Sunday, October 30, 2005

20 things that noone wanted to know about me

1. i was not tagged for this meme.

2. i do not know what meme means.

3. i am currently contemplating whether all 20 items on this list should revolve around the obvious issues i have with meme.

4. for instance i do not know how to say meme.

5. noone reads this blog, so i am confident in the knowledge that my meme fixation will go unnoticed.

6. if i stop this list now, will it be a minimeme?

7. i just visited
dictionary.com and this is the result:
meme
n : a cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one generation to another by nongenetic means (as by imitation); "memes are the cultrual counterpart of genes"

8. i pretty sure they misspelt cultural

9. i'm not sure how i feel about an online dictionary doing this

10. particularly one that is of so little help.

11. oh, well at least its allowed me to fill out this list a little.

12. maybe i need one of
these.

13. someone at work the other day asked me the difference between a $10 pair of headphones and a $70 pair; i said "$60".

14. i went into a cafe for lunch and asked if they did takeaway, they said they did but it would be an half hour wait.

15. i asked if it would be quicker if i sat at a table

16. why the fuck would i wait half an hour for takeaway?

17. and will somebody tell me what the fuck meme means?
18. ouch!

19. gertrude stein just puched me in the mouth

20. i am currently in love...

that is all. if you are reading this, perhaps you need one of
these or perhaps google brought you here, if so please leave your search term as a comment (the comment box is everso empty)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I read this Blog Malcolm - and you know I do. Especially since you have started writing it again :)
It is also great to hear you are in love. Don't lt the warm feelings of contentment crush the tortured artistic soul in you into saccharin muck !!!

Steph said...

The term meme ([miːm] in the IPA; rhymes with "dream"; from the Greek word mimema for 'something imitated') often refers to any piece of information passed from one mind to another. In this sense, it relates closely to the academic study of folklore, in that folkloristics deals with the informal communication of cultural information. This usage more closely resembles the analogy of "language as a virus" than Dawkins' analogy (see below) of memes as replicating units. This definition has come into popular use on the Internet to refer to phenomena such as Obey Giant, "All your base are belong to us", Blogebrity and Icy Hot Stuntaz.

but wait, there's more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

Anonymous said...

(noddy) u are fuggin hilarious malcolm...oh god how thats funny u should get filmed when serving stupid customers and stuff. word.