Oh Internet. Today, you are all grown up.

I like big butts and I cannot lie, but is there some evolutionary reason as to why?

via reddit.com

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/gibxk/i_like_big_butts_and_i_canno...

The top comments on this thread show that at last the battle between cheeky memes and informative helpfulness has been decided and, both sides having claimed joint victory, it's now party time on the internet.

I'm dead, DEAD serious, guys.

Memes, while often silly and annoying, are generally easy to understand when you get access to the source and there's almost always a fair number of clever clogs who've humorously deconstructed the joke within seconds of it being posted.

They're jokes, and jokes are a global cultural currency. Over here we have jokes about silly Belgians, but there isn't a country in the world that doesn't tell similar jokes about the inhabitants of neighboring nations or provinces. Strikingly similar, too.

While a story or parable needs to be profoudnly elemental inorder to cross significant cultural boundaries, a joke is so useful and fun that it's easy for a traveler to carry one in his proverbial pocket and put it to use back home.

And so here we have a new kind of melting pot. Sincere curiosity cast out with cheeky wit, and the 'net returns useful information in like manner.