Chiff and Fipple is a meme!

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:35 pm

http://www.memepool.com/

Congrats Dale. You're officially internet famous

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:37 pm

what is a meme?

Bretton · Post by **Bretton** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 8:12 pm

emmline wrote:what is a meme?

Meme: an information pattern, held in an individual's memory, which is capable of being copied to another individual's memory.

Memetics: the theoretical and empirical science that studies the replication, spread and evolution of memes

There are lot's of great Web sites devoted to memes and memetics:

http://www.memecentral.com/
http://jom-emit.cfpm.org/
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/memes.html

...and books:

Brodie, Richard. Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme (Integral Press, 1996).

Blackmore, Susan. The Meme Machine (Oxford, 1999).

Dawkins, Richard. The Selfish Gene, New Edition (Oxford University Press, 1989). Brilliant explanation of the selfish-gene concept. The first book to describe the concept of the meme.

It's a really facinating (but obvious after you think about it) idea!

Organized religions are probably the most pervasive examples of memes.

-Brett

Chuck_Clark · Post by **Chuck_Clark** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 8:14 pm

Derfinintion found in Google search:

"Memes are contagious ideas, all competing for a share of our mind in a kind of Darwinian selection. As memes evolve, they become better and better at distracting and diverting us from whatever we'd really like to be doing with our lives. They are a kind of Drug of the Mind. Confused? Blame it on memes."

Highlight added. Definitely fits C&F

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 8:39 pm

Thank you. I've heard the term, and that's what I guessed it meant...but it's not on Dictionary.com! You think they'd keep up with that sort of thing.

IDAwHOa · Post by **IDAwHOa** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 10:25 pm

Chuck_Clark wrote:Derfinintion found in Google search:

"Memes are contagious ideas, all competing for a share of our mind in a kind of Darwinian selection. As memes evolve, they become better and better at distracting and diverting us from whatever we'd really like to be doing with our lives. They are a kind of Drug of the Mind. Confused? Blame it on memes."

Highlight added. Definitely fits C&F

Oh, you mean WhOA!

Spending time researching, buying and selling whistles instead of actually playing them. :roll:

GaryKelly · Post by **GaryKelly** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 1:37 am

Stacey's a meme?

vomitbunny · Post by **vomitbunny** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 7:43 am

I am the meme your mother warned you about.

IDAwHOa · Post by **IDAwHOa** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 7:44 am

GaryKelly wrote:Stacey's a meme?

I don't know about Stacey, but her Fipple Whistle Rack sure is!!!

MarkB · Post by **MarkB** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 7:47 am

Can mimes be or use memes?

MarkB

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 8:02 am

MarkB wrote:Can mimes be or use memes?

MarkB

Of course not.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 8:03 am

Walden wrote:
MarkB wrote:Can mimes be or use memes?

MarkB
Of course not.

The late Red Skelton is the obvious exception.

Martin Milner · Post by **Martin Milner** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 8:29 am

and a momo is........?

Monster · Post by **Monster** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 9:21 am

Martin Milner wrote:and a momo is........?

Missouri Monster. Unlike bigfoot, who's from Colorado or Washington state or somwhere.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 9:26 am

Can a meme be a momo in a mumu...and would it mew or moo? A mime would neither mew nor moo being mute. (so the question is moot.)