Banana phone

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Here is your latest and greatest silly internet meme, courtesy of Eggy Lippmann and Moleculor Satyr's blog.

http://ganoobies.net/banana/

Original version (crap): http://www.transbuddha.com/osaka/osakaphone.html

banana phone..

great, another "badgers" song to get stuck in my head nad make me smile like an idiot while running around going, "ring ring ring ring ring.. BANANA PHOOOOONE".




figured i'd give you some sort of response, i know everybody loves to hear responses to these things. i didn't get any about mine, but it's not so amusing, so it makes sense.

Seen it


You threw that remote PRETTY hard... I'd say that this bleeding is PRETTY consistent with severe head trauma...

Lance... you. make. no. sense. ....

It's sad what passes for a meme these days. Dihydrogen monoxide, now that was a meme. Kids these days, feh.

Lance is talking about this.

And dihydrogen monoxide never was a meme. Memes are conceptual.

Ok, fine. Even all-your-base is a better meme.

What's a meme?

A conceptual virus.

All Your Base would be the perfect example of a meme. Someone created a flash file. We've (mostly) all seen it. It started a 'craze' that had others hearing/reading the phrase without ever seeing the flash file. Or wherever it started. That got them saying/writing it. Which caused even more others to see it.

That's a meme.

The Budwiser's "Whazzzzzzaap" thing is a meme, but not a very good one, as the actual idea was 'injected' into the minds of a VERY LARGE portion of people all at once. From there it only spread a little (to those few of us who hadn't actually watched the Superbowl).

Dihydrogen oxide is not a meme, because everyone starts with it, everyone ends with it (usually) and it doesn't 'spread' at all. Plus it's not a concept, it's a physical substance. Meme's are concepts, not physical things.

That's like saying "Whazzzzzzzup" isn't a meme because Budweiser is a physical substance. The concept behind dihydrogen monoxide is that there is a common substance that causes untold suffering and that we all need to campaign against. This led to the ecological literature of the original prank spawning real anti-dihydrogen monoxide warnings among the uninformed until the whole thing is practically an urban legend (which we can now argue the definition of).

Just to clarify, "all your base" came from a horribly translated Japanese video game called Zero Wing. From there it spread through Flash movies, websites, remixes, parodies, parodies of the parodies, until it reached the point that there were people going nuts about it who not only never heard of the game but were even unaware of the first few generations of parody. It's like a postmodern in-joke.

Ever heard of that song that killed you when you heard it?
Check this out, someone made a sort of horror movie short, parodying banana phone

http://newgrounds.com/portal/view/166521

RING RING RING RING RING RING BANANA PHONE!

Uh... What?

Dude, you know dihydrogen monoxide is water, right?



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I have to ask at this point, are you joking or is this a huge misunderstanding? Yes, I know it's water. That's the point. Way back in the pre-graphical web days, someone made a mock-serious webpage campaigning against dihydrogen monoxide. Have you read the modern version? Especially the facts page? It's a joke.

Because "dihydrogen monoxide" is an unconventional way of describing water, people read about all the "horrible" things it can do and thought it was the most dangerous substance on earth (not realizing it's water) and should be banned. People started sending serious warnings around and linking to that website. Other people got the joke and started campaigning against dihydrogen monoxide for fun and to spread the joke and to laugh at other people's gullibility.

That's the meme. The joke and the aftermath and the fact that I sometimes still get spammed warnings about the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide. Not the substance dihydrogen monoxide, water. No one thinks a physical object is a meme. That's why I said that denying the dihydrogen monoxide joke its memehood because dihydrogen monoxide is a physical substance was like saying "whazzzzuup" isn't a meme because beer is a physical substance.

I hope this makes things clearer.

Why didn't you say the "Anti-Dihydrogen Monoxide" meme, instead of the "Dihydrogen Monoxide" meme? The first would have made sense.

Back in high school chem, our teacher put a sheet like this on the projector...


Only 2 people in the class got it.