Far-Ingulatin Mutatin Meem
This ol’ meme come from old great great… great grandaddy PZ “Jetter” Myers. Tangled Up in Blue Guy give it to me and I’m fixin to take the post that he wrote, change by the rules and then pass it on. I think I just figgerd out my daddy’s my cuzin, it turns out. Heh.
Here are the rules, come down to me by my cuzin, I mean, my daddy:
There are a set of questions below that are all of the form, “The best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is…”. Copy the questions, and before answering them, you may modify them in a limited way, carrying out no more than two of these operations:
* You can leave them exactly as is.
* You can delete any one question.
* You can mutate either the genre, medium, or subgenre of any one question. For instance, you could change “The best time travel novel in SF/Fantasy is…” to “The best time travel novel in Westerns is…”, or “The best time travel movie in SF/Fantasy is…”, or “The best romance novel in SF/Fantasy is…”.
* 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 “The best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is…”.
* You must have at least one question in your set, or you’ve gone extinct, and you must be able to answer it yourself, or you’re not viable.
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.
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.
The best romantic book in SF/Fantasy is: To Sail Beyond the Sunset
(I changeded this ‘un)
The best hip hop song from 80s hard rock is: “The Message” by GrandMasterFlash and the Furious Five
I cut one out here.
The best anti-war song in Working-Class Folk Music is:Take the Star Out of the Window by John Prine.
My genealogy is:
My great great-great-great-great-grandparent is Pharyngula.
My great great-great-great grandparents are The Flying Trilobite and Metamagician and the Hellfire Club.
My great great-great-grandparents are Flying Trilobite and Leslie’s Blog.
My great great-grandparernts are A Blog Around the Clock and The Meming of Life.
My old great granddads are From Archaea to Zeaxanthol and The Primate Diaries.
My grandfather in this meme is The Other 95%.
and my paw is Tangled Up in Blue Guy. Which might explain why I have this bluish skin….
And these here be my younguns:
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Who sez a little back breedin’ izn’t good fer the line? You came out talkin’ jest lahk I did.
I think I’m yer great great great cuzin gramdma, because Meming of Life sent the meme back to me and had me…well, that’s jest too delicate to discuss. Go ask yer daddy…
Seriously, this is Leslie from Leslie’s Blog.
I laughed at the way you called it the Far-Ingulatin Mutatin Meem. Very funny, indeed!
I have discovered some of the best blogs via this meme.
I was a little worried that my genetic material wouldn’t prosper becasue of the back breeding, but here you are.
Go forth and make ye some younguns’! Make yer ol’ g-g-g granny proud, ya hear?