Re: Enough electric meme bombs already

From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu 17 Oct 2002 - 03:47:38 GMT

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    >From: Jeremy Bradley <jeremyb@nor.com.au>
    >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >Subject: Re: Enough electric meme bombs already
    >Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:11:57 +1000
    >
    >At 08:27 PM 16/10/02 -0400, you wrote:
    > >
    > >BTW, is it:
    > >
    > >[electric meme] bombs
    > >
    > >Or:
    > >
    > >electric [meme bombs]
    > >
    > >BB
    >
    >I don't know Bill but the score is 26 all between Wade and Joe with you and
    >the other Bill coming in a distant tie for third with four each. I just
    >think that 26 replies to one item in 24 hours is just too much.
    >
    I think they call it "making up for lost time". With all this token talk alluding to the infamous archetypal/ectypal distinction of die versus coinage and the collection of posts that quickly accumulates regarding said philosophic distinction, let me introduce a new coinage...numismemetics
    (loosely* and punnily* related to numismatics). Whatever the die or coin may be, we are all becoming coinage collectors writ large.

    *-adverbally speaking of verbally modifying instantiations...we like 'em

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