# old school memes **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 29, 2011, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-memes/597986 "2011-09-29T05:36:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chaosshifter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90db22/32.png) [@chaosshifter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaosshifter)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-memes/597986/1 "2011-09-29T05:36:17Z")
so was wandering the net and then decided to check back on the all you base are belong to us video [http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/video1\_view.shtml](http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/video1_view.shtml) and was wondering what old school memes the SDMB remembers. ---
**Author:** ![spanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@spanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spanna)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-memes/597986/2 "2011-09-29T08:26:28Z")
Oddly enough just last week I said to my daughter “when come back bring pie” She looked at me like I was insane [Link](http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/pie/) ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-memes/597986/3 "2011-09-29T16:31:33Z")
Anyone remember “FRODO LIVES?” [7 Memes that Went Viral Before the Internet](http://www.cracked.com/article_19119_7-memes-that-went-viral-before-internet-existed.html) ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-memes/597986/4 "2011-09-29T17:47:52Z")
I want my Trodgor T-Shirt back. No idea what happened to it. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-memes/597986/5 "2011-09-29T18:04:38Z")
I’m with stupid Keep on truckin’ … and all I got was this lousy T-shirt ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-memes/597986/6 "2011-09-29T18:15:01Z")
There is no gravity. The world sucks. Here I sit all broken hearted… I’d buy that for a dollar. Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound! Nov shmoz ka pop! Smoke 'em if you got 'em. Are you a turtle? America, love it or leave it. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-memes/597986/7 "2011-09-29T18:17:09Z")
Kilroy was here. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-memes/597986/8 "2011-09-29T19:20:12Z")
Pre-internet, memes were transmitted parasitically as self-adhering printed material on collision-mitigation structures for transportation devices: Honk if you Love \ I Brake for \ I [heart] \ One Day at a Time, and a host of others from the AA world. Dancing Bears, Steal-Your-Face, Ice-cream Cone on Head guy, Keep on Truckin’ Dude and all the other Grateful Dead iconography. Save the Whales Baby on Board If you can read this, YOU"RE TOO CLOSE! etc. Oh, and by the way, Clapton is God ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-memes/597986/9 "2011-09-29T19:39:29Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#): > > I want my Trodgor T-Shirt back. No idea what happened to it. ☹ Finders keepers. 😛 Oh, come on, SOMEONE had to make a joke like that, and it’s my turn, dammit! ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-memes/597986/10 "2011-09-29T19:44:59Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > Finders keepers. 😛 > > Oh, come on, SOMEONE had to make a joke like that, and it’s my turn, dammit! You’re showing your skills of a memetist. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-memes/597986/11 "2011-09-29T20:17:07Z")
Just last night I almost shouted out “Forget world peace. Visualize using your turn signal!” ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-memes/597986/12 "2011-09-29T20:19:10Z")
“What a shocking bad hat!” Quiz ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-memes/597986/13 "2011-09-29T21:42:14Z")
White wedding dresses? Started as a trend by none other than Queen Victoria. What about alchemy? Isaac Newton was obsessed with it even with his peers telling him it was discredited. Or, do occultic practices and beliefs not count? What about Victorian flower meanings? ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-memes/597986/14 "2011-09-29T21:49:26Z")
\ Do It \ ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-memes/597986/15 "2011-09-29T22:41:14Z")
Visualize whirled peas It’s a car, not a phone booth (Bonus points for referring to the dearly departed phone booth.) (saw this on a t-shirt, nearly 20 years ago) On the eighth day, Admin said rm -rf / and all was null and without form. ---
**Author:** ![Amanda\_the\_Wuss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cdc98d/32.png) [@Amanda\_the\_Wuss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amanda_the_Wuss)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-memes/597986/16 "2011-09-30T02:38:03Z")
I recently heard someone say “Run, Forrest, run!”. For a second I thought I had gone back into time a couple of decades. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-memes/597986/17 "2011-09-30T04:36:16Z")
Choose Life! ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-memes/597986/18 "2011-09-30T09:13:14Z")
Chanting the _Rocky_ refrain to anybody jogging in a hoodie. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-memes/597986/19 "2011-09-30T10:07:27Z")
I can’t believe I ate the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-memes/597986/20 "2011-09-30T11:09:37Z")
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