And before that it was lines from Monty Python
Y2K Memes
The Memiverse:
!90s_memes@quokk.au
!philosophymemes@quokk.au
!sigh_fi@quokk.au
Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
Not at all! They could be carried!
What? A swallow carrying a coconut?
It could grip it by the husk!
It's not a question of where it grips it, it's a simple question of weight ratios!
A five oz bird cannot carry a one pound coconut!
Imo, kind of a shame that Holy Grail dominates the references, with some backup from Life of Brian, and like one line from Meaning of Life. So much good stuff from Flying Circus goes unused.
I know you're there - lurking under the floorboards with your damsons and your prunes...
The other jokes are ex-jokes. They have shuffled off the mortal coil.
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GLORIOUS SPAM! WONDERFUL SPAM! MAGICAL SPAM!
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Bloody vikings...
A SHRUBBERY!
Ni!
Even after Austin Powers came out it was Monty Python. Or Aqua Teen Hunger Force (specifically the first mooninites episode). Sealab 2021 gets honorable mention.
Yeah, Baby yeah
Oh be-haaave baby
… those were memes. Memes were never invented, they were just identified.

And lines from Chappelle's show. I'M RICK JAMES BITCH
This was so annoying it broke Dave chappelle
Nah, money and power broke him. He had is crisis of faith, and then went all the way to Africa just to decide he liked being rich as fuck, and then he started acting like a rich fuck.

"That's a man, man!"
"Austin! That's my mother!"
"Ah... Well, you have to admit she is a bit man-ish."
It was never one source, always a combination, but when something quotable came out, it became vocally memed to death for like a whole year.
before that we traded Monty Python scripts on USENET and FTP sites
The only way you could get accepted to my first BBS was by answering “What is the airspeed of a laden swallow?”
Groovy baby!
"How DARE you break wind before me!"
"I'm sorry, baby, I didn't know it was your turn."
Used to? >.>
MAH WIFE!
Get into mah belly!!
but that's what a meme is
Sssssomebody's smokin! (Or something like that)
Alllllllrighty then
We’re not doing that anymore?
Johnson!
Oh yes babe.