Datalounge memes you don't "get"

I think most of the "Let's be" threads are fun

I agree with you about Armie Hammer's wife. I mean, I get why people here care about HIM because he's hot....who cares about his non-famous frau wife?

I love the "Let's Be" threads but I don't get the pasta-draining-thing. Can't find any explanation of its origin so makes no sense to me as a stand alone joke.

Don't get the Chrissy Metz obsession

Or Lena Dunham

Who’s Lena Durham? Is she some knock off wannabe of Lens Durham?

[quote]I do not understand the board's obsession with Armie Hammer and his ex-wife.

He was in a VERY popular gay movie in which he played gay. They'll be obsessed with him for as long as he's alive. Get it?

[quote]I get why people here care about HIM because he's hot....who cares about his non-famous frau wife?

She was married to HIM.

[quote]I do not understand the appeal of "Let's be..." threads.

They can be very funny and clever...especcially if "70s" related.

The Royal Family threads are neither clever or interesting.

Oops, ... 'neither clever NOR interesting'

I correct myself before the grammar troll hits me.

There a fewer these days, R8. There's a lull.

The "Let's Be" threads can be very funny and clever. We had a "Let's Be Forensic Files" thread that was a scream, if you're a devoted fan of the show.

THIS is the origin of the pasta-draining meme. It took me all of two seconds to find it using a Google search.

I don't find the pasta one interesting or funny.

I like the telephone dialler one.

The R8, the Meghan obsession (and the undeniable racist undertones in SOME of the posts) are unsettling, but I guess they're not unique to Datalounge.

R12 Thank you. The pasta thing reads idiotic. Now I know I'm not missing some big hilarious in-joke.

R13 Dialing the phone with a pencil kills me!

To understand me is to love me.

[quote]The "Let's Be" threads can be very funny and clever. We had a "Let's Be Forensic Files" thread that was a scream, if you're a devoted fan of the show.

"Let's Be 'Fatal Attraction'" is an all-time favorite.

[quote]"Let's Be 'Fatal Attraction'" is an all-time favorite.

I was the op of that.

That's the first time I've ever read someone fangurl one of my threads...

[quote]Quincy, the Fat Dog

OMG and I was the one who brought the fat dog into it.

"Let's be" isn't a meme

Well, it's something.

Did the pasta OP mix up draining and rinsing? I’ve always wondered.

Another huge fans of the "Let's Be..." threads. Those tend to have the wittiest posts on DL.

[quote]..I never get sick of Golden Girls threads......

Uh, there's your problem.

I thought the Let's be a Non Profit was a scream and shared it with several of my friends that work at various NYC gay non-profs. I was able to include a link because I easily did a search on google for it and came up with it in two seconds also.

What's really super pathetic is the OP of this post could have easily done the same. There have already been so many posts about this very same subject. From pasta draining to the Let's Be posts. And they are NOT memes either. But OP is yet another lazy butthole that couldn't be bothered to do a search. Let me just take up digital time and space with another fucking tired pasta post. Nobody thinks you're funny either OP so who cares what you think of pasta draining or Let's Be posts.

You should have never came here. You're not welcome. I suggest you don't come back either. You're in way over your head on this one. You should have kept your fat PIE HOLE SHUT and did a search first!!

R24's names checks out.

R24 Fuck you. Some of us are new to DL and need a little help negotiating the threads. By 'new' I mean less than a couple years. You've obviously been on here for years and have no patience with us young un's.

I don't want R24 to die in a grease fire. I come here for that level of cuntitude. Love you, R24

OP and R24 I kick you both in the cuntbone.

Let's be Gap In-Store Playlists!

I'll go first!

I'm the August 2002 Gap In-Store Playlist! I feature "The Dove" by Moony!

R28 when will Stevie Nicks' reign of terror end?

[quote] The "Let's Be" threads can be very funny and clever. We had a "Let's Be Forensic Files" thread that was a scream, if you're a devoted fan of the show.

Yes, the Forensic Files thread was funny. IMO, so was the Judge Judy thread. I'll have to check out Fatal Attraction.

Oh and fuck you too R26! I can see right thru the runny shit stain that is your face! Anyone coming on here and can say die in a grease fire needs no one’s help sweetie. So just drop that box of twinkies and back away from the refrigerator slowly because you’ve been busted.

[quote]Who’s Lena Durham? Is she some knock off wannabe of Lens Durham?

I think she’s related to Jackie on Assistance.

There was a Let's Be A Gay Bar a few years back that was pretty fantastic.

R11--Let's Be Forensic Files was so, so funny. Also, I can't remember if it was a Let's Be but one thread that went on & on about 70s crafts kits and projects, had so many hilarious posts. It's not just WHAT people remember, it's HOW they remember and explain it now. The Christmas Fruitcake Baker thread of 2018 was one of my all time favorites, too, because the OP/Fruitcake Baker was such a vicious bitch about everyone's special needs and requests. Pretty much everyone got told to fuck off.

R5 yes, Armie was casted in a very gay movie.

