Show me your memes

[Liar]

I tried this in the Author's Hangout, but it got drowned in the general chatter before it got any replies. Maybe it was the wrong crowd? Poets are supposed to be keen observators of human behaviour, or so I've heard. Show me what you've got.

Momolo, blopples and proxyrotism

That's the theme, and possiblty title, of a kinda article I'm working on for a magazine. It's about weird little human behavious that ten years ago would have been deemed either pure science fiction or just outlandish. But new technologies, medias and social interfaces have made them as natural to the early adapter of New Stuff, like running on a treadmill or recording an answer machine message must have been once.


Momolo is short for Mobile Monogamy Loneliness. What you get because you don't have a regular phone anymore, and your battery goes zap. Or what you achieve by shutting it off and claiming you are somewhere with a bad signal, when all you want is some peace and quiet. Tru that with your home number, and people will know you unplugged it, you anti-social freak.

Blopples are Blog Ripples, the way a rumor or news story spreads over weblogs, taken for much more face value than it deserves. This was done by mailing lists earlier, but most people have developed a helthy scepticism towards their inbox these days.

Proxyrotism is sexual over-idealizing of on-line aquaintances. People who imagine their cyber flirts as flawless, and who then can't be satisfied by what real life has to offer.

These three I just made up (Actually, I've heard about blog ripples before.) and I want to find more new century tidbits and memes like that. Got any for me like those? I'm looking for inspiration, folks.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Here are some kinda basic ones; I've been visiting a fanlit site, and it's full of new words- at least to me!
slash which means male/male erotica specifically written about two characters from sometihng popular. Will Turner/Jack Sparrow. Harry Potter/Lucius Malfoy.
squick which I would call, probalby, horror, or slash fic- bloody, or disgusting, in one way or another. and
multisquickmeaning more than one yucky action piled in there.
Drabblemeaning a writing snippet. It's funny to me that these kids have invented new words for things that already have perfectly good words attatched. But I'm an old cranky hippy- whatever, dude!

 

[TheRainMan]

Vonnegut, Kurt: WAMPETERS, FOMA & GRANDFALLOONS


A wampeter is an object around which the lives of many otherwise unrelated people may revolve. The Holy Grail would be a case in point.

Foma are harmless untruths, intended to comfort simple souls. An example: "Prosperity is just around the corner."

A granfalloon is a proud and meaningless association of human beings.

 

[Angeline]

I tried this in the Author's Hangout, but it got drowned in the general chatter before it got any replies. Maybe it was the wrong crowd? Poets are supposed to be keen observators of human behaviour, or so I've heard. Show me what you've got.

My Dear Liar,

I can write a sonnet, a sestina, and a Bob, but I don't have a cell phone. I did once, but I got rid of it when I realized I was paying penalties every month so my daughter could discuss episodes of the Power Puff Girls with her best friend. I did blog, briefly, but it bored me to listen to myself blah blah--I apologize for the implications of that for you and others here. And I am sure I idealized eagleyez, whom I met here, but now I live with him. And I still find him incredibly sexy, but yknow now I pick up his socks, wash dishes with him, etc--reality is such a moodkiller at times.

I do know about emoticons though. Maybe I can work up something on that. Otherwise I fear I've failed your thread miserably. Sorry and Hoopy Hallidays.

Love,
Ange

 

[Angeline]

Vonnegut, Kurt: WAMPETERS, FOMA & GRANDFALLOONS


A wampeter is an object around which the lives of many otherwise unrelated people may revolve. The Holy Grail would be a case in point.

Foma are harmless untruths, intended to comfort simple souls. An example: "Prosperity is just around the corner."

A granfalloon is a proud and meaningless association of human beings.

Hahahahaha! My favorite Vonnegut. Think we're a karass?

 

[Liar]

A granfalloon is a proud and meaningless association of human beings.

Sounds a little like us.

 

[TheRainMan]

Hahahahaha! My favorite Vonnegut. Think we're a karass?

(Karass - a group of people who, unbeknownst to them, are collectively doing God's will. A karass is driven forward in time and space by tension within the karass.)



All of the true things that I am about to tell you are shameless lies.
— Bokonon

 

[flyguy69]

Exagit (ig-za'-jit) tr. v

1. to modify text or images to enhance desirable features
2. to retroactively edit posts to appear to have anticipated subsequent comments
3. to photoshop with the intent of impressing

[exagerate (to magnify) + edit (to modify)]


Like Lauren might do.

 

[Angeline]

(Karass - a group of people who, unbeknownst to them, are collectively doing God's will. A karass is driven forward in time and space by tension within the karass.)



All of the true things that I am about to tell you are shameless lies.
— Bokonon

53rd Calypso of Bokonon

Oh a sleeping drunkard up in Central Park,
A lion hunter in the jungle dark
And a Chinese dentist and a British queen
All fit together in the same machine
Nice nice very nice
Nice nice very nice
Nice nice very nice
So many different people in the same device

 

[Lauren Hynde]

3. to photoshop with the intent of impressing

Hey!

 

[TheRainMan]

53rd Calypso of Bokonon

Oh a sleeping drunkard up in Central Park,
A lion hunter in the jungle dark
And a Chinese dentist and a British queen
All fit together in the same machine
Nice nice very nice
Nice nice very nice
Nice nice very nice
So many different people in the same device

58th Calypso of Bokonon


I wanted all things
To seem to make some sense,
So we could all be happy, yes,
Instead of tense.
And I made up lies
So that they all fit nice,
And I made this sad world
A par-a-dise.

 

[flyguy69]

Hey!

Careful, you could put somebody's eye out.

 

[Liar]

Exagit (ig-za'-jit) tr. v

1. to modify text or images to enhance desirable features
2. to retroactively edit posts to appear to have anticipated subsequent comments
3. to photoshop with the intent of impressing

[exagerate (to magnify) + edit (to modify)]


Like Lauren might do.

Good one.

 

[Liar]

Memebombs

Odd little subcultures (almost always on-line) stuffed with internal mannerisms and repeated absurdist cliche's, that it's members spend way much more time with than what can be healthy.

Like this one:

http://www.ytmnd.com/

YTMND is short for "You're The Man Now, Dog", a Sean Connery quote from the movie Finding Forrester. They think it's hilarious. For some reason.

So they made a website. On that website they make webpages that play looped absurd animated pictures and play looped absurd sounds. (Poorly, I might add.) Then they view and rate each other's work. By the thosands.

Get the connection? Damned if I do. Is it culture? Is it art? Is it satire? I have no idea.

Istheshit.net another one. Here, I actually understand the humor, occationally.

 

[flyguy69]

Good one.

Is your hat really that big?

 

[Liar]

Is your hat really that big?

A hat can never get too big.

 

[flyguy69]

A hat can never get too big.

So hat size matters?

 

[Liar]

So hat size matters?

Well...mostly the suaveness in which it's worn.

 

[BooMerengue]

Porn creep is the process by which sexually explicit content infiltrates American pop culture. Many people blame (or credit) the abundance of sexual imagery and innuendo in movies, television and advertising on the increased accessibility and "cool factor" of pornography.

CSI-Vegas had a better definition, but I can't find it.

 

[Angeline]

Now this thread on the general board is relevent to your thread, Liar--and pretty depressing, too.