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DirigibleProtein ,

It’s “its”, not “it’s”, unless you mean “it is”, in which case it is “it’s”.

  • Mr Francis, high school English
Crotaro ,

“Don’t use Wikipedia as a source.”

Man, if I want to get a pretty good overview on almost anything, Wikipedia is the best and most accessible way. Luckily, the consensus seems to slowly change to a cautious “Don’t use Wikipedia as your only source, especially on controversial topics.”

charonn0 ,
@charonn0@startrek.website avatar

Stop, drop, and roll

Vitaly ,
@Vitaly@feddit.uk avatar

E = mc²

dillydogg ,

I have met multiple people from across the USA who specifically learned about “the fertile silt of the Nile river delta.”

JackbyDev ,

I don’t remember hearing that specific phrase in school. I remember hearing a teacher tell us to take deep breaths to fire up the mitochondria but not that it was “the powerhouse of the cell.” This was a meme that became common after my education was done. Because it became a popular meme it’s possible more teachers said it specifically along with whatever other fun phrases they had.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

I think a big part of why it took off and lives on as a meme in the internet forums sense of the word, was the familiarity of the bizarre and unnatural phrase to the young adults using those forums who remembered it from biology class.

Certainly that’s how it was for me because before Digg, or Reddit, even before Facebook (though I guess not that long before), I had had that phrase uttered sincerely as part of my education and it was so uncanny and funny to see that this highly specific and distinctive phrase was used rote, word for word, at schools all over the world and was as memorably unhelpful to others as it had been to me. Perhaps the positive feedback loop from this phrase’s new life on the web really has fed in to education in a life imitating art kind of way like you describe, but I can assure you it definitely predated it’s status as a joke, and that’s where that joke came from.

JackbyDev ,

I’m not doubting it was used before the meme, I’m just doubting the ubiquity of it prior to the meme. I believe it is a bit of a Mandela effect type of thing. People remember the general purpose of mitochondria and remember their science teachers saying things similar to the effect of “powerhouse of the cell” even if they didn’t actually say that. Sort of like how “beam me up, Scotty” was specifically never used in Star Trek but just about every other variant of the phrase was.

petrol_sniff_king ,

I’m not gonna go looking for scans or anything, but KnowYourMeme lists the popularity of this one as starting between 2013 and 2015, and I definitely remember seeing this phrase in a textbook around 2010 or 2011. So honestly, I might blame Pearson or McGraw Hill.

JackbyDev ,

That’s after my time in highschool. (Class of 2010.) It’s possible there was enough of a push to get new editions of books and they all happened to use that phrase right around the time a bunch of future memers would be online that it caused it.

The unlikely story of how two country singers are behind the mitochondria is the powerhouse. Aaaaaand now that I’m double checking that I’m wondering if I’ve been a victim of misinformation. I thought somebody told me Tim McGraw and Faith Hill founded McGraw Hill but I’m not seeing anything to support that.

Shou ,

Mitochondria is plural. Mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell.

extremeboredom ,

What’s the singular, then?

MajorMajormajormajor ,

Mitochondreez nutz

chobeat ,

Mitochondrium

ornery_chemist ,

Mitochondrion

Shou ,

This one ^

Pacattack57 ,

The correct phrase is “The Mitochondria…” OP left off the “the”

rbos ,
@rbos@lemmy.ca avatar

Didn’t that originate in a Sabrina The Teenage Witch episode? Or did I just imagine that?

SwordInStone ,

Question and all comments (apart from “donde esta la biblioteka”) are not “all over the world”, but American

DavidDoesLemmy ,
@DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone avatar

Do you have any evidence your phrase is used all over the world? I never learnt it.

_edge ,

I learned it in German in Germany. Do we have evidence from the francophone world? Latam? China?

MrBobDobalina ,

Checking in from NZ, sounds familiar to me

Jimmycrackcrack ,

Definitely did it in Australia.

DavidDoesLemmy ,
@DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone avatar

What class? What year?

Jimmycrackcrack ,

Biology class circa 2001-2003

captain_aggravated ,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

I think this phrase was made into a meme by an American children’s TV show called Bill Nye the Science Guy; it’s said during the intro sequence.

moistclump ,

Ohhhhhh I had never put two and two together on that

captain_aggravated ,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

Actually I think I’m wrong.

Apparently the phrase dates from a biology paper published in 1957. I think I’ve been Mandela Effected; I have a memory of several voices coming in and saying science phrases, in between “Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill!” but having just rewatched the intro sequence on Youtube this only happens once and the phrase it says is “Intertia is a property of matter.”

McOkapi ,

I haven’t heard about mitochondria in so many years (obviously. why would I?) and I can’t explain why it feels so good reading this now.

ChronosTriggerWarning ,

I just started replaying Parasite Eve for the first time since 98, so this was an amusing post for me also.

tias ,

I’ve only heard this phrase from Americans, so I think “all over the world” is a stretch

Psuedocoder ,

Its taught in India as well, (and is also a meme here)

mexicancartel ,

Can confirm in south india

Shou ,

It’s a meme in the netherlands as well.

skullgiver ,
@skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl avatar

It’s a meme, but I’ve never seen it in a Dutch textbook. I don’t even know what the Dutch version of the meme would be in meme form.

Shou ,

Fair point. I only have english textbooks for college, and it’s in pretty much evry single one of them. My dutch teachers said the meme in a translated version during lectures. Only happened twice though.

INHALE_VEGETABLES ,

Australian here, they taught us this meme in school.

shinigamiookamiryuu ,

The book is on the table.

leaky_shower_thought ,

my very eager mother just served us nine

rip pizzas

konalt ,
@konalt@lemmy.world avatar

I wouldn’t have gotten this without “rip pizzas”

NoIWontPickAName ,

I still dont

konalt ,
@konalt@lemmy.world avatar

Acronym for planet names (now excluding pluto)

NoIWontPickAName ,

Bring back Pluto!!!

DirigibleProtein ,

Mother very easily made a jam sandwich using no plate.

randomsnark ,

that phrase is to biology as “donde esta la biblioteca” is to spanish

Barabas ,

Donde esta la discoteca? If you had a ‘cool’ teacher.

MajorMajormajormajor ,

Troy and Abed in the mooorning!

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