Wednesday, October 17, 2007

The Pharyngula Mutating Genre Meme

The OCD Gen X Liberal tagged me.

I got tagged with this cool meme, demonstrating evolution in cyberspace:


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.

My great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparent is Pharyngula.
My great-great-great-great-great-grandparent is Metamagician and the Hellfire Clubs
My great-great-great--great-grandparent is Flying Trilobite.
My great-great-great-grandparent is A Blog Around the Clock.
My great-great-grandparent is Shakespeare's Sister.
My great-grandparent is Shayera.
My grandparent is PoliShifter
My parent is The OCD Gen X Liberal


1. The best time travel film in SF/Fantasy is:

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

2. The best scary movie(s) in scientific dystopias is:

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)


3. The best (cult?) novel in teenage angst is:

Carrie

4. The best stand-up comedian in American comedy is:

George Carlin

5. The best politician is:

LBJ

6. The best sexy movie in American film is:

Nine 1/2 Weeks


Let not let this lineage go extinct! I am asking the following to go forth and multiply:

Puppet Show

L'ennui-Melodieux

Modern Science

The Friendly Atheist

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