Didn't become an actual fad though until after I posted.

That doesn't make it okay. That makes it annoying.
Seriously...I browsed the forums at like 3PM today, took a nap, woke up and checked it again at like 5PM, and suddenly off-topic is flooded with handicapped one-liner joke/fad threads. It's not even creative. It's one person after another riding the coat tails of what they perceived to be a successful thread. It's so uncreative it's mind-numbing.