{"id":1592,"date":"2008-04-03T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2008-04-03T12:42:08","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T17:42:08","slug":"old-memes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1592","title":{"rendered":"Old Memes"},"content":{"rendered":"

No time for anything substantive today. Instead, check out these exceptionally old memes, which may be so old they’re new again. All three<\/del> five are strangely disturbing and compelling in their own way. A sort of, “how did this come to be?” Perhaps you missed one. <\/p>\n


\nMonkey Vs. Robot:
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THE TERRIBLE SECRET OF SPACE:
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Numa Numa Guy:
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PBJ Time:
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As Phlux points out below, the list just doesn’t look right without good ‘ol AYBABTU:
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All of these have millions upon millions of views, with the exception of Monkey vs. Robot and Terrible Secret of Space, both of which came and went years before YouTube appeared. Oh yeah – I probably should have mentioned up above, but any one of these is likely to infect you for days. These things were memes for a reason.<\/p>\n

Anyway, people are strange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No time for anything substantive today. Instead, check out these exceptionally old memes, which may be so old they’re new again. All three five are strangely disturbing and compelling in their own way. A sort of, “how did this come to be?” Perhaps you missed one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream-cast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}