And before that it was lines from Monty Python
Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
Not at all! They could be carried!
What? A swallow carrying a coconut?
It could grip it by the husk!
It's not a question of where it grips it, it's a simple question of weight ratios!
A five oz bird cannot carry a one pound coconut!
Imo, kind of a shame that Holy Grail dominates the references, with some backup from Life of Brian, and like one line from Meaning of Life. So much good stuff from Flying Circus goes unused.
I know you're there - lurking under the floorboards with your damsons and your prunes...
The other jokes are ex-jokes. They have shuffled off the mortal coil.
Pushing up daisies. Joined the choir immortal.
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GLORIOUS SPAM! WONDERFUL SPAM! MAGICAL SPAM!
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Bloody vikings...
A SHRUBBERY!
Ni!
Even after Austin Powers came out it was Monty Python. Or Aqua Teen Hunger Force (specifically the first mooninites episode). Sealab 2021 gets honorable mention.
Yeah, Baby yeah
Oh be-haaave baby
… those were memes. Memes were never invented, they were just identified.

And lines from Chappelle's show. I'M RICK JAMES BITCH
This was so annoying it broke Dave chappelle
Nah, money and power broke him. He had is crisis of faith, and then went all the way to Africa just to decide he liked being rich as fuck, and then he started acting like a rich fuck.

It was never one source, always a combination, but when something quotable came out, it became vocally memed to death for like a whole year.
"That's a man, man!"
"Austin! That's my mother!"
"Ah... Well, you have to admit she is a bit man-ish."
This coffee tastes like shit.
Groovy baby!
"How DARE you break wind before me!"
"I'm sorry, baby, I didn't know it was your turn."
Used to? >.>
MAH WIFE!
Get into mah belly!!
The people I was hanging with online used memes in 1997.
dancingbaby.jpg
Sssssomebody's smokin! (Or something like that)
Schmoking a pancake.
Bong and a blintz?
A cigar and a waffle?
Alllllllrighty then
but that's what a meme is
No a Meme is a Black Frame with white text around a wild image.
.. ..not!
We’re not doing that anymore?
Oh yes babe.
Johnson!
Y2K Memes
The Memiverse:
!90s_memes@quokk.au
!philosophymemes@quokk.au
!sigh_fi@quokk.au