I have a love-hate relationship with memes.
I love them because I love anything even remotely resembling a survey. I live to check the boxes next to my top three interests on warranty registration cards.
I hate them because I rarely read other people’s responses – the joy for me is in filling out the form itself, not in reading the responses. I do not want to be known as a meme sharer.
All that said, I recently saw a meme I just couldn’t resist, which is odd because it has zero questions for me to answer yet the results are amusing enough to interest me in reading other responses.
Here’s how it works: Google “[your first name] needs” and share the first 10 results.
Mine:
{ 8 comments… read them below or add one }
I only get one result and it is a link to a website titled:
“Washington Interns Gone Bad”
Somehow that seems disturbingly appropriate.
This is hilarious, probably because I’m all loopy and sleep deprived.
- Renee needs to gain weight
- Renee needs a home
- Renee needs a break
- Renee needs to take the stick out of her ass
- Renee needs to mind her business
- Renee needs to go
- Renee needs her income
- Renee needs to tell a very important reality-altering story
- Renee needs a new laptop
- Renee needs our strength and our prayers
Personally, I think Renee needs a new laptop.
-Jesse needs therapy (well, actually it was Angela)
-Jesse needs your help soon
-Jesse needs to fight Wlatter Brimley
-Jesse needs a new nickname
-Jesse needs a new food
-Jesse needs a room in the city
-Jesse needs help playing with his ball
-Jesse needs to sell
-Jesse needs a forever home
-Jesse needs to make a detour on his return trip
Fun game! Thanks Marina!
#1 – Calvin needs your good thoughts
#2 – Every Calvin needs a Hobbes
#3 – Calvin needs therapy
And so on. Not surprisingly, most of the results for this query are related to the Calvin & Hobbes comic strip.
Like Renee, Erin needs a new laptop (and is willing to share with Renee)
Like Jesse, Erin needs a new nickname (or any nickname would be cool. I vote for Queen Bee…or Tiger, but I’m open to suggestions)
Like Marina, Erin needs a drink
Like Calvin, I could use a Hobbes
I went to do this but found someone else had beaten me to it: http://thobgood.blogspot.com/2005/10/ted-needs.html
There’s someone named Chris Needs. That seriously skews my results.
Out of the top ten, the only one that uses needs in the verb form is:
Chris Needs a Roommate | Northern Voice 2006
A friend of mine just tagged me to do this meme and since my name is also Marina your page came up, which I thought was kinda funny.
I love, love, love sureys and probably annoy the heck out of my myspace friends by filling out one a day.
Anyways…just wanted to say 'Hi'