Posted on 02/20/2006 11:52:55 AM PST by LdSentinal
Dukes of Hazzard made $9m more than that hyped trash!
I have a hetero friend who *loves* to annoy gay people by declaring her "straight pride". She tells me they go ballistic when they find out she doesn't care about their sexual preferences.
People would rather see heterosexual penguins than homosexual humans.
We would not watch the movie if someone gave us the DVD for free.
What does it mean, or how was the word coined?
It means a self-contained "package" of ideas/beliefs/information that gets passed around from brain to brain, propagating itself kind of like a virus spreading through a population.
If I recall correctly, it was coined from the term "memory gene", since their propagation, "mutation", survival, etc. have a number of parallels with the way that various genes arise, change, and propagate via biological evolution. For example, as an idea makes the rounds, some copies of it will change, either through not being described accurately when being passed from person to person, or by intentional adjustment by one of the peoplel who acquired it and then passes it on -- so after a while, there will be various versions of the meme out there in the public sphere, and a kind of competition ensues, like "survival of the fittest". The ones which are more effective at having themselves adopted by people's minds will proliferate, and the ones which aren't as effective will die off (go extinct). The parallels aren't 100% perfect, of course, but there are enough similar processes at work that the spread, change, rise, and fall of some kinds of ideas follow patterns of behavior similar to that of how biological evolution results in changes in gene complexes.
It's also interesting to note that the success of a meme doesn't necessarily depend on whether it's true or not. For example, a meme which contains, as a package, beliefs that include "you must continue to believe me or horrible things will happen to you", and "you must get others to believe me also, whether they want to or not", as well as a few components that appeal to people's deep wants and fear, will spread virulently even if it's 100% false. Now consider Islam as a meme...
I find it amazing because according to http://www.the-movie-times.com/thrsdir/top60dir/top60.mv?feb10_06
it's being shown on 1,966 screens!
I'm acquainted with a few gay "activist types", and they were talking about how they and their friends were going to see it every week to drive the numbers up. Vote early, vote often.
Big movie buff are you?
Excellent post IJ.
There was a thread early in the release of Farenlies 9/11 that detailed a market-by-market breakdown of the theater revenue (i.e., "Little Rock, 1 theater, $2,000"). I have been backsearching through keywords trying to find that thread for the better part of a week. Anyone have a link?
John Leo ruins many otherwise worthwhile articles by hammering in these wretchedly puerile, and easily refutable 'asides', in order to appear 'balanced'.
Great descrption Ichneumon.
The media has supported the meme that "there were no weapons of mass destruction." Correct?
The only person whom I know of that has seen this piece of trash is Fox News Channel's Kiran Chetry. About a month ago, she was commenting on this film and raved about how good it was. Well, at least she let us all know just what kinds of thoughts float around in that mind of hers. Disgusting. Even liberal Julian wouldn't have given this crap the time of day.
Hmm. So BBM was the 33rd highest grossing movie of 1995. Since there were only 33 movies listed, BBM was the bottom(pun not intenional but appropriate) of the heap.
Call me a Homophobe but ain't going to see Buttcrack Mounting or the Olympics!
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
This is not a gay romance film. It is a gay sex movie.
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