[quote]I don't want [R24] to die in a grease fire.

Leave me out of this.

Let’s be lesbian Christmas party was pretty good too!

[quote]I never get sick of Golden Girls threads

That is something I don't "get"

[quote]We had a "Let's Be Forensic Files" thread that was a scream

[quote]Let's be a Non Profit was a scream

Let's be a scream!

I knew a girl who didn't "get" Datalounge memes. But then she died.

I love the Catherine Zeta Jones is forever 36 threads.

I thought she was 29..

"Dats da suck job!"

I think it has something to do with a homeless guy getting head, but I don't know the context.

[quote]I love the Catherine Zeta Jones is forever 36 threads.

That's something I don't get, seeing as I'm only 28.

Thank Christ none a you newbies said ME.

There's a "Lets be St. Elmo Fire" thread. I don't think it's bumpable though.

It was never about draining pasta. It was about rinsing pasta.

Palm Springs Mike, the bossy vacation itinerary organizer, was born from this Let's Be a Palm Spring Vacation thread:

Catherine Zeta Jones has been 32 for at least 20 years now.

Amateur.

R49 I was always perplexed by the draining pasta thread. Can anyone use pasta without draining it ? I do remember Julia Child's dismissal of rinsing pasta - she said that the flavour was in the starch so why would anyone want to rinse it away. I also liked her endorsement of canned tuna in vegetable broth instead of water.

"earrings caftans"

"vicious slapping"

Not interesting. Not funny.

Not every tradition deserves to live forever.

I don't get anyone who doesn't get the sheer joy of the Let's Be threads. I also enjoyed the Let's Be Carrie thread as well. Agree they are the funniest and remind me of DL of old. And by old, I mean a decade ago.

I don’t get the trend of people constantly posting about things they don’t get.

Omg, I googled the let's be St. Elmo Fire thread. And bumped it. I couldn't believe it was still open after 10 years. Yes, go ahead and yell at me.

[quote] I was always perplexed by the draining pasta thread. Can anyone use pasta without draining it ? I do remember Julia Child's dismissal of rinsing pasta - she said that the flavour was in the starch so why would anyone want to rinse it away.

Not sure, but IMO, the anti-"draining" pasta is really about not rinsing pasta (in a colander).

The shite that passes for Wit and Wisdom nowadays.

So, I just got to thinking. Does anyone remember coming home on Friday nights and watching Sandy Kane on MNN?

Just a reference, but what is the "Gary talked her out of it" meme about Lucille Ball about?

The most perplexing on Datalounge is that Kate Jackson is popular enough to be brought up every single goddamn Friday every goddamn week of the year.

r51, Somebody claimed that a wise Gary Morton talked his wife Lucille Ball out of playing the part of Laurence Harvey's mother, the evil Mrs. Iselin, in the John Frankenheimer original film adaptation of "The Manchurian Candidate" (it is a matter of record that Frank Sinatra originally suggested her for the role instead of Angela Lansbury). Then someone hilariously suggested a wise Gary Morton also talked Lucy out of playing other classic but incredibly unlikely roles in her twilight years --the one that really got people going was as Beth Jarrett in "Ordinary People" (the role that went to Mary Tyler Moore), but my favorite was a wise Gary Morton convincing Lucy not to take the part of the prostitute, Bree, that Jane Fonda played in "Klute."

Angie Dickinson's part in "Dressed To Kill" was one that Gary also talked her out of. Lucy almost did it, she even shaved her pussy for the shower scene.

She practiced doing her big scene reading the doctor's letter that explained her one-night stand of the night before had herpes--and then making the "spider" expression.

The "Let's Be..." threads are not exactly my thing but I appreciate their place in Datalounge history. All the way back to the "Sumerian Farmwives" :) Years ago there were dozens of "Let's Be..." threads at any given time.

I never understood why Mrs. Patsy Ramsey Formally of Boulder Colorado didn't just adopt the Darfur Orphan and go live with the lovely Ruth Madoff on her $1.9 million in Connecticut and help out poor Jackie on Assistance and her cousin Little Edie along with their 29 cats named Bootsy-Gumdrop

R67 because there’s already been a thread on this

I don't understand the origins of Cheryl and her ubiquitous stinky puss.

It was a Let’s Be Victorian Era Datalounge thread that got me stuck at this place years ago. That was pure genius.

R63 Many thanks, friend!

I don't get the obsession with Timothée Chalamet. He has some talent. I thought from the spelling of his name that he was French...but he's American-born and descended from eastern European Jews. Why the French spelling of the name?

I don't get the obsession with guys with shaved pubic hair...are you interested in pre-pubescent males?

I do drain spaghetti and linguini. It's a pain in the ass to get it out of the boiling pot of water otherwise. I do retain some of the "pasta water" beforehand, but the obsession with "pasta water" is nonsensical. As is the obsession with "EVOO."

[quote]I don't get the obsession with Timothée Chalamet.

It's only two or three crazy stans talking to themselves.

