virus: Holiday Season Game

Gifford, Nathan F (NG130670@exchange.DAYTONOH.NCR.com)
Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:17:51 -0500


Lately my son has been fixated on an oldies station. In order to make his
musical tastes in the car sufferable we've been playing a game called Ofay
or Soul. Whenever a song comes up he has to tell us if its Ofay or Soul -
although we've started giving dispensations for other classes like Elvis,
the Beatles, or Surf music.

I would like to propose a game that virians can play where we try to spot
"The base memes" by labeling an idea as meme or composite. In order to
label something as composite it must be composed of other memes or
composites. So if you see an lawn ornament with Santa's sleigh I would
contend it was a composite of: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, The Other
Reindeer, & Santa. Although there are certainly other components - a sleigh
with a bag of presents in the back sans Reindeer or St. Nick is still
Santa's sleigh - right?

We probably need some other rules to make the game competitive - any ideas?