Memetic Mutation Explanations

The explanations of each meme sort of detracts from the page. It makes it feel less like a list of funny things and more like an encyclopedia. I find it to be a bad idea or somehow counteractive for the mutation pages to have the funny stuff listed and directly under them, a usually long-winded explanation for where it came from.

It's not bad enough to completely get rid of, but something should probably be done to make the explanations less obstructive. Maybe a note tab for them?

It's not supposed to be just a list of funny things. It's supposed to be about how the memes mutate, not simply a list of every meme people can think of.

Courtesy link

edited 21st Oct '10 5:11:37 PM by Madrugada

Shouting a meme on the page isn't a way of documenting it. It's not even very funny.

ANY explanation is better than a page that looks like:

• KILL THE BULLFROG, WINGER!!
• Don't go to sleep, because daddy is watching you...
• Weasels!
  • Gasoline is delicious!!!!1!
• DOO DOO DEE DOO DOO
• "So what happens AFTER I put the lime in the coconut

That's a public bathroom stall, not a trope page.

Well no. Whether that's what it was meant for or not, that's what it ended up being. If you need an explanation, fine. Not to say that it shouldn't be changed, I'm not even saying there shouldn't be explanations, just less obstructive explanations.

Also, don't try to prove that something is unintelligible bullshit by proving that you can write unintelligible bullshit.

edited 21st Oct '10 5:29:15 PM by Gravityman

I think your talking about putting their descriptions all in Hottips

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@5: Okay, real examples, from [[Memes/Advertising a page I helped clean]]:

Wall o' gibberish:

• WOW! THATS A LOW PRICE!
• CALL ONNNNNE-EIIIIIGHT-HUNDREEEEEED, FIVE-FIVE-ONE . . . EIGHT-NINE-HUNDREEEEEED! DIESEL DRIVING ACADEMYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
• CALL ONNNNNE-EIIIIIGHT-HUNDREEEEEED, NINETY-FIVE (NINETY-SIX, NINETY-SEVEN, ETC.) JENNY!
• ONE-EIGHT-HUNDRED FIVE EIGGGGGGGHHHHHT EIGHTTTTTT TWO THRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEE HUNDRED, EMPIRE! Today.
• Call ONE EIGHT HUND-RED TWO... SIX SEVEN TWO THOU-SAND AND ONE, ALAAARM FORCE! (Alarm Force is listed on the TSX.)
• ONE EIGHT HUNDRED, EIGHT HUNDRED, EIGHT FIVE FIVE THREE, WHERE YOUR CAR CREDIT IS GUARANTEED! * ding!*
• WHO DO YOU CALL WHEN YOUR WINDSHIELD'S BUSTED? CALL, GIANT GLASS. ONE EIGHT HUNDRED, FIFTY FOUR GIANT!
• DIAL FOUR FOUR FOUR, FOUR FOUR FOUR FOUR. THAT'S ALL FOURS FOR LEGAL HELP.
• OH ONE ONE-EIGHT, NINE-NINE-NINE, EIGHT EIGHT ONE NINE NINE, NINE-ONE-ONE-NINE, SEVEN TWO FIVE!, THREE!
• SEVEN SEVEN THREE TWO OH TWO... LUUUUUNAAAAAAA!
• I've fallen and I can't get up!®
• HI, BILLY MAYS HERE WITH (insert product name)!!!
  • DO YOU NEED OXICLEAN?
• Memes can watch anything more popular than you'd ever think they could be. But can they see why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?
• There are some things money can't buy... for everything else there's Master Card.
  • As well as the preceding lines: "X - this much. Y - that much. Z - priceless!"

Reciting memes just for the sake of quoting them:

