Comments on: Mike Industries: Where Memes Come To Die

By: Four Things Meme

Four Things Meme — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:06:31 +0000

[...] been busy) Patatomic tagged me with this meme. Although this meme has probably already made it to Mike Industries: Where Memes Come To Die, Iâ€™m answering it [...]

By: DaveMo

DaveMo — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hey I know!

List four memes you disposed of and then ask four other friends to list theirs!

Great idea, eh?

By: Dustin Diaz

Dustin Diaz — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’ll be sure to call the Environmental Protection Agency to make sure you’re doing your job correctly. I don’t want any leakage… that would be quite a mess to clean up.

By: John Dowdell

John Dowdell — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hey, I heard Google was going to buy China, or something like that… think you could do anything about that one…? ;-)

By: Joe Casabona

Joe Casabona — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is a great service that more sites should take part in! I thought they were contained to LJs and Xangas, but they are spreading!

By: Chris Griffin

Chris Griffin — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Aren’t you glad you only have to type the word “meme” rather than say it? The word itself sounds worse (literally) than what it actually is, for blogs at least.

It sounds like what somebody would name their poodle.

By: Rob Goodlatte

Rob Goodlatte — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

We all know memes stem from one nefarious source. It's so diabolical it makes me cringe: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/076458457X/ In the first edition, he had a different finger raised.

By: jason

jason — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

about freaking time! thank you!!!

By: Marco

Marco — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Damn Mike! I received the same meme a while ago (heck, who didn’t?) and I was already wondering how to get rid of it in a humane and environmental-friendly way.

You beat me to the punch! ;)

By: Jens Meiert

Jens Meiert — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“Meme Euthanasia”, lol. Make sure that it becomes no political issue ;)

By: Jonathan Snook

Jonathan Snook — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Anyone ever noticed how the word meme is the word ME twice? People like to talk about themselves twice as much!

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3715687853214091290 Thats just good stuff, no? :D

By: Don

Don — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Don’t I feel stupid, I don’t have a clue to what you are referring. Does that mean I have no friends? Or does it mean my friends are intellegent? Perhaps it means I am old and this is an issue for the youthful … How will I work with so many questions now floating in my head.

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

FROM WIKIPEDIA:

The term “meme” ([miËm] in the IPA; rhymes with “theme”), derived from the Greek word mimema, “something imitated” often refers to a piece of information passed from one mind to another. The term first came into popular use with the publication of the book The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins in 1976, and the conceptual framework of memes borrows from the study of genes — the units of biological transmission. Historically, the notion of a unit of social evolution, and a similar term (from Greek mneme, ‘memory’), first appeared in 1904 in a work by the German evolutionary biologist Richard Semon

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Don, I feel your pain.

Meme? Please, pretend I know nothing of this interweb. Explain.