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blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• TheEntity@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As a non-native English speaker, I still have no idea why this specific phrase is so significant and at this point I’m afraid to ask.

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  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I was born in the 1970’s and it is lost on me too, I think its something that became a thing to the generation after me

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    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I took biology in 1996; it wasn’t a thing yet. Someone else claimed it was already widespread by 2001. I don’t think I encountered it in the wild before 2005.

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  • rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think it comes from an episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch and exploded as a meme.

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    • adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      the meme originated from tumblr. the quote itself is older than color tv.

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      • rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Well ‘meme’ is an older idea than image macros =p

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Lol that’s like saying a joke originated on the Family Guy

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  • xpinchx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think it’s just the most simplified you can get talking about cellular biology, specifically when teaching organelles. So most primary science textbooks use that terminology and it’s more memorable than all the other organelles so it just stuck and it got repeated and reviewed every year and it sorta became a pre Internet meme and part of a shared consciousness if you were schooled in the US.

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  • Naz@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    6th grade biology class in the United States.

    The teacher slaps up a diagram of a cell and organelles.

    30-45 children all looking around the room, not exactly paying attention

    She points to the various organelles, trying to explain their purpose, the golgi complex, ribosomes…

    “And the mitochondria”

    “Is the power house of the cell”

    Children cheer in applause and repeat it, because it rhymes.

    It then enters the collective unconscious of English speakers.

    I was in the room where it happened.

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    • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      “And the mitochondria”

      “Is the power house of the cell”

      Children cheer in applause and repeat it, because it rhymes.

      Where the hell is the rhyme in this?

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• boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The S was known worldwide pre internet though. Was the powerhouse line?

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  • neatobuilds@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They are both universal knowledge passed down through generations

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    • Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      …maternally via mitochondrial DNA

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      • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        we are the self-preservation society.

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• captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The Universal S

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