From the internet meme vault, “Leprechaun in Mobile, Alabama” is sure to be just the right kick-off to your St. Patties festivities.  A staff favourite,  @d1337 (as well as others in the @memelabs office) perform the impersonation very well.  In fact, “Where da gold at?” was our unofficial slogan during the Vancouver, Olympics.

Viral Video stats (from YouTube):
- 13,224,500 views
- 19,644 ratings
- Adding comments has been disabled for this video
- First referral from – youshouldhaveseenthis.com
- Uploaded by: botmib
- Date: March 17, 2006
- Description: Leprechaun in Crichton.

A monument to the viral nature of this video is the “I want the gold” remix, which can be seen here.

With this year’s Viralocity campaign, Doritos is looking to build on the success of last year’s Doritos Guru campaign, as it goes after every marketing team’s wet dream: going viral. To accomplish this, Doritos has wisely chosen to continue using a video contest as the driving force behind their campaign. Not only that, but it’s also included tips & tricks, helping participants to achieve their dreams of going viral and winning earning $10,000.

Our favourite? What can we say, we’re a sucker for clever stop motions, and stop-motions with Godzilla, karate, & pirates? Sold. (Also, check out this awesome stop-motion of our lobby receiving a few artistic touches)

Intrigued? Check out some of our other stop-motion favourites:

DEADLINE featuring every office’s ‘can’t live without’ stationary: post-its. These folks were also clever enough to create a ‘Making Of‘ video

T-shirt Wars – 222 tshirts!!

Fascinated? Contact us and lets talk about how to make video contests work for your company, cause or brand.

Quick synopsis: some guy, his mom, his sister, and (what looks to be) his sister’s fling are giving us tips on how to organize our very own Windows 7 party. And it is awkward. Why, for instance, are these people laughing so much?!

Well, thankfully someone remixed it with bleeps inserted whenever someone says “Windows”. This version, we believe, is much more amusing — and more risque.

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There are few sleeping disorders as hilarious as narcolepsy. Spontaneous sleep can is instant situational comedy. Evidence: this narcoleptic dog. His owner needs to take him for a walk but ol’ puppy Rex keeps slipping into REM.

When I’m at work I like to take the occasional break and read what’s going on in the world or just plain find something interesting to read. One of the places I tend to go to do this, is Digg. I love Digg. Something that I’ve noticed over the last couple of years is that there are some headlines that rock…and I can’t help but to click on the story to see what it’s all about. So I’ve put together some of the more interesting ones that I’ve come across recently. Click on the pictures if you want to go read the Digg article…or better yet, some of the comments. Enjoy.

With the amount of stories on Digg, I’m sure that I’ve missed some great ones. Leave a comment with a link to your favorite Digg headline.

This blog post could have had many different titles: overused, asinine, worst, overplayed – you get the idea. I’ve listed the 5 that annoy me the most, some of you will agree others will have there own. I’d love to hear what meme irks you the most.

L33t Speak
**This one made my list with much argument between Dario and I. He thinks that l33t rocks and that I’m a n00b for including it on this list. His position is that it’s classic and awesome, only slightly less awesome than the pic on the right (which is actually posted on the door to his office). But I’m writing this so it made my list. Feel free to let me know if you support Dario on this one.

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For those of you who are less than fluent in l33t, here is the English translation:

OK, so this one is fine in small doses, but you can thank all of those douchebags out there who abuse it. No, I do not want to read an entire post in l33t, it’s annoying, Stop it now, for the love of god, please stop it.

Chuck Norris

Chuck Norris has always been at best a C-list celeb, and then the internet embraced his awesomeness and made him a full on internet phenomenon. But then Chuck had to go ruin it for us all. First he sues the publishers of Chuck Norris Facts and follows this up with stumping for Mike Huckabee. Chuck, if you’re reading this, you should know that on the internet it’s all about Ron Paul. RIP Chuck.

Numa Numa

You were awesome with your first video, but you really really should have left it at that. You’re like most sequels…they are never as good as the first, and we like you a little less with each subsequent installation, till we can’t quite remember why we liked you in the first place.

Don’t Taze Me Bro

I think I’m going to scream if I hear one more person use the phrase ‘Don’t Tase Me Bro’ or some sort of derivation. When I went and played laser tag and everyone was yelling ‘Don’t Lase Me Bro’, I knew it had gone too far (well that and the MC Hammer remix). This one was funny for like a week and now needs to go somewhere and die a nice quiet death.

Tub Girl and similar parodies

This one really needs no explanation. These meme’s make me wish that I could unsee things. Really I think I may need some therapy after being subjected to these.