Subject: Re: Sandwiches
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 97 11:10:20 -0400
From: Wade "T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
To: memetics <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
>Sometime ago, I spread the following meme by means of this discussion
>list: "Quakers sell cornflakes boxes with a quiz for ten-year-olds on
>it. Among 20 statements, they also state: 'Man descends from ape' and
>answer the statement as wrong (while all other statements are answered
>correctly). As such, Quakers found a good trick to spread a creationist
>meme."
No, you attempted to spread the aforegoing rumor. Why you did so does
indeed have something to do with memes, but you were using rumor to do it.
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