"like pickles and ice cream"

[victor steinbok]

It's a bit more than a common phrase.

The line of Progressive Insurance commercials has a number of witticisms and
other commentary that twists "common phrases", such as "I'll be here all
week" and "Oh, look: an office party!" and "It would break his funky little
heart." The latest adds "like pickles and ice cream" to the repertoire (Flo
repeats it several times). It seems all of these are somewhere between a
cliche and a meme. If you don't like it, it's a cliche. If you don't care,
it's a meme.

VS-)

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Why do you call it a meme? Idiom, certainly; common phrase, yes; but isn't
> this quite a stretch for "meme"?
>
> m a m

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