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I just got this forwarded over the Harvard Caribbean Club list (I am such a poser, I know). A Jamaican “Bus Auntie” dis?

Bus Uncle was a video that got passed around like crazy in 2006, but most of you have probably never even heard of it. Although almost totally unnoticed in the traditional (white, suburban) meme-o-sphere of 4chan and Something Awful, this video of an angry Cantonese man “under pressure” delivering an unnecessarily long (and loud) diatribe at another guy on a bus gathered millions of views in China and spawned many popular catchphrases. It even has a page on Wikipedia. The whole situation has a number of remarkable points to it:

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(Edit: A few hours later, I find even more. I am adding categories. Furthermore, I am not embedding the videos anymore because they are actually making my Firefox shut down because there are too many of them.)

So everyone knows how to Crank Dat Soulja Boy (even RMS!) and Superman dat ho…but how about these alternative superheroes I stumbled across on YouTube today?

Comic Superheroes (8)

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