Tuesday, October 16, 2007

The Dreaded Pharyngula Mutating Genre Meme

Jim over at from Archaea to Zeaxanthol recently tagged me with the damnable Pharyngula Mutating Genre Meme. The rules (and there are many) weren't exactly straight-forward to a cro-magnon like myself, so it took me a while to figure the whole thing out. Yeesh, I dislike blog memes! I know, party pooper. Anyway, here goes:

THE RULES

There is a set of questions below, all of the form , “The best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is…”.

Copy the questions. Before answering them, you may modify them in a limited way, carrying out no more than two of these operations:

> You can leave them exactly as is.

> You can delete any one question.

> You can mutate either the genre, medium or subgenre of any one question. For instance, you could change “The best timetravel novel in SF/ Fantasy is…” to “The best timetravel novel in Westerns is…” , or ”the best timetravel movie in SF/Fantasy is…, or ”The best Romance novel in SF/Fantasy is…”

> You can add a completely new question of your choice to the end of the list, as long as it is still in the form “The best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is…”.

> You must have at least one question in your set, or you’ve gone extinct, and you must be able to answer it yourself, or you’re not viable.

Then answer your possibly mutant set of questions.

Please do include a link back to the ‘parent’ blog you got them from to simplify tracing the ancestry and include these instructions.

Finally, pass it along to any number of your fellow bloggers.

Remember though: your success as a Darwinian replicator is going to be measured by the propagation of your variants, which is going to be a function of both the interest your well-honed questions generate, and the number of successful attempts at reproducing them.
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MY LINEAGE
Great- great-great-grandfather is Pharyngula.
Great great-grandfather is The Flying Trilobite.
Great Grandma is Leslie’s Blog.
Granpa is The Meming of Life.
My Papa is from Archaea to Zeaxanthol.
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from Archaea to Zeaxanthol's memetic code:

*The best romantic movie in comedy is: The Princess Bride

*The best sexy song in 80's hard rock is: "Pour Some Sugar on Me" by Def Leppard

*The best satirical movie in comedy is: South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
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My Mutated Code:

*The best cult movie in comedy is: Pink Flamingos

*The best sexy song in 80's new wave is: "Take My Breath Away" by Berlin

*The best satirical movie in comedy is: Brain Candy
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Passing on the meme (don't hate me):
The Radula
blogfish
Natural Patriot
Evolution

1 comment:

Kate said...

How depressing. I suppose that having a half dozen offspring won't do it. Perhaps some indiscriminate breeding is in order?