MemeMachineGo!

=v= I've been remiss for not having yet mentioned Yehuda Moon and the Kickstand Cyclery. It's a webcomic that centers on bicycling, thereby combining two of this blog's abiding interests. In many ways I am Yehuda Moon, so I have to admit to some bias, but still and all, it's a great comic strip that's gone through some interesting twists and turns. I highly recommend reading it from the beginning.

One strip in April introduced the phrase "Dateline moms". Curious, I consulted various search engines and only found 3 hits, one of which was an interview with the cartoonist. Two months later, still the same 3 hits.

A friend inquired about the phrase, and the cartoonist mentioned the movie Knocked Up. In one scene, a fretful mother has come across a website of registered sex offenders, and her husband asks, "How much Dateline NBC can you watch?" I don't watch TV, but apparently this is a show that features things you can be scared about. Especially if you're a mom.

At this point, it's been parlayed into a mini-meme, not yet spread very far by the Internet, much. Is that even allowed?