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Title: Help - mutant earworm!
Post by: Sibling DavidH on February 15, 2010, 10:19:59 AM
Recently on BBC Radio 4 they have been playing trails for a program on the Plantagenets.  In one trail a voice says - quietly, softly, but with infinite menace, "There has to be blood!"
Mrs H and I have made it into a family joke and go around doing the clawed hands and the manic eyes whispering There has to be blood.   Now it's spread to There has to be coffee  or There has to be yoghurt.  And it's spreading among our friends.
What can we do to stop this ghastly meme taking over the whole of Herefordshire - nay, the world?
Any suggestions?  Please?   :eeksign:
Title: Re: Help - mutant earworm!
Post by: Griffin NoName on February 15, 2010, 10:32:38 AM
It sounds a perfectly useful meme. I think you should continue to promote it. I shall start using it immediately. Those Plantagenets knew a thing or two.
Title: Re: Help - mutant earworm!
Post by: Bluenose on February 15, 2010, 12:18:26 PM
Hmm.   Sounds like a great thing to me.   There has to be beer!   Yep, it seems to work really well.
Title: Re: Help - mutant earworm!
Post by: beagle on February 15, 2010, 12:21:36 PM
Quote from: DavidH on February 15, 2010, 10:19:59 AM
Any suggestions?  Please?   :eeksign:

I don't hold out much hope. Once when my family was at a (reasonably upmarket) restaurant the overworked waitress inquired about the fish course in a spectacularly grumpy voice, "Do you want the fish"?  Ever afterwards that was the response when a family member said or did something ungraciously.
Title: Re: Help - mutant earworm!
Post by: Darlica on February 15, 2010, 02:35:12 PM
QuoteWhat can we do to stop this ghastly meme taking over the whole of Herefordshire - nay, the world?

Step one:
Do not mention the meme on a internet forum full of people who can't even contain their bats in the belfry... ;) ;D


I predict this will be the next "can I haz a ... pls" 
I will work on it for sure! :D
Title: Re: Help - mutant earworm!
Post by: Sibling DavidH on February 15, 2010, 02:59:02 PM
Quote from: Darlica
Step one:
Do not mention the meme on a internet forum full of people who can't even contain their bats in the belfry... ;) ;D

:ROFL:  I have to admit the truth of this.  OMFSM, what have I unleashed on the world?   :devil:  :devil2:  :help:
Title: Re: Help - mutant earworm!
Post by: Pachyderm on February 15, 2010, 05:40:38 PM
There must be memes...

or

I can haz meme?
Title: Re: Help - mutant earworm!
Post by: pieces o nine on February 16, 2010, 09:12:27 AM
Quote from: beagle on February 15, 2010, 12:21:36 PM
Quote from: DavidH on February 15, 2010, 10:19:59 AM
Any suggestions?  Please?   :eeksign:

I don't hold out much hope. Once when my family was at a (reasonably upmarket) restaurant the overworked waitress inquired about the fish course in a spectacularly grumpy voice, "Do you want the fish"?  Ever afterwards that was the response when a family member said or did something ungraciously.


My circle loved the frustrated statement of a server who kept returning to our table to announce that each successive chocolate dessert was, in fact, sold out. In desperation, he tried to interest me in Key Lime pie; when I demurred he snarked, "Ma'am, I cannot force the fruit upon you!"



There must be chocolate...     
(http://www.frugalvillage.com/forums/images/smilies/eat_chocolate.gif)
Title: Re: Help - mutant earworm!
Post by: Sibling DavidH on February 16, 2010, 09:17:27 AM
Oh, Pieces, what a fabulous smiley!
There has to be Smilies!
Title: Re: Help - mutant earworm!
Post by: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on February 16, 2010, 01:45:32 PM
Hmmmm.... what do I do most often?

*thinks*

There Must Be........

.......... Sarcasm.


:D
Title: Re: Help - mutant earworm!
Post by: Darlica on February 16, 2010, 02:46:47 PM
Great now my fruit-bats have escaped from the belfry...

There has to be Strudle  :D
Title: Re: Help - mutant earworm!
Post by: Lindorm on February 18, 2010, 01:02:57 PM
But what is the position taken by, respectively, pirates, ninjas, lolcatz and lesbian stripper girlfriends on this new meme? Has it been duly approved?