gerard Van der Leun?

    If so, then this is how he sees the world.
    .

  110. 110.

    Grand Moff Texan

    June 18, 2008 at 8:35 am

    He has impure thoughts concerning this plant.
    .

  111. 111.

    Grand Moff Texan

    June 18, 2008 at 8:37 am

    You can just imagine how he completes this sentence.
    .

  112. 112.

    Grand Moff Texan

    June 18, 2008 at 8:38 am

    Vanderleun and buddies share a joke about internet traditions.
    .

  113. 113.

    cleek

    June 18, 2008 at 8:45 am

    did someone say Peter Pan ?

  114. 114.

    steve

    June 18, 2008 at 8:48 am

    We’re thru being cool

  115. 115.

    jibeaux

    June 18, 2008 at 9:09 am

    Wow, even Morans are aware of internet traditions.

  116. 116.

    Buck

    June 18, 2008 at 9:14 am

    I am aware of all internet traditions

    How does it look written in Latin?

  117. 117.

    The Other Steve

    June 18, 2008 at 9:22 am

    OT: this s awsm. Big John!

    I think it’s considered cool down in Texas.

  118. 118.

    Angelos

    June 18, 2008 at 9:23 am

    I am aware…

  119. 119.

    Flax

    June 18, 2008 at 9:29 am

    Quick Shot at it.

  120. 120.

    libarbarian

    June 18, 2008 at 9:31 am

    I am not aware of all internet traditions.

    Can anyone point to me to the appropriate reference material so I can catch up?

  121. 121.

    greynoldsct00

    June 18, 2008 at 9:32 am

    Hope I linked this right so John doesn’t think I’m a shithead…

  122. 122.

    greynoldsct00

    June 18, 2008 at 9:47 am

    Can anyone point to me to the appropriate reference material so I can catch up?

    Go back to John’s post yesterday from 1101A titled as such and happy reading! :)

  123. 123.

    nightjar

    June 18, 2008 at 9:48 am

    Flax Says:

    Quick Shot at it.

    That Prairie Dog worries me. Too much attitude.

  124. 124.

    Damned at Random

    June 18, 2008 at 9:59 am

    The only internet traditions are rum, sodomy and the lash- no, wait, that’s the British navy.

    The only internet traditions are Cheetos, misogyny and snark.

  125. 125.

    Krista

    June 18, 2008 at 10:27 am

    Being present at the birth of a meme…

    This is some heady stuff, boys and girls.

  126. 126.

    Scott de B.

    June 18, 2008 at 10:46 am

    How does it look written in Latin?

    Cognosco omnes mores interretiales.

  127. 127.

    misfitina

    June 18, 2008 at 10:50 am

    Here’s mine!
    Exterminate!

  128. 128.

    Paul Weimer

    June 18, 2008 at 11:05 am

    How does it look written in Latin?

    Cognosco omnes mores interretiales.

    Darn. I’m at work, or I’d whip up one now. I think we need Gaius Julius Ceasar or M.T. Cicero saying that…

  129. 129.

    USJogger

    June 18, 2008 at 11:27 am

    I couldn’t resist piling on. My thing is fake album covers from fictional bands. (There was a meme going around at the beginning of this year, and it got stuck in my brain.)

  130. 130.

    Redact Ed

    June 18, 2008 at 2:09 pm

    I thought that an Internets heavyweight should have something to say:
    Internet Aware Traditions

  131. 131.

    Jeff

    June 18, 2008 at 2:11 pm

    Two more:

    Internet Traditions!

  132. 132.

    plus C

    June 18, 2008 at 2:12 pm

    Okay, better late than never. Sorry if anyone posted something similar, there’s too many links to look at them all.

  133. 133.

    droog

    June 18, 2008 at 2:45 pm

    Every day we must remember

  134. 134.

    Nombrilisme Vide

    June 18, 2008 at 3:08 pm

    MR Bill:

    Was that Van Damme or Earnest P. Worrell?

    That was Van Damme. That was so, so, SO very Van Damme. The linked interview has a certain cult status in France, to the point that when I lived there, I saw a network television announcement for their airing of one of his films manage to work the word “aware” into their narrative description around 10 times in 20-30 seconds.

  135. 135.

    FLILF_Hunter

    June 18, 2008 at 3:14 pm

    Let’s hear it for the classics…

  136. 136.

    Jill

    June 18, 2008 at 8:21 pm

    This is without a doubt the most fun it’s possible to have that doesn’t involve cooking dinner afterwards. I’m laughing my ass of, marveling at how quickly this thing has taken off, and yes, a wee bit of feeling sorry for the poor bastard who inadvertently started it.

  137. 137.

    chiggins

    June 19, 2008 at 10:00 am

    This meme has been reported to the proper authorities.

  138. 138.

    Andrew A. Gill, SLS

    June 19, 2008 at 6:54 pm

    I, too, am aware of all internet traditions.

    As is Kibo.

    And this one is back from 1994.

  139. 139.

    joel hanes

    June 20, 2008 at 2:19 am

    A Vast Compendium of Internet Traditions

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