ross and rachel never should have broken up!

May 12, 2004 01:24

First of all, this birthday meme thing that everyone in the universe is doing...

AUGUST:
Loves to joke. Attractive. Suave and caring. Brave
and fearless.
Firm and has leadership qualities. Knows how to
console others. Too generous
and egoistic. Takes high pride of oneself. Thirsty
for praises.
Extraordinary spirit. Easily angered. Angry when
provoked ( Read more... )

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chadsmind May 12 2004, 05:47:59 UTC
i've been wondering this for a long time....

WHAT THE FUCK DOES MEME MEAN?

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*copied and pasted from an email I sent just recently* rackletang May 12 2004, 06:35:18 UTC
Meme (pron. meem): A contagious information pattern that replicates by parasitically infecting human minds and altering their behavior, causing them to propagate the pattern. (Term coined by Dawkins, by analogy with "gene".) Individual slogans, catch-phrases, melodies, icons, inventions, and fashions are typical memes. An idea or information pattern is not a meme until it causes someone to replicate it, to repeat it to someone else. All transmitted knowledge is memetic.

Credit for the above goes to a guy named Glenn Grant, but that about sums it up. Basically, it encompasses any of the dumb quizzes and surveys that go around most online communities. Livejournal is particularly rife with them.

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