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> In the morning you'll see a reddit post, in the afternoon your friends will send you links to it, and your mom will mention it to you when you call her that night.

Increase that timescale to days for friends and weeks for parents, and you'll be about right.

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It's interesting how some nerdy phrases/memes have made their way into the mainstream.

I was watching the UK Apprentice the other day and during the "boardroom" scene they were showing a group of stylish , upwardly mobile, adult business women arguing about whether or not something was an "epic fail".

The term "epic fail" is a reference to an obscure neogeo game called blazing star which I doubt any of these women would ever have played.

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