Rescue: A Blog Meme
March 9, 2016
Back when science blogging was still vibrant, bloggers would launch a challenge query and tag some other folks to answer. I’m tagging dr24hrs, Gerty-Z, docbecca and iBAM on this one.
(I just saw something like this on Fb or somewhere, btw. I didn’t invent it.)
The question is, from the teevee (or movies) you’ve been watching recently, name the top five characters you’d want coming to rescue you from a bad situation.
Mine are:
5. Sergeant Antigone Bezzerides
Yours? Feel free to answer on your blog if you have one, and drop a link. If not, use the comments.
DrugMonkey 
March 9, 2016 at 2:18 am
[…] when people used blogs instead of twitter to exchange ideas. Without emojis too, can you imagine?! He started a meme with the question: which top five movie or TV characters should come rescue you from a bad […]
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March 9, 2016 at 2:19 am
Ah we’re back in the 00s! Here’s mine: https://inbabyattachmode.scientopia.org/2016/03/09/blog-meme-who-should-rescue-you/
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March 9, 2016 at 7:54 am
What is this “tee vee” thing you speak of?
SRSLY never heard of any of those characters. I think the last thing I watched with any kind of consistency was breaking bad, and I’ll probably get around to the new season of house of cards some time this month. I just don’t know where y’all get the time to watch so much.
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March 9, 2016 at 8:19 am
[…] friendly-nemesis (or whatever) Drugmonkey challenged me, among others, to name the five characters I’d most want to come to my rescue […]
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March 9, 2016 at 8:21 am
Here’s mine. I didn’t notice Luther on your list before putting him on mine. But I still would have even if I had. http://infactorium.com/2016/03/09/silly-blog-challenge-rescue-me/
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March 9, 2016 at 8:50 am
You have time to watch TV? Please tell us your secret.
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March 9, 2016 at 9:35 am
not me? I’m miffed.
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March 9, 2016 at 9:40 am
[…] Drugmonkey has thrown down a challenge. So even if he doesn't care about my answer, her goes. […]
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March 9, 2016 at 9:50 am
My secret? I’m prepared to fail. Not going to supplant my life with the chase of another paper folks. Knock off the faux-Kern crap.
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March 9, 2016 at 9:52 am
Potnia- anyone reading can consider themselves also tagged, get to it!
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March 9, 2016 at 9:53 am
We’ll chalk that up to “a successful replication”, dr24hrs.
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March 9, 2016 at 9:54 am
hahaha https://mistressoftheanimals.scientopia.org/2016/03/09/to-the-rescue/
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March 9, 2016 at 10:20 am
yeah, uh, I don’t think I’ve watched TV since I’ve started this job. Maybe I should quit Twitter too.
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March 9, 2016 at 10:25 am
Idris Elba can go ahead and rescue me from my office as any character of his choice.
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March 9, 2016 at 10:41 am
JT- it gets better.
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March 9, 2016 at 10:48 am
pyrope- ah, yes, well that would be a slightly different list…..
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March 9, 2016 at 10:59 am
[…] to blog about academia with any kind of real fervor. However, Drugmonkey tagged me in this "who would you like to rescue you?" meme thingie, so I suppose I can muster up five names (the one thing I do have mental bandwidth […]
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March 9, 2016 at 11:08 am
Hmmm. I have just noticed only one of my 5 is…..stable.
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March 9, 2016 at 11:25 am
I have to include books.
I think I might take Brienne over Tyrion, but it’s a hard call. She’d depicted as brute force and him as all cleverness, but I think she’s pretty clever, too.
Aliena
7 of nine (not that I’ve watched that recently)
the Biologist (book not TeeVee)
Emiko (again, book, to round off the all women rescuing team)
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March 9, 2016 at 11:35 am
My secret? I’m prepared to fail. Not going to supplant my life with the chase of another paper folks. Knock off the faux-Kern crap.
You just don’t have the passion
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/cbt.10.7.12994
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March 9, 2016 at 11:50 am
I spend a lot of time with my family. That is why I don’t have time for TV. Not (just) because I spend a lot of time working.
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March 9, 2016 at 11:57 am
My kids are asleep when I’m watching teevee shows.
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March 9, 2016 at 11:58 am
1) Minnie Mouse
2) Supergirl
3) Olivia Pope
4) The Flash
5) Walter White
I admit it, I’m not very cultured and like stuff that normal ‘Muricans do.
Except Nascar, that shitte is boring.
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March 9, 2016 at 12:13 pm
1. Hank Schrader
2. Hank Schrader
3. Hank Schrader
4. Mike Ehrmantraut
5. Hank Schrader
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March 9, 2016 at 12:16 pm
@ DM
Even if the little ones are asleep, I have to watch my wife’s tv shows then! I have no idea who many of the people are that all of you have mentioned. Off the top of my head, I would have to say:
1) Robert Irvine
2) Gordon Ramsay
3) Meredith Grey
4) Elsa/Daniel Tiger/Doc McStuffins
A happy life is a happy wife . . . (and she is the breadwinner too lol)
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March 9, 2016 at 12:20 pm
@Emaderton3
I feel your pain. I’m right there with you.
