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April 15th, 2009
When Memes Attack
Let me preface by saying that I am in no way making fun of the situation, the people that were killed or the brave men and women that performed the rescue operation. I am making fun of the fact that it is 2000-and-fucking-9 and THERE ARE STILL ACTUAL PIRATES! How does this happen? How are their people alive on this planet that make their living pillaging and hoarding booty and such? Do they have wenches? Peg legs? Peg boys? It really does seem too ridiculous to NOT have come crawling out of the internet.
Question time:
What meme should come to life next, and how will it manifest in the real world?
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April 15th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
It's, um, 2009.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
oh shit, yeah I so didn't catch that.
April 15th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Oh yeah. Thanks.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
I reeeally like the writing for this one. Mexican ninja is awesome.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
I hereby move that panel 2 be Josh's new avatar.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
PS: Lovin' the artistic evolution! You're totally coming more into your own as far as your style goes. Keep it up!
April 15th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
Seconded. And Mexican ninja reminds me of Mexican batman toys: http://hijinksensue.com/2008/05/07/guest-comic-ju...
April 15th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
Again, seconded.
April 16th, 2009 at 12:00 am
I lol'd. I love you guys. XD
April 16th, 2009 at 12:16 am
Great job on the comic Joel.
As for meme's coming to real life, we've already been Rick-Rolled in real life.
Maybe Japan will attack Pearl Harbour again and declare "All your base are belong to us!". And in retaliation a single intrepid aircraft carrier will counter attack before the rest of the fleet is organized while broadcasting "Leorrrrryyyy Jenkinnnnnnnss!"
I wonder if some daring couple would try to re-enact 2girls1cup in real life? Oh wait I think they did that on Jerry Springer, *shrugs*.
April 16th, 2009 at 12:39 am
Totally. I also move that it would make an awesome wallpaper.
April 16th, 2009 at 12:41 am
But I was told that the number of pirates had decreased as the temperature increased! I'm starting to doubt the Flying Spaghetti Monster's existence entirely!
April 16th, 2009 at 12:58 am
Does this mean washed up actor Chuck Norris is going to get super strength and split the earth in half?
April 15th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
“How are their people alive on this planet that make their living pillaging and hoarding booty and such?”
Sounds like politicians to me.
April 16th, 2009 at 1:18 am
If he heard you talk like that he would kick you a new asshole. and it would probably be dangerously close to your old one.
April 16th, 2009 at 1:18 am
Zing!
April 16th, 2009 at 2:13 am
Thirded
April 16th, 2009 at 2:15 am
Lovely attacking ROFLcopter silhouette.
April 16th, 2009 at 2:19 am
http://www.theonion.com/content/amvo/captain_resc...
Old Man
Dundee McNair,
Ignition Specialist
“You don’t mess with U.S. naval forces. Did African pirates learn nothing from the two early-19th-century Barbary wars?”
or as my friend said:
You'd think that a county who's first major military expedition involved sailing halfway around the globe to beat the ever loving hell out of other continents' pirates would 1) be avoided by said pirates in the future, and 2) have the willpower to repeat the process now that it has superpower military abilities.
April 16th, 2009 at 3:45 am
Ninjas FTW.
Unless, of course, they find themselves facing off with some kind of Cyborg Ninja Pirate.
April 16th, 2009 at 4:10 am
The FSM shall test our faith with an ice age, but we must remain steadfast!
April 16th, 2009 at 12:22 am
LOLCAT. ON. MY. JUGULAR.
Make it happen.
April 16th, 2009 at 9:59 am
I blame the International Talk Like a Pirate Day for all this. Maybe it got misunderstood as Act like a pirate day and got out of control.
Brilliant comic, I always thought lolcats were secretly evil.
As for the real life memes I think my life is pretty much Do Not Want, doing it wrong and Fail.
-D
April 16th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
why no zalgo?
April 16th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Is it bad I read one of the related links as "Captain America rescued"?
April 16th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
yarrrr matey dont mess with me pirate talkeen day! you arr going ta gave me scurrrrrvy!
*goes away yarr-ing*
April 16th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
hahaha! This last panel reminds me of The Boondock Saints.
April 16th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
LOLCAT cutest Josh death ever!
April 16th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUx7a1uX0pg
April 16th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
"THERE ARE STILL ACTUAL PIRATES! How does this happen?"
Shipping lines, Baby! Cargo ships travel the same routes across oceans, specifically the shortest and easiest to navigate ones. At certain points those routes bring the ships close to notoriously poor countries such as Somalia and Indonesia, close enough that 20 dudes in motor boats can ride out to sea with machine guns and try to force themselves aboard (Check out the Straight of Malacca).
Most of the time they just take the crew's cash and goods, then jet back to land and disappear for a few weeks. I think the majority of pirates are farmers and laborers day-to-day; Piracy is their night job! Radness.
April 16th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Milhouse should be a meme
April 16th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
MILHOUSE IS NOT A MEME
April 16th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
BTW, shouldn't Eli's line in the last panel be "HAY GUIZE WAT'S GOING ON OVER HERE?"
April 16th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
thanks!
(though I was just one guy the last time I checked).
April 16th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
He has a noodley plan for all of us.
April 16th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
MILHOUSE IS NOT A MEME IS NOW A MEME
April 16th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
why not indeed?
April 16th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
or just a simple "PORKCHOP SANDWICHES!"
April 16th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
I think the vault needs a wallpaper of ninja-Eli. And if the store had a shirt of him doing a cool ninja flip out I'd totally buy it.
April 16th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
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April 16th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
u talkin 'bout that surprise appearance @ the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade? That was priceless!
April 17th, 2009 at 12:36 am
3 words: Shitting Dick Nipples
April 17th, 2009 at 12:37 am
4'd
April 17th, 2009 at 11:57 am
This strip hasn't been tagged "Josh dies"!
April 17th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
[...] HijiNKS Ensue – Geek Webcomic – Updates Monday, Wednesday and … You’re viewing the footnotes and assorted reference materials from the book The Art of Memetics which can be read for free online, found on torrent trackers, or purchased in physical copies from Lulu.com in an advanced reader edition. Share/Save [...]
April 17th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
[...] HijiNKS Ensue – Geek Webcomic – Updates Monday, Wednesday and … You’re viewing the footnotes and assorted reference materials from the book The Art of Memetics which can be read for free online, found on torrent trackers, or purchased in physical copies from Lulu.com in an advanced reader edition.Share/Save [...]
April 17th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
What he said. And, there are more pirates now worldwide than at any prior time in history. It's not a thing of the past, it's something that's been steadily growing all this time.
Something like 10% of the world's cargo traffice goes past Somalia and there is no way to patrol all of that. There needs to be a better solution for Somalia's troubles so that they don't resort to piracy.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:13 am
next meme: swashbuckling cowboys sent out on alien-made submarines sent out to the horn of africa to round up them naughty fishermen and teach 'em a thing or two about competitive rodeo events and monster truck shows.
the fishermen-turned-pirates phenomenon reminds me of al qaida. pissed at the western world for raping its natural resources, simple people transform into terrorist monsters who can never be controlled at the end of the day, but manage to draw the world's resources to them in the futile attempt.
April 18th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
Poor Panel 2 Josh… victim of the LOLocaust.
April 20th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
Totally loving Eli as Rocko/Funny Man as ninja.