Internet meme....doge?

What the hell is wrong with her? Seriously. Girl ain’t right in the head.

Doge is a meme enjoyed by people who thought that lolcats were too articulate.

Why did you have to ask ? … Scared of being bitten ?
(clip from Pink panther >>> )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXn2QVipK2o

Much meme

                                  So discussion
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This is quite a thing in Stockholm right now. SL, the company that runs the public transport, has been using Doge in their poster adverts. It apparently has confused a lot of people as it turns out that internet memes aren’t as widely known as some people think they are.

I took this picture a week ago to share on Facebook:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2346328/doge.jpg

When I took that photo I was with two people in their thirties. Neither of them had heard of Doge. We overheard two ladies in their twenties who also were confused by it.

These links are in Swedish, but I’ll add them anyway. The first is, no doubt one of many, that explains Doge as so many people have been confused by it:

The second is a story about how lots of people that do know about Doge have started nicking the posters:

Pointless story:
I was in a local red-necky bar, and in the bathroom they have an ad for a veterinarian showing a dog in a lab coat, so I wrote* doge-vet next to it. When I came back in later, I was surprised that someone added Much Vet - Such Heal - Wow!

*Not vandalism - This place has chalkboard walls in the bathroom and lets you draw on them.

King Roderick: Yes. And what about the Doge?
Hubert Hawkins: Oh, the Doge!
King Roderick: Eh. Well what did the Doge do?
Hubert Hawkins: The Doge do?
King Roderick: Yes, the Doge do.
Hubert Hawkins: Well, uh, the Doge did what the Doge does. Eh, uh, when the Doge does his duty to the Duke, that is.
King Roderick: What? What’s that?
Hubert Hawkins: Oh, it’s very simple, sire. When the Doge did his duty and the Duke didn’t, that’s when the Duchess did the dirt to the Duke with the Doge.
King Roderick: Who did what to what?
Hubert Hawkins: Oh, they all did, sire. There they were in the dark; the Duke with his dagger, the Doge with his dart, Duchess with her dirk.
King Roderick: Duchess with her dirk?
Hubert Hawkins: Yes! The Duchess dove at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. Now the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, and the Duchess didn’t. So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke!

Every so often a linguist will do a breakdown of popular memes; noting the patterns and rules (and yes, there are some). That’s always interesting (at least to me).

I find doge HILARIOUS, but then I still find “when come back bring pie” funny. So.

Fuckit, lolcats still get me. I’m simple like that.

Huh. I know most the other memes in this thread, but, like the OP, I haven’t managed to come across the “doge” one. So you’re not the only one, OP!

Set your (or his) homepage to Zombo.com.

Sneak the guy a link to that goatse image.

Show him Scary Claus. I used it for an avatar for a bit until a friend very kindly please and thank you asked me to take the horrid fucking thing down.

Same here. Up to then, if I saw the word used I assumed it had something to do with the Republic of Venice.

For future meme reference, the site Der Trihs mentioned, http://knowyourmeme.com/, is the best site to explain them I know of.

How is it pronounced? Just like “dog”, or with a long “o” like doe? Is there a second syllable, like Doe-gee or doe-gay? Hard G or soft G?

I wish I could upvote or “like” this post. But I can’t, so I’ll just say “well done.” :slight_smile:

TBH, I’m a little surprised it took 24 posts. But well done, good form, good show.

I am somewhat meme-savvy, or at least flatter myself that I am. Maybe my connection to that rich mother-vein loosened after the 'aughts, but I was pretty much right there for Hatten or AYB or almost all the sweet sweet Shockwave-based goodness on Newgrounds or Albino Blacksheep.

(IMHO, nothing has ever touched the awesomeness of the Terrible Secret of Space. Nothing.)

But I only heard about “doge” because it got folded into the April Fools’ 2014 World of Warcraft patch notes:

Me three. Never heard of it. But I don’t get out much.