Decius just pointed out that MemeStreams turned five years old recently, and none of us remembered to say anything about it...

MemeStreams was first openned to the public on December 5th, 2001, so December 5th, 2006 was MemeStreams' 5th birthday. I'm sorry I didn't think of this until now. We're certainly not the media moguls that we thought we'd be when we started this thing, but its kept our attention and interest for a long time mostly because of all of the other people who hang out here who have interesting things to say and contribute. We thank all of you for being a part of it. Here's to another interesting 5 years!

We should have waited two days to go live with the site.. We could have made tasteless jokes about the day living in infamy.

However, according to Wikipedia, we do have some things we can use for bad jokes:

1848 - California Gold Rush: In a message before the U.S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.

1933 - Prohibition ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 75% of states needed to enact the amendment (this overturned the 18th Amendment which had outlawed alcohol in the United States).

1945 - Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle.

Walt Disney was also born..

Decius wrote:
MemeStreams was first openned to the public on December 5th, 2001, so December 5th, 2006 was MemeStreams' 5th birthday. I'm sorry I didn't think of this until now. We're certainly not the media moguls that we thought we'd be when we started this thing, but its kept our attention and interest for a long time mostly because of all of the other people who hang out here who have interesting things to say and contribute. We thank all of you for being a part of it. Here's to another interesting 5 years!

long may it continue *I raise a virtual glass of champagne to drink it's long life*

MemeStreams was first openned to the public on December 5th, 2001, so December 5th, 2006 was MemeStreams' 5th birthday. I'm sorry I didn't think of this until now. We're certainly not the media moguls that we thought we'd be when we started this thing, but its kept our attention and interest for a long time mostly because of all of the other people who hang out here who have interesting things to say and contribute. We thank all of you for being a part of it. Here's to another interesting 5 years!

Decius wrote:

MemeStreams was first openned to the public on December 5th, 2001, so December 5th, 2006 was MemeStreams' 5th birthday. I'm sorry I didn't think of this until now. We're certainly not the media moguls that we thought we'd be when we started this thing, but its kept our attention and interest for a long time mostly because of all of the other people who hang out here who have interesting things to say and contribute. We thank all of you for being a part of it. Here's to another interesting 5 years!

Happy birthday, MemeStreams. You're finally five years old. Now go get on that bus and learn something already. Make a few friends, join a club, or something. Whatever you do, never eat alone. But above all, be careful: you can never really know who your friends are.

Honestly, all this talk of Moghuls and interesting times and five year plans and MemeRays is kind of creeping me out.

Oh, and you (all of you!) misspelled the past tense of open. (FYI, Firefox now features a built-in spell-checker that runs in the background on text input fields.)

noteworthy wrote:
Oh, and you (all of you!) misspelled the past tense of open.

For fuck sake, it was 3 in the morning! :)

Honestly, all this talk of Moghuls and interesting times and five year plans and MemeRays is kind of creeping me out.

Good. I'm glad that there is someone who is not escaping my irreverent whit. In the absence of media mogul status, I demand acknowledgment as an eccentric mad genius. Don't make me point the MemeRay at Boston. In its current state, anything could happen.. Be sure to let me know if you find yourself compelled to drink Sprite and listen to hiphop...

Oh, and you (all of you!) misspelled the past tense of open. (FYI, Firefox now features a built-in spell-checker that runs in the background on text input fields.)

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