{"id":12162,"date":"2007-11-01T14:26:23","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T21:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/11\/01\/the-pharyngula-mutating-genre-meme.html"},"modified":"2007-11-01T14:26:23","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T21:26:23","slug":"the_pharyngula_mutating_g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/01\/the_pharyngula_mutating_g.html","title":{"rendered":"The Pharyngula Mutating Genre Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one was started by <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2007\/10\/the_pharyngula_mutating_genre.php\">PZ Myers at Pharyngula<\/a> as a means of demonstrating evolution in cyberspace. I am not going to tap anyone &#8212; pick it up as you will.<\/p>\n<p><strong>First, the rules:<br \/> <\/strong> <br \/> There are a set of questions below that are all of the form, \u201cThe best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is\u2026\u201d. Copy the questions, and before answering them, you may modify them in a limited way, carrying out no more than two of these operations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> You can leave them exactly as is.<\/li>\n<li> You can delete any one question.<\/li>\n<li> You can mutate either the genre, medium, or subgenre of any one question. For instance, you could change \u201cThe best time travel novel in SF\/Fantasy is\u2026\u201d to \u201cThe best time travel novel in Westerns is\u2026\u201d, or \u201cThe best time travel movie in SF\/Fantasy is\u2026\u201d, or \u201cThe best romance novel in SF\/Fantasy is\u2026\u201d.<\/li>\n<li> 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 \u201cThe best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is\u2026\u201d.<\/li>\n<li> You must have at least one question in your set, or you\u2019ve gone extinct, and you must be able to answer it yourself, or you\u2019re not viable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then answer your possibly mutant set of questions. Please do include a link back to the blog you got them from, to simplify tracing the ancestry, and include these instructions.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The lineage:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> My great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparent is <a href=\"http:\/\/glendonmellow.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/pharyngula-mutating-genre-meme.html\">Flying Trilobite<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li> My great-great-great-great-great-grandparent is <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/clock\/2007\/10\/the_pharyngula_mutating_genre.php\">A Blog Around the Clock<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li> My great-great-great-great-grandparent is <a href=\"http:\/\/primatediaries.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/pharyngula-mutating-genre-meme.html\">Primate Diaries<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li> My great-great-great-grandparent is Thus Spake Zuska.<\/li>\n<li> My great-great-grandparent is <a href=\"http:\/\/k8grrl.blogspot.com\/\">Kate<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li> My great-grandparent is <a href=\"http:\/\/amiastudent.blogspot.com\/\">Finally Maturing<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li> My grandparent is <a href=\"http:\/\/partsnpieces.typepad.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/darwinian-repli.html#more\">Parts-n-Pieces<\/a> <\/li>\n<li> My parent is <a href=\"http:\/\/dailytroll.com\/?p=1578\" target=\"_blank\">I See Invisible People<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Questions and Answers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> The best <u>adult<\/u> <u>novel <\/u>in <u>SF\/Fantasy <\/u>is: <em>Good Omens<\/em> <\/li>\n<li> The best <u>scary<\/u> <u>movie <\/u>in <u>modern pop culture<\/u> is: <em>The Blair Witch Project<\/em> <\/li>\n<li> The best&nbsp;<u>happy<\/u> <u>song<\/u> in <u>classic rock music<\/u> is:&nbsp; &#8220;Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> The best <u>cult<\/u> <u>novel<\/u> in&nbsp;<u>historic fiction<\/u> is: <em>The Name of the Rose<\/em> <\/li>\n<li> The best <u>high-carb<\/u> <u>food<\/u> in <u>American cooking<\/u> is: Tater Tots<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><small><font size=\"2\">(via <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/dailytroll.com\/?p=1578\" target=\"_blank\"><font size=\"2\">Terry<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> &#8212; though you have to wonder about any meme where the rules are substantially longer than the substance. \ud83d\ude42 )<\/font><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one was started by PZ Myers at Pharyngula as a means of demonstrating evolution in cyberspace. 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