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> In a message dated 6/12/98 12:16:51 AM, jab13@cornell.edu writes:
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> >An idea or information pattern is not a meme until it causes someone to
> >replicate it, to repeat it to someone else. All transmitted knowledge is
> >memetic. (Wheelis, quoted in Hofstadter.)
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> hmm......gossip :-)
Gossip is like sex; we're shyer about admitting to it than we
are about doing it.