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They liken memes to inside jokes. “Your knowledge of a shared joke makes you part of a specific community and ties you together with the other people who are in on it,” notes their site. #19.
The origin of the phrase "Lies, damned lies, and statistics" is unclear, but Mark Twain attributed it to Benjamin Disraeli [1] "Lies, damned lies, and statistics" is a phrase describing the persuasive power of statistics to bolster weak arguments, "one of the best, and best-known" critiques of applied statistics. [2]
The ‘Bad Science Jokes’ group on Facebook is a celebration of everything scientific and humorous. Members of this tight-knit community share the wittiest science -related memes they come across.
[3] [5] In statistics, an outlier is a data point that is very different from the other observations and therefore changes the average (mean) noticeably. The number of spiders eaten by Spiders Georg, as compared to all other people, is an outlier in this sense. The meme amassed more than 90,000 notes on the platform by the end of 2013. [5]
The term meme originally was coined by Dawkins in 1976 referring to the viral spread of ideas. [19] Now the internet meme is used to communicate humor on the internet though jokes, images, videos. Memes are typically images, with text superimposed over them, which together create a humorous effect.
If you enjoy an IT-related meme here and there or tend to browse programmer-focused content, this list might just be for you. The post 29 Of The Best Jokes And Memes About All Things Programming ...
There are universal memes that land the jokes every time, like the one with Abraham Lincoln that reads: 'The problem with quotes on the Internet is that you cannot always depend on their accuracy
"All your base are belong to us" is an Internet meme based on a poorly translated phrase from the opening cutscene of the Japanese video game Zero Wing. The phrase first appeared on the European release of the 1991 Sega Mega Drive / Genesis port of the 1989 Japanese arcade game .