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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete.

Ridiculously self-explanatory t-shirt slogan/computer joke whose major claim to fame was a ten-second mention on The Simpsons. Next up: I Went to Idaho and All I Got was this Lousy T-Shirt. Delete. Ian Pugh 03:46, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Incidentally, that episode just replayed on my local station. "Only one person in a million would find that funny," says Lisa Simpson. Geogre 00:11, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete. --*drew 13:11, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete. Non-notable joke. Nadavspi 18:40, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Del joke.txt --Improv 20:54, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep, there is no valid reason for deletion. -- Crevaner 14:06, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • DEL. Non-notable. Maybe mention this in some other article; it doesn't deserve its own article. Andre (talk) 14:11, Oct 19, 2004 (UTC)
  • Merge if a suitable article exists, then Delete. Not an important meme in its own right. Not a likely search term, does not need a redirect. Individual jokes, T-shirt slogans, etc. should not have entire entries and articles. We don't (and shouldn't!) even have articles on real memes like Tippecanoe and Tyler too or 54-40 or fight or Remember the Maine or Remember Pearl Harbor or Remember the Alamo. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 13:03, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Merge if there is something suitable. An interesting note is that I never got this joke since I am from Sweden where we, as far as I know, have no similar childrens book. I always wondered what was so funny about it, even when I saw it on the Simpsons. Thanks to this article I now know the joke.. I assume "Spot" was a dog or something in the book.. At any rate, as useful as It was for me (and I assume other non-Americans) It should not have its own article. It wouldn't hurt to mention it in another article, though, but I'll leave it up to someone else to decide which... Zelda 23:14, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)
    • See Spot (dog); See Spot run (dog running); Run spot run (another dog picture) is classic basic English education. The most classic example is the (likely) originator, some picture book for preschool aged kids from the 1950's. It is frequently used in cultural context for various things. Such as See spot run type reports issued to women from male underlings, in criticism of male chauvanism, etc. It goes with brown cows, and jumping over lazy dogs... 132.205.15.4 03:52, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 21:20, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete. Just a joke, not notable, at least the article doesn't say why it is (one mention on Simpsons doesn't cut it). Thue | talk 12:50, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete. NeoJustin 16:14 Oct. 23, 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep. Guanaco 02:07, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete: nonnotable joke. Wile E. Heresiarch 02:26, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.