• BRAWNDO: THE THIRST MUTILATOR!, and all of its ads demonstrating just how Badass the drink is (and how badass you'll be when you drink it), going to almost self-parody.
  • You should drink Brawndo instead of water, because water is from a TOILET and I've never seen PLANTS GROW OUT OF A TOILET!!!
  • It's like HAVING SEX WITH A TRACTOR-TRAILER in a PARKING LOT!!!! (you know you want it)
  • I just split my pants like THE INCREDIBLE HULK!!! See that?! Brawndo make you need NEW PANTS!!! And while you're out buying new pants, you should get some new shoes, because you're gonna wear out your shoes from KICKING EVERYONE'S ASS ALL THE TIME!!! That's right, Brawndo will make you want to KICK EVERYONE'S ASS ALL THE TIME!!!
  • It's like RIDING A PONY, which probably sounds not dangerous, except that the pony is 300 FEET TALL AND COVERED IN CHAINSAWS!!! And to get on the pony, you have to TAKE AN ELEVATOR WITH SIXTEEN LIVE COUGARS, which is an SPORT IN LATIN AMERICA!!!
    • Which is EXTREMELY FUN but not as much fun as BRAWNDO, because Brawndo's like driving an Ice-Cream Truck full of ANGRY BEES through a PETTING ZOO! Which is a great way to become popular if you want to BECOME POPULAR WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT!
• See also Powerthirst and Powerthirst 2: Re-Domination which were created after Idiocracy as a parody, but before the Defictionalization of Brawndo. (I think.)
  • Actually, Powerthirst came first, then the same guys who did that were brought in to do the Brawndo ads.
  • Powerthirst 3: Powermost That is all.
    • RED BULL MAY GIVE YOU WINGS - BUT POWERTHIRST GIVES YOU BIRDS!
    • TIME FOR SOME VENN DIAGRAMS!
    • BOY! POWERTHIRST! MAN!
    • MAN! POWERTHIRST! MAN MAN!man
    • PREGNANT WOMAN! POWERTHIRST! HOOOOOOOOOOLYYYYYYYYY SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!
    • HYDROGEN! HYDROGEN! OXYGEN! SPERM OF ZEUS! POWERTHIRST! (with sperm)
    • GIVE IT TO PEOPLE WITH DOWNS SYNDROME AND WATCH THEM TURN INTO ENERGETIC PEOPLE WITH DOWNS SYNDROME!
    • FACE! FIST! BABY! FIST! DOG! FIST! FIST! DOUBLE FIST!
      • MERRY FISTMAS!
    • Bearorism.
    • IF YOU DRINK THIS YOU WILL VOMIT A WEDDING!
  • "Oh lord, why have you forsaken me?" "CAN IT! When God gives you lemons you FIND A NEW GOD. POWERTHIRST! GODBERRY! KING OF THE JUICE!
  • "What if everything you ever wanted, came in a ROCKET CAN! POWERTHIRST, ROCKET EDITION!!"
  • JUICE SPRINGSTEEN!!!
    • Turn that EVERYMAN into a BEVERYMAN!
      • Bevery stands for BEVERAGE!
  • KENYANS!!!
  • SPORTS!
    • AAAAARGH!!!!!!!
      • BEAR-BLASTING! THE SPORT YOU'LL INVENT BECAUSE YOU'RE TOO ENERGETIC FOR NORMAL SPORTS!
  • You'll be going so fast, Mother Nature will be like, "Slooooooow dooooooown!" and you'll be like, "Fuck you!" and kick her in the face with your ENERGY LEGS!!!!!
  • What's that, you want strawberry? Well, how about RAWBERRY? Made with LIGHTNING! REAL LIGHTNING!
    • 400 BABIES!
    • It's like a LIGHTNING BOLT that you can pour INTO YOUR FACE!
• The pearls of wisdom from one Vince Offer: "You're gonna be in a great mood all day, cause you'll be slapping your troubles away!"
  • "You're gonna love my nuts."
    • And the inevitable Stupid Statement Dance Mix can be found here.
    • Which, in itself, is now an Ascended Meme— they've licensed the remix for an actual ad!
  • "Shamwow - you'll say wow every time."
  • "Are you following me, camera guy?"
  • "And if you call in the next 30 minutes - 'cause you know we can't do this all day..."
  • "Made in Germany, 'cause you know Germans make good stuff."
  • "With the Graty, you can make anything...linguini, fettucine, zucchini, martini, bikini!"

Multiply the above by 5 or 6 for shorter pages or 30 or so for longer ones, times how many pages now in Memetic Mutation? It was exhausting just cleaning up what I did get to that day >.> I'm still dreading doing another pass through the unformatted stuff.

edited 21st Oct '10 5:42:57 PM by Yamikuronue

All the sentences will still be there, it's just that there will be explanations. I'm glad about this change, because now I know what the heck people are talking about. And it doesn't have the Just for Fun tag so it's not supposed to be funny.

It was a suggestion. It's fine either way.