Something different for Monday, a meme

The Eight Question MEME

Got this one from Lisa @Are We There Yet

Six names you go by:
1. Mom
2. Mama
3. Marcy
4. Gamma
5. Ganga
6. Hey, Red

Three things you are wearing right now:
1. Long johns and warm pants (it's freezing here today!)
2. Sweatshirt (green) with embroidered eagle that belonged to my late beloved hubby Mario.
3. Robe over all that along with slippers and socks!


Three things you want very badly at the moment (aside from world peace and to have my children going to church):
1. Warmer weather
2. Some home made goodies to miraculously appear for my Consolation group tonight (not really as I do love to bake).
3. Someone else to make all the plans and preparations for our upcoming trip to Phoenix, AZ (this one I DO mean!!)


Three things you did last night/yesterday
1. Prayed seriously and fervently for peace and sweet Michael prayed the rosary with me!
2. Helped Michael put up the first of four reinforcement boards for when he puts the closet rod and shelf back up.
3. Played Skip Bo with loving Michael after church.

Two things you ate today
1. cocoa crispies (I'm on a chocolate 'roll' lately...not so good for a healthy meal)
2. Dannon Activia yogurt (my regular after breakfast staple)

Two people you last talked to on the phone:
1. My daughter Ria
2. My friend Mimi

Two things you are going to do today/tomorrow:
1. Go to Prayer Group
2. Go to Mass, followed by my consolation group where I will be bringing the yet unmade goodies.

Your three favorite beverages:
1. Water with lemon or lime
2. Cherry fruit juice
3. Bailey's Irish Cream

Here's what you're supposed to do. Copy and paste the questions into your blog. Then delete my answers and type in your answers. Send this to 5 people and enjoy the fun!

I invite:

1. Bernie @On My Own
2. Carol @Charli and Me
3. Diana @Welcome To My World
4. Eileen @Umma's World
5. Jackie @ Teacher's Pet
5. Jerelene @Jerelene's Journal
5. Teresa @Do The Write Thing
5. Wanda @Moments of Mine
5. Marina @A Beautiful Hue
5. Angie @Can You All Hear Me at The Back?
5. Tamara @Tamara's Treasures
5. Judy @Just A Little Something For You

Let's see if I can find some info for you from the Internet...

"A meme is any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.

A meme is defined within memetic theory as a unit of cultural information, cultural evolution or diffusion that propagates from one mind to another analogously to the way in which a gene propagates from one organism to another as a unit of genetic information and of biological evolution. Multiple memes may propagate as cooperative groups called memeplexes (meme complexes). Via Wikipedia.

Biologist and evolutionary theorist Richard Dawkins coined the term meme in 1976. He gave as examples tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothing fashions, ways of making pots, and the technology of building arches.

Meme theorists contend that memes evolve by natural selection similarly to Charles Darwin's theory of biological evolution through the processes of variation, mutation, competition, and inheritance influencing an organism's reproductive success. So with memes, some ideas will propagate less successfully and become extinct, while others will survive, spread, and, for better or for worse, mutate. Memeticists argue that the memes most beneficial to their hosts will not necessarily survive; rather, those memes that replicate the most effectively spread best, which allows for the possibility that successful memes may prove detrimental to their hosts."

I read that Jokes, being repetitive are also memes, so have a few on me...

The Driving Test

A professional juggler, driving to his next performance, is stopped by the police.

"What are you doing with these matches and lighter fluid in your car?" asks the police officer.

"I'm a juggler and I juggle flaming torches in my act."

"Oh yeah? Let's see you do it," says the officer.

So the juggler gets out and starts juggling the blazing torches
masterfully.

A couple driving by slows down to watch. "Wow," says the driver to his
wife. "I'm glad I quit drinking. Look at the test they're giving now!"

*************

Dave Barry's 50 Years of Experience


1. Never, under any circumstances, combine a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

2. If you had to specify, in one word, why the human race has not, and will never achieve its full potential, that word would be meetings.

3. It is a fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."

4. People who push to share their religious views with you rarely care to have you to share yours with them.

5. One does well to separate one's career from one's life.

6. Nobody cares if you can't dance. Just dance.

7. Regardless of the temptation, don't lick a steak knife.

8. The most devastating force in the world is gossip.

9. You should never say anything to a woman that even hints that you think she's pregnant.


10. The one constant among all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down, we ALL believe that we are above average drivers.

11. A person, who is nice to you, but mean to the stranger, is not a nice person.

12. Men are like a fine cheese. They start out as milk, and it's up to women to mold them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with.

~~~Thank You Lord for the blessings of repetition in our lives to help us feel grounded when we need it.