A follow-up: are you in the UK and confused by Mr Peanut trending and would like it explained?
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Do people in the UK know who Mr Peanut is? This is for work
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Okay I'm going to put an explainer, featuring memes, in my newsletter tomorrow. I do a newsletter covering the best of culture (internet culture, music, TV, books, FOOD) from the New Statesman and beyond every Friday morning, you can sign-up here:https://www.newstatesman.com/the-dress-down
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Is he related to a crisps brand?? Or is that the Pringle face
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this reply alone has made me decide i will explain
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only from that Simpsons Halloween Special where he comes to life and goes on a rampage.pic.twitter.com/PclwQuVnJJ
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No, but seeing a corporate tweet about the fictional death of a fictional character we didn’t care about when we were all thinking about the actual death of actual Terry Jones felt like a deeply inappropriate bit of tin-eared barging in.
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Only realised today he had such a young daughter. Thought it was an alright age to go before that.
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I remember him: he briefly made a foray on UK marketing back in the 90s. Was commonplace on pub peanut packaging in the 80s.
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This is how I remember himpic.twitter.com/9foT10kIbD
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no! we are mystified!
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