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In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
I really enjoyed that article too!
I also liked Devid Denby's review of "A Most Violent Year" but that was about it.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 11, 2015, 09:26:31 pm ---I really enjoyed that article too!
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I think it's really fun to know that a world-renowned academic sociologist once played piano in Chicago strip joints. ;D
And apparently he was very insistent to Adam Gopnik that they weren't burlesque houses; they were strip joints. :laugh:
serious crayons:
I just started the Gopnik article, but I also enjoyed the one by the guy who can't smile. And, as I said earlier I think, the Malcolm Gladwell review of Stephen Brill's book.
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 08, 2015, 10:19:51 pm ---But I'm supposed to care what a meme is? :laugh:
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Yes, because it's much much simpler and it's information that almost everybody you know, at least those of your age or younger, possesses. The chances that it will come up in a conversation with the expectation that you'll know it are much greater. And you could google it in a quarter of a second.
But here, I'm happy to explain once again.
A meme is actually an old sociological term for a thing that gets repeated throughout a culture (or something like that). In the modern sense, it's just some thing -- usually an image or a saying -- that gets repeated in different forms on social media and elsewhere. Usually, for example, it will be one picture with various captions, or a picture that's been altered in different ways. Or it might be a famous quote presented in different contexts.
So remember that cop who pepper-sprayed the protesters at the University in California? That image was widely memed. Here are a couple of pages of examples:
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/casually-pepper-spray-everything-cop
http://peppersprayingcop.tumblr.com/
These are more elaborate and creative than memes usually are, but you get the idea.
See, that wasn't so hard. Now you can go back to forgetting it. ;D
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on January 12, 2015, 11:26:00 pm ---Yes, because it's much much simpler and it's information that almost everybody you know, at least those of your age or younger, possesses. The chances that it will come up in a conversation with the expectation that you'll know it are much greater. And you could google it in a quarter of a second.
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You don't know the people with whom I ordinarily have conversations, or the type of things we discuss. 8)
--- Quote ---But here, I'm happy to explain once again.
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Thanks.
--- Quote ---So remember that cop who pepper-sprayed the protesters at the University in California? That image was widely memed.
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Actually, no, but let be, let be.
--- Quote ---See, that wasn't so hard. Now you can go back to forgetting it. ;D
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Forget what? ...
Jeff Wrangler:
So I read the smile article over lunch. It interested me particularly because back in the 1970s my grandmother suffered an attack of Bell's palsy, from which she completely recovered; apparently Grandma was lucky.
I'm guessing the Duchenne guy who is discussed is the person for whom Duchenne's muscular dystrophy is named.
I've moved on to Malcolm Gladwell's article.
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