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MEMernet: Baby Jaguars, Nextdoor’s Trick-or-Treat Map

All the awwws

The Memphis Zoo cranked up the cute machine last week with a post announcing two new baby jaguars. The post had been shared more than 1,400 times as of Monday morning.

“They were born September 4th and are the first baby jaguars at Memphis Zoo in 25 years!” reads the post. “Diego and Phili are both first-time parents and doing a pawsome job. You can still see mom and dad on exhibit, but the babies will remain indoors for a little longer. We’ll be having a naming contest soon; more details to follow!”

Posted to Facebook by Memphis Zoo.

Treat yourself

This year, add Nextdoor’s treat map to your arsenal for full, quality bags of Halloween haul. The neighborhood social network teamed up with Target this year for a user-sourced map of Memphis that shows which houses have treats, which have allergy-free treats, and which are haunted houses.

Posted to Nextdoor by Nextdoor.

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MEMernet: Memphis from Space, Elvis Looks Different, and Better than Chicken

Feeling Seen?

If you felt like someone was watching you last month, maybe they were. On September 6th, an astronaut took this image of Downtown Memphis from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above the U.S.

Posted to Flickr by NASA.

It’s a sign

Posted to Reddit by u/VengefulGH.

King of Sloth?

Reddit users felt all kinds of ways about a new Elvis mural last week. But many saw someone else in it entirely.

hgd1995: Happy to see Sloth from The Goonies got a wig. Good for him.

B1gR1g: HEY Y’ALL GUYS!

Posted to Reddit by B1gR1g.

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MEMernet: Tittie Rocks, Homecoming Royalty, and Pride Pics

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Rocky what?

Tracy Dobbins is the artist behind a new series of painted rocks hidden around town, à la 901 Rocks.

“These are my tittie rocks,” Dobbins explained on Instagram three weeks ago. “They are rocks that look like titties.”

One such rock was discovered at the Cooper-Young gazebo Saturday night. Look for them online at #rockytittn.

Royal Pride

Credit: Emmett Campbell

White Station Homecoming Royalty winner Brandon Allen set social media ablaze last weekend. “As [Shelby County Schools] superintendent, I support student voice and expression,” Dr. Joris M. Ray wrote in a Saturday Facebook post.

More Pride

Here’s hoping your social scrolls were as rainbow-riffic as ours on Saturday as the Mid-South Pride parade rolled on Beale Street.

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MEMernet: B.B. King’s Google Doodle and a Tearjerker Reunion

Doodle for a King

B.B. King was given one of the internet’s highest honors for what would have been his 94th birthday last week. The bluesman got a Google Doodle, the home page images you find at google.com.

A video that accompanied King’s Doodle followed the man’s life from birth to death, highlighting his storied music career.

Viral Reunion

Memphis Animal Services (MAS) went viral last week with a video they warned came with a “tearjerker reunion alert.”

Artist Anthony (no last name given) and his dog, BoBo, live together on the streets of Memphis but were separated. BoBo was brought to MAS where a staff member immediately recognized the dog and reunited BoBo and his friend.

That reunion was captured in a video that got likes and upvotes all over the internet. It also got some digital ink in the New York Post and on the Today show.

Tweet of The Week

John Paul Keith (@johnpaulkeith): I’m absolutely convinced there’d be fewer Republicans if fewer people hit their kids.

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MEMernet: Memphis Sandwich Clique, Festival Weekend

In the Clique

Photo posted to Memphis Sandwich Clique Facebook group by RachAel Mimbs

Locals only. No fast food. Hot dogs, wraps, and tacos are not sandwiches. These are but a few of the concrete rules for the Memphis Sandwich Clique, a public Facebook group.

The rest is as simple and delicious as you might expect. Get a (local) sandwich. Take a photo of it. Describe it. Post it to the group and “let the best sammy win.”

The group was founded in late July but boasted 8,833 members as of Monday. Those members help each other find the city’s dankest sandwiches (Phillies, Cubans, BLTs, reubens, clubs, burgers, and more). Sam’s Deli, Rawk’n Grub, Old Whitten Tavern, and Elwood’s Shack are easy favorites of the group.

A Classic Festival Weekend

Your weekend social feeds most certainly showed some of the action from the steamy-but-fun Southern Heritage Classic or Cooper-Young Festival. Something like this, eh?

Posted to Facebook by Tennessee State University

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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

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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 …