août 05, 2003

vernaculicious!

let's take a moment to discuss vernacular sponging. have you noticed that if you stick a group of people together for long enough, particularly a group of reasonably intelligent and articulate people, it doesn't take long for them to start speaking like one another? it's almost like a disease; as we pass around fleshy little colds, so too do we absorb and pass on one another's manners of speech. examples that have come into common use through time:

"rock my face."

"sweet chewbacca!"

"christ in a sidecar!"

"dropping a sprog"

"fucknut"

and a whole roster of others which are currently escaping. but seriously. the memes! look out for the memes, because this, quite clearly, is how they are spread.

thank you very much. this moment of minor hysteria brought to you by the city of bangalore, pfizer pharmaceuticals and the letter octopus.

Posted by shivery at août 5, 2003 01:49 PM
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