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meme n 1: a cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one person to another by non-genetic means (as by imitation); "memes are the cultural counterpart of genes"

to mime (third-person singular simple present mimes, present participle miming, simple past and past participle mimed)

1. To mimic.
2. To act without words.
3. To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use sound.

Much of the personal mail I get from this site refers to the name of the site, whether asking for a definition, warning me of the negative SEO implications of using such a ridiculous name, proving they get the joke by just writing “enquiring mimes want to know”, or cursing me to damnation for such a wretchedly difficult URL to type.  

Admittedly, enquiring mimes is a lame pun in search of a joke, but the pun continues.

The term meme, though not new, has gained has gained a trendy cool cache recently when used to describe the units of information circulated on the web and in Twitter, both cultural and technical.  We even use it around here to describe short pieces of information that we lump together rather than writing full posts. 

Therefore, what are we?  Purveyors of Memes, hence this website will be available as either enquiringmemes.com or enquiringmimes.com, but never as enquiringmames.com.

Oh yes, if you really hate trying to spell “enquiring” and don’t consider bookmarking a solution, this site is also available as mimezone.com.

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