What Does "Meme" mean?

[WoodrowFan]

[fdr_hst_fan]

1. Yes, just what

DOES that mean? Enquiring minds want to know...

[WoodrowFan]

2. from google

As defined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976): "a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation." "Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation." In this sense, chain letter components are memes.

www.silcom.com/~barnowl/chain-letter/glossary.htm

[TheMightyFavog]

9. In Mass Comms class

I always thought of memes as a "mind virus"

Here's a link to eveything you wanted to know about memes: the memetic lexicon

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MEMLEX.html

[Mr.Green93]

5. it's from the Drew Carey Show

a scary thing that gets in your head

[WoodrowFan]

3. pathetic kick (NT)

[terrya]

4. I thought it was a Jerry Herman Broadway musical.

Seriously...

[skypilot]

6. It means "same" in French.

:)

[WMliberal]

7. you beat me to the punch!

Tant pis.

[sugarmags]

8. My French mother-in-law likes

to be called me'me (pronounced may-may) for grandmother.