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Top 10 Memes in Quizbowl History

Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 12:14 am
by Doctor Zaius
10. "woned in the fase"
9. candy store candy store candy store
8. horns.wav
7. robots
6. "at some level the explanation for every action..."
5. ACF IS IMPOSSIBLE
4. your are wrong
3. FIFTEEEN
2. bees
1. SCIENCE!

Up and comers for 2010:

"that's a word!"
zeppelins
EDIT: "poodle dee poodle doo"

Re: Top 10 Memes in Quizbowl History

Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 12:37 am
by Marble-faced Bristle Tyrant
your are wrong is probably my favorite. Is there a copy of the letter it came from floating around somewhere?

Re: Top 10 Memes in Quizbowl History

Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 12:42 am
by AKKOLADE
Insane Clown Zaius wrote:10. "woned in the fase"
YOUR ARE WRONG

Re: Top 10 Memes in Quizbowl History

Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 6:37 am
by Stained Diviner
ALL OF YOU GOT YOUR TODDS FEENISED and MEOW both need to be on that list before it loses all credibility.

Re: Top 10 Memes in Quizbowl History

Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 10:36 am
by Nicklausse/Muse
someone make a QBWiki page about memes so n00bs know what this is all about, please

Re: Top 10 Memes in Quizbowl History

Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 10:39 am
by Susan
Nicklausse/Muse wrote:someone make a QBWiki page about memes so n00bs know what this is all about, please
Oh, I thought QBWiki was just for writing about what Charles Hang had for breakfast today.

Re: Top 10 Memes in Quizbowl History

Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 11:06 am
by Frater Taciturnus
Nicklausse/Muse wrote:someone make a QBWiki page about memes so n00bs know what this is all about, please
Sadly, pretty much all the stuff like this on the QBWiki got purged when it was transferred to the new site.

Re: Top 10 Memes in Quizbowl History

Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 11:30 am
by Stained Diviner

Re: Top 10 Memes in Quizbowl History

Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 11:46 am
by pray for elves
Reinstein, "ALL OF YOU GOT YOUR TODDS FEENISED" and "woned in teh fase" are from the same post, so the argument could be made that they're the same meme.

Re: Top 10 Memes in Quizbowl History

Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 12:53 pm
by Nicklausse/Muse
Oh, I thought QBWiki was just for writing about what Charles Hang had for breakfast today.
Well, alternately there is just explaining them.

Re: Top 10 Memes in Quizbowl History

Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 12:55 pm
by Nine-Tenths Ideas
Well, okay... bagels... and... uh... cereal...

Re: Top 10 Memes in Quizbowl History

Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 1:00 pm
by AKKOLADE
myamphigory wrote:
Nicklausse/Muse wrote:someone make a QBWiki page about memes so n00bs know what this is all about, please
Oh, I thought QBWiki was just for writing about what Charles Hang had for breakfast today.
Fortunately, QBWiki has been converted into a wiki devoted to recording the newest mythos system in the world, so this is not such an issue now.

Re: Top 10 Memes in Quizbowl History

Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 1:08 pm
by AKKOLADE
Westwon wrote:MEOW
Yeah, but I don't know of anyone who ever ran around screaming MEOW MEOW as an actual joke. Maybe it's just died out, but it's my understanding that's more of a thing that happened, rather than a catchphrase, per se.

Re: Top 10 Memes in Quizbowl History

Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 2:09 pm
by cvdwightw
Ronnie the Bear wrote:
Westwon wrote:MEOW
Yeah, but I don't know of anyone who ever ran around screaming MEOW MEOW as an actual joke. Maybe it's just died out, but it's my understanding that's more of a thing that happened, rather than a catchphrase, per se.
Maybe Tim Young can clarify, but one of his old posts to alt.college.college-bowl contains a reference to the following tossup he submitted to an October 1996 tournament at Cornell that packet-swapped with the Michigan State Buzz-A-Rama and some other tournaments:

"Meow meow for a quick ten points meow the moderator is meow imitating meow, what fictional character meow found in meow the Land of Make Believe meow in Mr. Roger's Neighborhood?"

The rest of that thread (see the bottom) contains an account of what can only be described as a bad neg.

I believe that qualifies as a solid quizbowl meme, even if it died out with alt.college.college-bowl.

Re: Top 10 Memes in Quizbowl History

Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 2:21 pm
by Mike Bentley
I thought AHAN was closed.

Re: Top 10 Memes in Quizbowl History

Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 2:35 pm
by Cheynem
"Meow" was pretty before my time, but some high school team at NSC I read for said it whenever they didn't know a bonus part, so it is either persisting or it was some anime joke I didn't understand.

Re: Top 10 Memes in Quizbowl History

Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 2:45 pm
by AKKOLADE
Bentley Like Beckham wrote:I thought AHAN was closed.
BAZINGA~

Re: Top 10 Memes in Quizbowl History

Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 2:49 pm
by Nine-Tenths Ideas
relax it is just "under maintenance"

Re: Top 10 Memes in Quizbowl History

Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 5:13 pm
by Kwang the Ninja
Ronnie the Bear wrote:
Bentley Like Beckham wrote:I thought AHAN was closed.
BAZINGA~
This needs to become a quizbowl meme.

Re: Top 10 Memes in Quizbowl History

Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 12:02 am
by sabine01
Didn't see the original thread until now, but this has a pretty comprehensive/precise-ish history of "MEOW".

http://studentorgs.gwu.edu/gwqt/lore/meow

Was up to date as of 2005. Y! Boards have since been supplanted by these boards, and I'm no longer officially GWQT's advisor.

~T~