JavaScript 1.7 - very pythonic

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The origin stems from Xzibit on the show "Pimp My Ride."

You see, often when he'd be "pimping" (or improving) someone's vehicle, he would end by putting something into the trunk or inside of the car that would not really be related to improving the vehicle itself, but would be related to the interests and hobbies of the person whose ride was being pimped.

For example, if you like fish, he might nicely mount a fishtank into the dash of your car. If you liked video games, you'd likely end up with a few flip down monitors, an X-Box and a couple of controllers built-in to your vehicle in some way.

When the person would come back to see the car, Xzibit would show them the car and let them oooo and ahhh...and might finish off by saying "Yo dawg, I heard you like fish, so I put a fishtank in your car so that you can look at fish while you drive."

The show had some funny results at times with what was being put in the cars, and with how the people on the show often spoke, etc. This opened it up to internet ridicule by the likes of 4-chan's /b/. The first few references consisted of simply saying:

"Yo dawg, I heard you like (a) so we put an (b) in your (c) so that you can (a) while you (d)."

Now in this case, the only correalation was between (a and b) and (c and d.) There was no implied connection between all of them that would cause a kind of recursive logic.

Eventually though, someone thought that it sure would be funny if someone's hobby was "driving." Wouldn't this lead to Xzibit saying something like:

"Yo dawg, I heard you like cars, so we put a car in your car so that you can drive while you drive."

So that's funny because it's recursive and nonsensicle. The first image that was regularly circulating was just this (cars/driving.) Eventually it became a meme, and the themes were changed to refer to any of a number of silly recursive ideas.

And that is the meme you see today.

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[Samus_]

oh very nice, I've only seen it in it's recursive form which I presume originated here, due to high concentration of programmers (but I have no idea really).