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Welcome to our home… Pawley’s Island is both an Atlantic coast barrier island and an incorporated town in Georgetown County, South Carolina. The population was 138 at the 2000 census. The post office address also includes an unincorporated area on the mainland adjacent to the island, which includes a commercial district along the Ocean Highway [...]

Crazy Frog is a character used in the marketing of a ring tone based on The Annoying Thing, a computer animation created by Erik Wernquist. Marketed by the ringtone provider Jamba!, the animation was originally created to accompany a sound effect produced by Daniel Malmedahl while attempting to imitate the sound of a two-stroke moped [...]

Jeong-Hyun Lim, also known by the online alias funtwo, is a 23-year-old South Korean guitarist known for his cover of JerryC's Canon Rock. Jeong-Hyun Lim played and recorded his cover of Canon Rock during 2005. Funtwo's cover of Canon Rock has been mentioned on CNN, 20/20, The New York Times, and National Public Radio in [...]

"Bride Has Massive Hair Wig Out" was the name of a viral video uploaded to YouTube in early 2007. Apparently shot by one of three bridesmaids, it shows a bride so unhappy with her hairstyle on her wedding day that she starts cutting it off. It quickly became popular and widely linked to. Viewers, and [...]

"The Bus Uncle" is a Cantonese video clip capturing a verbal altercation aboard a bus in Hong Kong on April 27, 2006. The video clip was taken by a passenger, uploaded to HK Golden Forum, and then quickly mirrored on YouTube and Google Video. Soon after its debut on YouTube, the 6-minute video became a [...]

Ghyslain Raza became widely known on the Internet in May 2003 as the “Star Wars kid”. At the time of his celebrity as an “internet phenomenon,” he was a high school student in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. On November 4, 2002 Raza made a video of himself swinging a golf ball retriever around as a weapon, imitating [...]

Bad Day (also known as Computer rage or Office rage) is the name of a 25-second viral video clip that has circulated the Internet since 1997, making it one of the earliest video clips that became an Internet meme. The video contains footage of a man in his office cubicle, getting gradually irritated with the [...]

The Spongmonkeys are an Internet phenomenon, created by Joel Veitch, that has crossed over into television in the form of Quiznos commercials. They appear to be a pair of graphically edited tarsiers with human mouths, and appear on the web at the rathergood.com website. These creatures float in the air in front of a hydrangea [...]

Oolong (July 28, 1994 – January 8, 2003) (named after the oolong variety of tea) was the name of a domestic rabbit owned by photographer Hironori Akutagawa, of Hokkaidō, Japan. The rabbit was mainly famous for its ability to balance a variety of objects on his head. Oolong has become a well known Internet phenomenon [...]

O RLY?, short for “Oh, really?” is typically presented as an image macro featuring a Snowy Owl. The usual conversation flow starts with O RLY?, triggering a YA RLY (“Yes, really”) response, followed by a NO WAI! (“No way”), and then possibly a YA SRSLY (“Seriously”). These may be used in combination with any number [...]