Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id XAA17569 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 22 Mar 2001 23:52:56 GMT X-Originating-IP: [209.240.220.191] From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: The Demise of a Meme Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 18:49:21 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F95Q9cAgjHXwKHvyo3D000049f6@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Mar 2001 23:49:21.0998 (UTC) FILETIME=[B7CC1EE0:01C0B32A] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>From: Chris Taylor <Christopher.Taylor@man.ac.uk>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: The Demise of a Meme
>Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:11:44 +0000
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>No, Jimmy Page is the only god (and he's made a fair profit).
>
>
Aleister Crowley's "memes" connect Jimmy Page and Ozzy Osbourne. I wonder
what their Bacon numbers are.
For those not familiar with the "Bacon number", it is an index of how far
removed someone is from the prolific actor Kevin Bacon. It's a degrees of
separation thang. People are actually experts on this sort of triviality.
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