The S was known worldwide pre internet though. Was the powerhouse line?
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blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
It’s mental how this is pretty much known worldwide, like drawing that S thing. The one similar to the Suzuki logo
boonhet@lemm.ee 3 months ago
neatobuilds@lemmy.today 3 months ago
They are both universal knowledge passed down through generations
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
TheEntity@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months 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
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 months 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.
rbos@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I think it comes from an episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch and exploded as a meme.
adarza@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
the meme originated from tumblr. the quote itself is older than color tv.
rbos@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Well ‘meme’ is an older idea than image macros =p
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Lol that’s like saying a joke originated on the Family Guy
xpinchx@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
Naz@sh.itjust.works 3 months 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.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Where the hell is the rhyme in this?