The origins of some old memes

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Can someone please give the origins of the following memes with links to the appropriate thread(s) where possible?

I am not a shop
Dinosaur/broadband [I am not sure if these two are the same or not]
Queen Wasp

I have heard these banded about a lot, but have no idea where they are actually from.
 
Lysander said:
Can someone please give the origins of the following memes with links to the appropriate thread(s) where possible?

I am not a shop
Dinosaur/broadband [I am not sure if these two are the same or not]
Queen Wasp

I have heard these banded about a lot, but have no idea where they are actually from.
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Broadband/Dinosaur is different. I've no idea about the Dinosaur one, but the Broadband one was gold.

Sadly the thread has a lot of dud image links but i'm sure there are still some decent ones left.
 
Lysander said:
@Feek linked them, but that didn't explain their origin or how the joke started.
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Very easy to find if you take five seconds searching ;)

(correction, it’s been moved out of view, sorry)

He posted a thread asking not to be photoshopped. So he was photoshopped.

Full set of images here.
 
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Queen wasp has come about from various ‘what is this insect?’ Posts years ago with the usual ‘my dad is a ….. that’s a Queen wasp’ he says when it’s usually nothing of the sort. That, of course, morphed into saying just about everything is a Queen wasp.
 
Avec Dino came about from a thread where people were using ms-paint to draw scenes from films. I seem to remember someone added the dinosaur to a picture and said "avec dinosaur" which @Otacon shortened to avec dino. There was a long time when nobody posted him but I've tried to use him again in photoshop threads recently.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
I can't see the thread, don't have permission.
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Me neither.

MissChief said:
Queen wasp has come about from various ‘what is this insect?’ Posts years ago with the usual ‘my dad is a ….. that’s a Queen wasp’ he says when it’s usually nothing of the sort. That, of course, morphed into saying just about everything is a Queen wasp.
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But was there like a thread that started it off with queens wasps?
 
Digital X said:
Can't even find them on knowyourememe nor have I even heard of them. I found one "Queen Wasp" image but not suited for the forum.
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That’s because they’re specific to OCUK. Similar to corner sofa, gucci belt, Mac10 etc.
 
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