• @[email protected]
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    I saw mark Hamill perform in a play once called Six dance lessons in six weeks. Rue Mclanahan from the Golden Girls played the female lead.

    It was actually a really good play and I got to meet him during the opening night party afterwards. I was an idiot kid and asked him to sign the playbill with a MTFBWY or something dumb like that. He was visibly miffed, understandably, but still politely signed it “forcefully yours.”

    It wasn’t until years later that I realized it was kind of rude of me to ask for that at the opening night party of a play he just worked really hard on. Must be real annoying having fanboys pestering you about a shitty movie you did decades ago. Anyway he seemed nice enough and it was a really good play. I got a pic with him around here somewhere, maybe I’ll post if there’s any interest.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      152 years ago

      Oh man, at least you reflected on that one. Forcefully yours is some top tier passive aggressive malicious compliance though, too funny.

  • Beefalo
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    32 years ago

    The fuckin bong joke is majestic. I assume he was pulling these out of his ass at signings, too. Nice handwriting, Mark.

    I could never be famous enough to sign stuff, people would get it back like what the fuck is this? My sig would be all inconsistent, too. Hamill is a pro, though. Even back then.

    You know? He handled going from nobody to Luke Skywalker pretty damned well all things considered.

  • @[email protected]
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    112 years ago

    I went to Star Wars Celebration VI back in 2012 and it was $225 to get Mark Hammil’s autograph. I opted instead to get Peter Mayhew’s for $60. RIP Mr. Mayhew.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      I’ve even seen recent writers struggle to describe self-replicating ideas as “mind-viruses” and the like. I dunno, if only there was already a word for that guys!

    • @[email protected]
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      42 years ago

      I was going to ask what people mean when they say “meme” now, because they do not seem to be using the word the way that I use it.

    • @[email protected]
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      512 years ago

      It’s like calling every photo of you a fucking selfie. It’s only a selfie if you did it yourself of yourself. The end.

      And yeah, I’m with you. Now every funny picture is a meme. No, it’s just a funny picture.

      Now get off my lawn!

      • @[email protected]
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        72 years ago

        My old manual Minolta SR-7 camera had a timer button for selfies. I was cool before it was cool to be cool.

        Listen up boomer, if you didn’t want people on your lawn, you shouldn’t have moved into a NIMBY WASPspsps HOA neighborhood.

        /issues fines for grass over 1.12 inches high

      • @[email protected]OP
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        172 years ago

        You got my meme response now you get my academic reply.

        A meme is a remix of an existing idea/joke/image. Unless you are creating something new whole cloth it could be considered a meme. Even though the term hadn’t been coined, what Mark was doing with 3/4 of those autographs was altering the context of the card image, thus he did create memes.

        Now get off my lawn.

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          32 years ago

          This feels like a slippery slope towards defining motivation posters as the original memes. I don’t like it.

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          Actually the term was coined all the way back in the 70s, by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene.

          It means a cultural gene. It’s a piece of culture that is so pervasive it can be said to be a part of the genetic code of the society. Examples are the smiley face, tic tac toe or other simple common games, that S thing we all drew as kids, etc.

          Not all jokes are memes, and not all memes are jokes.

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            It bugs me when people call any stupid little picture or comic a meme. It also bugs me when people say they are making a meme. One does not simply “make” a meme. It must become a meme on its own. Now if you’ll excuse me I’ve got some clouds to yell at.

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            This is the only well articulated rebuttal I have gotten so thank you for that. I still disagree on the usage of pervasive in the definition especially in the context of internet memes. A meme is culture spread person to person and while traditional memes such as the ones you listed are defined by their longevity, internet memes are often flash in the pan or incredibly niche.

            Is it a meme now?

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    But he’s too famous of an actor to write funny things, everybody knows that after you’ve been in a couple of big movies, you aren’t allowed to do funny bits on the Internet anymore.

    Maybe he’s one of those “meme accounts” or something.

  • @[email protected]
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    422 years ago

    Wew. Lots of Lucas and Disney fanbois it looks like based on the vitriol. I’m GenX. We lived through the “Gap of SW” where we made do with mid-good SW novels, toys, games, cameos and the occasional SW-related tv movies. We were so hyped to the heavens for the Prequels that we didn’t see the warning signs when Lucas shat on SW by making the Special Editions. I walked out of the cinema in confusion after watching TPM. It’s like a Believer being told by God himself that your religion is a sham. Lucas is a sfx visionary and world builder but he is a hack in script writing and needed people to tell him off. The actors like Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford frequently refused to act out the lines Lucas wrote. Carrie Fisher even became a script doctor due to her experience with Lucas’ terrible scripts.

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      Kind of wild to think that Star Wars was filmed when “The Hero With A Thousand Faces” was cutting edge literary theory.

      Damn, come to think of it he probably went to some of Joseph Campbell’s lectures.

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    My favourite joke of his is a very lowkey one: changing his twitter display name to Mar 🐫