Know Your Meme: Amber Lamps

Today at work, I recieved a phone call from a very distressed customer. You see, there were blinking lights on their email server. Blinking lights, kids, and yellow ones, at that. I asked her if she, or anyone else for that matter, was experiencing any issues with email delivery. She told me she hadn't noticed anything wrong, but those lights sure were blinking.

Blinking yellow lights, folks...

After due diligence, I found there was nothing wrong with the server beside being as old as God. I was, unfortunately, unable to troubleshoot the color of the lights on the server remotely. >.>; Sarcasm aside, I had to create a ticket to check out the server, since I had spent time on it. I decided to have some fun with it, and in the subject light, entered "Amber Lamps on server."

In case that link is a teal deer for you, let me break it down for you. Amber Lamps is a spin-off from the viral video from early this year dubbed Epic Beard Man. In the video, a "fist fight" breaks out on a metro bus between a black man and an older white man (who happens to have a rather gnarly beard) over some alleged racial something-or-other. The video starts just shy of a minute or so before the actual fight, so you never actually see or hear the beginning of the initial argument. And I use "fist fight" loosely; the black man threw the first punch and then was pummeled to a paste by the older man.

Over the course of this entire episode, there are many people yelling and hollering, shuffling around and egging on the two men to fight. There is, however, one lone figure who simply sat and watched the whole act play out, listening to her music on giant headphones, a genuine look of complete disinterest in the beat down happening mere feet from her.

The older man was escorted off the bus as the other limped back to his seat. When asked if he needed any help, he replied he might need an ambulance. It is this statement that is the cause for the spin-off. You see, his reply was rather unintelligible, likely from the injuries he took, and it sounds like he's calling for Amber Lamps. As you can imagine, the interwebs instantly caught that and ran with it, eventually turning it into a moniker for the cool-headed chick in the headphones.