MEME MEME MEME MEME MEME MEME MEME MEME

[WilliamPitt]

Kill me if I ever see that fucking word again.

[mstrsplinter326]

1. MEME

BLAM!

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

2. It's always about you, isn't it...

[WilliamPitt]

15. Um, in threads I start about my opinions...yes, it is about me

:eyes:

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

28. Illegitimus Non Carborundum, WP, Illegitimus Non Carborundum.

...because when the threads we start about our own opinions cease to be about us, the terrorists have WON.

:evilgrin:



"I'm Pickles Bush, and I approve of this post."

:evilgrin:

[underpants]

3. Try these Will

[Misunderestimator]

4. I wholeheartedly, exuberantly AGREE!

[DrWeird]

5. You can't stop 'meme.'

It's become a meme.

[tjwash]

6. how about I ** my mine...

nt

[MallRat]

7. While we're on the subject, how is it pronounced?

I've read the term a gazillion times, but I've only heard it said in conversation once or twice. Is it pronounced "meem" or "mehm?"

I've always thought the latter.

-MR

[WilliamPitt]

16. Rhymes with 'theme'

[MallRat]

17. So I've been saying it wrong inside my head for months.

Glad I didn't make an ass of myself in trying to say the word in conversation. Thanks, Will.

-MR

[Misunderestimator]

27. Me too man.... there are two pronunciations though... but the one Will is

referring to is pronounced MEEM. (The other pronunciation is MEM. They do have similar meanings.)

[OpSomBlood]

8. What I hate is that most people misuse the word.

n/t

[MallRat]

12. Hmmm... expand on that point. n/t

[eyesroll]

9. Roy! Roy Roy Roy! Roy Roy Roy!

Better?

[newscaster]

14. What in the world do you mean???????

I never got the memo about meme. When did meme become a nono?
I am going to make a movie about this.....Hunting for the MEME MEMO.
My My!!!!!

[MikeG]

10. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers.

Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers. Stillers.

[wtmusic]

11. "Meme" rocks -- so does "Webinar"

Meme Webinar Meme Webinar Meme Webinar Meme Webinar Meme Webinar

:evilgrin:

[bobthedrummer]

13. Why, the very idea...Y,Y,Y,Y,Y...

[Trajan]

18. I love that word ....

It really explains a lot about human nature and weakness and the spread of willful ignorance and false belief .....

Yeah .. that stuff ...

[BigMcLargehuge]

19. my maternal grandmother was Memere'

does that count?

[name not needed]

20. What the hell is a "meme"?

[Misunderestimator]

24. MEME (sorry Will) is...

A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another

or...

<philosophy> /meem/ Richard Dawkins's
term for an idea considered as a replicator, especially with
the connotation that memes parasitise people into propagating
them much as viruses do.

Memes can be considered the unit of cultural evolution. Ideas
can evolve in a way analogous to biological evolution. Some
ideas survive better than others; ideas can mutate through,
for example, misunderstandings; and two ideas can recombine to
produce a new idea involving elements of each parent idea.

The term is used especially in the phrase "meme complex"
denoting a group of mutually supporting memes that form an
organised belief system, such as a religion. However, "meme"
is often misused to mean "meme complex".

Use of the term connotes acceptance of the idea that in humans
(and presumably other tool- and language-using sophonts)
cultural evolution by selection of adaptive ideas has become
more important than biological evolution by selection of
hereditary traits. Hackers find this idea congenial for
tolerably obvious reasons.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=meme

And it is so overly used in discussion of politics that it has become one of those nasty words (at least to me), that just make me think the person using it is an arrogant jerk.

[miss_kitty]

25. damn i have never heard it before

but then, i missed kylie minogue and ABBA until last year.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

26. Kylie who?

Oh, Kylie MINOGUE. Gotcha.

:evilgrin:

[Dogmudgeon]

32. "Sophonts"

Tool- and language-using sophonts, none the less.

Wow. Sophont. What a great word! It looks like it means "Wise Being," referring, of course, to hackers, Libertarians, Skeptics, NLP Master Practitioners, Extropians, Speed Seducers and Warbloggers.

I guess it's got about 3 weeks' worth of un-obnoxious use left to it.

--bkl
Not quite a Sophont. Certainly not an Elephont!

[Qanisqineq]

21. I'm with you

I just don't like the word for some reason :shrug:

[Connie_Corleone]

22. How about....

youyou youyou youyou youyou??

[miss_kitty]

23. even what?

i think 'meme' with a little chapeau over an 'e' means 'even' in la lang franch. i wouldn't know for sure though, because i actually speak no franch whatsoever. but i think at the opening of 'Orphee' a fabulous film by cocteau says something about Orphee being loved by "meme le bete" ("even the animals")...it's pronounced 'may may' sort of.

that is your franch lesson from an english-speaking monoglot for the day. you are welcome. de nada.

[Dogmudgeon]

29. Thank you, WilliamPitt!

I've been on a one-man anti-meme crusade for a long time.

"Meme" is the way Libertarians, Skeptics, RPGers and other assorted "netizens" say "I can get something for nothing!" and still maintain their scientific mojo.

I've also started referring to another get-something-for-nothing intellectual scam, NLP -- Neuro-Linguistic Programming -- as Anal Pee.

Now that's a meme!

--bkl

[LoZoccolo]

30. Locking.

I am locking all of the repeating words threads.

[Endangered Specie]

31. Dont looked locked to me

[Misunderestimator]

33. CANARD

A great word... but I sure am sick of seeing it.