Angelina Jolie had a leg up on the competition for best viral photo when she struck a pose at the Oscars with her right leg exposed from a thigh-high slit. Before the end of the Billy Crystal-hosted event, the gam had taken on a meme life of its own. The leg could be seen attached to the Statue of Liberty, saucing up Betty White, slipping into a Beatles album, appended to basketball star Jeremy Lin, and, as Yahoo!'s Mike Krumboltz reported, "by the time you read this, [in] about a million other things." (Photo by Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)
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