Slowpoke Meme Generator
You arrive at work on Monday full of news: "Did you hear Karen's leaving?" Karen's leaving do was on Friday. There's still cake in the fridge with her name on it.
You finally get the joke your dad told at Christmas. It is February. You laugh out loud, alone, in the queue at the post office.
Grandad has forwarded some breaking news to the family group chat. The actor in question died years ago. Grandad has added "very sad".
Three weeks after the date you realise she was flirting when she said she'd love to see your record collection. You text her. She's moved to Leeds.
Why it caught on: Slowpoke, the sleepy pink Pokémon from the original games, is so slow the Pokédex says it takes five seconds to feel pain. It became the patron of arriving late with the news, the kindest way to tell someone their story is old.
Best Slowpoke posts
- the theatre shooting was horrible / rip lincoln
- Stop / Sopa
- I just saw this really powerful video about violence in africa / Hotel Rwanda really opened my eyes
- DID YOU GUYS HEAR? / MICHAEL JACKSON IS DEAD
- guys / be my friends on myspace
- did you heard about stve jobs? / he released the ipod
- we're all gonna die this year / y2k is very serious
- Hey guys, they shut down that download site / Napster
- what is a / me-me?
- Hey Guys! / Osama Bin Laden's dead!
- someone should make a joke / about taking arrows to the knee
- rIP / jESUS
- Hey guys / its 10.10.10
- lol / who's chuck testa?
- I'm s0 2008 you / so 2000 late
- Did you guys hear about the trial? / O.J IS INNOCENT
- I can't believe Obama Won / Mccain must be so sad right now
- DID YOU GUYS HEAR THAT APPLE GUY DIED? / RIP ADAM!
- Did you hear? brock left ash'S TEAM IN THE ANIME / THERE IS THIS GUY NAMED TRACEY NOW
- did you hear? / the soviet union broke up