The Helwn Lawson replies are about as funny as a Bellagio bathroom mishap.

r72 [quote]Why the French spelling of the name?

Seriously, Charlois? Because it's French. Marc Chalamet was raised in Lille, France.

[quote]Timothee’s French roots come from his dad’s side of the family. Marc Chalamet was born in France, and he worked as an editor for UNICEF. Timothee’s fluent French can be attributed to the summers he spent with his father in the French town of Le Chambon-Sur-Lignon.

Not so bonnie after all, princie.

[quote]Another huge fans of the "Let's Be..." threads. Those tend to have the wittiest posts on DL.

They really don't, though. No one on DL has any chill anymore, and every gimmick thread is 300 posts of try-hards, 100 posts of the same five in-jokes over and over, and 8 witty posts, many of which don't even get noticed in the middle of two dozen people Oh Dearing things that are actually correct but they're too stupid to realize it.

[quote] Why the French spelling of the name?

His mother is French.

[quote]I was always perplexed by the draining pasta thread. Can anyone use pasta without draining it ?

That's what I liked about it, the entire premise was off and people got exasperated very quickly by it.

The original congee thread was the same way, someone immediately lost their whole, entire mind because he thought the OP didn't know the truth definition of congee. The threats and recriminations were so bad the thread was deleted.

Organic arguments over stupid things are hilarious; the trolls we have who try too hard to start a fight over nothing are not.

Why is straight me so stupid, OP?

[quote]Does he have "an" OnlyFans?

What the joke behind this constantly-repeated post? It's posted all the time as if it's some joke that we're supposed to get. Is it some weird thing someone posted once, and now we're supposed to read it in perpetuity?

All of them are great, just stick around you'll catch on.

[quote] Not so bonnie after all, princie.

R75...Drinking again, dear?

Thanks for the explanation.

And to you, R77...thanks.

R74 Fuck you, you boring piece of shit. I'm still a star and they love me here at DL.

[quote]I never understood why Mrs. Patsy Ramsey Formally of Boulder Colorado didn't just adopt the Darfur Orphan

What a lovely suggestion. You can't starve when you're dead.

r69 Cheryl was an actual poster who kept claiming that everyone DL accused of being gay was really straight.

[quote]Drinking again, dear?

Not in years. Years and years.

Why "drinking again," anyway? If you didn't know Timmy's daddy is French, it's only because you [italic]really[/italic] haven't been paying attention. I expect more of you than that.

And his mother is not French.

[quote] I don't get the obsession with Timothée Chalamet...I thought from the spelling of his name that he was French...but he's American-born and descended from eastern European Jews. Why the French spelling of the name?

His father is actually French (and has a Christian background). Lil' Timmy Tim spent summers in France growing up.

And he's associated with an iconic movie, as is his (former?) buddy, Armie.

Muriel should ban the Hammer/Chalamet loons from this board.

^Responded before scrolling through similar responses.

I love that Susan Dey is a staple in death threads. The arguing that broke out when David Cassidy died about whether she should have tweeted or said something still cracks me.

Has anyone checked on Kelly Osborn?

I just found a Susan Dey/David Cassidy/Hunter Biden in a post from a few days ago. Damn that Hunter Biden. It's post #65 if anyone wants to read it.

[quote]Has anyone checked on Kelly Osborn?

Oh, dear. I can't breath.

Sorry ... that signature was supposed to be Kelly OsboUrnE.

[quote]Somebody claimed that a wise Gary Morton talked his wife Lucille Ball out of playing the part of Laurence Harvey's mother, the evil Mrs. Iselin, in the John Frankenheimer original film adaptation of "The Manchurian Candidate" (it is a matter of record that Frank Sinatra originally suggested her for the role instead of Angela Lansbury). Then someone hilariously suggested a wise Gary Morton also talked Lucy out of playing other classic but incredibly unlikely roles in her twilight years --the one that really got people going was as Beth Jarrett in "Ordinary People" (the role that went to Mary Tyler Moore), but my favorite was a wise Gary Morton convincing Lucy not to take the part of the prostitute, Bree, that Jane Fonda played in "Klute."

And then there's the spinoff, "Joe Manganiello was going to play (insert A-list movie role), but had to turn it down due to scheduling conflicts".

I was going to write a lengthy reply to this thread, but Gary talked me out of it.

I miss Big Joe, R95.

That DL meme actually outlasted his career, which pretty much imploded post-MAGIC MIKE and TRUE BLOOD.

I don't even know who Armie Hammer is despite all the mentions here.

A little Helen Lawson can be quite amusing, but only an occasional dab now and then. She got quite played out on DL over the years. The original "What's your favorite Helen Lawson musical?" thread has never been surpassed, IMHO.

I'm surprised Patty Duke as Neely O'Hara never became as big on DL as Susan Hayward's Helen. She's certainly as absurdly, grotesquely funny as Helen.

It's simple, you dumb fuck. Datalounge doesn't go for the booze and dope. You think Neely can come crawling back here? Take a hike, r99.