meme?

[Dave Wilton]

The Onion has been running such faux/humorous "infographics" for years.

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From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
Victor Steinbok
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 3:03 PM
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Subject: meme?

I've spotted a number of items lately that would qualify as a snowclone,
perhaps, had they been verbal. Instead, they are graphic. There seems to be
a proliferation of pie charts ("circle graphs", in new school
parlance) that contain comical spurious "information". The common element is
to highlight the frustration with some of the aspects of the item/activity
in question. For example, the latest that just popped up is "Time spent
using Tupperware". After a list of various "storing"
options, more than three quarters of the "pie" is taken up by "Searching for
the right lid". I saw two similar charts yesterday, although I've already
forgotten what their respective subjects were (although it was not
"Tupperware").

     VS-)

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