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# All your base are belong to us


Tum te tum. I went to bed. Then I got up. I'm trying not to drink alcohol on weekdays right now, and I'm still getting used to it. *sigh*
(I helped save b3ta! giblethead2000, Thu 13 Jun 2002, 0:48, archived)
# as if it could
possibly be any kind of consolation, Im drinking beer past one for the second night running,. I dont feel particularly good, but cant help my hand drawing more kronenbourg up to my lips.
(I helped save b3ta! Alfie, Thu 13 Jun 2002, 1:00, archived)
# Yeah
That got repetetive... Hence the "right, I've got to stop being tired and hung over at work every day" thing.

Well half of that is helped, but I can't get no sleep, as the wise, umm, Tricky (I think) put it.
(I helped save b3ta! giblethead2000, Thu 13 Jun 2002, 1:09, archived)
# it was that creepy looking skeletal guy
from insomniac, but my problem right now is wondering why it is that i dont want to go to bed? I mean, I am tired! And I have stuff I have to finish tomorrow. So Is it a) A masochistic tendency
b)b3ta, pure and simple?
(I helped save b3ta! Alfie, Thu 13 Jun 2002, 1:16, archived)
# I dunno
but you're right... there's something that does that sometimes.

Well, attempt nuber two for me now. 'nighty nite.
(I helped save b3ta! giblethead2000, Thu 13 Jun 2002, 1:24, archived)
# Too true too true...
I have watched too many themes come and go over the past few months.
(Kimbo, Thu 13 Jun 2002, 1:00, archived)
# what do you mean?
Isnt that the nature of a theme? to run its course, then to be relegated for reference by those that were there at the time, thereby increasing some imagined kudos?
(I helped save b3ta! Alfie, Thu 13 Jun 2002, 1:02, archived)
# or in the case of aw
something that many would like to forget
(minoltion, Thu 13 Jun 2002, 1:05, archived)
# I imagine a theme as being like a good song on the radio...
it can be the greatest thing since sliced bread at first. People all over love it. The radio plays it at least once every hour. At its peak, it's everywhere you go, which inevitably is the problem. It gets killed off by overuse. A few years ago in the US, a song called "Who Let the Dogs Out" came out and followed said path. I worked as a server at weddings and stuff. I grew sick of it rather quickly as it was played every frickin night, and especially because 80 year olds started singing it karaoke. Then, my friends, it died all of a sudden (the song, not the old people).

When a certain style proves to be popular, it becomes repeated ad nauseam. Remember how much boy bands were loved when they first came out? First there was N'Stync and the Backdoor Boys. Then fifty other boy bands came out and now most of them have been beaten to death. They are, for the most part, no longer popular. Overuse led to extinction.

Basically, my point is, that no matter the quality of a song that gets overplayed, or the comedic value of a theme that gets overused, it simply becomes annoying and dies off from too much exposure. Relying on something popular as material simply because it's popular stifles creatvity and also makes you a poser, if you worry about such things. Don't rely on themes too much. They kill of a good idea long before its time. Think for yourself blah blah blah.

When come back, bring all your Spong are belong to us.

(Kimbo, Thu 13 Jun 2002, 1:19, archived)
# Hehe
You had problems with 'who let the dogs out'? Thank your lucky stars you didn't live in Holland for 2 months. In Jan/Feb, we had mostly "a pizza hut, a pizza hut, kentucky fried chicken and a pizza hut."

Over and over and over.

Not to mention "ja, wir heb geen bananan". (we have no bananas today.)
(I helped save b3ta! giblethead2000, Thu 13 Jun 2002, 1:22, archived)
# i heard of
mc donalds mc donalds kentucky fried chicken and a pizza hut, but not acctually heard it
(I helped save b3ta! [Coo] is one of the Originals.., Thu 13 Jun 2002, 1:29, archived)
# welcome
to "explaining memetics" 101.
(I helped save b3ta! Alfie, Thu 13 Jun 2002, 1:22, archived)
# Aye...
I've not been on here much so I thought the pie thing was funny, but every other word was the 'p' word, which is kind of what prompted me to do the pie-o-tron thing.

I guess there are lots and lots of people on here, who all want to have a go when something comes up. *shrug*
(I helped save b3ta! giblethead2000, Thu 13 Jun 2002, 1:07, archived)