Austen Internet Memes

After some weeding and scripture reading this morning we had a bit of leisurely time getting running shoes on and such.  We aren’t in our usual tearing hurry because most of us are headed to a church camp at midday.  So we ended up informally in the parlor chatting.

Aside: we obviously need to be in much less of a tearing hurry than we are.  This moment was precious–it still is, they are still there and I am shouting out observations from the next room.  Though I wonder if maybe moments like this are the point of usually being in a tearing hurry.  Part of the leisure is the sense of being on holiday.

The particular vein of humor that welled up spontaneously was mixing sophisticated and complex Jane Austen dialogue with internet meme language.

“Much more rational, my dear Caroline, but much less like a ball.”

“Co-sign.”

What started it off was one daughter who was not part of a conversation about Jane Austen dialogue jumping in with what wasn’t but sounded like “Go kill yourself.”

By the end of the day, I think “go kill yourself” is going to be an established family  joke, just like, ‘Wait, Athens is real?!? (same daughter).