Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id QAA02322 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 19 Mar 2001 16:27:21 GMT Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745CF1@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: Toggling nature's auto-erase Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 16:24:12 -0000 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
And here was me thinking that everyone watched Seinfeld in the US (having
spent the 80s watching Cheers and the the Cosby Show). In Britain the show
is very highly regarded by TV critics, but is in a late night ghetto slot on
the BBC. Still, we've only got up to the series after the controversial one
where's george's fiancee died, to his indifference- but since you lot didn't
watch it, you won't have a clue what I'm talking about.
Vincent
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> From: Wade T.Smith
> Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 10:28 pm
> To: Memetics Discussion List
> Subject: Re: Toggling nature's auto-erase
>
> Hi Scott Chase -
>
> >I haven't had any tattoos or piercings so far. I'm aloof when others are
> >discussing the latest episodes of the series "Survivor". I never caved
> into
> >the trend of religiously following Seinfeld, a hopelessly unfunny show.
> I'm
> >doing pretty good at meme reduction.
>
> While I too have remained mostly unsullied by bucking under to the
> popular trends, I also remain horribly encumbered by trivial pocketfuls
> of factoids.
>
> Staying aloof from the mainstream is a popular pastime here in the
> People's Republik of Cambridge- it is still a source of great distinction
> to mention at all the right parties that you do not have a television....
> While I never have watched a Seinfeld episode, I can tell you there was
> always a Macintosh computer in the back of the big room, and at many
> times, a Klein bicycle hanging up (at first with an inverted fork) in the
> back room, and one of the guest stars in one of the few hour episodes was
> a Playmate called Samantha Dorman. So, I could quite possibly impress
> even a Seinfeld aficionado with these effluvious snippets.
>
> So, if trivia are memes, then I doubt anyone, short of a hermit, could
> reduce to a starvation level.
>
> - Wade
>
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