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March 9, 2016 at 12:35 pm
Yeh me too. I have to watch The Bachelor, Real Housewives of [insert city], Top Chef etc.
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March 9, 2016 at 12:44 pm
People like Hank? Srsly? Ehrmantraut, definitely.
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March 9, 2016 at 12:51 pm
10
4/K9
Spock
11
Harkness
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March 9, 2016 at 1:33 pm
Where is John McClane?
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March 9, 2016 at 1:43 pm
Hank is badass, did you see what he did to the Salamanca cousins?
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March 9, 2016 at 1:44 pm
I chose a mixture of TV and books because audiobooks fill my commute.
Gin Blanco (The Spider)
Harry Dresden
Olivia Pope for those “special” situations
Gil Grissom
Leroy Jethro Gibbs
And for a little reality … Seal Team Six
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March 9, 2016 at 2:33 pm
1. Claire Underwood – House of Cards
2. Snake Plissken – don’t be a fuckken idiot, if you don’t know this, you don’t deserve rescue
3. Daryl Dixon – Walking Dead
4. Any Sarah Connor after Terminator 1
5. Lisbeth Salander – Girl with the Dragon Tatoo
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March 9, 2016 at 2:35 pm
I was gonna tag you, BanditoKattie but..since you don’t blog and all….
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March 9, 2016 at 2:41 pm
1) Snake Plissken (Escape from New York)
2) MacGuyver
3) Leon (The Professional)
4) Ripley (Alien)
5) Tommy Gavin (Rescue Me)
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March 9, 2016 at 2:43 pm
Yeah, CA. I think we can take a moment for the baddest badass action hero of cinema ever.
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March 9, 2016 at 2:45 pm
Before there was Imperator Furiosa….there was Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley
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March 9, 2016 at 2:45 pm
Real heroes use flame throwers!
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March 9, 2016 at 2:54 pm
Thankfully, I know John McClane and Ellen Ripley!
If you keep references pre-children (6 years ago), I have a shot!
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March 9, 2016 at 3:10 pm
I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
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March 9, 2016 at 3:12 pm
If you keep references pre-children (6 years ago), I have a shot!
I have this feeling that I missed all the movies, and most of the teevee, for just over a decade following the arrival of our first child.
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March 9, 2016 at 3:26 pm
[…] DM has continued a meme – who do you want to rescue you? […]
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March 9, 2016 at 4:33 pm
“I have this feeling that I missed all the movies, and most of the teevee, for just over a decade following the arrival of our first child.”
I haven’t watched a non-Disney Princess movie for months. I guess I should just “let it go”.
***Sobs quietly in the corner***
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March 9, 2016 at 4:34 pm
I likely should have added a lawyer. Those fuckkers will make you want to chop your own head off.
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March 9, 2016 at 4:42 pm
Who do I have to piss off to get a blog, Ted? I hear CPPs blog is a dust bowl these days. Maybe I’ll grab that one up.
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March 9, 2016 at 8:52 pm
Current TV Shows
1. The Flash
2. Rumplestiltskin
3. Olivia Pope
4. Raymond Reddington
5. Green Arrow
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March 9, 2016 at 8:52 pm
@Mikka
Hank? He was so easily dispatched by the only guy who went to grad school (not that ended up okay in the end). He couldn’t even help himself. I nominate Rick Sanchez (Rick & Marty if you don’t get the reference). He’s one of us. My only fear would be cynical as he is, presumably he’d only rescue me if I could help him in some not entirely ethical scheme.
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March 9, 2016 at 10:14 pm
[…] DrugMonkey has tagged me a blog meme. And I've been meaning to come back over here more now that things are settling down* So, here […]
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March 9, 2016 at 10:15 pm
I made a blog post! http://gertyz.scientopia.org/2016/03/10/my-rescuers/
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March 9, 2016 at 10:41 pm
[…] 24hours (@Dr24hours who was nominated by Drugmonkey ) challenged me, among others, to name the five characters I’d most want to come to my rescue in […]
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March 9, 2016 at 10:53 pm
[…] back to blogging and now an old fashioned blog challenge! Our friend Drug Monkey has asked us to list five characters from recent-ish fiction that we would like to be rescued by from a bad situation. […]
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March 9, 2016 at 10:54 pm
Here are mine! https://bridgeblog.scientopia.org/2016/03/10/1075/
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March 10, 2016 at 7:00 am
[…] didn't tag me in his meme challenge but fucke it, why not? Here's my list of characters to get me out of a […]
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March 10, 2016 at 7:26 pm
[…] Drugmonkey went old-school with a blog meme recently. […]
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December 8, 2016 at 5:43 pm
I think Weaver wasn’t really bald in that photoshoot. Her head looks bigger, “swolen”, in comparison with other pictures with her in such short buzzcut.
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