On 10/14/13 5:15 PM, Arlo Barnes wrote:
KYM needs a better article on 'Parodying HashTags'. And speaking of
noise versus signal in online communities, this
<https://twitter.com/search?q=%23hashtag&src=hash> is very noisy.
"Do they even lift?" sounds like a variant on "Does it Blend?"
Almost, but not quite. One
<http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/will-it-blend> vs. the Other
<http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/do-you-even-lift>
We would replace here: "Do you even LIFT?" with "Do you even CODE?" or
more likely "Have even read the JavaScript Spec?" (or replace JS with
"Haskell", "LISP", or perhaps more obscurely "Prolog")!
I think both phrases are intended to *dampen* the oscillations...
something like changing the subject (albeit in a dismissive manner which
does not damp the ill will, just perhaps it's direction?)
As an alternative to " Will it Blend" I recommend my wife's summer
practice which has turned to handmade paper and eventually away from
pre-blended soups of fiber to using an electric blender to beating a
mass of wet fibers with a stick for hours. I'm sure I have some
frustrating tech at hand which I could submit this to...
Will it Pulp?
- Steve
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