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Diana - I'm going to have to think long and hard on this one. You may have found
one!
Diana Stevenson wrote:
> Chuck - an example of a useless meme is surely one of Dawkins' originals: an
> irritating tune which goes round and round in our minds. If I have a tune
> on the brain last thing at night, I wake up with it still on the brain in
> the morning and it can recur throughout the day. Usually it's a tune I
> don't even like!
>
> While the tune may have been useful to the person who "wrote" it, can you
> tell me how it is useful to those of us whose brains continually replicate
> it? Or why we will sing or whistle it to pass it on? (I exclude advertising
> jingles - those aren't the ones that stick with me).
>
> Do I qualify for the promised $100?:)
>
> Diana
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