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Nearly Sane

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41 years ago...
« on: May 19, 2017, 03:44:59 PM »
The great Dick gave unto us the concept of meme, far in advance of people posting pictures of kittens looking confused and WTF being written on the picture.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/39967075/did-you-know-the-word-meme-is-41-years-old

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Re: 41 years ago...
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2017, 04:44:13 PM »
Susan Blackmore's 'temes' doesn't seem to have caught on so well.

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Re: 41 years ago...
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2017, 04:48:58 PM »
I have a picture of people desperately going through the alphabet thinking maybe peme???

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Re: 41 years ago...
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2017, 06:17:37 PM »
Where is Vlad?
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Re: 41 years ago...
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2017, 06:34:56 PM »
"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends.'
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