Useage of "Poors" spreads throughout the internet

[Platypus]

It is now being used at SomethingAwful.com, meaning that total domination is close.

Congrats opebo on creating an internet meme, the first originating on this forum.

[k-onmmunist]

LOL.

[King]

It's only four stages away from official meme certification:

1) Poors Cat photo surfaces prominently on Google Images
2) Dancing Poors Cat Video receives large following on YouTube, gets plugged on Today Show or Good Morning America
3) Rick Sanchez tweets a question to his audience regarding the fate of poors
4) A confused elderly woman watching CNN somewhere in the United States asks her grandson about it, who then looks it up Urban Dictionary and gives the word a thumbs up

[Platypus]

It's only four stages away from official meme certification:

1) Poors Cat photo surfaces prominently on Google Images
2) Dancing Poors Cat Video receives large following on YouTube, gets plugged on Today Show or Good Morning America
3) Rick Sanchez tweets a question to his audience regarding the fate of poors
4) A confused elderly woman watching CNN somewhere in the United States asks her grandson about it, who then looks it up Urban Dictionary and gives the word a thumbs up

Step three is unneccesary, but yes, it is still a kernel of meme, having passed step 2: Posted on Something Awful and/or 4Chan.

[JSojourner]

Meanwhile, Biore strips comes out with two different versions...one for pores and one for poors.

[Bo]

Wow.........

[Platypus]

Wow.........

....aaaand finally, you go on ignore.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Meanwhile, Biore strips comes out with two different versions...one for pores and one for poors.

Ugh.. those words are pronounced completely differently.

Poor rhymes better with lure than it does with pore... but maybe that's just me.

[fezzyfestoon]

Uh...I wouldn't say one other person happening to use a term means it has spread "throughout the internet" and qualifies as a full-on trend.

[fezzyfestoon]

Meanwhile, Biore strips comes out with two different versions...one for pores and one for poors.

Ugh.. those words are pronounced completely differently.

Poor rhymes better with lure than it does with pore... but maybe that's just me.

Yep, just you.  Crazy Minnesotans...

[Platypus]

Uh...I wouldn't say one other person happening to use a term means it has spread "throughout the internet" and qualifies as a full-on trend.

Obviously not, but we need to create *something* otherwise we're a useless forum.

[ilikeverin]

Somehow I doubt that this originated here, seeing as adjective->noun transitions are an extant phenomenon in English and we have "the poor" as a mass noun anyway, so the transition to count noun isn't too unexpected.

Meanwhile, Biore strips comes out with two different versions...one for pores and one for poors.

Ugh.. those words are pronounced completely differently.

Poor rhymes better with lure than it does with pore... but maybe that's just me.

Yep, just you.  Crazy Minnesotans...

No, just crazy snowguy.

[minionofmidas]

FF.

[JSojourner]

Meanwhile, Biore strips comes out with two different versions...one for pores and one for poors.

Ugh.. those words are pronounced completely differently.

Poor rhymes better with lure than it does with pore... but maybe that's just me.

Actually, I pronounced it like lure.  Until a dear friend, who is quite poor, said to me..."Honey, please don't say poooooor.  It makes you sound like some condescending gilded age, limousine liberal.  We are not poooooor.  We is PO."  She was just joking, of course.  But I gotta say...poooooor sounds a little effete.

[The Age Wave]

omg!

[Platypus]

Everyone says it properly. Except maybe Father Bob.

[opebo]

This usage dates from around 1994 in my experience, and I can't honestly remember if it was I or another person on one of those telnet based chat 'moos' that used it first.  I think it might have been me, and in any case I was probably the most energetic propagator.

Many 'Opeboisms' date from those days and from a type of speech we used then to annoy one another and pose.  I wish I could remember more of it.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Poor, pour, and pore are for me homophones, with lure rhyming with pure not poor.

[ilikeverin]

Poor, pour, and pore are for me homophones, with lure rhyming with pure not poor.

"Poor", "pour", and "pore" are homophonous, but "lure" doesn't rhyme with "pure"; it rhymes with "fewer".  "Pure" rhymes with "cure".  Silly South Carolinian.

I suppose "tourist" sounds like "turrist" for you, doesn't it?  Boo.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Poor, pour, and pore are for me homophones, with lure rhyming with pure not poor.

"Poor", "pour", and "pore" are homophonous, but "lure" doesn't rhyme with "pure"; it rhymes with "fewer".  "Pure" rhymes with "cure".  Silly South Carolinian.

I suppose "tourist" sounds like "turrist" for you, doesn't it?  Boo.

I agree that pure rhymes with cure, but Pedro agrees with me that tourist rhymes with sucker.

[bgwah]

This song uses "poor" as a noun and is from the 80s:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCywceeOgYI

[Platypus]

Poor, pour, and pore are for me homophones, with lure rhyming with pure not poor.

"Poor", "pour", and "pore" are homophonous, but "lure" doesn't rhyme with "pure"; it rhymes with "fewer".  "Pure" rhymes with "cure".  Silly South Carolinian.

I suppose "tourist" sounds like "turrist" for you, doesn't it?  Boo.

Pure and cure both rhyme with fewer, but not with lure

[opebo]

I pronounce poor as something like 'POO-r' - I like to think it sounds disdainful.

Not that I disdain the poor, but I think it is important as a part of their political education to make them feel disdained.

[tik 🪀✨]

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-february-3-2010/a-few-gay-men---women

John Oliver uses the term "olds." I laughed.

[opebo]

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-february-3-2010/a-few-gay-men---women

John Oliver uses the term "olds." I laughed.

I know I make myself out to be a bon-vivant on the titanic, making useless internet innovation all the day; but underneath it all is a simple Missouri boy who, while not a motorhead, understood where they were coming from:  I think of my dear old Oldsmobile when I hear the term 'olds'.

By the way, does anyone remember my usage of the singular in this way?:
'Republicans hate a black ' or 'Christians hate a gay '   

I always quite liked that one.. and I think it says something about stereotyping as well as being funny.