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Jan 19, 2005 12:44

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amrjn1 January 20 2005, 18:05:41 UTC
While I would agree that all memes are ideas, I do not necessarily think that it follows that all ideas are memes. The "spontaneous replication" facet does seem somewhat unique.

"Toxic Memes" . . . are those really, really dirty ideas? ; )

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amrjn1 January 24 2005, 18:12:34 UTC
I think it is more of a distinction between types of replication--active (the prosyletizing ideology) vs. passive (the subversive, quasi-spontaneous meme). There may or may not be much of a difference.

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says_bomb January 19 2005, 20:22:37 UTC
A few...

3. Is that Welsh? If so, it must be the Super Furry Animals.
7. Garbage - No. 1 Crush
12. Steve - Space Cowboy "Some people call me Maurice."
17. Lo-Fidelity All-Stars & Pigeonhead(sp?) - Battleflag
21. The Cars - Just What I Needed
25. Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me
29. Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again
32. Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta "I'm not sick but I'm not well"
38. The White Stripes - The Hardest Button To Button "It was a ray-gun. And it was nine-teen-eighty-one."
42. Kirsty MacColl - In These Shoes? "In these shoes? I don't think you'd survive."
55. Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand
58. Sneaker Pimps - Six Underground

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amrjn1 January 20 2005, 18:09:11 UTC
Very impressive! Right on all but #3 (not Welsh, but Gaelic) and #12 (close, but no title). I'm especially impressed by the Kirsty MacColl--a distinctive line, but sort of an obscure song.

10 Points

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says_bomb January 20 2005, 18:29:13 UTC
Whoops! That should have been
12. Steve Miller - The Joker.
Normally I'm a joker, but yesterday I guess I had a few too many midnight tokes.

Have you taken the Brunching Shuttlecocks' Pompatus of Love Personality Test?

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amrjn1 January 24 2005, 18:15:40 UTC
Ah, well done. That gives you 11 Points.

I came up a Joker in the test--not too much of a surprise, I suppose. : )

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priscillapuck January 19 2005, 21:09:43 UTC
awww, yeah, it's snowing so hard here, we've been ordered to go home!

So, since I'm not technically here, I'm being a bad girl ;)

4. (is this) Danke Schoen (?) -- Wayne Newton
11. Georgia On My Mind -- Ray Charles
19. Fly Me to the Moon -- Sinatra
21. Just What I Needed -- The Cars
39. Dance With Me (?) -- Destiny's Child
40. I'm a Fool to Want You -- Sinatra
42. crap, I know this... something no le gusta caminar, I feel like I'm on crack, what is this!!...
44. September -- Earth, Wind (Moreland, 29, insert College here) & Fire
49. I Ran -- Flock of Seagulls
59. I don't know French and yet this sounds familiar, though if it's not Charles Aznavour, then I don't know it.

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amrjn1 January 20 2005, 18:12:37 UTC
Bad girl! Very, very, very bad girl! ; )

And very nice guesses as well--Right on #11, #21, #44, and #49. Half-right on #19 and #40 (and #54, from below). And I'm impressed that you remember the lyrics from #42, so you get style points.

5.5 Points

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priscillapuck January 19 2005, 23:05:51 UTC
ah!
54. Shaft!

And I just re-read your original instructions... so which Sinatra tune I suggested do you have another version for? I'm intrigued, as certainly the possibilities are endless.

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amrjn1 January 20 2005, 18:15:32 UTC
Very nice--but do you know who sang about the black private dick?

Actually, neither of the versions of "Fly Me to the Moon" and "I'm a Fool to Want You" to which I was listening were sung by Sinatra. The former was sung by a British singer named Claire, which is kind of obscure. Have a guess for the latter?

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priscillapuck January 20 2005, 18:30:38 UTC
I don't know who sang about him, if it wasn't Isaac Hayes. And aren't you in a whole heap of sassy today. :)

I just realized #4 is On the Street Where You Live - my version is Nat King Cole, and I was listening last night, and it nagged me for a moment so I had to re-sing and still I couldn't get why the line was so recently familiar. I annoyingly keep thinking, "I recall Central Park in fall" as an addition to it, for no apparent reason.

Hmmm, an extra guess? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Male? I don't know, Dino? Female? Not Ella.... Billie Holiday?

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amrjn1 January 24 2005, 18:26:14 UTC
Very good! Isaac Hayes, Black Moses himself. And I'm all about the sass.

Nicely done on #4 as well--you get the points. And also for Billie Holiday; as much as I love the Chairman, hers is by far the best version of the song.

7 Points

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Without looking epinephric January 20 2005, 19:42:26 UTC
  1. "Rock the Casba" - originally the Clash, I believe.
  2. "The Joker" - Steve Miller Band
  3. "Perfect Drug" - NIN
  4. "Just What I Needed" - I don't recall who did it, some cheesy 80's group
  5. "Flagpole Sitta" - Harvey Danger

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Re: Without looking amrjn1 January 24 2005, 18:03:04 UTC
Very well done--right on #12, #20, #31, #54, and #55. Half-right on #1 (no fault of your own--I have more than one version) and #21.

Don't feel bad about most of them being high radio-play songs; most of my MP3s are either catchy radio tunes or obscure unknowns.

6 Points

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