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MEMernet: Naming New C-Y Apartments, the Graceland Test

Name Game

Facebookers in the Preserve Cooper-Young group played the name game last week for the modern-looking apartment building planned for a spot across the street from Soul Fish Cafe.

Amanda Ball: (CY’s very first) Horizontal Tall Skinny [or] Pill Box Gone Wrong.

Noel Clark: Cubistro.

Ansley Murphy: USB Port of Call.

Mag Trisler: 1974 State College.

Dan Spector: Cheezball School of Architecture.

The Graceland Test

Many Memphians pride themselves on never having gone to Graceland. Even the Terminator knows that.

Posted to Reddit by u/slphil.

Stepping High

Shout-out to the Central High School Band for their second win at the High Stepping Nationals. Shelby County Schools posted a photo of the band to Twitter last week.

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MEMernet: Aerial Porta-Potty and Reddit Meta

CREDIT: Posted to Instagram by tobysells.

A round-up of Memphis on the World Wide Web.

Half-Mile High Club

Roof work on the FedExForum continued hilariously last week as a crane hoisted the porta-potty from the top.

Posted to Instagram by tobysells.

Red-handed meta

We’ve been caught!

A keen-eyed Reddit user noted that someone here at Flyer HQ has been mining the Memphis subreddit for tasty MEMernet morsels.

“Memphis Flyer definitely has a Redditor on staff,” read a post last week from u/productiveslacker73. “Kudos for giving the OPs credit.”

Keep up the good work, r/Memphis!

More meta

Last week’s Flyer cover story (“By Air and by Land!”) was the 50th written by our very own sports writer, Frank Murtaugh. 50!

Here’s to 50 more, Frank!

Posted to Facebook by Anna Traverse

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MEMernet: Nuggs for a Ho, Skeletor, and NextDoor

A round-up of Memphis on the World Wide Web.

Nuggs For a Ho

This East Memphis Wendy’s did some “targeted advertising, next level,” according to Reddit user u/cats_dinosaur.

NextDoor Classic

Midtown social media is the place for wild speculation and opining.

Last week, a NextDoor user wondered what new business was going into the former Henry Smith building on Cooper. She’d heard it was a biker bar and wanted to confirm.

The answer was/is CycleBar, a new gym and cycling studio. This answer was given in the second comment on the post.

That didn’t stop NextDoor users on the thread from speculating that it was going to be an “upscale gentlemen’s club,” wondering if a cycling studio was really necessary, complaining about “unused” bike lanes, complaining about people complaining about the “unused” bike lanes, and opining that “Midtown is getting so yuppie-fied.”

Random of the Week

Someone thought last week that drivers on Sam Cooper needed to know that “Skeletor Lives.”

Posted to Reddit by u/R_Hugh_High

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MEMernet: An Unlikely Trio and Wet Heat

It’s electric

About 17,000 Memphis Light, Gas & Water customers were without power last week when a storm rolled in Tuesday night. Reddit user tacojohn48 captured a striking glimpse of it over the Harahan Bridge.

But it’s a wet heat

Reddit user iliveinmemphis posted what we all thought last week.

“Going outside in Memphis the past two days is like opening your dishwasher to get a cup right after it finishes.” The comments on the post nailed it, too.

BandidoCoyote: “Getting out of the morning shower and getting dressed without drying off.”

Tralfamadorian82: “Opening your dryer before the towels are dry.”

Benefit_of_mrkite: “People lived here before AC. Double apply your Gold Bond and keep on.”

A decade of love

Joe Birch, Frayser Boy, and Holly Whitfield walk into a bar …

The I Love Memphis blog celebrated 10 years Saturday with a packed-out birthday party at Railgarten. For the anniversary, Birch tweeted what scientists are calling one of the most Memphis photographs ever taken.

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MEMernet: Memplops

InstaPlop!

Not all heroes wear capes, as the internet loves to say. Bluff City, meet yours: memplops.

The memplops Instagram account posted its first bathroom review more than a year ago. It sat quietly in the loo until mid-June when it started cranking out the shi … hits, the hits.

Memplops organizes bathrooms by type — either VIP (solo) or by the number of stalls. It tells you the location of the bathroom (usually in a bar or restaurant), the location of the bathroom inside the building, and if it has a vent. It rates each bathroom on ambience, traffic likelihood, and overall experience on a 10-point scale. All of this is insanely helpful.

But memplops really shines in its humor and naked honesty.

Consider this review for the bathroom at Slider Inn:

Type: VIP

Vent: Yes!

Location: Past the bar on the left side.

Ambience: It smells fucking awesome in here and is super clean. 8/10

Traffic Likelihood: I’ve been Slidin’ one In for the last 10 minutes and no one has bothered me. However, I have seen people walk outside to piss behind the dumpsters on the weekend. 2/10 now but 10/10 when busy.

Overall Experience: I actually went “ooooo” at the cleanliness and I’m just chillin ‘n shittin. However, the toilet does face a giant mirror and I don’t need to look into my own shameful eyes when doin’ the doo. I’ll say 9/10 for now … lest it changes next time …

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MEMernet: #SunsOutBunsOut

CREDIT: Facebook

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If you were on social media at all this weekend, you probably saw this man.

The post went sort of Memphis-viral, appearing at times on Facebook, Twitter, and, of course, NextDoor.

The original post reads:

“As I walked Arlo this morning in my lovely Central Gardens neighborhood, this is what I saw. I even waved and said good morning, thinking he’d scurry inside. Nope! He smiled and waved back while watering the porch flowers, with no qualms at all!

#itsnoteven11amyet
#socksjockhatandready
#Itshotbutnothtathot
#sunsoutbunsout
#memphisashell
#ilovemidtown
#Itsneverdull”

(Warning: white buns ahead)

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MEMernet: Mayo Man, Alton Speaks, and Pothole Flowers

Mayo Man

Not OJ Mayo. This time we’re talking mayonnaise in Memphis sports.

Some rando was seen at a Memphis Redbirds game last week eating mayonnaise with a spoon from a huge jug. The Redbirds Twitter kept an eye on him through the innings.

It was unclear who the guy was or where he got the jug of mayo. Some suspected he might’ve been a plant by the Redbirds to gin up some free press. Just. Like. This.

Alton Speaks

Old Memphis stuff resurfaces online from time to time. This Alton Brown comment about Memphis food seemed to be one such internet zombie.

He’d said Memphis was the greatest food town back in 2015. Loves Gibson’s Donuts and Gus’s Fried Chicken (see photo below). Apparently, he repeated his Memphis love during an interview this month.

Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams

Problem meet opportunity. Memphis pothole meet Memphis wildflower.

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Big Spain

The Toronto Raptors’ NBA title win last week had a uniquely Memphis flavor.

USA!

Consider this gem posted to the Memphis subreddit last week:

Them Yungins

This Facebook post on a news story about changing “Forrest Ave.” to “Forest Ave.”:

“Next: Replace the ‘Young Ave.’ sign in Cooper-Young from honoring a local KKK Grand Wizard to something more befitting the neighborhood. ‘Them Yungins Ave.’ for all those millennials.”