RSS feedThis might seem a little hypocritical, but what’s with the word meme anyway?!
Sure, it’s not like I don’t know what it is or where it came from, but the fact that you’re probably sitting there in a smug little voice going “He doesn’t know what it is or where it came from” is enough to make you think there’s something about the word meme, don’t you think? You can think about it, but don’t blog about it, propagation isn’t in my game plan here. I mean if I say what’s with the word “obstetrician”, you don’t sit there thinking “He doesn’t know what obstetrician means”, do you? Not that the dictionary is particularly helpful either.
Then there’s the hesitancy of people to use the word. You watch, whenever someone says “meme”, heads look up. “Did someone say meme?” And the expression on the person’s face, it’s obvious they’re embarrassed to say it. In fact I don’t think I’ve ever said the word meme, or even obstetrician for that matter.
In fact I’d thought up this amusing rant about how meme’s are so up themselves, but of course that’s already been done to death.
The concept of memes is itself a meme. Even the idea that the concepts of memes is itself a meme has become a widely spread meme. However, the idea that the idea that the concepts of memes is itself a meme, is not yet a meme.
I could always get on the I hate memes bandwagon, but again meme propagation somewhat defeats my purpose.
Instead, I learnt a new word today: absoloodle. Apparently you can’t use it on its own, you have to use it in conjunction with chicken noodle. i.e. absoloodle chicken noodle. First I thought it some strange Cairns term, but no, my nut bar sister made it up, and it supposedly means what you think it means: yes, that’s right!
The beauty of it is that absoloodle chicken noodle doesn’t even pop up in Google yet, which is scaring me, because that implies its a meme. Perhaps the dictionary should have that next to the definition “meme, n. Not yet in Google.”
So there you go, a veritable smorgasboard of memes. Do I hate memes? Absoloodle chicken noodle!
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