All your memes are belong to us

topic posted Tue, December 27, 2005 - 10:09 PM by  AUi
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List of Snowclones

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The following is a list of collected snowclones. In the following list, single capital letters stand for particular terms, words, or concepts which create the variations on the snowclone.

* In space, no one can hear you X. (Original X: "scream"; from tagline for Alien)
* All your X are belong to us. (Original X: "base"; from All your base Internet meme)
* Have X, will travel. (Original X: "gun"; from title of old US TV western Have Gun — Will Travel)
* To X, or not to X? (Original X: "be"; from Hamlet)
* X considered harmful. (Original X: "Go To Statement"; from title of computer science article by Edsger Dijkstra)
* X for fun and profit. (Original X: "Smashing the stack"; from title of Phrack article about Buffer overflows by Elias Levy; in turn modeled on how-to books since at least the 1930s, such as Working with Tools for Fun and Profit and Make Your Own Movies for Fun and Profit)
* Y is the greatest thing since X. (Original X: "sliced bread"; from reaction to 1930s Wonder Bread advertising campaign)
* These aren't the X you're looking for. (Original X: "droids"; from Star_Wars_Episode_IV:_A_New_Hope)
* If we don't X then the terrorists win.
* X? We don't need no stinkin' X. (Original X: "badges"; first seen in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, but popularised by the film Blazing Saddles.
* I, for one, welcome our new X overlords. (Original X: "insects"; from The Simpsons episode "Deep Space Homer", where an ant floating past the TV camera on the space shuttle causes TV anchor Kent Brockman to jump to the conclusion that the shuttle has been taken over by a "master race of giant space ants.")
* If Eskimos have N words for snow, X surely have Y words for Z.
* X is the new Y. (see: The new black)
* X, France surrenders. (Memorable usage in Wired magazine headline "Fark sells out. France surrenders." A reference to the rapid surrender of France to Nazi forces in World War II.)
* Brother, can you spare a X? (Original X: "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", Depression Era song by Yip Harburg and Jay Gorney.)
* X $n, Y? Priceless. (From MasterCard advertising campaign)
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  • Jo
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    Re: All your memes are belong to us

    Mon, May 29, 2006 - 7:20 AM
    * If Eskimos have N words for snow, X surely have Y words for Z.

    a little off-topic, but I recently read that the whole Eskimos have a 100 words for snow is a hoax. That meme slipped past my skeptic radar pretty well apparently. The list of words for snow is pretty humorous, and I'm sure anyone who actually reads the list realizes the hoax.

    www.mendosa.com/snow.html for the list

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