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What's the OLDEST surviving meme that YOU still use today, regardless of format, either with or without an image? (knowyourmeme.com)

submitted 2 days ago by akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I can't imagine It's over 9000 ever dying.

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[–] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY

[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 19 hours ago

FINALLY somebody mentioned it. <3

[–] Okami_No_Rei@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You have no chance to survive make your time.

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[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

Play him off keyboard cat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK7CVqbtW0A&t=26

[–] Enkrod@feddit.org 29 points 1 day ago (3 children)

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Someone made a giant inflatable if it for conventions. It was at Dragon Con (ironically not a dragon themed convention) and I saw it at some Comic Con on the creator's socials. It was hugeeee!

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm just commenting here because every single popular post I commented on this community was magically deleted several days later and I'm too lazy to go parse the modlog to see if its mods being dumb or people deleting their own posts for no reason.

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Risitas will always be funny

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I think NT era?

Btw, what was this show again?

[–] DrBanjo@reddthat.com 8 points 1 day ago

Animaniacs! So many good jokes like that

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[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

[–] Chef@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It’s happening

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

There's probably a good inverse of this with the "nothing ever happens" meme now. A good duality of the two phrases.

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[–] lilith267@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

AoE and AoE2 still having an active player base and community makes me so happy. AoE2 is truly a timeless game

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

Blame it on your ISP!

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[–] charonn0@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 23 hours ago

Damn 😄 this one's immediately usable!!!

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 1 points 16 hours ago

doot doot Thank mr skeltal!

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

My old phone used this as a notification.

[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Related: someone did a lot of digging for the origins.

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[–] YeahToast@aussie.zone 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's got to be the helicopter dog.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You just reminded me of Dog Fort!

There was a really long one of these with multiple characters. One of them was a helicopter pilot who had PTSD lol. It was so good, I wish I could find it.

[–] Deadrek@lemmy.today 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

https://cheezburger.com/9221/classic-dog-fort-comics

found this, not sure if it's what you wanted but I'd be surprised if it wasn't. 😂

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 7 hours ago

Thanks! It's none of those, unfortunately. But you did get me closer. The character's name is Martinez, I think. Based on one of these. It was very long, I remember that. Like you definitely had to scroll to see it all (and that was on a monitor too).