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I had the pleasure of dropping this in a work context not that long ago:
One time I made my husband a valentine's card that said
"Roses are red, violets are blue, all my base are belong to you."
Made me think of XKCD 550:
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I still use this on occasion when my wife's cooking or ~~is~~ has a snack I want.
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The post received more than 1.1 million views in less than 20 years.
I love how the optics have changed over the years...
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This is the one that comes to mind. I love the work of Allie Brosh, it was cool to see one of her drawing becoming a meme.
And the "A Lot" monster too:
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I use this with my wife and kids all the time. They don't even get the reference.
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How is babby formed. And pregnate, and all the other weird ass yahoo answer screen caps there were. It was wild
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These fine owls are still living rent free in my head.
But the worst are probably Goatse, 2girls1cup, 1guy1jar, all the nazi ascii stuff. Modern day memers have it easy.
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Forsooth! This tapestry hath been altered. My knowledge doth derive from the stitching, as well as having observ'd many such forgeries in mine time.
The Bayeux Tapestry is probably one of the oldest memes (or at least the base for a set of memes) still in use in the digital age. So many earlier others based on wordplay or written text in general are probably incomprehensible now except to specific Tolkienesque ancient language nerds, since modern languages have mutated so much since medieval times, and are therefore lost.
Second place may belong to the Cool S.
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