I seldom have any idea when or how a meme begins. I’ve looked at the website Know Your Meme more than once to get to the bottom of a meme’s origin.
In the last couple of months, I’d been seeing the “What In Tarnation” meme, and, like many others, I looked up its roots.
While I found it interesting enough, it was a random search on Google that showed me some seriously funny versions of it and I fell down a rabbit hole of giggles. I don’t often share memes here, but this time, I’m making an exception. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.
Here they are, in alphabetical order of tarnation variant.
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Here we are with the classic.
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Yeah! Gaming!
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This was one of my two favorites.
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I find this so amusing, I can’t even tell you. This is my favorite version of the meme.
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Well, there you have it. A whole bunch of silly memes I felt were too good not to share. Which, I suppose, is the point of memes.
I suppose you could call this: TARNATION TUESDAY.
You’re welcome. :)
Categories: musings
I don’t have Photoshop skills, but…
WOT N GREATEST GENERATION?
*picture of soldiers storming the beaches of Normandy all wearing cowboy hats*
WOT N SPACE STATION
*picture of the ISS in a giant cowboy hat*
WOT N CAPSACIN
*Picture of a ghost pepper in a cowboy hat*
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You have no way of knowing this, but I hit the “like” button extra hard for this one.
I wish I could make any of those a reality. I really do. You also spurred me to think of a few of my own!
WHAT IN BACITRACIN
This would be a cowboy hat on a tube of ointment with a medical cross on it.
WHAT IN CASEY KASEM
A cowboy hat on a radio microphone.
WHAT IN RHYTHM NATION
Janet Jackson in a cowboy hat.
I came up with one more but no idea how to visually express it:
WHAT IN SYNCOPATION.
It stumped me.
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WOT N HORSE RACIN’
*picture of the Kentucky Derby but all the horses have cowboy hats*
WOT N EMANCIPATION
*picture of Abe Lincoln in a cowboy hat*
WOT N CONSTIPATION
*use your imagination*
WOT N LEGALIZATION
*picture of a bunch of people smoking weed in cowboy hats*
WOT N TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
*picture of the Boston Tea Party where everyone wears cowboy hats*
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So I actually saw one that said “What in the Emancipation Proclamation” and decided against including it in case it offended anyone.
I loved all these but I am VERY amused by your last suggestion. Can the tea be wearing hats, too?
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Who would be offended by the Emancipation Proclamation?
And OF COURSE THE TEA CAN WEAR HATS!
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I just didn’t want anyone to think I was taking that, or the topic of slavery, lightly. Better safe than sorry there. I mean, I knew I would never do that, but on the internet, tone and intent are so hard to read. That was all.
YEAAAHHHHHHHHH!!
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I LOVED this. I love you even more.
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:) I’m glad you enjoyed it! I just found it so silly I had to share.
I love you, too!
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LOL, what? When did this become a thing? I’m still obsessed with the dancing baby GIF, I saw it on my AOL.
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If you click on the link in the beginning, it takes you to a site called, “Know Your Meme” where they explain how and when it started. It’s pretty funny to see the genesis of how it came to be. :)
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Que en the translation?
What percent perspiration?
Cuttin’, the ablation.
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I still love the first one especially. :)
How about, what in claymation? Or what in radiation (showing a microwave with the hat on?)? What in liquidation (a pile of mattresses with a giant hat on top of the pile)?
Not my best, but I didn’t sleep all that much. You deserve better. I will keep at it.
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WOT N CREATION
*That famous painting of God and Adam touching at the finger, but God has a cowboy hat*
WOT N ANNIHILATION
*mushroom cloud wearing a cowboy hat*
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Both very good! I wish I knew how to photoshop.
I was laying there yesterday and thought of, What in claymation and for some reason, it amused me so much. And it isn’t even terribly funny.
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I thought of WOT N JAPANESE ANIMATION, and imagined an episode of Dragon Ball Z where everyone wears cowboy hats…
I’m having way too much fun with this.
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I think you are having JUST enough fun with it. :)
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